producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food. but you can protect yourself and your family from users in the home by applying the five keys to see friends who use them you also have a role to play. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's international day off zero tolerance for female genital mutilation we'll hear from the young african women championing the fight against the practice in their communities. and we'll introduce you to the twelve year old boy that has the odd community and a. president emanuel crowd is also a huge fan. i'm

christine when the welcome to deeds of the news africa i'm glad you're today in the united nations has dedicated today to raising awareness about female genital mutilation if g.m. as it's also known is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or of the injury to the female genital organs for medical reasons if g.m. is known to be practiced in about thirty countries in africa but it is on the decline and young women at the forefront of challenging it i mean activists. will never forget the day it happened to her. when i think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had tools that i have never seen before so that they could do this to. prove that. plus to be honest i was mostly anger with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell

me where i was going to war in the world by d.n.a. and they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there. she says i'm traumatized when anyone talks to me about female circumcision i feel i can't breathe it eats away at me here if you see some dollars so a lot of it officially after and has been banned in guinea since the year two thousand but the statistic tell another story ninety seven percent of women in the country have been cut that means that after somalia guinea's the african country where this practice is most common but there is resistance one thousand year old had just founded the group young girls he just kept in two thousand and sixteen with seven friends the club now has more than two hundred members across many defied for the rights of women and girls and against f.e.m. in all its forms. and it will do that

yes it is good it's important to remember that in some guinea and communities it don't carry out excision but in fifty lation men who are these so the lab we are together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night them up it will be where years. it cost us cars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences this a get this is it get too many to name one cause it takes you can even lead to death only. if it was a ghost with us it would be a good septum important read imo. girls are still being cut during initiation ritual it's in the forest without anaesthetic naturally the girls put up a fight so several women restrain them and push them to the ground it's not uncommon for the girls to end up with broken bones. and her

fellow campaigners are often on the road in guinea to raise awareness to use films to spread their message on issues such as sex education their goal is to help women and girls to emancipate themselves and to know their rights that's vital in a country where every other girl is married off before her eighteenth birthday sixty three percent of marriages are arranged and eighty five percent of women report experiences of domestic violence. all these what. we're reaching out to black back at the grassroots level and he's also what it is here we hope that educated professional girls won't fall victim to f g m or get forced into marriage who expect to see positive results on this doesn't a positive. cultures can change her journey and her fellow campaigners assure that they are fighting for a new guinea and which has no place for violence against women and girls ok jad

is africa's regional goodwill ambassador for the united nations women and she's also the founder of safe hands for girls and she joins me now from the gambia jazz i do so much for for talking to us today you have personally experienced female genital mutilation could you just talk to us about your experiences now and how it's impacted your life. i remember going to g.m. because as you know already i went through you know i don't obviously shit when i was one or so i don't remember what that was like to go through down news coverage but i will until this fact is as an adult and. i mean just speaking in general terms when it comes. on a woman's body from physical consequences to psychological effects and this is something bad once you group through it is something that you have to live with for

the rest of your life yet it's certainly something that you're having to live with for the rest of your life but a lot of women in countries where if chamas practiced are in support they've they are in favor of the practice right so it's been done to their men and they wanted to be done to their daughters and in fact some research tells us that in africa more women than men support the practice and i just wanted to get a sense of through your activism what are some of the reasons why this tradition is just it's so difficult to get rid off. well in a lot of places where it's practice as you know in the is actually half of cyclists and women have been conditioned to believe that this is the good for them and it's something that they have to go through and there's a lot of hoops in order for them to be manageable and if their gotos don't fall

through x. g.m. no one would mind them and then we'll see them as on clean so i was a result of that it's women who are practiced i've seen them on the other woman what that doesn't lessen the scene it doesn't make any wrong is just by when we see women in domestic violence solutions and they keep asking then why didn't she just leave and i was you know just because something from there's a noose it's easy for you to stop and g.m. is a do d. live traditional practice i have been around for centuries and it is the only thing because women know so well to change a lot of times we have to learn some of the things that we learned along the way and not take science that short essay exilim job still gets him once back and in the gambia in two thousand and fifteen and your campaign was really at the front of that right is according to what i've read it wasn't all campaign that that action for same president jemmett it to ban the practice in the gambia and i just

wondered how effective has the band actually been. you know we just had a conversation about back to day with food as an international n.g.o.s i mean when a lot of people. or will a disappearance more in a resort they want to be appealed a lot but jameer bad s.t.m. our parliament when i have been asked a lot which makes it a gambian law or not a president or and i think this new administration should do better when it comes to incentives in the more this happens but i think overall as a country we are progressing when it comes to energy have been so much improvement when it comes to no changes not because of the lore but because of the advocacy in working with communities going on. thank you for your with them great talking to you just had to korea africa's recent goodwill ambassador for un women as and and

and see if she ever acts of assist. the next story is one of those you won't believe without seeing a young boy with an incredible drawing talent has shot to fame in nigeria and even has a fan in france's president emmanuel mccracken after he drew a portrait of him that day to obvious choice sure pay the young artist a visit. every detail martez. aim is to make this joint look like a high definition photograph at just twelve years of age karim is the youngest realism artist in nigeria. destroying usually inspired by his environment and his family show group to survive he says the moment he saw this image he knew he wanted to use it. was close to my leg. cause.

what's. seizure is the name of kareem's latest drawing he started drawing comics when he was just three years old he needs are joining the i you're with the arts academy and art school that started as a makeshift learning center for children in this poor lagos neighborhood tutors helped him to improve his style and within weeks after posting his first joint online he same spread all over the intel it especially after you drew a portrait of french president emanuel last year this is the reverse of the we haven't really seen the room this is. i think this is the beginning of a blow so what's in. after his big break with president korn the karriem

family was invited to move to a new apartment while why reece was transferred to a better school as a gift from the government according to an official statement the government's intention is to make sure the boy isn't the best environment to not show his talents meanwhile the at academy where why reece got his start now has a far more studio that's more conducive for young students to learn odds. because i didn't notice. the roots of fruits will. be. good. if. you know. why resteal comes to be academy every

weekend and when he's not drawing he's learning new techniques from textbooks he says arts has always been a way for him to escape hard times. good. just. i just. say why reece is now well known locally but he wants to keep improving until he becomes a global star. and there's no doubt he will be that's it for now from africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page so we're leaving you with images of workers at the de los soltz flats in ethiopia the soap harvested hero was deposited by flooding from the red sea get this at least thirty thousand years ago told next time i if i.

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festival about is about to get out the way and it will be the last fall festival directed to a costly he's been in charge for nearly two decades and in that time he's raised its profile to make it one of the major film festivals in the world i'll be talking to my colleague melissa holroyd about what's in store this year but first a look back cos licks tenure. we caught up with to talk us look at butlins film and television museum. for. the current photo exhibition there on the history of the belly nala also tells his story as festival director. he took over the helm in two thousand and one. for me got dizzy it was not exciting because it's such a huge festival. number of initiatives we've expanded the film market the co-production market corporation with the book and the biggest project was the talent campus called sin.