able to provide you know good for people by 2050 if we can make crops who grow under 70 hour conditions this will work for me i'm not running to the bullets in the fields of water we have at the moment. this is state of the news africa on the program today the agony of the parents desperately waiting for news off a children who were abducted from their school in nigeria. if this government is just then we want them to rescue our children because they have the power to do so on this low to take action because it's not their children who are being taken. for days off to the kidnapping theory is growing in the country over the government's apparent failure to protect the children and to secure their release. class will

meet the people planting mangroves and trees in senegal a country is on the brink of losing heart it's arable land. and i'm christine one to it's good to have your company nigeria's boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of schoolboys in the north of the country the islamist extremist groups. and audio message to a local newspaper saying the students were kidnapped because western education is against the tenets of islam more than 330 boys from a government secret reschooling in the northway state of katsina a missing although as you say bandits are responsible and that they're negotiating the release of the boys with the attackers we'll hear from nigeria's former education minister and the leader of the bring back our girls campaign after this

report. waiting for news of her child her son one of the boys snatched from a school on friday. if this government is just then we want them to rescue our children because they have the power to do sorry this slow to take action because it's not their children who have been taken they've put us in a situation where parents and grandparents are in absolute confusion they've stopped us from having peace of mind we're totally devastated. by. the missing pupils were boarders at this school in kids who know they were taken in a balanced attack by dozens of gunmen with assault rifles while they were asleep in their dormitories osama is one of the lucky ones he managed to escape the kidnappers. i was about to slape when i started hearing sporadic gunshots and before i could even get outside there were many people there were already

outside and so we were asked to go back into a hostel then they said the gunmen are already in the school we even climb the school fence but then these men asked us to go back and we thought these men were soldiers and they were trying to protect us but unfortunately they weren't soldiers . he was he with. many details of the raid in the school and its aftermath a still unclear. that at school and other than as i said and is one of the boys that has been abducted we heard the security forces saw our boys surrounded by the gunmen on top of a hill we want the government to help security forces rescue our children we just want to see our boys in whatever condition so that we can have peace of mind at this stage it's still unsure how long parents like her will have to write. as we heard the jihadist terrorist group boko haram came to its kidnap the boys i aussies

have a correspondent for. how that was given the authorities in cuts in a safe local bandits were responsible and that they now appear to be negotiating with those bandits well it depends on who you ask the book arm has come out i released. an audio saying claiming that the actually did the kidnapping however we spoke to a correspondent who is on the ground who actually said that local people do not believe that these kidnap was was done by rob they believe he was he was done by bandits in the area the reason being that this band they claim hocking operating in the area for over 10 years and they've tried to attack this school about 3 times but out on those 3 times and even before i. came out check out the lead out firearm before he came out and said unto christ possibility for the kidnap the

bandits may already asking for ransom which is something before i'm never had those they don't ask for ransom so this is why a lot of people out really saying that book our army is only claiming on take us once before this just to seek for global recalls me show not just to you know 6 you know i would see that i repeat people don't go out don't believe that you want to go and buy. for us to quote one thing in nigeria's former education minister is if he said let the campaign to free the chip buckles who kidnapped by boko haram in 2014 i asked her if she thought was responsible for the abduction of the schoolboys i don't speculate i don't speculate at all so what i know is what that the government is saying the government say is that the that the school children have been abducted. there are. that's all we know and so as far as we're concerned the most important thing is to ask the government that should have

prevented it would be eat of this kind of tragedy could just that's the job went back the united states and starting to have to retreat and recover just one citizen that was that in post the right there always wish you'd be able to look for the alps necessary to bring back 300 out there to treat schoolchildren this repeat is a problem in people. and should not be something that the government should be associated with at all and just to that point nigerians are frustrated we can see it on social media we see it in the reactions and the question is the president mohammed to came to power in 20151 of the commitments he made to nigerians was that he was going to defeat boko haram terrorists as as yet as he is cornish why has the government failed in this aspect what do you attribute that failure to. it's

a combination of both. we'll the competency and the you know i think the last part of it is the indifference of 5 government especially our president to the fact that the country has been degenerated. i mean it's it's normalized base idea that life is chipped amounts to several there's no dignity of human life as we see it over and over again in the people slaughtered and it is not it is not something that you want your younger generation to grow up with unfortunately we have to call it what it is it is oppression don't case of what governments of my country and our ruling class has to own up to the fact that if there's any banditry going on at all. it is the. well that we have as many jews and. the government says it's doing everything that it's can

in fact as we speak out it's coming into the headlines that the governor is in talks with or he's in concious at all in talks with the kidnappers just going back to. i think a lot of analysts to make the consolation that this is a group that has lost significant amount of territory they're not as as as as violent as as they have been in the past so in many ways the government has made some ground at least by its version of accounts just should we also not take that into account well you know i don't think that if. everyone were and even the monks is stop this country or do not west of this country if one has been losing family members as we have seen in this country. musicians i don't reply to him use of nigeria it looks like i lost this so please

be careful in the way you put in the irish or what's going on there. we. will start all right that is form an educated minister and the campaign he did to the free to bowl curls talking to us from a blue chair will be as it was the thank you it's now too cynical when one of the world's largest reforestation projects is underway with the help of locals the country's former environment minister. has already planted get this 125000000 mangrove beds since they began doing so in 2009 now the goal is to read green not just cynical but the whole somehow reach him. senegal needs more trees untied or else who heads a large scale reforestation project is busy getting them planted scientists say

that without major reforestation senegal will lose half its are a blend within the next 5 years here on the coast of the region farmland has become unusable nation among groves that once protected the shoreline were cut down for firewood and building materials like the farmers were sold to as a growing into their rice fields which were no longer producing rice and it was difficult for them. but mangroves are a rich ecosystem they hold back floodwaters deter roshon and act as a natural salt barrier they also store up to 5 times as much carbon dioxide as other trees once it became clear just how beneficial the mangroves are to farmers things began to change. they were concerned about their rice fields and they became heavily involved in planting mangroves because of their rice fields.

d.m. was one of them for 4 years villagers and pack noble have been working to save their parties the initiative is organized and financed by the ngo oceania hider its former president started the project. our rice fields no longer produce good harvests because salt water is invading them more and more and i don't know the reason it's because the mangroves have disappeared we need to replant them luckily oceania provides us with mangrove pods. further north in the extremely arid my tom region close to the sahara desert came up with a more unconventional method during the wet season nomads herds graze here the animals have been recruited to help plant a forest it will be part of the great greenwald that aims to curtail dessert if they cation of the sun hell region. the herd is fed the fruits of the person it's a fast growing tree that needs

a little water the animals spread the seeds in their dong. young men from the village of also help that use slings to scatter seeds of the african mahogany the intention is to introduce more diversity. with that of the animals it was necessary to think of an alternative way to disseminate the seeds i don't wait for things to solve themselves i'm out of action where the money grows are especially dear to lifelong ecologist hider alys heart due to his efforts over 150000000 birds have already been planted and in a few years time no bones rice paddies should be sold free. that's it for now be sure to check out all of the stories on deja dot com forward slash africa from reforestation in senegal as a fashion today we'll leave you with pictures of the models who grace the runway at

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on hate speech prevention and sustainable local production. all of the suits are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms for. crime fighters to know. what a year it has been for beirut with a devastating explosion in august and the coronavirus pandemic to complicate any efforts to restore its heritage we'll talk about those efforts in just a moment and also coming up. a new exhibition at london's victoria and albert. museum is all about bags their function design and symbolism through the ages. and the independent artists collective

female photographers is trying to gender the way we look at human bodies. welcome to arts and culture after the shock of the explosion last august in the lebanese capital beirut reconstruction efforts are halting at best thousands of buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed including many from the era of ottoman rule and the french mandate colonial period and with the added strain off the pandemic residents are struggling many fear the cultural soul of their city once known as the paris of the middle east may never truly recover. following the explosion in beirut in many of the city's historic buildings in ruins. is an engineer who's working for the city's cultural heritage the banners hanging from badly damaged buildings messages of hope. to raise again

so. you know here's a creek you. could make to to to to hope so too. the extent of the devastation around the ports is overwhelming. it's a volunteer crisis group which assesses the damage collect donations and coordinate reconstruction efforts 8000 buildings in the area in need of restoration from here last. heated. in a very strong way we have more than $100.00 unit very critical situation and it's a race against time when the seas no rains come the foundations of the buildings could be damaged beyond repair lebanon has been mired in deep economic and

financial crisis the banks have imposed restrictions on how much people can withdraw from their accounts the. family suffered a terrible blow their historic palace also a cultural museum devastated the head of the family died of injuries received in the last are left with a daunting task. we don't have the financial means to store this entire house it's going to take millions and tens of millions and we don't have those funds. are not going to these days the only ray of hope is the solidarity among the people here volunteers to help and we've really seen the worst of the worst of what we have in lebanon which is anything. corrupt political political system and a non government and we've got great lebanese that are volunteering to come and save

the house so we have to thank you thank you very much. beirut's cultural heritage is saved it will be thanks to growth group's efforts. a very difficult situation there in beirut in lebanon and joining me is my colleague melissa holroyd melissa give us a bit more of a visual idea of the of the real extent of the destruction on the ground well this was a massive massive blast that to pass on the 4th of august some 300000 people were displaced half the city was effect is. thousands and thousands of buildings were damaged we're just looking at the images now. they are it's just they're just awful $640.00 historic buildings were also damaged. and many of those were built on the autumn and rule or during the french mandate colonial period. so that you have the damage across the sea was just immense so what's what's being done to save that i

know this just looks almost where do you begin and what are the major concerns obviously in the in the immediate yes in the winter well in the piece where they talked a lot about the weather they concerned a lot about about the rain the about the rain season coming but there's also another concern and that will and that's to do with developers coming in and buying up the damaged buildings people are very afraid people are concerned that people that they will use this damage as an excuse to demolish the buildings and then you know put up skyscrapers and this is not new this has been happening for decades across space routes where developers have come in and you know demolished these historic buildings and then put up whatever they want. so it sounds like it's an incredibly complicated situation on the ground and that really much of the work is being left to volunteers as we as we saw in the film because there's just this huge mistrust towards the government yet there's lebanon is facing multiple crises at

the moment there's the economic crisis there's a political crisis they also suffered a lot on the end of the might with the migration crisis as well they were hit very hard by and now and now that this blast and sort of what they're going to do about that is you know is another problem there are demonstrations often across beirut. yeah. i think you were you told me before you had some photos that you could show us of actually some of the building that was a babe ruth photographer his name is joseph joseph who re and he together with gabrielle a cardozo they went around they took photos they documented for years the historic buildings across beirut and shortly after the blast what they did they went back to these buildings and they held up these photos that they'd taken these postcard type photos that they'd taken against the damaged buildings and they're lovely photos that beautiful photos there is part of a project called the boy out beirut project and you get

a really nice idea of what the buildings looks like very moving stuff beirut certainly has been rebuilt before and we wish all or all the best to the people of beirut for their for trying to in their efforts to preserve their cultural heritage thanks very much melissa holroyd for joining me. well it's certainly tough times also for exhibitions these days unlike many others london's victoria and albert is temporarily closed as the u.k. applies tougher restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus all the more gratifying then that we can let its latest exhibition out of the bag so to speak because it is all about bags from rucksacks to bertha's to birkin bags and how design function and style have made them the ultimate accessory bags that carry around a whole lot of history around $300.00 exhibits ranging from british prime minister winston churchill's dispatch box to hamburg from the private collections of models

electric and. banks inside found at the victorian museum preaches by times on loan from some of the world's top designers and french including friendly prada and carmen. to be honest we all together has been affected by this pandemic and have been really amazing about giving us permission to continue displaying their object. was clutched by sarah jessica parker in her role as carrie bradshaw in the t.v. series sex and the searching in the late 1990 s. . it's actually quite funny the story. gets robbed all the shoes and all of a bag she. tells the market he corrects in which he says give me a bag she corrects him and she says this is not the bag this is

a baguette and this is like the moment where it's really symbolizes that moment in the history of the handbags with the back phenomena to the end of the ninety's beginning of 2000. it's not just designers who give me free range to the bank you mentioned actions are just like do you mean. also how they go he created the entomology bank for prada i really hope the people. when they think about the work. and. their men. and across the world. goes back in time the oldest exhibit is from roughly 500 years ago if you want to get ahead forget the hats.

well how do female photographers see the world and do they have enough say in how women are portrayed female photographers dot org is an independent collective that addresses these questions founded back in 2018 to increase the visibility of female photographers the group's 1st publication starts a visual conversation about bodies that it hopes will shake up the narrative a bit. women who can. network women who support one another. the light of. this photo shoot. the idea behind the independent collective. collective. how we perceive. them. i'm fascinated by connections and encounters. for release we use every

day. of it this arrangement to show how we react to one another you can see they touch each other but it's not sexualized. reflecting to. moods. study frank university of the arts believes it's only through active exchange that something new and of value is created she shows this in her own work times at times disturbing or at least. simply. as in a fairy tale it's a spectrum that one subject the german actress has freely embraced. isn't primarily interested in she finds different kinds of beauty everywhere. and it's really about freeing the party of its constraint about another gaze one

that's more neutral more artistic and more free. after her studies at the full crank university. at a large advertising agency but today she prefers to stay clear of the mainstream together with her female network she tries to ask questions they can answer with images. to dissolve the conventional perspective that you flip through the pages and see something fresh people have the courage to string pictures together that show humor and. who is surrendering to whom in front of the camera. end and then you perception begin feminine way of seeing. tries to answer these questions with

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