and send us your story you are trying always to understand this new culture. or another visit or another yet you want to become a citizen. in for margaret's your platform for reliable information. this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes it started with protests against increases in the price of bread and the answer to the ousting of the dictator we look at saddam's uprising one year on and off the hopes of the protesters have been fulfilled. and reaching for the sky will introduce each suit the woman in gaza was doing something no other woman in the country has done before . class running around in circles we turn a spotlight on the theater festival in brazzaville that is trying to focus on what

really matters to young people today. hello i'm christine wonderwall come to africa it's good to have you along celebrations have been taking place in sudan today to mark the anniversary of the uprising that erupted one year ago in 2018 the 1st randy's took place in the central town of initially in approach haste at a hike in the price of bridge but soon the demonstrations began to sweep across the country by april they have toppled president omar al bashir who had been in power for 3 decades in a moment i'll be joined in studio by a sudanese activist but it's a look back at how it all started.

we want freedom sudanese call it was sudan's young people who became the driving force in the uprising at the forefront women. in december 28th they took to the streets across the country as a huge increase in the price of bread and sudan's daya konami situation became too much to stomach. the protests the 1st of their kind went on for months and the regimes response was brutal. but despite efforts to quell the demonstrations bashir was ousted in april ultimately by a military coup d'etat. demonstrators unhappy at the prospect of military rule then took to the streets again sparking fear of mess of bloodshed more than $100.00 people were killed in clashes 5 months later the military civilian representatives and protest groups agreed on a 3 year power sharing deal form african development bank economist abdullah became

prime minister. freedom peace justice and the revolution is the people's choice freedom peace justice and the civilian government as the people's choice. but tom ducks tasks a huge with many old faces clinging onto power. and many protesters feel former leaders are not being held to account. we demand rights for the marchers rights for the missing that the national conference be dissolved on corruption stopped i was going to. after the euphoria sparked by the people's revolution the country now faces the hard work of laying the foundations for a new sudan. my guest today is a made some he's a sudanese activist an artist based and it's good to have yeah it's been 8 years since the price incident how do you feel about with the country today. actually

mixed feelings mixed feeling. between happiness and also kind of disappointment happiness of when your have actually successfully pro down one of the most brutal dictatorship in no history of sudan president that i actually born 3 months after he came to office full force is that action he took from the can to go from being people in the country to dream of prosperity and democracy and freedom of expression and this is a really happy feeling that to bring down and to see this person behind the cage and being trailed for 4 corruptions and and harming constitution is but also this kind of other feelings from when all these photos of the mater and the people who died coming in your thread in the social media then actually sometimes you feel it's asking you that what you have a shift into not what did you do it's just worse it does yeah about the mosses those who died has there been anyone held accountable for those people it is

actually there was there's there's different kind of committees being formed seems like it's happening now there's a new government not really strong enough to hold the people is still in office accountable there's some people get accountable for what's happened between. december to opera which is basically part of the former regime a former former governing but he still is part of the. fall of the security structure that is still in one of the pillars of this new government which is based on the compromised and base of this agreement of june and still needs a kind of strong voices that you're presenting evolution this transitional government to bring those people to justice make a specialty after the massacre of june which is a most near to the heart of the people that have been just recently and until now we didn't most of the people was in the office in the market in june massacre is still there. and women were at the full french off these protests. it

looks like they're being sidelined now. it's actually the course that from an actual have bay during the one year of the revolution to there is also not seen what they paid for their women was in the front line and theirs was a kind of a group presentation of the woman in this new government things on the direction of the prime minister who by having 4 women into mr kaplan 8 and 2 women in the series 3 women send in the survey to council which is not more than 20 percent of the government but if you see their delusions we won more than 50 percent if you will who are leading this evening the street which is somehow that's showing you that all the time baltics happening in the middle of the revolution that have not fulfilled all of the dreams of the revolution social forces and if you see it from other side if this revolution was filled women would get their revenge from this regime would cost more for their more pain so i seeing that evolution or forces

will understand that and will have better position to transition and government based on compromise will not extradite reclusion want to do all right. thank you zain. let's go to ghonim al and a story of a woman determined to break through the ceiling quite literally it damn felicia recently became the country's 1st female. and as. reports soaring ambition does not stop there. 44 year old at them felicia is getting ready for a daily duties at the 2 kinds national courts in accra. at him he's got his face femal aircraft martial art a profession traditionally the preserve of many encana includes properly grounding aircraft the lounge airports and inspecting the runway for elements that's good

pose a risk to aircraft when not a science to their own and then works from this control room monitoring incoming and outgoing aircraft and this is as much to do in here. with airfield at least you have a little time to rest when they fly across country but here it is 247 am you communicate with people. who they stay me gratian the customs the d.n.i. the terminal people the security everybody answer recently at him was the only female aircraft marshal or that his story has encouraged other women to join the profession he also has. inspiring young people so that he gets. interested in the industrious will and we all work of who she is a very great inspiration to us all look at him story has gained

a lot of media attention in ghana puts in the profession as a hold in the spotlight. gotten to know what we do what it's about what our side appreciates about. it should be she says she's been selling the company and into the profession alongside and to be a dentist of duty spending time with which you're doing as a single mother she has to work harder to look after them provide them with a brighter future. i should still house his own dreams for the future too i have my vision one day i would like to be an m.p. one day i would like to be a president who i know i always i always see the sky is beyond. the sky is above my limits i want to go higher and higher and such determination just

means such dreams come to fruition just like a dream to become god and his face and craft my shyla. now a festival off here to is set to reach a climax in. brazzaville this weekend the theme of the festival is the dynamism off one of the 1st performances focuses on the conflicts between the older and younger generations. last minute preparations for the opening of the festival the idea is to bring theatre directly to the people in the states a set in a simple courtyard kids neighbors and fear to love us flocking in. let them do that the new said woods in the miss years theme is the dynamism of young people. we want to focus on young people who are trying to find their bearings. they're not sure what to do where to go. instead of going to bars we want young people to take an interest in art. that

is. the place called women's gold and deals with the conflict between generations was just a young woman is due to marry a rich much older man who has many wives a family has arranged everything but she wants to be with a man. on stakes the company plays this explicitly and the public is enjoying it. sort of the audience is different the audience is closer to be outdrawn stage with the conditions that are very very close like at home you can talk about it together after you know. this was a deliberate decision and then they come home and necessity to organize a side of famous congress writer to explain the spirit of the festival. come to

jesus or the sony see said to do theater in africa you have to seize the situation by the scruff of the neck so that's what we do all the time even if there is a lack of subsidies from the government we seize the day and we get there. it's already the 16th year of the festival the team is determined to go on and to bring culture to the people of plaza. and that is it for now from news africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page today believe you know what some all images from the uprising in sadat one year ago the next time .

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a chance that she. threatens to older. mother cars. start a scenario that defines over a modest. 19 said to be committed to his stance december 23rd comes to the law and. many of you will recognize this little ting melody. greensleeves a traditional english folk song that dates back to the 16th century song here by german countertenor under. the concrete on piano by his wife israeli pianist tom petty in today's guests on arts and culture.

and with chad welcome to the program twilight people is the new album by soil and tom petty in a collection of songs arranged for countertenor and piano a very introspective atmospheric listening experience a let's learn just a little bit more. countertenor and its voice is haunting against his wife to mark halperin elegant piano work on the couple's new album twilight people.