become the world. to. start with you mary. d w. this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes digital democracy with intended censorship on the rise in africa we are asked 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 while come to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in internet

censorship is on the rise in africa with many governments increasingly controlling the web in order to quote dissent this often results to people in those countries not having x. is true information all the outside world some of the more recent examples are in zimbabwe sudan and the democratic republic of congo where and she government protests and in elections they have restricted incentives axis so what are some of the ways that this is being done for a ts can i the throttle the band with with makes it impossible to share photos and videos sometimes avoids he's broke 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 of course . drew that the government had acted unconstitutionally now human rights groups

were among those championing the fight against the shutdown let's hear from one of them. was a sort of. elite that. you don't need to. be ordered to before. playing hide and seek with sometimes. so to talk more on this we've invited all of the author of the book digital democracy analog politics way she writes about how the internet era has transformed kenya in particular but she's also explored trends on the wide continent time angela it's good to see you. just how important is the internet to our democracy in africa. i think in just turning out to be a major site for consistent and 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 my 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 a 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 haven't been the lie because i want to introduce. the minister of finance from zimbabwe he was basically asa question why did the government shutdown the incident with the dead last month and this is how he responded i've had complaints about obviously about this being shot down look this is one of the things you do if you're trying to bring things on the part it was temporary it was talked for but you know you did not know now would you do to open the door to reform is not an easy one i'm afraid there but we are moving forward should stay for course in the result of this is in my bones together 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 etc 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 beings if the trial and for who spend it in most of the cases where 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 in 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 this in bali 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 the issue further and that's why it's really interesting that the finance minister of all of the ministers in zimbabwe should be defending this action here and actually money is is for many people is the only answer that the able to access shortfall that is in a cave yes sure that is the case but very briefly had one gentleman last question would be can't see that ok so in many cases in africa it is state's own companies that have full control of the internet is that bad for africa. it is it is and it's without saying that private corporations are the same thing because we've seen private corporations break empty and they are also being implicated in the shutdowns but where the state owns the monopoly people are particularly vulnerable if you get into shutdown went on for almost two years in government it went on for almost all of it will be at a time another two years when there's

a monopoly we see the ticking of the inability because there's just not much option ordinary people to do anything about it all right now that the author of the book does a lot democracy and. thank you for your insights. and. 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 and kenya and tanzania to get around that. muhammad has been fishing off they were going to shows of little taller for more than twenty five years. we no longer catch fish like we used to. be economic impact on us then go out there

right now you can see it traps and come up in. just one culture week 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 rising be mindful 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. you know unfunded project called one. of 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 use west water order to cut costs while boosting efficiency. one develop a system for the market it's called research collating aquaculture so this is to makes use of hundred percent water reuse water is circulation so it's mentally 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 c o two footprint in the tunnels on the cañon side of the lake

a pilot project is already in place the water is filtered using what's known as membrane bio reactor technology in uganda like you were has been using recycled water for the last eighteen months the used water is pumped into our tongue from there it flows into this busines which contain storms 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 the same water would maintain the same temperatures because that's also very crucial when you're watching exit to the in the hatchery so for the points that still work in progress for us to see how well be able to integrate it. this scientists would like more farmers to recycle 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. we need to dept the 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 of durban where 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 version of the famous wax

museum. he has a growing collection of african political figures and other icons statues have already started bringing him local fame and any human living. a one step closer to history. museum as you can see. mean. because you know i'm trying to do the things. we're trying to do this do shoes of. the heroes of struggle you know different in different categories. that's. africa you can catch. on our website and facebook page we're leaving you with images from fashion week with models from the south african fashion.

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a look into the inspirations of three women credits is with inventing abstract. counterparts. last october at southern bees option 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 a balloon has now been read a md 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 it's doubt it's the hot i don't want to miss out i 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 at sotheby's auction house in london to go with the bill.