there's news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes about twenty seven million south africans are gearing up for you elections in some hours but many of the country's youth did not register to vote so putting it. through think it was time. as they were. called live. just that. anything anyone even gives us jokes. also we meet a woman in the north east of nigeria hoping for the. insurgency she dreams of starting a business to provide for her children. what do markets and ice creams have in common if you love the sweet stuff stay tuned to find out.

welcome to the program before twenty seven million south africans head to the polls and the general election is trending on social media but as a nation gears up for the political contest many young south africans have chosen to set out their lecture commission says the youth demographic has a notoriously low voter registration than any other demographic you know of use christine 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 book 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 and i ran my shoes my clothes food everything so what can i do i came out on prime fronts and 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 what they love their soul 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 like. after just about that i won't get anything anyway but no one even give us jobs good food to give them our support but at the end of the day motive is going to get bigger kind of yellow 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 would be pushing in the mail election my frustrations precinct and your need troublous on 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 south africa electoral

commission say sixty percent of eligible voters who did not register as a take part in this election often know the age of that's having doubts about your hands but and this is a spot on the lot with young people many of them have told me they won't be voting in this election the companies that for like this year all the companies that are happening right in general. did not did not entice another that is young people to be caged in that a lot of people really really really feel like they need to go in and it's useless to vote you know see so a lot of people instead of being convinced what to vote for you have to come pain and convince them toward frist i don't think any of the. main parties. if they happen and see who are really catering to the you 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 smiling pretty sick tried to move forward 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 schoolbook 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 facade traveled to terrell tong the bonus states in the northeast of the country where she met a woman who dreams of a life after. she wants to provide for her children and start a business. at a because the campaign my degree they are new arrivals every day people fleeing their territory in villages and towns from book 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 with her nine children and. 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 and. 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. will. 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 harvests hiding 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 his yard chad and cameroon millions of people at this point need aid to survive. life beyond the camp a return to normality that is enough dream. she joins a workshop outside the camp it teaches women hold to run a business acquire the skills that you need to run your business and that's been.

the solution here is that is my solution for you that is why you are here today. 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 save borno state is the government 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 have seen a radical change. last year the press has been widely liberated from the top of the previous 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 a tip off the pen. these children are here to learn from the best twenty world famous prescott to nest have gathered in a fair capital to share their work and skills. holding such an event and a few is 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 our women's rights and their freedom to express themselves for the reforms i didn't do a lot of want to kind of hard to lose. because i didn't feel safe so this is also one way of expressing yourself and i would see 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 it was like everybody who are shocked by the government or the politician is to twenty years in prison so these guys have to be treated i don't see totally there is freedom but we when you come here from the last one to the last minute 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 censor myself before i

see is about as us today this is if i do as some cartoon which is. provoke me to make i first ask myself is it provoke people that it's kind of people but i think twice and 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-t. 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.

but when mashed up and mixed was sure the 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 inventors insects and some think the environment for a nice simple to farm because these very little. to go on they aren't at risk of climate change because you can grow them in a controlled environment so that in a closed area. nutritious as the sweet maggot moves might be even the converted have doubts might pick up argues the meat industry accounts for twenty five percent of global emissions and we should find a turn it is but still they all 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 few markets in cape town and. that's pretty good taste like ice cream should taste. a little bit more earthy a bit more again it. but i'm pretty happy if it's like ice cream. it's a so get a face if you like how you'd expect like a weakening i was going to leave it to say. the developers plan to dish out their maggot ice cream to other cities in africa next and soon after to europe and the states. about that for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website on face book page also next time spy for not.

only in the book you are no one i'm not sure you can learn from your local with the exposing injustice global news that matters to you many times. they want to represent you so what do you want from the joint from twenty four i'm doing chevelle as we put your questions it seems politicians from around the european union and across the political spectrum in our special debate will be hearing from young europeans voting for the first time in the new elections in may voicing their biggest concerts tasted like this i mean please answer to you. and.