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on a problem needing nothing to eat will sell. hello i'm perceived while come to news africa it's good to have your company acid attacks on the rise in uganda and campaign groups say most of the cases reported in 2018 in the bay recorded 10 times as many attacks than were reported to police they say victims fear reprisals now campaign is a demanding tough unrolls they also want the government to cover the costs of surgery for victims and provide compensation many victims suffered for years off to their attacks in a moment i'll be talking to an acid attack survivor who's featured in our next report. 12 years ago daniel's life was changed forever

someone he once considered a friend attacked him without warning. they knew that this is about it because i have never heard about people being part of us that. sort of that moment go forward to it was. my eyes started. running this kinesthetic. painting mislead. ever since that day daniel has struggled with confidence and lost trust in other people he's just one among many stories of life's devastated by acid attacks. jennifer to see was assaulted by a coworker who's jealous of her success she lost her sight in one eye and remembers that people witnessing the attack were filming rather than helping her. she had to rebuild her life from scratch. pad won't walk every day i will tell you what

a horror. movie the scene with the people seem to you. is here you. leave me you are because of the way you have and you walk in. support groups a most as it attacks a new gander go unreported meaning perpetrators are rarely punished now some survivors are trying to change that lynette was walking to class when she heard footsteps behind her and then burning agony her ex-boyfriend had attacked her after she rejected the marriage proposal he was never arrested now she complains for stricter sentencing to crack down on these attacks 1st but it's always what we want to include in the. points for us but they're treating us. these people who may build out our new also become we need their sin to. make.

someone as poor as he has been proven they were to. they from prison thanks to thirds things are changing in this compound a courtroom one victim watched on as the men accused of attacking her with acid face trial proof that the wheels of justice are turning a bite slowly. my guest today is live from and acid violence uganda who we just saw in that report welcome to the deadly news africa linearity tell us what happened to you. get really on board for me i was a student at marker a university i had a boyfriend who wanted us to get my return from name a few of his marriage proposal because my progress was more books than getting my rig so when i requested him to give me something and 1st focus on my books is that

you suspected that maybe i had someone someone else that's why the next school was a rejecting his marriage proposal then later on if want me up 'd there in the university want to know the next thing that was 11 is don't worry. me i thought it was your route i played a role they started hearing that but. we should take her on a will break that saying i've come to see if so what i've seen how my body was but then later i heard someone saying that if that's when they want to know that's what i. see why didn't your attacker face justice. thank you no new guy and our 1st one there is no law on us that religious and bed at 10 when we appointed that pierce the police officers come to report all the hospital i remember they don't take all their talk that well let's see what was happening and i was intensive care so they told my prince instead of you going to

court just sitting down with this suspect and you are you know what she ate from how much you want this person to play you something that really i will if you know this person has done harm for her come from something harmful i was not willing for . it so i thought maybe it could have made as from a prince not we are looking to get a single coin from the suspect this is going to court so the police officer that being the can when they really needed neck to play need if you try to go into court you're not just it's because there's no 1000000 uganda that's the violence we have on retaining we're not point i'll take no talking about anything that i just say oh it's so limits of what do you want the government to do what are you campaigning for right now you're campaigning for a specific acid lope. 1st of all it keeps you come here to you come if you come to your guns or actually this is sort of like any other commodity on the streets of comfort and everywhere it is it is as cheap as

a couple of big trust of one couple one liter of us if it costs around if there is something that one a couple of us it can and it one's a leg so we need a specific euro well this is low we'll talk about as to vote is we need is that good as those people were dealing in absolute top place incest there must be a compromise made a government that's mean you got no we have so i saw all these doing acid so in case you want to by using me as to fight maybe if i could just fight national id well but you can present your idea you tell this person i'm certain so i'm working it may be an advantage to rick i need acid but all that is required makes that not see i did not ask where so people death access there were a one stop us that is very obsessed now so what we need is especially people at risk that will trend trick us and then misuse of acid which you also want things to do like strict adults. all right i must explain all of that for the big trade that

planets limits. thank you. for months now swarms off designee have been ravaging the horn of africa and while governments have begun aerial spraying to prevent a new generation of breeding the u.n. is warning off a looming food crisis it saves the region needs $76000000.00 u.s. dollars to fight the plague but at the moment they barely have a 3rd of that and we visited some kenya farm is to find out how they have been affected by the infestation. they were only there for one day in mid january bernard my congress was invaded by there's a locusts the ate everything from grains beans and even the entire field of watermelons but that's not all. look i do know.

normally by this time they're ready for harvest. have destroyed them all. the flowers even the leaves. of the will to see. the locusts eat everything in their way in a day one square kilometer swarm of locusts complete as much food as 35000 people. at this time of year my congress grand reason usually filled to the brim but now they're practically empty. you get to go. on what i've harvested is very little. expected to get sunk so green grams 15 sacks of maize didn't and i didn't get rid of that they've all been destroyed. his neighbor is equally devastated without the harvest he. i know what to do.

there's nothing left to harvest there's nothing else i don't know how to do it's just this farm that's where i get through it we're afraid my family and friends everyone because that's what i do i'm a farmer. this is the worst look at infestation that kenya has seen in 70 years farmers in this region have lost nearly all of their crops some of them have started planting again but they don't know what they will do if the locusts return . to step up the fight against the locusts kenya has started training its voluntary national youth service while aerial spraying of pesticides is already being used to fight the i don't know just these youths are being trained as ground spray is against younger locusts which kong fly yet the government believes it still might be able to stop the spread of them to the station but this may be its last chance if they're going to know what is your news not. for their quantity in kenya now then we have even breeding grounds in the country and we become sources off

and frustrations in the future. for farmers like. the government if it has come too late he doesn't know how he will make up for his lost crops and he only hopes that his next harvest will survive for a few more support. now with his hopes resting on international support dominic burgeon the man overseeing the un's relief efforts tells steve wu that time is off the essence. what needs to happen next is that we have a very short window of opportunity we are in between 2 planting season we need to go on to control the locust population now before the planting season starts in march april this is the main planting season we have a very fruitful. european union the european commission as we speak 1st of all financial commitments we have an appeal out for $76000000.00 so far we have

received about $30000000.00 if we consider $10000000.00 euro that is being announced today by the european commission now to some years from the sporting world there has been yet more success for south africa's all conquering springboks the winds of rugby world cup winners win name sports team at the prestigious laureus world sports awards captain. was on hand to accept the award along with many of his teammates the glorious awards have become known as the sporting aust is what an honor for the springboks. and obviously all. that same believe it's a full did everything is africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we leave you now with a nice from mind off why the springboks are being faces around the world.

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