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health crisis. you welcome to the program now this man has every reason to smile the prime minister. has won the nobel peace prize currently the youngest leader on the continent he's brought optimism so the region of. years. here's 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 ethiopian 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 conflict began in 1998 in the border town of bad me that area right there now it's your. claim to the market town and this would later become a major head in implementation of the border. violence as seen just in bad me soon turned to one outright war lasted 2 years and costing 80000 lives. 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 put down nations we are ready to resolve our differences through discussion we invite the tran 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 is the one who made freedom of speech possible for ethiopians. even outside of ethiopia he has a great vision for rule africa and he believes in peace democracy and equality he's

one of the best leaders for africa right now. from on this deed of use tomi oladipo joins me in the studio hello to me 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 needa he's only been in office for a year and a half if europe is africa 2nd most populous country and he's coming 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 there so this is a major recognition of abbie's work in this in this period well now 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

know these are more than just neighbors the sister countries things were so bad that when the border got closed after the tension and the war families were split so siblings did not see each other because they happened 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 it needs access to the sea which every tree 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 but more work is needed for peace even in his country if you look at it yes there has been a lot of apart from the praise that abi 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 coming and shaking up the system with his 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 attempt at coup d'etat in the region of i'm hora 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 there's so much work for. 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 other african countries facing conflicts 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 tomi oladipo spirit on cue. 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 he took office zuma was president between 20092018 but he was forced to resign over a separate corruption allegations the trial could start as early as tuesday. let's bring in our correspondents to zuko malo in johannesburg for more on this hello it's nice seeing you again so what exactly is the accused of having done.

in 1994 in south africa what independence the government got 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. my former president zuma received about 9 ended in $83.00 if payments that are believed to be kickbacks that were given as it was out 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 have back up 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 look at expositor saying it's unlikely but what does then now is that choose day next week has been set for the trial. from a present because of my his i would 15 days to appeal against the decision if you appeal is supposed to appeal it at the high court where this judgment was handed down if the high court be fuses he still has another 30 days to appeal straight to the supreme court of appeal which most legal experts are saying this is what to me is likely to 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 question out of court he's likely not to win and he's likely by the end of the day no matter how long it takes you let's find his day in court ok. correspondent thanks for your time. mental

health is one of the biggest challenges facing nigeria the countries france 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 you know use floristry met 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 at zouk spends most of her free time filling up what she calls pick me up jars with love letter like this fear handwritten 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 worry 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 look to progress each day add so to big results doing. so it's almost a safer and this is a message for me right we go press you know it's encouraging because i think something like this where talking about suicide mental health specialist dr me moon says that many nigerians don't know that they are suffering from mental illnesses

and professional help is not easy to find we are once like after. a very sad walk on with change it maybe by 2050 or. is really it is the one was because of the torrid up 53 have been. those practice in less than. 50. so if. we define and form says she's doing her a bit however to bring help to people food. i want people to feel love. i want people to feel hopeful to know that. he gets better. and. so regardless of the storms that they're facing at that moment i want them to radiate i know that there's hope there is a silver lining light at the end of the tunnel inform hopes to reach as many people

as she can picking them up one job at a time. and it's beautiful but also. the stories on our website i'm fees from page will leave you in the care of a great speaker i found out. early

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