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illegal end. thank the lead illegible . this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes actions towards 0 female genital mutilation will take years of the nigerian town where if g.m. is a big part of the culture of making it a battleground activists working to end the practice. to undock years into office or look at what angolans may call the president or any of those records and

. frequency 1000 words. in an honest way they must be capable of creating jobs without using public funds. president defends his record against corruption. hello i'm christine wonderwall come to africa it's good to have your company in many parts of africa women and girls all still subjected to the harmful practices female genital mutilation if g.m. has no health benefits and in many cases causes severe problems the world health organization says it's a violation of the human rights of girls and women today is the international day of 00 tolerance for if g.m.

all correspondent flora she brings us this report from a town in nigeria where some activists are working to end the practice which is deeply rooted in the culture they. are a small. female genital mutilation. a major part of the culture here. almost every girl has been circumcised bassy was a quarter before she became a midwife at the local hospital she says she doesn't want the traditions and even with some men who are not married if you don't move somehow knows that with india they would stand to lose that beauty any girl that refuses to be caught is considered fealty people in the community refused to associate with ha it's believed that a girl only becomes a woman after she has been caught. bassy demo streets how the cutting is done 3 or

4 women have to hold for go down during circumcision to prevent her from running away. this. stance. towards some herbs are then used to stop the bleeding most of the girls are courts as teenagers we try to talk to some of them who were recently costs but they refused to speak against the tradition because they felt intimidated by the order we made in 2015 and i'm german government introduced a law that is aimed towards protecting women and girls from f g m and also punishing offender but many people especially in rural communities and villages a lot of now where this law exists gift activists working to stop the practice of g.m. the couple have been physically attacked by village us for trying to end the age

long tradition today they have come to sensitize these women about the dangers of female circumcision as soon as the women here they could be arrested if the courts practice in g.m. they agree that it should end gift on a blue sea that while many older women are turning away from the practice younger ones are picking up the treat. is the truth your father is a mechanic exhibit read your mother's resumes dress you decide to be the truth if you have parents. who desire to be betrayed. internationally the goal is to end by 2050 but gift and i will see that on 2 attitudes change on the ground it's going to take much more time than that. yesterday we reported from minnesota on the murder charges brought against the country's 1st lady my as i have 77 appeared in court in the capital maceo she was

remanded in custody by magistrates they have but she appealed to the high court which granted bail immediately despite best police say they are convinced of the case has the deputy commissioner off police say to say that we have court on believe it is. said to the charge that all those who are suspects talked about you can do the names how we felt before now and. we have all the view that justice has to be done and even if we have the due date that she he's you know provisional prime if you call it that you know if it is we can just safely put that particular person before the kosovo drugs. and told us president george came to power 2 and a half years ago on a page to create jobs and push on with developments the opportunity was there and

while they enjoyed a healthy income from oil but there were doubts to lawrenceville came from the same party as outgoing presidential say it wanted to shuttles who ruled the country for 38 he is corruption has blighted the economy for decades that's highlighted by the fresh allegations that the former president's daughter stole hundreds of millions of donna's so what about the streets of ungoliant have promises of a new start in fulfilled he'd have you into the wanda to find out. you wonder the capital of angola on display in the city center is evidence of the massive oil wealth that has poured into the southern african country in recent decades. but just a few kilometers away is another angola one of poverty and mass unemployment. that we ask locals as the new president changed anything.

there is a change but it's all happening much too slowly. nothing has changed yet and we don't even have drinking water you know. get out anything leave the government should at least deal with waste removal of us when it rains here there are floods that sometimes drag away our children our houses are ruined too we have many problems here. but we want the new president. to think about us. things are very bad for us here our country is rich but we don't see any of it my people have a lot of money that we are suffering here. joe wilder and so took office 2 years ago his predecessor had been in power for 38 years lorenzo ernest attempts at confronting the rampant corruption have surprised many here he's even confronted

former party allies. it's precisely because i have seen these high levels of corruption. and because i think it must be stopped. that we are fighting what we've witnessed for decades. that it might be comfortable for us to leave things as they were before. be correct. my. city if we have a chance to make a change. and this is the right time to do it a woman. lauren so is even going after the former president's children especially isabel dos santos. she's africa's richest woman and has been accused of illegally diverting hundreds of millions of dollars from state coffers to a company's. many important businesses are still controlled by isabel just santos

and the leaked documents the so-called new on the leaks showed she could often count on the help of her father the former president's it will probably take the courts can establish the scale of the corruption in the country and punish the perpetrators. so has the era of corrupt elites in angola past presidents of the capital london slums have their doubts they want to see concrete results. so that's the situation in the want us today on friday germany's chancellor angela merkel will be visiting the country she'll be taking a business dedication with i'll. set down with president to find out what kind of opportunities the visit. you visited germany in 2018 and now the german chancellor chancellor angela merkel will be coming here what are you expecting of visits noirish. we have great expectations for this visit. given that the relations

between angola and germany have always been good. and now on february the 7th we hope to sign you cooperation agreements with germany. for use you have been trying to or to persuade the german government to sell warships and because of the german opposition that did not happen we understand that last time when you were in berlin you were very optimistic that you could reach a conclusion what is the status at the moment but most want to mom's interest we're still interested provided that we get financing guarantees from germany as maritime safety is important to us about the body of countries here in the gulf of guinea as . you know recently this region has been threatened by maritime piracy yes. people tell me about it you. know your economy is struggling because of the law of price you're trying to die 1st day versified of the economy but you also try to

privatise state business some people are skeptical that this will draw bias from outside the usual elites because they are the ones who have the money to invest in it how are you trying to avoid that move. that we will take the necessary precautions in the process of privatizing the big companies were. going to embrace these muslim if you could. that doesn't mean exchanging one a league for another by means of the same so-called regime material capital accumulation as happened with the current elites. or somebody of a crappy doc morcombe so was that ways in which. we want to create leagues every country has elite. but they must work honestly and what they do in an honest way. going at a form that. will see them that. they must be capable of creating jobs without

using public funds where i will be. no one is against elites we're just against the way the current elites became rich in an illicit way that needs to be made clear if you have these few quid the german chancellor is coming to visit with a business delegation that we asked in the end what is your message to the business world where she meant everything in investment is welcoming and go into. we're doing our part we're creating a better business environment and i go that day after day. all my vision due to the one of the measures is precisely fighting corruption so the foreign investment in one go that is safe. and well that that's what there is guaranteed return and if it happens everyone will win. the foreign investors will win a my country will win and goto will win. and that's why i will leave it today on day to have news africa as always you can catch

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