passionate drama competition marketing numbers atmosphere. intuition love hate. crimes find us fans and. hold. on you to join us. this is africa coming up on the program. in west reach you worrying in new left troops in the region on the u.s. . terrorism drill. this time to stop the jihadists also coming out. when we were told to shoot we had to do it if you said no we would torture you or kill you. there cool. downs civil war thousands of child soldiers the reports of how the u.n. is trying to help some of them get obama. on these are paying to

buy they call him mr fish because he's using his campaign against the destruction of your ship. i. and you're welcome to the program now more than 1500 so just from 34 countries have been taking part in the u.s. led counterterrorism exercise in west africa the troops were. told a growing extremist threat in the region the security situation there is western thing by the day with jihad is the staging more attacks and killing increasing numbers of civilians but. also growing over the possibility that the u.s. may be about to. numbers in the read. and i'm joined now by

our correspondent fred mooney he's just come back from mauritania one of the 2 countries where the drill is taking place a very widespread time you for having me always a pleasure so so tell us more about this counterterrorism exercise and how different really is it from previous ones i mean when it comes to training. all these military shootings it's not different but what was did this time around is a tree to focus on activities that touch the lives of ordinary people like in mauritania and this is that they had to treat most cutters and cover most for ordinary citizens that actually they are targeting the military part but also they're carrying. these people that there was something different compared to the last ones and why is it important then gets closer to the locals and i mean it's important

because the terrorists have been nuku to people because they have no jobs they have no food they have they have nothing and it's easy when someone is hungry it's easy to take to take him with you promise something now that the government the intro people organizes think about ordinary people thinking about job creation and development activities i think this is something that can help to counter terrorism ok now talking about the u.s. how can the see the leading the fight against terrorism when they are already planning to reduce the number of their troops on the ground it's very tricky question but also very interesting because when you look at the intelligence information on the u.s. about this issue in the sahara region they predict it was telling situation in this ahead. i think for me i think they're thinking about the bad.

needs to be all the investment that needs to be put into this i hear and they think that this is another afghanistan this is another type of iraq. or syria so they are kind of afraid that's why they want france and e.u. members to take initiative so even even african union of course on all hands should be on board this one but the other question is to counter terrorism i should say rather is on the rise even with involvement of u.s. troops and other international troops on the ground what is happening to these groups that makes it seem like the actually getting stronger in the beginning when the terrorism started in this region there these terrorist groups were walking individually individual groups but now they have been working together they started working together. is working with the ag does something that had never happened

before so because they have different ideologies but they have decided to put their ideology. aside and then focus on their main cause which is to fight their governments and to make sure that governments there cannot govern . the well. we can only hope because many on the continent hoping that the e.u. and other international musicians will come on board and make the fight against terrorism work out fred but we need to be reporter thanks for the time. pressure. after more than 5 years of civil war south sudan managed to form a unity government last month but many people still traumatized by the conflict like the thousands of young people who were forcibly recruited as child soldiers they were subjected to extreme violence and abuse the boys were forced to fight and

. the girls were raped and used as wives the u.n. is trying to help some of them to rebuild their lives at the special facility in the south of the country. peace is slowly settling in the u.n. estimates that 900000 children and adolescents were doctored and used as child soldiers during the 5 year civil war. here at duke center some of them are starting to find defeat again. christian he was captured by an group at the age of 13 for years he lived through hell he says. it was. true. for long yes it was a fad. not that before. but one

slaughter someone with their will kill you my brother my brother may kill the who. and i was barely 13 when she was snatched from her way to school fighters turned her into a killing machine used and abused her upon our long island when we were there we were beating people torturing people robbing people's property. when we were told to shoot people we had to do it if you said no we would torture you or kill you. it was also hard for girls because the boys used just as wives. and. as a result many of the former female child soldiers have little children and has no training in sewing with the new skills she hopes to make some money to pay for the future education of her little boy and hers she dreams of becoming a doctor. the training here is one part of

a 3 year we have visitation program for my child soldiers co funded by the european union's humanitarian aid this there are over 2000000 children who have lost out on any form of education what we're trying to focus is on the children because we don't want another last generation to give them some sort of basic education to give them basic skills so they can participate in the reconstruction of their country. christian wants to be a plumber and rebuild his life as well as his village ravaged by the war. with the support of trained psychologists who do trauma counseling and the prospect of a long term as well as peace and stability christian has. to believe in a happier future. now they

see speaks louder than words so does painting and. knows all about that he's. using his fish painting to campaign against the destruction of the ocean through human activities his words have been celebrated by ghana's presidency and the u.s. government is hoping to draw attention to the problem around the world through his things. in his to do you. know about 2 things he laughs deeply fish on the ocean he's nickname. for eat mr fish much of this which depicts to see creatures struggle with pollutants dumped into the ocean no specific scene when he 1st started painting over 20 years ago but having grown up in

a fishing community. his consent for marine life group with environmental issues becoming more and more pressing i've been painting from the shut eye and seeing some clean for some years but. seeing the pollution aspect of it it is going to affect and even kind of fishes we have in the oceans so few years to come if we. do anything about it in this way is not ending up in. the paintings illustrates the puti of the contrasting meet with the damage done by human activity we want this is a job that lives of he hopes it can also save the greeter peple of helping preserve the ocean for future generations. just imagine if we

stand to see that dinosaurs. have died and gone. it is in our power in our hands to make sure that the sharks and wills still remain in the ocean for the next generation future in that we are going to give lead to those who come to my that this was leap not to see them in pictures. visits that beach in his community every day picking up waste washed ashore. he recycles these waste items by using them for his spin teens telling their real stories of how polluted the sea is much new cool has a wish to to wendy live under the sea to observe what's going on day and fight for it to be kept clean. because of it like in there which i got most significantly i thought it was you know it makes me think more people. yeah that's

a joke you want to take and he probably relates to leave in there to see that life and i'll be able to leave in a lot of the beautiful putting it all up like the importance of preserving the beauty of the machine. i tweak it's a constant reminder of that. that's what i call work with a purpose and that's it's now from did news africa you can catch all our stories on our web sites on the facebook page so what are we leaving you with today we've got some more pictures of afterwards and hey let's all support the movements to protect our oceans it's not funny out holes so much class they mean damn thing to do the ocean and that this thing just the next time it's 5 an hour.

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a self-proclaimed music nerdy type whose new album suddenly tackles. the 1st casualties on the cultural front in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak were of course in china cinemas and theaters were quickly shut down there and film productions were halted but now is countries here in europe scramble to contain outbreaks the effects on the european art scene are unavoidable and here are some of the high profile cancellations thus far. then it is almost recognisable as tourists stay away in droves st mark's square is almost deserted. the famous venice carnival. but the outbreak is no longer confined to northern italy. the.