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charges. and love lettuce so this means the nigerian woman on the pesto mission to address the country's looming mental health crisis. i'm eddie my good genius your welcome to the program now this man has every reason to smile the prime minister of ethiopia has won the nobel peace prize currently the youngest leader on the continent he's brought optimism so the region of africa by years of violence has the chair of the norwegian nobel committee making the announcement. then the weeds. nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize for 2019

to ethiopia prime minister ahmed ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring every tree on. the complex began in 1998 in the border town of bad me that area right there now if you have the energy. claim to the market town and this would later become major head in implementation of really violent a scene just in bad me soon turned to one outright border war lasting 2 years and costing 80000. weekly by both countries changed hands through the course of the war if european governments walked away from a deal to end the war in 2002 the conflicts dragged on. dramatic intervention last

year when he took power and made this speech. with regard to the conflict with the tree and government which lasted for years we wanted to stop for the common good of both our countries not only for our own benefit but for that of the 2 plot down nations we are ready to resolve our differences through discussion we invite the trend government to show the same sentiments. the news of the award has been received positively in ethiopia here's how some people reacted on the streets of the capital addis ababa after the announcement. he did a lot for example releasing prisoners and granting freedom to people. you know only one year he has brought so much change be is the one who made freedom of speech possible for ethiopians. he even outside of ethiopia he has

a great vision for all africans he believes in peace democracy and equality he's one of the best leaders for africa right now. from on this date of use tomi oladipo joins me in the studio hello tony now how big a deal is it that prime minister won this award this is massive this is the one of the biggest on as annual honors in the world and for someone who's africa's youngest leader he's only been in office for a year and a half europe is africa 2nd most populous country and he's come in in this time brought in a lot of political and economic reform but not just for his country there's also his regional impact we've seen his involvement in sudan for example with the political crisis that was there and he spearheaded the attempts to broker talks this so this is a major recognition of abbie's work in this in this period well. why was resolving

the conflict with every tree so important because that is one of the mean reasons given for that award i think 1st of all when you look at eritrea and if you if you have these are more than just neighbors the sister countries things were so bad that when the border got closed after their tension and the war families were split so siblings did not see each other because they happen to be on both sides of of the border so that's how close these countries are and it's it's more than just the tension it's that that relationship that goes back a long time remember that they used to be one country but at the moment you also have to look at it if you'll be a growing as one of the world's fastest growing economies it's a landlocked country so you need access to the sea which eritrea has so that would be one of the benefits of them getting together but of course regional peace i think is the most important thing now a lot has been achieved as we were talking about more work is needed for peace even

in his country yes on it yes there has been a lot of apart from the praise that abby has received there has been resistance as well he has come in and shaken the system so there are lots of people. who who used to the status quo and becoming and shaking up the system with his book political liberalization has really disturbed a lot of people and we've seen attempts to disrupt his work we've seen assassination attempts against him we've seen attempted coup attempted coup d'etat in the region of him horror so these kinds of things are still there and of course the ethnic tensions as well he's been criticized for not doing enough to resolve that we've seen millions of ethiopians displaced as a result so this so much work for president prime minister abbott to do but we have to recognize the massive strides he has taken ok quickly what possible rippling effects of this award to african countries facing conflict well obviously i think

one major one would be that of diplomacy when it comes to resolving conflict there's a lot of hard headedness we see across the continent but he has shown that there can be some give and take sacrifices for the sake of peace and that's what we've seen him do particularly in the case of eritrea so hopefully the other countries can learn from all of this. from a south african president jacob zuma is to face trial on corruption charges this is after of course dismissed his application to halt the case for good zuma has been charged with 16 counts of fraud racketeering and money laundering relating to a multi 1000000 dollar deal dating back to before you took office zuma was president between 20092018 but he was forced to resign over separate corruption allegations the trial could start as early as tuesday. let's bring in our

correspondent in johannesburg for more on this hello it's nice seeing you again so what exactly is the accused of having done. in 100-9254 in south africa what independence the government into a very massive buying deal with international companies and tell us a french company was one of them and it is in this deal that it is alleged that to presume a former president zuma received up out and then ended in $83.00 if payments that are believed to be kickbacks that were given as a result of this deal and didn't court to this have been classified as fraud and i could see having money laundering and corruption so these are the charges that started and they were instituted arkansas in 2007 dropped in 2009 and now they are back again and these trial date that has been set now ok sounds like very serious

charges but i guess the 1000000000 dollar question is is there a chance after all of this that he could go to jail when you speak to legal experts they are saying it's unlikely but what is then now is that tuesday next week has been set for the trial. former president because of my his up i would to 15 days to appeal against the decision if he appeals is supposed to appeal it at the high court where this judgment was handed down if the high court the fuel says he still has another 30 days to appeal straight to the supreme court of appeal which most legal experts are saying this is what you might like to do group because over the years that's what he has been doing so it's likely that he's going to appeal but do the chances of you winning this one this time around is unlikely legal experts say even if you cause up to the constitutional court is likely not likely by the end of the day no matter how long it takes you will find these day in court ok. you know your correspondent thanks

for your time. mental health is one of the biggest challenges facing nigeria the country's 1st reports on depression last year says one in 3 of the population is at risk of depression the country has also not updated its mental health laws since independence 60 years ago did abuse floristry meant one woman with a novel idea to help people with mental health issues that involves writing love letters. this one say's your way more than enough. and you're doing an amazing job of life and fun and took spends most of her free time filling up what she calls pick me up jobs with love letters like this fear hand retain personalized notes designed to help people through tough times

a job contains around 200 notes with encouraging words yet my main target basically are people who are dealing with depression anxiety worried stress when we were all stressed in this country right so those are the kind of people i reach out to and this is the gift that keeps giving according to the ward health organization nigeria has one of the highest rates of suicide in the wall most of these cases of suicide are caused by depression something fun says she wants to have daily doses of encouragement but who needs a love letter in this busy city a little progress each day add so to big results doing. so it's almost a secret and this is a message for me like we go best to encourage you cause i think. we're talking about suicide mental health specialists dr on the moon says that many

nigerians don't know that they are suffering from mental illnesses and professional help is not easy to find we have once that gap is the 1000000 and. very sad what can we change it maybe by 2050 or. is really it is the one was because of the torrid up $53.00 having nigeria those practices. we're about 50 so if. we find one form says she's doing her bit however to bring help to people through how know i want people to feel love. i want people to feel hopeful to know that. gets better. and only get better so regardless of the storms that they are facing about moments i want them to

really know about there's hope there is a silver lining light at the end of the tunnel inform hopes to reach as many people as she current p.q. them up one job at a time. and a vast it's beautiful but also. the stories on our website on facebook page will leave you in the care of a great weekend i for not. i'm not proud of them they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of just dictatorship. taking a stand global news that matters.

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