shifting powers the topic in focus at the global media forum twenty nineteen and call it a laboratory for the digital age. who are we following whom do we trust debate and shape the future at the doors of global media forum twenty nine t. the place made for mine. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's well the press freedom day we meet african janitors who say constitution may guarantee press freedom. reporting can be difficult and even deadly. get into all of them because you never know what you and i come up with. you want to say something crazy . also coming up in the show the trauma of canada one week after the cyclon hit was upbeat we take a look at how people are dealing with the aftermath. and

even micah julia you're welcome to the show and thanks for your time it's world press freedom day about press freedom remains a challenge all around the world across africa it's no different while some countries meet positive streitz many journalists are still sense it repressed on sanctioned alto fifty four countries the press freedom index has classify the situation in twenty six states as eat up bad scene here in orange or very bad as seen in red today we take a closer look at two of these countries zimbabwe on 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 in and begin to feel the military alone in a deal like this when you have the president and i mean you can get through with almost anything now she's rushing to school to hard wants 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 boko haram wants

to fight. i am i mean i wish i was less since reports usually reprove around the militant jihad east and the military's 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 there's a source fishel. but how it will always be questioned i mean no matter how you know science you know the story you are doing is you know you will have to write though why you are in the story that makes it very have you know the 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 reporters. without borders that's one hundred twentieth out of one hundred

eighty countries despite 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 it reports that reporters should be free we are all still called us 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 least because we are total of democracy the press

is the only part of the instrument the society uses to check excesses iniquities injustices 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 isn't bob but even after the mugabe era journalist are still harassed on the press stands been on gaga just recently riots police say aghast two six three chat zimbabwe's leading online news platform offices authorities pursued one of the platforms journalists would be taking pictures of a clash between police and the streets bendis in central harare journalist lovejoy was slightly injured by teargas kind of stuff he told you the challenges in working

as a generalist in zimbabwe and have a tad you want to say something you have prayed him to think of the consensus of what you will do to the right and much of them to your postings his office immediately was in yemen or was the night he had to organise your post and what they what they're going to do to you so. the very thing. john will operate for over ten years. is that joining me now from zimbabwe is our correspondents privileged was shot me at the privilege 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 with thought 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 no commitment if you look at the environment that we work when we imbibe with the difficult part is that accessing information is a very difficult situation especially 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 work so it remains a very difficult situation to work in zimbabwe but we hope for the better what does the brought up saying about africa's performance and the need to. index rankings what do you see generally. yes i think freedom of the press in 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 south africa and. the city's victory. but their rest between difficult and very serious situations if you look in the north of. egypt libya countries like. india each year they remain as 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 us do happening in other african countries i have lived with sanity reporting from zimbabwe thank you. baek is struggling to deal with the aftermath of cycling kenneth the storm hit

a week ago destroying homes on roads 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 traumatised ever since. ravaged. i mean. when the storm came everything was still ok. my house was still standing. but then it rained for hours on end as you see in the that's when my house collapsed. quickly packed a few things and. 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 i wanted to finally gets going it only runs for ten minutes since i plan kenneth the road ends 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 anybody. 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 the 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. 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 cell 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 artworks created by the late nelson mandela have a great weekend.

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