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germany's far right find out on. violent. video 60 minutes. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word that emerged from the group. is in germany to learn german and why not come with them online on your mobile. learning course. german. this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes displaced and distressed we have an exclusive report from mog where men who played ethnic violence now live on the landfill. and award winning environmentalist who's fighting against illegal logging in uganda as far as despite.
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news africa it's good to have you along mali has been battling a 7 year long insurgency which has seen a control of large parts of the country well that's one aspect of the fighting and the other is interest violence and that has seen thousands of people. some have been displaced within mali and as you're about to see they're being forced to live in comp. it's only a stone's throw from here to downtown but only a short ride from the bustle of the city to this camp but cit may as well be on a different planet many in the city say they are unaware of this camp for displaced full and hurts men built on
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a waste dump this is definitely not the home or anybody would want to live for anybody should live yet it has become the home of more than 1000 people who fled from interethnic violence in central mali and yes this is their home on a landfill full of waste and their homes out also made of the smoke that you see around me is because of the waste that's being burnt around them. the smell is overpowering people burn waits to clear a little space creating thick smoke that drifts through this site. you know we will file a complaint against the government this can't work like this it's not ok to leave trash here if you have trash you how are you supposed to keep healthy this is not easy or my lead. to their 1000000 made the camp receives occasional donations of food and water every day the
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children play in the trash the threat of disease is constant. this woman is 63 like everyone here she fled from a region in central mali when the violence broke out. but i do and i'm living with a mother and her newborn i used to have a good life where we lost everything and came here. she says her village was burned by dog and people farmers who fight the flooding over land and access to food. i want to find out from the government if there is plan in place to help these people but they insist they don't even know that the camp exists. i haven't seen anyone living in a waste dump i'm telling you honestly if i said i had seen them when i would be telling a lie i saw people in tents yes well arranged nice tents and a temporary shelter been
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a minute. the mullion government is busy trying to distinguish different fires at once expanding islamist militancy and ethnic violence. the whole challenge needs a global response not just to mali in one. they cannot come up with a plan together then the whole chinese state that it is. people in just one of many makeshift camps across mali living in a dire situation one tamale and government says it can't even begin to address on as there is peace. our next story takes us to uganda where an environmental hero leslie is risking his life to save a tropical forest 4 years ago he created an organization to help protect a forest in
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a jewel money northwest uganda he is determined to continue his fight for it not to disappear. to money's less visitation under strict. this reach ecosystem belongs to the congo basin tropical rain forests the 2nd lung on the earth just after the amazon fed its and then just. if we give it a decade for mo i don't think there wouldn't be a cost to sustain and then life in niger money because as i speak no there way the image one exhibit on the commission dented we call records of the streams drying up even in the rainy seasons you don't get the streams but it's not just climate change illegal logging and a high demand for chalk hold are responsible for most of the destruction of the forest is that we know you know for. a man who created the organisation friends of
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zocor in 2015 to document and report with traffickers to the authorities in 4 years he says little action has taken place. by the time we are coming to realize this kind of abuses of 60 percent of the forest was called the north wind event of us living our life to protect the people involved in it would make the military did police and a powerful business special knowledge sunday they still be. kept on doing daily guided uncovering team for trafficking has taken its toll on his life but to save the forest the environmental activist is ready to risk it all. to one of the most prominent telling this i face in my walkies and great physical. face to to attempt it in my dance because he's being investigated by the police my
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house has been broken into for 4 times on the record i used to rain it's more room in kampala but i've been broken into twice i had to shift to another place buckles also broken into. a men's all the sacrifices are worth it when it comes to save the trees let's make a plan and. but i jus money is just a small part of the bigger picture when it comes to the conservation of africa's forests zeek it was like a forest is a tiny fragment of the huge tract of rain far as that stretches from uganda in the east all the way to cameroon in the west now the bonn on the atlanta coast is still home to largely untouched forests which the country is determined to preserve. i am now joined by the whiting is gabon's minister off forest ocean environment and climate change welcome to date of the africa professor so you have just come into
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office you came in in june really because of the misdeeds of your predecessor what exactly had happened there was a bit of a scandal with corruption in the forestry sector 10000 cubic metres of lead which showed up in the port. when the president was obliged to remove the vice president's. previous list through forestry complicity so one of my jobs is to clean up the 1st tree sector in your book while some of the main challenges that you all say sink in ensuring that you can protect this environment my 1st job is is to make sure that all of the forestry and give all is sustainable well. you know who is president the president so he bangor took the decision to make certification obligatory for all forestry companies at the seaside because from bunch of 22 onwards so we're putting in place
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a series of measures that will make forestry transparent and will guarantee that the forestry is not only good economy but it's good for wildlife and biodiversity it's good for the climate and it's good for the people that live in the forests and that's actually not i don't think that difficult a job and in fact the other parts of my minister climate change minister the ocean so are in the long term of the medium much more challenging to deal with climate change obviously get on cannot do it so we have to figure out it's all at the international community to deal with the plastics it's the same thing it's a big international issue. little cabin only has a certain voice is in talks about industry and having to engage on that. front but i wonder if it is difficult to convince people who depend on the forests to survive to get on board with a new governor has
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a. slightly different country we are the size of the u.k. but we only have a population of 1800000 people and 87 percent of our people live in cities so the rural areas are actually quite empty are not that many people out in these rural areas. the way the lorry structured here a certain percentage of the route but when used from forestry. go into local communities and so as long as we apply those laws properly and one of the reasons i know the minister is that they have been in the past and apply perfectly those repliers those properly to make them and we make sure that the communities are getting real benefit. from forestry we don't have much of a conflict in the bond between the forests living bull and this
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this this for our street industry right now this i want to bring in a deal here that's been called historic that's a deal with norway and as i understand it millions of dial it is from no way will go to get biden to fund efforts to protect the brain far as tell us more about that during the climate conference the u.n. climate conference in new york 10 days ago we signed an agreement i signed a decree with the minister of environment. from norway and norway has committed to purchasing up to $150000000.00 worth of carbon credits of reduction in incentive to emissions. gatvol the 1st time that a deal of this sort as been done in africa asserts very encouraged. not just to get gone but for other african countries and and it's the 1st time in 1012 years that
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the price of forests and has changed that and which you have been committed to purchasing our coven credits for $10.00 a tonne where we convinced that forest comes with all sorts of other benefits that biodiversity benefits the ecosystem service benefits and the benefit suits authorise make up a much more likable but richard miss traditionally forest carbon is undervalued like international law for the reason we signed an agreement with no it's because they recognise our efforts to reduce emissions from the forestry sector and the fact is that we've been most forested going to show the planet that 88 percent forest cover you know deforestation rate is 0.0101 the lowest forested fish and write something new on the planet so going on has taken action over the last 15 to 20 years to put in place well this is that allows us to develop country whilst saving bursts has to be why it's incumbent on minister off the forest ocean
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environment and practical thank you for your time sir. and that is it for now from d.w. news africa as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page will leave you now it's been speeches all break up the bonds and other nations of the congo basin the next 55. years after the fall of the berlin november 9th to w. d q you know that 77 percent. are younger than 6
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