he was sentenced to a 2 year suspended prison term. but jacques chirac remained popular though will be remembered less for his politics and more for his warm bonds to the french people so. that's all for now but still in this hour business news with stephen beardsley so stay tuned. with. me only to the interest of the framus naturalist and explorer. too soon to bring to comics some dough from the books from 250 a. morning on the floor of the discovery. expedition board. i'm not laughing too hard at the gym well i guess sometimes i am but mostly i'm nothing when we should have been thanks even to the german culture of looking at the

stereotype quirks but if you think the future of the country that i now live. here you don't seem to take for this drama there you go it's all about ok. i'm rachel join me from the german sunday w. . post. this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes kidnapped tortured and in saved what migrants have experienced in libya we'll hear something a harrowing stories. at how gratified this attending the tide of mental health in symbolically a concept that's been adopted of the seats. hello

i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you and not many migrants trying to get to europe have boarded but it's just in full the continent only to be intercepted by the libyan coast. when that happens they are sent to detention centers in libya while that arrangement is part of a deal signed between the e.u. and libya in short the europeans are paying the libyans to hold migrants back by the conditions in those libyan detention camps all said to be inhumane with reports off torture and rape some who've escaped in libya detention centers and indeed the country end up hitting cells to initiate it's said to be the safest neighboring country that is receptive to migrants recently visited refugees in is there a warning that the next report on tales footage that some may find distressing. these images were recorded by refugees in different camps in libya they show appalling conditions human rights activists say the images are credible we came

into direct contact with 2 refugees by a messaging services they have been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by a voice message we change their voices for their own protection. we've been tortured with scared we're suffering and dying from various diseases. we were kidnapped we became victims of violence we're starving people have died our lives are disgusting so we appeal for our voiceless voice to be heard. we are innocent refugees living in the land of hell. in using our we speak to refugees who went through this hell. one of them is 18 years old we call her a mina she was kidnapped while fleeing from somalia and taken to a hidden building in the libyan desert many other star on the journey across the

sahara i mean us kidnappers demanded $8000.00 for her release they tortured amina to increase the pressure her parents were forced to listen to it on the phone. they changed me up honey up and tortured me with electric shocks. they tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women with shocks to their pressed until they cried and screamed loudly. they did it so they would get the money faster than how to stand as a possible floor. in the torture a systematic many other refugees describe similar methods. about 1600 refugees live in this camp salt of the sahara they were all rescued from libya. this man from sudan doesn't want to reveal his true identity either and

asks that we call him again he says when he was in prison he was sort of a good. people came and bought us like slaves. and they said we let you work and you get money for so. that in the end you didn't get any money. they said you're a slave you're a black man they even woke us up in the middle of the night to torture us to go with. horrific stories we're hearing from refugees inside this. they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before. the 1st time that life's not easy here to hope for the greatness that. many hope to reach your. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the occupation migrants model for $500.00 he brings migrants across the sahara to libya but if they can't pay the driver sell them to torture chambers of

dollars he's understands why they do that. one was it the women they say i spent money on you what am i supposed to do i want my money back and i want profit on top of that that was when they started torturing people. we often hear refugees say that they're not put off by stories like this the smugglers other only hope and they're prepared to pay any price even if it means risking their lives. you just saw in that report is with me now good to have you here. you met refugees in this you would spend time in libya tell me what those of qantas were like what struck you most struck me of the or impressed me a rather the resilience and the strength of the refugees that i am and most of them are already in the home countries they endured physical and psychological abuse

a woman that i talked to she was from darfur in sudan and she had to witness the the execution of her husband and she decided to flee so she traveled through through those charges that she saw people dying falling off the cars because the cars have to move very fast through the desert she saw people dying of thirst she ended up in a torture chamber where she was tortured and raped for over months after she got out of that she was finally on a rubber dinghy on her way to you know over the mediterranean to europe she thought and then the boat was intercepted by the libyan coast guards which are actually trained and financed by the european union so she was brought back to libya in a detention center and then finally after months ago and she was she was evacuated by united say are tunisia there so when to see these people and they tell me all the stories you know over at interviews over i don't know one on one and a half hours and you know then you have this feeling all this person to so strong because she still has hope she still is striving for better life that is striking

and i want to talk about the conditions in the camp in the share of what we're hearing it's a safe haven because it's the brutality we expect people experience in libya is seemingly not there but what is it like in the in the camps initiate these camps are run by the aid agencies yes. so 1st of course the refugees are relieved they are in safety finally but then of course some of them there are there are now for 2 years they are the 1st evacuees in 2017 the program start of and they are disappointed because they were told in 3 months the process will be over you will be rest resettled to a safe country but this didn't happen only happened for some of them. but the conditions are not very comfortable it's super hot it's up to 50 degrees in the town so people are trying to find shadow outside in the desert that's not easy of course there are basics like food and clean water the medical treatment is lacking so i met a woman who was raped 4 months ago in libya and she's still bleeding she still

didn't see a doctor because the only male doctors and she wouldn't you know examine her in a proper way so these are problems actually that they're facing in their everyday life ok so i mean the conditions they are far from from ideal but talk to me about what happens often is she as you've already hinted some people were told you would leave off for 3 months they're still in the camps. of people just thinking wait it out here and then get to europe is anybody think about maybe heading back home to the country that they coming from no because most of them come from you know from countries where they can't go back because this war was bottoms so the only option is to wait for european countries or also canada and the u.s. these are the countries the u.n. is cooperating with in this program and they wait for these countries to offer a capacity for these so yes there were some countries in europe who offered that but only hundreds of for hundreds of people but it's not enough ok mario

miller thank you for that reporting. our next story is in zimbabwe where one in 4 people suffer from depression and anxiety now their only all i'll say is it involves a bench and a team off grandmother. saracen noid tried to kill herself 4 times she was desperate it all happened a few years ago when her life spun out of control. and my husband threw me out of the house i had moved back in with my mother when i arrived here i was unhappy then my younger sister died and i became responsible for her 2 kids. that was too much for me. and if that wasn't enough she found out that her eggs husband infected with hiv for

i didn't have the inner strength to go on a mother center to. zimbabwe into fictionally called the grandmothers in havre sit on so-called friendship benches and just listen to people one of them this beauty america she helps people in the motion of the stress free of charge. i don't tell them what they should do. i encourage them to reflect to think about their situation. and then together we find a way to solve their problem. real therapists are hard to come by in crisis ridden zimbabwe but there are lots of grandmothers they have time on their hands and can help with their wisdom and patience. psychotherapist dixon she burned recognize their potential and started to train a few of them every community in africa goes in fact every community in the world

has goggles imagine if we could just tap into that population really empower them with the necessary skills and provide them with the support they could reach out to to thousands millions of people the grandmothers on the benches don't wait for patients to ekta flee seek out people in the community who need help there realized how important that is after one of his patients committed suicide when i spoke to erica's mother on over the phone you know when she told me that erica taken her own life by suicide. i asked her why they hadn't come to see me at the hospital and erica his mother responded by saying they didn't have you know the $15.00 for bus fare to come to see me for arises the go go on the bench saved her life the go go help for right except a situation and find ways to cope with it successfully i'm he said on going out

i've been a widow today i'm not ashamed anymore when i go to the hospital to get my h.i.v. vincent and as far as my sister's children are concerned i accept the fact that they're mentally disabled it's ok now to go goods are so successful that the concept is now being exported the 1st benches have already been set up in new york city. remarkable isn't it all that is it for now from being in south africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page now the scam behind senegal's stunning new monks it seats it's actually 1000 people 6 feet in august in western africa it'll be inaugurated on friday so we gave you lots of images of it despite.

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