dot com. african. company president of. her didn't want to drop it from. the rebel army and to the ninety four. wasn't blue bottle in the room there wasn't room to host the reunion meet three fourths of the controversial leader whose success is beyond question the. wanted tragedy starts april fifth on t w. this is news africa coming up in its to fifteen minutes be off to match one of the south east africa's. people still being pulled out water from flooded areas in the country's best of five cyclists you die i'll correspondent is in zimbabwe with some of the dates of being laid to rest. and the beat and also have been

a city that is now plagued with still cold war and terrorism we have the story of the deteriorating security situation in mali which terrorist attacks are raging at best despite a significant presence of foreign troops. i'm christine will welcome to news africa i'm glad your chin did a week off to cycling. coastal areas or all the coastal mozambique flood watches all rushing across the plains of the country submerging entire towns rescue teams are still plucking people from the water but thousands still remain trapped the flooding has created a muddy inland ocean with farms and villages used to be mozambique's government estimates that one thousand people may have died. psycho nitai also hit zimbabwe

bay of flash floods and landslides have slips away much of the major infrastructure in the eastern province bordering mozambique funded privilege which i knew to file this report from the. during a flood victims in barbara's money money district the elderly man died when a mudslide crushed his home. and shake up all the moment pain my father in law had a painful death after the house collapsed because of the cycle and it's hard to accept that he died that way and i've got a call to make sure we are fortunate that our mother survived that she was rescued alive despite. the official death toll from cycling he died in zimbabwe stands at around one hundred but hundreds more injured money money are missing feared dead people worry they won't have a body to bury with reports of corpses floating downstream into neighboring

mozambique flash floods and landslides swept through this region leaving piles of rubble behind. by desperate moments and a desperate situation for the two money money community in the eastern part of zimbabwe where this community was the hardest hit when cycling the day swept through more some leakage and zimbabwe you see some of them have lost their entire belongings and they have nothing that they asked to do on. and nothing to do but wait. to move forward with us. ended their hooves off my film we've affected because we are there to be cloned we have nothing. to points out even prove ourselves it's not due to this disaster is heartbreaking my only consolation is that my family and i are

life people. help is patchy roads and bridges that haven't been swept away the rotten still impossible helicopters are lifting out the critically injured when they come low cloud means they can only fly occasionally. if christians make it do that he's. encouraged that model or storms or icy cording over doing so many fractures. means that doctors here say they're now seeing rooms turn septic because it's taking so long to reach the injured for those bringing help it's a race against time on next story is in mali with the start of this week seoul the most deadly attack against the countries on me this year at least twenty soldiers were killed when suspected jihad just stormed a camp in the central region

a modest government has been struggling to stabilize the security situation since twenty twelve that was off to a coup so the northern part of the country fall to jihad linked to al qaeda and allied touré rebels despite significant international efforts the violence is not letting up islamist groups are increasingly using central and northern mali as a known to pad for attacks across the sahara region on next report states to the northern city of timbuktu which has borne the brunt of the assaults. to un forces aims to maintain security in timbuktu. the devastation throughout this desert city bears witness to the crisis in mali. the airport is in ruins following an attack last year. there are no scheduled flights in or out of timbuktu it is quiet in the city for the moment the u.n.

mali mission has deployed soldiers and police here. they patrol around the clock in order to prevent renewed attacks. on the united nations and been targeted several times in timbuktu. by terrorist groups terrorist groups have their bases. extremely vast area and the size of france the fifty thousand residents of timbuktu feel this threat every day. before the conflict erupted in two thousand and twelve the city was a popular tourist destination it was also a trading hub but the rebels and jihadists have caused the economy to collapse. the moment has brought her twins to hospital they are both sick she used to be a successful produce merchant but now she doesn't have the money to pay for their medicine. and couldn't the battle before the crisis i had a good life i traded with on the villages and my husband was

a builder so we traveled a lot of me and to living now it's too dangerous to travel. conditions are terrible and food is often in short supply many children are in urgent need of medical treatment. those living in villages out in the desert have hardly any access to help the few hospitals in timbuktu are swamped with patients. who lives on four corners for the children that we see here in the hospital or very very ill. never get there not only male nourished they have other serious illnesses. for example malaria. or respiratory diseases such as pneumonia they're often in critical condition. the situation is unlikely to improve unless the warring parties renew their

commitment to ending the conflict a two thousand and fifteen accord set out a peace process that's hardly been upheld in the past few weeks alone many people have been killed in terror attacks. under the terms of the peace accord former rebel fighters are supposed to be integrated into the army but progress has been slow the fear is that they will take up arms again unless their prospects improve resources here at home has been scarce it's an intense struggle for the little that remains i'd like to bring in orally until be from the stockholm international peace research institute also known as slippery he is senior research on the region he's joining us from the swedish capsules mrs harvey grace have you on that deed to africa i am in twenty fifteen mahdi's government signed a peace agreement with some of the groups but the jihad just remain active why was that process simming seemingly ineffective. well there are twenty fifteen

agreements. he's addressing one part of it. we should refer to the. independence of your kind of your. approach to two thousand and twelve it seems to the twelve has evolved as you said we know are you up to speed the jihad sector is operating normally valued at no six central and that's not being addressed by the peace greens right so i mean as you say there it is a complex mix of plot the sort of the tribalism issues you've now got the jihadist threat and i wondered if that complicates any effort to try and get suit to quash this insurgency as a whole is of course i mean i actually was in the north for quite well i don't like this military so the peace begins and these are just contacts we can actually negotiate. probably one of the problems with the jihadist groups is that they're

not really identified at ready to negotiate so it's very very difficult when terry to attack the stand about us and the actors in central america and it really well i didn't like this new job i think it's such as the one that begins here. all right i mean a lot of people might be familiar with the fact that a lot of international resources have been committed to this case we've got thousands of foreign troops in mali i think france and no one has about four thousand five hundred yet these attacks are just raging why is that also proving ineffective. this is true this is a very big problem in a small country like money. fresh to manage said by a. retired two year expansions you've got we had an african union mission we not if you want me which is extremely loving and what we see is that this experience deteriorated so everybody agrees that security is a problem in the sale of her but i think one of the major problems is that we

haven't defined security well what are the security priorities of fifteen percent albums what do we need to address in earth in the sahara that's the key problem and i think you're going to deter between the international community the other governments and the book lesions that sales and that's not a huge problem right last one very quickly i mean we're talking about a country that we will once one of the big can of stability it's now bogged down with all of this violence people are wondering is a country with a significant isn't population lagaan a for example going to be next i mean what is that how do we sort of cope this problem on the continent i think religion is not necessarily the problem here but it is true that you have. some faith in the money going to safety to be relatively stable and relatively so it's actually all these hypothesis and these assumptions about the united states prove to be untrue virus you know that. used

to be. the weakness of the states in being an illegitimate allocator of disputes and that's a key problem and actually it should be a wakeup call to actually reassess the g.-g. elements in west africa and to actually see where they're all support it actually so help raise stakes actually be more lift its and be more responsive to the populations needs. or a senior research of all this a hell region at stockholm supreme thank you. that's it from africa you can catch all our stories on our website and face the pay the acclaimed gone an artist al a not so easy a focus of a major it's official there germany. in munich leaving now with images to use words that will see you next time i'm back.

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