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bringing in the bales zimbabwe's fanis has great expectations for this year's auction season. in new york good to get in close with the crowd have people wanted to help the pope to see the hoping that that will translate to too much places. but cash crops the problem and not the solution is a man who's helping farmers transition away from tibet. hello i'm christine window it's good to have your company it's been 2 years since omar al bashir is in sudan and the political situation in the country remains tenuous a sovereign transition council headed by prime minister abdullah ham dog is in charge and so. 2020 full when the election should be held now the council is

comprised of civilians and members of the military keeping a balance between the 2 sides when it comes to government decisions has proven to be a struggle in a moment i will be talking to the new un envoy to sudan and getting his assessment of the progress that's been made but 1st here's a look back at the revolution that brought about the change. that it was a time of great hope after months of violent protests that left many killed sudan's revolution seemed to have triumphed in april 2019. the dictator ahmed of bashir was overthrown civilians were now sitting at the negotiating table with the army generals pleased the sharon's government. after 30 years of authoritarian rule civilians were getting a say in the future of their country or. it was against this backdrop that we met.

a sudanese artist who had returned from the diaspora at the height of the violent protest herself a sign mission was to keep the memory of those who died seeking freedom alive. she painted murals of them near the houses of their families the art where being there is a reminder to everyone that you know they died for you. we have to remember the martyrs because identity they are all comes down to they went out to protest for us this art forces you to speak about what's happening you know today it's not just a specific person but it's what he died for in the cause that he died for. now 2 years later i feel is disappointed. the transitional government has promised justice for the killed and injured protesters. promises that have come to nothing see the families of the victims. of the markers are still trying to

look and find and get our justice i visit that. so many of these family marchers families and they all say the same thing there's no justice there's no clarification on how they're going to get by just this and when they're going to get access they're very great at home and they kind of gave up hope basically. there has been no contact from the government 2 years later calling margaret simons saying you know we're going to get your rights by you know doing a hearing on this day or open seating you on this way. the 1st inning economic situation is also weighing on the lives of people in sudan. under bush's rule the country was cut off economically because of sanctions the transitional government has succeeded in removing sudan from the united states a state sponsors of terrorism list that's paved the way for the country to rejoin

the global economy the team just slow to reach the common man and like many countries around the world the coded pandemic has hit sudan very hard. and people are tired you know there's electricity cuts for half a day there's. no petrol for their cars people are just tired they are living day by day i think you reach a point in your life where you so much time and you just were let it go you know. despite the challenges a few is not willing to give up on the promise of the revolution. her latest project was a public nurul depicting the former dictator ahmed bashir as the coronavirus something that would have been unthinkable under his rule. she says she wants to send a message to her fellow countrymen and women with this piece. just as we have beaten and dictator we can beat the virus and overcome anything.

abraham filed the report you just saw and she joins me now in studio to see and so uncomfortable living conditions the rising price of treated the sudan revolution has life improved for the young people who took to the streets you know kristie nobody thought this was easy even 2 years ago when i was in her tomb of the height of the euphoria the young people there didn't strike me as naive they knew the kind of mammoth challenge that was facing their country but at the same time 2 years later the harsh living conditions are starting to really take their toll and even the most optimistic among them are now you know feeling the brunt of this you know remember this this started as a protest against a hike in the price of bread but in addition to that there are different situations with the political transitions of the transition there oftentimes been in this feeling that the military side of the government is sort of co-opting the power meant for the civilian part of the government so the issue of the kill protest is

one thing but such things like the transitional legislative council that's behind you know this was the legislative council does it was supposed to be put together to represent sudan more widely and also there's no constitutional conference also as promised but is also behind but there have been some improvement in freedom of speech that i something that i hear time and time again that you know that situation has improved and people are able to express their frustrations at least something that was not the case under the bashir regime women were at the forefront of the revolution all women best role in sudanese societies today we all remember the image of that young sudanese woman on the car you know chanting she became the symbol of this revolution and certainly there has been some improvement you know in the situation of women the 1st transitional cabinet saw sudan's 1st ever female foreign minister used to minister in the 1st transitional cabinet there been to was also a woman female genital mutilation. has been criminalized in sudan as

a challenge and a demand by activists for years and also some outdated laws about how women should dress in public have also been scrapped but something that even a c.e.o. told me you know as a woman who's you know her her job. means a chance to be outside you know this is a taboo she says you know even though there have been improvements in these laws there's still the social perception it's still for example difficult for her to go and you know do her so the laws are taking steps but social perception still has to be changed at state of news for him. now in january the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace appointed full capacity as the new special representative for sudan mr passes joins us now from kutch and welcome to news africa it has been trickiest since omar al bashir has i'll step have things

improved for the people of sudan since he left. what little things have improved to the children it's really tragic this are all are enormous things have improved on the piece from. things that improve productivity transition from truck we still. problems that. we come to grips we still are tensions between different. creation to make those. very very dramatically negative the most news i do want to pick up on the point that you're making for there has been recent and grace in the region as you've been saying and i'd like for all of you was to share one eyewitness account before i ask you might expect winston to me in my denounce you know this is a large fire in comp i online how to you know hide it's a massive fire and it will burn everything you know special and outside of men.

sure but you know you and i. look at this fiat. dollars so done it in a bit among the remote but it will be you will the rapid support forces have rocket propelled grenades they have targeted the opposite camp and going on there you sure look everyone this is what saddam is going to be like actual helpless with a near your balcony on the shore so an eyewitness account from the ground they have dozens have already died into communal violence many rebel groups are not on board with that juba peace agreement and ambassador pace has how fragile is the security situation in sudan the situation in sudan and such is not the situation in darfur particularly in worst of course it's true for china and what we are seeing in the town of jena where your eyewitness are and is reporting from

we are seeing it in exactly perhaps town was a 3rd now less than in the earlier and a half an hour it's a saying constellation of injured common pleasures we're sharing a little bit less quirky sense that this ship pleasures between different troops is about rights it is about who is allowed to live where or to be active in agriculture or have this verse where it is also unfortunately we're getting tons of international. ambassador that this violence in this it in debt for a reason as you're saying it's not a sudan problem it's more a regional problem but it has been linked to the withdrawal of u.n. peacekeeping forces that would say was that a mistake but by by the u.n. does the u.n. need to reconsider that decision to withdraw all of those peacekeeping forces from the region then. well i. didn't take this decision and

the uni transmission wasn't involved so what are you going to have to answer this question to members of security council took the decision so as either we can do this weekend's or sudanese government answer them the society in becoming better on protecting civilians but now it is really the government's responsibility the government is real reason this responsibility is huge some people as records say even governors were are not happy with the draw down of you know the decision has been gee can it seems to be earth ambassador going back to 2019 i specifically remember the statement by the un condemning the violence and force that sidney's officials had used against protesters dozens of people were killed and as we've been the since it's a young people in our report and no one's been brought to account for that have you raised this matter in your engagements with the people in charge of sudan right now

. we are discussing these matters all the time yes we are in contact with the government and context we see. weezer legal authorities here are what we insist on when we speak about these issues it's that rule should be or my duty i mean it's not about simply putting people in prison and actually there are a couple of cease perpetrators of suspected perpetrators in prison right now on what is more important through your own perspective is that even the suspect or perpetrators sources kind of atrocities are going to be rewards cheating and legal procedure and proper protocol would be applied that just that. i'm that knows him best adepts just. sorry if i made it up to they have on that note i want to interrupt you there because the government the sudanese government has pardoned a former member of the general weeds militia who the un sanctioned for alleged

atrocities in darfur all pardons that all thought and said could just have to it to peace and reconciliation in sudan. well it's a very delicate measure measure is this is this person who was hurt it was actually not you prisms for the atrocities he allegedly forced hard off and he has been sanctioned for vice president of nations he worse he was imprisoned for his role in the conflict between government forces and his what's now i think this person the months and months and she said this on just the right decision not to remove him from this this is still expects the sudanese government to work against her recent isolations with the isis. to hand over 6 to her sister's house because international. ambassador what needs to happen next in the region.

well if you ask for the regions there are a couple of other issues we have since tensions between if you will connect sudan in which we can only and we do must get everybody to deescalate and not 1st respirators even rhetorical in our situation we need to sit down and if your parents photographed border issues as well as the general that is being built in if you're over here and rest and certainly it's a downstream countries cater here it's. in each instance there is a carriage on the fall which on the next step couric to the agenda which sudanese the self's and 2nd situation that are a shock is that is stripped away and a transitional legislative council so as to have more legitimacy and more participation more inclusive and when it comes to taking an important decision than

a constitution conversations have to start very importantly in order to have a constitution that is foreseeable at the end of the transition period and it is a thorough normalcy it will step is here to start peace negotiations with parties over or persistent people say who have not signed up to see juba the scream until last. and that is the u.n. envoy to sudan a best of all the past has talking to us from i think of. and here. in zimbabwe the start of the tobacco selling season has come with much excitement farm is expects high prices for their crops because of good rains this year now zimbabwe remains africa's top tobacco produce and the leaves are the country's 2nd biggest

export off the gold but we will hear from people lobbying on this to quit growing the leaves off to this report from privileged. districts in the land east that's north east of. the busy trying farm it is time to sort barrels of tobacco for the ocean floors about $200.00 workers are employed at the $600.00 hitter from which produces in average $200.00 tonnes of tobacco a newly the farmer 38 year old it goes sequel is upbeat about the year's returns ringback were very positive about this is. the quality and the yields it's really too could be we all thought that it would enclose well if they were quite happy about the for the tip of the crop this year and the hoping that that will translate to to much higher prices i hope she and floors are now officially opened for the 2021 marketing season. tobacco is in baba's pride

accounting for 50 percent of the country's agriculture exports and 25 percent of the gross domestic product it has become a source of livelihood for many smallholder farmers who make up more than 60 percent of tobacco growers this is the ultimate moment where farmers could be disappointed or smile from what they'll get from this market to the highest the price so far that opened on the 1st day of the market was $4.50 about $200000000.00 pilgrims of to bottle i expected to be sold at visit of sin flows until the end of august zimbabwe's debacle is in demand making the country the top producer in africa in 60 in the world. chain or takes the bulk of the exports. government plans to increase tobacco production to 300000000 grams and that teen

a fight $1000000000.00 industry by 2025 government is the is over the corn seed that strong and principled knew that the tobacco industry supporting child these demands it is and this is the guy that a government to do that will stick with us in the interest you see to free our feinstein through to from a p 3 pronged. strategy bank on to even granting josephus farm government's plans are motivated farmers like him to increase their job trade his crop is usually a to hit is but he may go up zimbabwe he's also expecting high yields from other crops juta the good rains are received during the 2021 agricultural season.

my next guest today is involved in several projects in zimbabwe that help small hold is in poor rural communities to practice pema culture and to find out tentative stew tobacco and when the shall we say is from the organic form and he joins me now welcome to day devon is africa it went 1st start off by sending us way you are now and the project that you're undertaking. at the moment you know much ability not. just to officials from the coach up where we are doing a stick order consultations on what is in the province. of pre-college police the government is in the process of doing it and not recruited police which supported the government's nish not because the police are making which are run from 2020 soap we are leading the government officials in conducting that process all currently we are in my to belittle not province of

zimbabwe one of the things that you are doing as well is you're trying to get far on this in some way to find out tentative. bacco why is that your mission is definitely we are trying to find more income for farmers was the debacle used to pig from us but at the moment from no longer getting. it from tobacco because of many problems associated with climate change issues. it was the loss of energy. so what you are currently doing is using i'd in faded those problems like deforestation for us not only if enough to cure tobacco it was a local vision associated with the chemicals into or production that over the region also lose all this it is the. you know big boys of the can because being sprayed in

the environment was cool too or maybe you know the carbon footprint which is. too high. in the 2 bubble production sawant to a location for is going to increase the. options for farmers so that they can get income right i just want to point out and we've just seen the reports we we've seen the success story off one commercial at a tobacco farmer we've also been told that a lot of small scale farm is also 5 on tobacco so it seems that it's quite a new protest as successful for farm is it's also a big enough for the government so help us understand where you come in with your side if you will store and what other crops conformist grow then add that that that will do for them what tobacco is doing. not in this is choose of the insured to put

us in but farmers snowboarder farmers are making you know a huge profit from tobacco or why because you know they're not costing if anything is all the talk about where you went for the mass in warsaw in the current moment the abduction within 4 to probably is no longer being that that isn't why we are now listed to look for other live options for farmers for example. promoting organic she's you know is a kind of zimbabwe itself and exporting chilies we're also promoting you know i value groups such as you know the blueberry the black bit is also. the. currently small order from and they're also producing you know small. groups around into being exported to europe. so there is

a huge pool to juggle 2 other groups that can grow organically it can be exported just bringing it back to tobacco and when it's been pushed by the government for example huge investment comes in from china or one of zimbabwe's biggest tobacco bias what sort of support are you getting for for your initiative to try to get farmers to transition away from tobacco midges upward to retreat good from the government is through supporting the average college priest or ridgepole is actually we have to transform their lives kids in food assistance of zimbabwe saudi government is actually leading into the development of this. college police we see all you want to do assist in the transition from the group in such is groups which. like to battle in to hide this if

a bit of protection but are you saying to me saying that tobacco cannot be an environmentally sustainable crop. yes talk about warwick in not this is a little rude that. i don't know of any decision has been done or an organic talk about the production of the moment but focused on i'm sure out of turn the decision into publications they will all go or not going to go to so many believe there is any initiative which can be done in the long with maybe production of talk about what i think and then maybe we can see it read be possible but at the moment i do not know so we are seeing we need to be slowly turns it from side that those groups which uses kimmie cost to maybe towards those groups which uses maybe our law law or external inputs all right that is internationally from the cannick forum talking to us there from north thank you aaron. and that's

it for now we'll leave you with pitches off farmers in africa and the crops they grow see you next time about.

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