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i'm glad you tune then first to the ugandan pop star ten politician bobby wine as a musician his songs tackle corruption and poverty as a legislator he's an outspoken and critical voice of uganda's government now he's going to make a run for president even violently i rested and beaten. led to me threat to the power of uganda's leader seventy who was ruled uganda since nine hundred eighty six while you why it is here in berlin speaking at a conference on freedom of expression i caught up with him today. quite a tough year for you you were a reason you were beating up i mean it was in the show you expected. how safe do

you feel still going for this. certainly not safe by name that. those like me it was pick out and indeed there are many who are selling out or unsafe i mean you can never change anything and you can never change anything unless you speak out of market. the case in uganda is a complex one because you are living in a regime that is that if. you will note tolerate anything that is not its line of thinking so anybody who speaks out especially against. this is of the regime is at risk because that freedom is to us anyway that president has been ruling for thirty three years and counting. you've already mentioned that you are considering running for president may be for the first time you can clarify everything with you have you decided now are you running for

president the next election. to say it's not just about me asking is should not be like me should be like we and yes i and my team are considering challenging the seven in the next presidential election not that we are looking at the presidency in itself as an end but because we know that biggest problem misgovernance is the governance question that we want to solve and we cannot solve that until we get into leadership ourselves so yes expect my team and i to be challenging for the presidency in the next presidential election recently we all know what happened in algeria particularly congratulated the people of our for peacefully demonstrating and no person with a flicker has stepped out of how feasible do you think is going to be like in uganda. seems impossible until it's done

you know. sports especially in africa seemed. invincible and. he said recently. just a few days ago geria. sooner or later you will be. stronger statements from you what is the major position if you you are going to encounter. with us. the major opposition way in the opposition. we are not. making it very easy for us to. say did some time ago that members in the opposition are only concerned about their positions and they will fight any composition that threatens their position and that is not what we're looking to we are looking at inclusiveness of the people

especially they get of people where come from that have been for so long. from the way they're governed that's why we're throwing it back to the people and people. who want to you know to change the decision making from. this from. should be from bottom up and that is why we're calling upon old they must history just as voters in millions so that they can assert their voice peacefully through their vote and for the first time. their leaders are going to be savants realistically and there will be masses through their vote well believe you have made your point very very strong i'm just going to give you the final word for people that are watching you you're inspiration of course to a lot of young people out there what's your message my message. to the ugandan and especially the young people i know you're watching. a

special kind of i'm not i'm just. i'm only playing my. you might be a doctor. businessman. under the friends out there in the wild we thank you for standing with us but please keep your eyes on that one that one facebook post that you make about uganda projects right now we live because they looked at us and. please keep your. brothers and sisters on the african continent we are not free and three we get that believing in an africa that will be proud of point very much. thank you. the vatican today is bringing together in rivals south sudan's president. and former vice president of. the

vatican is calling it an occasion for encounter reconsideration to the gathering or bring peace to south sudan and mend the relationship between. rival release the civil war in twenty seen by brutal violence until now talks have failed to bring lasting peace creating africa's largest refugee crisis here's a look back at south sudan's history. born out of conflict south sudan's burthen twenty eleven was meant to beckon an era of peace and prosperity and state it didn't take long for all the ethnic rivalries to resurface. within two years the country was plunged into civil war with people paying the greatest price violence famine and millions forced to flee.

because. the reason for the mass human suffering the rift between president here and the deputy he sacked. him he accused of plotting a coup. over the years the men have signed and broken numerous peace deals time and again the smiles did not last. through the help on the home front and the world's youngest country continued a long way to go. i'm joined now by. the head of the africa division of the foundation for science and politics in berlin thanks for your time now you've done extensive research in the region after five years of civil war insults and is the pope the solution. well we would hope that maybe there is no moral boost that he

can bring but for sure he cannot be the solution because the problem is much more deep rooted than having a spiritual visit in. troll. treats they called it. the. hope that there is more than a spiritual retreat proper reading. you know you cannot be responsible as a leader of your country and let the country go down as they have done in the last five years and i think. hopefully he is calling are on their responsibility to basically start building that country rather than destroying now i do talks in a different phone about talks five thirty. well. he will not have any mandate to negotiate any talks because the peace talks are negotiated the peace deal is done they have to implement so what we hope of course

is that he will push them. to take responsibility to implement the peace talks that happened in the region before if they different if they listening more that's on there one can just hope that i don't know if they do. talk about talks i mean there's been so many talks about mine talks with no dues i've been three dues still civil war continues. why have the fewest also failed i think it's much more systemic then you know having and having a deal i mean what we see right now with this deal and the previous deals is yes ok you have an end to the war they stop fighting at least some of the forces stop fighting the systemic question is are the leaders willing to actually lead towards a positive build up of the country and do they have the chain of command are they reading command of all the troops. so far both both questions would have to be answered with a no. is it different this time i think it really depends on the leaders but it also depends on you know the society to push for them but also of course of it

depends on the region and the international community at large you know it really all sounds gloom and doom every time we talk about south sudan is that time civil war is going to end the five years and counting. is there any hope. i think there's hope i think there is hope not in the old guard there's hope in the young people and the more so saddam like many many countries in the region you have you know more than more than sixty percent are below that they've had thirty five and you have a lot of initiatives by young people by women who push themselves to become part of negotiations and push themselves to actually started reconciliation rather than mobilizing themselves in to a war so yes i do have hope but i'm very doubtful about the current leadership to really you know steer in the right direction there's been talks about possible community efforts you know to actually make this course a boldly sort of peace deal possible what you make of it i think that's where we

have to start i mean i think they have to be a lot of local efforts of reconciliation because this is where the wounds are this is where the memory of the trauma is but it cannot be done only on the local level and if there is no provision by the government of there are no there's no good governance there's no rule of law if there is nothing that sounds like about accountability it is accountability you know the local efforts can only go so far. thanks for your time thank you very much. s. . africa you can catch all our stories on our website on face book page and now we move to the other side of the continents many of you now with images of caution was not for that surely not the country's biggest cultural.

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a dancer who's been lauded for both classical and contemporary. dance about the project that's about to take berlin by storm. with the u.k. on the brink of the irish border question still has no clear answer this means lots of confusion over what the fate of northern ireland ireland will be where the return to a hard border with the republic of ireland could threaten the region's hard won peace. case breck said referendum german photographer toby bindra has focused his attention on belfast and the fragile balance that is daily bread for its use.