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remains that's our topic going to the point. to the point trying to destroy you know $60.00. what secrets lie be hard to swallow. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore personating world heritage sites. world heritage 360 get married now. this is steve happy news africa on the program today uganda and decides uganda to have voted on a heavy security and an internet blackout it's a tense election longtime leader you where was safe and he wants to extend his role his main challenger above the wind saying is it's time to remove the dictator. and into the central african republic ripples have mounted their closest attack on the
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capital. they were repelled by security forces and wondered peacekeeper was killed in the violence. hello i'm christine it's good to have your company ugandans have been voting in the presidential election that's been dubbed a contest between the country's young people and the old god there were long queues at some polling stations some photos reportedly waited albus 17000000 people registered to take part in this election most of them are young 1st time voter is the main opposition candidate bobbie y. and his wife were surrounded by a cheering crowd when they voted in kampala and the income to. president
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doing the saving voted at his country home a long time he that it's speaking as the up to 35 years in power. and d.-w. corresponding genius mugabe is on the line via phone income pala hi julius uganda's young people will decide this election what is at stake for them the 2nd issue among many young uganda is sustainable employment that lies make a major factor into the selection the youth want jobs out of every 5 or 13 of the no major forget that so important to you thank you selection all countries have been appealing to them many 1st time voters are on the scene the president was 70 as the leader of this country should be a fuss over trinity to endorse his presidency overindulge change we're going to promise to secure their future while his main charge and that will be wine 6 to believe are very young people too in uganda the time is now on the choices they
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have to make. junius we're talking via phone because the government shutdown the intimidates has that affected the voting process indeed because affected their voting process the intended shut down for scam others for privacy if starting to very minute people will get a complaint like they streamed on the range which has recruited many ugandans onto relying on being 10 inches the main source of information for shutting it down without even noticing the 2nd disruption biliteral versus itself are somewhat different sequences they jam on the village commission this morning last quarter decrying the move reportedly saying that it does show that election process is savior to going to dane county biometric systems in many important questions delaying voting for more than 3 hours now government shutdown being touted
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compromises to a science because it looks out what your groups like the media and the general public from does there need to be information which can be arranged to be a form of practices in the shutdown of the internet. yeah and in the run up to 2 to the mix and we've heard the opposition warning regain changing the support has to be vigilant when crossing their ballots have begun any reports off of the regularities income panel for example you. yes there have been some reports of irregularities because i will say that the main poaching you've done your region on to sell some of the touches that was saying that the delay in voting the strategic move to deny some people reach us to vote because the interface is the time we have put in the couples to end agree that there's a chance for an extension walk mission that this is the 1st time delays of been reported in 2016 some polling stations were reportedly not open to voting until the estimate some voters of also reported you reached the voting location i spoke to
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a voter 'd who told me that if they get it through for more than 2 hours and 40 man was looking to resist but despite having calls on the to be i told him given he's voting fifi should by the electoral commission i witnessed this morning with him of the host choosing the queue also on the phone the timing was not very good she had confirmation that my suggests that the committee's big elsewhere and but apart from that i need to know about other rich and. this time in 20 milligram have been reports of by the government but i think hard to see any yes but the disclaimer remains deferral the information be stunned me good so is there any originality behind me wasn't it hard about the 2 days there was a lot of violence in the campaign soldiers have been deployed across the country president was 70 warned people not to break the mold very quickly julius could still be moved by him in villages of a large degree from
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a christian incumbent where you report from other parts of the country for just a minute more tests but please allow me to put a disclaimer to them they need if they can fit in to get it is happening but because of the shut down the brain think it might be knowledge reported there is a police and military deployment kids in kampala here but as we head into the voting the vote count it's an area of tension the police is under the instruction to send people home most of working from were desperate of. or a virus but your pollution are only deployed to read really want people to go all in the interest of public health but probably one of our porters to stay and monitor what's going to be an area of confrontation and if it happens in truth the light slide into violence that's tedious macumba correspondent reporting in kampala thank you g.d.s. and stay safe now you heard our correspondent tell us that many virtues particularly young people want more economic opportunities we'll be talking more
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about that after this ugandans because of that we have it is. our economy is strong. the army is strong and experienced the full petition. on mainly. the middle. not but. you know there. are it's a full context on the economic situation in uganda i'm joined by a correspondent joy b. russia joining is from uganda and reports on east africa part of 6 and economy welcome to the program joy we've just heard 2 very different positions on the situation in uganda many young voters particularly as say that there are no jobs no opportunities but president un with 70 says the economy is strong. well it's strong
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can be described in a different context here because if we're going to look at what's happening in the past couple of months we've you know the pandemic interrupting economies across the continent actually cannot say that the economy is not in uganda and not in the african continent but looking at uganda in particular uganda has a young as popular by a median age on the african continent and that could explain the high unemployment rates and also if they are employed it's the quality of work that they're doing that could be questionable because up until today i don't think uganda has any minimum wage for its citizens and that in itself is an economic question that needs answers or that has needed answers for the last 3 days and if we're going to also look at the growth as. if he was $21000.00 you're going to see konami growth was about 6.3 percent and that drops to about 3.4 percent the following year and
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so that explains just how much the economy was in a dire state enjoy it tell us about the economic potential at bet that you've got to has and why is that not being fully realized. well uganda is economic potential. if i'm to read it it's probably is one of the highest across the east africa region after kenya. and if you're going to look at why exactly it's not realizing its potential there's so many reasons one of them being what is even being experienced during the elections the authoritarian hand of the government in uganda that can decide as and when they're going to shut down the internet that itself interrupts the economy and then also deems. possibilities are trapped in foreign direct investment and foreign investors do not look at uganda as
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a viable investment destination just because of the very tarion radiation that the government has. but then again has great potential every culture has very great potential for joy i have one more quick question for you this elections come down to 2 candidates which of them as offering the best plan to improve the lives of ugandans very quickly the income and candidate who is president here in 70 is talking about securing your gand is economic future but he has been in power for 13 over 30 years now in fact this is the 34th year and ugandans are still waiting for this economic future that he has been securing for so many decades. bodyline or about juggling he who is now the strongest opposition candidate is talking about you know reinventing the wheel and capitalizing on uganda's young population just stimulate economic growth he says he wants to do this by also changing the
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education system to in the long stimulate its employment possibility joy in reporting for us they will be thank you joy. it's of a central african republic now where rebels have mounted the closest attack yeah it's to the capital bangui leaving a 100 un peacekeeping dead before being pushed back now this latest attack comes after rebels launched an offensive vowing to march on the capital after last month's contested presidential election the government has called this an attempted coup and the u.n. secretary general antonio terrorist strongly condemned the attack calling on all parties to stop the violence and engage in meaningful dialogue. among these northern outskirts where the attack took place. the u.n. peacekeepers have reinforced their positions in the central african republic scuttled just taking what they can carry people are fleeing the area terrified of
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more violence. so the innocence of the ones dying now the government and the leaders of the armed groups need to sit around a table and focus to discuss the future of the country you can't keep a country together through a war. rebels encouraged by former president. a protesting the really action on december 27th of president. and have threatened to take the capital. in more that's just currently the situation remains calm the initiative of the armed groups that have infiltrated bond has been thwarted and currently the troops on the ground control the situation that's just. a government says it has a rest that several rebels and killed dozens but the head of the international crisis group is concerned the violence will spiral out of control i've given the
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current violence it seems unlikely but the government well i am sure it is in talks with rebel leaders in the coming days. all the more so because rebel leaders are confident they can strike from the territory in recent weeks they've taken several towns now controlling 2 thirds of the country and they seem determined to continue their march. that's it for today's program see you next time about. britney just. shows he makes. the al. aqsa martyr way to get her to
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a 6 tracks. in the light of victory. for. what's in store. for the future. greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to arts and culture with historic elections in uganda as the backdrop we look at bobby wine the charismatic musician taking on the country's long time president also in the pipeline. kenyan off their evolve war explores east africa pre-colonial past and globalisation present in her latest
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novel. oh he's a reggae star turned politician and in uganda 38 year old bobby wine has inspired the younger generations voters were turning out in droves on thursday to have their say in a historic election that saw him face off against president. who's been in power for 35 years old bobby wine started his career addressing social injustices in his songs and he manifests a long tradition of politics through music in africa. surveillance bobby wine likes to spread good vibes with his music the singer from uganda winner of an m.t.v. music award has been a pop star for more than 20 years. his lyrics are political bobby wine tells it like it is giving a voice to the oppressed in his country and. many
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people are good and i really want to use every reporting to bore highlight their plight because they are not as lucky as i've been but he realized singing wasn't enough to affect real change so 3 years ago bobby wine got into politics to try to change uganda from the ground up now he's running for president trying to topple ury most 70 has been in power for almost 35 years. 70 is a different generation he's a representative of. a representative of the future. the 38 year old musician is popular with the younger generation which makes up the majority of the country almost 80 percent of uganda's population is under 30 bobby wine wants them to fight for their own political freedom. comes to those who fight
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not to those who cry because the more you cry is the more your people continue to die so rise and defend. the ones political message packaged in a 4 minute pop song has been on heavy rotation in uganda for 3 years now with the song against fear against corruption against oppression by the state. and the people of uganda and. people. to go out and vote. have been with over 80 percent because we've been in every part of uganda and this creates evident that the people of uganda i got me for change. but president was 70 is fighting back government forces have been breaking up campaign rallies across and beating up protestors or opposition candidates. bottom line has
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been arrested tortured and charged with high treason. it was. i did not get in the struggle to. name then a number of times i've been arrested i mean the struggle to anybody to go and and before that is accomplished i don't care how many times on my wrist it had just beaten gustafer plus prayed. for you. for now bobbie winds fame and popularity for his protection. a charismatic bobby wind there challenging the 70 in today's election in uganda and scott roxboro who's joining me to talk about this tradition of politics through music in africa scott there was a lot of focus in that report on bobby one the politician tell us a little bit more about him as a musician and how he expresses politics that way yeah i mean bob was
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a fascinating figure i mean as an artist because there's really no gap between his pop and his is his politics i mean he expresses his policies directly through music often writing songs that are direct political messages i mean last year late early last year when the penned them of the quantifiers pandemic hit like any politician bobby wine gave a sort of public safety message to his constituents but he did a different way he actually wrote a song about the safety surrounding the coronavirus and put everything to music ok let's see if we can just have a listen to that the one on the coronavirus. for starters. anything. ever. done everything on the ground there. were ever. so i mean this is this is
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a health health messages you can dance to i would be great if every politician did that i mean let's see an america like rap out her health messages or you know. what an intelligent way to get a very sensible message across i'm probably one isn't the 1st african musician to actually turn to politics to tell us about a few of the other examples i mean there is a real long tradition across africa really of political activism through music and a number of very popular musicians have done the bobby wine thing and tried to run for office i mean in tanzania you have professor j. he's one of the biggest hip hop stars and he's always sort of wrapped against the corruption against injustice and 2015 you decided to run for parliament and he won he's now a sitting member of the. indian parliament and you have a say across across africa i mean instead of using door you probably know one of
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the most famous singers in africa and definitely in senegal i'm also a strong political activist he was sort of blocked from be able to run for president himself but he supported the opposition and when the opposition candid was elected president he was made a minister he's made the minister of culture tourism for something also you see that across africa you have these musicians using the power of their music and their and their fame to get across the real place message to take a direct stake in incredible and yet just quickly it's very dangerous obviously for them to be taking a stance like this in so many of these countries and bobby winds really had. trouble with a lot of arrests arrests and beatings and of course it can get even more serious and we saw what happened in ethiopia just just last year the musician akun did d.c. who was who was murdered who was who was killed and his his his killing really sparked an uprising against the authoritarian government in ethiopia so you can see these musicians they're not just expressing
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a political opinion they're taking real personal rest in trying to get their message across but to great effect and we're crossing our fingers obviously for bobby why know that he can affect change there thanks very much scott. well staying in africa kenyan writer yvonne war is one of her country's most eloquent voices her 2014 novel dust was highly acclaimed and her most recent book the dragon-fly see is both a coming of age story and a lyrical reflection on cultural diffusion and in it she probes the historic links between africa and asia to counter those typical western perspectives of africa's way forward. nairobi. it's home to ivana. world renowned intellectual voice of her country kenya is on the move with strong support from china which is financing bridges railroads and ports here as part of the new silk road
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a controversial project for sun. i understand that certain people are extremely worried more worried than we are about china's return to the african continent and i think we like to see that the sky is about to fall of africa's head. regarding its mind really i think this space represents a new opportunity for the african continent and certainly for kenya to kind of defy in what it is and where it is they want to be in the world and with who. they are there is on the way to part of an island off kenya's coast 500 kilometers from nairobi. party is the fixed point from which the narrative thread of her novel develops although the world globalization does not appear once in it $600.00 pages it is what the story is about the dragonflies see the title of the novel is the author's name for this body of water the europeans called it the indian ocean one
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of many western imposed ideas the author breaks with. a lot of the west he thought we were so they had their mind their fantasy about africa was about our poverty our lack. and they were so obsessed with our diseases and their greatest vision for us was maybe musky to the next china comes in and says the vision they have. with us is about roads and bridges and and ports. i think it was about the scale of vision and quite frankly you know we will go for the attractive and we'll go for the attractive offer. into the hardest part of 'd along the way we encounter the shango archaeological site where remnants were found of a mosque that some believe was built during mohammed's lifetime. 'd ruins from the 15th century are better preserved there from a time when a lively exchange with china is said to have existed. but even in kenya these ruins
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1st excavated by british archaeologists are largely unknown. this is a treasure this is not just a canyon treasure it's a world treasure it's an african treasure this site it means that others come into spaces like this and write their histories on top of it and then we've got a generation growing up thinking that they have no roots no roots in all history you have people confused thinking that their history only begins when the europeans arrive for example of and that's a tragedy that's part of the tragedy of africa and the tragedy of the state this column dates from the 15th century. first indicators that you have entered an unusual site is this. a probably a tombstone there would have being ceramics from china embedded here this is
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a 600 year old. character ayana wars novel sets out from patter to china unwittingly retracing the. past taken by her ancestors. this is the 1st pic sportswear i know would be hiding you know the opening chapter of the both. our novel is also a chronicle of self empowerment written in an income desolately poetic language. and the dark published new clowns. on the mangrove southwest coast. i don't much like conspired with the shimmering to charge the island. profits trade. women.
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to the point during opinions clear musicians of an international perspective such. after urging on the angry mob the forms the capital last week donald trump continues to claim he's the victim of a witch hunt how dangerous does he remain that's our topic on to the point. the us took more time to come out of the storm coming through the town w. . hole. they want to know what makes the devil you just get the jump on love and bonding going away from. i'm living out of my own daughter and everyone with little holes
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this is g.w. newswires and from berlin donald trump becomes the 1st us president to be impeached twice the congress charges him with his hunting supporters to attack the capitol building last week calling it an armed rebellion also coming up uganda's long time but presidential where we will survey if he seeks a 6th term in an election marred by violence former pop star bobby what he is the
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