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this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes sudan one week off the omar al bashir. protesters are still on the streets and they vow to keep demonstrating until the transfer of power from the military is complete. some people want to do for all of us for sure well you felt they got. a sense for those who wanted the fall of the regime well the regime are still here. and as is involved thank you nine years of independence we all must just how free is the country i'll be joined by a human rights campaigner whose activism has made him an enemy of the state. i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm glad. it is one week since the
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sudanese military ended the thirty year role of president omar al bashir following four months of street process the army now says 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 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 hit cautious. 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 march to join the blockade of the headquarters many women among the much as. i am not i am because the women are asking for their rights because there is always a. prestige everything they are pressed by society oppressed an education oppressed
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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. is not the way she'll kill some people wanted the fall of bashir well he fell they got. i don't know when the 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 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 military procedure counselors or for indicators that a group carry out reforms of some of the governments is the truth including the
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national intelligence and security services indeed the m.t.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. demonstrates as 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 a life without. the people of zimbabwe are still getting used to life without rob it will copy the former 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 since the end of colonial rule days growing anger over the failure often end economic disaster next by mugabe and the tough line
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taken by them not government against recent protests of a feel heights was no less brutal and the excesses of the mugabe era. so is the human rights situation any base and now all that it was and got in my guest today made headlines in two thousand and sixteen when he sent the former president robert mugabe every other 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 news africa we're talking about zimbabwe instead of raising independence they say nine years of independence which is say some ball weighs 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 does a very important day where we also salute and their contribution in the second
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phase made by those who fought in the labor erosions struggle but this is also a day which makes many offices of zimbabweans the day i said looking at the zimbabwe that we have today because there's very much lead to left it just to celebrate we it's called an independence day but there's no liberty and that is not in independence at all so that's makes this a day you say there's no lives and you've brought your latest book it's titled dismantling the system of mugabe isn't in chapter nine and you talk about this involving needing to be liberated from zanu p.f. elaboration on that. in this book just one thing mugabe's and i painted 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
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a bit good to the colonial you know the one to change the color of the or precise meter was an oprah so we go to 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 is 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 so that we can we're going to be able to establish new political structures which ran and it was about to release to meaningful change that we anticipate 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
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out one in the world to know that there are many untold stories untold gross human rights violations especially which happened in need general of twenty nine thousand the beatings the torture the rape and of the terrorists and the killings of two or so or civilians with the army using eleven i 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 need to be investigated up to this day they're not told because people are afraid 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 underway rice . human rights activists were causing massive oil thank you.
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all right our next story is and 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 most m.b. nearly two million people are still in need of help hundreds of thousands of houses have been damaged all destroyed our correspondent andrea and krishna traveled to the community off and same tasks 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. when of in this corner used to look much better than the sign cologne hit and
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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 we were 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 food just tribulations just a wife but it's also the case. 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 was released . because of it what about we suffered for so long and had nothing to eat day after
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day we just got by on 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. so they are affected in some locations even in the city. so you can imagine. the crops and. 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
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three family members sleep. nevertheless at least they finally have rise to cook the family has not eaten a proper meal for weeks now. then be able 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 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 then she could be eating her own crops again in the bud six months time. that's all i drink racial or sing there that's it from v.w. news africa you can catch all story is on the news at the news on our website and
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