we've got some tips for your bucket list. manticora. for food. and some great cultural memorials to boot. trouble. this is a news africa coming up on the program a brutal weapon of war rape survivors in ethiopia conflict region seek help after the ordeals. i was left inside in my home then they were able. to resolder. i'm told me a lot of both thank you for joining us it's been just over 4 months since the

conflict in ethiopia is teague rye region began yet details of events on the ground have been limited that's because the government restricted access to the area for humanitarian workers and the media still there have been reports of abuses by government backed forces against civilians among these are accounts of rape involving soldiers causing great physical and mental damage to their victims. she's just 20 years old and she's a rape survivor now she's found refuge in the safe house integrates capital matelot here more than 20 women are trying to deal with their trauma they were raped by soldiers so was she assaulted in her home village before she fled. that night candy to every house and forced not the men to leave the house i was left inside in my home then they were people you know mother teresa walters raped me.

after they left me i fainted because i was bleeding so much because the money then was it's not worth a certain woman come here from the cities referral hospital most of them are suffering severely from the violence that are women part of regular prolapse. women who have bleeding when i have been there still my. girl is. well are not stable psychologically the psychological trauma doesn't actually. only happen on the victim it happens to you as well when you hear their stories. the conflict integra began early november the 2 great people's liberation front is battling the future national army and every try and force is also believed to be involved fighting alongside the government troops and

the killers survivors accuse both ethiopian and every trained soldiers of raping them in a single month the city's referral hospital has received more than $150.00 rape cases several women have come to get an abortion this woman has over 3 months pregnant she was raped while trying to walk to her family home outside of the killer when the fighting started. i mean to cut out i had a very simple they tried to scare me we don't care about you know we only listen to our urges i didn't say anything after they've done what they wanted they left so i put my clothes back on and took all my bags and went to the hospital struggling to cope doctors have been pressured not to make their cases public but one gynecologist did speak out. it was very it is very really arrested there are many. getting pregnant. present there is sexually transmitted disease we supposed dramatics that i said this. really domestic. to

grace into him government has promised to investigate the cases it says is boosting the regional police force to try to bring the perpetrators to justice but many women are still trapped in their villages so there's great concern that the majority of lukey says remain unreported and that alone with no trama. correspondent maria get. reports from mecca and she joins me now from. maria powerful painful testimony from the survivor you met how much help is there for the women who have been subjected to 1st horrific sexual abuse there will throughout the region help is very limited but in the hospital that i visited and i make a list so that's a referral hospital there is a small center called one stop center where women can go get their position and receive some medical treatment that they need but the main problem is that there's

a massive shortage of medical equipment and medicine so it's very difficult for the nurses working there to actually provide the needed help to these women and the men within the hospital women who've been raped and got pregnant are able to get an abortion and receive some type of limited psychological support and the hospital also refers to some of the women. that i show in the beginning of the report where they receive additional psychological support but also know that help is very limited especially in rural areas with many health centers that are not operating and have been looted and very. serious. aspect of the final point you made in the report did you get the sense that these rape incidents were far more numerous than what you saw and do we know how many women have actually suffered this abuse. well we don't have the total number of women

who've been raped and the main reason for that is it's believed that the majority of them are still trapped in their towns or villages and that's because of lack of transportation because of the insecurity and also simply because of lack of money and a few numbers that i have been able to gather so that's 150 women in the referral hospital in regularly 174 women in the hospital and the grant that's about 3 hours north of me give an indication and give an indication also of the violence of these rapes but it's widely believed that many many more women are trapped in the rural areas and many of these women reporting rape are accusing soldiers if european soldiers as well as every trim soldiers of rape is being used as a weapon of war is anyone investigating this. so international organizations such as the united nations have repeatedly called for independent investigation teams to be allowed into the to great region but so far no access has been granted as far as

i know i met with the interim president to grab a name is more than a guy who was appointed by the met and he promised that his and his administration is going to investigate the rapes and he said that the rapes are not perpetrated by only one group of people but he also stressed that the security imperative in the region has been significantly weakened and he's there for trying to kind of strengthen the local police force but as far as independent investigation goes there's been no progress so far and i guess one of the issues that the investigation would probably be looking at is when these incidents happened do we have an idea of was it on in the conflict always the something that's still going on. well i only talked to individual witnesses so it's very difficult to pin kind of a global picture but from what i've seen women have been raped as early as november

that's when the conflict started to gray and i also met a woman who'd been raped at the end of february and with the continuing a fighting in many areas have to agree there's still much that we don't know and so the problem is far from over. and just a quick one regarding your visit there's always a revis there to graze the region now more accessible to the media. well allowing journalists in the region was definitely a big step forward but 1st of all it was only a limited list of journalists who weren't allowed into the region and there was no restriction per se and no one was telling me you're allowed to go there or there while i was working but the problem that we faced is that several translators local translators who were working with international journalists were arrested and intimidated and so that kind of sent a message to other people they were working with journalists and to journalists as a whole so this was the main problem that we faced and that you know people that

were working with us faced while we were and to great. correspondent nicholas school in had disappeared but thank you for bringing us up to speed thank you let's take a look at some other stories making news across the continent now. the government of guinea has declared 3 days of mourning for the victims of sunday's military camp blasts it also declared the coastal city of data a disaster area and is appealing for international aid to help those affected the explosions killed at least 105 people and injured more than 600 others. sudan has started rolling out vaccinations against covert 19 health staff in the capital khartoum received the 1st shots last week sudan was the 1st country in north africa and middle east region to receive a batch of the astra zeneca jab through the world health organizations vaccine

sharing program kovacs. authorities in trying to prevent yet another ecological disaster on sunday chinese flagged trawler run aground leaking some of the $130.00 tons of oil and board is the 2nd ship wreck in less than a year of the indian ocean occupied ago in july a tanker struck a wreath and lost 1000 tons of fuel. to uganda and a boy there who is reaching for the stars 70 year old graham shama has become a sensation for his wealth of aircraft knowledge he's even flown 3 times as a copilot but i will find out not even the sky is his limit. we call him captain she. boy whose love of flying has captured uganda's imagination graham is learning his way around the flight deck. this is used for that.

and don't we can't yet see over the cockpit controls he's already got his eyes on outer space. and to me. and nash. was interested in last summer because i. wanted to good. at home graham's mother has tried to nurture her son's obsession with technological turn in terms to the real thing his precautious curiosity for flying all jack's began when a helicopter tore the roof of his grandmother's house. he spotted everything what paint so from. my phone but much interested. in it. that the story of the little boy with the big green has sparked a national interest with v.i.p.'s keen to meet him but graham is holding out for

a phone call from iran mosque i like it. because. we have. to learn when. to go. down she thinks that this may have just been a lesson but it doesn't seem like it will be long until captain she is flying for real. hope the young man can achieve his dreams that's it for now but check out other stories on. africa also on facebook and twitter and we leave you with these pictures of senegalese jockeys like followed young. one of his country's most promising talents but plenty of new comers want to knock him off the top spot see you next time by phone now.

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what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get the maps now. a new craze is sweeping the art world highly encrypted it digital works being sold for millions of euros why are collectors racing to buy art they can't even hang on a wall that's coming up on arts and culture and. hoping for democracy in sudan film director had huge coup god talks about his country's struggle for peace. but 1st a decade after the earthquake and tsunami that caused nuclear meltdown to japan's

fukushima power plant artists in the country are still coming to grips with the catastrophe a new exhibition in the city of mito in the prefecture next to focus is giving artists space to reflect on the nation's trauma and on how to explain what happens to the next generation. today i. am. this is the fukushima exclusion zone a japanese artists collective has used this no man's land for an art project exploring the restricted area around the ruined nuclear plant and placing artworks the public will only be able to access them once the restrictions have been lifted until then the website for the project remains a blank page that's displayed as part of an art exhibition in meta a city about 150 kilometers from the exclusion zone. the contemporary art center in mito is now featuring these and other artworks exploring

artists' reflections on the triple disaster 10 years on. the art center was damaged by the 2011 earthquake but it wasn't affected by the nuclear accident that allowed curator utaka he said to address the catastrophe early on by documenting artists activities. like this recording made in the aftermath of the disaster. we're going to that that is us the affected area and they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually use their. techniques to sort of. ease and ease and heal the damage inside the people. he karo fuji was one of them immediately after march 11th he went to forests with extremely high levels of radiation and film there he felt driven to

create a memory of that time. that it's very difficult to create a work of art when such a catastrophe has occurred during the question but when i started shooting with my camera it wasn't with the intention of creating art but rather to record. so my comment on her. husband must. 10 years later he addresses the issue of discrimination against the people of fukushima who are regarded as being contaminated traumatizing them yet again in his documentary a teacher conducts an exercise with her students labeling them as inferior or superior depending on where they live so they can experience the strawman and reflect on that. paneled it go on less than a week. though on and off but that's not. he caro fuji's goal is to pass on the memory of the catastrophe almost no traces of the destruction remain visible in

mito today people seem to have moved on. but the artists in this exhibition don't want to forget especially in a country where natural disasters are a constant reality. when you hone your it but a 2nd rate that comes and i think it is a reality that there will be a catastrophe at some point in the future in japan or elsewhere in the world. that is preparing for it is a very important issue. that's why we worked with the children highest topics. that were smashed. in the last room of the exhibition there are no artworks just a space for visitors to reflect and express their feelings it's an attempt to make art a platform for building a collective memory in order to move forward that. people have there on memory to that is if you have experienced it it but we just didn't have on our

dating life that they talk about talking about it something different so organising an exhibit will sort of a given opportunity for people to. have to that disaster and also to talk about it. more art news now for the 1st time ever christie's auction house is selling off a work of purely digital art the collage by artist b. people does not exist anywhere as a physical artwork only as highly encrypted data here just a few of the thousands of images contained in it christie's on why an auction ends thursday morning new york time and potential buyers are already bidding millions to try to get it. this is the latest in a movement called crypto art and stick in the art world by storm to w. reporter michael kruger is following this trend micro 1st of all who is this people

guy and why do people want to spend millions of dollars on his artwork be people is mike winkle man and he's a graphic designer from the united states and he's one of the most prolific artists of all time maybe. for more than 12 years he produced every single day an artwork which he puts together in the end and the whole picture this is what we just saw and of of course he was also busy with other stuff and he's not only very productive some say he's really it genius when it comes to this graphic artist here we see him he's just maybe a new type of an artist looks like a typical nerd for me he's inspired by the game community and developed together with so many other artists maybe now even a new drama ok so a very soon somewhere someone will own this piece of work that took years to make but what does that even mean to own

a piece of crypto art how does that work it's all about and t. this is the basis of everything which makes everything possible and f. and f. t. that means fungible token and that means that it guarantees you ownership so. so it can be copied it's no it's not possible to copy it's written in the dot of base that this is the reach and how it's going to match maybe the mona lisa in the louvre. he is able to make pictures of the mona lisa but she stays in the louvre hopefully has a rich you know and with and of t. and cook to artists it's just the same nearly but they only exist in the digital form term krypto are does this whole explosion around. i don't think many of us had heard of crypto art not long ago and now it is the big thing in the world what's going on where it's new it's fresh it's was and because of these auction at

christie's it's now a topic not only for this fringe group of digital ochsner. now it's available for us for everybody. musician growing but here is a few 1000000 and absolutely a lot of people are trying to experiment now with an f t sambal. she created the series with new bone flying fighters and sold this op collection for $6000000.00 maybe you'll remember also this iconic cat's an internet mean from. the artist behind him it was just creating and t. out of her and sold this as well full 1000000 so you can create nearly everything which is digital as an f t as an original a very exciting project was another long and very exciting into the it's a group of fans. bought this print from bang c.

and burned it in a live stream so that the physical out of work now is destroyed but they're still the digital ones and whoever owns it maybe will project it on a wall or maybe it's just going to be on a computer somewhere my could just wait to choose the better you tube price absolutely thanks it's. at the berlin international film festival talented young filmmakers from around the world come together each year at barely knowledge talents a program where they can network and exchange ideas who over the years we've met quite a few talents including director had huge kuko from sudan we checked in with him again to see how he's doing since his country's transition to democracy. how jewish kuko wants to make films for his people we caught up with a filmmaker in berlin where he was taking a break from his troubled home country of sudan a land long beset by conflict and mismanagement the conversation about filmmaking

soon shifted in august of last year together with 10 other artists who was arrested on what he says were trumped up charges as a long time supporter of peaceful change in sudan. on the steps of getting into peace but were struggling with new new things we're struggling with a technocrat government that can't really deal with running the government alongside this military and national security and the remainder of the old regime with the old mentality with the old mind shift so now we're we're set we're like we could do it this is this is the time in history where we could do it if we fail it's us failing but it still needs a lot of energy to go forward with we 1st met back in 2016 he was living in the nuba mountains at the time the middle of a war zone he took part in the belly knowledge talents program after making the

award winning documentary beats of the antenna. and it's a film about music identity to warn you about the war using music so within that i construe you know music and culture on daily life and people. moved from new york to the nuba mountains to support his people in 2012 the film shows how locals cope with the civil war that surrounds them. you scared like you naturally scared everybody around you scared everybody's running into foxholes there's a moment when you come out that you. you want to make sure everybody's ok there is that moment of fear but as soon as you notice everybody's ok then there's that moment of extreme happiness. bits of the antonov one the best documentary audience

award at the 2014 toronto film festival. in 2018 he made his 1st fiction film akasha an antiwar comedy it premiered at venice. i wanted to make sure that we don't just keep having this heroic idea of war and war this amazing thing and to become a man and to become. a hero and to go to war so so i wanted to destroy that. despite the difficulties surrounding him continues to make films for his people he is now planning a film about the odyssey africans undertake in an effort to reach europe a kind of pan african road trip. that's it for this edition of arts and culture a leaving now though with a little glamour from paris fashion week the house of unveiled its new collection and a video shot at persons shall the airport just a little reminder of what it was like to travel once upon a time. read. the

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