as of creative people and innovative projects around the world like to use the protect the climate boost green energy solutions and reforestation. interactive content to inspire people to take action google gives me a series of google three thousand on t.w. and. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes ethiopia is on a progressive pop up for a fall off of the ministers in the country and now women but while these decisive changes are being made at the top how much still needs to trickle down to the places where cultural biases still persist. and since he's twenty fifteen election with tanzania's president has seen his support slight with these power base seemingly fading how dangerous has he become for his opponents.

then we'll take you to have at it weighs involve me and speak farewell to the music icon oliver mtukudzi. i'm christine mundell welcome to news africa i'm glad you're cheated in ethiopia's prime minister has become a symbol of what a new generation of african leaders could be at forty two is the continent's youngest leader and he's proving to be a reform since coming to power last april hundreds of political prisoners have been freed and a facility known for torture related activities has been opposed now that's open the pot for renewed international interest german president frank. is currently in the country with a delegation of business leaders. off meds reforms have also extended to government way he's made. half of his cabinet female and has brought in a woman president

a first for ethiopia but in a country where exulting men over women is largely embedded in the culture just how much father does the reform need to go my colleague funny filed this report from ethiopia this campus could be anywhere in the rural but this is the here and something here is strikingly different. in this it let you marry some lucky to be here at the university because most girls in ethiopia do not have access to university like this. you need to look at that and not. dealing and if yes well that's because most girls don't even make it to secondary school hard to believe given the fact that if the opium made headlines when they was named the country's first female president and there are more women in politics in the countryside where most ethiopians live their men are still confined to traditional roles the

opportunities for women are limited it's all about boundaries set in families influenced by culture and tradition here in developed it's still men who dominate the life of women i see girls coming home from elementary school and asking them about their goals as a doctor. so that each or engineer the almost all children go to primary school these days only thirty percent of girls make it beyond eighth grade the notion that girls do not belong in school persists in rural villages and if a family can afford to send a child to school boys usually take precedence. from others believe that although women get an education they will not succeed. most girls drop out of school when they are fifteen like their high she wants to become a doctor but her parents don't have the money to support her she says. you know if

you think the status quo should change. and men should come into the kitchen more often that. her reality working in this household for three hundred b. or about ten dollars a month that she sends to her family in a village nearby she hopes to find someone who will sponsor her education her employer feels more lucky she can afford to high service as a maid over ethiopian coffee she tells us that her husband encouraged her to work as a nurse instead of staying at home and raising their child. is considered a just is me personally i have a good life but growing up i have seen many women facing obstacles. i have witnessed women raped in school if you have seen women get kicked out by their husband because they wanted to go to school. and i have seen men lying about having kids and taking girls home marrying them. as you get. back in the

capital back to a different world women here are successfully asserting themselves in society and raising their voices one of them is how we are a young reporter and host of a show called women in focus. your good afternoon to day's women in focus will take a look at you during your one of cirque bring movements and our own. today's focus is a movement that fight for gender equality how we tells us the problem is not just with men though most times when we talk about issues of women we're talking about the issues do suffer from men but women also we put ourselves down we do not not exactly put ourselves down but we do not realize are put in charge sometimes we go along with the status quo so the things that we do to change the status quo the mindset we have towards our own selves that's very crucial if the o.p.'s capital is

single rapid change on that of prime minister ahmed but there is still a long way to go before noticeable progress is made on improving the lives of ordinary women. sonic's story features another leader who inspired hopes of reform when he came into power that would be john forty tanzania's president who was elected four years ago but it wasn't long before those hopes were dashed this year human rights watch said that another forty has restricted to basic rights through repressive laws and to create critical journalists opposition politicians and outspoken civil society activists have faced threats are betrayed detention and harassing criminal charges. and there are allegations supporters of the president have gone for the opposition leader to lisa was shot sixteen times in an assassination attempt and survived this picture was taken shortly after the attack and twenty seventeen well to lisa joins me now in

the studio welcome to you mr lee so you've since had twenty two surgeries how are you feeling today i'm feeling very well i'm feeling better well. after all this years a year and four months in hospital i'm out now and i'm beginning to you know appear in programs like this one yet you say that the attempt on your life was politically motivated who wanted you dead and why. if you want to know who wanted me dead you have to understand what happened before i was shot. in the one year before i was shot i was arrested and prosecuted in the courts a times for what. sedition this or that offense of free speech that's a colorful criticizing the government for doing what i'm paid to do as an

opposition palin mentality i'm as an opposition political leader. president john mchugh fully. he's got a lot of support in tanzania we saw the wave of popularity that he rode into power with back in twenty fifteen he's done things he's he's taken on these big multinational he's taking on corruption from from where you stand we're talking today about an unprecedented crackdown in the country of opposition etc where have things gone wrong things went wrong almost immediately three months into his administration and the president fully banned all political activity largely of the opposition political parties and not only by owning political activity but he lounged this must see brute talk down on opposition political leaders. activists members and what as we speak as

we speak today. the leader of the largest opposition party in tanzania who is also the leader of the of opposition in parliament is in prison. force addition for this political or political fences the entire leadership of my party national leadership of my party is is fessing imprisonment the members of parliament the last of the shows have been brutally treated people have been murdered and we are i call it murder because that is precisely what it is people have been hacked to death with machetes in broad daylight and all of this has happened. before his watch in fact with his encouragement because three months after he was he was shawnee he declared on the thirty ninth anniversary of his party that he want to see not opposition political party by the year twenty or twenty so this is

what we are reaping so you're saying this is a president who effectively wants to eradicate the opposition intense and he those are his exact words openly on february fifth twenty sixteen i don't want to see any opposition party by the year twenty twenty ok so you're talking about twenty twenty base going to be an election in the country in twenty twenty do you intend to contest against this man president for absolutely absolutely to make a bit of history because if we don't. then there will be it will mean to have one hundred percent control of parliament hill have one hundred percent control of local governments who will have one hundred percent control of the lowest levels of governance in tanzania he is is his control would be absolute and we are not going to allow him to do that i want to ask you this but before we have to wrap this up the speaker of parliament has essentially threatened

just to strip you of your seat because you've been absent from the country so long i want your reaction to that but i also want to know when you intend to return back to tanzania number one. i have been out of the country since september seventh twenty seventeen because i was shot sixteen times by hired as a scene's who followed me from parliament to my all fish or residence in order to kill me so i'm not in i'm not in tanzania and have not attended a single parliamentary session since then because i have been sikh fest in nairobi kenya for four months and since jan out of last year in belgium with recovering from those sixteen bullets as for going home i have said it solomon a times and i will say it here. i am not in exile.

i have not run away from tanzania i am being treated when my doctors say i'm ready to go home a medical a feat i would be on the next plane to the asylum ok we'll leave it there that is to listen opposition leader in tanzania joining us here on news africa thank you to you say thank you so much christian. the. law. that was involved in saying goodbye to the musician all of them to perceive this weekend in zimbabwe we say he was the people's voice and it's fitting that he was declared a national hero that's it bundled up the effort that is out to catch all our stories on our website and i'll facebook page but i'll leave you with the music from the great man stuff about. luck.

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