to my fellow countrymen i like to start my day by checking out all those jokes finding out what people are talking about what is moving them. my father taught me how to ask uncomfortable questions about my country and about boy that is what i keep doing to dissipate my name's madison and i work at. as. for the journalist she says and gura her garden is a wonderful place to relax. women just. lovely things did suffer abuse but. when you do facebook to feel it

too does. even women when you don't love them when you don't who speak with them. they feel it has to be rude to be loved to been respected and the flows are crazy as we need. to. move. on. sylvia bigger you're a has always been interested in technical stuff but it's why she became a comic cannick in a wonders capital kigali. kimmie to view the cool one cars and i said something very upsetting when he saw me repairing his car he said we women can't do that job but my boss convinced him to give me a chance and in the end he said to the customer. locally you were so disrespectful

to you that your car is back in perfect working order to us was a good idea i mean the claim of the. still the is the only female mechanic in the workshop that in fact it's not unusual for women in a wonder to pursue professions generally seen as male domains. 25 years ago the small country in insta africa was in the headlines for the most atrocious genocide in recent history. countless women were without. they were the ones who rebuilt the country today rwanda has the world's highest number of women in parliament. giuliana content has been a member of parliament for 20 years. fucked up of genocide did. play a big role in. completely distorting what we used to be and.

in trying to put up different strategies to cope. different in a variety of ways in my view and some of them were women to conduct man traditional roles in society to cope as a coping mechanism. the 1994 genocide still of the shadows the country yet today rwanda is seen as one of the most stable nations in the region. over the border in the democratic republic of congo it's a completely different picture a bloody war of a natural resources has been raging here for more than 20 years women are often the ones who suffer most. this is a typical road in eastern congo the government is doing nothing to improve infrastructure. lawyer floor plans for how is the only way to one of the region's

many small called 10 mines. she works with a catholic commission for peace and justice she comes here every week to improve working conditions for the women they pleased to see have they know she cares about their plight. just. the fact that is what the women are looking for this black substance here is called tan florence explains. oh cell phones would not work without the minerals extracted from culturally it brings an enormous profits worldwide but there's very little left over for the people who actually mine the coal turn. the men who work here fought as rebels but returned exhausted

by war. like you know well as i am jack you know the war was particularly devastating for women but you can imagine life was terrible here until recently enemy rebels would come at night and all we could do was run away when we returned they had plundered everything and i put it when i. know things are a little better. lately bill says the rebels withdrew to the surrounding areas where the women are trying to make a living from their work in the mines it is that they have no alternative to leave me sounds a bit messy. most don't earn much more than a dollar a day at least they now have official papers thanks to fly balls for the higher. the women can work more efficiently with new tools to. this is what they use before

. so fun so have these women know that we can change things if we stick together. but it's very difficult because many people have no sensibility for the suffering of others and there's a lot. over how works tirelessly to enable people in eastern congo to reach the standards of living that the region's wealth allows. me to this member pencey a trauma therapist also regularly does her rounds in the eastern congo villagers. she helps victims of mass rape and atrocities systematically used as a weapon of war. as a victim your heart aches and it is no longer a human heart and. tears

listens to all their stories their culture was held captive by rebels for 6 months . also the whole time they hardly gave a centrifuge a. committee that they hit us and raped as morning and evening. when 100 finished the other came and the next one then the next one. i want as many people as possible to know about it. there are no exact figures on how many women were degraded like this probably hundreds of thousands when you listen to abuse. sometimes you powerless you miss words to. feel to share compassion to the people. but to just stay be listening to them. looking at them. i think it's my only way supporting because it's horrible to see how human

beings can react can behave like. adult women are not the only victims girls suffer too. like. her family tormented her for years and told her that she was a witch. what have you drawn there asks terry's the person who burned me i want them to be burned too says the little girl. the has been rejected by the community think my parents may have been accused this outfit for physical violence and all the years be

a very small children they are still literally being mean to he gained confidence in 2 people. at least was held responsible for all the bad things that happen to have family and was made to suffer horribly the wounds left on their legs by molten plastic are still painful. in their cabana house outcast children can find protection. in a play they express the cruelty they experienced. and this is playing a nasty mother. as we don't want parents to blame their challenge and they should be there for them. and listen to them. why give them up. this is what she tells tears. and then the 14 year old blurts out that she really

believes that she is a witch after her aunt was killed in an accident. to his promises to help her. sometimes the therapist feels alone to actually we usually feel does lead the wards who want us to suffer so people talk so much it bothers the walls in other countries but when it's comes to talking about the situation some people. game against and sometimes when it bodes people lose it why can't you fight. we're in this country but you don't do nothing to do in this situation. but that is exactly what this is doing with her help the children who were harmed by the shattered society and learning to find joy again. women like her

there's my mama pansy make sure that moments of peace exist even in the middle of a war. back to wonder kindergartener peace and good represents a weekly show on women's issues today it's about teenage pregnancies a major problem in the country. to go she invited to the show have cancelled actual notice they were too ashamed. young men rarely question their own responsibility. on one side to the purpose of women because women here have rights according to their roles we have many roles protecting women. but we still. have. a long time to do because of the coverage you have many people who are

stuck in the country and they don't want to change. kenya politics here is male dominated in rural areas gender roles and a case had traditionally we meet a woman who's an exception. to. the celebrations begin early in the morning. as shots of strong home brewed liquor bottoms up. here in kisumu rodeo. yes mama africa is preparing for today's job with her colleagues. back in the current we only do this when we go to work otherwise we don't drink water. they work starts in front of the mortuary. today it looks more like a busy fairground. funerals

are celebrated in style in western kenya 1st the family pick up the body from the mortuary those who can afford it employ professional morning is like mama africa. your home young and that they do it because there aren't many other jobs around here but there are always funerals so we can and money and when standing instance days and fridays more. the idea is the longer and louder the morning the more important the deceased. must be the real band got it no need and do under some good to hear you are slow witted some while. not everyone is keen on the idea of tears for cash. c c the little mind you have to pay for someone to mourn you

who own that it's a personal matter. and to do with. gaunt. professional professional mourners can only cry when they've been drinking it has to come from their head. but the true mourners don't need to take anything away from the heart come on it too much. to mourn over. a group of professional mourning is can and the equivalent of up to 200 euros a weekend a lot of money in this otherwise poverty stricken region. the coffin is carried from the mortuary to the home village of the deceased. now mama africa and her team provide this service one of their speciality is rolling on the

ground and crying that cost extra. the next morning mama africa goes back to being a normal housewife. she is a bit of a celebrity. the 1st time i cried for someone i didn't know was one of the street boy was stabbed to death nobody wanted anything to do with him so i carried him to his grange and you know. she often does it for free when a social. along with professional morning mama africa is a living selling marijuana it's illegal in kenya but lucrative. this is how i can paint the school fees for my son that in the past my father supported me but since he died i've been selling marijuana even if i have to bribe

the police. as soon as my son has finished school and i stop and follow my dream and i want to sell clothes and shoes in nairobi. she doesn't want to give up being a paid morning yet her personal motto comes from bob marley you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. that could be the personal matter of rows or work too. i was divorced at 27 for being childless they lived on the street for 6 months in my house i'm a business was burnt down your ashes. i remarried lost my husband and i did 2 years . at u.t.s. i am 40 years old i have had a dick eat a really believe in real stuff let me then i realized this was not my own story.

rose always friends stella's husband has just died rose consoles her as best she can she wants to change the face of all widowed women and demands that the abuse of widows should stop. in the tradition of the ethnic group where goes are passed down to the family of the deceased. before this happens they're subjected to a so-called widow cleansing ritual it's a clear case of sexual abuse. rose tries to console stella telling her that she doesn't have to go through with it. it is in your hands you can change the law. after. all men continue to. be the new table maybe in the. listing and i miss my husband very much. he could even cook which is really unusual in our culture.

before he died he told me he was again it's the passing down and cleansing of windows and then the words. sexual close enough to really means even if you are 60 years old. a man has to be picked or to be paid to come and have 6 we do without protection it's heavy and it's populates and if that doesn't happen if you do it you're stigmatized if you don't do it you're stigmatized so there's no in between for all we do here the fact that you've lost your husband you've lost all your rights so this sexual cleansing is the number one issue. even in the 21st century it's also the custom at lake victoria and western kenya. roads or were as campaign against it. the widow stories are all similar they often lose everything to their in-laws.

not just that you want them i was. glad of it was the new life you yeah. yeah. the elderly suffer in particular rows visit some of the old and sick women along with some young widows. gertrude on younger story is especially tragic ok. not only did she lose her husband but all of her children too but there's not a lot rose can do for her foundation has very little funding. what we can do today i don't know what can we do to be music. i don't know why don't we take this one this terrible this would be stupid to the.

rose stores some hope from her work with children her foundation has set up an orphanage to give goals and voice a new home. for the widows it's a task that helps them cope with their own fate. i also hope to see a generation of young women who will not go through what they will still not be cleansed inhibited. women when they lose their husbands they will live in dignity and they will know their rights and be respected as human beings. nigeria in the north east of the country where a terrorist group boko haram has the region in a grip of violence women's rights are often not respected.

photographer found car captures the fragility of daily life in her hometown of my degree in suicide attacks carried out by the islamic terrorist group boko haram are not uncommon at the local markets. the photographer listens to the market traders worries they can't sell much no one can afford more than the most basic food. it was only focused on one uncle which was similar to the trauma. it warm blood in everything bad they did stop me about this town is all i was you know what the band was ordered to change into narrative like that sounded very similar to what i see

in mainstream media. it looks like a normal day but many people are afraid over a 1000000 people have fled from the country to the city the government cannot manage to feed them sufficiently in the refugee camps. you have the advantage of a car visits one of these camps the photographer does not conceal the suffering but wants to make sense of it in her own way as. she meets a young woman who was held captive by boko haram. 40 once traumatized women like her to be accepted by society. you know there's a lot of

a lot of healing that has to be borne and we have to be abused but i would say that our resilience is what i want people to see that yes we have suffered we have been through a lot but we are moving on we came to see that we rebuild and we you know move on. that. these women and girls are also trying to move on for months even years they were all held captive by boko haram. the local government has set up a shelter for them in my degree. that. my. wife and. i know the family commissioner of the government is visiting she wants to see how the women are doing. the girls were forced to marry the islamic state fighters were

raped and then gave birth to children zahra and i have suppressed their experiences . mochas that i don't have the men in my heart i can't remember them i just live my life. i don't think about the past i hope that one day i will find a good man who will marry me in spite of my story. that as you know i don't know what i will tell my children about their father but they will probably find out when we have peace probably before i can even talk to them about entering human bond them in any way. zahra and i were able to escape were picked up by the military and brought here. in the women's shelter they are given psychological counseling and are also under observation the government fears that they might have been radicalized by boko haram. some of them are not telling the truth because boko haram thing is with us is not at the people. you understand so

sometimes the way they think the hate something because we are not there. the women are guarded in the shelter the fear that they might still have contact to the terrorists is large. in and around the city fatal suicide attacks are sometimes carried out by young women like. all in the name of religion. they polluted them. they polluted their met him you got you under if you die you will be in paradise. because. you are not going to stay in this. completely so you must go back in your court so this is the one wish. day luck of western education the luck was an education and also the legion education. that's why we are trying to leave you in our schools. and the other women have to learn to live

with the violence they were subjected to and with the mistrust of their own government they are not even allowed to see their families. you know. i would like to see my mother so much she's in a refugee camp here in my degree i would feel so much better if i could be with her that's where i belong not here and. nigerian society has to learn how to integrate. and thousands more traumatized women. every day in my degree is the tightrope walk between normality and the consequences of war. photography fancy a boubacar catches it all. one sign that my degree is looking ahead is

a visit from a famous star musician mr easy. it was alongside all the suffering the photographer wants to show that life can also be fun i'm going to. trust. you if you. are good. with. the south of nigeria and the sprawling bustling city of lagos is a stark contrast to the north of the country. doctor only orekunrin doesn't take much time off. but when she does she looks to go to tara club and i'm in beach near lagos harbor. she's a british citizen but sees her future in nigeria when she travels abroad she's constantly

confronted with negative clichés about africa. that would surprise. for a conference a few weeks ago and whatever like i did to see how bad do on the big impression it's what every guy comes to cover up for i say but i'm from africa no matter like what he's doing he can be like a shoeshine you could be working behind the tree in mcdonald's but you always wants to rescue me and i just want you to even move me like he did before i like living in africa but what is the 1st thing. that we can bring guns to rescue people who are still people in have chosen home of nigeria. as a doctor she wants to change things in africa. she often travels to communicate her idea that medical aid should be available for everyone it. is forbidden and this meeting in her office in lagos starts with the issue of obesity in nigeria

. if a patient is larger than those in boeing aircraft and i think the patient actually has bigger issues to worry about because obesity is a widespread problem and people do have the tendency to get fat and i do think it's going to get that's. you know you be seeing movies patients or you will be facing. in the western world before these diseases of lifestyle came about yet almost successfully eliminated the infectious diseases but here in africa we're fighting with bottles at the same time. after. orekunrin lived to have parents home and set up flying doctors nigeria but the commitment is very personal. his youngest sister died while on holiday in 1000 urrea. the rescue plane from south africa arrived too late. and

i think any of us have a very very essential role to play i just didn't want my particular organization to have to rely on doing the funding because africa needs to be passed that i felt very passionately when i actually came that nigeria needs to be able to stand by itself eventually without doing a full. instead of setting up a charity she decided to found a profit oriented business. now that only works as an entrepreneur. in no one does capital kigali well orekunrin is taking part in the world economic forum on africa she exchanges news with women from the whole continent she's confident that change is afoot in previous conferences it was trying to get multinationals in south africa so that we could employ people but now they're saying i'm i mean from

the likes of bengal to such are actually african entrepreneurs can be really they can scale up their business and then they can start employing people to carry in for me i think what really stood out for me was female voices of these entrepreneurs as professionals as students as mothers as wives i think the african women for the most part has been largely ignoring. you know half of the population on the continent has not realized its full potential. yet everywhere women are taking responsibility like these 3 business women from zimbabwe liberia and nigeria. women friends they are wanda is a role model for them. randi in general as they commission huge steps forward in the areas of health care in the areas of education in the areas of digitising. providing what that says and i think that these are things that my dear

can learn from rwanda as well about increasing efficiency increasing attractiveness for business and foreign investment. kigali also happens to be one of the keenest cities on the african continent. in kinshasa the capital of the war torn democratic republic of congo things are lagging behind somewhat. that doesn't bother barbara to send her friends these supper to rise above the country's widespread poverty to celebrate high fashion. is a society of entertainers and elegant persons. bobrick is sending a is one of the few women. only

a few shops in kinshasa stuck exclusive european designer labels all counterfeit equivalents from china i know. it's difficult being as a person but it's our profession. and that means being well dressed in clothes that cost more than most companies will ever earn. isn't that rather cynical in such a poor country. to feel like the i've been through a lot in my life like most congolese people. but i've decided that i'm not always going to suffer. i wanted to be an important person in society. and the little that god gives me what i share without this. to give you. my teaching is an especially rundown district of concetta crime and bishop poverty

prevail here. that we have best the purser perth people call everybody imitating knows barbara has said today. with the straw mass as a red carpet barbara is cheered like a pop star by hold up her fans. very proud of her. nobody doubts her good reputation anyone who does can get lost. you know what i'd love to just like her from time to time i wish my children would grow up like her she's so beautiful. barbara chris and i grew up as an orphan and was raised by her grandmother there was barely enough money for food or for school when her brother became a superb barber decided to follow suit not nothing. i want to show people

a little appreciation he said i want to make them proud and happy. even though it's a slum i like living here. and i've made this neighborhood a bit famous. welcomes noble but always i'm a bit about. the next day the suppers of can share some need to celebrate the anniversary of the death of the founder of the movement science reporters and curious onlookers are here as well as barbara of course. but not everyone enjoys the show. for me what they do is a waste of time. they only do it because they don't have a proper job. or. if the government took more care

of young people this nonsense would be unnecessary. after hours of strutting their stuff on the streets barbara and the others go to the found his grave. the step movement became popular in the 1960 s. as a protest against the country's despotic politics and terrible living conditions. with the usual lifestyle barbara and her. fellow dandies want to offer people a contrast today the hardship. was. back in kenya this time on the coast close to somalia. at least women are making soap together to earn a living but also as a kind of therapy. the women were abducted and abused by the terrorist group

al-shabaab. sometimes they had family members who had joined the terrorists and i think. that's a lot of what others did has made us enemies of society they call me about just because 2 of my brothers joined the terrorist group and that was that will wash and . these women have experienced pain and loss and been stigmatized by their neighbors with no help from the state or the police at. least think they could be terrorists around they react harshly and start killing people especially if they think that young men might be a member of al shabaab that's why most of them are not reported even if they are guilty in any war. for 2 musharraf he knows what he's talking about her husband the policeman himself was shot dead by colleagues when he was looking for his son. the 14 year old had disappeared probably off to somalia to

join the al shabaab terrorist group. they also recruit their fighters on the kenyan coast where tourists from all over the world spend their holidays radicalization is a huge problem here. the police respond with brutality many kenyans dare not even enter a police station for fear of appearing suspicious themselves it was not easy to convince the authorities to let us film here. but i did learn about their officer barun a gun. guma was willing to be filmed here she tells us that she became a police officer to be there for society not against it. her office in mumbai is a port of call for many people especially women. if i promise i'll take care of your problem she tells this woman they should go without saying but not in kenya. the police here are seen more as enemies and thugs rather than friends or help is

all they have to be primed for fatal. officer tries to be an approachable policewoman. on 2 of these a big gap between us. i would put it this way that. is the believed to be true in the community as police in that one hour almost every day she explains that sometimes the public is afraid of revealing information and being seen as traitors but they are also afraid of the police like. one i do work. for to musharraf he got no help from the police when her husband was shot dead she gets by supporting her family by selling pastries she is active in the community as an ambassador for peace. when the

police want something they have to take a soft approach as if they were dealing with an infant. arrests and violence only produce hate. we want to get rid of the hate. we want to be friendly to him faintly. says the woman whose husband was shot by his own colleagues before her very eyes and who has lost a child to a terrorist group. and. they told me that my son was dead. i have found my peace with that. would mean. if you came back you might have been a bad influence on others and you need to be angel me. in spite of all maybe because of her terrible story for tumor shafi is fighting the hatred. she's joined forces with police officer bieber on

a gun guma together they venture into an area where al-shabaab is especially active . on. them. but 1st the police uniform is met with skepticism one woman complains that she is constantly harassed by the police but by criminals to. the police officer encourages the woman to report such incidents directly to her colleagues i mean. you can do whatever. it's good that she came here many of us were afraid at 1st but it's easier for us to get things off our chest this way. very different from going to a police station there is up and you. know where you're coming from this is a tactic the police are following more and more on the kenyan coast and approaching the community and listening to people. officer guma is an exceptional police woman

she's always on duty even when making breakfast for her 3 children in spite of all the difficulties she faces giving up is not an option for her. you can. bet with those sold you not be able to eat it it's really not it to be tasteless but sold because. then. the soldiers quite get me a woman is sold quite get me the car in the absolute indispensable they cannot do without us. the 2 are shall few believed in the power of women she and her friends from the therapy group are celebrating the birth of the baby girl. with that as essential as salt or as beautiful and crazy as flowers women in africa today are fighting to make life easier for the next generation.

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playing on. their head. the number of hopes for world cup glory concerns building stadiums to host of these soccer events of 2022 and the appear to be big shame in the state itself but how much progress is really being made behind the scenes i'm extremely surprised to hear that is anything remotely resembling a democracy. lifting the veil. close up 90 minutes ago. raising people's fight for some. money. when there's a flood water comes up to our waist to close faster every day but. the lack of

water is equally dangerous. you can see people myself so they can plant crops and find. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any not if you want and probably more the people. the climate exodus starts september 5th on d w. the food. turkey's defense ministry says 3 people have been killed and 12 wounded in an airstrike targeting a turkish military convoy in northwestern syria the convoy was on the way to a key rebel held area where reportedly the syrian army is currently engaged in fierce fighting trying to regain territory at last and 2014.

germany has agreed to take in 4 children born to form a find is from the so-called islamic state that's been living.