everyone benefits from the booming business of. excretion environmental destruction starvation. the selling out of the country don't use fear. to start september 18th on d w. this is news africa coming up on the show international can send grooves over the outbreak in the democratic republic of congo during a trip to the country the head of the un on to new tatars promise to support an office where it's of encouragement to the communities where it's firefighters also coming out. spreading information about spreading the some regions that struggle to contain that is east we look at the efforts of oneself to contact misinformation and convince habits to seek treatment. plots letson their muscles

disability groups in lagos nigeria one important victory this year in the fight for equal chances so what are the challenges facing people with disabilities in the city. i made in my junior you're welcome to the show has already killed more than 2000 people and the fear is more would die if the break in the democratic republic of congo is not contained un head on to a new good tat is highlighting the crisis june a 3 day trip to the country he met with preston phillips just acadia it areas has stressed the importance of security in the fight against the disease he says people must be allowed to move freely and to have access to health workers on sunday the terrorists. that ebola treatment center he had this plea for all those affected i

looked him up it was i appeal to all those who are undergoing treatment and to all those who were healed you have to be our spokes persons. you have to talk to all the people you know or to all your friends all the people in your village or in your city. call the doctor. call me mom everyone has to be told if there's even the slightest suspicion. they have to come get checked. but then this is any doubt they have to undergo the same treatment you have already had. now while the challenges communities are facing in the efforts to contain it is mistrust and misinformation some local people believe it is a death sentence so do not about seeking treatment others accuse health workers of

spreading the virus intentionally next report looks at the efforts of wiley. to set the record straight. humane bill is about to do something that many in this town in eastern congo would consider courageous even finish. he's on his way to take a mother and her child to the hospital even though both are showing symptoms of a bone. most would shun such contact fearing they may also contract the virus. but bill is i'm afraid. so i'm not scared. i've touched many a ball of patients gone that i am cured which means i cannot give and take that again so while i didn't see. it this is the 2nd biggest outbreak of ebola in history and authorities are struggling to contain it spread one reason is that some

locals are suspicious of the doctors trying to help them even accusing them of using thermometers to infect them with this jim named bill is on a mission to counter such stories he travels to local communities to promote understanding and to explain that a boater can be cured with treatment but many locals remain skeptical. never in my life will i go to that ebola hospital friends of mine went there in good health but they never made it out alive yes. i have suffered but i'm still here i was just like you. you know. when you have a fever they take you there then you're already. you see good that's what i'm cured but i now transport people you couldn't transport once you've been cured you can't get the disease again. despite some resistance bill says he's determined to keep spreading the information. it takes time for people to

understand the disease i'm living proof of that. is to prevent needless death. we all want to be employed and make money to pay the bills but in most parts of africa finding a job can be such a headache especially for persons with disabilities social stigma discrimination and little or no efforts from government affecting many after a long fight by advocacy groups nigeria i did use it's fast to discrimination law to improve job opportunities ability for people living with disabilities in general there's yet correspondence allowed you know reports from lagos nigeria on how persons with disabilities have been coping so far. 100 kilograms 114 these are the kinds of weights the power left at the lego stadium oystering all

of the athletes have a physical disability they need to lift at least double their weight to enter a competition kingsley new can only started weightlifting a few months ago but he already knows that this is his sport. with him too i guess. i'm going out there at the moment i don't have a job that offers like a little bit of just you know around to just but i see our goals it isn't just about the sport newton is training for his 1st interstate competition if you wins he could earn a cash prize or even get a job through the state which has said it would employ top performing athletes. it is a tough city for people with disabilities for newton commuting to his training and his computer classes is like running an obstacle course. most of the city infrastructure isn't made for wheelchair uses his disability pass gives from the

vantage of not having to wait in line to pay for bus tickets but only the new city buses are really made to accommodate him. the boss is not obvious about the product . that if you look at my watch here it's song song on top of the other possible not to get the bell but it doesn't but i'm sorry but we sure it's a difficult song subsidies to look out it really doesn't work. so. all these challenges are addressed by a new nigerian law that came into effect in january 2019 the law states that transport systems and all public buildings should be made more accessible but also set a quota so that companies hire more individuals with disabilities. and doesn't think things will change so. bickley. unity is not going to something that something is going to very fast now for example look at some big some point these big companies

are not for people who deserve to do it through including it into the indian structure of the beauty so now for them to change the old beauty to accommodate people you deserve bt said it become over iran is no business of those home when he's not at the gym you can spend his time at the inclusion of the digital workspace and learning center run by the n.-g. o. project enable which trains people with disabilities and software skills and also tries to put them in touch with potential employers to societies actually to programme to discrimination as to what they should as well as taken it upon ourselves are beyond given them skews persons with disabilities skills we also actively find internship opportunities and the goal of that is to introduce persons with disabilities which are into the world of walk and also help them play as see what persons with disabilities can do you can hope that he can find work either through weightlifting or by using his digital skills even if he has

a few more hurdles to cross. we just saw him in the report and now. joins us in the studio he is the founder of project enable in the league has nigeria hello many thanks for your time now you blame society for discriminating on stigmatizing persons with disabilities how that's your project addressed that. of course the basic thinking around the sublease here on the was delicious that is the social model of disability and that is when we recognize that a society is more disabling than the impairment that's because we may be suffering and that's why it's just in every article we are doing everything possible to help persons with disabilities of our contact area and i saw some years of walk with the i think that way to that platform through which buttons to decide if you can overcome the pirate community have a good point and i can give you an example quickly in a country like nigeria and many other developing countries where transportation may

not be inclusive with disabilities to go to work or education to see if they can leverage technology to go to what they can leverage technology to work remotely because they were technologists go to school and. so while we wait for social inclusion to be in place totally we can likely never reach that knowledge b.s. because behind technology the ability doesn't want as much as productively and one of the main challenges able we engage i.c.t. if ok sorry to cut today one of the main challenges is of course i find then jones does a house yard project to ensure that most of them are going to your hands get jobs. the biggest promise of the development goal is prosperity and you know the biggest challenges of the un it's not just enough to keep persons with disabilities. they have to be able to walk so what we do offer just enable us to ensure that we have trained we help them find the trinity so that's why he wants to have an experience

of the war the war and then become the employers able to also understand and experience what's best is we disability comes with that as we in our strategy to equip that was used in practicality canonically valuable skills like cocaine like 3 d. animation business and then we have them finding. support them through the process sometimes we transport buy things and walkstation which we can use had value and then usually everything from when we didn't play and play it ok now and generally as a law was passed and i got to when shell companies hi i'm all passed with disabilities i let's talk about this realistically how quickly can this happen. it takes a while it's one thing to have a policy and another it's for you to be implemented generally the lack of political will come be a challenge we do not think about it might just process one of those policies done

things to make them both occur just unable africa we have launched a campaign called followed this from disability and we are using that company into 2 drives to report and track the progress made on that. in 2 days with the launching that something when the company is live in the southern us what you talk to the government to ensure that the writing is done would also be engaging private sector and public sector stake with us to help them know what to do sometimes we just don't know how quickly about this thing to a certain type of community in the society about the law and just help them in practical ways on how to be implemented i would believe that we do this we defiantly as we do given by the local computer system and to show people the chief ok owning cocoa found out project and able africa many thanks for your time. that's it for now from the news africa you can catch all austar is on our website on face book page we leave you now with some images basketball team in when the

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as we've been reporting here on b.w. the far right i'll touch on a t.v. . part of the a.f.p. have made significant gains in the 2 local elections just held in germany this also interests us on arts and culture because the a.f.d. have been putting pressure on opera houses and theaters and the like to conform to its agenda for instance recently requesting an opera house to list the nationalities of its employees which many see as a chilling parallel with naziism so artistic people nationwide have been worried. new cultural projects at risk now that the far right a.f.p. gained ground and will be more difficult to express criticism in the future we talk to those who are directly affected people working in the cultural scene in brandenburg and saxony.