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i. hope you doing good welcome to the program she is africa's riches woman but how did. the daughter of former president really make a fortune and you investigate in alleges she became rich by stealing from the state . the dismissed claims she says she's a victim of witch hunt the international consortium of investigative journalist which the new allegations on sunday say they have evidence of massive wrongdoing by the former office talked. with me in the studio is. a journalist who's lived in writing about angola for many years welcome special they can now tell us more about the main allegations against isabel decide. well

essentially it's a there's 2 questions one is about legality and one is about huge flows of wealth of angola and i think the big story here is that large amounts of money have gone out of angola money that could have been used for angola and development one of the one of africa's poorest countries but instead it's gone into a well a well to remains of offshore companies and real estate and and normal on shore companies all around the world and the question is whether you know whether this is happened legally or not and that's a very complex question but she says this is all a political witch hunt against her family you have a point well there's no doubt that she is a threat to the new government the president dos santos consolidated his power since 1989 very cleverly very severe in a very sophisticated ways he created all sorts of mechanisms that would he hoped and preserve his power after he left office and you know isabel's fortunes were

part of that. so you all are as a does need to consolidate his power doesn't need to push these people out having said that there's clearly a case to answer here that she has clearly benefited massively from state largess and the fact that he was her father so it's kind of 2 things ok talking about she's a master to what extent of the western companies really rule in all of this well that's one of the big stories here i think we have habits of people in the west to point fingers at you know african countries saying look how corrupt you are look how corrupt surely designed the sure there's lots of that but we in the west really need to start taking a look at ourselves because all of this stuff is handled by big western banks by big 4 accounting firms by management consulting companies by law firms real estate firms there's a whole army an infrastructure of what you might call enablers of of the looting of african countries and other other poor countries and. this is

a better i didn't bet it by western governments and it's actually encouraged by western governments because the money is kind of flowing into our countries flowing into the u.k. and the u.k. likes it that way and so it is really helping this stuff is helping the looting of africa and i think that's the biggest point that we need to realize from this story that indeed is the biggest prize while she currently. in the u.k. does where she lives so the 1000000000 dollar question is could she have a face just as well i think i would she has the means to avoid facing justice and there's there's various places you know places like the u.k. a very hospitable to wealthy people you know she could go to somewhere like dubai she could get you know portugal has always been hospitable when you've got a lot of money it's usually easy to state to keep away from the the arms of justice and i think the angolan justice system doesn't have a very strong power clout internationally and if the angolans want to prosecute her it will be difficult for them to bring her to justice i think some of her assets maybe she's that special but to get her actually on the hook and prosecuted. you

know if they're able to do that i think that would be a difficult thing for them to do and they lessen journalist but it's on a list of thanks for your time thank you. now let's go to angola as capital to want to speak to rafael marquez he's a journalist and the corruption campaign on our file thanks for your time so how on golan's reacts and all these allegations against isabel dishonors the recent reaction actually is that because it was long overdue. really. off. and the so people aren't talking much about it don't shout he's the bow was the monster active member the looting got that kind of free from the shanta sena only and now she's facing the music drop because you always starts to be sheltered and then talks will not just remember what i wrote this well and i disagree with meek when meek say spit she was afraid

the number was because of the structure in fact that last in fact she was so highly arrant to the country and people really had an issue with these about so she was not a threat because of the way she usually scorned that her own people i see now as president florencio really cracking down on corruption or is it just easy had to go after the big fish i he's not just going after the big fish we have at several. low rat meat you know medium level public officials who are steeped in now reaching out and we also have high profile general former ministers and doctors who have been indicted of crimes just at the national assembly in parliament we have several members of parliament who actually have to

face justice because they now formal suspects in the number of the investigations so this is not a king is that is exclusive the delicious family ok everyone that i've been found to be having their hands in the pot basically cases are being brought against them it's just that their means not. be shot systemic. nothing about to back to isabel the sons as the government has already frozen had local assets what else could they do to tackle this. i mentioned you what we can do now is too much even now. because so far it's only it is freezing the assets to recall for the money she legally or route from the state ok now out there if it is that she needs to face criminal charges ok we'll have to wait and see how things develop but thank you very much. for your time

if you're going to government has announced its intention to privatized the country's 13 sugar factories as part of a drive to open up the economy but in the solving all more value known for its many indigenous groups a natural landscape and police known as the grass as state still poses major economic and security issues local communities feel that they have been left out of the equation a military crackdown to ensure this a moment of local villages has led to killings a beach area detention some testimonies and those reports none of us or the interviewees safety. this woman from the bodie tribe is mourning her husband and children they were killed by the military about 3 months ago part of a government campaign to disarm ethiopia is lower omo valley and when. they came to our village and started to hit us and kill us anyone who started to run away was

a whole chicken but many people lost their lives and the village is empty now. like many other bodies' she and her family lost their farmland and now owned by one of the area's for sugar factories she said she didn't receive any type of compensation that's left her and others frustrated and there have been revenge attacks including unstacked 3 employees according to this man the military attack is a retaliation for those incidents. the government collected the guns because they think of the bodies have guns they will not allow the factories to produce sugar and they will try to protect their land. after they took our guns they started to kill us and many have been jailed. about $200.00 mercy's the tried famous for the plates the women where were also detained and tortured in a military camp in october and november some are accused of killing hiding weapons or stealing cattle from other tribes and this man says he was denied food for 6

consecutive days along with women and children. at some point they took 15 elders in saw it and started keeping them while they also pulled in jenin was what i wrote about him because. you know cool authorities refused to come and visit in the sugar factories to find out more was impossible despite official requests we were not allowed to get past this checkpoint or visit any other sugar plantation the local police also considerably restrained our freedom of movement in the area some suspect that the military crackdown is part of a government effort to make the area more attractive to investors by reducing conflicts the disarmament campaign started many years. oh but it was not usually so violent according to better they can ski research on the oma valley sugar factories we have to keep in mind that the cross project is not only in agricultural development scheme but it's actually like a regional development scheme which was meant to modernize. the region that the

people the people living in the lower home of the league and this also involves something. which can be called a civilizational mission. and also what has been described to me as a step mission in law and order so i think what we see you know is just a continuation of started maybe 10 years ago he says it will be difficult to find investors at the moment although that's a key goal of the state owned sugar corporation it's a lot of technical challenges to actually make those those estates operational but it's also the reputational risk involved for investors and the project got a lot of negative publicity over the last couple of years mainly due to very bad information management from the site of the sugar corporation and the way local communities that traditionally used the land have been treated or not included in the entire decision making process researchers working on the only valley have urged the governments to mr gately allegation he's received no fear

a new attack in the coming months some villages are still refusing to hand in their guns clinging to their own names as protecting their families and cattle. that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website facebook page we love to hear from you now we need you with some good news these northern white rhinos from kenya the i don't want kind left on the planet but scientists say they have now successfully cleaned had several embryos and these will be transferred into these are against you so. the white rhino in the coming months this means they should now be able to keep the species alive we can't wait to show you the results i phone up.

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we begin though with a new holocaust exhibition here in berlin at the house of the van's a conference this house was the notorious meeting place in 142 of leading figures in the nazi government who planned what they called the final solution to the jewish problem and with next week seeing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz birkenau concentration camp this exhibition examines this country's darkest chapter. 94 year old eva for heidi travelled all the way from hungary to be at the exhibition opening our whole family was murdered in auschwitz she survived passing on her story is very important to her and give reason being certain things might inhalation especially this and i miss. sheriff more it seems to the dangers of the senate isn't then i know that when it starts off with insults.