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the subcontinent economic boom has made them billionaires. palis their reveling in their limitless fortune. to listen to much live. images of india starts feb nineteenth on t.w. . this is feed every news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the african union say's twenty nineteen is the year off with africa home to a quarter of the world's displaced people we'll take you to norman kenya where a concept to empower refugees has been. and fake news is on the rise in the run up to the election in nigeria will need the people tossed with separating fact from fiction.
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south africa's soul which will gospel choir hits and there was no except the premise we'll get reaction to the groups they're going to bring. i'm christine window while the news africa i'm glad you're tuned in african leaders have gathered for the twenty nine hundred eighty years summit this year the mass movement of people was the emphasis statistics from the united nations show sub-saharan africa hosts eighteen million forcibly displaced people that's more than a quarter of the world's refugees population now experts say the number is rising because of ongoing conflicts conflicts in countries like insults are done so malia and now among the top countries hosting refugees in africa is kenya which is home to one of the biggest refugee camps in africa correspondent catherine on one
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visited kakuma camp where projects to empower refugees through a settlement scheme has been piloted. jennifer in the role fled two thousand six hundred three of her six children now she lives here in ca to be its part of the kakuma refugee camp in the remote and arid region of northern kenya . and it's also where jenison no home. when i get money i will send the other three children i don't think i will go back to south sudan there's no stability the idea behind calibrating to help the refugees become self-sufficient that's why genesis been provided with a semi permanent house a water tank and space for a kitchen garden jennifer also risk least. the need for food it's not much but jennifer makes to. not far from her place construction is going on currently is
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getting ready to house more people. but the problem. kakuma refugee camp located in one of kenya's most marginalized areas and some citizens say they don't see the benefits of having the camps here. that's kind of a market james is waiting for a customer the twenty year old a kenyan from a nearby village says he moved here to find work he doesn't think it's fair that the refugees are given help with his village just struggling. mostly because problem is water have it rough. we have to bring them closer to the refugee camp if they are to survive. and i've got to tell you the refugees that got water not the house community. but on my. one of the several water points have been kind of the whole community only has one functioning. sometimes forced to dig wells of the system in order to find
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water the agreement between the kenyan government and non-governmental organizations working here is a fifty fifty policy that means the local community is supposed to get whatever amenities the refugees get the putting that into play seems to be a challenge and i look. i don't even follow that rule even though it's using force and not authority that the hope is that kind of grow into a town the refugees and the host communities live together. maybe that james can start seeing the benefits of having refugees like genocide in his whole area. all right because at this marry again ethnically a school is covering the african union summit for us hi maria good to see you so refugees were at the top of the agenda this year what was the outcome of that discussion. so that this year's summit was forced displacement and the root causes
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of because my relations were different group to our attention africa hosts over one third of the world's refugees and internally displaced persons and the primary reason why those people had to see their home armed conflict so earlier today smile sure do. you know i'm back to hurt you a few cents a curate you spoke about the situations in countries such as somalia the central african republic and. in this context i also asked him about the root causes of terrorism in the region. africa is was the less prepared continent for this event which has been in a way important interest in the north star to you you know what it's thought that enough guns stand and it is worse so i think those who for example those who destroyed libya. believes the first responsibility is now to help and
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support african countries to deal with terrorism. ok maria said this is that a year's head of peace and security he is saying people are moving around because off terrorism terrorism doesn't come from the continent we've imported it to quote he's was saying is he saying that people other than africans have to fix this problem. well it seems like he's pointing out that the international community has its share of responsibility and that it should help in finding solutions to the conflicts involving terrorism but at the same time during use britain you need clearly said that we should allow their countries to address their own issues by themselves and that they should secure conditions so that gives is achieved with the internal parties of the conflict one highlight where of course the fact that the summit marks the beginning of the egyptian presidency of the african union following the chairmanship of wrong paul kagame me the first time in history
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actually that egypt will take the helm of the organization and this also comes as relationships. and the african union have not always going to get good egypt was even excluded at youyou in two thousand and thirteen so i can be anticipated after a year focused much on financial matters and institutional reforms is that egypt will put the focus on security issues and he's also very supportive of the africans continental trade area which might come into effect this year are i thank you for your fabulous reporting mary i guess reporting from the twenty nine african union summit that is out of thank you. ok nigerians head to the polls this weekend and we'll be bringing you reports from the country all throughout the week we kick off our coverage today by introducing you to some of the people fighting fake news which is increasing in the country as the general election approaches.
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then one's in her team in the guardian's digital newsroom check the top social media topics every morning on twitter and advisor to the nigerian president alleges that an opposition party is offering food and money in exchange for votes the news spreads quickly so the guardian team decides to investigate. the best actually found out it was a lie i mean. twenty seventeen it was a photograph. outrage don't buy it try to foundation in so it wasn't what she said it was. shortly after the guardian publishes its findings the politicians tweets are deleted the team here say they see fake stories like this every day. so if it's text it's a lot easier in the sense that you just need a few people. who are making this kind seen this happen in the press and if it's.
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also somewhat easy i mean it's quite simple to hire you. there's a whole lot of them but when it's videos they become to be complicated because. you have the metadata is stripped off and sometimes that's what you need actually to track so i guess it will be complicated and then we filed. to check these kind of stories the guardian has teamed up with some twenty other media outlets they formed a collective called cross check nigeria to support each other in the research process a story only goes online when four of the different media organizations have looked at it. is one of the coordinators around fifty journalists involved in the project. everywhere in the world even in the us in the most advanced technology. politicians would always use any means
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to gain advantage if you. information do we do that what you see the important thing is that the want to be do we try to make use of technology that can also. reduce the incidence of. weaponize information for advantage or to do time. the number of fake stories has increased in the run up to the elections nigeria is the most populous country in africa and it's divided along ethnic lines which often leads to conflict according to nigerian police they have already been cases of false reports causing violence so it's not only newspapers who are reacting to increasing levels of faking us also facebook. the issue. but for ten steps this is how the tech giant. in the traditional newspaper. no
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larger than one zero observes the change in the news business rather than publishers competing against each other to be the first to break the story they are now working together to separate fact from fiction in times of falling newspaper circulation she says this could be an opportunity for nigerian media companies. ok now sub africa was recognized at last night's grammy awards the soweto gospel choir scooped the best world album prize for their album freedom it's a true musical tribute to nelson mandela now the choir posted a video of themselves posing with their ward on their facebook page if they have grammy win following successes in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven and it earned them congratulations from south african president obama paul say he wrote on twitter we thank them for telling our story to the world and fly the flag high what
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