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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 and parliamentary elections the polls had been delayed because of violence and political turmoil in the country on cameras in his speaking west and southwest turnout was no separatist warn people not to vote now in 2017 those separatists unilaterally 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. claudine our comma is recording in hospital colette was chopped off but. she

sees. the men came to our home our night accusing heart of defined a ban on education. pretty clued i was glad of it our what followed was tear up. a look at this a large group i saw it was all a dream. realized they kept hitting me with a machete because. the man started by gradually topping 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. this state all

far is a 2nd biggest employer in the country but should pretties want includes 1000 of his workers how fled do to increase our types many how the mutilated or the skewed. job was sleeping with our men rooted desktop logic one to me the milky way the one movie missy's 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 to get money back they told us they were fighting for us she thought we were working in a government promise haitian which funds the government's crackdown against them with immediately they chopped off our fingers move on we too late on this one of us and will. sure force pushes off to shut down the entire under full regions.

all activities are halted people off the streets sean time for last 3 weeks. palmer also just to have been accused of killing civilians i'm burning down villages this gritty situation is very dire you know with the people of this always on the road between the military and the separatist forces so you are not even sure you will see the next. and also because of that on certain see it affix businesses most people cannot invest those who have businesses cannot really make a lot of money because for those who are those who are restaurant people who don't go out a lot of people don't stay out late you know there's general and shown in the. globe in holland discharged from hospital. this single mother of one is taking our very 1st steps knowing how life will never be the same again

for more i'm joined from cameroon by the reporter on that piece plays a high blaze what is the reason for this violence and how widespread it is us. 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 whatever east leaving in this region who does not respect the laws that they have put in place because since the declared independence on october 1st 217 putting please do your own what they call laws and those who do not respect these laws have been targeted also they carry an army cease this english part of county is still part of cameroon so the 2 want to enforce the laws and whoever they see. ties up our separate ways also are targeted by the comedy and that's why lots of villages have been destroyed have been burned down because human rights groups

basically 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 with still nothing. life is very difficult for under 4. because they are caught up between 2 very powerful people that has to carry an army had also been in force these are the separatists fight and life has become very difficult the government has almost put in place the end to separate is also have 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 districts should be should be empty and whoever disobeyed these laws or these. instructions point by the separatists is targeted same as were against the last goodbye by the state so people here are caught in between the separatists what it is and also the media g.n.d.

economy here east on its knees business is now 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 counted to see the sort of cities like. very congested and there's just little money for people to buy while the results of these elections change anything. for many and reforms these would not change anything but for the goban don't tell you that in december the past a lot of the phones 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 east issues can be discoursed by the end influence but the government central government you know knows to needs to but he did not so most of reforms

what they're looking for easy for them to have peace for them to have some kind of security you know for them to go about their business in peace and tranquility because 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 the edge at the end you'll a used some as an editor of a entitle to silencing the guns the summit brings together more than 50. afghan 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 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 africa continent of area what a 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 hockey 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 want to in 2030 in the african union as saying that in 2020 all wars on the conflict should have ended that's 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 the president said i'm up or so 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 settled on a course of 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 off on africa's president he's picked 2 particular conflicts that the one in libya and the other in south sudan as his priorities this year why . libya and south sudan a few of the 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 them a possum 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 all right that's it i'm going to guess and it's evident for us thank you. and that is it for now from africa you can catch will last for days on our website and facebook page city will leave you with these pictures of a group of people who say they have a hard time in nigeria. they're sometimes. say they're just human beings the. next time private.

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