think. with a good good and definitional. parody and share with visions from around the world. every week. this is news africa coming up in the midst of fifteen minutes a boost for africa's freest prist gone as part of it has a new bill that will make it easier to hold accountable information minister to say that the old punish the country's credentials as a democracy. and other laws that are aimed at deepening the rights of citizens so that become participate in a democracy such as those two parts reason the democrats who thrives on the kind of information that's. on cuts is gone his reputation as a beacon of chris freedom in jeopardy will

a policy endings to be championed the old. and a disputed election result in one of the world's poorest and and stable states the opposition cries fall off the commerce president as the new. landslide reelection. i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're chewing day and you'll make this in gonna have pasta bill that will allow more transparency and accountability in public affairs the rice information bill has been ball comed 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 report says while the board is gone the best ranking . full 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 ghana's parliament has finally passed the right to information act the first draft introduced in one thousand nine hundred nine. don't buy amendments and delays john lissa followed the long debate closely they sing the new law can now finally change the social fabric of the best african country. it's a major game changer for how i said media war practice and also for the people who this bill is 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 the feeling of how this quite mixed happy that has been passed but some of that is taken as 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 is an investigation that i would investigate and give it unnecessary 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 at all for instance for anyone working on corruption cases the law would be key in holding politicians and public officials accountable for their actions no gun a civil society must ensure these new phones price on paper put into practice.

for more on this we can talk now to gideon or force a policy analyst also a member of the investigative platform. and off the media coalition on the right information which campaigned for the new law 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 then we are so happy because what it means for us is that information. and then if we need to depend transparency and then citizens by species in the governance process ok get in 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 prius is it is really going to improve things for the press because if you the media is to please traditional rule for you for me in the team then get enough information and share in it it's quite it's key to the

shipping governance. reg good god now joins a number of countries on the continent that have all of that debt already have the right information access. why has it taken this wrong. the rights to information bill has taken long because there has not been the 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 be the administration and government and then as a mother of five that shouldn't be anything like a right to information which would be step in the governance process or those who are also of the school of thought so it has mainly been the lack of political will and commitment by governments in ensuring that this bill is passed into law that has been the most things that we have no overcome this barrier all right standard i

get in i want this to just listen some of the reaction that's come through to this this is abraham al-hassan a political correspondent for g h one t.v. in fact information in the past has always been treated a privilege. days the media on one hand the people who have the information i'm talking about on the other hand. information is the personal property and making a difficult for us to wake so what the passage or galaxy we feel very hopeful that will be a friend of the past now if you request for any information you have been denied you have to. ok get in you can resort to the course of lol do you think that this means will see more litigation will this change officials and make them more willing to handle the information. the two of them i believe that it is not going to result in more litigation because of the bill which

has now been i sent it and we have now been given approval by pilot and he had to be. approved by the presidents to be made nor do said proceed so the first up is that if you want information you contact the unit in chats to release that information for you if that feels you go to the second step whereby you talk to the head of department or the spa vice alphabets you need to provide you with the information that you want that feels mound below which is soon going to be established is their right to information commission who becomes your message point of call or that's to provide you with a whether what information that's you want and it is only one that feels that you have to resource to the courts so i believe that given the stages. i believe that have been would be less course litigation because because because i want to group through 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 that attacks on journalists this is one of the countries we know is a beacon for press freedom is that putting that refutation at risk. i can see yes and no yes because if. this is not. the same thing you've got a man's that's not to look at this issue and then deals with that of course if you read this in other words but of course it's something small we have about four hundred media organizations. online and they're out on our ballots and doing the awakes also thought well if we seem committed by being government if we see a commitment by the minister of syria in dealing with this issue so we have much assure that this issue will be dealt with all right gideon. media coalition on the rights to information thank you thanks to call models now where incumbent presidents as early as money has been reelected by

a landslide that is if you believe the results of the east by the electoral commission the main opposition party obviously to us they say that sunday's poll amounts to a coup d'etat a model says one of the bulls poorest and most unstable states the president's campaign called the opposition's allegations quote pathetic and accuse them of quote wanting to create disorder that's off to clashes with the police in the capital murder on me 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 turnover five years. as a leader assume 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 day sunday. this was instead a coup set up by as alias of 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 bit tree for their man. it's a win for democracy for those who new democracy needs to be respected one today for those who didn't want to moccasin 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 our reports says was recently in senegal and she stumbled upon a street kitchen in the coastal town of poor that's known for you guessed it tasty . this tiny food stall in perth is a hit with the locals. sort of group i don't think i'm going here to chat with our friends it's a very cool place like it's a lot. to produce the food is simple but there's a twist still the fun come are a special spice mix and that's one option the custom and. the but also it's

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