the music video. they have on the back of the car. songs to sing along to download superstar code from super. to be. a very good causes kind of into active exercises are talking about the d w dot com slash donation and i'm on facebook in the store. to learn german for free but the devil you. know. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the women fighting back meet the granules hacking tensions in kenya for a safety. and the women who mean business also so the creators of she needs africa the platform of helping young african women achieve their professional dreams.

i'm christine wonderwall come to d.w. news africa i'm glad you're tuned in all around the world today people are celebrating what women have achieved in honor off international women's day we begin our program in kenya's capital nairobi where some brave women are taking their safety into their own heads east africa correspondent melanie could have a ball a group of grannies you really don't want to miss with. just a few years ago this place was known as nairobi's most dangerous presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear especially women like the sixty five year old gary . he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to

rank them. the grannies of coral gotto as they call themselves regularly targeted superstitions the tech is going to leave the women were free and that sex with them could cure their own infection almost daily one of those number of women was sexually assaulted raped on that it. gave it a fifty one day we found dead with broken bottles inside her body when we carried her body to the police but they closed the gates and didn't let a sin to get up on his part we took her body to the mortuary. where to and on that day we decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves on the plane to decide to do. in a force like korogocho and the women have had to bear the brunt of society so neglect and crime it is in this very community that many of them have been assaulted often sexually deemed as easy targets it is in here that they fight to

take safety into their own hands. running decides to fight back and others feel the same. as granting while between sixty five and ninety years old meet once a week to learn martial arts and defend themselves. and when i'm walking down the street and an attacker approaches this is how i fight. and i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication. they have gathered to tackle and raised awareness in their community rape used to be a daily reality with these granny. if we could. now running says she only hears of a case every second monday and she will keep on fighting until every woman young or old will say and i am coming to. america to meet their

quota ten years from now this will be a new korogocho of his that. it will be known as one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in from you can. go into different. for women in south sudan childbirth can often be a deadly experience a country has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world nearly eight hundred in every one hundred thousand women die in quoting to the un in our next report we meet one woman helping to bring that number down one classroom at a time you know nancy. grace flosi i always knew she wanted to be a midwife as a child living in a refugee camp she was in or the nurses who came to treat those in need now she's on a mission to teach the next generation of midwives in south sudan. i needed to help

my own women all my people in fact as an ass or as i may do if you are in danger and used to assist relieve babies from their mothers that you have. the student share graces passion but their work isn't easy south sudan the world's youngest nation is still unstable its growth stunted by civil war poor infrastructure and a scattered population mean women must often friend for themselves during childbirth many bleed to death in the process. much so we may suffer from the wood and when we can still see according. to the history with the. intent of that person that is one of the must think of that piece having a family and to feed. the u.n. and other organizations are involved in setting up maternity phoenix across south

sudan they aim to provide a safe sanitized space for women to give birth but they're short of locally trained staff man and woman. to grace this classroom in the capital juba reese just the start she wants every woman in the country to have access to care if they were to have the health services if they were to have two k. should if they were to have voted in assisting is that other people get i believe no money in south sudan will be in a coveted. things are moving in the right direction six hundred new midwifes have been trained up since south sudan's independence but the country still requires ten times that amount to cater to its most basic needs. this part of the show is about the young women in africa minding their own business she leaves africa is described as a community that's identifying promising talent on the continent and providing

a platform for growth this was their women's day message as posted on twitter happy international women's day to all the lead moguls from today on would choose to make a difference michel voice be heard the theme for this year is international women's day is hash tag balance for bet it's a genda balanced world. i'll be joined by one of the founders off she's african a moment but first a little bit about who they are. inside so you can really. see how you are there to. get mentorship and network.

if will say is one of the found is off africa and she's joining me now from lagos nigeria welcome to deja vu africa. so she needs africa is about empowering women in business just how are you doing that. well hello everyone and thank you so much for this opportunity one thing we know for sure is that young african women are smart they're talented they are passionate but the issue really comes with the gap to opportunity so we wanted to create africa to create a platform to share information in it by the story through a network to help people access new opportunities to go their career so that can be shipped on how to actually design a cd or a resume to help you get that interview if you're going to on what

a pitch deck looks like and what investors are looking to see if you just be showcasing other smart young women who are out there doing that doing it to inspire encourage people wherever they are all across the continent and so the incredible journey for us to that whole share it's all about sharing it creating a community encourages other young women to go out there and achieve their dream right you're about savanah and i'm interested to know about just some of the things that you've seen happen over the last five and a half years some of the countries you've been to some of the young people that you've interacted with and the results off this platform. over the had a couple of years we've actually connected with more they were six hundred thousand women across more than fairly by country and we've done that you have the right program and then that we post a new first picked up with our elevator program which we're excited to who's our think edition of this here and with me pete entrepreneur is why then with coaching

and mentor stepped in accepted funding to actually put money into the entrepreneur and they've gone on to dave were there i hundred thousand dollars then tell with a bigger and what i think even more important is that we don't want people to just stop with a family and start with that as a woman entrepreneur goes through one of our training programs then she or her information we then do promo so that other programs other activities you can support are so our entrepreneurs to be chipped in for ventures in africa now the entered into of a fellow leader so it's really about there being at that point you can also have the opportunity to host networking in training events in africa in kenya and in. all of. even in the diaspora as well connecting it's going to in canada the u.s. and u.k. also right and i guess your ear well positioned to talk to how are you in the

presence that you've observed over the years is it easier now for women to access things like funding to to get a head start essentially if i'm a young woman on the continent and i want to start a business. our goal is to work we could go out of business we don't want to keep doing this work in fifteen years so that is definitely one of the ways that we're measuring the think that given to other people arguing this work and so now they are definitely what elevated programs that are focused on them in google have to put in any excel again as a lot to make sure that women entrepreneurs are getting access to these programs you can work with facebook to do more digital marketing training courses all across many kuria and so we're getting the part of mindset to what programs are we are of the gap and they do mean the work to make sure they go beyond just fifteen twenty percent the millivolt bit but how do we get closer to fifty percent where banks have opened up programs and loan targeted and women are to new and let i got

hardest thing that will have to change in the general mind credit in courts across how to get a loan up is there. and if this unit is so that they're not thinking about the young going old they're not oh they're just doing this small little program that they're actually getting a lot of their chance the way they would any entrepreneur and i think the out the team culture yes very quickly before you go what is your advice to that young person on the continent who is considering you know so the ring themselves how do they do that do they learn to code do they learn a foreign language so they try and get money just what is very quickly in a few seconds what should that person be trying to do i want that person to think beyond their borders you think internet dick lee you can google instagram what i really have to learn and build a feel that will not go out of it can be coding it could even be beauty that you turn into you can create or it could be food and translating that into

a global idea that think about what you can take what you're passionate about this because you have and how can you package it distribute it to the worlds. if false a co-founder of shades africa from lagos nigeria thank you thank you. and that's why we need a new south africa you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page. by back. take personally. with all the wonderful lunch to make the game so special. for all truth. becomes more than football online who's fighting for decades to be taken seriously

in the world of war here's what's coming up. smart women. use the superhero kudos to how good a job as women are celebrating international women's day was such a big do this and by no means missed out on bring crisply dangerously close up. married for mom. welcome to our culture where we are celebrating international women's day is what's coming up. an exhibition in just a little pays tribute to the courageous work of female wolf.

we'll be talking about the oscar winning documentary that highlights the stigma surrounding menstruation in parts of india. and we make it meet a brave female took to us risking all for in conservative iraq. war photographer has to be one of the most dangerous professions around life expectancy is not very high however it is definitely not a male domain indeed one of the more recent tragedies was that of german photographer and in need ring house she was killed in afghanistan just four years ago and niedringhaus is one of eight female photographers featured in an exhibition until sold off cold photographers at the front. when she takes pictures carolyn cool has a clear and can i but she doesn't normally find subjects for her photographs in

museums she is a war photographer.