this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes after a resulting victory for president obama dubois ari in nigeria his opponent a to cool it will back up pushes on with his challenge to the results we'll look at how the allegations of fraud are hitting this weekend's important regional balance . and fighting terrorism we have a story of the military exercise working to boost the capability of the african army. then we'll let you in on the grand plan syrian government has with the country's endangered chimpanzees. i'm christine window while come to the news africa it's good to have you along nigeria returns to the polls this weekend for a series off regional elections taking place in the shadow of last week's

presidential flourish the official results of that election was a clear victory for the incumbent mohamed over his challenger a bill baka has cried foul over the years and complained of widespread fraud the main electoral body has now granted him the rights to inspect election materials ahead as he challenges the results in the meantime some off of a buffer supposes have been questioning the point to voting in this weekend's poll data you spoke to potential voters in lagos one of the places where regional elections will be taking place. she ever heard a new or a member of the party that i liked at a party show. for me over to the you. know this demo don't be. a lot of work for the golden rule but on this is you know no do that and the right to strike which was out of my piece because you got. the group whom roost in my

throat for two. for more on this let's bring in deeds every correspondent laura high floor ish good to see you first how much of these regional elections a six had by the presidential vote. well it is believed that whoever wins the presidential vote the presidential election or whatever party reads the presidential election has a higher chance of the regional level but then it's just that's just the general belief here but then if you remember the presidential elections had pockets of violence in different parts of the country and many people are saying that's going to affect the number of people that are going to actually vote on saturday and french i know you've been talking to people in the streets there but what are

people saying about what turnout is likely going to be well a lot of people that i spoke to many of the people i spoke to said they were not going to come out and vote and i think if you just try to few of the polls of people here is to make sure of different emotions it's a very very difficult to capture what everybody is feeling right now some people are very excited and happy they're going to vote because they voted for president and he won well some are saying they don't think their vote is going to count so it's really difficult to see at this point to whether our north the votes out to an impressive but you remember that the presidential election the voter turnout for that was the lowest in history here ok for so we know now that. has launched his challenge against victory. is there any chance he'll succeed.

is there any chance he will succeed is difficult for me to see if he actually has a chance in other for him to succeed it will he would have to prove that the electoral law he would have to prove that they were actually allowed to out irregularities and many legal experts are saying that that is that's not really difficult part the difficult part is proving how those irregularities affected the outcome of the elections and experts say it's an uphill task write something that's going to be daunting what secrets to do right but but does he have concrete evidence. at this point he would be he would have to come out and see if he has any concrete every day is just speaking to people around they have been videos are out of. fourteen polling stations where people were voting on several thousands of people is that every day

it's enough for them to see that the results of the election do not stand who have to wait and see all right flourished in lagos and it's surging terrorism and violence by armed groups and west africa and the sahara region around two thousand troops from more than thirty african and western countries have been taking in a military exercise in book enough fossil the exercise exercise me i should say called flintlock is a bit aimed at boosting the capacity of african on me in the region especially the g. five held group which compromises work in a facile chad mali mauritania and. fred move when you was embedded in this miniature exercise and sent us this report. i did military training field in a body in the us or look an office or second ride yourself so just from

a committee room you're nearly not or tyrion caught on to will be terrorist it's a simulated attack designed to be similar to what the west african i mean are likely to encounter on the battlefields this is just an exercise play into it brings together more than two thousand soldiers from west africa europe under us. it's a military exercise supported by the u.s. in africa but it's been led by an african nation every since two thousand and five . you know when this exercise is over we've established relationships with established interoperability training and left behind real capability for security forces to be confident in their ability to deal with the security for security problems they face in their country or in regional organizations like the g five so how are the chairs multi-national joint task force. looking officer

a member of the do you fight so here i spun into a hotbed of violent extremism. terrorist the french embassy and the meter headquarters in we're going to group this official memorial reminds broken people of their loved ones who perished in the attacks. broken off was once a secure country but since two thousand and fifteen two hundred ounce of the people have been killed in terrorist attacks only in two thousand and sixteen thirty people in this restaurant where killed in a single day time. is different. we lost many people. we were badly hit financially. we lost our cars motorbikes and small stores were destroyed. we lost all those things.

the government said they would help us but nothing has been done. we have the courage to carry on. this one here is flooded with challenges ranging from food insecurity and terrorist related security to the negative impacts of climate change if you count up the challenges the u.s. government is expanding its programs in this a hell. i would say that we see the situation where burkina faso is in a fight and the fight is getting tougher all the members of the g five said helen united in that fight but we don't. we don't. disabuse ourselves of the fact that we are in a tough fight we are making progress against that fight but we know that it's going to be a struggle over the long term and that's why our investments in developing partnerships are long term. now the training is over all eyes are on the way

stuff we come on it's not on the joint forces i'm told there would be friend there calm present for the disapproves we dealt on the backing of western troops but to achieve that goal they need a bit of military people meant you know that to stand a chance in the fight and they need some violence drawings to track down. in their bodies so here rejoined. we want to bring you this development a court in new york has thrown alice a lawsuit that would have required the german government to pay damages to two tribes in the movie the head a little and them a tribes was seeking compensation for the genocide of their ancestors is more than a century ago when namibia was and the german colonial rule the tribes all due to a legal exemption meant the case could be heard in new york but the judge found the court had no authority to rule against germany and we take you

to syria leo dahl into the story of the chimpanzee which is one of africa's most iconic animals but it's populations have been in gradual decline the american general primatology suggests that more than eighty percent off that population died between one thousand nine hundred ninety and two thousand and fourteen sierra leone is now taking steps to reverse that trend and open up a business opportunity at the same time. syria loon has one of the highest concentrations of chimpanzees in the wild and the country wants to keep it that way through song through east like tulku gama the countries we happily teach in chimps rescued from captivity for you venture release back into the wild it's part of a renewed focus on the wildlife protection of our mental edge occasion in syria and given more edge and see by natural disasters last year.

the government has also recruited the world renowned primark toilet just dr jean goodall to support the project. chimpanzees our closest living relatives so when people know that this is the national animal that gives it an added import there's a little health authorities to clamp down on the illegal poaching hunting up of chimpanzees but as well as wildlife concerns the government is also looking to the economic returns made possible by the growing market for equal tori's them that is making it easier for tourists to enter the country and i was.

speaking. to march and pansy sanctuaries will be build outside of the coppertone free town the government seems to expand its eco terrorism industry while those who seek god and its wildlife. well that's it for date everything is africa for now you can catch oil stories on our website and our facebook page we leave you today with images of kenyan athletes in training with a junior will of at latex championships to be held in kenya next year i've also started to ferry getting by for now.

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