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from africa and the world. you're going to are simply stories and discussions here no one will come to do separately program tonight from born in germany from the news of easy to our website d w it comes to africa join us on facebook t w africa. this is africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes paul thank you to repeat steel was signed is this violence in south sudan displaced people are leaving refugee shelters and returning to their homes but i'll say god they really are and what does their future look like. and the school kids fighting the funny we have the story of the children checking in to get a deal in this that's wreaking havoc in parts of kenya. that were in abidjan in the ivory coast when young pretty may have been flocking to the west africa's first
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smartphone film festival. i'm christine wonderwall come to the program i'm glad you're cheated in it's been just over half a year and now since a new peace deal was signed in south sudan the overall nevels off islands all say to have reduced in the country and many displaced people on now returning to their homes one un run refugee camp in the city all while has seen the number of people taking shelter drop from about forty thousand to around fourteen thousand now here's why the last is peace deal was necessary because in twenty thirteen that's two years off to gain independence saddam was plunged into civil war the presidents of a kiss sect he's deputy rick michel who he accused of crossing accuse the. actually
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good ethnically charged fighting to spread across the country tens of thousands were killed and millions forced to feet a twenty fifteen power sharing deal that returned the shot to the vice presidency last only a year and then michelle fled the country this latest polish sharing agreement signed last august is the latest attempts to bring stability to the world's youngest nation it's been six months since a polish improvement was signed between the warring parties in south sudan david sherif is special representative of the secretary general for south sudan and head of the united nations mission in the country david welcome to news africa i'm just let's stop with the fact that people are some people are safe to be returning to their homes how safe do they feel in their country off to what they've been through. well obviously it depends on where you are. and they.
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aren't all moronically for many reasons i'm moderating because when they come here they feel that. they're providing services and that you know. for. their i'm very services are variable but many of them and we're going back and forth all forms of procedures that we need to go through trauma to social services in that apartment but by that aren't they coming from the right order. so that they will be able to guard their kids that you know they're going to school them. and that. it's a number of people in the war all right all right so the vice president riek machar he's not yet back in the capital why not first me and and does that bode well for the implementation off this latest peace deal. well when the peace agreement was
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started a lot of you know i think. that's going. on the markets aren't your. mom to you isn't it in america for. the second part of the. traditional in the many places that were pretty free and sharing very far the president of the. year in the world but you know that there were a little well i understand that and i'm sorry but there's been some politics about . the economy. maybe all these machines and they come from the country and the capital of people moving back and he says you should just. say some of the really want to maybe we should grievance of the british are actually more of. the you know foreign culture
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. and sort of. reaction. we want on it where we should get it right we are talking about one of the world's youngest nations we're also talking about a country that is very diverse now i'll and then the concept of this country goes beyond the political lines you know because of all of the ethnic fighting that's ongoing in the country can a little piece still stop that and make line in cincinnati. well i mean maybe that's what happened for the fact that. the bible says it has. the area of attention. not. just from what we've seen from it's very focused still some of. the. smaller format of the. more. recent for rituals i mean this.
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is the looking forward. to most of the. presidents of the. sitting in the. shareholders in the pool if you. like or to view them ok. all right many thanks david share a special representative of the secretary general of the south sudan and head of the united nations mission in south sudan on a story is in kenya where hundreds of thousands of people of believed to suffer from the condition known as jigga into station the jig is a tiny sensi that borrows into people's feet creating serious health problems all reports have been unequal of the ball as if it is school into some way children are
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being trained to help each other combat the condition. to read a pesty loves going to school the best part is being able to concentrate on her lessons but that wasn't always the case the twelve year old speed used to be full of diggers tiny sand fleas that bar into people's bath flesh causing burning painful lesions. terrible i couldn't play i couldn't jump i scratch myself most at night for a long time like you will see. other children at this primary school and soon county still suffer from the minute parasite constant itching and severe pain makes it difficult for the infected students to walk and impossible for them to concentrate in class untreated figures can lead to deform claims gang green and fatal techniques infections triggers are
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a widespread but neglected health problem in africa official figures are hard to come by in the schools here and almost a third of pupils on fact of what jake is going to have them. so much pain ever tail was scratching myself. it was too painful. i still feel pain. it's not just the pain of the actual infection that's a problem but also the teasing and social exclusion by the other children the students here dipankar primary school have decided to do it differently instead they are helping each other. here in the local n.g.o.s has been training these children who've made it their mission to take a guess what's more being treated by their friends and peers has helped fight the fear of the treatment and the stigma associated with the disease. across kisumu students i know how scouts they are challenging the believe that having to give is
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a poor people's disease and to helping their schoolmates heal and instead of the traditional method of pulling out the fleas which is excruciating they're using a pain free technique where. we start with the ones who are severely affected and we wash their feet we put them in a second basin with fresh water and they stay there with their feet inside for five minutes and then the scouts wipe the whole legs with medicine and we ask them to sit in the sun while the other three does brothers edward and he will last you will soon be jacob free then just like derrida will be able to enjoy school again. when you introduce a decus treatment if notice a definite change in the student's performance school generally improved and he scored high in the national exams and seeing them heal and starting to play with each other that has made me happy as a health teacher when. they do get treatment has changed the
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students' lives. and i love going to the river to fetch water i love to study and to play i feel better because i'm healed and that can play i can walk properly i can jump us well. three the hopes that of his girls across the region will adopt this way of dealing with a jigger fleet she runs other pupils to be able to love school as much as she does . the ivory coast bustling economic capital now where a film festival with a difference was taking place this past weekend bushman film festival is the first of its kind of french speaking west africa it attracted thousands of entries from around the world and they were all films shot with smartphones and tablets is a look at some of the budding filmmakers at work. are these filmmakers a young creative and they understand that a smartphone can help them push past the problem of expensive professional film
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equipment. we want to show people that we can make films but unfortunately we don't happen to have the means does that mean we have to stop just because we don't have the means doesn't mean we don't have a dream so we find a way to express our dreams this is only the second year this festival for films shot purely on smartphones or tablets is taking place it sets no age restrictions for filmmakers and then attracted more than five thousand entries from around the world. but compared to t.v. it's a different thing because there's a lot more noise the picture is not clear but it's still good and. this film festival is held at the bushman cafe in abidjan a place for actors and directors filmmakers and film lovers to meet network and ultimately get more and better films made. in what we said we support talent and show them that it's not only about getting
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the films are now simply giving them exposure to. it it's because of some awards and sponsors we've won that we've been able to support these talents to produce better films get their films launched and get other people cast in larger platforms for the. mobile phones and now a legitimate in affective tool for low to no budget filmmakers and it's the bushman film festivals and to bring new talent from west africa in particular to audiences worldwide. and that is that for now from news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and on our facebook page now to all the rock lovers amongst you we leave you with some music from well that google's rock a welcome festival which was on over the weekend so next time i buy.
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but first spring is almost strong here in northern europe and it's time to put away those heavy winter coats and look forward to summer so let's see what's new on the fashion scene this year and i'll be chatting to my colleague melissa holroyd about current trends this. spring and summer fashions are about one thing. topping. the instance of the nineteen seventy's and eighty's are still making themselves felt my waistline big shoulders and of course the touch of disco american model tyra banks is all right with that. i thought the most beautiful in clothes from the seventies and eighties hasn't come back totally literally but certain.
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