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the front it's 250th birthday we're embarking on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on g.w. . this is the. coming up on the show introducing them on peace 2019 years prime minister was won the nobel peace prize for his the size of an issue to resolve the conflict with they've been every trio so what does this mean for you on the rest of africa also coming up. you saw from court says jacob zuma will have his day in court judges give the go ahead to try the former presidents on corruption charges. on the last lettuce. so this.

is the country's mental health crisis. welcome to the program now this. 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 to the region. by years. he is the chair of the norwegian nobel committee making the announcement. then the region. 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 about me that area right there now if you have the energy. to the market town and this would later become a major head in implementation of the border really violent as seen just in but 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 you can 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

trend 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 trend government to show the same sentiments. the news of the award has been received positively in its europea 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. in only one year he has brought so much change 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 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 leader he's only been in office for a year and a half 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 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 are 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

appear 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 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 needs 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 where a lot has been achieved as we were talking about but more work is needed for peace even in his country if you care isn't 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 coming 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 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 president prime minister abbott to do but we have to recognize the massive strides he has taken ok quickly what are the possible rippling effects of this award to other 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. q. . from a south african president jacob zuma is to face trial on corruption charges this is after of course dismissed his application to hold the case for good zuma has been charged with 16 counts of fraud racketeering and money laundering relating to a multi 1000000 dollar deal leaves him back to before he took office zuma was president between 20092018 but he was forced to resign over corruption allegations the trial could start as early as tuesday. let's bring in our correspondents malo 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 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 to presume a former president zuma received up out and then ended in $83.00 payments that believed to be kickbacks that were given as it was out of this deal and in court to these 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 become 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 expenses they're saying it's unlikely but what is then now is that tuesday next week has been set for the trial. from a present because of my his about 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 to be 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 group because over the years that's what he has been doing so it's likely that he's going to appeal but the chances of you winning this one this time around is unlikely legal experts say even if you cause up to the constitutional court he's likely not likely by the end of the day no matter how long it takes you will find these day in court ok. correspondent thanks for your time. mental

health is one of the biggest challenges facing nigeria the country's 1st report 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 mental 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 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 and we are 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 world 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 had so big results doing. so it's almost as a friend this is a message for me like weeds grow best now it's encouraging because i think something like this is true with talking about suicide mental health specialists dr me. 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 i got used to

1000000 and. very sad what can we change it maybe by 2050 or. i don't know it's really it's the one was the cause of the torrid up 50 psychiatric rehab nigeria those practices. we're about 50 so if you're looking for. a really fine informed says she's doing her bit however early to to bring help to people through hanoi i want people to feel love. i want people to feel hopeful to know that. only gets better. and better so regardless of the storms that they are facing about mormons i want them to know about there's hope there is a silver lining there's light at the end of the tunnel inform hopes to reach as

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group who could ever know for sure that it was. almost inseparable. over. to the real world. the u.s. says it has done an initial trade deal with china and delays tariffs that hit chinese goods next week but will a partial deal take away the trade uncertainty that settled over the global economy . also on the show ethiopia's prime minister was just awarded the 2019 nobel peace prize will look at the end vicious economic reforms he spearheaded at home. and the talian cheese is about to get more expensive for americans u.s. is set to impose penalty.