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a focus on cameron today because the government's heavy handed response to a wave of protests has provoked international condemnation and calls for restraint demonstrations to in the streets at the weekend in cities across the country to protest against the government's police put down the watches with rubber bullets forcing a number of injuries the price has come amid growing discontent with the country's eighty five year old president he's been in power for more than thirty is yet you heard right he's even secured a seven time in office that was last october with a contested landslide victory. now among those arrested this week is the leader off the opposition cameroon renaissance movement maurice come to he won just fourteen percent of the version last october's presidential elections but alleges that the vote was raked now with several other opposition leaders also taken into custody the united nations has called on the authorities in cameroon to step back we call

on cameroon authorities to respect the freedom of assembly association and expression and stressed the need for restraint by all political actors the secretary general reiterates the need for all cameroon stakeholders string gauge in an inclusive and genuine political dialogue. now the human rights advocacy group amnesty international has gone a step further amnesties west and central africa direct to some mirador would issued this statement that the crackdown on peaceful protests across several cities undermines the rights to freedom and expression and peaceful assembly in cameroon the authorities must and repression of protests and up hold the country's constitutional and international human rights obligations and samir doe would joins me now from de costs america it's good to see you so you you accuse the cameroonian government off disproportionate response to the opposition protests what are you

hearing about these incidents. that. piece of. country and. there was an existing. demonstration. and. even the. demonstration. to. all right samir stay on the line because i want to listen to the cameroonian government spokesperson he has since issued a statement cystic in this and the government strongly condemns these an acceptable maneuvers to this rule under the force with takes over the lead full day.

before she. went on to. ok so there we have it the government spokesperson basically saying that the opposition are provoking this crisis that they're trying to subvert the results of last year's elections what do you make of that and there. i was either going to come to or his supporters are the seven people that were demonstrating and been arrested they were just peaceful peaceful protest and it would just take the sides in their. right to freedom of expression and this is provided by the law this is not something that is to be denied the problem is that he would have. authority to have systematically denied to any kind of activity still see this and to act to know. these rights.

all right if you brought up maurice canto there i want to talk about his race do you see this as a wider attack on on the civil opposition by the president's guest flores's signals in the crackdown on the one generally on human rights defended in actually. the fact that he's been arrested just because he called have medians and something isn't he what it is. demonstrating peacefully. in. is of course there is no. because. these people should be anything. if it's done of course there is a back of the hall and you. demonstrate he is uniquely. rags all right some are adel wood from the and amnesty international office for

west and central africa thank you. thank you. an extraordinary is about america or at least that's what people in the democratic republic of congo calling it an outbreak of ebola is still ravaging the eastern regions of the country but a newly born baby is a surprise bright spot the healthy baby girl was born to a woman in fits of the disease it's the first known case where both mother and daughter have survived. it's a miracle that she's alive and kicking her mother twenty eight year old josephine e-coli was infected with the ebola virus during the last outbreak at the democratic republic of congo and fell ill while pregnant. doctors at the w.h.o. ebola treatment center still can't believe it. i knew that they were following women who appear to be survivors who are still carrying

a healthy pregnancy this was something that we're. close to one heard of in the last epidemic and. that was really something exciting to see a woman gives birth to a child. after appears that she survived a bowl. according to the world health organization pregnant women infected with ebola and babies born with the virus have always died that is up until now they say sylvana is the first baby to be born a bowl of free to a mother who was previously infected. to. july had a good birth and i thank god for it me and the baby are both healthy and i'm very grateful for the work that the team is doing. the doctors in beneath conducted a variety of tests and were surprised at the results. of

we took a blood sample from the newborn and from the mouth and we also took an amniotic fluid sample because we feared the virus had spread to the bank b. . but the lab test result came back negative. that's why we think that this result is surprising and intriguing from a scientific point of view. josephine e-coli and her newborn sylvana will soon go home to start their new life together. keyboardist composer and perform a shake to john is sick is a man with many talents and even many more years in the music business the molly and sensation has worked with legends like didi bridgewater jimmy cliff and philip hootie sic has made a name for himself blending traditional west african sounds with just about

anything this musician is now possible on his knowledge to young autists and promoting an unusual formula don't rehearse improvise. take to the uncertain loves being on stage he loves his music with more than four decades rocketed out he shared the stage with world famous talents like carlos santana that is true love is jazz here he is jamming at the jazz festival and bomb a co that he himself created. it's easy for westerners to say africans don't play jazz we because they expect everyone to play the same way the same voice in the same chords no way could do most part i remember them that. deep in the bustle of mali's capital bamako is the africa studio of toumani do but today a famous player of the west african luth today he is finishing a new song for the final cut he says he must have the magic touch of shape to

dnssec who he warmly refers to as elder brother. and the music of a killer and you listen to his music and the music he's made father as you can hear great is not a theory on the one hand he's attached to our traditions and our culture but at the same time he's incredibly open minded and very modern and. is a master of improvisation for him that is the essential definition of jazz. we don't need rehearsal. this is jazz we improvise and create music together. samba. other stars from ali's music scene agree long time friend salif keita is known as the golden voice of mali he launched his musical career

together with shake to dnssec at their height they played to sold out venues across west africa. so he's a very very talented musician you have to know that shape to be on sec is somebody who has contributed enormously to be emancipation of mali music and also to african music worldwide that's again none of. the desire to pass on his knowledge to the younger generation and help them build a career is part of the generous nature of shake a prolific mentor of many dozens of musicians from different origins and horizons. came from cameroon to paris as a very young artist and was integrated by shaykh into his band groove killers in the ninety's with his help and training she then launched her international career . i didn't see his very keen on transgenerational exchanged passing down all age it's important for him as

a beginner i was very lucky to be part of his spend the it was so young but still he trusted me he's helped many young mrs. shelfer whenever i train somebody and i see them reach a new level and i'm so touched it really moves me. where no money can give you this feeling. and this is exactly why despite the many challenges in his country shake is still out there pushing to keep the music alive in mali. that's it for me is africa for now you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page i don't know about you but shakes again about me thinking off all the other jazz nations we have in africa so he has a future combination we've put together ourselves and see you next time.

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