this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes boko haram 10 years on and still fighting will they ever be defeated they've just staged the deadliest attacks so far this year at least $65.00 people are dead after armed militants sprayed bullets at mourners at a funeral a manhunt by the military is underway. and harvesting empowerment africa's perma culture movement is empowering women in rural areas. hello i'm christine wonderwall come to africa i'm glad your children nigeria's military is on the hunt for boko haram fighters suspected of killing at least 65 people at the weekend the attack took place in a village in borno state in the north east of the country the victims were

attending a funeral when they were gunned down by a gang of militants riding on motorbikes and in vans no group has claimed responsibility but the boko operates in the region. this time the extremists came on motorbikes. they gunned down muslim mourners they were praying for their debt. in the body and that took them to the music you train to work. but. then they work up to this issue to do that if you total up to 60 but the terrorist group has not yet claimed responsibility for that attack but officials believe it was a reprisal 2 weeks ago villagers and civilian self-defense forces killed 11 boko haram fighters this is just the latest in. a long series of boko haram attacks in

north eastern nigeria 10 years of violence has left the 27000 people dead book will have attacks have displaced about 2000000 people. a spokesman for president. said his administration is quote determined to and the menace of terrorism. in the affected region the local governor also promised acts. that were not to do with judge were just coming in and. sort of always have some sort and some of the security meeting to discuss the will forward this attack was the deadliest so far this year in the region proof that 10 years after it started dating this campaign of violence boko haram still has ability to maim and to devastate for more on this i'm joined by d.j. cheryl one good to see you why has this insurgency been so difficult to wipe out

10 years after the fact. i think there are a lot of fact that make it so difficult number one most of the politician in nigeria will be happy to hear there are so many difficult to fight terrorists including even if you have the nation you have the military power to fight them because people who move in villages and especially in lake chad will join with the very difficult to move and this is where the book. it's so difficult for them to do it but. it's the willingness of the military itself and the politician way that they want to end this war because recently we've. been in away from the battlefield complaining that they don't have the nation to fight. but.

this is one of the difficult and in the condition sides that they used to come and . territory hold by book. show and some of this sucks but they don't go into dialogue outside of bring into and of the crisis post what is nigeria getting help from other countries in its fight against. yes nigeria is getting help from other countries especially since they come in dr saddam bihari when they're from this national multi-national forces because at the beginning even able to nigeria like need came out and chad we're seeing this problem of nigerian problem but immediately when behind it came in they brought team called multi-national including even been a republic which is not border chad and some western support especially the united states the u.k. and some european countries out early helping. jordan send

a lot of tanks tonight right here so that they're ok also man how have we seen the groups tactics evolve in the decade that it's been active. well. at the beginning you know they just started just for revenge. revenge against the military or their security forces but tactically they move back in some government institution which exacted fear into people and they lifted their move to be attacking him to be dual who just like informant anyone who is suspected like giving information about boko haram is. being killed a little what books did this type that attack in villages not military institution but that we could do it in new members moving into the area get in and also giving them food especially now what is. controlling the give the people good

life did it take a few taxes including telling the people what do you want we will do for you before the people than they were from but now in some areas. information coming in they move like a government that people don't have to feed and it's in the only go to villages and bring more food more recruit and also they move different places because including media including come on and in. between nigeria immediately you have a large area that nobody control it is. only ok. thank you thank you. now imagine that you leave your small home through your garden of herbes and salad then a fruit garden beyond that you'll be hives then crop fields giving way to wilderness

behind that the forest for the sand like a dream is actually the concept of perma culture now one project using the method is the future of hope foundation on the outskirts of. the farm teaches disadvantaged women and girls mushroom farming using waste corn cobs as a mushroom growing substrate this has transformed lives for the women who are now any income. my next guest today has started a project way she aims to empower women in zimbabwe as are all areas through organic farming linda gabriel is most known for poetry and she joins me now to talk about her project my feel welcome to africa linda so tell us how your project matthew is going to work. so to explain the concept or the word month you are is normally in most rural settings you have either 3 storms or 3 bricks that used together to support a portrait in our cooking so the idea is for women to government to give to start

producing their own food so my view is simply designed through permaculture principles who is that working with the land ok linda why is perma culture in your view the silver bullet for empowering women in rural areas in so it's mainly from a personal perspective where i grew up with my grandmother and my mother sometimes we had very little to and i think if then my grandmother knew on how world to work with the land would never have gone hungry so at this point it is very there months that each community where we. looking at many people are not twerking with rural areas most mothers cannot feed their children we need to start to grow our own food and feed them in is it's very quite important that was looking into not just farming but principles because when you observe and work our own from our college

our principles here realize it's not about moral planting we're just do maize and it's on like many people would want to do maize on their on or a witch on their on but when you start working with from a college or you're looking at moral planting and you're looking at how can you work with the land without using fear and besides so what do you plan to with what crops that will quote together ok. i want to understand if this is happening across the continent and to what extent or my god so the minute to sit down and study looking into just from a college and you find all this so much going on in the world but we just don't know about it unless you bump into the web from our culture 3 months ago i knew nothing about from a college and 2 i bumped into a friend and i told them what i was trying to do in wanting to women to come

together to do farming that's in this in and it's not just about farming you need to start living in japan so you have people and lots of people in australia doing permaculture and training and chemical design you have gurus like billy monist on the guy who then designed the mine your and wrote your book that people have been using over here is here jeff lord john there is so many more programs going on in kenya in uganda and also in zimbabwe we have one of the most projects code that you are project which is being happening in the eastern highlands so there is a lot of food that's already got going on just that most communities we don't know it until we bump into ok very quickly and avoid the i mean. what i gather the essence of perma culture is working with the land and not on the land very quickly it's expanding that concept so for instance instead of using pesticides and fertilizers you look at what is a rigid there on the land so for instance you can search using. cow dung as your

menu and she can she can. drop and see if you can drop things as your menu and the same time planting plans that will work or together so there's some plants which insect repellents so instead of buying a pissed sides and damaging the lendu you're actually looking into what. dr klein twist which one and to the same time you're looking at what. carrots or rain for that gets into your space how do you use that to our vantage and what ever waste from your bathroom or from your kitchen sink how does that wartime gets directed into somewhere so we think everything or no space of land in our favor with the grid being the ecosystem ok linda gabriel thank you thank you so much.

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