sure to come to. next generation grows a little traction. using any channels of very strong people. and we're determined to do something here for the next generation globally has been barman series of global 3000. this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes and catherine stepped up a reign of terror against civilians. rather not going to one of them was plucking my back with the machine and the other person completely chopped off my leg. what is fueling the violence and the elections being held in the country make a difference. and african solutions to africa's problems meet conference leaders same old wolves without outside help that. african union summit in

addis ababa. hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company for the 1st time in 7 years cameron has held local and parliamentary elections the polls have been delayed because of violence and political turmoil in the country on camera as english speaking. was the separatists want people to vote in 2017 those separatist unilaterally declared independence and the formation of a new nation amazonia as your bosses see their pursuit for self rule has devastated the lives of civilians a warning that i'll report contains details some of us may find distressing. kamel is recording in hospital a whole lot of separatists she sees. the men came to our home

the night accusing her of defined a ban on education. the pretty trudeau was dropped of make it a wash ford was tear off. a look at this it out through i said it was all a dream. realized they kept hitting me with a machete because. the man started by gradually chopping off my ankle who never could one of them was flogging my back with him i said he and the other person completely chopped off my leg i saw my legs separate it into his no i never got. the rebellion but under 4 militias is sticking a story on the population. a few kilometers away 42000 hectares of banana robot arm pump plantations have been abundant. this state all

far is a 2nd biggest employer in the country but should pretties want it close thousands of his workers how fled do to increase our tarps many have been mutilated and all those cute. john was sleeping with our men desktop logic we want to be the one to move you missy the separatists said they would have loved to kill us . but they would rather cut off our fingers in order to send a message to our employer to walk the walk they think they told us they were fighting for us but we were working in a government plantation which funds the government crackdown against them with immediately they chopped off our fingers. on this one but as i move finish sure force pushes off to shut down the entire under full ridges.

all activities are halted people or doctors of the streets sean time lost last 3 weeks. to come are also just to have been accused of killing civilians on burning down villages this gritty situation is very dire you know we the people of this always on the earth are cut off between the military and the separatist forces so you are not even sure that you will see the next. and also because of that on certainty it affects businesses most people cannot have this those who have businesses cannot really make a lot of money because it for those who are those who are restaurant people who don't go out a lot of people going to be out late you know there's general and sean in the. clothing holding discharged from hospital. this single mother of one is taking our very 1st steps knowing her life will never be the same again.

for more i'm joined from cameroon by the reporter on that piece. hi blaze what is the reason for this violence and how widespread is it. the reason for this violence is that the boat parties in this conflict are seeking for control. as they are called the separatists fighters want to control the in this begin region so who ever east living in this region who does not respect the laws that they have put in place because since the declared independence on october 1st sweet 17 putting please the our own what they call laws and those who do not respect these laws have been targeted also they carry an army 6 this the english part of can only still part of cameroon so they actually want to enforce the laws and whoever they seize ask a simple ties up sympathies also are targeted by the country and on the us why lots of villages have been destroyed have been burned down

a college humor writers basement know that a lot of people have created this region because of this violence that you are describing but tell us what life is like for people who still live there. life is very difficult for us on the phone. because they are caught up between 2 very powerful people that has to carry an army had also members union forces all the separatists fight and life has become very difficult the government has almost put in place here and the separate you also have the own laws for example when there are not up to elections that took place yesterday separatists declared no one should go out on the street this street should be should be empty and whoever disobeyed these laws or these. instructions point by the separatists i get it same as go against the laws pulled by by the state so people here are caught in between the separatists why it is and also the media jihad and the economy here

east on its knees businesses are shut down security cannot be guaranteed people cannot loan us the hard leads very difficult for people who are living here lots of people just like i mentioned before have been burned down so lots of people have left the village areas and are come to d.c. so they c.t.'s like boy a bomb into a very congested and there's just little money for people to leave but while the results of these elections change anything. for many other forms this would not change anything but for the go up and go tell you that in the past a lot of. the foods that have a special want to call the specials to cheese mean that i don't want to be able to decide some of their own laws and to. i mean business how an assembly where they can discuss the issues but the problem east issues can be just caused by the end influence but the government central government you know knows to needs to

get on not so most of reforms what they're looking for yes but i'm so happy for them to have some kind of security you know for them to go about their business is in peace and tranquility because of the region is really really affected by the conflict and not so people are losing money they're losing family members and business is just down. that was there and now african union leaders are promising the a you will in future play a greater role in resolving conflicts on the continent they made the page at the end you'll use them as an added entitle to silencing the guns the summit brings together more than 50 needed after president some are on the poster who is taking over the chair of the e.u. from egypt's abdel fattah el-sisi be a year commission chair opened the meeting with this mission statement. we hope that based on the principle of african solutions to african problems we can avoid external interference and other more dangerous agendas for africa and we're joined

now from the summit by the journalist and that's what is good to see so the message there is loud and clear african solutions to african problems with no external help what exactly is the message african leaders are trying to send. well good afternoon christina from what we understand you know that many african countries maintain ties with their so-called colonial masters and so relations between african countries even less than they have with other countries outside of the continent and that will do a lot of influence in terms of whether it's trade or even peace and security on the continent but with the introduction of the african continent our future area what the 8 you is now saying is that it needs to see more trade within the continent itself and that should eventually lend itself to peace and security on the continent and eventually economic growth and eventually make sure that the

issues of peace and security are dealt with on the continent so most of heikki mohamad the commission chairperson saying to the gathering when it was opened that all of this is intended to ensure that solutions for africa coming from the from within the continent and i went to him for 2030 in the african union as saying that in 2020 all wars on the conflict should have ended that this year i wonder if the theme for this year's summit silencing the guns was met with a little bit of skepticism. absolutely but that didn't stop presidents a lot of my post there's an african president who is now a huge chairperson as well as new stuff like you mohamed from making sure and says that while they do not expect the wars to end on the continent by the end of this year what they do expect to have 10 is trying to have a road map that will begin in may with south africa hosting an extraordinary summit to deal with the silencing of the guns on the continent and settle them up yourself

going further to say that in fact what you will do is ensure that countries outside of the continent do not you will conflict on the continent by funding talks he was speaking also in africa's president he's 52 particular conflicts that the one in libya and the other in south sudan as his priorities this year why. libya and south sudan many countries in africa that have rich oil resources but there are others that have even richer resources and these are countries that as i said are prone to outside influence that fuels conflict on the continent but if you go further than that if you look at issues of terrorism and others on the continent that continue to make the continent say that it wants to silence the guns president some of my posts are now coming forward to say that he's going to ensure that the conflict in libya where he believes and now we just heard today from

a commission that deals with pison security saying that the issue of libya those who are involved in it from us out of both continents must come out the u.n. embargo on arms must be respected as well as the issues that are being dealt with all the parties must now respect the agreements that are going on there that's and i'm going to guess and it's evident for us thank you. and that is it for now from africa you can catch the last for days on our website and facebook page today will leave you with these pictures of a group of people who say they have a hard time in nigeria. they're sometimes con men but they say they're just human beings with. an extra 5 way.

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