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i'm eddie mica jr hello and welcome to the show we start off in zimbabwe where more than half of women have been forced into office sexual favors in exchange for jobs medical care and even a school sports for the children this is according to reports by transparency international zimbabwe that's because bribery is widespread in the country but while men often have the financial means to be bribes women generally don't and many end up paying with sex we'll talk to someone from transparency international in a bad spot to fast he has one woman's experience of being forced to pay a bribe with her body. the same bobbie and woman has experienced 1st hand the pain of having to use sex to get work the single mother of 3 wishes to remain anonymous to protect her family. i went to a local company looking for

a job my name didn't appear on the list of job seekers when i asked why i was told that to get a job at a company you want to have to pay a bribe to be in a sexual relationship with one of the recruiting offices and look at a good game claiming. that once prosperous zimbabwe is in economic meltdown prices are ballooning and people are struggling leaving even middle class women prone to exploitation. by kids a painful and stressful experience but out of desperation and thinking of my family i had to do it i needed to pay my children's school fees and there was no one else who could help me and it wasn't easy but there was nothing else i could do we just did it. and she doesn't think 6 will exploitation in zimbabwe will decrease until the economic situation gets better. for more on this

i'm joined by one daughter all from transparency international zimbabwe. many thanks for your time now your outfit blames the rise in sexual bribery on corruption and financial instability can you help us explain the correlation here. so thank you so much saul. what was going through the worst economic crisis the less opportunities for people to get jobs the limited opportunities only exist in the informal sector and the little pushing it is in the form. they force women to use sex as a car to octane services like employment opportunities to force the men to use sex as a confidence to defend their life you would as they engage in formal business such as court cross border trading so i think these the relationship between the extent to me is shrinking and providing a little bit unit is and women then become vulnerable victims will be the brunt of

court action of this nature. tell us why a a woman being forced to pay bribes with sex. so i think the reasons but i'll speak more to the main reason so the 1st thing is that it is the most common form. it's a pretty level in bribe to take place is. so negative you women they like access to copy tall which is required. and then they have now forced to use sex as something of value. so i think chief among the reasons the very fact that women by gender stereotypes the up confined liberated the reductive economy so you 6 then he is used as a car in c. . but he said within the context of but i body being a pet this form. and the corruption which i think has been in creating all culture

. how serious really the effects of sextortion. something the fix of succession i think the unimaginable i think. you need to link it up with the shelf section to productive healthy where we have had cases where some women i think infected with hiv virus hiv virus as a result of sextortion part of it i think is a ball to that. this. is a cot in c. . also speaking about women most if we might be married and the impact of feet on the family. not to disclose this form of caution for fear that the familial breakdown for fear that this was. them some of these women are chinese students. so i think we need to look at it from

a victim perspective from my kids took as perspective as. does. all free men can find in the disability to say i was survived by selling tomatoes across all the streets so i think these are some of the impacts. them the impact in terms of. being infected by sick. and productive healthy like hiv aids. now you mention that this sort of thing has become like a culture in society and that's very serious so how then do we tackle sextortion. i saw them 234 things that the government needs to to do that. he needs to take into the very fact that this form of corruption does exist but the point. is that the use this form of corruption if it told it is.

sexual abuse all dualistic abuse so i think the under corruption lol needs to glean into this reality the 2nd and most important thing is to depart. and it putting institutions with women chose to report and it. fits that is the police i think if you talk about the police and it. i think even in europe so i think there's a need to put a friendly face some of these institutions thank you very much farai it was under a from transparency international zimbabwe. now in west africa to presidents for. a 4th time in office opposition candidates have alleged there was organized fraud in the election polls today. after

a crushing election victory president in big ten's his 15 year rule as well as his family's grip on the country which began when his father took power 5 decades ago. monday togo's electoral commission announced it was reelected with 72 percent of the but. look on. the candidate of the union for the republican party mr s. is enough. is provisionally proclaimed elected president of the republican. base victory was expected in the land of 8000000. or so and i. i'm overjoyed full of the totally people are so happy and what is old is it today is a great day for us we did so much to win we have worked hard and it gave results so we were sure we were going to win. any use of will mean he

promised us and again tonight he came to reassure us that he will stick to his promises i trust will do so. the opposition is crying foul. the main opposition candidate accuses the authorities of setting up fake polling stations ballot stuffing and getting people to cast multiple votes and yes in base favor the divided to position struggle to launch a concerted campaign to unseat messing be the president says the people have decided. this is the game of democracy. the toga least people have expressed themselves. we must respect their choice and. stop improvising and stop inventing imaginary numbers. that. the final results are expected to be

announced by the supreme court in the coming days. now this prime minister of bonnie has made a surprise appearance in court room a swear swirling that he has fled the country after he failed to attend called hearing into the matter of his 1st wife on friday he pollute the bonny was gunned down outside his home in my seattle just 2 days before her husband took office as the feast of divorce the bonnie is arguing that his office gives him immunity from prosecution. and i'm joined by reports on the qua non the tiny in my saddle for an update on the story. many thanks for your time so so tell us what to wear the arguments made in courts that eventually led to the case being to fred well one key issue that the prime minister. put before them i just did quote and

this is the lowest court in the soldier that was supposed to charge him with but i an attempt at maida and that argument was that as a sitting prime minister charging him with a criminal offense can present a constitutional crisis for the kingdom of his so too so what he's saying is that the constitutional court which is mandated to on rubble or to in top print the constitution and the so too must now make a determination whether in fact he can be charged as a sitting probably minister now there's a lot of pressure on him to step down what is likely to happen now. well you know that he said he will step down either in july or before that provided. and party process is called who died before then but what now happens is that his political power to the opposite or invention has the need to time and time again he is not seeing eye to eye with his national executive committee and that national executive could be too wants him to step down however the members within his political party

who are members of parliament who have a small power than the national executive coming to us saying that they want someone else to take over us so now the question is who takes over when top cop on the steps down is it someone who is 2nd in the party as 5 members of parliament are concerned or is it someone else that the party will put forward for the parties in parliament to agree ok i guess time will tell. me and thank you for your time. and that's from our from africa you can catch all stories on our website. now the cycle. on monday i'm not part of the race so the next best way to celebrate the event pictures. cyclist around africa.

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