good news crime fighters are back with the africa's most successful radio drama series continue their not only because those are available online courses you can share and discuss on w africa's facebook and other social media platforms. to me and now. this is d. deputy s. africa on the program today the cold at 19. and how it will be tough old women. more women around the world have lost their jobs because they. will meet women in uganda who've taken the wheel up to the pandemic out of work. i would also make the cameroonian know who's giving cervical cancer screening she's trying to raise awareness about the disease and save women before it's too late.

hello i'm christine wonder why it's good to have your company some of the world's wealthiest people have seen their wealth soul during the cloven 1000 pandemic while poor people off facing the hardship the united nations sees the crisis has disproportionately affected women they have faced an increased risk of devastation and according to the international labor organization 2 thirds of the jobs that will be permanently lost because of the pandemic odd jobs done by women that's because women make up more than off of the workforce and six's that have been hit hard by. retail hospitality and tourism now at the sea as wild economic forum which is being held virtually the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace highlights of the issue in his speech. we see if

you give me qualities among people in countries that have been starkly highlighted by the pandemic women in particular have been badly affected by job losses and extra burdens of care. that's the u.n. secretary general terry speaking bit but even with women facing tough years ahead in the u.k. a call that 19 pandemic has opened the way to new careers for some women when the coronavirus hits many jobs in the country were lost and millions were sent hope but as you're about to see a group of women decided not to sit idle instead they launched a new all female taxi service and its cheekily called diva taxi. diva taxi in kampala puts women exclusively in the driver's seat it's normally only men who drive taxis and socially conservative uganda female drivers were unheard of until the pandemic struck. driving alone can be risky work especially at night.

that's why old diva taxi drivers get self-defense training they also all carry pepper spray and know how to use it he'd needed this driver like so many others he lost his job at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic the former accountant he's glad she found diva taxi. he said take it up because you know what you need to for me to. and i'm going to because i mean. yeah i need to get. more women in uganda have lost their jobs due to cope with 19 than men according to the world bank this is deepening the country's already wanted employment gender gap diva taxi started last june is proving that women can compete in mild dominated industries while it is extremely hard working very motivated and they like

their sense of pride when they're doing this work they did one part of it. and that's the difference we have computers and more importantly customers also appreciate having female drivers. i am more safe being driven past than any this is a gender issue i feel safe being driven by a fairly deep but also because. the way that they are careful wade while driving. is amazing. the driving service has grown into a successful startup it's helped more than 80 women in kampala or the common employment during the code that 19 pandemic. and to talk more about how the pandemic is impacts in women in africa we've invited the executive director off the un women. onto the program welcome to news africa the un ses add that most of the people that have been pushed into poverty by cult

of 19 all women how will african women be affected by the pandemic in the long term . well you know what women in africa in the social services to begin with if this is in the health care sector is just slow it is globally the odds of 80 percent in the in the health sector saw the exposed to the pandemic in much more but also all the also in the services in indices that have lost most of the jobs many of them will not speak evil to go to. economic activities in those those in the informal sector who are self-employed leave those informal sector and family business has been decimated. and then right it isn't. doing less packages so i just removing form of

sector saw getting on their feet again is extremely difficult right so as these vaccines are being being prepared and rolled out the conversation is now shifting to the recovery from the pandemic and you have talked about the fact that governments should be encouraging women in their recovery strategies and as you have as you've said more stuff african women in the informal sector there they don't get support from the government so how how can they be included in the recovery strategies that the governments are drawing up now. what we are advocating together with women's groups to governments is there to be interventions and there leave measures they're putting in place must be designed specifically to speak to women in the private sector they should not have some of the. structures for the private informal centers because those do not reach the women who are in the informal sector the level of literacy the liquid which aren't there

folks don't get businesses are not elections that should not work against them. and what is your advice to a woman in african listening to you today how can she position herself for the life after the pandemic to recover economically. well in the 1st place i think you're we must make sure that gals in africa do not miss out of course there is patient we should not have and are the last generation we are seeing there the number of girls that are going back to school after the pandemic. has reduced significantly that is agreed consent it's child marriage trafficking there are some of the fields that are affecting the council we are only at around there if part women who are employed need to be loose skilled in we doing expects

the women to do that themselves some point has to come from governments in other institutions including the un and the private sector to have to retool women for the jobs of the future in those that are in agriculture we are edging up most to procure food there women can choose wherever possible so no go is a good example of that country that is beginning to put your rights from women who are small producers producing as a group and being able then to sustain the. business and then we. missed out on your goal you were the 1st female deputy president of south africa and at that time you were actually the highest ranking woman in the country's history what's your sense about if there's more space opening up in africa for for women to lead. it i will i will it's only 6 answer then it is definitely key is that it be

a big push from women it to clean gas base it's the high level and those they're more acceptance of women is you know it's like it's just not happening fast enough. it is slow and also it is something that you have to be it's going tomorrow because when there's an election is not i don't think that the woman that was elected before would go back again as we speak right now there's only one woman president in africa it is only if you're here so you know certainly we see in legislation we seeing courthouse being introduced we're having a government asking us to assist them to design this courthouse but then at the end it also depends on votes house and sometimes voters let us down and that is the executive director of you and women tops of homes and in number and ok thank you.

now in many countries in africa lack of information and cultural ties have kept people from taking vaccines all getting screened for diseases much of the talk now is on getting people to accept the vaccine when it is eventually available but even as it is raging at the diseases ought to cervical cancer that is the 2nd highest bidder off women off to breast cancer but if it is detected early it can be defeated and one health worker in cameroon has made it mission to do just that fans are waiting to one day and i'm a blue is holding her weekly circle cancer awareness talk in cameroon's capital yeah. the meeting is one hour long and the audience is almost entirely female 27 year old diana is a nurse and cervical cancer activist for 2 years she's been fighting cervical cancer by raising awareness. in what i would almost

a constant hope with the one that has to come to the most with the i think that's where we can manage this that's why we can no money it's this it's all nothing to be diana facilitates mass cervical cancer screening for women in disadvantaged communities at this hospital owned by the local baptist church the screening is done for $10.00 this is less than 10 percent of the usual screening fee in cameroon cervical cancer is life threatening if not detected early that is why diana's goal is early prevention. but the background but it's a fight. so screening is that all it says that on one second. because one cervical cancer begins there is no science. if all it tests that can prove that the council has that cervical cancer is caused by the human papillomavirus and can be prevented with

a vaccine however many women in cameroon are skeptical about getting vaccinated worldwide one woman dies every 2 minutes from cervical cancer. the majority of deaths happen in developing countries like cameroon. an estimated 1000 women died annually from cervical cancer in cameroon. and. for. traffic out. reported principally it. is the country with a. privilege which means it's quite a few. involved when she was younger diana lost loved ones to survive cancer.

now she is on a mission to make sure every woman in her community is aware of cervical cancer. and that is if a program brings more of. africa we're also on facebook and on twitter i'll see you next time. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german and why not with him it's simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nikos free german made easy it was $260.00. 8 because i want to feel your germany was the last few years have been quite o'brien . i'm ready for my time up when it comes to germany is on the whole so.

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costing over 450000000 euros. was born in london and moved here to bowl in 2014 he studied lore of oxford and then practiced both law and football with the emphasis he says all malacca actually the emphasis is also on the written word as he gave up the law to become a poet and writer his latest book in the end it was all about love is just published i'll talk to him a minute in a minute after this. a congo was born and raised in britain after earning a scholarship at the age of 11 he attended the prestigious eton college an experience which left him with the feeling that as a black person in british society he always needed to achieve more than his white

peers in order to be accepted. congo went on to study law at oxford university but after graduating he soon realised that working as a solicitor did not fulfill him instead he decided to focus on writing we've moved . his latest book in the end it was all about love is the semi out of biographical story of a black british man trying to adjust to life in berlin it's a tale of pain and loss but also love and spirituality as the narrator drifts through an endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city. people off people to breath. and also using just these words as if you were someone to. perhaps some sex you were. apart from writing books keeps himself busy as one half of the future blues duo b.b. excello send us the co-host of a pod cast about football all while continuing to live in berlin the city he was

summoned to 6 years ago. joins me now on skype for 1st of all i should say i love the book sort of fall off and i feel as if if i know you because it is your writing it's our personal but it's called a novel is it really a novel. you'll see why actually you'll see why there is much that has a very strong element of magical realism running through it as he. was developed at the time. but it starts with a heart realism because the idea is to make the reader feel attached to the car so when things go left in the book you work out why yeah. you say bowden is where outsiders feel at home and its web people end up who don't feel like they fit in anywhere else did you not fit in anywhere else and do you fit in embolden

yeah i think i do fit in here because i think it placed in a particular sense of chaos when i say chaos i mean anyone that's got a life that is not entirely linear where there's a clear path of a to be. career mortgage and so on and that's not your sort of set off and i think but it works for units and it works for me because i think my creative journey has been unusual i think it's fair to say yeah it's come to some more of your creativity in a 2nd but you seem to have a love affair with the city but you say berlin is diamond in the book why is that are they do they do they do they do they don't it's i would call it a love hate love relationship so it's you know it but it is you know your scope and how things are in the northeast and it's like the sounds of it being a bit grumpy but they're not really i'm sure you realize this is sometimes the external grumpiness hides and it warms and that to me is the kind of paradox of life in the city what seems unapproachable is actually very intimate and so i.

think you put the nail on the head there about london is out on another now and you said this in the past as well you don't imagine i believe having a family and i quote now from the book bring a new life into a civilization that appears to be accent racing towards its finish plunging headlong into a well pool of its own making now you're right it's actually before the pandemic so how do you feel now. i think we have a choice i think the pandemic has changed a lot of the old rules it's made us look at things in terms of inequalities to exist so we really have a choice that really matters to be honest rather what we do in the next 18 months i think it's. important that critical that we really are now in relation to climate in relation to social issues political issues we have to act now otherwise the world pole is going to accelerate. ok yeah let's lighten it up a bit because we have mentioned about your love of the beautiful guy football and

you're actually renowned for your football pub cost you wrote a book called had to be a good football manager so would you like to be a want to mean thomas took on he's going for the chelsea job well actually off this into your into setting him at the airport to get his job back on the cost out to write another study or set up to run on the study across the caucus but yeah i definitely miss chelsea so i'm not sure my messages after this incident show have several messages from them contract office the rest yeah you've been very busy the lockdown seems of help show writing certainly because you're also i believe got another book coming out in a couple of months as well what's thought about actually there's a there's a couple more sort of one coming out in a couple months is about my time age of college i won't come out september as a book about the like of iraq to parachute actual story based on his life the great for clean right so yeah it's going to a busy year the little 2 it ok so those 2 one's coming out and i problems coming

out in september. it's be great talking to you thanks very much i should just mention the book. i've got it is cold in the end it was all about love it's published right now i can recommend it to anyone especially people who've left their home country and live somewhere else most of thank you very much thank you so much for a much appreciated. here in germany they are ows and the international center on nazi persecution is aiming to create the world's largest digital memorial to the victims of national socialism january is $27.00 is holocaust remembrance day and the archive is promoting a project called hash tag every name counts inviting people from all over the world to take part in this project is mall. the every name counts project kicked off with

a striking fish will crowdsourcing installations shown on the facade of the french embassy in berlin names of holocaust victims sent in under the hash tag are projected on to the building and they can be added by anyone who wants to participate. as is also and it's extremely important to rediscover the names of the victims and tie like them. that is how we can resist the legacy of the nazis attempts to erase those names to erase their identities. and to treat people only as numbers or categories as category banalities what are we without a name what's a title but then you know an anomaly. the project was initiated by the arrows and archives in hessen central germany they're part of the unesco memory of the world program and contain information on more than 17000000 people who are victims of the nazi regime some 15000000 reference cards and thousands of personal objects

recalled the darkest chapter in germany's history. it's part of an international effort of remembrance and it helps researchers and relatives of the victims find out more about millions of individual destinies that were shattered decades ago. the german ministry of culture is a patron of the every name counts initiative at a time when remembrance culture is more important than ever so selfish that it's so important that this action reaches each and every one of us and not just the research community well because we see that democracy as we've known it for 75 years the rule of law that human dignity is respected our achievements and not gifts wrong is that we need to work for them that we have something to lose and that these are things that continually have to be defended here and now against right wing. populism discrimination racism hate and anti semitism lawyer on. the

title for most of the project is a testament to peace and despite their painful shared history france and germany are working together to face the giving quinto is the news if you could in the culture of remembrance is a very important aspect of the bilateral cooperation between france and germany but it also has a european dimension and i think that's especially interesting because it is european but europe in all its diversity because the history of national socialism was experienced differently from one country and one person to another was easts in your demands and from you to mention on the us and leaped to all. these pandemic times only a few people were able to attend the opening of the installation but those who were there were moved by what they saw. the reality of us times there's emotion being conveyed here i think we have a lot of theories we know a lot we read a lot we hear a lot about what happened but this kind of initiative is another way of

experiencing how. the digital memorial knows no borders and thousands of volunteers around the world have already joined the project to make sure the memories of the victims are honored because each and every one of them counts. it is germany's largest academic research library and one of the leading ones in the world the stops preview take all state library here in berlin renovations have been going on there for 16 years from the last year the library was closed because of the corona pandemic it's still not open to the public for the same reason but it had its official reopening digitally. in the heart of berlin's historic center stands a pression palace of knowledge finished in 1914 and filling a whole city block. the extensive renovation took 16 years partly because the library remained open for much of the time surviving 2 world wars and

decades of neglect the complex bore the scars of time now finally removed 12000000 books and manuscripts are kept here rare and important pieces of germany's cultural heritage such as a 15th century good and her bible or handwritten scores by beethoven and mozart including the magic flute at the virtual opening ceremony understood president spoke about the library significance today give arginine of to get out of in our digitalized public sphere really need neutral and reliable institutions that document knowledge make it accessible and yes filter it to freedom and so allow readers to evaluate information critically. in 4 months your producer give you part of their role as making the treasures of the library available online a decade long project that's the only way people can currently access this trove of

knowledge well they're reading rooms are shut to the pandemic. that is an impressive building it does look amazing white to visit on that story and many of us on our website that's t.-w. dot com slash culture that's all for this edition and thank you very much for watching and join us again as soon as you can.

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