and adam baker can stretch this i can live with the rules set by the. top. being recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d.w. . can add a bit of. this news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's well the press freedom day we meet african janitors to see the institution may guarantee press freedom. reporting can be difficult and even deadly. contained out of the jungle because you never know what you. come up when. you want to say something you afraid. also coming up in the show the trauma of cannon one week after the cyclon hit me take a look at how people are dealing with the aftermath. michael

jr you're welcome to the show and thanks for your time it's world press freedom day by press freedom remains a challenge all around the world across africa it's no different while some countries made positive streitz many generalists still sense it repressed on sanctioned alto fifty four countries the press freedom index has classified the situation in twenty six states as eat up bad scene here in dakar range or very bad as seen in red today we take a closer look at two of these countries zimbabwe and nigeria in nigeria the constitution guarantees freedom of the press but especially in conflict ridden areas like the northeast. which is the stronghold of boko haram reporting its

difficult my colleague funny for shock travelled to borno state where she met two dedicated journalist working under constraints. heavy military presence in many parts of my degree city the capital of borno state in nigeria often it's news about terror attacks that dominates people's daily lives today it's positive excitement. president bihari is about to arrive blessing to know we'll cover it she's a television correspondent here and her office is this car on a normal the kind of come around begin to feel the military alone a day like this when you have the president within i mean you can get through with almost anything now she's rushing to a school that were hard ones to commission the president's convoy is passing by a billboard picturing malala yousafzai a symbol of education for girls exactly what islamist terror group wants to fight.

i am i right i have lessons reports usually reprove around the militancy hardest in the military operations to fight them at home blessing the mother of a one year old is relieved today she doesn't have to comp through footage of yet another explosion she must only added haris visit but just how far can she push the envelope with the government this is so special and we all want to know how it will always be questioned i mean no matter how you know science story you are doing is you know you have to write though why you have been a story about makes a very have to do stories especially especially for you in sheets on your own blessings job usually involves many constraints in terms of press freedom nigeria is currently ranked one hundred twenty s. by report. without borders that's one hundred twentieth out of one hundred eighty

countries is by the government's official obligation to protect the freedom of the press but as human rights organizations point out the reality on the ground is different jonell is a subject of violence and they are denied access to information. this is with my car in january his newspaper office was raided by the military because of this article that got him in trouble a story about an operation against boko haram why should the office be rated just because we carried the reports that reporters should be free we are all still courthouse were all we are all shareholders in the enterprise called where bt with the raid made him only stronger and even more committed but in order for change to happen in nigeria biharis priorities must also include press freedom he says is should be on his priority list because we are total of democracy the

president the only portent instrument this society uses to check excesses in acquitted in justice is our family is committed by any of these arms of government with my beliefs the limits for the press are rooted in the country's military past he says nigeria must live up to its commitment that the country's ruled by the constitution and not by decrees. another country that made promises to improve its media policies as i'm bob way but i would not say that mugabe era journalist asto harassed on the president been on dogma just recently riots police teargassed two six three chat zimbabwe's leading online news platform offices authorities pursued while the phones john list would be taking pictures of a clash between police and a street vendor in central harare a journalist lovejoy was slightly injured by tear gas kind of stuff he told the

challenges in working as a generalist in zimbabwe he didn't have a tad you want to say something you are afraid to think of the consequences of what you know who to write to much of them to be posting because of us immediately because you never know with the never yet we're going to see your post and what they what they're going to do to you so into man the very thing. john will operate for for jenny. is that joining me now from zimbabwe is our correspondent was shot near the privileged welcome to the show so your journalism by the way how is it like for you working in your country. it is a difficult situation in zimbabwe those things have kind of changed i think the saying that we have propagated now is the more things change the more they remain the same there's been probably sees in terms of changing laws in zimbabwe from

a personal point of view i see they use are we but these are no commitment if you look at the environment that we wake we in. the difficult part is that accessing information is a very difficult situation specially in terms of government institution because of the existing laws personally i have gone through difficult times we have. had some times where you are asked or even beaten up by the police just put doing your way so it remains a very difficult situation to work in zimbabwe but we hope for the better what does the brought up about africa's performance in the. index rankings what do you see. yeah i think freedom of the press you know africa remains

a very contentious issue if you look at their latest report by reporters without borders very few countries say for your book you know fossil garner. and i mean that you know the city's victory. but there rests between this difficulty and very serious situations if you look in the north of africa you egypt libya countries like. that they really they remain is sports so it is a very difficult situation for africa we are still being ranked law because of some of the violations that you see that are still happening in other african countries. on the knee reporting from zimbabwe thank you. beat is struggling to deal with the aftermath of cycling kenneth a storm hits

a week ago destroying homes on routes many people see if you are yet to receive help and i increasingly frustrated about the government's lack of action our correspondent chris sends us this report from one of the west affected areas. has felt somewhat traumatized ever since cycling ravaged. when the storm came everything was still ok. the bullet in my house was still standing. but then it rained for hours on end actually in the that's when my house collapsed. like quickly packed a few things and floating by. many people in the village lost everything and in the time since the cyclon hit they've lost all power.

luis takes us to see the only means of transportation that is left in his village. the rickety old boss only starts after a long time and when it finally gets going it only runs for ten minutes since cyclon can if the road and says here. and the next town is an hour away by foot. we want our streets back so that we can drive to the city like we used to so we're asking the government to finally help out. but the government seems to get going as slowly as the bus at least one good thing has happened workers from a chinese company appear in the afternoon and attempts to repair things but they seem to reach their limit soon the mess of destruction can't be repaired quickly at

the moment the water level here is rather low but this can change very fast sometimes it's just raining for a few hours very strong and then the water goes up again threatening the communities around. even in parts of the provincial capital pemba the water level is still high meteorologist marianne's in the know observes the weather from this station she is optimistic but can't give an all clear signal yet on the on. this ship will likely continue to rain over the next few days. but probably only lightly. we don't think that the rain in this region will be as strong as it was in the last few days. in the village of mara kinney continues to waited to hope that the government will soon come to help . he hopes for

a new house for electricity for the streets to be repaired but most of all he hopes for better weather. now this is where mandela was incarcerated for over eighteen yes now a drawing of this sell by the late south african president was sold in new york for more than one hundred twelve thousand dollars the wax still crayon drawing shows the dog nelson mandela's prison cell on robben island a powerful symbol of hope and of resilience the drawing is one of more than twenty words he made in two thousand and two when dealing with his experiences in prison and wound a few that he kept until his death. that's it for now from v.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our web site on the facebook page we leave you now with more works created by the elites in nelson the mind of a great weekend.

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we began to try back a film festival in new york renowned for showing cutting edge independent films they just tell the world premiere of x y chelsea a documentary about whistle blower and activist chelsea manning the director tim travers hawkins got incredibly close to the complex carries the walls u.s. soldier bradley manning who leaked a huge amount of classified documents to wiki leaks was sent to jail and there started transitioning to a woman quite a story. story . we're glad.