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as of crimes thanks to this video recording the soldier who shall be young is on trial now. forensics between it's. amazing. it's a big chance because justice is about the true. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on w. . this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes deals we'll hear from the smell of gas the fishermen who say they were being bullied by chinese forces will tell you why a billion dollar fishing deal with china has drawn a lot of critics. and some of the world's most dangerous cities all in africa will meet and expands to who is trying to make his crime ridden neighborhood in kenya safe and. then we'll see how some pioneering wind pro is in the democratic republic
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of congo making the most of the first all shores self-made people. i'm christine one welcome to africa i'm glad you're in the island off medigap sky has some of the richest fishing stocks in africa and for good this maritime wealth has been the main means of subsistence for small scale fisherman but now there is a new player competing for the catch last year the government signed a billion dollar fishing deal with china which will see more chinese vessels like these fishing on the western coast slide off madagascar now local fishermen all worried for their livelihoods they say they already challenge by changing the way the passions and that they call it competes with chinese. official
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men in a cow holes in his net the small community in southwestern mother has been fishing like this for generations. but now their way of life is under threat several huge chinese fishing trawler started casting their nets off the shore of on a cow last year the local fishermen with their small wooden boats can't compete with this industrial fishing operation. it's bad for us it's tough competition because the chinese nets a huge. they have a big catch many fish as for me i'm just using a small net i can't get that many fish. and they fear it will get much worse the former government signed a two point seven billion dollars deal with china granting china fishing rights the details of that deal are unclear and that has people worried and fisherman are
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among the most worried they fear the industrial scale trolling will result in overfishing and the fish docks in minish their livelihoods will be at risk. if this goes on with all these traumas coming here. where will the fisherman go then nothing else them fishing up there is. a community that makes its living from the sea a sailing into an uncertain future. ok we go over to kenya now where security experts in the country say one in five people has been attacked while walking along the streets of the capital nairobi in fact the u.s. overseas security advisory council ranks nairobi among africa's ten most dangerous cities locals are they getting fed up with the situation and some have decided to take masses of security into their own hands you're about to meet and gangster who's changed his ways and is now how helping to make his neighborhood safer. we
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decided to go to one of nairobi slum areas my very hear and security as an everyday reality we can only film here with the protection of the local youths one of them david is a former gang member at fourteen he dropped out of school and was lured into crime that he robbed people at night slept during the day and paid a high price i was told my friends and i. started with the group. but. after seventy two i just sent me three so we wrote the note again two of my friends went down. there now i will see the meaning just me. david left his life of crime several years ago today he and other used are trying to make the neighborhood safe and. we have the security oh it is either so we have to. make use be fearful sort of thing with the
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police and people are going to feel like we see is not going on the right that's all that you. are you are not the boy comes from world so we will be out of this becoming that seem to believe that good. we just beat him up for warning. david and his friends have taken the law into their own hands since the police have failed to provide security. and as long as that works well the police let them go ahead but that's not always a good idea. if you go to places like my very good friend that are certain hours of the night people can't move because now the area is under the control of of all of the criminal gangs and what has for what has happened now is that members of the public of now been forced to form the only dementedly because they don't trust the police the police refused to speak to us but residents told us that there aren't enough police to patrol the area and they do come they're known
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to use force and can often tell the difference between criminals and isn't bystanders due to. where you can see a town where. that is courts court the abilities of those places the courts work so if you or if you are young. you like me and they fight you don't then probably variable arrest you or start firing at you. there needs to be a dialogue between the police and the community the youth tell us. once in a while such dialogues take place there is even an office to report police brutality but the problem has become too big says tobias. he is a youth leader with the local n.g.o.s get a foundation. they have to give the youth also an opportunity to change not just killing them if we can we can have a police station in the community and the police know that i to buy as
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a marquee or not because. we meet with them each and every day we are really rude and they even live among us and we also live among the david got help through get a foundation now he wouldn't go back to crime he met new people and gets by doing odd jobs the distrust between the police and the community rages on although he still doesn't trust the police he believes in a higher police presence would help reduce crime i live my life i love i can go and they know that when it's a. thing for you of using something to send you to have for tobiason david it's about building trust and having police who listen to the community in their eyes that would make the area safer for me ok we've got another story coming out of kenya for you with plastic waste is becoming an ever bigger problem so now in many african countries people
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are realizing that recycling is a must and in kenya a group of environmentalists took to the sea in a boat that looks like a traditional doll but it's made entirely from recycled plastic waste. the good ship flip floppy set sail on a mission it's the first sailing vessel built completely out of plastic waste incorporating around thirty thousand flip flops and of a garbage the team took two years and ten tons of plastic. to build this ten meter vessel on lamu island off the canyon coast we had this dream of being recycled plastic us to be. so much crying about the plastic. we feel responsibility eight million tonnes of plastic waste end up in the world's oceans every year and some of it makes landfall here in kenya this group of environmental activists want to change that they collected garbage and raised money
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to build the guard they even have the support of the united nations program to combat climate change it seems so simple to me it's so obvious the motivation is just to share something positive we wanted to have a colorful beautiful message and that's what the flip flop is it's really clear positive message about plastic being valuable. and aside from floating a message to save the environment so far flip floppy has managed swimmingly on her five hundred kilometer voyage from mood to zanzibar. isn't that something well it's not unusual for someone to associate the democratic republic of congo with war and political tension in fact the country stock reputation often belies the beauty found in its a lush rain forest volcanoes and of course now on an island in the middle of the lake a group of friends have come up with what some would call a crazy idea that's making wine. scenically key one of the
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african great lakes on the motor boat however aren't tourists out to post pictures on their social media accounts but a german italian south african team with high hopes to grow wine in the congo the island of doug will be the testing ground six hundred vine stocks were packed in limited cases and flown in from europe they will be planted on three small fields. plants are growing incredibly quickly we planted them in march as soon as the stem is a bit stronger cut it off about here then you shoots will sprout and they should have grates on them. the idea to grow wine in the island had been gestating for years when the german amateur. heard about it he fell in love with the idea. people hear about the congo they so see a bowl and war especially in european countries but if you look around it is
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gorgeous here a paradise but there was never any fighting on this island for example and that's part of our concept we thought we could do something right here that would combine pleasure in the senses. five congolese from the neighboring islands are part of the team they are learning how to cultivate wine the europeans benefit from the locals knowledge of the climate at lake level this could become a profitable relationship. we hope there is peace sometime soon. but despite the instability in this area we can still try and make wine here in order to help our country move forward. if. they even have a logo for the wine assuming of course that their work comes to fruition easier said than done every trip is an adventure in and of itself living conditions on the island are rustic with no running water and no electricity but there is a great view of the volcanoes the national park. that will hopefully balance out
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all the vagaries of this project like. nibbling at the plants and the family of apes living on the island who may will grow fond of the grapes but if it all works out the volcanic soil in this island will bring forth a very special drop of wine. to resemble the place where it comes from which means the wind from here will have a full body rich in concentrated because that is what the terroir and the climate. the first grapes are expected in the coming months then we'll know whether red wine from the congo was a good idea worth pursuing. in the sky. so that's it for now from the news africa you can catch all our stories on our website add the facebook page we've used today with images of some traditional fishermen in africa for many of them their livelihoods are being threatened by change and where the peasants and industrial of the fishing it's bye bye for now.
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