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the past. the country's mental health crisis. you 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 of violence 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 reform the border conflict with neighboring every tree on. the conflict began in 1998 in the border town of a bad me that area right there now if you. stick to the market town and this would later become in major head implementation of really violent as seen just in bad me soon turned to one outright war lasting 2 years and costing 80000 lives terje cleared 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

a 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 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. i look at only one year he has brought so much change hubby 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's 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. 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 look at 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 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 you need 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 more work is needed for peace even in his country enthusiasm 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 political liberalization has really disturbed a lot of people 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 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 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 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. time. from a south african president jacob zuma is to face trial on corruption charges this is up there 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 $1000000.00 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 correspondent in johannesburg for more on this hello it's nice seeing you again so what exactly is 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 if payments that are 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 experts saying it's unlikely but what is then now is that to choose day next week has been set for the trial. from a present because of my his up i would 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 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 you might like to group because over the years that's what he has been doing so it's likely that is going to appeal but did 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 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 really 60 years ago they don't use. 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 polite and fun and took spends most of her free time filling up what she calls pick me up jobs with love letters like this yeah 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 elites who progress each day out so big results don't. so it's almost a secret and this is a message for me right even though pressing now it's encouraging because i think. we're talking about suicide mental health specialist dr amy 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 the 1000000 and. very sad walk around with change it. 2050 or. is really it is the one was because of the poor and up $53.00 having nigeria those practices less than. 50 so if you. define informed says she's doing hobbit however to bring. people food. i want people to feel love. i want people to feel full. and. so regardless of the stall they are facing moments i want. there's hope there is a silver lining light at the end of the tunnel inform hopes to reach as many people

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