there's no kinetic more that they take one to mean you know exactly what it is you put it into another plan to come out exactly where it is grown i think we will be able to provide enough food for people twenty fifty if we can make crops that will grow on seventy arid conditions this would like to meet a much greater stability in the food supply that we have at the moment. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes last year speaking out got him arrested and allegedly tortured now ugandan popstar on free speech campaign up all the wind tells d.d. of you africa but he's far from giving up he's taken the fight to the country's highest office. also coming up the bloody conflicts that's left two million

homeless and hundreds of thousands dead now that francis is hosting south sudan's rival factions as the fragile truce in the balance. i marry my good you know i'm glad you june then first to the ugandan pop star turned politician bobby wine as a musician his songs talk all corruption and poverty as a legislator he's an outspoken and critical voice of uganda's government now he's going to make him run for president he's been violently i rested and beaten. led to me threat to the power of uganda's lead you where he was seventy who has ruled uganda since one thousand nine hundred eighty six while the wind is here in bell in speaking at the conference on freedom of expression. with him today. quite

a tough year for you you were imprisoned you were beating i mean it wasn't a year that i'm sure you expected how safe do you feel you know still going for this. certainly not safe but neither is anybody those like me always pick out indeed the many who are sailing out or unsafe i mean you can never change anything until you see you can never change anything and this is speaking out of my heart the case in uganda is a complex one because we are living in a regime that is that if. we note tolerate anything that is not its line of thinking so anybody who speaks out especially against the actress it is and this is of the regime is at risk because that freedom is so dear to us anyway yet no president has been ruling for thirty three

years and counting. you've already mentioned that you are considering running for person might 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 is governance 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 flick of

a step down. how feasible do you think the process is going to be like in uganda. seems impossible until it's done you know. this sports especially in africa seemed. invincible and. with. say it recently. just a few days ago the nigeria. sooner or later will be. strong statements from you what is the major opposition if you are going to encounter. with us. the major opposition. is the opposition. we are not. making it very easy for us to. say that some time ago that members in the opposition are only concerned

about their positions and their fate and the composition that threatens their position and that is not what we're looking at we're looking at inclusiveness of the people especially they get our 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 be you know to change the decision making from the eighty's. from. should be from bottom up and that is why we are calling upon 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 they will be. through their vote. 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 your inspiration of course

a lot of young people out there what's your message my message. to the. people i know you're watching. a special kind of i'm not i'm just like you i'm only playing my. might be a. businessman. under the friends out there 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 and that we will be proud of thank you very much. thank you.

the vatican today is bringing together in rivals south sudan's president. and former vice president. the vatican is calling it an occasion for encounter reconsideration. will bring peace to south sudan and mend the relationship between . rival release the civil war in twenty seen by brutal violence until now talks how fields to bring lasting peace creating africa's largest refugee crisis here's a look back at. 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 old 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. the area because. the reason for the mass human suffering the rift between president here and the deputy he sacked react. to be accused of occurred. over the years the men have signed unbroken numerous peace deals time and again the smiles did not last. through it all the helpless and the hopeful and the world's youngest country continued a long way to go. i'm joined now by. the head of the vision 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

a 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 of the streets 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 you know i just talks in a different. about talks five that he's. 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. you know to take responsibility to implement the peace talks that happened in the region before if they different if they list that's that one can just hope i don't know if they do we're talking about talks i mean there's been so many talks about mine talks are no dreams are being three deals still civil war continues. why have the previous talks so filled i think it's much more systemic then you know having and having in the 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 was gloom and doom every time we talked about south sudan is the 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 is hope in the young people in the former's like many many countries in the region you have you know more than more than sixty percent of the 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 and into 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 possible to make a sort of peace still possible what you make of that 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. that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page and now we move to the other side of the continents we need you now with images of caution you not sebastian but then the not the country's biggest cultural.

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