your story. 'd might be with numbers of women especially of victims of violence to take part in your story you are trying. to understand this new culture. or you are not the visitor not of years you want to become a citizen. to margaret's your platform for reliable information. this is africa on the program today the covert 19. and how it will be tough for women. more women around the world have lost their jobs because 19 men will meet women in uganda who've taken the wheel up to the pandemic to put them out of work. and will also make the cameroonian no mass cervical cancer screening she's trying to raise

awareness about the disease and save women for its 2 mates. i'm christine it's good to have your company some of the world's wealthiest people have seen their wealth soul during the 1900 pandemic while poor people off facing the hardship the united nations say is the crisis has disproportionately affected women they have faced an increased risk off devastation and poverty according to the international labor organization to the jobs that will be permanently lost because of the pandemic job stand 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 and 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 as that's the u.n. secretary general. speaking there but even with women facing tough years ahead in the uganda the covert 19 pandemic has opened the way to new koreas for some when it when the coronavirus hits many jobs in the country were lost and millions was 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 all diva taxi drivers get self-defense training they also all carry pepper spray and know how to use if 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 to take it up because he had a good you need to mitchell south and and and so but if i meet. you i need to take it from graham. more women in uganda have lost their jobs due to covert 19 than men according to the world bank this is deepening the country's already wide employment gender gap diva taxi which started last june is proving that women can

compete in mile dominated industries while it is extremely hard working very motivated and i like their sense of pride when they're doing this work they get one part of it. and that's the difference we have that will be to us more importantly customers also appreciate having female drivers. i am more safe being driven personality this is a gender issue i feel safe being driven by but also because. that's the way that they're careful way while driving. is amazing. the driving service has grown into a successful startup it's helped more than 80 women in kampala overcome unemployment during the code 19 pandemic. and to talk more about how the pandemic is impacting women in africa we've invited the executive

director of the un women. on to the program welcome to news africa and the u.n. saying that most of the people that have been pushed into poverty by call that 90 and all women how will african women be affected by the pandemic in the long term well women in africa in the social services to begin there is this is in the health care sector it's just slow it is globally there are lots of 80 percent elite in the health sector so the exposed to the pandemic in much more but also all the also in the services indices this have lost most of the jobs many of them will not speak evil to get 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'm just removing the former sector so getting on their feet again is extremely difficult right so so as these vaccines are being being prepared and rolled out the conversation is now shifting to the recovering 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 most off 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. 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 we should not have some of the

red tape structures for the present and former sectors because those do not reach the women in the informal sector the level of literacy the litany chariots the folks that get businesses are not elections that should not work against them. and what is your advice to a woman in africa listening to you today how can she position herself for all that life after the pandemic to recover economically. well in the 1st place i think you're we must make sure that girls in africa do not miss out on your spirit cation 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. if

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 give these skills and we don't expect that women to do that themselves some point has to come from governments in other institutions including the un and the private sector to help to retool women for the jobs of the teacher in those that are under a culture we are edging diagnose to procure their women produce wherever possible scenario is a good example of that country that is begin to computerize from women if you were small producers producing as a group in being able then to sustain. their business and then we. have been ok you were the 1st female deputy president assad africa and at that time you were actually the highest ranking woman in the country's history what's your sense about if there is more space opening up in africa for for women to need.

it i will i will it's only excess then it is definitely key is that it be a big push from women it to clean gas space 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 guarantee that the woman that was elected before will 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 are here in 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 and in number and ok thank you. now in many countries in africa lack of information and cultural ties has 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 is the 2nd highest general for women off to breast cancer but if it is detected early it can be defeated and one health worker in cameroon has made it her mission to do just that. you want and diana magoo 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. this week on money. that's why we called the money business. 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. so i didn't put it back on but it's a fight and. it's all streaming is that all it says back and forth but it will mark the 2nd but it's less now when it begins because one 3rd because that begins there is no science i think if all it tests that can prove that the concept that 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 so you got. a. problem. that's a car. traffic. reporting prince it is. just. to the. president which means it's quite

a few exploded. when she was younger diana lost loved ones to cervical cancer. now she is on a mission to make sure every woman in her community is aware of cervical cancer. and that is a program there is more of me to come forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on face i'll see you next time about. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word in the. piece in germany the term. why not learn with him. to stuff it simple mind on your mobile and for e. t

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libraries the stops biblio take here in berlin reopens off to substantial renovations costing over 450000000 euros. most was born in london and moved him to bowl in 2014 he studied lore of oxford and then practiced both lowell 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 have instead he decided to focus on writing. his latest book in the end it was all about love is the sending 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 ask people to for. and also use who just these words as if you're struggling to. perhaps to some sense work. apart from writing books

a conga keeps himself busy as one half of the future blues duo b.b. excello sent us the co-host of a pod cast about football while continuing to live in berlin the city he was summoned to 6 years ago. and. joins me now on skype for 1st of all i should say i love the books are far 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 to your future which about looks at the time. but it starts with the 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 bonin is where outsiders feel at home and

its web page will 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 plays to our particular sense of chaos when i say chaos i mean anyone let's go a life that is not entirely linear where there's a clear path of a to be. korea mortgage and so it does not you'll sort of set off and i think 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 done i want in the book why is that are they do they do they do or they do they don't it's i would call it a love hate love relationship so as you know that 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 and when you realise this it's sometimes

external grumpiness hides and a warmth that to me is the kind of paradox of life in the city what seems unapproachable is actually very insular so i. think you've put the nail on the head there about bananas on another night and you said this in the paul says well you don't imagine i believe having a family and i quote now from the book bringing a new life into a civilisation that appears to be accent a 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 feel we have a choice i think the pandemic has changed a lot of the old rules it's made to look at things in terms of the inequalities the exist so we really have a choice that really matters to be honest reading 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 pool is going to accelerate. ok yeah let's lighten it up a bit because we have mentioned that show your love of the beautiful guy football and you're actually renowned for your football podcast you wrote a book called had to be a good football manager so would you like to be a want to mean thomas took what 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 polka shout out to write another study or set up the right understudy across the caucus but yeah i definitely miss chelsea so i'll share my messages after this incident on the show have several messages from them contract office the rest yeah you've been very busy the knock down 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 bad about actually there's a there's a couple more so the one coming out in a couple months is about my time 80 college i won't come out september as

a book about the like of iraq especially actual story based on his life the great for playwright so yeah it's going to a busy year the little 2 it ok so those 2 ones coming out and i have obama's coming out in september. it's been 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 mole. the every name counts project kicked off of the 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 it is also and it's extremely important to rediscover the names of the victims and to highlight 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 of category analogies what are we without a name. but one anomaly. the project was initiated by the our listening 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 50000000 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 remember its culture is more important than ever so. it's so important that this action reaches each and every one of us and not just the research community 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 or so 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 girls loyal and who are on piet's one 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 getting going to see everything good 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 to me 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 east in need of nuns and from new dimension on those and to all. in 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. really about guns but 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. 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 stop the beauty call state library here in berlin renovations have been going on there for 16 years of 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 gutenberg bible or handwritten scores by beethoven bach and mozart including the magic flute at the virtual opening ceremony understocked president spoke about the library significance today if i do not have to get out as you have in our digitalized public sphere my need neutral and reliable institutions that document knowledge make it accessible and yes filter it to them and so allow readers to evaluate information critically from informants your own produce

to give you part of their role is 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 their reading rooms are shut due to the pandemic. that is an impressive building if it doesn't look amazing why to visit a mall on that story and many of us on our website that steve dot com slash culture pass all for this edition so thank you very much for watching and join us again as soon as you can.

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