threatening drastic action find out more wrong to the point. to the point. of insisting on t.w. . to listen to people the world over information to provide. the means to want to express g.w. on facebook and twitter are up to date and in touch follow us. this is news africa here's what's coming up on the program. we have an exclusive the d.w. reports from cameroon on how the country's military is struggling to stop the separatist movement trying to create a greek i always think. of it 19 threatens to destroy a years of progress meeting or reducing the deeds that's in south africa plus.

it's time to mask up these streets causes in harare zimbabwe i helping to create awareness for the coup in 1000 pandemic cases rise across africa. i. welcome to the program in cameroon fighting between the military on english speaking separatists has killed more than 3000 people on this please hundreds of thousands more it's been nearly a year since the country started you national dialogue to address the crisis on the ground not just changed again the screws of access to the front line of the fighting are of course up blasé young travelled with cameroon government soldiers battling separatists in the areas in the west which the west affected by the.

conners and the forces are leading the view to new formed this suspected of being a hideout for the countries under foreign sympathies militias sympathies incomers english speaking regions was the quote of breakaway state they call. they often use abundant properties like these come. cameroon soldiers a task recovery days surges see we started as a street protest. but we're not in the state of war we're in a crisis we're in a situation where we have to restore lauren or a nice men or a brown those who have just gone astray. he's all but dead to gary this is a corner at once very lively town now in regions fighting between separatists and the army has forced inhabitants to flee it's been like this for 3 years nothing in the town is functional not even hospitals. soldiers

and civilians are also fun huge controversies here so just give the militias for everything. is on. as time has passed we've noticed the conflict has progressed. the separatists have launched a campaign against the population they carry out kidnappings and ask for ransom. demand and a long song. for the current army has been accused of committing serious human rights abuses against the local population allegations it has repeatedly denied however so just a film bunny villages and attack in sea millions meanwhile hundreds of sympathies fight assad left the movement citing financial mismanagement from the leaders have brought. this moment to sip it is fighting for 3 years he has not joined a government honesty program. some of us have realized everything we were told

about the separatist movement was a lie the leaders used us to make money for them that's why i started fighting. we leave you know we don't know we have to immediately be. yet another town diverse that by fighting along destroyed everyone has split. i do mean it should be security is always tight the commander tells us support is hard to own comes just a few kilometers away all the army has set up barracks like these across angle for cameroon attacks on secession is still take place but i mean since they are walking have to contact. the army shows those weapons including explosive to see was seized from the separatists in another town does hospital was bombed to the ground so just a separatist point. for the act at least for patients died on debates.

and the local population is living in fear because i have the impression that the separatists are living alongside them. but efforts are being made that they can live in an atmosphere free of fear. communist government syria planning to rebuild down to 4 regions nevertheless is still unclear how this will happen we continuous fighting and destruction in the area. joining me now is did you report top plays a young who sent that report from cameroon and when you weigh in separatist territory what were civilians telling you about how they've been affected by the fighting. first of all so we didn't see lots of civilians wounded but the few that school was told just won't be able to carry out yet because they leave in the field he can't go to churches they can't go

to the fields because the freight caught in the crossfire. and now he has a thing just like the separatists come in me has been accused of committing serious human rights abuses so we can't really see that the military are the good guys and separatists not a bad guys can we. maybe we didn't call for us to i didn't. wish them on god and religion tells us that we have here to protect the people and to support the city i'm here to fight for the people but in reality the people on the ground know brunt of these fine and i'm. all in human rights abuses called into human rights groups. so why add a separatist and then they speak in regions so eager to create a state. does it goes back to the

history of cameroon amber it was freed it was i mean you said by 2 separate colonial powers the french and the british and the outlook for regions where we are concentrating our thought was i mean you start by the british style and your cultural is different from that of the french speaking region also the end of regions have much more resources including peeps rule robots and to feel as though we do not enjoy these resources just the more reason why most of these people claim want to separate and control disturb the own country and to control of the resources busybody. briefly before you go cameron started a national dialogue nearly a year ago to resolve the conflict in yangon a foreign areas is it making a difference at all. 11 months down the line maybe since cameron held a national dialogue to discuss the crisis more shares not changed on the ground there are still kidnappings killings in the villages and people here do not really

expect much to happen even after a year most are past. unfortunately plays a young reporter and camera and thank you. more than 50 percent of africa overnighting cases in south africa the country also has the highest number of hiv positive people in the world so africa has made great progress in reducing the number of deaths from hiv aids over the last 10 years but now. and demick to wipe out these games resources redirected underproduction and import of underage or virals is hindered by the lock down the evening large numbers of south africans at risk. it was an april the 47 year old. started to panic. that was when her doctor in

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a levels of tb in our country and. in the town of ungood one in the north east a dutch aid group is making sure patients get the medication they need here the drugs are not in short supply. but many patients are reluctant to go to crowded local clinics because they fear they could contract coronavirus the group is also making home visits explaining why it is crucial to keep on taking a.r.v.'s. this is not just a problem in places such as this. some urban areas say there's been a 25 percent drop in the number of patients coming in for hiv treatment because they're afraid of getting covert 19. now with over a 1000000 over 900. 23000 that's across africa many on the continent creating awareness of the pandemic and zimbabwe people are being encouraged to wear face

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it's paying off and the graffiti is bringing the message directly to the people in the townships their plan is to spread the pain teams across the country. i think that's cool and that wraps up this show for more stories there's a did you dot com slash africa or check out facebook on twitter stacey and i for now. we're all set. to go beyond vs. we're on live. as we take on the world. we're all about the stories that matter to you country. what ever it

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