dark of the space station on saturday. this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes is ethiopia in prices developments in the country suggests prime minister i'll be asked me this reform agenda maybe backfire. and forman's off to 2 sides to a stage of mozambique 1600000 people are at risk of food insecurity at least until september. hello i'm christine linda welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in. ethiopia's journey to reform has hit some severe turbulence 15 months off the prime minister made took office may have dramatically to he's back on decades of

repressive policies and at this emptying the jails of political opponents and journalists and relaxing the suppression of this movement's but that's not gone smoothly in june dozens of people including senior officials were killed in a failed coup attempt by separatists militia in the hall region and federal security forces have moved into the saddam the region at least 25 people have been killed there in the past week and tasha's between state forces and 6 persists the separatists there are demanding the establishment of 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 boyce 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 davidson is senior

analyst for ethiopia for the international crisis group he's 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 in sit down. why has the situation deteriorates that. well there's a number of reasons that one of the key reasons is that the decision to proceed with a referendum on the end came very late it actually came only a couple of days more pieces are movements appointed deadline and they didn't seem to july when they wanted a referendum to be held before then and what promising to do otherwise. so there was agreement with the electoral or and 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 sufficiently communicated to the rest of this is our movement. there were a number of disappointed activists and large numbers of disappointed saddam used. spectating decoration of a regional state when they demanded answers that public gatherings were clashes with security forces and hasa that our audience clashes in rural areas is the dharma and they seem to include it as acts on top and the killing of activists by security forces will clean up protestors and those are taps and other minorities in the area so it really stems from is the latest decisions that proceed with the referendum. last month and in that maurice states we saw the assassinations of regional military leaders is its prime minister at the athame it's reform agenda to blame for that. well it would certainly be wrong to entirely blame the reform

agenda for those assassinations and that was hilarious because by carried out a directive by the former security chief you are pushing quite a hard line no nationalist agenda in that reason and maybe that is reason to blame the reform 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 know 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. of the athletes promise to hold any election

next year what's the likelihood that he can fulfill that promise to hold to a fully democratic election next year. well that's always been a very challenging ambition and 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 surge of their actions in may next year given the very serious security and political governance we have now that's become the much harder as the government is primarily burgers 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 not sort of foundation. can start thinking about

proceeding to an election which will hopefully really 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. cite owns 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 under funded. the aftermath of the cycle and still shows 100 skilled and tens of thousands forced from their homes everything last minute he saw there was lucky but she will never forget when the cyclon hit. their band the elo they said they didn't leave the roof was gone and the house felt

like it was in the sea by. their way it's inside the house. it couldn't have happened at a worse time and estimated 400000 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 cities too and help is not arriving fast enough. to our very early to the people now are suffering they need to rebuild their buildings also they're going to have resources to. the port city of bay raisky to restarting the economy delays and funding i think to everyone there must be. must understand what is happening that site is also affecting you when you're saying to people and no we are worrying from them the resources to rebuild ourselves and also so that look taking place here so the strain that what they're

doing. here killing people. that the media and her 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 so their focus home to the little known tim makes ground pangolin more and more of these are being held illegally in captivity. they walk onto lakes have large protective scales and require armed guards. every time animal keepers take. a walk with her is about as risky as

a ride with. her scales are worth 15. market. early in her life. from the clutches of poachers. to the public. security helps us i'm the unpredictability of. all. the animals that natalie ranchers rescue center. of poachers. need medical help because they haven't eaten for weeks. poachers don't kill pangolins 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. and still so much still to. her whites that she. usually still be in the mother's territory dependent still within the mother's territory before they became efficient enough to find their own food and find their own territory. where. a special team of rangers is fighting the poachers glenn 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. 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 team and guys on and it's extremely difficult to see this work 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 problem using dogs. during the. move around did not mean the bar is during the day so we suspect it's a lot of dog poaching i mean if they saw it they'd pick it up in the. thompson and his team have repeatedly confiscated illegal goods and live animals

and arrested some poachers 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 a leech want to sell the bank 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 what they say 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 stop 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 a new temporary home now she's back in the bush at the moment still accompanied by her own personal bodyguard. and that is it for the

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