factor has blood on it from the rooms that have yet to feel. what should be done with the stone or from him for god. this is being hotly debated on both continents . stolen so it starts people 13 and g.w. . this is deja news africa on the program today the work being done to free africa's insane people we will be providing a safe haven to people escaping slavery initiating. and burning the nature reserves off cape town when conservationists saw cutting down trees just save the city hall running out of horses.

i'm christine it's good to have you any africa has some of the highest rates of modern day slavery in the world a 2018 index showed that as many as 9000000 africans were living in servitude without having a choice in the matter and now today countries with the highest numbers of slaves in africa include in retrain. sudan and rwanda in mauritania slavery is especially prevent because it's been an institutionalized practice state taxes they have been known to collude with slave now in a moment i'll be talking to every search on slavery in africa but 1st this report from new jail where people who've escaped bondage are being set up for a new life. into him you do became misread as a child that's was because they have very status is passed on through the generations who took care of ca took and sometimes worked on farms and all right.

doubt pay. slavery is a reality we were born with units we are recognized as such doesn't was let us go a little far from the boat we are still on the in and when. there's only people are predominantly museums of the maliki sunni in asia they believe in the outside headlines sever it remains deeply embedded in each of society it exists in rural and urban areas and is practiced virgin by the 20. 2 it. is fighting this practice. as one gets into but i've been in a bar we saw power grandparents where in this situation and it was an unjust situation i said that i'm going to fight against this injustice and today i would rather die in that fight than died lex. after escaping their

masters they were brought to this village which is isolated from ordinary communities which is organization is providing social i mean tease. you could only move but we had to support them chickens. each woman was given the and most obviously when they are going to receive a capital that will allow them to be financially independent. feeding this community in the long term might be h.r. inge so fighting for this minority to have access to their land and with the land they can work and feed themselves. these people are finally free from their serve busters but they are still considered as they have in their country that's why they are saying that they will continue to fight for their rights they have right

through their law hamadou admits his time is passing but the truth will now round him deserve a bit of a future. so. today in the eyes of everyone we are slaves we will not continue to remain in this slavery we are going to fight our freedom that's why we went to see only to tell you that we have had enough of. server was a borscht in asia in 1960 and has been a punishable crime since 2003 but despite that it is a harsh reality for many. to talk more on this we've invited sophie de connick entre the program she is from the international labor organization one of her focus areas is the abolition of slavery she joins us from welcome to news africa sophie we've just seen an example from michelle to tell us more about what slavery in the modern day looks like in africa. thank you thank you very much and thank you for

inviting me to speak come on this very important issue of slavery oppressed people as we call it in the international labor organization can take out different forms in africa your documentary describes traditional slavery which continues to exist in the sahara and part of africa particularly in egypt mauritania and mabie but and in d.c. in these countries some ethnic community. exists where people are born into slavery and resulting in entire generations of them being owned and at the disposal of the hamas. but that's another form of for paper which is human trafficking either for labor affection expo taishan which is problems in the continent and virtually all the countries in africa either a source of a lot of human trafficking or a destination and in some instances also transit countries and it's important to note that most of the other human trafficking cures within africa but indeed there

are a few quick and that also trafficking to europe went to the back to the. why debt slavery continue to thrive on the continent there are a number of factors that lead to dispute you ation them as parting with the white press poverty and the and the lack of a safety net for the population poor levels of education of skills lack of job opportunity and for playboy to be found grady in a. mainly in context because on subsistence farming and informal economic activity where they always forstmann hillsville particularly challenging and some specific groups are particularly vulnerable to 4th able to some population as we've seen but also migrants women. you know like going back to that. sample that we saw in the sophie in many societies slavery is entrenched in the

cultural practice as you were saying and it really dates back centuries it also forms part of the economic systems you talked about poverty have you looked into what the impact of collapsing that system would be well on one hand we need to make sure that. the form of slaves and the. descent population are empowered to start with they don't know their rights so they need to be empowered they need to be provided with literacy training because not training have access to livelihoods and i am turning to become a car opportunities for bapi access to land is particularly important and but it's also a mental process that's all they all have known all their lives they've been under the domination of our of a master so they need to be also empowered and perhaps receive. psychosocial support and many of them also don't have

a legal identity which is very important on the other side we need to make sure that the perpetrators the masters also are actually prosecuted sophie is there a one size fits all approach to ending the practice of slavery in africa. musgrave yeah i mean the fundamentals are there needs to be a mug management from from the government and from the society you know widely but there is an issue that this is an issue when some countries are not yet there. that they don't there needs to be a strong political will it's really the government that is primarily responsible for addressing this situation. so these governments need to take the necessary actions as a matter of urgency to address these issues means the adoption of lows that for this practice is but they're in for some of those particularly challenging. to

be trained and the victims of forced labor need also to receive legal assistance to effectively access to justice and the worm is raising as a who targeting the communities where the so curious but also the policy makers and the general public and for that data are you the necessary or at that sophie to copy from the i thank you. it's been 3 years since people in cape town faced the real prospect of running out of water at the time officials were warning of a day 0 when the taps would run dry because it was no more municipal water other crisis was triggered by a severe drought since then they've been a number of missions push in place to try to avoid a similar crisis one of those initiatives is a conservation project that involves cutting down trees from the city's scenic landscapes. dramatic sandstone peaks soaring over cape town this is the city's main natural catchment area for water it's

home to one of the planet's rarest and most vulnerable ecosystems known as fane boss. 2 thirds of it's $9000.00 plant species i found nowhere else among them south africa's national flower the king prettier. but this sensitive ecosystem faces tough competition from non-native species. it's these that employees of the n.-g. o. the nature conservancy are after. their especially looking out for acacia eucalyptus and pine trees as they were imported in colonial times. there is enough cutting destress there is because there's truth in wealth that there was there. from cape town and laid not kept on where ever though you'll find the truth there they want their drinks out of water and then end up not having

enough want to. in 2018 taps in cape town almost ran dry. water for 4000000 residents was rationed capetonians cute to buy bottled water and fill jerry cans at public springs. the highly specialized team of the nature conservancy is now going the distance to save cape town's water. they have to conquer rough rugged and remote territory to take out thirsty non-native species. most of the invasive plants outcompete indigenous plants and they take up a lot more water. we can save up to $55.00 or nearly as or for that every year if we. price of 3. catchwords of

the great the region and the put that in conflict it's 2 months water supply for craig than that we can so by removing the in price trees from the watershed. and a recent study has shown those tree cutter gains come at a 10th of the cost of other solutions the city is pursuing such as desalination and waste water recycling. and that's it for our program today as always be sure to check out our other stories that's on d.w. dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter we're always interested to know what you think about the stories that we cover here on the program and the stories that we should be covering today we leave you with some more pictures from south africa but this time of the effects of drought animals in the northern cape probably will see an extract of i.

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really what moves. all who talk to people who follow along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles last stop. buckle up for this edition of arts and culture because we're taking you to some extreme places and later on the show. here how british singer arlo parks turned her love of poetry into a music career. now one day we'll all be able to go on holiday again and when that happens where will you go 1st that so want something different from

the usual museums markets mass sightseeing tours what about something more extreme well look no further the book 111 extreme places in europe that you shouldn't miss has just been published it's based on an award winning multimedia series produced by d w so you're a max program. it was amazing it was like the weirdest thing i've ever done. it makes you jealous just watching it doesn't it well the star of that series was a year in my support a hendrick valley and he's with me in the studio welcome to arts and culture and rick now the book's out now it's by patrice she conceived the c o u's 2 you also a d w a proto in its pages you can find she says quite high tech and you can scan those with your smartphone and they bring you 2 episodes of the series one that i

particularly enjoy drinking tea was one way you take us to a place that's very very cold tell us a bit about that yeah in one episode for europe to the next we went to iceland and there's the largest glacier in your of the vote now you're cute and that's a really really amazing thing because it's hard to approach you need you need a guide there and a proper car for it and then when you approach the glacier then you can get into ice caves that are really blue and really shiny and it was just an amazing thing to see how nature turns out this kind of beauty wonderful and when we were talking earlier you told me that was a time actually in that episode when you felt a little out of your depth. it was when we were approaching the glacier from another glacier tonk we went up there also with a guide and with the proper equipment of course and then when we were up there and

were surrounded by like our walls walls of concrete ice we were hit by a snowstorm an ice storm by surprise and that was the moment i thought oh my god is this still safe or is this a kind of dangerous situation and i just thought ok just trust this guy i trust the guy he will lead us down and he did we will save of course but there was some horror really extreme and the best thing is you can find all this kind of stories in the book and in the episodes of the good idea to trust the guy denier. my situation we guide you survived that let's move very cold places to almost the opposite tell us about your joint volcano that's literally been erupting this very month is there was we went to italy to sicily and there's the mt etna which is the highest active volcano in europe and everyone knows mt etna of course in a way but when you're actually there and approaching this mountain which is

3300 meters high and when you are getting up there with a cable car and game going up to the top and you see all the lava fields that are from the past eruptions over there and the funny thing that i was discovering over there is when you are grad you're in you're digging a hole somehow and you grab the lava it's still warm and you can still feel the active volcano underneath must be pretty amazing well we've got just about a minute left but tell us briefly about how makiya yeah we went to college which is an autonomous republic and part of the russian federation and this is the only buddhist region in europe and for me it was really heartwarming and touch you know way because when we feen there and we realized that they were like really building the buddhist temple in the mid ninety's after the fall of the soviet union and how

they were somehow living their religion and we were part of this buddhist ceremony and we're seeing all the colorful. temples and this sort of religion life over there was really really amazing no hendrik yokley you managed to fail me most about series before the lockdown began last year and you can see more of hendricks adventures on huge chave backslash t w a max the book has no more to offer 111 prices you know many of them you won't find in any of the to misguide i expect it's available in english and german and it's from the man's fellow thanks for joining us and derek thank you very much. some more arts news now this week's other beast is holding its 1st major sale of the year a portrait of picasso's the lover dora ma is expected to fetch up to $8500000.00 pounds embraced on the beach by edvard move could go for 12000000 and bank fees

parody of the 1991 vanity fact cover showing actress demi moore pregnant is valued at 2 to 3000000. and another work by banksy has sold for a record 19400000 euros at auction at christie's the most money ever paid for a work by the elusive street artist the works titled game changer shows appreciation for nurses jury the pandemic and proceeds will go to britain's national health service and twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey has sold a digital version of his 1st tweet for almost $3000000.00 just setting up my twitter was posted back in 2006 it's sold as an n f t that's a digital satirical that confirms an item is a one of a kind he says he'll give the money to charity. now to a young british singer as you count joni mitchell and saidee smith among her

influences and use 1st love was poetry over the past couple of years auto parts has been rapidly gaining fans with her thoughtful lyrical compositions this year she finally released album. i don't like you think you walk and it's that simple when arlo park sings of hope it's like a lavish comforting caress. my generation does have this sense of of caring and of wanting to change things and of being ambitious and of being you know having that spirit of adventure when it comes to creativity especially when i look at the other artists and human beings i'm surrounded by is a great deal of hope. are

the participants 20 and was born and grew up in london she's a poet whose rhymes and stories meld into perfect. literature was her starting point she spent her childhood in books singing came just a few years ago. i started rising short stories when i was 7 or way my parents were always reading to me and i heard someone say something and i was and i felt emotional you know that was that sense of being moved by when i was a kid i would like flip through the dictionary and just find words that made me happy or that made me feel good or that better represented like how i was feeling. for songs and the characters in them are as pared down as possible they're more like emotional landscapes songs in the classics.

ringback debut album takes its title from a line by novelist cd smith collapsed in sunbeam. starts with a. collapsed. stretched out open to brief violent i see myself ablaze with joy sleepy feeding your cat or slicing artichoke hearts we're all learning to trust our body making peace with our own distortions you shouldn't be afraid to cry in front of me i promise. you i was reading the book on beauty and i stumbled across this phrase collapse in some beings and to me that was really bittersweet sentiment

there was this sense of you know the sun being this healing force this force of growth but then also the idea of someone being kind of completely overwhelmed collapsing in emotion and you're not sure whether it's positive or negative i mean i think that some of the best music has that quality of businessweek. cotterill up . to. parks turns her every day observations into 4 minute drama it's. a love story. the way. it was.

specially you know like fiction has taught me is how to kind of create characters that feel physical that feel human you know when i write a song i know that i'm talking about you know my friend know somebody that i've met but how do i portray them in a light that makes the listener feel like they can see themselves in that character but it's not just the characters. the artist herself. just because somebody is black doesn't necessarily mean that that all is inherently political or should inherently only revolve around that facet of their identity and just kind of celebrating that the strength and the joy that surrounds people and i think about something that i wanted to you know celebrating that sense of joy in and i think empowerment comes from many different ways it comes from you know

getting to a place where you're comfortable in your own skin getting to a place where. you feel. with with your identity where you feel comfortable in yourself no matter how other people see you i mean there are so many different branches to empowerment so it's a. something that's important to me. well . i suspect we'll hear a lot more from her when you lead you with pictures from greece of the ancient sites that somewhat controversially reopened this week ahead of the summit to wrist season thanks for watching arts and culture.

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