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problems are always the same core to the solution equality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption work on the floor to stay silent when it comes to the sounds of humans and see them right through fools who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jen fires and i work a d w. this says state of the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes so done one week off to omar al bashir has al stuck protesters austin on the streets and they have vowed to keep demonstrating until a transfer of power from the military is complete. some people want to fall out of a share of the well you fill the guy. stands for those who want to control of the
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regime well the regime still here. and as a zimbabwean smog thank you nine years of independence we ask just how free is the country i'll be joined by human rights campaigner whose activism has made him an enemy of the state's. i'm christine window while come to deja news africa i'm gadget. it is one week since the sudanese military ended the thirty year role of president omar al bashir following four months of street protests the army now say as it has detained the ousted president in a prison but share once used to hold political prisoners but if the army generals who threw out bashir believe that it would end the open opposition to the ruling it needs they've been proven. wrong demonstrators are demanding the military hand over
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rule to a civilian administration and have maintained a picket at the army headquarters. the army complex in 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 much as. my mother i knew them and because the women are asking for their rights because they're always oppressed in everything they are pressed by society oppressed an 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 guys is about the what he'll kill some people wanted the fall of bashir well he felt that i. didn't know enough sas for those who wanted the fall of the regime well the regime was still here and our
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demands have not yet been met and we will stay here until there are the will of. the international community is closely watching developments 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 in including the national intelligence and security services indeed the m.t.c. is a reprise in high repute government or the shares who are said to be unpopular with their ministry that's perhaps in an attempt to gain trust and court t.v. demonstrators remain skeptical of reports that the military has arrested former president of russia and some of his closest associates including two of his
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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 a life without. the people of zimbabwe are still getting used to life without rob it will go up in the form of president and revolutionary leader was forced out of office by the army in twenty seventeen he was replaced by innocent non-government today as a bobby and small thirty nine he is since the end of colonial rule based growing anger over the failure to end economic disaster next by mugabe and the tough line taken by the government against recent protests of a fuel hikes was no less brutal and the excesses of the mugabe era. so is the human rights situation any of basin now than it was and that mugabe my guest today made headlines in two thousand and sixteen when he sent the former president robert mugabe every other provocative birthday present was
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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 news africa we're talking about zimbabwe instead of raising independence they say ninety is 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 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 a 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 that is not independence at all so that's makes this
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a day you say there's no lives and you've brought with you your latest book it's titled dismantling at the system of mugabe ism in chapter nine and you talk about the zimbabwe needing to be liberated from zanu p.f. elaboration on that. in this book dismantling mugabe's him i painted this book soon after the military coup which of a through prison robot to 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 that would change to the fest of the person that can even did a bit good to the colonial you know the one to change the color of the or precise need was an oprah so we got mugabe in a prison so i realized that. we are getting it wrong because we are changing the faces of the person not the entire system so by dismantling mugabe's in the in this book ugly doing that yes mugabe's gone but then mugabe's him it's
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a culture it's a system with tentacles like an octopus so we need to dismantle the entire system so that we can we're going to be able to establish new political structures which rang and it was about 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 involving right now the situation in zimbabwe is moving from actually bed to west out one day international community out one the word to know that many untold stories untold gross human rights violations specially which happened in need generally of twenty nine thousand the beatings the torture the rape and of a terrorist and the killings of two or so or civilians or the army using eleven i
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mean it's not civilians that lot of gross you know as violations which happened which are not told the internet was bled out so i feel this is a story which needs to be told these are violations which needs to be investigated up to this day they're 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 right. 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
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thousands of houses have been damaged all destroyed our correspondent. she the community off and sent us this report. these fields way jackie's only source of income they were in fact her entire life she has always lived in farm to with her family but this year everything changed. in meters of a one of the corner used to look much better than the sign clone hit and everything died a day later the floods came and wiped out 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 we're waiting for this year's harvest all the corn and all the rice everything's gone. a month ago cyclon he dies swept through this drawing of homes in the region
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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 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 rise beans and little jackie is really. because of it when i went about we suffered for so long and had nothing to eat day after day we just got by and the remains of whatever vegetables we could find. just today more than two thousand families came for rations 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 affected in some locations even in the
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city it's. almost worst so you can imagine the. kind of water on the crops and scrapes to 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 hotz 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 a proper meal for weeks now. of course i'm happy right now but then again not really because when the food here is
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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 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 about six months time. that's all after increased reporting there that's it from news africa you can catch all story is on our news and on years on our website and facebook page we need you now with images of the african personalities who made it onto the time one hundred most influential people are think yeah you can probably recognise some of them by certainly care and that's it i have to now see an extract.
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