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good morning stuart. with the exclusive. must see concerning courtroom culture in europe. to be curious minds. do it yourself networkers. subscribe don't miss. this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes sudan one week off to omar al bashir is all stuff protesters all stood on the streets and they vow to keep demonstrating until the transfer of power from the military is complete. some people wanted the fall of the old bushehr of the world you felt that i. heard the sounds for those who want to control the regime well the regime was still here with up and as is zimbabwean small fish unite he has an independence we all see
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just how free is the country i'll be joined by a human rights campaigner whose activism has made him an enemy of this state. i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm gadget. it is one week since the sudanese military ended the thirty year role of president bashir following four months of street process the army now say is it has detained the ousted president in a prison but once used to hold political prisoners but if the army generals who threw out the shia believe that would end the open opposition to the ruling it needs they've been proven wrong demonstrators are demanding the military hand over rule to a civilian administration and have maintained a picket at the army head courses. i was the army complex in
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khartoum reverberates with the sound of protesters demanding the dissolution of the military council that replaced omar al bashir. medical professionals from across the capital marched to join the blockade of the headquarters many women among the marches. was met i meet them again the women are asking for their rights because they're always oppressed in everything they are pressed by society oppressed in education oppressed and that they cannot live their lives normally like the men currently our demands are that women have representation in the transitional civilian council and god willing my. father was he a little some people wanted the fall of the machine here well he felt that i. didn't know enough sas for those who wanted the fall of the regime well the regime is still here and our demands have not yet been met and we will stay here until there are people of. the international community is closely watching developments
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in sudan after the african union issued an ultimatum to the sudanese army to hand power to a civilian administration the united nations has now appointed an envoy to work with the a you to mediate an end to the crisis. the minute procedure comes around or for indicators that a group carry out reforms or some of the governments is the truth including the national intelligence and security services indeed the m.p.c. is a reprise in high repute government or who shares who are said to be unpopular with their ministry that's perhaps in an attempt to gain trust and corn to the. demonstrators remain skeptical of reports that the military has arrested former president of russia and some of his closest associates including two of his brothers to the crowds outside the defense ministry return to civilian rule is a minimum demand. as a done slowly gets used to the idea of life without. the people of zimbabwe are
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still getting used to life without rob it will copy the former president and revolutionary leader was forced out of office by the army and twenty seventeen he was replaced by innocent none today as a bobby and small thirty nine since the end of colonial rule based growing anger over the failure often end economic disaster next by mugabe and the tough line taken by the government against recent protests of a feel hikes was no less brutal and the excesses of the mugabe era. so is the human rights situation any of base and now than it was and got in my guest today made headlines in two thousand and sixteen when he sent the former president robert mugabe it rather provocative birthday present was a prison uniform mocked crimes against humanity he was suggesting we should be jailed for human rights violations so the activists and joins me now welcome to
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news africa we're talking about zimbabwe instead of raising independence they say nine years of independence which is say simple ways a free country today thank you for having me here christine. this did. that in the forever is a very important day in zimbabwe this is the day we are supposed to go to commemorate or to celebrate our independence day it is a very important day where we also salute and their contribution in the sector fries made by those who fought in the labor erosions struggle but this is also the day which makes main office of the bobbins the day i said looking at the zimbabwe that we have today because there's very much lead to lefty to to celebrate we can we it's called an independence day but there's no liberty and there is no independence at all so that's makes this a day you say there's no lives and you've brought with you your latest book it's titled dismantling the system of mugabe isn't in chapter nine and you talk about
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this involving needing to be liberated from zanu p.f. elaborations that. in this book just one thing mugabe's in my pen did this book soon after the military coup which of a through president robert mugabe november of twenty seven thousand and we we were so excited and the euphoria was so high yet but later on we realized that we changed the feste of the person that can even did a bit could do the colonial you know the one who changed the color of the or precise needs was an oppressed now we go to mugabe no president so i realize that. we are getting it wrong because we are changing the faces of the oppressor not dane tire system so by dismantling mugabe's in the in this book ugly doing that yes mugabe's gone but the mugabe's him it's a culture it's a system with tentacles like an octopus so we need to dismantle the entire system
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so that we can we're going to be able to establish a new political structure which rent and it was in love with to release to meaningful change that we anticipate right you have been going around india bend and you have been bringing the plight of the human rights situation in zimbabwe to people here in gear up what don't we know about the human rights violations that are taking place in zimbabwe right now the situation in zimbabwe is moving from actually bad to west out one day international community out one the word to know that there are many untold stories untold gross human rights violations special which happened in a general idea of twenty nine thousand the beatings the torture the rape and i've been terrorised and the killings of two or so or civilians with the army using eleven i mean it's an incident that a lot of gross you know as violations which happened which are not told the internet was bled out so i feel this is
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a story which needs to be told these are violations which need to be investigated up to this day that not told because people are frayed some are just getting out of prison on bail and and things like that so many of these violations remains and untold because of the intimidation because of the repression which is under way rice when human rights activists were causing massive oil thank you. all right on next story isn't mozambique which continues to struggle with the devastation caused by cycling much of the attention has focused on the situation in the port city of beira that city suffered damage to ninety percent of the buildings many people have been displaced but the story is similar along the coast off mozambique nearly two million people are still in need of help hundreds of thousands of houses have been damaged all destroyed our correspondent. she
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the community off and same tests this report. these fields way jackie's only source of income they were in fact her entire life she has always lived in farm tear with her family but this year everything changed. immediately one of in this corner used to look much better than the sign clone hit and everything died a day later the floods came and wiped down everything we lost everything we grew rice over there it's all gone now too we've already used up all the rice from last year that we're waiting for this year's harvest all the corn and all the rice everything's gone. a month ago cyclon he died swept through destroying homes in the region many people are still sleeping out in the open or in tents. most people here. rely on foods distributions just the wife but it's also the case
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that jackie and her family. this is the first international food aid to reach the local people here one month after the cyclon hit aid organizations have delivered badly needed rice beans and all the jackie is really. because of it well what about we suffered for so long and had nothing to eat day after day we just got by on the remains of whatever vegetables we could find. just today more than two thousand families came for russians most of the people here are farmers and they wait impatiently as the food is distributed. under water for quite some time so they are in some location even in the city. almost so you can imagine. the crops and scrapes to
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expect this community to be fair for quite some time. finding in this area. jackie has arrived back home or at least what is left of it her previous home was completely destroyed in the cycle with the help of her neighbors the sixty one year old managed to build a small hats everything that jackie could save is in here it is also where she and three family members sleep. nevertheless at least they finally have rise to cook the family has not eaten the proper meal for weeks now. of course i'm happy right now but then again not really because when the food here is gone i don't know where i'll get more i don't know what will happen i don't have any money. nothing to rebuild my house with and then. there's
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a glimmer of hope in the jackie's field at least a neighbor gave her a few seeds and they're just now starting to sprout if everything goes to plan and she could be eating her own crops again in the bud six months time. that's all i drink racial forcing there that's it from news africa you can catch all stories on the news at the news on our website and facebook page we need you now with images off the african personalities who made it onto the time one hundred most influential people i think yeah you can probably recognize some of them by setting the cat that's it i've now seen extracts.
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after monday's terrible blaze in paris there's talk of a temporary wooden church being wrecked today on the square in front of not tradition cathedral to accommodate the faithful that is one of the latest measures proposed while first the clear up and then the restoration on the way now this is not the first time that the historic gem has fallen victim to flame so let's see how it is possible for architectural masterpieces to rise again like a phoenix from the ashes. almost lost to monday's fire no two down cathedral still stands proudly over the river sand and with billionaires such as the owners of retail and a outpouring and money to.

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