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the rebel army and did the ninety four genocide was in the room or in the room there wasn't room close to the. need to reinforce a controversial leader whose success is beyond question the good time. and want to try to be stores everywhere on t.w. . this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes off a year after a piece deal was signed this is violence in south sudan displaced people are leaving refugee shelters and returning to their herds 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 tucking in to get to the eldest that's wreaking havoc in parts of kenya. that we're not beach and in the ivory coast when young british writers have been flocking to the west africa's first smartphone film
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festival. i'm christine wonderwall come to the program i'm glad you achieved in it's been just over half a year now since a new peace deal was signed in south sudan the overall levels off violence all set to have reduced in the country and many displaced people on now returning to their homes one un run refugee camp in the city off 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 south sudan was plunged into civil war the presidents of a kiss sect he's deputy rick michel who he accused of crossing accuse that actually . it ethnically charged fighting to spread across the country tens of thousands
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were killed and millions forced to fleet 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 shearer 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. let's stop with the fact that people are some people are all set 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 they're going to. and the hard
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feelings. are on the parliamentary form. and i'm moderating back because when they come here they feel that. they're providing services and that you know where you are. right i'm very services are probably many of them printed are going back and forth. for example the problem is that we need to go through trauma to social services in that party but by that but they come out on the water. so that they will be able to guard their kids that you know they're going to school them. and that's going to be longer than 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 with a lot of. transitional period. that's going. on the. markets are very. moment. he was going to make for. the second part of the. transitional government in place that will include three and share the various parts the president of the. year and will begin to work there were a little well i understand that and i'm sorry that there's been some positive of the bottle. caps already nearly all these machines. in the country and the capital ok moving back and if he does you should just. say some of the really quite interesting research period and some of the big shockley were very. you know we've all read the 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 and they know that the concept in 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 light in cincinnati. well i mean maybe the best person for the photos is that. the area of attention. from what we've seen is very focused still some of you think the governor will. move a little farther to the. more reasonable. basis
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for virtually. most of the. president's all of the. words something to reassure us in the. middle of the ceremony in the pool if you. like or to view them ok. all right many thanks david share a special representative of the secretary general for south sudan and head of the united nations mission in south sudan on a story is in kenya where hundreds of thousands of people up and leave to suffer from a condition known as jigga insist station the jig is a tiny sensi that borrows into people's seeds creating serious health problems all reports have been unequal have the ball visited a school into school where children are being trained to help each other to combat
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the condition. to read our past he 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's feed used to be full of jiggers tiny sand fleas that borrow into people's backlash causing burning painful lesions. terrible i couldn't play i couldn't jump i stretch myself mostly at night for a long time like you'll see. other children at this primary school and consume 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 tetanus infections jagers
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are a wide spread of neglected health problem in africa official figures are hard to come by in the schools here in consume almost a third of pupils are infected with 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 the problem but also the teasing and social exclusion by the other children the students here dipankar primary school have to side to do it differently instead they are helping each other. here in the local n.p.r. 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 consumer students i know how scouts they are challenging the believe that having diggers is
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a poor people's disease and helping their school mates 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 infected 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. then the scouts wipe the whole legs with medicine and we ask them to sit in the sun one of them to read as brothers edward and he will last you will soon be jacob free then just like the reader will be able to enjoy school again. let me introduce a decus treatment if notice a definite change in the student's performance school generally improved and we 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. the jigga treatment has changed these
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students' lives. i love going to the river to fetch water i love to study and to play i feel better because i'm here tonight can play i can walk properly i can jump us well. three to hopes that obvious girls across the region will adopt this way of dealing with the geography she wants 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 week and the 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 they young they're 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 dreamers 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 it 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. 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 spot talent and show them that it's not only about getting the
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films or now simply giving them exposure. 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 passed on larger platforms so the. mobile phones are now a legitimate an affective tool for low to no budget filmmakers and it's the bushman film festivals that i am to bring new talent from west africa in particular to audiences worldwide. and that is that for now from 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 bye bye.
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