and on demand. language courses. and or you know. where. w. . this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes say prisoners in cameroon step up a reign of terror against civilians. rounded up or the report of one of them was struck in my back with a machete today and the other person completely chopped off my leg. what is fueling the violence and will elections being held in the country make a difference. and african solutions to africa's problems meet consonance leaders same village old wolves without outside help more on that 33rd african union summit

in addis ababa. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company for the 1st time in 7 years cameron has held local ad parliamentary elections the polls have been delayed because of violence and political turmoil in the country on camera his english speaking both waste and southwest turnout was no. people not to vote 2017 those separatists in a letter he declared independence and the formation of a new nation. 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. clued you are comma is recorded in hospital hollow cost chopped off but. she

sees. the men came to our home of the night accusing heart of defined a ban on education. the pretty clear there was a drop of make it a waterfall it was. a look at this it out through i sort of was all a dream. 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 them i said to you and the other person completely chop off my leg i saw my legs separated into. no i never got. the rebellion but under 4 militias is sticking a store on the population. a few kilometers away 42000 hectares of banana robot arm palm plantations have been abundant in this state all

form is a subcommittee guest employer in the country but should parties want it close close enough is walker's house fled due to increase our tarps many have been mutilated and all those cute. john was sleeping with our men read a desktop logic we want to be the one who will be missing 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 world war they to get money back they told us they were fighting for us but we were working in a government plan station which funds the government's crackdown against them with immediately they chopped off our fingers movement. we too late on this one of us i move in a sure force pushes off to shut down the entire full regions. all

activities are halted people or doctors of the streets shown time last 3 weeks. some are also just to have been accused of killing civilians on burning down villages this curtis it which one is very dire you know with the people of this always on earth are cut off between the military and the separatist forces so 'd you are not even sure that you will see the next. and also because of that on certainty it affects businesses most people cannot invest those who have business since 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 people dogs the hourly you know there's general and shown in the. clothing how conditions from hospital. to single mother of one is taking our very 1st steps knowing her life will never be the same again. from all i'm joined from

cameron by the reporter on that piece plays high plays what is the reason for this violence and how widespread is it. the reason for this violence is that the parties in this conflict are seeking for control. as they are called the separatists fighters want to control the in this begin region so whoever is leading in this region who does not respect the laws that they have put in place because since the declared independence on october 1st $217.00 put in place the our own what they call laws and those who do not respect these laws are being targeted also the cowering in the 6 the english part of come only still part of cameroon so a big to want to enforce the laws and whoever they seize but times are separate things also are targeted by the comedy and that's why lots of villages have been destroyed have been burned down a college humor writers base may 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 nothing. life is very difficult for under 4. because they are caught 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 has also had the own laws for example when there are not to elections that took place yesterday separatists declared no one should go out on the street to street should be should be n.c. and whoever disobeys. laws or these. instructions point by the separatists i get it same as do those who are against the laws put by by the state so people here are caught in between the separatists why it is and also the media

did call on me here east on its knees businesses have shut down security cannot be guaranteed people cannot loan us the hard leads very difficult for people who are living here lots of villages like i mentioned before have been burned down so lots of people have left the village areas and are come to the city so their cities like a very congested and there's just lots of money for people to leave but will the results of these elections change anything. for many of the foreigners this would not change anything but for the govan don't tell you that in december the fasano meeting wonderful to have a special what they call a specialist to choose me and i don't want to be able to decide some of the laws and to. i mean busybody how an assembly where they can discuss the issues but the problem these issues can be just caused by the end influence but the government central government you know knows to needs to value good on not so most of reforms

what they're really looking for yes but then to have peace with them to have some kind of security you know for them to go about their business is in peace and tranquility because they're 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 they now african union leaders are promising me a you will in future play a grace a role in resolving conflicts on the continent they made the page at the end you'll miss an address of a entitle to silencing the guns the summit brings together more than 50 needed as they include so that the president so i'm a poster who is taking over the chair of the e.u. from egypt abdel fattah el-sisi be a you 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. what is good to see is 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 is 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 africa continent of area what a u. 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 hockey mahama at the commission chairperson saying to that 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 pasta there's an african president who is now a huge chairperson as well as new stuff like you mohamed from making the assurances that while they do not expect for the wars to end on the continent by the end of this year what they do expect to have 10 is to have a roadmap 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 fuel conflict on the continent by funding talks he was speaking of south 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 she will 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 it now we just heard today from

a commission that deals with percent 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 all right that's it i want to get and that is evident for us thank you. and that is a from africa you can catch the last phrase 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 on torsion they're sometimes common but they say they're just human beings with.

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