walkies land grabs. the 77 percent. in 16 s t w. and on demand. language courses. do you know. where. this is steve every news africa on the program today africa appears to have been spared the worst when it comes to covert 19 bats could that change the crisis in india is a long bow so what is the situation on the continent and how awesome africans responding to the vaccine rollout also coming up with it it will be. believes in many people being the right services they get offices and go service

knows what we've got isn't that they still work to get into the. fear and revulsion among uganda's l g b t community as parliament adopts a new role which targets them and other vulnerable groups. plus the charity initiative by one muslim community that made sure people struggling in the pandemic have something to put on the table for 8 celebrations. hello i'm christine one to it's good to have your 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 wolves 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 come pace with the 25000000

in india for example which has roughly the same population. but the world health organization say's it is no time for africans to relax this is because while cases are going down in some countries they are growing 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 our guard down now as

we mentioned the vaccine rollout has been slow in africa with less than one percent of the population fully vaccinated but that is not the only problem as blasé on reports from cameroon some people are still skeptical about getting a shot. just a deployed in so highways in cameroon to help fight an invisible enemy this cousin our drivers to pull over so every passenger can be screened for one thing. everyone is expected to wear masks temperatures are checked and hand sanitizers their countries hope ministries hoping this will help slow down to spread of the virus especially from those traveling look lovely. this part of course like to protect people from the coronavirus some here do not believe the virus exists and even those who do many say they are now willing to take the vaccine. we missed social work effect our possible on how we to 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 was a vision about the vaccine. the friend runs existence if 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 because 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 faces and see what the movie plot because you know she's encouraging patients who have come to the hospital for treatment to also get vaccinated against coronavirus the hospital she heads provide 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 the people who don't want to take is those who have never picked on those who are now seen dead is so far from these inmates if you see a person or you yes if you're so far from this internet you understand is that kicked it. this hospital received 1500 doses. as you know from their reluctance to get vaccinated also extends to happy to stuff . office 40 health 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. a student nurse and a hospital security guard are the only people to accept a. story when it's all. still caught operated by believe it is because of the government our sense of drama

. at a time when doses are becoming available vaccine he says dancing cameron seems to be increasing. mr mitchell is going to help me a little while the killing of virus continues to spread. now in kenya the vaccine drive is picking up pace the latest figures from the country's health ministry show 1000000000 people have received the shot off the astra zeneca vaccine but like many other countries on the continent the pandemic has cost so many people their jobs and as you'll see in our next report from nairobi it's also aggravating other problems. with worry for her mother. who want to. continue to do to cope. well i think the government should stop closing out. there we're closing up and getting people who would that would be good but not all they close up with. poor

people who. are. good people who suffer the most. presidents like parents and. when they're going. to depend on their daily work and income and their hard work and think i mean. i cried so much and when they don't get an education and they don't form since the pandemic started they went to bed hungry so many times that i've seen that curfew was imposed by the police who were. coming which is appearances by the police to happen regularly it has become worse because of corporate wrongdoing and. come accusing the. other day i was getting my medicine on the wrong time you were running away and the police threatened to beat me i told them don't dare to beat me

arrest me you just said you granma go home get. cases like this there were angry according to local activists 167 people were alerted luke. with the people trying to police. despite a ban on political gatherings. just as groups take to the streets. the impact of the covert mind measures and police brutality the. better hospital we want better place and we want clean water we want to housing. suddenly we have to interrupt the interview because the police plans to make. us. you know us say that the covert measures like killing them because they are not able to be on the table and not able to go to the hospital i also write rape and crime has gone up they say the police was very intolerant towards this protest because of the covert restrictions they just fired tear gas and they actually hit

me here on my leg. the killings of the reporting from here are one thing i can mcclaren people feel like they're being talked to and one boy doesn't know how to order new anything or she suffers from our attention and she however more worried about. her because i didn't really plan lead up even though i was just about to borrow 110 things but we got. he knew nothing about these things occurring to her wound up on the phone ruth boy was supposed to go back to school. i needed to borrow sanitary papers books and. i can only cry to grant that the boy can go to school and then he do them with group who can then. as well. only happen with normal millions and kind of keep on making.

the right scripts. and use sexual offenses bill at. the beginning of the month saying it violates international human rights supporters came the bill and reduce endemic male sexual violence against women and children but it also criminalizes prostitutes and consensual same sex relations it will only become law when president signs it i'll be talking to one of the m.p.'s. after the. date in the future for dr frank morgan. the ugandan gay rights activist is deeply concerned by uganda parliament and you knew his face about rediscovering gay people and proposing it to me i do think for him he's going to increase homophobic attacks. as. we were in the. you know.

the 16 workers criminalized. but activists say that to make forced sex workers from receiving you tell you support and always from the police even when they need justice all when they are voluntarily needed to assist the authorities we know how you both. use long time actually while i'm reporting walking. maybe you make we use your i am young beautiful me or you wrecked me and this is what happened and nobody that you are going to question then because you are being seen as a human being in 2014 the ugandan courts nullified a controversial law which had a marksman sentence of life in prison for being gay in uganda while the new bill so there's a little punishment the old to be t.q. i maintain that no one would think. and they should be left to love each other

freely you saw her go. along. with it and you're going to rule. over the law you're going to spoil i mean face that it mirrors the society where most people hold her view that being gay is immoral. but rights defenders of that to the minority must have their rights protected. in speaking to one of the main sponsors of the bill ugandan m.p. money i began by asking well why your candidate needs a sexual offenses. the sexual offenses bill is a work that we have been pushing for 15 year as. mainly because we have got in our legislation we have a lot of a kiss' of sexual violence in our country if you 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 causally did various laws that we have you know a little box to make 111 lobe which can do is there for reference and certainly lead to to enhance mental prevention of sexual violence in the country honorable imo 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 the poor who find themselves as minority communities that these this is work in progress in the last bill that was brought before the house. you know that was brought into the house it had life imprisonment in the wisdom of parliament they rain started this provision although we had lifted it from another low ball we call they've been acquired act in uganda into their sexual fancies bill because we're trying to consolidate several closes on this issue so when we lived in the weasel more parliament parliament decided to go inside that particular clause on same sex issues and it's brought a lot of tension in those communities about who want to set things changed 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 did it well an honorable imo again yeah you 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 part of society today they have much from the values of a certain 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 and 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 to that has not

quite accommodated those rights and feels that i have every faith that i mean is there i certainly appreciate that it is it is a new law but again i ask the question what she suggested vacation from a moral perspective to to put gay people in prison with like i was saying rapists murderers people who do real harm to society are gay people a threat to ugandan society maybe as their move was a human rights defender really i understand the whole i understand in need and a standard challenge that we how however when you present a bill to parliament it ceases to be an individual below what i meant i had withdraw you know increase anything and therefore the temping that the only as a mover and therefore we collectively own 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 steps will cause and all that that will with time i believe in my country also become force overall in some way or another so it hopefully not the last i focus the one in years 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 ma'am. environmentalist since i left this was an asshole province have been staging protests against a mine in their village they say the mine 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. who

are. accusing. them. the demonstrations come from the emblem ban community they have been protesting against the quiz you call mine for a long time what residents say the coldest from the mine is making them sick and polluting their water they also say the constant explosions are crack you go to homes and causing damage. to the protesters the demonstrators resisted this type of day can you tell us the police had a lasting effect. on the weather when i remember i heard. about my god i thought a conservative who left the gun with. her

. to hide in a nearby. private security guards to him to get. a lot of thought to come out and lie down i got you and your or her people cigars which treated only after you was let go from the local police station today. to 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 police use excessive force against peaceful protesters it seems the public or the new thing in all countries and because there isn't a peer strategy on how to deal with protesters especially in mining

affected communities there's. a connection you know there's a clear connection between mines and law enforcement where they activists are targeted and arrested are not part when contacted cuisine mining did not comment on the incident. working police take us to clear out any witness 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 and. people from that there were 10 come to. the outcome of the proceedings. but the community says 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 not kenya is a safe haven for a community of doggone who were forced to flee but the conflict that is destructing the country among them you say did no a witness to many a massacre too many people have been killed in our village as an award one more time up 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 nona can yetta. it's situated 150 kilometers southeast of

bamako here they're trying to rebuild their community and finding new 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 syrian tongo family they came here to live the father the mother and their children. and the father practices all professions he builds traditional carts and sets up the tents for houses in 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 2 hector plot of land and helping them to build their houses we have no problem with that because we're related. we'll. go on 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 families gather and. life. in one community a charity stepped in to help couldn't afford for the celebrations and our report starts with the voice of i did your brain and. our warm able to make something. somebody had a very loving many her children those are all out there working 9 years in

49 years didn't mean when they'll go with our. i've been struggling now you go to your no one working. with no income and i have no money. so yeah i think something at least been totally legal. what he would likely to get from the rich basically a little bit of the poor. kind of thing happening it would be i mean of course it's the sort of time people have on the need to celebrate because even the celebration so that it will be possible to go into people and by the book aside to. know how can you name anybody who's run over to see you i think that many people bring with it what was going through the and poverty with the political i mean great feeling of public opinion you claim it was

a covert one thing you can do that now we can see people coming people who had worked people were working people who are suffering or both they come in and ask you questions which will feel like overnight in the face of absolutely the group of people i think you much need to come together i do think together and i think a little bit overnight is appears and very quickly we can go back to normality we support each other in every aspect of what we do inside. so they're going. to give all political mean the beat in the back of the lot the lot the income if you all go to community i confuse the northeast people near me and the people he says no that makes me a peep you feel. you say hey i'm gonna get the walk i'm gonna go into what i want to be one the cool and that's it for today's program we'll see you next time.

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