yeah well geez and so i think people are really looking forward to meeting journalists they can trust for them to make sense of the. bidens not all the workers. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes a boost for africa's freest prince gone as part of it has a new bill that will make it easier to hold accountable information minister said the old punish the country's credentials as a democracy. and other laws that are even that deepening the rights of citizens would have become participate in the democracy of those two parts which of the democrats who thrives on the kind of information that spamhaus. that's is god as repudiation as

a beacon chris freedom in jeopardy. a policy and needs to be championed the little . disputed election result in one of the walls poorest and and stable states the opposition cries fall off the commerce president as the new. landslide reelection. i'm christine window while come to africa i'm glad your chin didn't know make his in gonna have pasta bill that will allow more transparency and accountability in public affairs of 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. 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 gone us parliament has finally passed the right to information act the first draft introduced in one thousand nine hundred ninety. john lissa fall of the long debate closely they sing the new law and 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 bill this really for the ability to access information and know what's

happening with how the state is being run. it's been a long waits and so if you know how there's quite mixed happy that has been passed but some of that is taken 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 enormous education efforts are also needed for officials the general public and the press. to have to do their own proper. if it's an investigation that there would have visitors and given this is free 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 every tool 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 not put into practice. for more on this we can talk now to get the an awful soupy

is such a policy analyst also a member of the investigative platform. and of the media coalition on the right information which campaigned for the new law will get in welcome to d.w. africa this is a huge achievement for you what's changed for the people of gaza. for us it is a very huge actually humans and we are so happy because what it means for us is that information and knowledge which you should not exist. and then into we need to transparency and then citizens by species in the governance process. ok gideon 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 poorest it is really going to improve things for the press because if the media is to police traditional rule for you for me and the kids in that scene then that's an access to information and

share in it it's quite it's key to the shipping governance in ghana a 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 rights to information bill has taken long because there has not been. 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 model for the shouldn't be anything like a right to information. 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 thing that we have no overcome this barrier all right stay on the line get in i

want this shit just isn't some of the reaction that's come through to this this is abraham al-hassan a political correspondent for g h one. in fact information in the past. has been treated the 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 the difficult for us to break so what the passage will be are. we feel very hopeful that there 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 results at the cost of lol do you think that this means we'll see more that seek ation will this change officials and make them more willing to handle the information. the two of them have i believe that it is not going to result in more that's

a good because of the bill which as nonbeing i sent it and we have now been given approval by pilot meant he had to be. approved by the presidents to be made nor do so proceed so the first up is that if you want information you contact the units in charge to release that information for you if that feels you go to the second step whereby you talk to the head of departments or the spotify software that's you need to provide you with information that you won't do that feels mound the bill which is soon going to be a law establishes the right to information commission who becomes your message 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 resort to the courts so i believe that given the stages. i believe that have been will be live this course it's a given because because because i went to group to treat the system i believe that it will be resolved. points of the take get it out once she was this really quickly

they've been some worrying developments and god 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 say yes and no yes because if. this is not. that's not a look at this issue and deals with that of course if you read this in other words but of course there is something small we have about four hundred media organizations. online and they're out on our ballots doing the awakes also thought well we've seen commitment by his government and we see a commitment by the minister of syria in dealing with this issue so we have much assured that this issue will be dealt with all right gideon awful supersets media coalition on the rise to information thank you for so call models now where incumbent president as early as the money has been read by

a landslide that is if you believe the results of fisht by the electoral commission the main opposition party obviously to as they say that sunday's poll amounts to a coup d'etat a modest is 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 model any earlier this week. emotions are running high for two days the opposition has been out on the streets accusing the incumbent of 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 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 this sunday this was instead a coup 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 on 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 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's tuna sandwich behind me and you're wondering why well one of our reporters was recently in senegal and she stumbled upon a street kitchen in the coastal sagal bull that's known for you guessed it tasty tuna sandwiches. this tiny food stall in perth is a hit with the locals. see a sequel sort of 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 that there was to produce the food is simple but there's a twist still though no fun come are a special spice mix and there's one option the custom in. the first awful good

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of them snapped along the african coast until next time i buy. into the conflict zone fronting the powerful. the trial of countless separatist leaders of the dead failed independence fayed has laid best some stuff divisions in spanish society my guest this week here in madrid is sprains foreign minister yosef around how does he answer the charge that the trials are fundamentally unfair. conflicts so folks. on detail have. stuck in

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time to overcome boundaries. and connect the world. can sometimes for putting a double d. ws coming up ahead. for minds. the trial of cattle and separatist leaders over their failed independence bid has laid bare some stock divisions in spanish society not least over the justice system my guest this week here in madrid is spain's foreign minister use that burrell how does he answer the charge that the trials are fundamentally unfair. you know.