discover who. subscribe to documentary on you tube. this is deed of many years africa coming up on the program they once fought and killed for boko haram former jihadist militants are being offered a way back into civilian life of a scheme success is at risk of some major in uphold the plans to let perpetrators go free. and corruption amid the corona crisis south africa's auditor general described the large scale misuse of covert 1000 relief funds as a frightening. hello

i'm told the ball welcome to news africa we're glad you could join us my jury has suffered the effects of a decade logged insurgency by the boko haram jihadist group part of the government's response apart from a military operation has been to offer an amnesty to repentant militants these fighters of then rehabilitated and steered back into society except they sometimes end up living alongside the very victims of their attacks as the correspondent funny has been finding out in the city of maiduguri in northeast nigeria. what come to my degree this sign existed long before the city gate negative notoriety for being the birthplace of boko haram in the past my degree was known as the manger training camp a decade into the jihadi. more than 2000000 people have been displaced some of them find refuge in this. at 1st sight not much has changed since we visited last year

but this time we need to form a book or on militants who have also been assigned to this camp like. he learns how to repair shoes during the 2 years he was with. he learned something else. they wanted us to be part of their insurgency and become people who are willing to attack and kill. we went through a training to be able to kill and kill. the 45 year old claims. considered him to all to be a move to rock. the camp he still stigmatised he says he was forced to join the group. when we came to the camp a lot of people accused us of so many things but that doesn't bother us. we just want to live in peace that if we did it. with we here refers to

a dozen others to now live in the camp he's becoming a hairdresser and claims he repents his actions. those people i've killed whenever i think about it i have sleepless nights may allah forgive me i want to get married go to school i want to be a very good person but if. you are both born every government funded training program to help reintegrate militants that sounds like mockery to the victims here who fled their homes lost their relatives and face an uncertain future. she need to man you know to maybe i don't know how my life and that of my children will look. what i desire it's better to train our children than there are so many people here agree on this if they trained our children it would have more impact we're angry that. the victims. and former militants living

side by side preparing to gather free entrance into society wants theory speace that's the goal but outside of the camp life is anything but stable. the capital city of borno state was considered a relatively safe haven but just a few weeks ago several rocket propelled explosives landed here in this city allegedly fired by militants many here in my degree as the violence is far from being contained. in the wake of new attacks it is difficult to convince people here to reintegrate for. somehow be sure that we are really safe around them so just how fair is it to rehabilitate these people without doing the same for their victims for. the answer seems simple. it is absolutely unfair.

it also encourages god to have never joined the insurgency towards 'd tempted because they are even more. victims he says rehabilitation why violence is still ongoing it's counterproductive but as other observers put it amnesty to acts militants though a bitter pill to swallow may be the only way to achieve peace once the war on terror is over. joining me now from cardinal in northern nigeria is pastor dr james and we hear from the interfaith mediation center nongovernmental organization involved in the radicalization programs for members dr we thank you for joining us why is the reintegration of these sex militants so urgent when some people would argue that they should be paying for their actions in prison. well it's always been because the more you are keep them where are the more

detention and the more you get more people who are former us going to join there we are being deprogrammed men if you put in. strongly direct draws former us in how much had been given more privileges than the young people who did not participate in the violence and so if you want to reintegrate we feel that the government should take its time and the people involved like ourselves that morally just leaders should be recruited to go and deprogram the people in difficult to reprogram them to was really integrated there now coming back to decide how art there is a nice balance empowerment and you give this right you guys who have been derided paralyzed and the one that could lie so nice that you balance this is

a want so that will come back that people all to receive in them when i would receive them with a more open minded and see that also did not this not. to go and fight what if you know what i want to say i support so from you know we we have reached out to the nigerian government for comment so far but they haven't granted this as as you are saying should a more attention be paid to the communities themselves which include the victims of these former militants actions. very well that is it otherwise. it will attract young people joining in that really turns nasty conduits and then. come back and people are still so that is the need for the really just leaders to come together. in this. community. to give them

a mood of liberation that i didn't don't want was deliberate to detect those who are not white and the government most. do what they do with the host and deal with their articles then you can have a community. and very briefly surely of any stream or effort also to explain to the communities why these acts militants and need to be real need to be ushered back into society. very well spoken that is that neat although i will leave public surely in exile and that it's time to keep people don't decide so you know that get them that they need to preach forgiveness and. don't use important but it just be done in. the community and not only that got me thinking they might you want no can not like that ok apostle dr james move away here in nigeria thank

you for your time thank you for having me. with over 600000 infections south africa has been the country worst hit by the coronavirus on the continent yet it appears its response has been plagued with corruption after public servants members of the ruling party a.n.c. and private companies were accused of looting from the country's relief fund president cyril on a post called for an investigation now the auditor general has published his findings uncovering major flaws and corruption. an opportunity to prevent. and. then there are few our.

correspondent in south africa has been following the story for us good to see you is anyone in south africa surprised about the auditor general's findings in q tell us a bit more about them well not really because there were few indications in the past weeks actually a lot of them more and more reports coming out about corruption in relation to those 19. expenditures of the government's now the south african government if you recall spend about 25000000000 euros on its fiscal covered 19 relief package that's one of the biggest packages on the continent and about 7500000000 euros of that is the money that was allocated to a local government and also on the federal level that was basically already spent and this is the amount of money that the auditor general looked into with some frightening findings how he put it there's a lot of irregularities in the report mentioned and now these findings will be

passed on to investigators there's a special investigative unit that will now look into this as well ok and see south africa's governing party has been blamed for corruption for such a long time to the extent that even within the party there is conflict edge and you spoke with the and see secretary of limpopo in south africa's north let's let's take a listen. meanwhile experience. very briefly is president obama doing enough to fight corruption when he took over as a president there was a glimmer of hope that he would do because that was his key argument he will really fight corruption and it was right after the term remember of jacob zuma the former president under his watch corruption was rampant at the time of state capture how

it is called when corrupt individuals took over institutions in the country a mess of problem and zuma still has supporters within the party and this is what some people say the reason why has not been that effective in his fight against corruption but this weekend the leadership of the party heads a meeting and they supported president here's what the president said in the digital press conference afterwards. i am. going as asian those. people. and decisive action needs to be. correction. and that her sacked. president. wrapping up that segment with you. in south africa. that's all we'll leave it for today be sure to check out our other

stories on. africa or in our face book and now we leave you with pictures of health workers across the continent often putting their own lives at risk but working tirelessly to fight the cold 19 pandemic states they foresee use and buy from out. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word how much can you cook. rico is in germany to learn german and why not play with them simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nikos free german made. in the art of climate change.

put some sort of people. to use today how far future. d.w. dot com african-american city. could turn. greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture well it's a shimmer of hope perhaps as the world's oldest film festival gets underway in venice but culture is still holding its own moving forward in defiance of the coburg $900.00 pandemic and that's not the only reason it's a watershed year that's and these stories coming up. sound artist as. comes to terms with the sexism in portia to her native cameroon by colonial

powers through poetry and song. and in meet the germans my colleague rachel stewart gives us a quick tour of the fairy tale world of german castle. oh and the venice film festival unveiled its official selection in late july the competition roster with over 40 percent of films directed by women was heralded as progress great progress in fact considering the event had come under fire in recent years for lack of gender parity with social distancing protocols firmly in place some 90 percent of this year's festival will go ahead in person a breath of fresh air for cinema despite the masks. the city off water as it's rarely been seen with only a handful of tourists due to pandemic the usual crowds have been staying away but people have showed up for the must try to city's famed festival which opens today

along with films comfort cautionary measures social distancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking. it's pretty radical be we hope everything will go well and we hope that this can be fruitful. even with. its. d.c.m. might see fewer hollywood stars in attendance but one silver lining is that the festival has done better in terms of gender parity 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women. actress cate blanchett leads the jerry. was to the swinton receives a lifetime achievement award the competition runs for 11 days before we find out who will take home the series coveted golden lion. 8 out of 800 films by women directors and i'm joined by my colleague melissa horrid melissa some

pretty impressive gender parity there for venice so finally we might say is there did dare we hope that the golden lion might be taken home by one well yeah it could well be taken home by a woman couldn't i mean if we think about the comparison with recent years this is a massive massive jump it's a huge difference phil festival director alberto barbara said that the films were selected though exclusively on the basis of quality and didn't have anything to do with gender protocols interesting brianna we do have we do have a i think you were going to tell me about a couple of those yes one film that is directed by a woman and is getting a lot of boss and is also in competition is bodies i.e. down where are you going i you don't it's by well established bosnian filmmaker she has millette spahn each the film is based on real events from the bosnian war in the summer of 1995 it follows aida who works at a camp as a translator for the united nations and we do have

a clip of that one for let's just take a quick look. going to work for the brits next. week was the main thing that you carried. out. for your work your friends work for yourself and you're going to go to war with the people that can come with me. very intense looking film there and it's interesting that jury president cate blanchett also said that they've included the great great strides in terms of more diverse voices this year so what else can we look forward to well a film that is not in competition but one i think that is a very very exciting and interesting film is called afterwards its 1st feature film it's by crystal sneak who it's going to premiere in the horizon section of the festival so yeah it's not in the in the main selection but it's very very timely apple says the story of a solitary man who falls victim to an unexplained pandemic that causes sudden amnesia he decides to take part in an experimental treatment to create new memories

and take photos of these experiences so he has to have a one night stand and take photos of bath we spoke to the director and he said it's an allegorical story that has a lot to do with technology and social media and how we are forced more and more to live that our lives have become less and less important and the documentation of our lives become more and more important so the photos become much more important than the actual experience it's also about identity and how selective our memories are very timely stuff. at a very different festival thanks to this corona pandemic let's hope that it all goes as planned with no new infections and the venice film festival going on until september the 12th we'll keep following that story obviously and thanks very much melissa holroyd for coming in and speaking bringing us those insights. all this week we're featuring artists whose work deals with colonialism particularly with

germany's colonial past and spent her early childhood in in cameroon which was an african colony of the german empire from 884-2916 well today as an author performer and a musician it's the complex experience of living as a black woman between 2 worlds that take center stage. sound art slam poetry. is a tale of heartbreak and can't. see . the same time. she says women in africa used to have more respect for european colonisers brought their sex is. such an impact but also people mentality they were purposely raising

also the culture of the people stumbling over imaginary of a black man in the 21st century. i couldn't swallow my pride i trust. in africa you know as a woman need to step back and not say so much but just be smiling and cooking and helping those whose structures i was not used so. there was 10 when she 1st left cameroon for germany one of cameron's former colonizers. mother moved with her and her brothers to pursue a ph d. at a german university. here it was a dream liz's child white culture is on though it's everywhere it's the norm is the standard so when you know as a 10 year old that you're going to europe it's like the show look at the place. but as the only black girl who experienced not just racism but. how to explain

africanness to europeans she felt even her mother's generation had lost be answers . back to cameroon singing in english french and german. and. there is. this. week. that kind of music she says couldn't keep up with the energy of cameroon. she went electronic and experimental the style she still creates and now as a mother and berlin. this piece of sound art includes recordings of ghana's 1st independence leader kwame nkrumah. and conversations umbrella recorded in

shared taxis and camera. since moving back to germany says she's stopped taking responsibility for others' ignorance now we need a new leader new now here in germany to have conversations more with people like jim need to. and that. the legacy of colonialism is written into berlin's african quarter and the 19th century zoo was planned here that would exhibit african animals and humans to. today by chance many africans live here comes here for cameroon and for. these days she says she's more at ease navigating her complex identity but. what i discovered with. that important it's ok. not knowing and

uncertainty. enjoying the journey to maybe be called in closer to what end. well for visitors from abroad europe is known as the land of fairy tales and many of those tales took place of course in a castle germany has its fair share of these and my colleague rachel stewart has visited a few. welcomes else cause it used to be featured on the back of the 500 bill i mean days it's a big hit on the program not bad for a new weather romantic words a fairy tale perfection and you'll get spoiled for choice. there's even a route called costal road that stretches all the way from mannheim to by a foot and takes you past some 60 castles the glorious ross noise from shine of area is one of the most visited castles in the whole of europe and it's even

sentenced by both disney. ok time for a quick language check on a fairy tale sightseeing tour through germany you're probably going to see 2 different words being used book and shots in general a book is fortified protected by a wall or a moat a schloss is closer to the english word palace and would have been built as a luxurious residence but some medieval books have been converted and sometimes the words they used interchangeably even doubt just take both names like transport installing. the does seem to be quite an appetite for royal gossip here in germany i definitely know more about the british royal family now than i did when i lived in the u.k. perhaps that's because the germans no longer have rules of the writing at the end of the 1st world war all official royal titles and associated legal privileges were abolished however it was permitted that some titles could be merged into the family surnames and that's why we're now able to talk to a real life count i said before the doctor graph would be a form of skin i'm told from storm back before she informed to this in. its

visit to the us the whole foods for one to 2 apart from counts and tourists who else might you find in a castle. there are plenty of scooby legends surrounding gemini's passes a popular apparition is the vice of a white lady whose appearance was often thought to signal the imminent death someone. here at ed's castle agnus who said to haunt the whole. this story goes that in the 15th century the count's rather rebellious doors are supposed to marry the squire who by all accounts was a bit of a jerk 2 she refused to kiss him and their engagement to how do you think you took him out not so well he disappeared for a year and then finally returned to attack the cops agnes done to her brother's arm and joined the battle but she was killed by her would be fiance. the legend goes that agnes is going to some time scene in the castle pulled out one after midnight

. gives new meaning to the term damsel in distress well that's all for this time so until we meet again stay safe and by. the law suit against fear. bella ruse the peaceful mass protests are continuing despite the arrests and use of force and threats from

obsolete artists in minsk courageously entreated me to tell the regime you can't intimidate us anymore some kids on the audience 30 minutes on. board. i'm not laughing out of the gym well i just sometimes i am but i stand up in which at that point the german thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes aquatics put in his thinking seems a country that i not blame. kenya needed to take his grandmother down to me it's all that. i might show join me from the german bund d.w. . post modern. beethoven. did

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