what to do with all our worst. we can difference by choosing smaller solutions for strain centered on where you say. good morning to the mental series of including 3 pounds i'm going to double your money. this is dave every news africa on the program today africa appears to have been the worst when it comes to covert 19 bats could that change the crisis in india is all for long so what is the situation on the continent and how are some africans responding to the vaccine rollout also coming up we get it within 2 of those forms . we've seen many people think that stuff is just making up assistant coach service knows what was the organisation place and they still put in some go. and revulsion

among uganda's community as argument adopts a new goal which targets them and other groups. plus the charity initiative by one of the muslim community that made sure people struggling in the pandemic at something to put on the table for 8 celebrations. hello i'm christie one day it's good to have fuel company more than one guy into the pandemic africa seems to have avoided the scale of devastation that covert 19 has brought to other parts of the world look at the numbers and you'll see what we mean just under 5000000 cases and over 125000 deaths have been recorded on the continent in total since the start of the pandemic that compass with the 25000000 in india for example which has roughly the same population. but the world health

organization say it is no time for africans to relax this is because while cases are going down in some countries they're going up in august to date 52 out of 54 countries have been hit by a 2nd wave of infections with the 2nd being more severe and vaccine roll out on the continent is proving difficult also causing concern a new variance of the type circulating in india and other regions. recently called an emergency meeting with african leaders to address this unfolding situation the director general tendrils embraces issued the following warning he say it it is critical that none of us are complacent what is happening now in many parts of the world and happen in our africa if we let god down now as we mentioned the vaccine rollout has been slow in africa with this than one percent of the population fully vaccinated but that is not the only problem as. reports

from cameroon some people are still skeptical about getting a shot. of soldiers are deployed in so highways in cameroon to help fight any visible enemy this cousin as drivers to pull over so every passenger can be screened for one thing. everyone is expected to wear a mask. temperatures are checked and hand sanitizer their country's health ministry is hoping this will help slow down the spread of the virus especially from those traveling. this part of the protect people from the corona virus some here do not believe the virus exists and even go through you many through the i know we're really in the thick of oxy. we miss social work a fickle possibile on how we to the market. the 44 year old is not a quick denial but she's not willing to take the job in the foreseeable future but if the house is a vision about the vaccine. the friend runs the friends country

is my main worry why is it called the vaccine that comes to cameroon why is it different from the vaccine that given the u.s. why is it a different brand that is given in china so just that it's i'm really scared like i don't even want to tickets it exists yes the vaccine i am not sure in this local hospital in the town of teco in southwest cameroon dr duncan is hoping to overcome people's hesitancy all of the movie. she's encouraging patients who have come to the hospital for treatment to also get vaccinated against coronavirus the hospital she had spread health care 451000 people in the area there recently started washing it in here but so far only 1000 people have come to get a job i'm sure that many of people who don't want to take is those who have never

picked on those who are not. so far from here next if yes or yes if you are so far from this illness you understand is that it. this hospital received 1500 doses. as you know from their reluctance to get vaccinated also extends to happy to stuff. off these 40 how workers fewer than 10 of them have been vaccinated. so this morning they're making another drive to encourage people to take up the offer. their student nurse and hospital security guard people to accept. i believe. the story when it's all. about believe it is true because. of the market. at a time when doses are becoming available vassilis dancing cameron seems to be

increasing misinformation is not helping and all the while the coronavirus continues to spread. now in kenya the vaccine drive is picking up pace the latest figures from the country's health ministry show 1000000 people have received the shot off the astra zeneca betsy but like many other countries on the continent pandemic has cost so many people their jobs and as you'll see on a triple from nairobi it's also aggravating other problems. with worrying she turned to food to buy her medicine and to look to do to call. well i think the government should stop closing out things that we don't know if they were closing up and getting people who would that would be good but now they close up with. poor people who. but i think.

the people who are the most. like parents and they live in one of the things in common when depend on their daily work and income and don't hardly . know the vehicle i cried for months earlier and that they get an education and they don't fall asleep hungry going to start that they went to bed hungry so many times when that i've heard tonight curfew was imposed by the police when. killings or disappearances by the police happen regularly it has become worse because of course at 19 and. i'm like you see me do you have. the day i was not getting my medal around curfew time we were running away and the police threatened to beat me and i told them don't dare to beat me arrest me you granma go home with. cases like this. according to local activists 167 people were.

working to. try to bring on political gatherings. justice groups take to. the impact of the covert mind measures and police brutality the old. one better hospitals we want better education we want clean water we want better housing. suddenly we have to interrupt the interview because the police fired tear gas canisters attacking our. people yes they called it measures like killing them because they are not able to be put on the table and not able to go to the hospital i also write rape and crime has gone up they say the police are very intolerant towards this protest because of the covert restrictions they just fired tear gas and they actually asked me on my leg. in the reporting from you know one thing like

a must aren't people feel like they're being talked to and one boy doesn't know how to hold a new inhaler she suffers from a smart attention and she's however more worried about. her book i need to even know i was just about to borrow 100 trainings so we get along. you never think about these things occurring the whole room took on the former was more i was opposed to go back to school. i needed to borrow sanitary papers. i can only hope so that the boy can go to school. and. work normal companion of the week on making i. write scripts. and use sexual offenses bill at. the beginning of the month saying it violates international human rights supporters claim the. male sexual violence

against women and children but it also criminalizes prostitutes and consensual same sex relations it will only become law when president 70 science it now i'll be talking to one of the m.p.'s. after the. you know for dr frank. the ugandan gay rights activist is deeply concerned by uganda parliaments and you've been you hear about rediscovering gay people and proposing a 10 year sentence for him is going to increase homophobic attacks. we're going to. be the people who you know. whether they are. the ones sex workers

criminalized. but activists say that might force sex workers from receiving mutating support and always from the police even when they need justice or when the of voluntarily needed to assist the authorities if we do not. look up and actually go unreported walking to back police or. maybe make we use lamp yen busoni or you rep to me and this is what happening and nobody is actually going to question them because you are being seen as a human being in 2014 in the ugandan courts nullify the controversial law which had that much money a sentence of life in prison for being gay in uganda while the new bill so just a little punishment the old to be 2 q i maintain that no one would think that your use of this should be left to love each other really you saw her go.

oh you've got a lot of the spirit of living in you can look only. the law you're going to spoil i mean face that it mirrors the society where most people hold to the view that being gay is immoral but rights defenders and that to them the minority must have their rights protected. speaking to one of the main sponsors of the bill ugandan m.p. money i began by asking well why you need a sexual offenses. the sexual offenses bill is a work that we have been pushing for 15 year. mainly because we have got in our legislation we have a lot of cases of sexual violence in our country if we look at our reports the police reports their highest number of cases reported related to sexual

violence in uganda and they've been going up it's been going up on incrementally over the as so because of that we thought that we needed to find it stronger legislation which will lead to a fixture prevention of sex or violence but also enhanced by nish meant and also consolidate various laws that we have you know a little box to make $11.00 well one lobe which can do is it for reference and certainly leads to to enhance mental prevention of sexual violence in our country hon i'm a doing the bill criminalizes same sex relationships and gay people in uganda say they feel targeted by it what is your message to them well i i want to say that. uganda will change slowly the values haven't changed. but i believe that values change society

changes laws change laws are not custom store not none done they do change they only a constant thing is change in that for i want to just encourage people who find themselves as minority communities that this this is work in progress in the last a bill that was brought before the house. that was brought into the house a tad life imprisonment in the wisdom of parliament they rain started this provision although we had lifted it from another low ball we call that been a cord act in uganda into this lake show fences bill because we're trying to consolidate several closes on this issue so when we live to do it in the weasel parliament parliament decided to go inside that particular clause and some 6 issues and it's brought a lot of tension in those communities about who want to set things change and i believe that we do tie me to change the punishment has been brought to tenure and

there is hope in this. yeah you know and i'd hope an honorable imo doing as you rightly point out but but what is the justification for putting gay people in prison with with thieves murderers rapists people who do real harm and pose a real threat to society even if it's 10 years and not life imprisonment what is the justification. what like i say lol as part of society today they have much from the values of a substantive to a community so they are going to answer said to that we have as a hell of value related to same sex marriages as prohibited i knew saying great in our constitution in the bill of rights in uganda same sex marriages are prohibited and therefore it is still part of our values are so set that has not quite accommodated those rights and feels that every day that i mean is there i certainly

appreciate that it is it is and you know but again i ask the question what is suggested vacation from a moral perspective to to put gay people in prison with with like i was saying rapists murderers people who do real harm to society all gay people are threats to ugandan society maybe as they move was a human rights defender really i understand the call i understand the need and a standard challenge that we how however when you present a bill to parliament it ceases to be an individual below but i meant ad with a droll you know increase anything therefore such and things are beyond me as that move on and therefore we are licked it really only it has a problem and has uganda and so that is what we have but i want to encourage the minority community is that this things gradually change previously issues on human rights on hiv and aids were not understood as rights but now in the current times they are appreciated as rights and so rights of sexual minorities rights so well

cause and all that that will with time i believe in my country also become a force of law in some way or another so it hopefully not be lost i focused on the news and i believe with time that can be dealt with. thank you very much that is the ugandan m.p. monica talking to us from kampala thank you very much man. mentalists in south africa's was an asshole province have been staging protests against a mine in their village they say the mind is losing the environment and damaging their health but at a recent demonstration they say police used extreme violence against them activists allege this is part of a passion in the country. people who are protesting in front of.

them. the demonstrators come from the indian bonnie community they have been protesting against a quiz you call mine for a long time what residents say they called us from the mine is making them sick and polluting their water they also say the constant explosions are crap you go to homes and causing other damage. several weeks after the protests the demonstrators really took both sides brutality of the police had a lasting effect on my mind numbing weather when i remember i heard. about about what i thought a conservative america's grandmother. a hang her who i love hope who is. going to hide in

a new life. private security guards who in to get. in my heart without a thought to come along and lie down on a high god keep you and your. people scarse which we did only after he was let go from the local police station 2 days later. and the police arrested 8 activists keeping them in custody until they were released on bail. from the right to protest project and office legal advice to protest i think in south africa we have a problem with success of course against peaceful protesters it seems that public order policing in all countries and you have both because there isn't a clear strategy on how to deal with protesters especially in mining affected communities. a community certain you know there's a clear connection between mind and law enforcement way activists are targeted and

arrested are not part when contacted equally morning did not comment on the incident the south african police service s.a.p.'s to clear out in a written statement that a minimal use of force was used to disperse the only crowd saying that a police officer had been injured by a stone. some of the protesters are now facing legal action in court. people from the attack come to support. the community it will continue to. miley has been locked in conflict since 2012 when tensions among ethnic groups. have been displaced in and around the country because off the into communal fighting but in one community different tribes living together peacefully. this

small village of nona is a safe haven for a community of doggone who were forced to flee but the conflict that is destructing the country among them. know a witness to many a massacre too many people have been killed in our village because of the war had one more time up on. and that's why we're here. the christian minister his faith made him a target of continuous rates by various islamist extremist groups they posed an ongoing threat to his life he had to leave when he could no longer sustain himself and his family since 2016 some 400 doggone families have arrived in the village of not come yet. it's situated 150 kilometers southeast of bamako here they're trying to rebuild their community and finding their life far

away from the conflict that's why they started registering people who came here in 2020 but the 1st dog owner arrived here in 2016. this is a seder in tonga family they came here to live the father the mother and their children by signs the father practices his old professions he builds traditional carts and sets up the tents for houses the community of nanuk and is an example of hospitality it's reminiscent of what mali was like before the conflict broke out it's moderate and welcoming. the traditional village leaders encourage and welcome new arrivals by offering each one a to hector plot of land and helping them to build their houses we have no problem with that because we're related to. the dog gone our brothers.

from the very 1st day that they arrived they were welcomed in the middle of. the large parts of mali remain conflict zones. as a glowing example of how people from different cultural backgrounds religions and ethnicities can live together peacefully. muslim celebration this week a festival marking the end of ramadan it's a time when family is gathering special males. in one community a charity stepped in to help couldn't afford food for the same patients and our report starts with the choice of brain and i. think with our neighbor who makes. her very i love him anymore there's been years i will have been working 9 years and 49 years.

in the go with our i think i've been struggling now with me to go to you know when working in the military because of course you know. and i have the money i don't need it you know yeah i have to keep doing something a little really believe me. so what he believed to be from brett rich basically and if you just look at the poor little operation who's going to be doing everything it would be i mean people of course. for the time people have. to celebrate because we've been celebrated so this will be a response that will be very key people the brotherhood society. i believe in many good whose whatever decisions i think this may not be a good thing that it was going to was and poverty 40 percent of the people on the global. public even the unemployment with iraq over 1000 people in that you know we can see people coming people who had worked people were working people who are

a liberal they come in and ask you questions with the alphabet overnight with faded out slowly to the group of people i think you must meet a company that i do things together and i think a little bit of an eye to the building very quickly and we go back go back to normality we support each other in every aspect of what we do in society. you know . sort of the. arm earns more money. for the give all political mean the feet in the back of the lot the lot of income if you keep all political news i confuse them with the people near me and the people listen we know that makes me a peep you feel. safe hey i'm gonna get the walk i'm going to go into what i want to be one the coolest and that's it for today's program we'll see you next time.

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