somewhere else, but the truth is that they got no where else to go. so if you missed it online, catch up here with me, sandra gammon on al jazeera. ah. ready hello, i am dan jordan in doha with a quick reminder. the top stories here on out 0, early election results are expected in the coming hours in the gambia voters used a unique system for casting their ballots in an election that seen as a test for their country's transition to democracy. turnout was high as they decided where the president at m a barrow deserves another term, augment address reports. now from the capital banjo. president adam a bottle arrives to cast his vote. aware that in this tightly contested election, there could be surprises by the president and his supporters,

accounting only divided a position to achieve victory. or i am john, president of the apartment just wanted. everybody knows not even you regularly, you remember who had been doing the barrel is challenged by the leading architects of the coalition. but ended in the victory of his predecessor, yada jamie, 5 years ago. they also voted and i confident of women when i want to say that i have got my law and how did in there it does to god. it is due to him. this election is significant in many aspects, from the record number of candidates to the nearly a 1000000 people who are registered to vote solomon boss as the difference between the 2016 election and this one is clear. the feeling of fear was this one. this one has no feeling of fear from my own under that from my own. and does it mean anything for us, a voter? yeah, it mean something?

yes, because then, so what do you see at they can do that editing, which is not in line with his own desire for 1st time to how a demi, it's a dream come true. you'd feel nice wouldn't, since since i was a dad i wanted to feel like i should run fluid as an old previous elections. his 947 unique system is used traditional models along with a drum and bell inside. this could be the last time the mobile system of voting is used, the gambia or the list of candidates going it's becoming increasingly expensive to produce ballot boxes for each candidate. and in all of the countries, 1503. the election commission wants paper ballots in the next vote because the system that a software country for more than half a century is no longer sustainable. turn out across the country was impressive. and

the process like in the peaceful people are enjoying greater freedom the, you know, the seeing the value of elections as a means to piece because gummy of that was very, got up. these love in but also love the result of the election is expected within 24 hours of poles closing on saturday night, ahmed rece al jazeera by june, the gambia, the leaders of france and saudi arabia held a joint phone call with lebanon's prime minister in an attempt to resolve a diplomatic crisis. the court was made as french president, emanuel mackerel, visited saudi arabia, off the trips to the u. a and cattle go, the states withdrew ambassadors some beirut, last month. after a minister criticize a sad that had war in yemen. minister resigned on friday, the south african governments working to scale up code 19 vaccinations. the new army kron verin's driving another wave of infections with new daily cases,

nearly quadrupling. and just for days, more than 15 european countries have confirmed cases of honor cron. but there is persistent opposition to the re introduction of measures to slow rising infections . thousands, march, peacefully through the dutch city of utrecht. a government imposed a parcel locked down 3 weeks ago. at least 13 people had been killed and many others injured after eruptions from mount sir marrow. the tallest volcano on the indonesian island of java, huge clouds of smoke and ash, shooting into the atmosphere of also triggered a heavy rain. sedans, military chief, says the army will leave politics after elections schedule for 2023. general abdel fata, alberto hon, lead the military takeover in october for a deal was struck last month to reinstate the prime minister. what those were, the headlines. the news continues here. now jazeera up to out, is there a correspondence statement? thanks for watching bye for now. ah.

ah. that when fossil september 2013, the blood is not talk on kenyan soil, says al qaeda's devastating warming of the u. s. embassy in 1998. ah, the 70 people, dead, men, women and children. hundreds injured. ah canyons are asking how this would have happened. a bundled heavily armed men from us above. the militant group that came in troops have been bustling as somalia says, 2011 penetrating a supposedly secure building in the capital. ah

visa talk did not come out of the blue, says 2011. there been more than a 100 tucks in the country, but i'll shop on it. sympathizers, most top tech and place flat from the global, the international media in my home province, northeastern, which is a long and materially porous border with somalia. but instead of enlisting the help of the meal, ethnic somali population, the kenyan army and police half treated us as part of the problem with for us, this is nothing new. in kenya, all tribe, some meant to be equal. but the reality remains that some tribes are less equal than others. ah

ah, this is carissa. the get went to kenya's. ne promise. my home town. mm. 5 months before, without talks in nairobi, i came back to investigate escalating violence before kenya's invasion of somalia. these were the safest trace in the country. it's a bit unnerving for me if i can put it that way. i also said that i finally have to come back to my home town to cobra conflict and killing something i've done across africa. i've never felt like this is security is making things look towards sort of different, you know, i've, i've been covering other incidents in other places. this fault in the back of your

mind that you go back home. it's safe. everybody is not anymore. ah, canyon somalis account for about 5 percent of the population. just one or 4 to 2 tribes that make up this country for centuries will leave doesn't enormous. in the semi i did lot of the ne, keeping camels, goats, and canceled. my own father grew up the son of a camel had and will bring me here to the market to meet my uncles and cousins when they came from tom to trade. since i was a boy, it has grown to be the largest in east africa, a result of the 2 decades civil war across the border in somalia, which met cody said the safest and walked convenient place to buy and so

on. it's still the best place to find out what is really going on. i love the cold, and so on the sunday, i saw her lots of exactly f as in were the opposite. i look, i think at least we could get on the hill. hopefully we'll edit. i am on amazon, but has all been a lot going on, or you will come yet. they listen, look, holla, i'm doing. i do live in laguna. so my negative, i should be lucy, dale, helen, i had a daughter dinner, lead elementary, elder to somebody in the kingdom, government called invasion linda in g kiswahili for protect the nation or response to cross border read spells. sure, bob, but this part of the nation has not been protected since 2011. there been more than a 100 incidents of violence in the province garish. a small man, somali population have all too often been the target. 3 days before i arrived

another taco cardona, small street cafe. in the center of town, the bullet hole still clearly visible, lethia. there was a glitch. look here, some people live. olivia, some 2 of us were shot leisurely. you don't can secure here lou. lou feel very insecure billing in winter. the fullest vision is just 300 meters are killing someone is becoming a real fluttering a ticket so you keep on people don't really well. he woke up tomorrow, just hunger before 2011 the whilst gary's the hospital had to deal with was the occasional car crash. it's unsettling to find the place you are treated as a child. turned into a trauma center. 9 people wash up that that night and more than 20

injured, one of them fatally. most of the victims were lifted tonight will be living only 2 young boys. just out of secondary school. jackson motto was forced into the corner of the dinos tried to escape. he was struck repeatedly, one bullet, shuttering the bone in his right leg. i mean shows agile customer lives. so black with who had been shot dead, someone dead past in your heart, when do you feel awhile not to talk with them? my tell you. i had to do to viet in june 1 because i don't know the reason why you can disconnect, shoot and kill innocent people who are not do that to some last good have come down. yes. to does history people up to that? 80 just to s, as in us incidence. and then no,

nothing could down check us cafe was popular with workers from other parts of kenya . and because it's soft, alcohol was unlikely to contain somalis who are almost exclusively muslim. oh, it's hard need to drink parallels with the really just one as in other putting africa. and this is perhaps what the perpetrators will wanted. but carissa has a history of religious tolerance and it's a months she the tons, grief. this is a memorandum which was i get it upon by the muslims call us and lead us in god is a town particularly after the killing of the 9 people. and last week, we are against what, what is going on on we condemn with their strongest to why disposable. i find he's

not busy against the teachings of islam, which says that canaan off one innocent soul ease equal to killing all other people off on, on this off. for the outsider, these offers are confusing picture. the herders and motions, residents, any moms, all denounced the attacks and yet no one comes forward to help the police. but to understand these products, you don't need to look too far. when i talk to like these are called, the government flooded the town with police. not just local police from the province, but the riot police from night or the perpetrators know this on are long gone. living the residents of the town to face the 1st and all too often, the forces act like an occupying army, a

one of the things i loved about my hometown was the way it came alive in the cool of the evening. now a cuff, you sense every one home at dusk, living the streets empty and leading to unflattering comparisons with somalia notoriously dangerous capitol. at nighttime, in his found his dislike militia, he has been effectively treated better than that if, as you're speaking now, because it's honest as yet that to my time, you know, to polish mon morgan, not his civilian movie. in what ways has the security, the killings affected the people in town? 60 percent have no idea. have never been issued the day because you know, they still congested with and without any of these issues. now with desperate youth in a bad position, whereby they don't have a defense. if you don't have a degree, you're like an ally. then it has led to so many we've, you've been arrested. some of them been taken that where we don't know up to enough

youth, a finding himself cornered in both said they have been here. they have been to bad sub supervisor here. they've been given the i don't have a government that has failed to issues on people with identity current, then arresting them is not lost on the population. nor is the real reason behind the round ups. unable to prevent these killings or catch the proper treatise, the government falls back on a tripe, untested formula form of is province collective punishment. although gary saw seen almost 2 decades of peace before the current violence. my generation on that of my parents and grandparents are all too familiar with these tactic. for me, the 1st taste of what it was to be a kenyan somali came in 1980 when i was only 5 years old for government officials had been shot dead in a bind getty set by

a group of unknown gunman. that night the police came to only boat. this is well housewares. it's been almost 40 years, but i still remember playing with my friends on the streets here. part of a closely knit community that was completely destroyed. i remember during that night we were forced to slip, it's was it on 10 o'clock at night and suddenly we will, will, can up by loud noises of people running away as well as at a lot of it kills happening around us. now when we got out of our house, if it wasn't any thing like what you're seeing here right now, it was a mud ruled fudged house. and when we stood outside, we saw so many people running away in this direction. some of them running with their keyed so women are looking for their kids and shouting loudly,

the names of the children. and when we looked in this direction, we saw the flames lifting the sky. most of the houses around here was on fire. the policeman, one not far away from us last moment and you could hear them shouting the siding of the guns. and suddenly we joined the people who were running away for their lives. and then i remember on the other side or for a house was a house that belonged to one of my dogs. very good friends. and we had that some of the soldiers will already in there. and moments later, as we were running away, we could hear him shouting as he was shot dead. despite the unhappy memories, finding myself here again after so many years, that temptation to see the place i spent my earliest is, is too strong to resist. allow oliver. but in these times, no guest is welcome and it takes

a while to overcome the current owners suspicion today how i was chicken. it's a bit funny that i have to say permission to see the spot where i was born. i am a little the rank of frontier. then there is an i've been via of morgan and morgan again had witnessed as my guest. only the briefest glimpse of where i used to leave before the lady changes her mind. but after our house was burned down, my parents were left with nothing, no compensation, no apology was still the government simply give the land to some one else, living us destitute. they know that they're not the original owner of the london not belong to them from the beginning, but maybe they bought it from the puzzle. who got it off the we was ejected out, but still, you know, they know the circumstances with which they got this lunch. so it's painful and say, winful. experience of losing everything you have at such

a young age is hard to explain it as in part shaped jolla. maybe it's what pushes me to report on other places destroyed by conflict. we spent several years living in rented accommodations until my father had saved enough to buy another plot of land. it's been hard being in town without coming straight to see her as i usually would said that my father never went to school but spent his whole life walking as a house builder to ensure that my sister, my brother, and i got the opportunity. he never hud listen. after a lifetime of had to walk ready, now we can look after him. a. my father's memories of that night are clouded by the passing years. but some details remained vivid. well, there were already a mark can have a who barely. huh. yeah,

i saw him and his got to see all her in her over and over the you little hub or was 0 here is area i market 40 or get marty will gray. ah, he'll come welcome. we'll get ah, a mattress m. as a me, morgan marie, i haven't held him on my do i want a store called ah, i on her. i okay. let me know i'm, is there any way me or hassle id or a summary he was so we had they by the okay. i louis, wow, there are somebody seen i'm almost a little kn miss. what kind of kn will the michela? ha ha ha ha ha ha marie ford her back in

a k and last me while i did, andrew, mary bagley and k. i had the, as julian and grew up at about bowie was jojo, then all from ali had the so who are you normally? ah, my father's attitude tried entity, simple. as long as he's picked the local language. he is kennedy about the school playground, where most of the town walk in tom, in the heat of a canaan. summer is to day the local football pitch do. but ali now are respected elder was the same it as this young man, when he was rounded up that night following the killing of the 4 government officials. there were 2 landra was military, landra was with the loudest because telling us, come out of your house, and if you don't come, you will, you will regret. so every morning in greece, i came to this sir, to this field. we were surrounded,

we stayed in the sun up to midday, and then around the city p. m. they said women can go to their homes. we thought they were kind the, they were good people by the leasing dillman. but it is one of the worst day of the history of this region where almost every woman was ripped. almost every woman was ripped, by the security for by the security forces and particularly by the emmy and the police. so we spend the night here. we stayed until the following day, you know, and then i think we were to leave this about or something, lake near city p. m. when several people died. the but it is government did not subject to the most to what the families have. this objected must, by my is government and kenneth has gone. i still don't understand what would make

the government want to punish an entire community an entire town. you know, the government is not that the government was not our government. that government or asked law a legacy because we're not muddled up government. we hadn't, we did not have ministers. we didn't without even though it's in as a result in the government. so it was more or less like they put a tory, a government claiming to put a send the back people ah comparisons with upper types of african, the british treatment of kenya's mile mile independence fight as may seem far fetched. but the level of violence used by the whites to maintain power in the last half of the 20th century pails into insignificance when compared to the violence used against my community. but the war between kenyon somalis and the

kenyan government known disparagingly as the shift to all bundled war has remained one of africa's forgotten conflicts. that british hunt always rule this area, which they called the mole frontier district or an f d. with a very light hand. they saw the somalis as good soldiers, but bad subjects. as a somali, if you wanted to cross that tunnel, remain to kenya, you needed to seek permission. the n f d was to all intents and purposes, a separate country. when kenya's independence was being negotiated in 96, the to the british agree despite strong opposition from kenyan leaders by the end of the you will get a chance to vote on whether to join somalia or ken the commission. they sent us published, overwhelming support for joining somalia, but the british won willing to split the country on the eve of independence,

despite their promise to listen to the people for kenyan somalis, this was a terrible betrayal. they refused to vote in the elections, unquote. technol pleasure from the independent celebrations in far way nairobi they were left with no choice but to take up arms supported in part by the somebody republic. the response of kenya's president jamal kenyatta was uncompromising. he declared as taint of images and with the help of the same british military that suppressed the ma, ma uprising. king i went to war against its own people, the tactics used by the military. what to be the same villages, ocean, the mass internment of the rural population in concentration comes detention without trial on something given that british had never openly admitted. i should talk killed, policy,

thousands while to die under destruction of livestock force many more into the toms altering for ever the way of life in ne province. while i look at deco my limb symbol was one of the leaders of n. f. d's independence struggle sorrow as a leader, and i am this little guy because we're little guy. me like in missouri to escalate union government? yeah, mm interesting, i don't think this is true because weight isn't no good in habit. tanka duck is leather. hi. hello. the in the had the love other law, her moral akela biller, had that had that a local marker, an advocate, get it in a gut gone. okay. oh our fuck in lumpy kenya. live in the diaz to see the had the says on what hung up. i get out weilacher hireright. miss mccullough had to had dana had given her the n again, its evelyn muscular the interview had got to danville delane. how go,

how america it lufkin or war or the cause of now i saw might and all that doesn't a lot that you had there when i get it, can i, when i was, has them man, i have an in a bubble and leukemia over there. little me didn't the war or fish in it came to an end in 96 to 7 winton zeniah. brooke had a deal between kenyan somalia, i think the and of somali of physical and moral support left kenyans tamales with no choice but to surrender. the canaan government paraded the former shifter for the commerce, but did not revoke the state of emergency. nor did it forget what it so as the disloyalty of its somali population as was to be demonstrated in garrison. 13 years later the government has always maintained that no one died in the operation. in 1980, not one was robbed. no one draped local folklore tells of the bodies big,

dumb thought the night in the nearby ton ariba on a death told in the hundreds if what happened and got his though was a tragedy. what else to happen? and would jia in the heart of ne province 5 years later, was to eclipse all past atrocities the you and hold it the last human rights violation and kenya's history. and this is no exaggeration from the al jazeera london broadcast santana to people in store for compensation. large cannot be erased by a superpower with no host. and no limitation. what mattered in all was to be radical. how can the thing that's radical with part one at highway and denise is not about wanting to sell a lot of the message in the studio

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to freedom of expression in the philippines. and russia in an exclusive interview live from all slow. we'll talk to this used laurie. it's about the challenges and dangers of doing their job and the significance and protecting democracy. the nobel interview, only on a just sierra. ah. hello, i'm darn jordan. and joe, how are the headlines here on out 0? early results are expected in the coming hours in the gambia, the presidential election, but then a barrow seeking. another term, gambia uses a unique voting system. marbles are dropped into each candidates ballot drum to avoid spoil ballot papers in the nation with the high illiteracy rate. i'm going to have more from a capital banjo they turned out was really, really important talk to can be and he was tell you that this election is very important and significant in many respects. this was a false sunday voting.