this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the politics of peace and the people affected by hiv from the women and men who live in the town that's at the same to offer reconsideration between ethiopia and eritrea. and a movement in the media saying enough is enough and demand decent housing. then why don't the african kids that's the reality will need someone to say in the future should be different. i'm christine wonderwall come to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in if you notice prime minister has really paid a starring role when it comes to feeding the rift with neighboring era trail last june governing coalition announced that it would fully exception implement the peace deal that would end its border war with eritrea that wall is today known as

africa's deadliest border conflict if you say it has accepted the outcome of a two thousand and two border commission which awarded disputed territories to eritrea one of those territories is a town in eritrea called bad it's right on the border with ethiopia has a population of about one thousand six hundred most people they are ethiopian and the town is so that ethiopia's control. at the end of this road lies about me a highly symbolic to the border between ethiopia and eritrea. here the effects of the war like the dust in the air heavy. one hundred thousand people were killed. two decades after the conflict began it still feels like a no man's land. and people living here just don't feel as though they're part of the peace process. and his husband died in the war she can't bear the thought

of bad maybe ing under eritrean authority for her it would be like handing over a child. and also other many people sacrificed their life for me and of the one you have to not you can see the graves in our cemetery. many children grow up as orphans. so why should we give away the i love myself i will die for me just like my husband. because he haitian with eritrea last july was seen by many as a political victory and then decades of instability. many people and bad men were confident that they would benefit from prime minister metz reforms but now they feel like the agreement is being imposed upon them to who is the town mayor he is determined to restore the border along the marab river about twenty

kilometers to the north and says if europeans and every trans living in the area agree on this that's why he wants discussions at grassroots level. and i'm. afraid that he. cannot decide the. people should have the power to do that. together with the people they can be a solution because they. are ignorant of. clan leaders mostly elders who traditionally settle disputes who are sent to hold discussions with their neighbors but the eritrean military stop them at the border . he was only a child when the first bullets were fired in but me but he remembers it very well for him the war didn't just start in his tone it also has to end here. we the people don't want to fight the eritreans. but the peace

process should be organized in a fair way and the people should believe in it one of the good guy is given away or it could be no continuous peace. all right isha. joins me now for more on this story hi isha good to see you assuming that a lot of people who live in the town of. ethiopian if the town is then handed over all when the town is headed over to eritrea what's going to happen to these people . definitely demarkation we have a very huge impact on the residents of the area that i didn't see of but in the end there's a rounding area according to the. agency our own one hundred one one thousand five hundred people live in but of course this is. daytime i believe it's more than that so when i decided to hand over to.

the big question will be while it will be the fate of these residents are they going to become. or is the egypt and government intended to really look at them to are that nobody knows until now there is no information where we can bring out the fate of these residents in the surrounding area and one can only imagine the kind of uncertainty people there must be living and but it when when is if you'll be expected to hand over the town of. we don't know when and also how. premise that i'll be ahmed if you do it and if you don't president. made so many times within the last couple of months is over and also the top of the shards from both. sides have been discussing owned by

a lot of issues trade road connectivity and such kinds of things but they didn't mention when they are going to implement disagreement or when the. handover by dimia if they did to the editor and government so we have no clue what we have been and when we decide ok the fate of but i'm ok one last question very quickly what is the situation and but much a day. today it's calm of course that is skepticism around the area. residents of the town and or so on the administrators of the area immediately up immediately after e.p. out if decided this issue there was a demonstration or opposing the. decision but no it's can of course but.

does the constitution all right he is set about to let from hari thank you. your own place to call home with electricity water and it clean toilet now that's not too much to ask right but that is out of three each for many inventions namibia where high prices have pushed more than half of the city's population into rental slums on the outskirts now a youth movement is saying enough is enough. seven years ago a poor dress she won her left to have village in north and the media and came to study in vain talk and able to afford city prices she rented a shack five out in the cut to tour a township the name cut to tura translates from the local had rarely language as the players when no one wants to leave and it's not hard to see why. i just prodding my doorbell and everything was in the house or somebody

stole my things. this thing is like this. this is not exactly what poor imagine for herself when she made the decision to come to vin talk but decent affordable housing is in short supply anything more central would simply be too expensive she feels as if the country's government forgets people like our. it's really hard in here it's not i mean i'm twenty seven i suppose for my own place. the government to be blamed they don't want to look at people who have low incomes they don't think of those people they are the. people with money but without money we need also places we need to have something that these of our own. around have

income from waitressing in the city going to watch our shark once she has paid the taxi fare to work there is hardly anything left to get by on i would love to have please where. did that i don't have to go out and go for two fish were there and please where access to clean toilets. so i hope by that that every person and that. they have their own lane or the able to have their own x. is. of their own that they belong to them. it doesn't look like the property prices here will be falling anytime soon but poor and her friends are already planning what their dream house would be like modest dignified and most importantly something all of their own. ok so the next stories

about kids will love playing with dolls and that's probably true across the globe but for many children in africa the choice. of dolls isn't really tailored to their identity this video was shot in a toy shop in lagos and as you can see rows and rows off quite dull so the question is does it matter well one woman told us yes it does and she's doing something about founding a company called a kiki dulls she's making the toys that she say is african children and relates to a key key started of basically when when my daughter was about the age of four she came to me after going to like preschool and said she wanted to have her like her friend and a friend of strays here that time so that's why do you we have kinky hair and she just said she wanted straight hair because she likes it and some are she thoughts it's better to have straight hair i was socialization from childhood has been with characters and doors that don't look like the top dogs at that time were all white

it's important to have to have something explicitly at this age when they're looking at things and wondering where they fit in the bigger picture okeydokey is silly words it's associated with nobility to sociate and courage and confidence my dream for a kid to just go beyond borders and to be able to teach kids in terms of teach them to entertain and also to inspire them in terms of reaching for bigger things that are out there this is what kids need to see that you know there is diversity out there we don't only come in when she colored ok but do kids even notice the difference and do they really not see color so we went out to find out if they think having black dolls is a good idea yes. the glass on black.

because up is good to play with you on that looks like. if there was an african. it would just put off a god's will. and a girl. you could. look at that beauty for. well she's right and that's it for news africa for now you can catch all our stories on our website and all facebook page tony if you click images off breaking fans in south africa the one that's been struggling to get the week incinerated the live money settle takes time. to lose.

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