nearly 3 top talents 3 life stories and fairy journeys to the top club colleagues. in 16. w. . in the art of limited to. africa. what's in store. for the future. for the major cities to get insight. into. the lead. this is deja news africa on the program today the fight for faith playing uganda's opposition same as the ruling party is using the coronavirus pandemic to steal the upcoming election with political rallies that they say their message isn't reaching voters because the president is blocking

their role cost we'll hear from the young hopeful who wants to pollute the way it was 70 from office. i present myself as a book to give up all these resources what we need right now is a leadership that we need to lead us through these dictatorships right now as we speak i know that i am fully qualified to lead uganda. but does pop star bobby why have the staff to be president. christie want to welcome to the news africa it's good to have your company it is 6 months to go until you can do is presidential election and campaign read have been banned because of the coronavirus pandemic the electoral commission has candidates to use media in states to get their message to voters. but the opposition say's

they don't have fair access to the country's broad cost is in a moment i'll be talking to the man who's emerged as the strongest presidential aspirant but 1st this report on the country's 1st virtual campaign. on the radio for information about uganda's elections due in february next year she loves political rallies but she won't attend any this time uganda's electoral body has banned them to stop the spread of the coronavirus now you'll get i did not get him i like it when a candidate talks to me directly and i can also ask what i want entirely depending on the radio is going to be hard to beat it it is. on top of playing candidates now have to mainly campaign via the radio television and the internet. we are in

the flood stage of community transmissions it means that we need to be one out and find ways of accepting the new normal and that just from the conventional ways of campaigning but stopping candidates from physically campaigning for votes has not gone down well with the opposition vanes to the accused president yoweri museveni of using the pandemic to money play to the electoral process this is. simply outrageous that. anybody consider that action held in such an environment limited to media can even most remote area considered to be an election that is free of fair right from simpson to the end this is about 70 but the

government maintains that it is public health fast we are all our way and that could be demented is here in uganda and we are also minded to make sure that ugandans are given information and they are protected in one way or land and so it would be very unfortunate for anyone to believe that government is taking advantage of the situation but even media campaigning will be difficult demand for could overwhelm local stations and the country's online network. more than 2000 candidates are vying for a public all theses from village labor to the crazy d.n.c. to the same time even if you committed all the time on the $292.00 radio stations for a period of 3 months or so still you would not be able to meet the demand so where people going to campaign from even if you decided to say ok fine some will use

radios others will use other social media platforms the internet penetration in uganda doesn't exceed 50 percent. that could mean not getting information from some panty beats for the politicians whose message you want to reach. across to them have. so how will the in a bit of a hold election rallies affect the campaign that is a question i put to ugandan activist rob it also known as the wine. sure it's actually not only the inability to hold rallies but we cannot eat we cannot go on radio stations they lost them all supposed to go on a radio station the military surrounded the radio station beat up people on step interesting analysing them in uganda. the regime while.

the minister of health and other people from the ruling party are going around holding must rallies and must processions the people the members of the opposition particularly those from the people power movement which is under which is having the national unity platform as a political wing are completely not allowed to express themselves to meet people or to have any kind of political engagement that is the situation in uganda although the people of uganda are fighting back mr kerry let me let's talk about the election itself that your country uganda has had the same president when he 3 decades now what did the opposition in the country more than 3 defeats fair enough it what did the opposition stand a better chance if it would unite it you've not been able to form alliances without the opposition member isn't that self defeating well i must say yes unity is

a solution against any dictatorship and we have examples in the recent past and the most recent being the election in my life when that was massively won by the opposition because they came together but again i must be quick to say that the opposition does not only mean the politicians but it means the people that are opposed to the dictatorship in uganda i and my team of spent the last 2 years talking to all the political players all the political groupings in uganda so that we can come together unfortunately they have been in a lot of interests that we have not been able to agree. that being see i know that the people of uganda we are here to advise i convinced that people of uganda already united on this when you've been telling us why the people power movement is for the sake of the election that i together with my team . to create. the political wing of the people power movement and that is going

national unity platform we did this because we knew that we had to answer the cries of the people to unite we established the national the national unity platform to unite all forces of change but it had to come as a political party and right now as we speak the moderates can't let it of people across into the national yes please so i am less interrupted there because i do want to ask you this right you what do you have to say it's it to ugandans who think that you've got a great job in using your voice to amplify the voices of 5 this is especially young people in the country but they argue that that doesn't necessarily make you presidential material well i'm not here because i'm presidential material there are so many people who are presidential material that in thousands but they do have

a voice either can become zia i present myself as a group. i present myself as a group to put together all these resource what we need right now is a leadership that will lead us through this dictatorship right now as we speak i know that i'm fully qualified to lead uganda but again i know that it's not my qualifications i don't it's a qualification of all the ugandans that one change this is i'm not doing it as a person we have doing this as a team but again i must also see that i am presidential might give you educated and well researched and will travel but most importantly if we have to compare with a president that has presided over our country for more than 34 years he was he is not as educated as i am he was not as great people as i am and you was around my age when he came to power when he took over the country fair i want to believe that i am as fully as him or even more serious than i want to bring this conversation

see you mr you because what is it that you are offering a ugandans talk to us about some of your policy let's talk about next year's election assuming you get the job and you are president of uganda what is the 1st thing for example that you will do as the president. i together with my team want to put an end to a lot less leadership we have 5 core principles that we are targeting one is the rule of law and respect for human rights which you don't have in uganda the laws exist we have the most beautiful constitution and we have amazing laws which we do not respect which the government in uganda does not respect to want to return the rule of law and the respect for human rights as a common person one of our biggest cries as being the head of state that because we lose so many people that we shouldn't be losing 300 more than 300 children a day and more than 1000 women giving birth die in uganda on

a daily basis one to improve the health one to improve education who want to improve agriculture because that is the bedrock of our economy we want to bring back the ownership of the of the natural resources and land of our country to the hands of the people and most importantly finally we want to unite our deeply divided country divided along ethnic. religious and political aligns one to unite our country and then prepare project a better image of our country because we as you can and we are better than they we being represented or rather misrepresented all right that is. better known as bobby when talking to us from kampala uganda thank you say the global tourism industry is battling to survive in the pandemic here's a look at how the ritual tools are bringing is it is to handle. this is what truth

looks like in some 2020 virtual pictures of the one traditional searched houses and the capital kigali. we've used that a lot doing this at lock down time when people were not traveling to entice people . to come back without the pandemic all this would have been peak time for tourism in 2018 the industry brought more than $400000000.00 euro in revenues to the small central african country now results like this and the singer mark eagerly see only local tourists and. young digital entrepreneur patika who takes photographs of the place from every angle to create a virtual tour of this and other sites. i realize. as a country and in general or so africa was on there presented on google maps on digital

maps and this is where the idea came from i realized this. we could do it ourselves and was affordable. petrik our own work teamed up with state agencies now plants are underway to integrate his virtual tour with the booking at so that once all travel bans lifted digital experiences can easily become real. and that's it for now see you next time be sure to check out our other stories on africa and our facebook and twitter. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see is the 5.

we've got on youtube. mysteries from nigeria you know that's what money would. be. authentic. for and successful beyond belief. this is the way we do it. would start august 7th on d w. welcome to arts and culture it takes some pretty extraordinary measures these days to put on a concert safely here in europe where the coronavirus is somewhat contained at least for now organizers are trying out all kinds of methods will be changed the way we

attend performances that question coming up on the show and. stories untold nonwhite known male and queer voices and american art finally getting their fair do's. and a part of the former border between east and west berlin now covered in you've got it coronavirus graffiti. but 1st off for months now musicians have been wives streaming from their living rooms to their bedrooms madonna even addressed fans from her bath tub but when and how will we get back to real in person concerts right now in large parts of the world it's completely unthinkable but here in europe in some places people are already doing it here are some of the ways how. this is probably the easiest way to feel safe and keep your.