and on demand. language courses. video and or new. w. . this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes a boost for africa's freest gone as part of it has a new bill that will make it easier to hold a horse news accountable information minister said the old punish the country's credentials as a democracy. and other laws that are aimed at deepening the rights of citizens without become participate in the democracy of citizens to parts within the democrats who thrives on the kind of information that's behind. that is gone his reputation as a beacon also chris freedom in jeopardy will

a policy end used to be championed the law. and a disputed election result in one of the world's poorest and i'm stable state opposition cries fall off the commerce president as i look at some of these landslide reelection. i'm christine window while come to deja vu news africa i'm glad your chin didn't know make is in gonna have pasta bill that will allow more transparency and accountability in public affairs the right information bill has been welcomed by journalists in the country who say the knoll will make their work easier is specially when it comes to exercising government data but even before the bill was possed it's worth noting that reporters without borders gave gone the best ranking . for press freedoms of any african country ranked globally got

a comes in twenty third and that's out of one hundred seventy eight in the media watched twenty eighteen list now that close the west african nation well ahead of britain which comes in fortieth and the united states is even further down the rankings placed at forty six. people in ghana have been waiting for this moment for decades parliament has finally passed the right to information act the first draft introduced in one thousand nine hundred ninety. down by amendments and delays journalists have followed the long debate closely they sing the new law can now finally change the social fabric of the vest african country. it's a major game changer for how i said media war practice and also for the people who does build this really for the ability to access information and know what's

happening with how the state is being run. there's been a long wait and so if you know how this quite mixed happy that has been passed but saw that it's taken us this long for us to get to this point and there's even longer to wait the law won't be fully implemented for at least another year and norma's education efforts are also needed for fisher the general public and the press. to have to do their own proper. if there's an investigation to get there to visit using given necessary information that they need to do good journalism but for the general citizen there's a thing that allows you to get information students etc to get information to push their work a bit. for instance for anyone working on corruption cases the law would be key in holding politicians and public officials accountable for their actions now gunna civil society must ensure these new phones price on paper put into practice.

for more on this we can talk now to give the an awful soupy a set a policy and list also a member of the investigative platform. and off the media coalition on the right information which campaigned for the needle given welcomes a d.w.i. africa this is a huge achievement for you what's changed for the people of gaza. for us it is a very huge at humans and we are so happy because what it means for us is that information and knowledge which you. and then if we need to depend transparency and then citizens by species in the governance process. ok good so we know that god is already on the top of the list when it comes to press freedoms is this really going to improve things for the precise it is really going to improve things for their prayers because the media is to police traditional rule for you for me and the kids in the team then get enough information and share in it's it's quite it's key and

then the shipping governance. reg good god now joins a number of countries on the continent that have all that already have the right information access. why has it taken this wrong. the right to information bill has taken long because there has not being. political will from the government has been lacking and then number two what happened was that m. people people in government who are of the view that government should have a peace of mind to do between the administration and government and then as a mother of five that shouldn't be anything like a right to information which would we be step in the governance process might be those who are also of the school of thought so it has mainly been the lack of political will and commitment by subsets of governments in ensuring that this bill is passed into law that has been the most thing but we've got that we have no

overcome this barrier all right stay on the line get in i want us to just listen some of the reaction that's come through to this this is abraham al has signed a political correspondent for g h one t.v. in fact information in the past. has been treated as a privilege but so days the media on one hand the people who have the information i'm talking about on the other hand. information to see if it is the press person or property and making a difficult for us to break so what the passage or galaxy i built we feel very hopeful that will be a friend of the past now if your requests for any information you have been denied you have to. ok get in you can resort to the course of the whole do you think that this means we'll see more litigation will this change officials and make them more willing to handle the information. that. i believe that it is not going to result in more litigation because the bill which has now

been i sent it and we have now been given approval by pilot meant he had to be. approved by the president to be made law. so the first step is that if you want information you contact the units in charge so we. that information for you if that feels you go to the second step whereby you talk to the head of department or the spotify software that you need to provide you with the information that you want that feels mound bill which is soon going to be established as their right to information commission who becomes your mr point of call or that's to provide you with whatever information that you want and it is only when that feels that you have to resource to do a course so i believe that given the stages. i believe that have been would be this course litigation because because because i wouldn't agree to a three tier system i believe that it will be resolved. points of the take get it

out when she was this really quickly they've been some worrying developments and god the attacks on journalists this is one of the countries we know is a beacon for press freedom is that putting that reputation at risk. i can see yes and no yes because if. this is not. governments that's not to look at this issue and deals with that of course it was our reputation afterwards but of course it's something small we have about four hundred media organizations. online and then it's in our balance of doing be awake solicitousness or well we receive commitment by busy government and receive a commitment by the minister of syria in building with this issue so we have much assure that these issues will be dealt with all right gideon awful superset media coalition on the right to information thank you thanks to coal models now where incumbent president money has been received by

a landslide that is if you believe the results of fished by the electoral commission the main opposition party obvious each as they say that sunday's poll amounts to a coup to top a modest is one of the bulls poorest and most unstable states the president's campaign called the opposite. since allegations quote pathetic and accuse them of quote wanting to create disorder that's after clashes with the police pts in the capital murder on earlier this week. emotions are running high for two days the opposition has been out on the streets accusing the incumbent to stealing the election. police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrations in the capital twelve people were injured. the government says that the results are crystal clear the sitting president is reelected for another five years. as a leader as of money ninety six thousand six hundred thirty five votes that is to

say sixty point seven seven percent. this outright win in the first round has caused consternation on the other side the main opposition refuses to accept the result. we consider that there was no election a sunday this was instead a coup and set up by as early as some money and his team. and the army had to do with this coup because we saw soldiers carrying ballot boxes in several polling stations such as one john and more. serious allegations which are dividing the capital moroni. supporters of the president say the result is a fair victory for their man. it's a win for democracy for those who knew democracy needs to be respected one today. those who didn't want democracy showed it. but election observers from regional

bodies such as the african union were also critical saying the electoral process was full of irregularities the disputed election in the poor and unstable island nation isn't going to ease the tension here. ok so there's a giant tuna sandwich behind me and you're wondering why well one of all reporters was recently in senegal and she stumbled upon a street kitchen in the coastal town of bull that's known for you guessed it tasty tuna sandwiches. this tiny food stall in perth is a hit with the locals. c.c. group i don't think i'm going here to chat with our friends it's a very cool police like it's a lot so that is simple to produce. the food is similar but there's a twist still the fun come are a special spice mix and that's one option the custom and all that but also it's

definitely to my son which but also only that my name is on the potatoes this i'm not on my menu for. the next just for an exxon which another favorite among often come are as regulars. and of course there's also a generous sprinkling of spices and each mouthful. the. city for whom visits almost every day off to work and it looks like he'll keep coming back. to this if you see it's very spicy and delicious. well we know all about delicious syria d. seventy africa that is it from d w news africa for now you can catch all stories that's on our website and that will face book page while the annual saudi in brighton is underway and because it was left to steal the show we need you with

pictures of them snapped along the african coast until next time i buy. a city in ruins. symbol of a long conflict in the philippines between the muslims and the christian population . lives frazier's occupied the city center in two thousand and seventeen president to church's response was. i. will never again look both of. the reconquest turned into tragedy this is not the

kind of freedom that we want. how did morality become a gateway to islamist terror. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. in the in the science of i.a.s. starts april eleventh on d. w. . l. o. well it's also in culture all the way for the next forty i'm one of the things we'll be doing is walking on water with the office krista well apart from. homesick old platt who is determined to modernize the instruments image. and believe it or not rain fade lives. and going around the e.u.

in our baking bread series the eastern european origins of the humble bagel. christo and his partner jack claude have a decades created some of the most spectacular outdoor sculptures or wrappings of buildings around the world and i'm told sad they passed away ten years ago had already been involved in christos most recent mega project on a lake in northern italy in twenty sixteen all their temporary and disappear after a few weeks so the documentary walking on water about the floating pizz is all we have to remember that installation christo was in berlin on tuesday evening for the premiere at. eighty three years old and completely undaunted by the artist christo travelled across the globe to the german premier.