he played twenty one years with the mavericks. d.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes last year speaking out got him arrested and allegedly tortured now ugandan pop star and free speech campaign why tells deed of you africa but he's far from giving up he's taking the fight to the country's highest office. also coming up the bloody conflicts that's left two million homeless and hundreds of thousands that now francis is hosting south sudan's rival factions. in the balance.

i'm glad you tuned in first to the ugandan pop star turned 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 for president he's been violently arrested and beaten. led to me threat to the power of uganda's leader the word i'm seventy who has ruled uganda since one thousand nine hundred eighty six for you why it is here in berlin speaking at a conference on freedom of expression i caught up with him earlier 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 you know still going for this. but neither is anybody those who like me it was speak out and indeed there are many who are sailing out or unsafe i mean you. never change anything and you can never change anything unless

you speak out of it. is a complex one because you are living in a regime. that will not tolerate any thing that is not its line of thinking so anybody who speaks out. against. the regime is at risk because that freedom is so dear to us any. president has been ruling for thirty three years and counting. you've already mentioned that you are considering running for president i may be for the first time you can clarify everything with you have you decided now are you running for president the next election. is not just about me asking is should not be like me it should be like we and yes i and my team are considering

challenging the seven in the next presidential election that we are looking at the presidency and because we know that biggest problem. 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 to be challenging for the presidency in the next presidential election recently we all know what happened in algeria particularly congratulated the people for peacefully demonstrating and no person with a flicker has stepped out of how feasible do you think the process is going to be like in uganda. seems impossible until it's done you know. sports especially in africa seemed. invincible and.

just a few days ago the nigerian me. sooner or later my savings will be. stronger statements from you what is the major opposition if you are going to encounter. with us. the major opposition way is the opposition. we note. 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's 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 you know to change the decision making from.

this from. should be from bottom up and that is why we are calling upon old they must history just as voters in millions so that they can i set their voice peacefully through their vote and for the first time. the 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 uganda and especially the young people i know you're watching. a special kind of i'm not i'm just like you i'm only playing my. you might be a. 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 the wild. please keep your. brothers and sisters on the african continent we are not free three and watch we get that living in an africa that we are proud of thank you very much. thank you. a spiritual retreat the vatican today is bringing together in rivals south sudan's president salva kiir and former vice president of . the vatican is calling it an occasion for encounter conservation the two day gathering will bring peace to south sudan and mend the relationship between.

rival released a civil war in twenty thirteen counts rise by brutal violence until now talks fields to bring lasting peace creating africa's largest refugee crisis here's a look back at south sudan's turbulent history. born out of conflict south sudan's boston twenty eleven was meant to beckon an era of peace and prosperity instead 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. at any even the price because in that thing you lost the property. the reason for the mass human suffering the rift between president here and the deputy he sacked react. to me accused of

a coup. over the years the men have signed and broken numerous peace deals time and again the smiles did not last. through it all the helpless on the home front and the world's youngest country continued a long way to go. i'm joined now by ahmed head of the africa division of the foundation for signs and politics in berlin thanks for your time now you've done extensive research in the region after five years of civil war in south sudan is the pope the solution. well we would hope that maybe there is no moral boost that he can bring but for sure it cannot be the solution because the problem is much more deep rooted than having a spiritual visit in sound to you spiritual retreat steve hold it for could that be wow i hope that there is more than

a spiritual retreat the 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 calling are on their responsibility to basically start building that country rather than destroying now i destroy any different. talks. well. he will not have any mandate to negotiate any talks because the peace talks are negotiated 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 listening more that's one can just hope i don't know if if they do. talk about talks i mean there's been so many talks about

mine talks already know the dues are being three deals still civil war continues. why how the futurist 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 now. gloom and doom every time we talk 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 and of numbers 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 start 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 course a boldly sort of peace still possible when they go about 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 rooms 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 if there are no there is 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 and everybody thanks for your time thank you very much. that's it for now from africa or lost stories on our web site on face book page and now we move to the other side of the car. with images of caution not sebastian and then they're not the country's biggest our cultural. ties are not.

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