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when the way the contest notes the most careful let the get take a look you can see now from existence for those and several see those number amount . in the us as dummy and. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes sanibel votes will continue and multicelled is reelected president with nearly sixty percent of the vote what's in store for the country as he prepares for his last trip. and the soldier of the earth we meet the palm of fighting year lows then bringing innovation to agriculture. then good day out of poverty we have a story of a cycling dude who's mentoring young aspirants from kenya to townships. i'm
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christine want to welcome to news africa i'm glad you're shootin maki sol has been reelected president in senegal taking fifty eight percent off the vote figures released by the national vote counting commission show sells nearest rival that's former prime minister sick took twenty percent. of the salwar out celebrating he's election win at sal's party headquarters in the capital. so he's really action campaign on a record of building roads and creating jobs a lot of infrastructure projects in the country going on because i'm solve the builder of a modern cynical but sick and the opposition candidates maintained that the
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country's economic and fond says have not reached many city going to people especially young men often risk everything to my great teacher. i want to bring in our correspondent well that's africa's jaime sunday at mali and he's going to be giving us more analysis at to this election really i just want to point out that we've had another big election result of a continent and that was nigeria we had a lot of people call a fall day but let's start off by establishing a me if you will was this a free and fair election. i mean the city go has a history of for conducting free and fair election and this one was no exception on that so observers from the european union from the unit you from the african union and also from that to where i was the west african. union so they are seeing that the process was conducted that free and very soon but there's a problem which is
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a bit confusing is that that position now rejects so the run a report for mark is that he rejects the election even though he's saying he's not going to appear ok that's a very interesting one ok so we're talking about. neda see big infrastructure projects at the time that he's as the president the last him but take us into the minds of the people who brought back this president why do they feel like maki cell deserves another. i mean my descendants from. a poor means to to bring growth so he had he had a plane could. emerging senegal so it's a big project so i mean it tries to add to to to bring growth to the people and try to walk on social issues but the us are destine some people who are who are disappointed or so by markets not yet because as we were saying much of that growth needs to translate into ordinary people's lives rémy markets so it's not without
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his critics what did they say about him. i mean it's still. there that two main trends i would say on the on the on the one and description on the other way and is that is justice because corruption i mean it's also related because my case had two big open and two men open and the last mayor of heidi fleiss out and or so the son of the last president guy in what who. actually went on to be able they were not accepted to one to these elections so people and i kind of criticizing marcie side because they say that the justices used to close with the president so that's that's what the critics say and the creature grosso say that he said untie corruption more of mant and politic is only only to what is open and nuttiness in his all in his enabling comp ok randy moss
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one very briefly what is this next time of macky sall like eight o'clock what does he need to do full young senegalese people i think one of the thing that he needs to do is to create more jobs you know for people and so you have you have like i'm on the permanent three three cheese boat fifteen per cent which is the. figure so it's going to be more than that so i think there will be there will be or so very important if you can if you can do that so that the young people wouldn't have seen it and we have seen that people from senegal are coming to europe and risking their life all right africa's raney malaya talking to us about that cynical election result from body thank you thank you. now to the central african republic where a former activists and will get it for me in france has returned to his homeland in
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that war torn country to train what he calls soldiers off the lead it may not be what you think he has launched an organic farm in the capital bangui and is spreading the gospel of innovation while growing organic fruits and vegetables. she is a soldier of the land so is he two student farmers out of dozens training and working for months at a time on these chemical free fields next to the the river. pascal b. dakota bailey is their teacher and the founder of this farm here is himself a student of the ecological farming movement in france correa believes latest effort takes advantage of plants that offer homeopathic health advantages a natural insecticide and fungus side to raise juicy tomatoes. there's name artemisia there's also a plant that comes from the pygmy country that's the secret ingredient and then
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a blend is created and it gives rise to this magic fertiliser settled magic. at the end of their training correa bailey's students will return to their villages to use techniques in healthy and productive farming. see that what the first tomatoes assimilate the virtues of this healthy plant fertiliser we will have a tomato that is both anti carcinogenic and anti malarial that can be the best medicine there is. organic farming in a country with a history of conflict and where most farms operate without machines. bailey says the obstacles can be overcome he's working on a micro credit banking scheme for his students for example a model for a new agriculture perhaps in the fields along the river. ok it's just south africa now and westport is being used as a solution a nonprofit organization called growing champions is working to empower and inspire
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young people living in poor and violent townships one of those squalid eldorado pockets notorious for drug related crime it tops the list in terms of incidents in the province of halting that's what africa's biggest problems but here's a story of growing champions. in eldorado park even the children have been ravaged by drugs this is a community where only four in ten people have a job substance abuse is rife but some have already started the fight back to help kids here beat their odds the plan to empower young people through saka. we also support we offer epidemic support and offer character development programs so we teach them how to become good people with good choices understanding what they stand for living with and. the life lessons aren't just taught on the field but in
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group sessions like this one where young people can talk through their issues with a trusted peer. one like they learned a former gangster and reformed drug addict or. luck. and it's almost like picking the uk never know when it's going to open for good many of those kids we've managed to pick the lock clinton has changed her life to believing in most self in there to give up in value believing you know the people. and by making sports an alternative to drugs. ok we take you to rwanda now way the sport of cycling this week is transforming villages and cities on the roofs off the top do one day it's an eight stage race that winds from lake kivu that is africa's great lay up some of the highest mountains in the country not every train ride on the how to construct over the race need as yellow jersey off to the second
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stage produces one of the first two black african cyclists to compete in the tour de france and twenty fifth which brings me to the next story of a kenyan cyclist once mentor four time tour de france champion chris frode david kinja is his name and he's still mentoring young cyclists but now they're athletes aiming not necessarily for yellow jerseys but to pedal their way out of poverty another quick prayer and they stuck to a journey. it's just gone three thirty am david keene and his team have a special undertaking they want to ride their bikes from kenya's capital nairobi to the coastal city of mombasa about five hundred kilometers along the highway within twenty four hours i this is. such willpower the forty six year old
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a cycling legend in kenya to write up. his story began on a b.m.x. bike that was practically falling apart but overcame many hurdles and eventually made it onto the international stage in two thousand he was the only nonwhite in the world championship but his fame came from mentoring chris froome who later won the tour de france four times the kenyan with british ancestry made his breakthrough training with kinja. and this is the. has been a cyclist for twenty five years he's still one of kenya's most successful in order to raise young kenyans chances he established a training camp this is where chris froome began his training and his success is still palpable here today but rather than developing professional athletes here. he
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wants to raise the prospects of those from lower income households. to get. the young people acquire skills they can later use for instance for working as bike mechanics or tour guides skills otherwise next to impossible to acquire here. me for instance has to constantly justify his passion for bikes to her family and friends. salome says her success is thanks to david kinja an inspiration for young kenyans his training camp enables them to escape their often difficult daily lives. these. days. perhaps kenya
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will one day not only produce remarkable. but cyclists to. and that's it. you can catch a little story on our website and facebook page still makes five it's five an hour . you're going to want to fishel estimates more than one point two million venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. i'd return to. visit friends just i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. witness. matters.
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and on demand. video. a warm welcome from berlin and to today's edition of arts and culture i'm karen homestead and we've got a gender bending show lined up with these top stories. american oven guard artist laurie anderson gets the run of hamburg's monumental egg for how money for four days she's wowing audiences with her multitude of creative impulses. it's more than just a buzzword in twenty nineteen we take a look at gender sensitive product design and its implications for all genders.
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and via does germany's version of fat thursday when women take to the streets to claim their part off the festivities a tradition that marks the start of carnival in the rhineland. but we start with the american artist laurie anderson who has never let herself be confined into any particular genre or box since her formative years in one nine hundred seventy s. new york anderson has been a figurehead of the guard morphing easily from musician to filmmaker to performance artist and even to inventor of electronic cats. she's a storyteller a musician and composer and for fifty years laurie and.
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