first girl says she was told. but this girl the other idea is. one to. really become the world's biggest jerk. has to. start figuring the t d w. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes digital democracy with internet censorship on the rise in africa we are just how important the freedom is on the continent. and one of africa's great lakes is running out of fish we'll tell you why that's happening and what people are doing about it.

i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're cheated in internet censorship is on the rise in africa with many governments increasingly controlling the web in order to quote descents this often results to people in those countries not having access to information all the outside world some of the more recent examples are in zimbabwe sudan and the democratic republic of congo way and she government protests and in elections saw the old boys he's they have restricted incentives axis so what are some of the ways that this is being done for a ts can i the threshold the band with with makes it impossible to share photos and videos sometimes avoid teas but all access to social media sites like facebook and twitter all in extreme cases they completely shut down the internet like what we saw in zimbabwe. last month during protests there not civil groups in zimbabwe

legally challenge the internet shut down cheering those protests and then a courtroom that the government had acted unconstitutionally human rights groups were among those championing the fight against the shutdown let's hear from one of them. we we also sort. it is. that. you don't need to. be ordered to before and visited are. playing hide and seek with sometimes. so to talk more on this we've invited one challenge one of the author of the book digital democracy analog politics where she writes about how the internet era has transformed kenya in particular but she's also explored trends on the wider continent and angela it's good to see you. just how important is the intimidates to

our democracy in africa. i think the internet is turning out to be a major cipher consists in democratic politics and not just in africa really around the world receiving this is the new frontier not in one hand it's a place where a lot of keen question conversations are happening so we're seeing a lot in the more political debates being driven on to online space is whether you're talking about social media or blogs or websites or even use those seeking much of their coverage onto their websites but on the other hand we're also seeing its digital technologies as opening up a space for new types of political manipulation new types of misinformation new types. interference really with political processes and we've been talking about elections in africa a great deal in the last few years but there are also issues that have come up in the west as well which is you know public relations at what point does political

advertisement become a form of political manipulation these are some of the things that i look into in my book which is really about. how just the existence of the internet and the intersection between the internet and how we do politics and how we do democracy around the world is really raising some interesting and challenging questions all right and staying on that just have on the on the line because i want to introduce . the minister of finance from zimbabwe he was basically os the question why did the government shutdown the incident with the dead last month and this is how he responded i've had complaints about always about the shipment it being shot down look this is one of the things you do if you're trying to bring things under control it was temporary it was talked for but you know it you know now we do it it is opening the door to reform is not an easy one i'm afraid here but we are moving forward should stay for course in the result of this is a problem is to gather ok then jealously here in saying they have that this is what

you do to keep things under control do governments make a case when they say look we're trying to contain the spread of false news a seder this is why we restrict the end to the internet is there a case to be made there what do you make of it. i think the key thing is what he said which is we're trying to keep things under control and the question is what things are they trying to if the trial and for who spend it in most of the cases where we're seeing into shutdowns in africa especially it's been where there's been dissent and perfectly legitimate the sense in the case of a government excess and this was the case and zimbabwe it was a case where by people protesting what they saw as an illegitimate price rise in diligence in its increasing cost of living over a very short period of time in each of the streets to protest and what was trying to be control of the government says it's trying to control is the news that was fretting about what was happening in zimbabwe so it's not really a legitimate thing to shut down the entire internet just to control information

that makes the government look bad because ultimately a good government should be able to withstand criticism from its citizens yet there is another interesting element to the zimbabwe issue which is that they shut down the internet in the country rabbi and in china money is one of the major forms of currency exchange and so it only compounded we are in sort of the able to access all that is in a cave yes sure that is the case but very briefly had mentioned in my last question would be can't see that ok so in many cases in africa it is states owned companies that have full control over the internet is that bad for africa it is it is and out of it without seeing that private corporations are the something because you seem kind of corporations but empty and saying also being implicated in the shutdowns where the state owns the monopoly people are particularly vulnerable if you're going to shut down went on for almost two years and can prove it went on for almost . all sort of it will be at a time another two years when there's a monopoly we see particularly the inability because there's just not much option

ordinary people to do anything about it all right and then jad able and the author of the book digital democracy and. thank you for your insights. ok so our next story is one about creating solutions it's tough for fishermen at lake victoria because stocks off wild fish are dwindling so many of them are turning to fish farming to make ends meet but breeding fish requires flushing farms with massive amounts of clean fresh water now a team of scientists from europe are working with communities in uganda in kenya and tanzania to get around that. mohammad has been fishing off they were going to shows of little more than twenty five years. we no longer catch fish like we used to. be economic impact on us out there

right now you can see it traps and come up empty or just one cut away. in the old days we would get a good catch. the main cause for the depletion of stocks over fishing pollution from industrial activity is another problem these issues have made it harder to meet the rise in the mind for fish. this has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. one of the biggest challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. fish from outside the capital kampala. to fish farming you have to keep flushing your points all the time so you can imagine the amount of money that was spent just to make sure that we had water

running into the different points every ten thousand. she's taking part in a union funded project called. the fish from us are learning about a new technology. team of european and african scientists the project is led by professor john from the university of khan's way in germany the team has come up with a new system using west water in order to cut costs while boosting efficiency. one develop a system for the market it's called research aquaculture so this is to makes use of hundred percent water reuse water is circulation so it's environmentally very friendly because there's no water going through and there's no nothing spoiling the environment and we make use of renewable energy in order to reduce the c o two

footprint in the tone of the can and side of the lake chapala product is already in place the water is filtered using what's known as membrane bioreactor technology in uganda has been using recycled water in hotter in for the last eighteen months they used water is pumped into our tongue from there it flows into this business which contains tomes and sun that help clean the water now wants to use recycled water to have big points too so we already have that system and it has proved to be very efficient for us using that same water would maintain the same temperature because that's also very crucial when you're watching exit to there in doha cherry so for the points that still work in progress for us to see how well be able to integrate it. this and just like more farmers to cycle water ideally using renewable energy the professor and his team have been working on this project for the last three years so far their work has brought them to uganda kenya

and tanzania. we want to train we want to show people and we want to see how everything develops in the future and finally very very. and this we need to dept this solution for the local market so at the moment we brought a lot of ideas from europe and now we need the feedback of the local people to give us guidance in future how can we develop a low cost system one of the ways they're hoping to achieve that is by promoting exchange between scientists and from us the established best practices that boost fish stocks and protect the environment. ok now see the south african city off durban way a local artist is building up a collection of life sized statues of famous african icons in a way the artist and sculptor. hopes to create africa's vision of the famous wax

museum madame tussauds he has a growing collection of african political figures and other icons in statues have already started bringing him local fame and any human living moving him closer or one step closer to history. with the income that i get from doing is the. vision system the works museum as you can see of. course of course do shoes of mean. homewards do shoes of controversy because you know i'm trying to do the same thing and sort of name sudan we're trying to do this to shoes of. the heroes of struggle you know different in different categories. that's made for data every news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we're leaving you with images from boston in a fashion week with models from the south african fashion be able to lock down the capitol hill next time i buy.

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a look into the inspirations of three women credits is with inventing abstract all that better than i was male counterpart. last october at sotheby's auction house in london the anonymous british street artist banksy told a mischievous artistic prank by triggering a device that started to shred a painting of his that just sold for one point two million euros go with the balloon has now been renamed love is in the bin and has pride of place in an exhibition in southern germany. not fans of queuing in the cold to get a glimpse of banksy is go with the balloon or as much of her as they can see anyway this is dad it's the high i don't want to miss out. i had thought it was a new picture that was partly shredded but it really does look messed up. the picture caused a global sensation last october that's not the baby's auction house in.