the mapped out shows the geo political reality. the on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube the, this is dw news africa coming up on the program under the threat of atrocities and a food shortage, so downs people continue to bad, the brunt of war rights groups, one of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the gospel region. as the arrival of military forces battled civilians remain cut off from the aid they desperately need . also coming up mass demolitions in abby jones as the ivory and metropolis and forces of an ice nation as africa's biggest cities expand rapidly. we look at how poor people are affected and spreading hope in the fight against sickle cell disease as new treatments and much. we ask what this means for the millions of

african victims of this killer disorder. the and i'm told me on logical welcome to the program. people in sedan trapped in an inferno of brutal violence. that's how the u. s. u. monetary and coordinates of the country as describe the situation that was fighting continues between the sydney's army and the power military rapids support forces. the violence is restricting the flow of humanitarian aid and their growing concerns about atrocities taking place. an open source investigation from the non profit sensor for information resilience says the iris staff has been setting entire villages a blaze of these satellite images show. this area in the west offers city of l janina in april 2023. compare that to it's todd remains as seen in march this year

and from the same city, these warehouses visible in april 2023 had been removed entirely. nearly a year later. rights groups are wanting that the iris f, a tax amount to ethnic cleansing and genocide in west on for on x report contains images. some viewers may find disturbing. full year old he has mean has struggled to walk since she was shot in the like. she is from l janina into don's west stuff full, but he's growing up in a camp for displaced people across the board in chad. last year is fighting me at the home. yes, mean, fled with her family. but the rebel power, military groups, the rapids support forces caught up with them. a bullet toll through. yes means leg

and he's her mother. why did i do her mother who was 8 months pregnant? was killed and yes mean was left all alone. some people found her on the road and brought her here on the road to the buddha. we old suffered the rapids support forces killed and wounded. so many people who i got a race and human rights watch report accused. as the rapids support forces and allied militias of carrying out a tax in west of full killing thousands, the report says this indicates ethnic cleansing will crimes and genocide. the power military group has been at will with 2 dogs army since april 2023 up and dial 4 is a front in the civil war. dozens of people were killed in clashes and asked strikes,

you know, fashion over the weekend. it's the last major cc and all 4 still under the sudanese armies control, the city is reportedly under siege and there is a communications blackouts. the united nations ones but fighting is endangering 800000 civilians in alpha and preventing aid from reaching the region where millions of people are on the brink of famine. that time is running now to prevent starvation and therefore as intensifying clashes and north. therefore, as capital l flasher are hindering our efforts to deliver vital food assistance into the regions. the u. n. has called the situation ensued on one of the west to monetary and disasters in recent memory. age groups via that, the violin seemed off full, could lead to another mastic enforce millions more people to flee for their lives.

let's speak now to them with that same alley, a legal advisor at the wrong one and but the center for human rights and testing is also from doc for and survive the genocide the 2 decades ago. he joins us now from washington. d. c. thanks for joining us on the program, which i assume now are you able to get a sense of the current situation in your hometown l fast you the size very much for the opportunity and i think um the situation and the devices with it. cuz as traffic we have been sounding, the alarm says last year that uh, when the rest of varieties started this evening. the city from all the parts from northern part of the city, from the southern part of the city. i'm from the eastern part of the city and so now it is actually literally the ira save. and of course, the sort of nissan forces and, and other arm groups aligning with the service office really in, in a serious fight and notified sure the already hundreds of people have been injured

and killed in an 1st and last 2 days. and therefore, the situation is really the best off they got. it requires an immediate attention from the international community, right? what, what the restrictions on access. how did you gather that information that in your case, you know, evidence for your reports? well, i mean, no federal report being relied heavily on options source information that has already being god or by other investigative journalist and other organizations organizations. but with respect to the ongoing conflict, i think despite the blackout and the internet blackout, i think there was still a bit of communication between um you know, uh we can reach out to some of their wizard. is that also trash or uh, so they continue to report in terms of the incidents and, and how many people are being killed and attacked and the like. and so basically

we're able to access a bit of information. so really we cannot get into what is happening at this moment in time. right. and do you see any similarities between what's going on now and what you fled back in 2003 as watson only as i mean, as we indicated clearly. and i'll report most of the atrocities that we see today committed by, by the office of both forces. this is a new brand of the magenta, we it, right. and as so basically the crimes are committed by the same perpetrators. and i guess same victims because we have the most solid and was doubtful we have 4 as ago in other parts of the 4. and so we will see exact same pattern again of the crimes and the way the all right, so, so you know, you know, be, sees the cd, the way that the crime is that or prep or treated using wave us a webinar for,

you know, uh you know, creating conditions calculated to bring about with the destruction of the, you know, they, they, they protected gross here was speaking for as a gallon must have a particular right now the numbers from the ones that on a staggering 14000 people killed at least, uh, 8 medium displaced, 25000000 needing as an aid. how would you describe the way the rest of the world has responded to this? yeah, i mean, i, i said, uh said it before. uh and then i think the, the way the international community then of course, the attic and it stays the community and re, uh, respond to the trust that its in delford is. would it this graceful? there is no way the other way to describe this, right. and you see people are biggest, laura, we know the perpetrators, we know the enable this way, countries some of them i actually even advocate estates. and yet, there is nothing from the side of that imagining community to harper to write us

that down. the simplest thing to do is to cut off perpetrators from the financial flow that allows for, for, you know, for us to have to discontinue. and yet we do not see anything from the international community that is done so far. to prevent this, you know, this concept, i think this is april, vegetable genocide. this is not only my words, but by uh, you know, the words of other experts, including for me you interfere issues, right? this is a preventable genocide. even the eligible side of 2 thousands were, was preventable. i mean again we, i'm a speaking of interesting community at deliberately reviews the, you know, to the, to a spot that this and so i think it is really not an ignore genocide. it is an abundant genocide. what testing i need from the roles, stolen bag center and for human rights. thank you for speaking to us. as thank you

very much appreciated africa's major cities are growing at an unprecedented rate by the end of the century. it's estimated the team out of the wells 20 largest metrology metropolises will be in africa. but one of the major challenges is how they can cater for people from all economic brackets as an ongoing eviction scandal and every costs economic hub. john shows, development often comes at the expense of the poorest dw 0 to read reports from your football. one of the was the effective neighborhoods. this is with thousands of people use to move good to school and run their businesses. but now this on the rebel over the last weeks and months, the government of ivory coast economic capital has stated the neighborhoods of over 50000 people. most of them overnight. this looks like the

optimize of an earthquake or hurricane children and families to think through the rubble. school bench is turned upside down and personal belongings flying around every route. but it's not. this is the result of the government's initiative to develop and clean up. i'll be drawn essentially remove and tale, a neighborhood, but no longer for the image, the country. so you can only cub wants to put tray. and you might be a key to use to live in a small house nearby with the 3 children. now they're out on the streets, it's the 2nd time she and her family have been forced to leave that home. so i was only going to think out before we came here, we were poor, but at least we had some dignity. now we've got absolutely nothing. we can't live like this. it was suffering in the west of all this that my children no longer go to school. my oldest,

she used to go to school here, to demolition and stuff next, thousands of children without the classroom. one school alone to community 2000 kids. this was my school where i studied with my friends dw, spoke to nearly 2 dozen people in several neighborhoods. no one received any financial compensation. know where they give an alternative shelter. the government off i'd be, john did not reply to dw use requests for comments in previous statements, just ethically its own supposed to safety risk for, for lots and lands slides. but people, yeah, don't believe that's the true reason behind the displacements. so let's take a column that runs the local n g o that is fighting the evictions. he says the government's complaint is less about security and more about money. i'm going to talk to you points directly. there's one as well as the government says, these items are a safety risk. they already have companies lined up to want to invest in that,

that for the money did we talking about the humanitarian catastrophe here that so children are out of school like this prostitution and banditry. not so you see the government did a bad job and while you did you, nick, uh, i must have some sort of a over the last 20 years of each one has more than doubled in size from 3 to over 6000000 people. and like many african cities that continues to grow, but instead of social housing projects, these neighborhoods will be replaced with, with health promotion areas and double check box amenities and lima into children. when that we never get to enjoy it very. and we'll just wait to see if called to give us miracle. the government of ib channel sense to feel a little 117 neighborhoods altogether for the cities poor as they may soon be nowhere left to go. you're watching the w news africa still to come. a savannah spin allies underway and african nations are

slowly gaining a foothold at the opium and bene make the debut this year to african newcomers to the thailand aust extravaganza. now there might be threshold for millions of people affected by sickle cell disease in the us. a new commercially licensed gene therapy has been administered for the 1st time to a patient. it could be a game changer in the fight against this disorder of unusually shaped red blood cells that can disrupt the victim's blood flow. this leads to severe health complications including chronic pain and organ damage, which can also be life threatening. of the genetic condition is found around the world, but mainly among people with west or central african backgrounds. according to the world health organization, 1000 children are born with a disease every day in africa, and the existing treatments can be read and expensive. but let's take

a look at how one, uganda and woman is living with the disease and sharing hope. as when barbara and the beula was a little girl, a parents simply rode to off diagnosed with sickle cell anemia up 2 months to them . it meant that child wouldn't be around for long enough to be with the father this to be. they used to be the day to soon so i do, we do have a webcast. so for the day, you have a clue. a mother even referred to as half adult to barbara say she was left hating herself to then to a toothache. we're going to them. yes. so they never thought of me as an important person by the, by me, like someone who would grow up or is supposed to get an education on that tip. is that because they use, oh my mother,

the people like me don't grow money and we can't go to school, have children in the community. but now barbara's parents are proud of that goal to because she's proving them wrong. she's married and has 3 children assess phone. a son is now 7 and the twin girls came last year age 37. barbara is still a regular patient of them and body regional hospital. and you can just remote east and highlands, but she's passing on her knowledge of how to live with sickle cell disease. the personal story of survival is often the 1st glimpse of hope, and usually diagnosed children. and then worried parents. and she's also getting treatment. hydroxyurea reduces a number of balance of pain and the need to blood transfusions all helping to overcome the stigma we used to be saw frustrates in, you know, you care for each as they may reach like 12 yards. and they get so many

complications on even you used to wishing on seeing these, these chains. so because of that trauma, hydroxyurea has no chain deep legs. it improves on the watch on the quality of life of these patients. eugene therapies offer permits when was approved in the us last year. yet despite the hope now also enough to treat the despair for single patient cost of treatment, the cost runs into millions of dollars. joining us now is of the i need not do a professor. ok, mythology and blood transfusion and the direct of the center for sickle cell disease research and training at the university off a booge. good to have you on the program. profess now looking at the emergence of new treatments for sickle cell disease, surely this,

these developments must inspire hope, considering how long the disease has posed a threat. yes, definitely made key. many people laugh quite excited. you know, just seeing that said that can be too rich, he's a main force, it goes a disease. of course we've had the pci born my route transplantation, you know, for some time for these treatments are not available to the major receipts of people. so it's hold on one site that day. so possibility. and then a lot of, uh, uh, you know, just bear, you know, from high budgeting countries because even the evidence based interventions that have been available for some time is not available to major retail for people. we know interventions such as do by screening at the your, at prophylaxis for infection. high drug for your back teeth means a basic fees that patient education. these are not available to major retail people so days full or one site. you know what?

it's like most shots a week before feel, oh, when am i going to be able to even dream? you know, we does have t a price tags of, of 05 access. i've seen that visa inside of a shows like gene therapy, any of the important matter with transplantation. one of the challenges you mentioned earlier was that of the cost when he comes to treatment, but i'm assuming research as well. so what are the practical considerations for implementing these new therapies in a place like nigeria? so, yes, so the go by jean eh, directory initiative has actually been considering these over the english, the safety 19. this is a network of people who are called saint. that's a beast. the rep is when they become ivy level may not become available to the people with the right high research people. so they've not been able to walk,

walk out very carefully, what's what the buyer has. what is it that is driving the cost and most of feeds has to do with manufacturing in they centralize the facility that the gene directly products. and we've been able to find that, that way you might decide you're close to the taste of k e drives down the coast. so this has happened. this has been carefully worked side by different prices. and the, the tri outside has been the very low priest in college, you know, you know, in india, m at a very low cost of medical college in india. and they've been able to do cartoon to arrive fee on that $55000.00, which is the stock, right? you do from the very high, you know, in the media owns and what has been done. you know, it's uh, can also be wrapped in case i do kind of is also they don't what came out the possibility of doing the try

a physical try. i so clinical trial couldn't be one way of, of getting to bring him down because what pissed off case, you know, manufacturer. i mean, did you put drugs at the base of kit is one way you know to drive down because i'm at fort is going on in that direction. is that kind of global consensus? the way that the world can can address this collectively to make sure that there is uh, you know, make sure that there's a more accessible treatments to, to the people who need it. as the visual has established has been able to develop a film walk for a treatments, same test as states as what makes the less you know, that was we cannot just say ok, go all the way to gene therapy when the everyday experiences have insurance. with those things like education is not in place. the majority of the business to it. yes, we can aspire to do gene therapy, but what we know now works now should be available, you know,

to major retail people buy it for recess. hi, drugs and you read a blood transmission, all of these things and then just education of people because you know, people can't do well. patients can't do well if they know well up to my hydration, you know, do you every does reason to have vision and the has the, and, you know, the health care work as know how to give that is the type of insurance. so we start, you know, from what is available now, and then we walk towards those that que rates if there are fees in the future. okay . professor. okay, i got a notice of the head of the university of which is a center for sickle cell disease research and training. thank you very much for your insights. yeah, you're welcome to italy. now where this is edition of venice is international, odd festival or be an ally, kicked off with the theme following is everywhere is an exploration of colonialism

and the different realities of migration. the exhibition is created by brazilian adriano pedrosa, the 1st from the southern hemisphere to assume the prestigious roll that'd be an outlet takes place across the lagoon sea until the end of november. this valuable guess was prejudiced in belonging is one of the most talked about shows. because those paintings use, if you can, i cannot just the introducing of figurative off and explore rates of identity. is it to you just for us to appearance at the be a, not a as you can see from this you've been on the, on the 1112 countries. uh, let me present it with all having a pavilion for 54 countries inside off week or so. it's just a beginning, it's getting better, but there is a little way to go and purchase presence. this also seemed to the length of colonialism call to go to entry. greenhouse was curated by 3 women of african descent autism. monique had to

meet on the historians, sonya of us bogus and choreographer. vanya got recreated the creole garden. the concept of the creal garden that refers to the flux to attended by in slaves peoples. um, it is very important to how we see the contemporary challenges of today, such as climate change or to racism, and many other political challenges because the cruel garden rather than being the model culture is the plantations where it is a 80 is a form of cultivation that looks at diverse, that brings together multiple species, protecting each other and things of diversity. when cool in terms of cultivation, the republic of fitness, also making some really pre into this the amount it with an exhibition. everything precious scratch i it works that celebrate the spirits of pot if you but women and the deep roots of food. yes, i'm very proud to be

a lot of good because i was very important important you have still actually on the, on the international stage by keeping prominence to office we have often been excluded from the great experience of the past. this being all the aims to add a new chapter to all the history. well that's it for now. be sure to check out the other stories on dw com, forward slash africa on social media. will it be with these pictures from this is venice being that i enjoyed the next time. i've been out the

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