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uganda just seems the biggest. juno welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in we start off in nigeria where millions were ready to vote today but five hours before the start of the pol the electoral commission console the election voters will have to wait until next weekend to choose their next leader many have expressed disappointment and international election observers are worried. well i think there are concerns as international community as international observers as the one hand that the postponement happened so late in the process that happened just hours before the

polls were to open people were moving towards the polls at the time. and. i think it's very disruptive in that sense if they knew they couldn't do it they should have given people more of a heads up earlier and build trust in the process. now let's talk some more about this with our correspondent funny flush on in leave us alone funny good to have you with us so this is the deal with many nigerians traveled for long hours to the cities all states just a cost of votes only to be told it's no longer happening what's the mood like funny . right very very mixed to say so because some people take a look at this hugh laurie the irony saying this is not just by the way one of the sentences that people keep saying is something does not work in nigeria but others are actually quite angry and disappointed because they say this should not be nigeria they are disappointed because democracy they say is not going to be closely dated deepened if the timetable cannot be kept and that there are practical reasons

to why people are angry some had to postpone their wedding because the election was postponed osa just came back from the nation's capital from abroad and a lot of young people they were stranded who were there to volunteer for the national electoral commission but didn't have any place to say it's just days it's a very mixed mood right now ahead of what is supposed to be taking place the election on a february twenty third now. electoral commission said anything more than we already know to calm down the anger and disappointment over voters. all right apart from repeatedly saying that this is due to the just ticks through to the weather to certain sensitive documents ballot papers could not be delivered to certain regions in nigeria also i've heard members of the national election national call it the story of the electoral commission seeing some sort of a finger pointing actually two different parties that they did not deliver the candidates on time that have to be printed on those documents that again have to be

delivered to all over now geria so there is a finger pointing but not only from i only see two parties also in between parties and i've met a woman a young lady a young mother and a lawyer in a house alone who says people don't expect anything from politicians anyway but rather try to be the change yourself now this is how she is doing it let's have a watch. lawyer nona much is bringing her message to this here so on but she's not campaigning for herself or any politicians rather she wants nigerians to become more politically active. you are that. you want to see my. hours of. corruption runs deep in nigerian politics but snugness says it's not the only problem the next government will inherit. it worries me i feel that. people will have to be interest in how bad my.

due will do the best to ensure that people. aware enough to liberates themselves with the effing game that's to main drive beyond her efforts to encourage social dialogue wherever she meets people. once in young person comes into our wemyss enough to start asking questions he would change nigeria imagine if everybody with asking questions not us approach has an immediate impact in particular on her hairdresser victoria. curry do you. do your very good job you can sit out especially affected food if you don't go out to work the roads are empty and election time for a moment it seems as if they belong to nigeria's youth the majority of the population for change to take hold it's up to them to hold politicians accountable

that's what nonna believes she woke up to the news that the elections have been rescheduled to saturday it's made her even more determined to cast her ballot. i'm going to vote because i want i want every government to realise that once you coming there's no automatic to care to the next now those very that some young people might not vote out of frustration in the postponed election but the delay hasn't damaged her drive to motivate others to be the change she believes the jiri are so desperately needs. now that italy has definitely not affected man as drive to vote but based on your judgement funny what is that against the commissions that many more will not turn up like they did last weekend or this past weekend in their numbers to vote again what's what's your judgment on that. don't want to get into those speculations rather it's fourteen million people that

we just have to vote for this election compared to twenty fifteen so that tells you actually about the dynamic that people have pretty much bumped up to go out turn out and vote the question is yes what's going to happen next weekend now there are some financial reasons behind the fact that people may stay away from voting because most of them have to go through their location but they live where they are you just heard to vote and they may broke somewhere else so that is actually very closely but also when it comes to young people depending on whom i'm been speaking to now yesterday some said they are really frustrated about the way this played out just a couple of hours before the election that is an element was made that the election is delayed and they say they really don't feel like voting others say again due to that frustration have a completely different reaction saying just like not in that report that yes now that finitely more determined to go out and cast my ballot what will happen of course we will see if the election takes time takes place this time on

a saturday clearly many mixed reactions that funny correspondents in lagos nigeria thank you very much. next to uganda which is why the markets to the rest of the well does the peril of africa among its attractions safaris with crystal clear blue skies giraffes and other african wildlife but there could be a new addition to that list beautiful woman could play a role in the trucks and visits as recently revealed by tourism minister godfrey key wanda that infuriated women's activists accusing him of promoting a woman as the tourist attraction they want to scrap his plans but permissions to attract kevvy woman ambassadors for uganda are in full swing. one of these ladies could soon be crowned miss cover uganda the beauty contest district lea four plus sized queens with commissions bodies and organize a sleep over two hundred women of applied you must become vicious those ladies know

themselves that is the truth when i say when when you ask me what my someone do what size are you going to consider we are considering. the idea to showcase women with coffee british ships has been fronted by uganda's tourism minister good for it you wonder after the launch of the contest the ministers say the beauty queens could help attract foreign visitors and boost tourism gurus it is not a lot of things sometimes he won't. do it. though we are really good i want our. women rights groups a furious and have gone to court to block the project and for allegedly insulting women hold their. reduce who are in. a the board. were approved and therefore we are one on one. it's

a part of all data and it uganda's miss copy has been made with anger and approval and it's a similar picture industries for some the minister is a champion of tourism promotion for others he's objectifying women. i think it's son excellent idea because over the years they've been really promoting the slender sizes you find a dozen schools are trying to take lots of medication to lose weight and this is no intel three for us they are supposed to accept us and they even feel happy that given the plus size people an opportunity it's just like any other b. to buy good but it's only that. this one is only for the plus side we are being portrayed like create just cheap women like meat on sale in the international market that's a very bad and i totally disagree and is that the minister behind this idea an eternity for jihad because this is not good he's got

a wife can eat present here is a tourist attraction enough to get around with facing the backlash the minister denies accuses sions of using women for trucks travelers he has toward parliament that it's a misunderstanding that special i've. got. this is my. we. with a to misunderstanding or not and despite the controversy the end no plans to cancel the contest of the cards. now to the plight of one of more unusual animals the pangolin or into the are the only mammals completely covered with skills but poaching is now threatening them with extinction around one hundred

thousand pounds trafficked to china and vietnam every year for use in traditional medicine. this find is worth some eight million dollars ivory and penguin scales the biggest toll that uganda's authorities have ever made not one container what about to get about forty three grams from the pangani and now imagine how many probably were killed to raise this number of killers the goods are mainly headed for china in asia pangolin scales are believed to have the power to heal all kinds of complaints even though they're made of keratin just like human fingernails pangolin meat is sold in luxury restaurants trade in the animals is illegal. we believe that it's an international network of other people who are involved we are going to drink and our investigation. ins are the only memos with horny scales one kilo of scales will fetch around six hundred u.s.

dollars on the black market because the animals can be sold illegally for huge sums they hunted in many african and asian countries say the most trafficked amends in the world and are listed as critically endangered. that's said for d.w. news africa i for not. precise moment if you. give me the volume of people smuggling a multi-billion dollar business. reporter spent two years observing smugglers helping migrants to enter europe illegally. they met with insiders investigators and microbes a rare insight into the lucrative trade of people smugglers. closer. to.

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