why return to the past when to. visit friends i don't think i'll ever go back there to live where i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. witness global news that matters. made for margins. this is new news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes ethiopia is on a progressive part of the fall off of the ministers in the country are 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 when tanzania's president has seen his support slight with these power base seemingly fading how dangerous has he become for his opponents.

every. prosecutor had it ways involve the unspent 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 now that's opened the path for renewed international interest german president frank my is currently in the country with a delegation of business leaders. ahmed's 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 find in this report from ethiopia. this campus could be anywhere in the rural but this is. and something here is striking lead different. industry it lets you marry some lucky to be here at the university because most girls in ethiopia do not have access to university like this no you need to look at that and not being any of us well that's because most girls don't even make it to secondary school hard to believe given the fact that ethiopia 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 within 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 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 the 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 than. her reality working in this household for three hundred b. out of about ten dollars a month that she sensed or 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. because he did it 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 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. 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. good afternoon to those women in focus we'll take a look at your new one of cirque bring movements in our own ethiopia today's focus is a movement that fight for gender equality how it tells us the problem is not just with men though most times 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 know it's not exactly put herself sound but we do not realize or put into it 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

seeing grubby change under the prime minister ahmed but there's 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 will 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 this that mother fully has restricted a 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 farther opposition leader 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 ne so you've since had twenty two secure is how are you feeling today i'm feeling very well i'm feeling better. 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 asked ted and prosecuted in the core a times for what. sedition this or that offense of free speech beza college for criticizing the government for doing what i'm paid to do as an opposition 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 fifty 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 banning 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 these political or political fences the entire leadership of my party national leadership of my party is is fessing imprisonment the members of parliament less our officials 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 this has happened under full his watch in fact with his encouragement because three months after he was he was sworn in he declared on the thirty ninth anniversary of his party that he want to see not opposition political party by the year twenty 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 present for absolutely absolutely to make a bit of history because if we don't then. there will be it will mean you 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 this since general 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 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 out beyond the next plane to that asylum ok we'll leave it there that is to listen opposition leader in tanzania joining us here on news africa thank you said thank you so much christian. move. move move move move move move. move move move move move. that was some ball be insane to fight the musician all of them too cozy this weekend in zimbabwe we say it was the people's voice and it's fitting that it was declared a national hero that's it for the date of the africa new south to catch all our stories on our website and i'll facebook page but i would leave you with the music from the break that south. played. one of the

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