they want to represent you so what do you want from the. phone from twenty people and as we put your questions team politicians from around to your opinion and across the political spectrum in our special debate we'll be hearing from young europeans voting for the first time in the new elections in may voicing their biggest concerns face today says i mean the answer to you. and. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes about twenty seven million south africans are gearing up for elections in some hours but many of the country's youth did not register to vote so why are they boycotting it. we've seen the worst of times. and i think it's a leap of time for me because i. just thought that i won't get anything and when he will give us. also we meet

a woman in the northeast of nigeria hoping for the end of the insurgency she dreams of starting a business to provide for her children. and what do markets and ice creams have in common if you love the sweet stuff stay tuned to find out. my car journey welcome to the program it's hours before twenty seven million south africans head to the polls and the general election is trending on social media but as the nation gears up for the political contest many young south africans have chosen to set out the electoral commission says the youth demographic has had a notoriously low voter registration than any other demographic you know of use christine window and finds out why. in an alley in downtown johannesburg i

meet rico he's twenty seven doesn't have a job and sells drugs to earn a living i can enjoy his perk ok i was looking for a job any job so i was like ok what can i do cause like i need to pay for my bills my rent buy shoes clothes food everything so what can i do i came out on prom fun to observe the place try to learn the place try to learn what everyone is doing around the place then i decide i better ok this people they love this they don't like this let me give them i did not expect so which is rico says he has a diploma in hospitality and wanted to become a shift he's given up trying to look for a job he's also given up on voting in elections for me since it was the of time. that i think it's always got time for me because right. after. that i won't get anything that one even give us jobs did for me give them more support but at the

end of the day notice i don't get it cannondale is twenty three he spends most of his days in internet shops sending out he c.v. but he's getting demotivated like rico he won't be voting in the may election my frustrations precinct and your need be troublous or me being unemployed is the fact that like you presently have no move these are just two young south africans but the levels of apathy among youth in this country is worrying in south africa electoral commission say sixty percent of eligible voters who did not register to take part in this election often know the age and that's what happens outside and split and this is the spot on the net with young people many of them have told me they won't be voting in this election the company for like this in all the companies that are happening right in general. did not denote

a child as young people would be gauging that a lot of people really really really feel like they need to use this to vote you know see so a lot of people that have been convince what to vote for you have to come pain and couldn't give them toward frist i don't think any of. the main parties being. in n.c. are really catering to the we need most of the parties are promising job creation it's the right message for a country with an unemployment rate of more than twenty five percent but going on a little has found no comfort in campaign promises as smiler pretty sick tried to avoid saying i think it's quite pointless because like it's going to take another i don't know how many years for us to actually realize change while he's given up on south africa's politicians cannondale has not yet given up on his job hunt. it's ten years says that he had a school book around launch this insurgency in nigeria since then tens of thousands

of people have been killed and u.n.h.c.r. says more than two million have been displaced our correspondents funny for shock traveled to terrell john boehner state in the northeast of the country where she met a woman who dreams of a life. she wants to provide for her children and start a business. at a because the campaign my degree there are new arrivals every day people fleeing their territory in villages and towns from since two thousand and nine about one point eight million people have been forced to leave their homes in nigeria. people like zainab she fights back tears as she vividly recalls the day she had to leave the tour nine children. we started hearing gunshots thinking it's from the military then we thought it was some play but it wasn't the whole town was captured by book. we ran away from our home it was raining some children were missing.

when you answer her husband a policeman was killed in front of her children seven years ago her town was captured by the jihadists a few years later since then her children have been unable to go to school. i hope one day they become nurses lawyers engineers doctors. no. only recently a suicide attack in front of the camp was for oiled zainab is getting dressed to protect her children along with other volunteers she tries to check everyone wants to enter or leave the camp. is your home not nearby go and bring the past. i don't have a pass no past no going out the government depends on volunteers to keep a basic level of stability she hardy's tiding nearby can strike any time.

the violence here in the north east of nigeria has altered the lives of hundreds of thousands and the attacks have also spread to neighboring countries like chad and cameroon millions of people at this point need aid to survive. life beyond the camp a return to normality that is enough. she joins a workshop outside the camp it teaches women ho to run a business acquire the skills that you need to run your business and that's basically what the solution is that is my solution for you that is why you are here today. zain up wants to make money by selling fish her mentor has bigger plans for her when it comes to her is to ensure that not only is she understanding her business model but also has a revenue model that can sustain the business beyond the company because if she needs to come then what happens nobody knows cif borno state is the government's

slogan but so far their efforts have failed to provide stability while communities are falling apart women are looking to fill the gap to be prepared once peace returns. if you've seen a radical change since from. last year the press has been widely liberated from the top of the regime and that includes political cartoonist was starting to flourish again. an exhibition on political cartoons in the capital about. bringing ideas to life with the tip of the pen. these children are here to learn from the best the twenty world famous prescott to nest have gathered in a fair capital to share their work and skills. holding such an event and if it's quite significant after years of autocratic rule the country's political cartoonists are on the rise. last year newly appointed prime minister ahmed pledged

to restore freedom of expression now more political drawings up being published. he's speaking on behalf of our lives of our women's rights and their freedom to express themselves before the before i didn't do a lot of want to kind of hard to lose. because i feel safe so this is also one way also expressing yourself and i would suit you know it's one form of. telling that there is freedom. today there are no more journalists in jail in a few. elias has been a political cartoonist for twenty years he chewed this contain six years ago so he's like me is like everybody who are shocked by the government or the court or to

just be told he's in a prison so these guys have to be tricked but i'm not going to see totally there is freedom but we when you come here from the last one that i've been in so many years no changes are coming and no encouraging moment is coming. but cartoonists are also aware of the impact they can have when it comes to very sensitive issues ethnicity is one of them and it's the main reason why some self-censorship persists in the country. and teens are myself before i see surprise us that there's a if i do or some cartoon which is. provoke economic i first asked myself is it provoke people that it's people that i think twice in ten times before i just i do the character. today's cartoonists are sharpening their pencils ahead of elections due to be held next year and there's

a new generation of cartoonists waiting in the wings. now what's your favorite flavor chocolate vanilla rust very ice cream personally minus the structure ice cream these little crunchy yummy chocolate bits here and. delicious however in our next story you're about to see they're not chocolate but something else entirely. eat these know what he's but when mashed up and mixed was sugar and other natural ingredients the fly larvae already look a bit more digestible the sweet treat is high in protein and the real green alternative to dairy ice cream say the inventor's insects and something environmental for a nice simple to farm because these very little. time to go on they aren't

a risk of climate change because you can grow them in controlled environments within a closed area. nutritious as this sleep maggot moves might be even the converted have doubts mike picker argues the meat industry accounts for twenty five percent of global emissions and we should find alternatives but still they are in say burgers that are available actually nutritionally ideal for us and they taste very good personally i'm not sure that i would be interested in a and ice cream or dairy product made of fly larvae simply because they're a number of delicious plant priced alternatives available and her culturally very much easier to stomach. but the developers of goma grab a trying to break the mental barrier selling at a food market in cape town. that's pretty good taste like ice cream should taste. a little bit more earthy

a bit more again it fits. but i'm pretty happy with as my guys came to me and say so get a face if you like well you'd expect to get ice cream maybe it's a. good developers plan to dish out their maggot ice cream to other cities in africa next and soon after to europe and the states. are all about that for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all stories on our web sites on face book page and so next time spy for now. it's all happening too much of it coming. your least news from africa the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions can you and will come state of you suffocating program tonight from fun to meet from the news it's easy to our website digital mash africa join us on facebook t.w.

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a look at a man who tried to bring heaven down to a late abstract artist also prenup. but joining me straight away is john anderson the boss of. this is a classical record company which is a bit special because it's a nonprofit making co-operative which puts the. it sounds wonderful. but how does it work because you have to make some money to pay people who work for you of course we have a team of fifteen effect that we have to pay and that is a talent obviously but the goal with with authentic was to find a way of making. something in the world of something which is not really of the world soul music which is priceless which is not transactional which is as

a value completely different from commercial value so that in some way finding a way.