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right a moment of normality moment of normalcy and the transition period as donald trump leaves a message for joe biden which he will get when he walks into the oval office and sits down behind the old resolute desk ok allan thank you very much alan fischer correspondent the overlooking of the white house you're watching al-jazeera. welcome if you're just joining us my name's peter dhabi the agenda today of course dominated by one story the u.s. inauguration of joe biden in the past hour or so donald trump left the white house for the last time in his presidency he's leaving washington ahead of joe biden's inauguration it is a break with tradition usually at the parting president attends the success of swearing in ceremony mr biden is set to take the oath of office in just under 3 hours time. from the white house mr trump headed to joint base andrews where
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a departure ceremony was held in his honor he touted his record on the economy and was joe biden's incoming administration success. i will always fight for you. i will be watching i will be listening and i will tell you that the future of this country has never been better i wish the new administration great luck and great success. i think they'll have great success they have the foundation to do something really spectacular joe biden's attended a church service of the inauguration he was there with top leaders from both republican and the democratic party that's part of his push to bridge the political divide in the u.s. where mr biden takes office he plans to hit the ground running with 15 executive orders they include reversing trump's travel ban on some muslim majority nations cutting funding for construction on the border wall with mexico and bringing the u.s. back into the paris climate accord. mr biden has just taken to twitter saying this
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just a few words it's a new day in america mr biden says containing the pandemic is his number one priority the u.s. has now recorded more than 400000 deaths from the outbreak of coronavirus mr biden and the vice president elect kaamelott harris paid tribute to the hundreds of thousands of people who've lost their lives to covert 90. in the final hours of his administration mr trump issued more than $140.00 pardons and commutations they include former chief strategist steve bannon he was charged with thousands of trumped donors and misusing the cash they provided continuing coverage of course when we come back here in the newsroom we got come out of santa maria james bays alan fischer she had her tansey and the guests and analysts taking us through the inauguration teaching you how to see where english streaming landed i'm not usually gentle. last thousands of our programs award winning documentary us debt.
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subscribe t u g forward slash al-jazeera english. for me ok welcome to the strange how many times a p.c. in your african friends own family a roll their eyes when they talk about some leaders on the african continent i'm up here on my laptop this is the abraham index of african governance he takes those iraq's and apply his data to them asking africans every year what do you think about what you think about your country's most bring in will bring us to take away from the 2020 index he is the chairman and founder of the brain foundation and this is what he told us a little bit. and. sal wrenching. that
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is the current governance in africa. i must say here regarding our ballot generally are again very the 4 current. candidates if it were to be rather a general result of that run that is a bit worried and now we have when i think. that is image i had for africa only. as a resistor. there already is. and to have we really a war. going to go through here. so when we go from here what are we to do about pap's a trending african governesses going in the wrong direction i know you have ideas you can jump into the you to comment section and be part of today's show you are going to be in for a treat i will be 68 consider this as. a new leadership across the african
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continent madam president it is good to have you on the string cheese time international audience maybe there might be one or 2 people who do not know your reputation in south. ellen johnson sirleaf trama president of public a play area they're proud to have served 26 year term successfully and have trained in over. 2 successive 3 elections and of course the hall gerry very proud to be the 1st democratically elected. president in africa is very good to have here on our panel today man avon welcome to the string delivery body can you. thank you if any money is yvonne eki sawyer i'm the man of freetown the capital of sara they own and
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i came into office in may 20000 from a private sector background with a commitment to transform a city and we've been working on a development plan which is called just that a stag and town. nice to have you minister booker though tell everybody here you are welcome to the city. thank you very much my name is for all of you know i know and i am. in harlem este and i am. a member of the investments trade and industry in. i'm really curious about this idea that maybe africa was a continent is sometimes of governance the citizens are not very happy because multiple different countries madam president when you came into power your commute to power after a civil war one of your your prime objectives was just to keep people in a peaceful situation i can see
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a lot of similar situations across the african continent now what would be your guidance you advice to those different countries in those different citizens having experienced it myself leaders must continue to engage population to have going back to sleep paid and make them feel themselves asking older us. to clearly young population yes you know young relation in the world today are going to be the more dynamic in countries and. you know sure we need to listen. to the people in communities. in cities. respect their priorities recognize their capacity is. still. i believe that. being the index moyar him he makes i chiefly 2019 it has introduced
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citizens procession young people a session. with television tory to our leaders about what you need to do to show that you respond to the niece of the people and you keep them feeling that they are a part of what the country wants to succeed at a benefit and they contribute with all lead us toward a common goal of development. and prosperity for citizens. there's one there's a dozen a lot of pressure on need is across the african continent they need to do this for the citizens and why isn't that better governance but the reason you came into politics was because you went happy with what was happening in somalia and you wrote a sleaze and you got to look so it's almost like civil society has a role to play. lou dissatisfies and i need it in action tell us about.
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it's interesting you call it civil society. i came from the private voluntary basis people often think about it but what is clear is that we all have a role it's i think the engagement of communities and that's precisely across that i've taken in office which is to bring to bear an approach which has community ownership it has technology and it has to form and management at its heart. so the dissatisfaction really i think is a message about governance that you know the people we the people who want the services who need the services who need to see development should and can step forward to be a part of that but those who are now in government have a role to ensure that space is there and it's not always there and i think it's
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really important that you know madame president talks about participation and there are practical ways in which this can be done 2 examples or 3 examples of that when i came into office we engage 15000 of our residents in focus groups beyond out in the tree town which is a climate change climate mitigation strategy we've engaged communities as tree stewards and very recently just in the last week we've got our digital town halls giving communities giving residents the opportunity to engage the volt on priorities using a whatsapp platform for how money raised in their wards and property rates how it should be used so bringing us all into the space but also the residents the citizens recognising that we have
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a role to play. i wrote to put this point to you in yet you are not surprised it's come up super early this is boo not thanks who are watching boo now yes we are in crisis because most of african leaders are acting like they're going to rule for centuries allowing none of their competitors any space in political participation all right no filter take the filter off respond to that you to comment. i would have to. agree with that we have had a bit of a challenge in inclusion of young people inclusion of women inclusion of people with disabilities. in governance only that in itself it is a challenge to our nose in a consonant and you know during my term as minister during that period i was in to be to assess that i was the youngest minister cabinet minister in the country and
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there were a mirror challenges that came with the only one in all the times but what i took that as a challenge to ask other presidents to outline to young people and i can safely say when you look at various countries across africa. since then you have seen in the media. who's 23 years old you have. a few of those in east africa well in that there. was a we have seen a little bit of a change but what we need to do is to ensure that we are seeing for acts the 2 politics to be cheaper midges the cost as the cost continues to rise it is on any meeting some people to participate in politics and needs to start working on that but we also need to use what we know best which just social media which is
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going gauge meant an audit to really try for. our force and ensure that we are active participants. and usually to saying being an active participant and governance doesn't are being entered politics it means a lot of being in civil society being active. decision will be done in the country general. at the center i notice guests and that was just over a week ago as we were leading up to the election compelling for uganda and it was an animation of president was 70 dart saying what occurred to me was that there was an awareness on the african continent that there are young people who are the voters that there are your citizens and you have to find some way to appeal to them here is an animation a president is 70 doing the jerusalem adults have
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a work. to . create. a. race. to. not. so madam president i'm not going to see commenting on the dancing skills of an animated president with 70 but this is the african union summit from february of last year and i'm looking at fees leaders and else i know some of them are going to be. amazing leaders and some of them are going to be average and some of them will be
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mediocre some will be terrible but this idea about the quality of leadership and leadership being ready to lead a young continent how do you address them. let me 1st say when i look at the photo of the last african union summit i feel ashamed because what it means is that we've gone back to the status quo when i see african people who i'd like people in the every given leaders accepted me and they became colleagues and we work together and i really enjoy hearing and i think the media a woman says it's disappointing that we haven't yet prepare. a woman to to us to replace you know to be the next one that becomes a woman president in africa now we have training all of our young people to prepare them for the. there to be
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a piano and they're taken by. professionals and they're ready it's just unfair for anyone to stay in office a 20 year 37 years of more than that. because you don't want to give up power and i believe that the changes coming at being our young people i demand mean that they have to change let us not say that when transition takes place one will get to be young leader who will be able to perform the satisfaction of their people the satisfaction of the international community but have enough of them ready for leadership in my administration i made sure i said to. young people and women because those other 2 to have been
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marginalized in society and it's time for a change to address those iniquity. moves on i would need to react to eke out a cow is from garner and he makes this point even listening come right of the back of his feet he would. be the future is digital and leadership of the future can best be done by. this kind of mission of young leaders and aspirants digitalisation and dismissed as bit our quest to shield issues yes powerful let's look around as efficient builders as they can when most of it is we do various aspects of it was a lazy is going digital in our business that provisions for the future begins to be and that is where now more than ever it's important to come with you in strategic leadership positions to transform our world i contribute in more. technology is definitely going to it's already
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a leader in the way and we need our young people to have the opportunity to bring that technology to their in the way governance is done in the way services are delivered but we also have an obligation at the same time which is to make sure that those young people at the pad it's all well and good to talk about having the use in leadership but where you have situations where you still have high school dropout rates you still have poor access to education poor access to help and still there it's a combined approach i would agree with the speaker just now that you know digit sell the digital world is a world in with the youth lead but i would also say we have a responsibility towards those new it's not good in the arctic at the there is still for pressure work which needs to be done alongside. unusual as there's a vibrant conversation going this is quo i'm going to put this to you bobo africa
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is young it needs young leadership young great minds the elderly arts are scared of making mistakes but the young know they make a mistake it will stick with them for a long time to a curry with. yes yes and you know. i believe that when you're young and. you think about it a lot. i remember. people who maintain. proposals that i didn't completely agree with that would remind them that i am a young person and i will still be held accountable for their coming 16 because i was appointed extreme to 90 i saw a long way to go well someone might. have 5 years and accountability might not reach them in that time so you think long and hard speeches.
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instead of being big. is there ever been be creased an economy or a decision. and you're giving it to yourself and you're. in the generator center and you us wait to be there to see that kind of inheritance you even to the next generations over again and you know it's just makes things that a lot more different your decision making process is a lot different 'd but i'm deuced you know i think is great and here in having. a blend of leadership that i'll do the and the young because you learn from the wisdom 'd that comes with having been in an office for 10 years from being in office for 15 years on what's generally in the public service and you think some of those nuggets and you look when opportunity to why deny the nugget that come with
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some of that wisdom and i really like to give an example when i was a minister. who was minister ends up in africa and he had been a minister of trade select 20 years we argued a lot about our differences but when we chained together with the new age thinking as i made that i brought up and he grabs that experience we ended up finding some sort of a compromise that made things work and missed all the parts that we know so much we need. and. that our voices at the timor. audience i want to show you something right here this is ellen johnson sirleaf presidential center for women and development unleashing africa's greatest results
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that greatest resource is women. there's a whole program of networking so women leaders this is the 2020 intake there's a 2021 intake knew was a job i guess here that you will recognize remarkable african see mal liza's that our difficulties does not just being a good leader on the african continent but being a female lead on the african continent madam president i would love to hear can niece who points out that it is not easy has a comment i think it's very important to keep in mind that women have always assumed leadership positions whether it is in their homes in neighborhoods in the local governments to national governments women have always been i myself have recently undertaken the role of a friend minister at the age of $35.00 in mali what i have noticed and as
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a question of perception is that what is expected of women leaders is of a much higher standard of what is expected from women from men leaders and that is probably because we always have to prove we women that there is a genuine logical reason that explains our presence and that probably needs to change. but in president is it changing are you helping to change a perception of when it is on the african continent is changing not fast enough. not enough really in terms of being the quantities of people that are going to. ask women. but right now women have cleaning that leadership at all levels and just as was correctly said it's not just leaders at the pinnacle not just presidents of prime ministers or minister us
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their leaders at the community levels their leaders in traditional society to their remaining is their business leaders you know all over africa that are excelling in what they do what we need to do is to ensure that we have many many more that we have streams of women leaders who are preparing themselves for leadership who are already earning to leadership and what ever level they are in but i am moving on to higher levels and we must get them into that of genius we must get them as presidents when the end of the poem and the influence to be changed you must get them as minister who must get them into parliament to read they can help them make the laws that will protect women in their will
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promote children women bring a certain sense into the it into leadership that makes them to be this you need a strong integrity more commitment more empathy more humanity and at the same time women can also be tough women can be hard decisions here and don't care if they're not popular when those decisions that to him as the goodbye are already gotten to them both you can be balanced oh. i feel the toughness the palace of evan a sing off the screen as all 3 of us being on the string today together ravel when are you going to be president. i'm focusing right now on running a city which is a huge child represents 30 percent of our economy 15 percent of our population so i think we've got let's fix the city that was the one place the madame solis missed
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out we need a women in local government leadership it's a critical gap on the african continent. does that was a typical politician is obscene she didn't i wasn't running for president you shouldn't say that but i know you i know you're not net one piece of advice for another young politician or young leader you know they were 3 and even valuable in a sentence what with that feisty. youth leadership is an african we have made to believe there's an african and i have chatterer no road again you look at the president's founding fathers mothers are africa who indeed who are revenues in areas they were in their twenty's or thirty's and some of them as though they're as presidents at least started when the young oh if
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you know how i have any doubt that you belong it is your time you can contribute take away that doubt has used leadership is african and we can challenge it we can't wait you look for an mentor like my don't precedent here that can help you in london getting to the streets of politics because the truth and you need to be tactful and audit to become successful and just be careful get this out and learn the ropes and watch out for the landmines i know is that in my line but i gather. her bike is a bit harder when it's around air politicians and leaders madam president thank you very much madam thank you vogel though thank you so much i'm looking forward to when you will be president as well have a look here on my laptop everyway a couple conceive need to visit i know you've been inspired by this conversation
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ellen johnson sirleaf presidential center for women and development look it up but do you think you might make the cut that 2022 and then of course this is where we started with the if we're heat index of african governance you can check out your country your country that you are interested in even if you're not on the african continent that wraps up the back of the station for today thanks for watching.
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