this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes young and poor will meet one nigerian woman who was willing to risk everything to escape poverty whatever this weekend's presidential election off young people like her. and we'll hear from the african women in london's exhibition. i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you with us this weekend the people of africa's most populous nation go to the polls nigeria's presidential election is essentially a two horse race with a sequel from the main opposition the p.d.p. challenging the ruling apc's mamadou hari who's seeking a second term now the two front runners may be old men but it's really young people

at the center of this election now by geria has now become the country with the most poor people in the world ninety one billion live in extreme poverty according to a twenty eight hundred study now nigeria's a young country and so many of the people all young people are going to meet one of them in our next report. back to the old job back to her home country nigeria jamal care our day care was fourteen when she left for a better life she wanted to escape lagos and the hardship she endured i'm i'm really very many. in our id. before i have a bridge before me. before my life. nobody don't want me no food. smugglers promised to

bring cats to the united states instead she was trying dead in libya for three years. tells me she was forced to work as a prostitute and face sexual abuse multiple times. every day every day. say she marquez story is all too common in one chair young people forced to take a life threatening path in search of the life they don't see here experts say pulling young people out of poverty should be the priority of the government. most of the responsibility in this contract to ship how do i deal with the problem i have on my hands if you can just focus to help these people for the job for you find a good song with. a spiritual or whatever you have invited. to look at is one of the thousands of my gran's who returned to nigeria through the

help of international organizations like the i.o.m. she must give a new chance even if she gets no money for being an apprentice after now for myself i see the final five if i see. some play that's if i go to school. i can let my work finish and maybe i can try contrie back but for now without an income those plans remain a dream. of it's in a budget alan on the phone we have a numbed the senior analyst for nigeria for crisis group. have you on the line welcome to date up in u.s. africa so we're talking about a nigeria today that has the most poor people in the world what obvious to the candidates offering versus. this is because the offering

simply means that it's for about providing infrastructure it's about improving livelihoods. it's about social investment in human development but the little difference that we find is that while president bush carried the policy to the truth he will disappoint more to these things. he's more inclined to privatized and promoting of private enterprise that's the engine of growth i think that's the fundamental difference yeah of course that's equal being the capsule is that he is but more than half of focuses in this election we know the mohawk of registered voters as aged between fifteen and thirty five he's got two candidates the front runner has both in their seventy's obvious candidates in touch with what is the overwhelmingly young electorate. well with of the young people think as you would expect that they are out of touch with. current to reality. why sunday people also think that. position can

give us. a little more willing to conclude. he has more young people in his employment and his campaign have also feature others more of them musicians and artists and so on which has some sensitivity to the interest of young people but in terms of concrete policy i think. women have also talked more about creating jobs for young people so i think from the point of view you might see a bit more sense to the young people were developed from it is anyway it needs to be translated to really and if talk about that reality what is nigeria's prospects after this election. well it's very close and by the fourth election and. we're not sure of who is going to win at this point it is the future will depend on who we are and what direction he wants to take the

country to but fact is also that whoever emerges that we will have a huge stock of if the economy's in my one time will be forward security issues are proliferating across the country on and momentous as an all time high and so on so they're not they're not going to be any quick fixes them or not all there's not going to be any radical change it is good to be among a long haul before we can see light at the end of the tunnel very quickly mr buckley before we let you go i mean we are talking about a continent where we do not see all that much change in the political front a lot of people wondering is bill harvey likely to return. well at the moment it's difficult to see we've had various opinion polls some pointing to you know his returning and products you know he's moving out so it's difficult to see exactly what we can also say that a few club has come in has ramped up you know with momentum by significantly in

recent times and you saw them even seem to have gained quite some ground and the the government is you know struggling to stem the tide to move that gap so at this point we can't say whether it will come back or most ok all right we appreciate it ma'am deal but the a senior analyst at international crisis group in nigeria thank you so much for your insight. the president of mali abraham cato was recently in berlin for talks with these german counterparts the background in short is that german troops are in bali on a un peacekeeping mission that's said to be one of the most dangerous in the world in an exclusive interview with spoke about how the fight against extremists in the east was impacting the west. starting out in somalia a terrorist attacks have spread to east africa ever since the westgate shopping mall attack in nairobi in two thousand and thirteen has set its sights on the

continent but not only in the eastern part of africa. it was. the food that we believe many of the terrorists that international forces are fighting in east africa fleeing to the somehow region. the current and i keep in libya allows this to happen this bothers us a great deal and we have to bear the consequences of peace in the sun hell is vital for the whole world if there are international agreements that we want to spend billions of dollars to help the eastern part of the continent fight terrorism we also should take care that it doesn't shift to the other end of the continent if the protective wall of this a hell breaks it will come to you when you. live a long time neglect. also corso security problems in the region. and we need exchange and dialogue we need to keep up the administration so that we

can guarantee basic social needs like schooling health care and infrastructure. and then do something to do. this process has started well but we have to be aware if we are the population to return home then we have to know that the authorities can protect them in any case of danger this is a big effort for us but we are taking on this responsibility. is making this a more. one way of taking responsibility is molly's participation in the de fives and force of french backed five thousand men joint mission was spoke enough fossil mauritania niger and tucked. ok it's not just presidents and politics today we do have some culture too a new exhibition that's just opened in london shows the works of south african

artist. muse and it raises questions about the a range of african women from history as well as the spiritual connection to the lad. the nation between the land itself and her and sisters teams explored in this wanting video by a south african artist sitting misters down in. a sought after artist in africa mr zanna is now celebrating his first solo shorey in the u.k. . showing my work here in london doesn't mean that there's a different audience but it doesn't mean that no one can necessarily connect with the work within the work you know there are traces of of people finding their own humanity and of finding solitude within the landscape but also of finding self and reflections that happen within the spaces the artists exploration of the landscape in history come a south africa grapples with how to rectify the inequality of landownership this

body of work kind of surfaces in a time where south africa is having conversations around land reform and changing the constitution to allow for that form and saw in part this body of work speaks about this assuring enough of incest or spiritual realm speaking to issues of that because the land is where the bones of our ancestors our rituals and traditions are exhibition visitors value this makes of the spiritual with the political i love her work it is so it is a very. good interplay with her spirituality. and the four five this and where she comes from and the ribs her roots and also the politically charged. circumstances under which she takes the photographs where she places herself and how she places the cell to be able to come here and kind of relate to

know with the archdiocese on kind of walled you know here on three you know or come and set free and kind of thing something that is also quite meaningful for me is quite revealing. that's it from deeds of news africa for now you can catch that of all of the stories on our website and facebook page because the work is stunning we leave you with more upstanding mcs that is what i find out.

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