from one party t. to flash i phone calls it keeping a good time this is where they are. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend d.w.i. . this is due to every news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes dissent in guinea several people are dead after pricing is challenging the president's rule i'll talk to the politicians organizing the demonstrations also on the program can be doing you can see that room and that right in south africa not even in countries with these awards. where the rape is used isn't to low ball is a menial and. women in south africa off am i next after a recent spike in rapes and murders.

hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa when guinea is president alpha condé 1st one poly in 2010 many hoped the country had turned a new leaf he'd come in off to a quarter century of terri and roll now there are demonstrations to stop con days plans to change the constitution a change which would allow him to see if the term the opposition says at least 5 people have been killed as security forces crackdown protests have taken place in the capital conakry the 2nd city in the bay as well as in cities across the country . and both. kiryas industries of conakry violence us demonstrations turn deadly on monday.

police opened fire to disperse thousands of opposition supporters gathered in the capital and across the country to protest president fact on this beat to extend his time in office. today we came out against the regime of president condy and his combat that's why we asked all canadians to come out today to say no to what his government is doing no to dictatorship no to constitutional coup and no to a 3rd term constitutional not. this 2nd and final term expires next year but he's refusing to rule out running again the 81 year old president has its government to draft a new constitution that could hand him the chance to seek a 3rd term security forces have stopped opposition leaders from leaving their homes

civil society leaders where detained over the weekend and uscis aristide want protesting they say the crackdown wants to target them that it is a great success a great success as you may have noticed never before has a demonstration paralyzed the capital city cannot create this much. and cannot prove remains paralyzed the opposition promising that they want to keep their protests. now joined by. the chief of staff and spokesperson of the heat off again a in opposition and former prime minister. welcome to do it every effort and that yes so you mobilize people to come out what is the way forward. who people of in a responded massively to the 2nd issue ricci's national front for the defense of the constitution called to protest against the constitution or could it tell and

the plain assassination of our democracy it in fact until mentioned people in a movie lighting event a new change in the goal to chew shown all sort of cause is to grunt. good to us to come to and restart up to defend our constitution including return limitation and democratic and generation. and that the president think he needs a modern constitution surely there's nothing wrong with that. well which provisions of the current constitution are in conflict with modernity and cannot be amended by refuge and this is a crucial question to x. because we have a constitution which is comparable to that of knowledge of selig began on looking after us to those who has the most important question is why is he proposing it on the eve of the c can't and last time when he had 9 years to do so we have

a lot of economic issues to deal with in a country reaches the 1st one in 10 of. them seekers for the miners. and that your party at the u. d.f.t. helped found these civil society groups organizing the probably things just give us a sense of what the political landscape looks like or what could a political compromise with president condi potentially look like is that possible . with all the current political situation is good is characterized by a very lack of separation of powers because institutions are subordinate to are secondary reconstitution and lows of the republic of kentucky violet t.v. can mention exist before the decision of the administration and the sailors and mighty violation of human right of the river to prevention of political freedom

including the right to demonstrate and more importantly the impunity because we have no idea that underage people are measured in connect feet warm a gallop by result in the investigation and risk to tell you what you would like it we are talking about a pretty good compromise once we look for what 3 acts for the bollard to do is to return to other names on this new constitution in order to obtain a 1st term to finalize very local elections to restart the freedom to demonstrate reaches been maimed since july 2002 of an ice free and transparent punishment for election on the basis of the realities to each conception and louis biding time to because that's important really need some smoove transition in africa we don't want for town was in this country that's why the people of guinea is moving large country women mobilized and satisfaction all the watch we are

looking for nadia naaman and conakry she is the spokesperson for canadian opposition leader thank you thank you christina. women in south africa have been asking the question am i next that's because there's been a recent surge in murders and crimes sexual crimes against women in the country now in the capital pretoria more than 1000 policemen and women demonstrated against gender based violence some held up signs that read it hurts us as police officers to pick up bodies off women children and vulnerable groups on a daily basis. now you're about to meet one woman who was a rape survivor and is now raising her voice for this. way we all acknowledge is called manta spock on the 20th of july 19th 18 i was gang raped at the spark and my friend killed 3 months before my 16th birthday this

happened to me. i'm caroline peters i'm a fan i'm 54 years old i'm a fame unless i'm a gender activist you know and i'm a human rights campaigner even when my dog is the place of days i would get up and go and run and i saw the benefit they planning before me at the same time i was city municipality upgrades to the spock and remember this is a park that i've never set foot there since when the time when i was that i. am i say to my daughter we're going to reclaim that space never again is meant is going to be a negative thing for me it's going to be something positive we're going to both something big from the so that is our mentors was founded it was about the reclaiming the space bringing that positivity that arning gave me to other women in our community land for me with a club it was more than just

a running club it was a social space we women get to pave the way we talk to each other you know when we go out to run our we say to the women speak to the one next to you you know when we go out we don't know what she's what she's going through for the day. it's been so much happening over this last weeks that i'm physically emotionally mentally sick and trainer because of what's happening in our country so you have nanay that kills that's killed in a post office for goodness like in a post office. then you have j.c.s. killed in a flecked with a grandfather raped and killed and i want to say they put in killed it's not just kill they've been violated in all forms every 26 seconds is a woman that i put in south africa look even in countries where there is a war. we're a presumes there's a tool of war is there that many rapes we need to as so society could lift of

and raise our voices and say it's not ok what needs to change the system of apartheid if we do not go back to the total money that our communities faced if we do not speak about the elephant in the room for me about what happened to my father as a as an older man no black man. way when he leaves a moment abuse my mother because he was abused at these will play a place of work and nobody speaks about that that we actually suffer from jeanette i. we know we're going to teach our boys how to respect our girls our young our young men to the young women how do we change that for me we can do all this work with women we can tell them you don't take those and and we empower them back to what needs to be done with boys and young men and men we need men to stop abusing

women we need put more programs for them the in the into dying to empower women so we build more prisons we build more shelters but when are we going to change the mindset of those people whom we need to say to many it's not ok we need maybe to say to other men it's not ok we need men we need men to stand up and say. brother it is not ok tell us what to say is our government c.d.'s about changing our police are not same zip ties to dijon system is not up to standard so justice if you think nothing is working for women you know so we need immediate action and i am glad that we are at a stage of a revolt these are revolution and therefore our president have to respond to this. place event is not clearly set out a path forward for how are we going to engender based violence and not just about

50 actually given a budget towards the well we've got the basic rule of law is we've got the best x. we've got legislation is the it's about the implementation of the legislation so we can have all the basic laws everything while however when there's no badgett to implement the same it's all just paper i want to hold government accountable i want to hold our place and then settle them up was accountable for what he said in parliament so my opie's that all this ends i am hopeful and i'm praying for what makes me get up daily is to see that my sister to see that my daughters are safe to see that my granddaughter is safe you know so i love another day just to make sure they're my sister's ok. that was caroline pieces from cape town and that is it for now from the daily news africa as always you can catch well stories on our face with the case today will leave you with peaches women in south

africa collectively raising their voices and saying it's ok. i'm. sure of. what unites. what divides. what binds the continent together. the answers and stories of plunging the. spotlight on people. focusing on your own g.w. . mug in the us it is held up by

a young it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about why for i don't do this because we can't stay on venezuela i'm not down on the support that. closely global news that matters d. w. made for mines the for. him. and welcome to news from the world of ops and culture this is what's coming up today. abhi joined here in the studio by the world famous author of the swarm frank should sing has turned his attention to music. the city of baghdad in norway a literary hub for all sorts of strange reasons refined. frank said thing is best known internationally for his science fiction novel the

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