the christian population doesn't disappear to find out on to the point. to point. the audience to a chocolate. bar and on demand. language courses. video and or. anytime anywhere. w. . just used to be news africa on the program today and raced in synagogue clashes break out in the capital don't card talk to the opposition need to close a racist. and so now before i do is december election when it is rubber stamped by god the supreme court judges have dismissed opposition allegations of vote rigging

. cast will need to 2 cousins behind ethiopia's 1st digital magazine 14 a just they want to empower the pianist through the topics they interest. self-esteem and confidence of teenagers young positive self-esteem is very important to teenagers allows us to try new things. hello it's good to have your company senegal's main opposition was months old or has spent a night in custody was arrested wednesday on charges of disturbing the public order it came as hundreds of his support is clashed with police while he was on his way to court to face rape charges so who denies the claims against him saying that they are politically motivated. now city goes national assembly strip sokol office legal

immunity last week paving the way for a police investigation. it was an unusual outbreak of chaos in dakar opposition supporters facing off against riot police the commotion brought business to a halt in the heart of the city. and it all revolved around one man. we are here to support our leader last month on call but above all to fight for democracy for freedom for equality for the rule of law forever we have been fighting for we are here to accompany it was months on call but we say no to violence they're firing tear gas guns at the people they want us to react but we won't do it will always be their foes months unco know to dictatorship. he's popular among senegalese young people whose months on ko a former tax specialist is the biggest rival to president macky sall but last month

an employee of a beauty salon accused him of rape denies the charges and says the government is instigating a plot against him on wednesday supporters joined the opposition convoy on the way to court for the hearing before they were stopped some cause lawyer says police arrested him for participating in unauthorized demonstrations. not mr sokol has not committed any act with a view to disturbing public order. he wanted to defer to the summons of justice. and you are witnesses to that. everything under. the drama presents an additional challenge for a man who's seen as a rising political star in senegal one of west africa's more stable democracies. and i'm now joined by joined this december by g he is editor off africa check in the tech hub here good to see you welcome to the program somebody one of the

circumstances surrounding those months song cause arrest so go was someone before the listing getting judge for his 1st hearing following accusations of rape but on his road his car was broken by security forces were asking him to change his route to avoid the crowds of is supporters were mobilized outside to follow him to the court but when some go as he said that he would not change his road. the security forces pulled him out of is a reaction to inform him that he was under arrest for disturbing public order why do most men so called support says insist that the rape accusation he's facing is politically motivated. because it happens that the owner

of the must. did different interviews when the accusation broke 2 states that she does not believe that there was a rape more of a a some cause supporters believe that there was a conspiracy because some. because some got you seen today as the men open end of the regime it came in the last presidential election in 2019 and since the candidate. came 2nd jointed marcus out of camp is defacto the number one opponent and then so goes the quarters at least. of one to 2 immediately important opponent before the next election. day deep weed the son of the former president of dry what the former mayor of dakar. both

was sent to prison a few years ago how much of a threat is so smug songkhla to president he sell. yeah i mean some girl is going through it as a big hit because. right now he's seen as the only one in the opposition because there is a lot of grievances in the country people are getting more and more angry and criticizing the way. the country is marketed by myself and or because people are now trolling to some cool because there is no order of poland. apart from so-called because of the up to the last election in 2019 many of. a candidates or some politician who was in the opposition jointly. market outcome and now some police stephen by many senegalese that have many grievances

against the government as the only one but. listen they haven't got bleed the real or present in the country right that's a budgie speaking to us from the call thank you. ghana supreme court has upheld president knuckle fladell is to stand by election victory judges rejected a challenge from his rival john who alleged irregularities in the results now the election was a close contest between the 2 political heavyweights hama change that puts at an added to president a call for others total and some polling stations pushing him about the 50 percent threshold needed to of weight and reynolds but the court ruled that these allegations were without errors. she was at the course in a crisis and has this report. with this judgment that's the end of the road for former president john muhammad in challenging

a presidential election results and that's a disappointment to him and his supporters for his opening the. president this is an affirmation of his reelection that brinks enjoy and that of his supporters and of cause their outcome has been accepted i would speak fairly and i'm one guy names across the country about there are no reports of violence or clashes as a result of the decline reachin of the results this is another chapter in a country's them across a dispensation what i tells you is that as a country gonna kind of have risen to election disputes in the courts and sort of on the streets is take a look down some of the stories making news across the continent the united nations is human rights you say as reported abuses and killings in ethiopia is to cry russian could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. allow munches into the region to investigate the incidents and on next have taken place in late

2020. 1 to has become the 1st african country to receive the size of buy and take her on a virus vaccine up to a batch of 100000 doses arrived in kigali any other country received a separate delivery of 200000 jabs both on signs of country to even made cold vaccinations and sought after police all searching for several crocodiles like these that escaped from a commercial breeding farm some 150 kilometers east of cape town the reptiles each measuring some 4 to 5 feet long sneaked up through a hole in the fence so far at least $27.00 have been recovered. on the stories in ethiopia where an online magazine for teenagers is gaining traction teen launched last year and it already has some $10000.00 subscribers as you would expect from a magazine for teenagers the content features celebrity news fashion beauty spoilt education and lifestyle as you're about to see the founders and it is of the

magazine themselves teenagers are also tackling some hard and sensitive topics everybody sort of good family and i'm one of the founders of ethiopia magazine for teenagers the cousins started teen most with them pairing young people through awareness and discussion. we want to talk about sexual violence. self-esteem and confidence of teenagers positive self-esteem is very important to teenagers as it allows us to try new things. take hope for years and so probably talking about these issues is not the norm the girls' families are proud of the part they are playing in changing society. i am proud to and very happy i grew up in a much conservative society psychology kind of topic especially for teenagers because it was considered the subject for

a team of writers contribution to the monthly magazine and one of recent articles she wrote about gratitude she is aware of the challenges she faces as a young woman but of knowledge is that progress is being made is a definite. difference in how men and women are treated here. women are more likely to be concert i do believe that. this generation of women in this generation of girls are more personalized than the previous ones and i believe that the pope is really trying to empower women more. she was always an important moment for cousins hope to engage with their readers through a live video on instagram having had a bad experience herself but i wanted to break the silence surrounding the subject i think a lot of people get hurt because like i don't i feel bad when they did that. and

that wasn't anything like they just. said said something like that with her and that was pretty hard so really the people who feel like. gardening you know. i'm there with a cross. with hundreds of new downloads every month the magazine is gaining momentum and the girls have high hopes they dream of one day becoming perhaps africa's answer to vote. and power to them that's it for now based. on forward slash africa on facebook and on services today will be viewed with images from kenya of young men taking part in the final rite of passage to transition from being war is to the next time ok. but if i. thought it up.

on the. left i laughed at the tear i laughed at the laughter like yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah. yeah. i. forced into an office max. there body here to. the history of the slave trade is africa's history. just. for

power in traffic plummeted and entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. i think will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on w. . welcome to arts and culture 5050 by 2020 was a bold ambition of the film industry to rectify a chronic lack of gender parity kicked off by the swedish. film institute in cannes back in 2016 oberlin film festival signed onto the pledge in 2019 and we'll see how things look for gender equality at this year's edition also coming up. women get

all the air time on today's program as we continue with our series on female artists who championed women's causes this time in kenya with right earth so kids rather than a. well since 2019 the belly nala has been on course to showcase more films by female directors and to achieve more diversity in general all this year with a vastly reduced program due to covert to the tally comes in at just over a 3rd for films held by women and here are 2 examples from iran and from germany. you can talk. about. he's extremely polite but a bit stiff and somehow uncanny but that's no wonder since tom is

a robot he's meant to be a partner for alma best finish and i have a say in the abstract think this idea is very much of the moment in a world that doesn't fact have humanoid robots. but at the same time it presents questions for which we maybe don't yet have any answers for and for didn't try to. escape. into the front high from. passing mention of what i had thought of him among us then elmer is meant to write a report for an ethics commission about whether tom the robot is suitable as a companion or not. and tom does everything he can to make life for a heaven on earth but i'm a is a really interested in romantic gestures like strawberries and champagne in a candlelit bath it soon becomes clear that from a human perspective tom is simply too perfect. thank you does this in for she i

think there are moments in this film that hold up a mirror to the viewer lets you see yourself as a human being through tom's eyes and simply have to admit that humanity is sometimes very strange indeed that food is. often a busy behind and hunger in the machine so it's perhaps inevitable that the human android pair end up in couples therapy i'm your man is cleverly funny and it avoids the overly broad humor that usually characterizes german romantic comedies but like its humanoid lead tom the film is a bit too predictable the basically inventive story could have used some unusual twists. from a german romantic comedy to an iranian drama in ballad of a white cow menas husband has been convicted of murder and executed now it's emerged that he was in fact innocent and there's been a miscarriage of justice

a list of all here. just. now mena is on her own caring for her hearing impaired daughter with very little money the film by director and lead actress mari a model is a cry for help it was traits poignantly how hard women have to struggle against injustice and inequality and not just in iran. putting a spotlight on films by female directors at this year's barely nala and let's go over to my colleague scott roxboro in bonn to talk about a few more high scots incredible range of really interesting female voices this year and there's one that's been hotly awaited of course because celine samah who impressed us all with portrait of a lady on fire she's back with

a new film tell us about it. yeah this this film is called but the moment and it's premiered here in berlin online this week it's very interesting for people who know her work because this is a time travel movie it's about a 8 year old girl who's visiting her mother's old childhood home and she's outside in the back in the woods and then she meets another little girl who's the same age as her but has the same name as her mother and she sure realizes this is her mother it's her mother from the past and they became become friends and the girl has an opportunity to get to know her mother in a different way and maybe develop a new relationship with her ok so this is fascinating because this is a i mean it's such a different take on a time travel movie than than a male director would typically do don't you think. definitely i mean this isn't back to the future or this isn't a christian olden time travel movie i mean you know flux capacitor is or time machine gizmos here none of the sort of mechanics of time travel but i see

a lot of these male directed movies you know here it's all about emotion it's all about the connection between this daughter and her mother and and about their relationship and i was talking to the directors and she earlier and she said that for her the real time travel machine is within us it's in our memories it's in our imagination and and that's what you want to bring out with this film really fascinating perspective now there's another film that's kind of similar in a way because it's also about a mother daughter connection tell us about the film titled memory box. yeah this is also interesting it's a it's a french lebanese production and in some ways it's very similar in theme to. though a very different story it's a young girl in montreal your old hometown a lebanese a daughter of a lebanese immigrant and she discovers a memory box a box of old letters and photos from her mother that she wrote during when she was

her age during the lebanese civil war the 1980 s. and as the daughter is going through these images and these these letters she started to try to imagine what her mother must have been like when she was a teenager and she was her age the film also uses a really interesting visual trick because the daughter scans the photos with her her cellphone and animates them so that in a way she's literally communicating back and forth with with her mother in the past i talked of directors of this movie and they said it was based on a real story because they had that kind of memory box from the mother and their daughter discovered it and she started going through it and started reading what her mother was like when she was her age and started questioning what the stories of you've been telling me it was very much is fired by real life what a brilliant technique now thought one more question we're still a long way from 5050 but would you say these efforts to achieve gender balance at festivals are generally having an impact on what you can see. i think there are definitely having an impact i mean. a lot more films are being made by women and

more importantly law films being made by women are getting seen and recognized i mean we saw just this past weekend that. became only the 2nd woman to win best director at the golden globes a lot of the front runners for this year's oscars are women as you said we're still a long way from parity just 38 percent of the films in the delano are directed by women but progress is being made and it's so good to see and certainly amazing to get these new perspectives thanks so much scott we'll speak to tomorrow after we hear who's won the golden bear. looking forward to well revel girls and women in the world certainly needs more of them that's why in honor of international women's day we asked our correspondents around the globe to profile some women artists that they feel are making a difference and this time we're in africa where 2 kids were a van or a winner of the good to madonna last year in 2020 does just that. i needed the money coming to you from kenya's capital nairobi and despite the fact that the

person we're about to meet was not actually born here she does thrive in creative institutes such as the one that we're standing next to but it's actually had a literature that she hopes will be able to cut across boundaries reaching young girls across the continent and challenging young women such as myself. but i'm hoping that. gets my goat. when i get referred to is black african movement right that i would like. why must i have business or what you call it work or what i did i want to be a good writer. suki's where vanna is unafraid to speak her mind born in zambia and now based in kenya the south african is a novelist children's book writer journalist and publisher she also founded in

curated a pan african online literature festival in response to the covert 1000 lockdown she's prolific and multi-talented and her energy seems inexhaustible how does she juggle her many interests with very little sleep. i think if you love something you always make time for it's her writing almost always has a political subtext her debut novel the madams was published in 2006 it's the story of 3 well off middle class women in post apartheid south africa torn between career and family traditional and modern female roles in today's world i am essentially prof. who very proffer pen i'm very pro women and i think generally comes out in my books what the 3 or have in common is about identity. i'm writing for readers but more importantly i'm writing for

people will say oh reading is boring and i'll fair i've got a book for you finish once i finish one page and told me if that's boring. writing it's opinion and interests not afraid to take a stance supporting young readers and writers is something especially close to her heart. i don't want my generation to be the last generation of writers you know i always to myself to be able to hold on and bring younger generation of writers and give them voice and give them the platform. in 2020 cities where vanno became the 1st african woman to win the go to medal making her a role model for aspiring writers. or when you're an artist you want to be just speaking to one people it means a lot where it can resonate with with somebody in berlin or with somebody in munich

with somebody in brazil and as a publisher one of her top priorities is amplifying african voices but maybe we need more voices that are more visible a lot of african countries are only going to 60 years from colonialism we're still growing we are story. from more than hearing now kenya has been struggling with the pandemic here to women in particular who bear the brunt of it so it is where the owner has a special message for them for international women's day. this is an assist we who are the sky. may we get the recognition we're deserve for all that some leave that we do and may we and our allies and learn the purchase the habits that allow us to celebrate mediocre contributions by men or excellent contributions by women i wish you all

a reflective and empowering 365 days this women city. words to resonate on international women's day coming up on march the 8th that's next monday and on that empowering note it is time for me to sign off to visit our website in the meantime we have more on from abouts of his go on out there and we hope to see you next time on tell bandit do go well and just from us here in berlin i'm scooter and a feed of me. to

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