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baker stretches you live with the rules set by the. cuts. being recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d w. this is d.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's well press freedom day we meet african janitors who say constitution may guarantee press freedom. reporting can be difficult and even death you. can think of the people you never know what you. come up with. you want to say something great. also coming up in the show the trauma of cannon one week after the cyclon hits mozambique we take a look at how people are dealing with the aftermath. and
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eat my good you know 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 generalists still sense it repressed unsanctioned out of fifty four countries the press freedom index has classify the situation in twenty six states as eat up bad scene here in dakar 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
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difficult my colleague funny foreshock traveled 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 in normal the kind of real come around 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 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 boko haram wants
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to fight. was very very i mean i wish i lessons reports usually reboard 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 to horace visit but just how far can she push the envelope with the government this is so special. 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 would have to write though why you are doing a story that makes a very have you know two 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
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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 it was 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 the reporters should be free we are all still courthouse where 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 priorities because we are total of democracy the present
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is the only portent instrument this 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 is ruled by the constitution and not by decrees. another country that made promises to improve its media policies as him bob but even after the mugabe era journalist asked they were harassed on the president but on gaga just recently riot police tear gassed two six three each at zimbabwe's leading online news platform offices authorities pursued while the five films journalist would be taken pictures of a clash between police and street vendors in central harare a journalist lovejoy was likely injured by tear gas kind of stuff he told the
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challenges in working as a generalist in zimbabwe you can have a tad you want to say something you have prayed you can think of the consequences of what you knew who to write and what you're going to be posting it on social media because you know no one's been there yet we're going to see your post and what they what they're going to do to you so in the interim manager they came down to operate in four for ten days. and if not joining me now from zimbabwe is our correspondent was shot near the privileged welcome to the show so you're journalism by the way how is that like for you working in your country. it is a difficult situation in zimbabwe i thought things have kind of changed i think the saying that we have propagated now is there more things change the more data mean the same there's been probably sees in terms of changing laws in zimbabwe from
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a personal point of view i see. but these no commitment if you look at the environment that we work 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 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 see about africa's performance and the need to. index rankings what do you see generally. yeah i think freedom of the press you know africa remains
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a very contentious issue if you look at their latest report by reporters without borders there are very few countries safe for your book you know fossil garner south africa and namibia that's the cities victory. but there rest between the difficulty and very serious situations if you look in the north of africa egypt libya countries like. that they really 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 are still happening in other our countries privileged was shown to be reporting from zimbabwe thank you. was a beat is struggling to deal with the aftermath of cycling kenneth the storm hit
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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 failed somewhat traumatized ever since kenneth ravaged his will. when the storm came everything was still ok. the bullet in my house was still standing. but then it rained for hours on end. 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.
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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 cycle in canada 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. 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
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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. 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
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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 years 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 drawings shows the door of 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 while the few that he kept until his death. that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our web site on the facebook page we need you now with more objects created by that leads to nelson mandela have a great weekend.
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