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hello i'm christine when the welcome to news africa i'm glad you're today in. ethiopia is journey has hit some severe turbulence 15 months off the prime minister made took office may dramatically turn his back on decades of repressive policies and. emptying the jails of political opponents and journalists and relaxing the suppression of safe persist movements but that's not gone smoothly in june dozens of people including senior officials were killed in a failed coup attempt by separatist militia in the hall region and federal security forces have moved into the sit down the region at least 25 people have been killed there in the past week in clashes between state forces and 6 persists the separatists there are demanding the establishment off their own autonomous region. you know. saddam has already part of its own flag and declare that it's

a regional state he's been. the boys of the people should be respected no it's in the constitution that's the people who decide their own fate not an external political power a government which people decide their own affairs. william davison is senior analyst for if you have for the international crisis group is just visited sit down and other parts of ethiopia highway and welcome to today's every africa where it looks at one stage as if there was agreement on holding a referendum for statehood. why has the situation deteriorates it. well there's a number of reasons that one of the key reasons is that the decision to proceed with the referendum on november came very late it actually came only a couple of days before peace adama movements appointed deadline of anything for july when they wanted

a referendum to be held before then and what promising to do otherwise. so there was agreement with the electoral and the regional states decision to move ahead with a referendum in a few months time from some of the local leadership this is on a leadership. that wasn't effectively or officially communicated its to the rest of this is our movement. there were a number of disappointed activists and large numbers of disappointed saddam it used . spectating declaration of a regional state when they demanded answers public gatherings were clashes with security forces in hasa that's our audience clashes in rural areas is the dharma and they seem to be included as acts on top and the killing of activists by security forces or a clique of protestors and those are taps and other minorities in the area so it really stems from is latest decision to proceed with a referendum. last month and in that maurice states we saw the assassinations

of regional military leaders his prime minister and the af mance reform agenda to blame for that. well it would certainly be wrong to entirely blame the reform agenda for those assassinations and that was allegedly caused by carried out directed by the former securities you are pushing quite a hard line and no nationalist agenda in that reason if there is reason to blame the reform busy process and eventually the ship and the border leadership. is due to the appointment of the alleged co-parents as a man of the gate the former security chief is due to his appointment as regional security chief and then the amount of holds on to me that he was given to push his hard line agenda really should have been better political management of that situation should have been more awareness that i asked him i had sensual to cause

problems in a heart region state so i can see a what a quick recall process where these considerations were taken into account as one of the factors in the in the. right. at the outlets promise to hold any election next year what's the likelihood that he can fulfill that promise to hold it a fully democratic election next year. well that's always been a very challenging ambition there's something of a mismatch between the time you are needed for the reform agenda and the electoral shantel and there's a need to create a strong opposition strong civil society strong media and democratic institutions that was always going to be very hard to carry out before the shuttle directions in may next year given the very serious security and political problems we have now that's become a much harder as the government is primarily focused on fire fighting these issues

instead what happened what needs to happen now is that security needs to be restored and some sort of consensus on the major political grievances afflicting the country between the ruling coalition partners need to be astonished then when there's that sort of foundation people can start thinking about proceeding to an election which will hopefully the democrats are going to transform what they're promised. william davidson is senior analyst for ethiopia for the international crisis group thank you thank you. seconds it day and kenneth hits mozambique with devastating effect earlier this year as well as the cost in lives lost and the damage to infrastructure the storms hit just before the harvest was due nearly 2000000 people are dependent on food supplies from outside aid groups are sounding the alarm they say the rebuilding process is taking too long and is underfunded. the aftermath of the site from still

shows 100 skilled and tens of thousands forced from their homes everything last minute you saw there was lucky but you will never forget when the cyclon hit. they had a band the elo they sang on cd didn't leave the roof was gone and the house felt like it was in the sea. there were waves inside the house. it couldn't have happened at a worse time an estimated $400000.00 acres of crops washed away just weeks ahead of the main harvest the country's trying to rebuild and it's not only the rule areas that are suffering the city's 2 and help is not arriving fast enough. to our very early to the people now are suffering the need to rebuild their buildings also they're going to have resources to build. the port city of bay race key to restarting the economy delays and funding i think to everyone they must to do. you

must understand that what is happening that site is also perfectly we here in north st people and now we are pouring through the softness to rebuild ourselves and also some of that look taking place again so the strain that what they're doing. here killing people i. mean it is sound and has 3 children now depend on food brought in from outside. it's now the dry season in mozambique and it will take several more months before they can start rebuilding their lives. pangolins all the world's most illegally trafficked animal poached for both traditional african medicines as well as a growing demand for use in traditional chinese medicine pangolin scales like rhino horn are made of keratin south africa's home to the little known 10 next ground pangolin more and more of these are being held illegally in captivity. they

want khan to lakes have large protective scales and require armed guards. there's one on watch every time an animal keepers take. a walk with her is about as risky as a ride with a transporter. worth 15000 euros on the black market. early in her life. from the clutches of poachers. to the public. security helps us i mean unpredictability of. all. the animals that natalie rogers rescue center were all rescued from

the hands of poachers. need medical help because they haven't eaten for weeks. poachers don't kill penguins immediately preferring to trade lives. some animals are still so young that natalie rogers has to feed the milk from a syringe. needs to gain weight they weigh her every day today she is 4.8 kilograms. since she arrived at the animal sanctuary 5 months ago she's gained about one kilogram one more and she can be released. still so much still to. her white but she. usually still be in the mother's territory not dependent but still within the mother's territory before they became efficient enough to find their own food and find their own territory. where i happen to have. a special team

of rangers is fighting the poachers glen thomson leads them he shows us traces of an antelope traces of penguins however he says are hard to find in the wilderness over the course of many years observing animals in the bush he and his colleagues have only seen one. penguin if you look at the bottom the feet they've got a very some foot an elephant so it's like very soft and got the lines in it and you walk on the 2 back feet so most of the time to find the sign of the penguin is when it's walking that's tail leave marks in the right like this as a teats and goes on and it's extremely difficult to see this what glen thompson and his rangers know how rhino poachers hunt but they can only guess how illegal hunters tracked down the hidden pangolins. probably suggest that the probably using dogs to. turn the penguin around did not mean the bar is during the day so

we suspect it's a lot of dog so i mean if they saw it they pick it up with a ball then that's. thomson and his team have repeatedly confiscated illegal goods and live animals and arrested some poachers because probably only a fraction of the criminal gangs the rangers depend on tips from the population. so we'll get information that these someone enough want to and soon as we get that information and we can verify that that is a lot of penguin we'll set up a sting operation with a c.p.s. and then we'll go in and go effect the race collect the penguin and then take it for medical treatment and medical assessment. these poachers stopped to refuel their car the pangolin was still alive and lying in the cargo area the rangers had received a tip from a witness. a rescue mission like this is what saved and gave her

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