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move is in accordance with a cabinet decision, and it's raised concerns with the international community, which is not officially recognized. the taliban administration. ukrainian president brought him, he is the landscape, visited the eastern frontline city of butler and presented awards to ukrainian soldiers, but wrote as winds witnessed some of the heaviest fighting against russian troops and is now considered to be the conflicts at the center. control the back mode will give the kremlin a boost in their battle with a dumbass region that ukraine have held on to it. yeah. which was because of the show moves roman by george. i want to say that we see what remains of where they left. nothing is alive regarding this issue isn't just in the danverse. that is why i want to tell you here. and don bass, you protect the whole of you crying on bus one. because after don bus, they will do all this and other cities of our country because they don't want anything ukrainian born. and i am 100 percent sure of those. and therefore,

the protection of the whole of you cried restless on your shoulders, not just on bus her is congress is debasing a bill to hold early elections for the 2nd time in less than a week. on friday legislators rejected a proposed constitutional reform to move elections forward. president, dina will, i say, says she will urge congress to move the elections from 2026 to december 23. but there have been days a violent protest since former president pedro casteel was impeached and imprisoned . and national holidays had been declared in argentina as it holds a parade in honor of the national football team. following the world cup, fit 2 items in a defeated france on penalties in sunday, in what is considered to be one of the best at finals ever. has also been a heroes welcome from morocco's team. in rebec. those are a current top stories do stay with us. the stream is coming up. next, we will see you a bit later by ah

ah, i am for me. okay. 2022 in africa has seen political and environmental challenges around breaking salting achievements in the welcome up. and now people cross the continent and looking ahead to the new year, down the stream. 3 stories that will make headlines in 2023, including prospects for peace in sudan, and a presidential election in zimbabwe and nigerian elections as well. if you have something to say to share with. so we

start with nigeria where they are less than 10 weeks to go before general election that we decide who will succeed. present bahama, do bihari. joining us we have out 0 correspondent ahmed address already. so good to have you here. welcome to the stream. welcome back to the stream. all way. i was so good about the g or an election. i weeks away. most people that feel like a very long time. but tom painting has been going on pretty much all of 2022. what is it like to be nigeria right now? is there election fever? are people wary? what are they like? a combination of both and more. basically you're looking at an event that occurs probably once every 4 years nigerians and lots of large, excited though the come back for some people, businesses, it's good business days that will make money from the politicians and in preparing election mosquitoes in preparing company metrics and all that again, on the other hand that are concerns regarding the elections that are hopes and

aspirations that are also frustrations. people are frustrated about their particular just some of the past 4 years, 8 years since the return of democracy. it's a question of expectations not met, disappointments on the part of voters, but again, one of the most interesting things for me. people may think that because of these frustrations nigeria is, was sort of sit back and forget about the max is a rather showing some interest in the election. it's not. so. a few months ago, the election commission conducted a new registration exercise for people who attend the age of 18, the voting age of 18, as well as people who lost the cards and things like that. and they registered many 1000000 just on the register. so it shows you that there is interest in the campaign process, but again, it also could be because of the new faces in the election lessons that haven't yet

. yeah. let's look at, look at some of the candidates. i'm curious, are any candidates under 100 years old because my jewelry and politicians tend to be on the senior side. so we put together 3 potential presidents for niger won't know till the end of every. but let's take a look. this is paula to newton. what do we need to know about bala? while i was governor political stage is credited with transforming lego state from a very, under performing state to one of the most vibrant states in perhaps lego state. among. it's probably the only state one of the few states in the seller is relied from grants from the federal government. it's economy, it's robust business, it's there and he's been credited with transforming. they go. state is what it is today. he's also credited with raising a lot of political people in this country,

from ministers from the vice, even the vice president with this for my age. and when he was governor of like a lot of things like absolute apc's or the or progressive congress. we saw a little bit of attitude up of backer. this is from the he's a candidate from the people's democratic party. and then also we're going to look at peace obee, who is from the labor party. tell us the difference between the people's democrat party candidate and peter opi. now he toby, was running a surprisingly b. b rodney made off to quote booker, in the previous election in 2009. now peter will be dropped out of the presidential race and the pdp to join the labor party because he felt that if one of the shortest car for him to become president. and there is a lot of a band what good effect for peter will be right now across my many nigeria. as young nigeria are frustrated with the way people over the age of 7080. and even

ninety's been handling this country. they find it difficult to relate with these elders. now you know how it is enough. okay. especially if not get away. we are told to respect our elders and people hardly criticize elders, but they see people will be a young man that they can criticize and confront when it needs to be. and that is helping p, toby gather some support on on many projects. however, that is not the end of the discussion. that serious challenges people will be, seems to be sort of becoming more and more popular with younger voters, as well as voice from the south. that is an unwritten agreement. by the way, let me begin not geron politicians that after every 8 years of power in a particular region in the north for example, after bahati paid blood as a g, as a power power is supposed to ship to the south. and peter will be represent that

not because he is from the south, but because a lot of people feel that they was hobbled, presented a presidential candid or even won a presentation election in not yet at 692 sixty's. when nobody has equate became president officer morning role because it was a positive interest system of government. so a lot of people wanted to give me the benefit of the doubt and they wanted to see a young and vibrant person leading. i did, however, they feel there are many and i get us will feel that people will be, is inexperienced and perhaps hasn't understood the re guess a politics in a country like it, but a format. so a formal yeah. yeah, yeah. but a form of government absolutely. and you mentioned 3, you mean 3 candidates by the way. yeah. but the fact of the matter is that it's another full force to the we're talking about revenue more so now

a bullet to nibble is expected to do well in the south of the country. and there are elements of the ruling part to the apc willing to both paula i'm to power. but again, in the know the, there are a lot of voters going for global also is based in the south of the country in the southeast a peak just read to me from one of the south is stage a governor. cool. now i'm going to, i'm going to move on a little bit because we could spend the entire show talking about potential candidates and the divide between the north in the south. i want to bring in some voters voices because they seem quite engaged with the process. and these voters were in my to carry, which is in the northern part of nigeria was often seen as the most part of the nigeria. and this is from november. this is what they had to say about voting in february as live uh what's before, because now i get my right choice. that's why i'm, what's it? yes, this is my choice. that's why i'm, what's in these them are on your circle we are facing. is that the lead us we have

no dear wound give was our choice it when we, if we have voted for our choice. ah, there will be money for optics. always so many opinions about nigerians when it comes to politics, but who is listening to how the election is run the infrastructure for the election . that is part of the story for not driven election. surely tell us more. absolutely. the infrastructure, the process itself is based on previous experiences. we're seeing how electrons run in such a stage. i electrons don't whole in such an area. and then you see snatching speed violence, manipulation results and all that. then they go to court and the court declared judgment on these cases. however, the elections this year will be so close, by the way. i mean, it's so close right now that the election commission is even thinking of the

possibility of having a run off in that genet this. this will be the 1st step by the right. and this is because of the mix, the mix of the presidential candidate median position. so talking about, well, i mentioned it was parties. the governing party was just a solid base across nigeria, the p d. p, which has been pop for 16 years. it's also a solid political part of the country and the, the labor party which peter or b is a flag bearer, is an up and coming, polished, took part in judah and his fraction. and again, the puzzles we are talking about is robin was so close from carlo who is set to divide that northern vote. so that used to be in choosing procedures, right? he's own show. we obviously need to show that the not june election and it could just be ahmed and maybe want to guess, but i don't think we necessarily need guess. i'm going to bring one more list. this is really important. this is abby old and she's executive director of global rights

nigeria, wondering about how well these elections will be run. this is what you told us. now it's already been estimated by this day newspaper that mom and 608 to 6 wards of the 8812 wards in nigeria and not say for elections if almost 8 percent of all of the wards in nigeria and not c 4 electrons, can those electrons be considered free of fair? you need to think about the fact does that affect security as well? that there's so much divisiveness, so much hate speech. there's a lot of fake news out there. i so and gave yeah, go ahead on my favorite place that's. that's what or, and by the way it's not only in those local governments she's talking about, it's a problem that you're subtracting the whole of nigeria from the north east. well, quite, i'm still a little pause in that region where bender trees in the northwest of the country

and the central parts of large banditry and kidnapping could not be across nigeria . and in the fall is what we witnessing over the past few years. it's the rise of a separatist will probably be operable, but be independent people. so yeah, for which has been burning and talking on the stations and election officers in the country. so a lot of concern is being raised about the possibility of conducting peaceful elections in this area. this character was promising to support the elected commission to can pretty much just but a lot of nigeria, but leave the elections of such an interest in the country as a way things stand. now remember, i'm going to stop us now because it will be 10 weeks election time. but i wrap this up right now on youtube. let me just tell you, some of the feedback that we're getting realize are says it's difficult for the youth to participate. they feel left out in government issues. emani, thank peter opie, would have had a fighting chance as people see him as the only candidate who really had

a vision. but his choice for the p was not well thought out. and then on twitter, some thoughts here, one of the my during elections about religion have a look here on my laptop as mr. t. tribalism, and in my jury of politics pivots around economy and religion. we have 10 more weeks to discuss my june elections. and i am an address will be with us, but for now i think thank you very much and i really appreciate your analysis. the thing the next we moved to sudan, falling a peace deal between military leaders and a coalition of pro democracy parties could be peace in 2023. allude, hey, is a political adolescence. he joins us from london. hello. it's really good to see you. i want to start festival with a little report about where we are with see done with the latest framework deal with the deal that frank was

a transition to civilian running of sudan. that transitional process has been for stored. and this is how we reported it on december. the 5th on out of there that's have a look, a new deal between students, military and political parties, the framework agreement aims to and the political deadlock. it allows for a new transitional government, more than a year after the military deposed the previous one. has. the reality has made us only remove ourselves and all political interests and place the interests of the nation and the people above all is every time we speak, people are unhappy with whatever deal that is, whatever, till they is it. so if you were going to characterize this phrase, what deal, what would you say it is as, as neutral as you can be if that's even possible. what from the table?

in many ways the feel is a placebo. it makes us feel good. it makes signatories feel like they're signing up to something that will realize the dreams and the sort of the desires of the 2018 revolution, which we have to remember, unseated the 3rd year dictates formative sheet, but it is a placebo. and this is just most an emotional reaction and very difficult to see how we move from this to the actual difficult work of dealing with the issue that, you know, lead people to take to the streets in the 1st name. i'm thinking about who's left out because whenever sudan gets together, the military political leads, sometimes the people often they left out. there are always people who left out of, of that, of, of that phase. and then that then means that wherever you've, whatever you've achieved, you can't then go on to the next phase because people been left out and then they become your position voices. and they got the progress from happening. if there is

to be progress, are we in that same situation again? absolutely. i mean this deal hasn't really done anything differently. in fact, it has in many ways reproduced all the was characteristics of previous he'll be, they political settlements like this one or piece deal. and what's different now is that you have something you reported on many times, which is this very large body, called the distance committees who are robust independent and had to maintain the momentum approach to democracy activities for the past 4 years this month. and they are completely outside of this framework. there are other groups as well who outside of it's like the limits were loyal to the shit and some form of rebels who signed the pieces in 2020. but by and large, the people you want to have them for the future constituents in an election, a completely out of this deal. so thinking about how it's going to, you know, sort of bring about the kind of changes,

transformational changes that people want to see. it could be very difficult without them is i'm just looking at my laptop here, the us ambassador to see dad. why does the us say there is now a credible path to final agreement that will take that out of the current political crises. we respectfully urge all sudanese stakeholders to seize that opportunity. that is optimism right there. why? i mean, the international community needs the steel to work out, and i think that that's sort of why you, you see a lot more optimism, a lot more support for the feel within the international community, particularly western countries. more than you see within, you know, so domestic communities and constituents. and so this is led to the sense of the steel is actually for the international community that they are the one who get the most out of it. they get to restart their age and they have all this in the funding that has been able to be spent since the qu,

they get to re engage with the government. once again, there are certain countries, particularly in the region thinking of the us in particular, who wants to sign deals related to, you know, comic interest, the cetera and all of that unpalatable. also the 2 and now the sort of sanitize of the feel sanitize of relations and engagement with the sydney government. but how this sort of translates to steel translates into, you know, transformative changes for people, for them is still very much up in the audio respecting design. and she's a researcher and she was skeptical about this deal, which instantly has to be ratified and sign and signed off in within 30 days. so everything has to be achieved by mid january, which is an incredible task for that to happen. this is what design told us earlier . this still isn't. it has to very little change in our reality in sudan and from what i witnessed. it has no impact on the strength or the frequency of the process

. they're continuing reject of any form of military rules. so dislike them, the cotton resistance committees fox person was described that it is not different from the 2019 agreement as they are both agreements between fractions of the lead coming together to stop any realty in a real democracy in any real em redistribution of wealth. that serves the majority of his in his population. his also another can with my, their international committee, a site in 2019 to find a government of gallons on us and to sub list of the needs revolution. i cannot forget the lease a $120.00 protest as few were killed during the crew of 2021. where is the justice for those people who died live? she just protesting, raising their voice, saying, this is what we want for our country. where he sat in the still frankly, nowhere you know the deal and you have to remember the framework agreement is a preliminary deal. the final deal is you said, is meant to take place to be signed off on a month off the initial deal. so early january and within that timeframe,

justice is a big issue that is meant to be spoken about. it's meant to be negotiated on the meant to be consensus around that. but the already signed that actually the signatories of already agreed to some level of amnesty and immunity for the 2 main general to lead last year to which already constrains the extent to which people can feel justice is done. and we have to remember this, the country where does this for the full? it's still 17 years in the making and the 12 of the very sort of slow, slowly coming together. there's a lot of resistance on the resume and call to me about supporting those trials. we have currently several cases of miscarriage of justice is a 17 year old boy. mm hm. and adam known locally a to puck, who had been, had undergone torture to exact a full confession. in his cases becomes of the landmark cases. it would show the extent to which traditional defense is going to be quite intrusive and has had thank you so much for giving us your view of what is likely to be making headlines in 2020 through 2023 from sudan. appreciate you. many. thank you. bye me.

finally, 2023 is set to be a p t f, as in bob way with the countries present, expected to face a strong challenge in a general election privilege. my son, he is a journalist coverings in broadway. he joins us. he's placing doha, qatar at the moment, but looking ahead to the election candidates privilege, we have 2 options or other more than 2 options. privilege. where are we? was in bobby's elections. basically is you have said there are 2 major contenders. yes, the incumbent president. it must be monongahela and nelson shaneesa was leading the new opposition for mission. the citizens coalition for change. of course, there is a league you and of other small political parties, but these are the 2 main candidates to main figures when you about when you

talk about politics in zimbabwe in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. i'm just looking at nothing. jim is on his twitter banner, change champion b. how's the new, what is he afraid? this new to the bob way? you know, it's hard to say what's new that's being often safe to say that you know, he is a person that has come out of the ranks of the movement for democratic change, which has been challenging the ruling party in the past 20 years. yes, of course you broke away from the can teachers and the ever, you know,

fucks now and the breaking patsy. the movies were doing a democratic change to form the season correlation for change. so what you can say may be probably is that the use energetic use somebody who is that can identify with the younger generation that is also aspiring to see young people taking the reins of leadership in zimbabwe. and he carries might as well, you know, you, you, of course, and he went on alone is involved, right. is that even possible? it's, it's not really possible. yeah. to just wait on korea. my only. that's why you find that those that are in the ruling party ranks the coffin human and say that he is much who are you, that he really needs more years for another 40 years then he can run in africa. all

right, so i want to drill down into what is really important for the voters. so in november, i'll just do it through matessa reported on the cost of living in zimbabwe. have a look, have a listen once making hang a candle. marcia palazzo and her daughter joyce on a tight budget. right now they can only afford to spend $30.00 on groceries. the only buying basics the family can't do without, but the price of some essential goods ins above we have gone up again. that means they taking home less this month than they did. the last one goes ever, no, there is nothing we can do and things are just too expensive. we try and stretch the little money we have so we can buy me back. never enough. just very briefly. what are the key issues that are going to be important for voters come election

time in bob by what will they be? i think from these, the clips that we have just seen. this is the reality for many families in zimbabwe . the best seats. what makes people survive right now? it's a very difficult yes for a lot of families in barbara. so come going into this, listen, what is the back of the mind of every ordinary zimbabwe? and is that, how is this politician that is going to come into office where the, the one that we know already and may be the aspiring one from the opposition. what are they going to make the difference that they're going to make the people's lives? so that's a good question to ask and we got to just leave it hanging for now. election times in bob, a june, july. what months would it be? constitutionally the lessons in zimbabwe are supposed to come between july and

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