oh, william had a bank on his gonzalez with ion and if i had known that the boat would be that small, i never would have gone on the trail. i would not have put myself and my parents in danger. caught it, the theme of the it'll for that he was leave, would love one centreville hospital on the live with him. i had serious problems on a personal level, and i was unable to live there with you want to know their story info, migrant clarified and reliable information for my grants. mm. mm. welcome to a special edition of g w. news africa. looking at some of the highlights on our show this year, our correspondence, we're on the ground reporting from across the continent. that's right. we got re

access into rebel territory in east in d r c. and met one woman who's picked up obs to defend her community. against rebels and in northern mozambique, tourists is paradise island are turned into refugee camps because of an islamist insurgency. the magical place in cape town, 9th and formerly divided communities. ah. hello everybody, i'm christine 12 and i am eddie micah junior. welcome to the program. it's good to have you. what else is always christine m j another yes. come to an end and you don't look any old at love, but just as we will just before we put 2021 behind us, we want to back at some of the highlights that al wonderful and amazing

correspondence have brought. has this. yes, that's right. now it can be very hard on dangerous reporting in the field, right. or you stuff got correspondence. mario mueller, that's here right here in the middle. well, she found herself in the crossfire while reporting on protest against locked on restrictions. and i will be a with now you just saw a tear gas kind of style was fired directly at taco responded via mula by a police officer. we spoke to her shortly after the incident and she told us she was interview and one of the female protest this, when it happened,

there was please read behind the lady and they were pointing at us. and we just wanted to get out of the way and we tried that, but then i, the next thing that i heard will felt was another shot. and then i just felt like this burning pain on my side. and i saw that this kind of stuff of this ticket that they, you know, launch from a real weapon. so it's not just, you know, they don't throw it, it's really in. so it's really strong. and the impact was very strong. so yeah, that's what i, that's what i experience today. well, we're gonna stick with more of mario's reporting and now we go to the democratic republic of congo, where on groups have killed more than 2000 people. that was in 2020. now the eastern part of the country is rolled. i a complex web off. competing malicious. that region is dangerous. are definitely difficult to access. i did abuse maria mula managed to get into one rabbi, hold area in my cc. she brought us a story of one woman who has taking up arms because she's tired of being

a victim from now on as what they call to no man's land because not the government . and also, no specific rebel group controls this area that makes it also quite dangerous. the right behind me, this is where no man's land begins. and this is where also how quieting happens. on a regular basis we are on foot. the beauty of the landscape cannot distract from the constant fear of kidnap of being caught up and fighting. as soon as we get close, the rebel militia sends an escort to take us to their base. one of them is mamma, for either. she joined the militia almost 20 years ago. after another armed group attacked her village, the man killed her parents with machetes. 6 of them raped her. she was just 15. she had already been married. the same group had killed her husband earlier machine, the machine damages and i felt defeated her my life had defeated me the nearby. i

saw what they had done to me were and how they killed my family. and i couldn't continue my life like it had been my miss ishmael, really. so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out. well for was at the waffle was given the chance she'd shoot them on the spot. she says, when a former teacher began recruiting people to take revenge, she joined him. many and her group survived similar atrocities. it's a militia of traumatized, damaged young people, sin above and they killed my father and they killed everyone in my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. they offered her revenge and survival. they control around 20 villages and the area security for food in a deal they say is consensual, that we saw local people running in fear from them. the idea of concerned is

complicated for every one of them, it's only when we're alone that momma for either says, i hear that other people run away from the group, but i think how can i run? i have no one to help me. i have no land, i have no one who could help me build a life. she would like to trade her gun for the life she had before. as a farmer in english do my should. i would have had a good life with my husband. one like other people have my dad was taken away from me. so when i got them now she poor's would hope she has and her children that they will have choices one day. a mom with anybody going to look at the muscle. if god bless me, i could at least give them an education. if they are blessed, at least i can never get another job. so i cannot have them by myself. the lovely

thank now our correspondent in southern africa actually increased also travel to some dangerous places including northern mozambique. now that part of the country is reeling from a brutal insurgency with medicines linked to the so called islamic state. now for more than 3 years, the veteran campaign has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and destroys dozens of towns and villages in the region. vizier was on big received support from rwanda on saddam troops to help fight the insurgency. in april, our correspondence either increased ventured into couple delgado in was i'm because a province that it used to be a tourist hospital. now it's very volatile and assault of thousands of internally displaced. people from the ivy islands of more than beaks northern coast. look like paradise but live on the ground is increasingly difficult. evil is one of the last

islands that have been spared from islamist attack. a flood of refugees has more than doubled its population in just a few months. the united nations, a mission isn't able to feed everyone. the we've been here since 7 in the morning and haven't gotten anything. and now they tell us they're all out. but they wrote down our names. what should i do now? do you already, nasa was lucky enough to receive some rise flower, corn, and cooking oil. tara groups have attacked her home village on the mainland twice and want everyone to leave. but the villagers had no way to go. then the attackers came a 3rd time one hid for no reason, right before our eyes. everyone had to watch even the children

to this island. now marie lives in the house with her 3 children. she has adopted another child who had lost his parents on the way. yeah. the next day we started for the neighbouring island of kids in the u. n. food program as also planned to mission year had the but our trip and that when we were halfway there. so we just would have to, shana try to push the bird forward, which is the scary the, i mean all is the rounding islands at one point where he attacked by the incisions . no luck, low tides, we're definitely stuck. we have to wait through shallow waters and mangroves for 3 hours before we encounter the 1st inhabitants corolla. mm hm. and

then finally, we get to the island of kitty and aids boat docked in the evening before the islands government administrator helps with distributing food that's critical for survival of you said, i'm happy with that. i'll probably up without this food. we be in an utter crisis up there, almost everyone here lives from the sea, but the refugees are from the mainland. they're farmers and can't fish. without the food aid that it'll be chaos here. oh said i'm up to visit the doctor. about 4000 people lived on these islands before the insurgency. now it is more than 10000 people was thousands of displaced people leaving the mainland in the coming here in the past months, looking for a safe place to stay. just that this is the exactly a safe place. last year terrorists attacked the islands, pillaging it, and killing 2 villages to terrorists kidnapped 30 islanders mainly girls cobbled

delgado province. people are worried about more attacks, most feel helpless against the terrorists. and so far not a single soldier has been stationed here on the island. ah. now this next one i know is a favorite of yours. 80. i mean, will allow fast cars, right? so as you can clearly tell, there wasn't all about crisis reporting this year. my personal favorite was the woman reverend and spinning it in south africa. cost billing is actually a pop last bought in the country, but it's been dominated by men for far too long. but some women are changing. you're trying to change the status school. you may wanna fasting your feet because this is not a normal right, but a name

is mela she wore. i am originally from middle length in so it's all i am a female spin out in the spinning world or the spinning life. my name is dan, keep that you come around. yeah. and the crowd was so happy to see you, you know, and like people actually pay money to come and see me guys, you know, and it's so much fun. popular because it's part of the culture here in south africa, it used to be 100 percent male dominated. we've got a lot of females getting into the sport now. and i'm very happy to see that there are more and more women getting into this printing industry every week. i was great . she's catching on very quickly. and i think she's, she's becoming a force to reckon with both among the drive and among the girls. a and this is with and he started from, as they say, i mean there's not a day that will go past without you seeing or hearing one of these babies driving park. so for me,

it was just an actual thing. i started by getting myself this car lot of power. i think that's kind of cool. i think it's awesome that that she's spinning. i am very proud of my name is penny 10. this. yeah. i work. i'm in human resource development at one of the insurance companies here in south africa. and i'm also a student. i'm doing my 3rd year at the university of northwest in h r. so it's more just juggling more than anything. it's just juggling everything for me. it's just one of those things where i feel like i'm breaking barriers. i mean male dominated the works of just the so that runs, i mean, on the day on the pits. i don't think i know tim females who are in suspending within the entire south africa. oh, let me say i've been trying to to, i've met for me. it's about showing woman that you can do whatever it is that you

want to do. your age shouldn't be a limit. your agenda shouldn't be a limit. the kind of your incident be a limit. you should just go out there and live your dreams and do whatever it is that you want to do. i love that when m. j i was super cool. yeah, i want to get into the whole spinning thing myself for now. let's get to an exclusive report from nigeria that the governments told you that hundreds of people who died early last year from a mystery sickness in many states have been poisoned by a bound pesticide contaminating in nearby river. now eddie, the sale and the use of that pesticides has been illegal for years, but as dw corresponding parish reporter found, it still very much available and easy to access. christina and our chief are struggling most of their family died after drinking poisoning. we've all thought i used to go to school before, but since my mother died, i cargo my sister and i struggle to move times because oh,

her brother and sister who used to pick your boy. he also day we only have their father now, but he needs help soon. he's blind. his wife and older children were crucial to the family. where the pain is too much. i don't feel like being in this world a more. i feel like you, even this earth and being my wife and children the village of or your be lost more than 270 people at that time. the suffered stomach pin, vomiting and diarrhea before the date authorities traced it to the river. scene fishermen had poured pesticides into the water, so they could take the dead fish. it was the only water in the village doctor walked up. now ben would do better, but to glower. madam, we detect above that particular water,

no detail box. now don't pick this water drink now, does ice to go to call hoppin glen joe out a 2020 for government build a ball. so the community had clean water is also investigated. what had happened, but officials never released the results on to the state health commission. i spoke with d. w. tucson. ha, ha ha. ha. ha. was due to poise into so far, endo so fine doesn't belong in a river. it's a pesticide and it's so toxic that it's banned in many countries including nigeria . but it's easy to get hold of back illegals. we got to do marble, market image or place to buy came cause of all sorts. we didn't see, endo, so fun on display. what after asking for tree, does we got

a bottle of aim to find that the brand name of andrew so far? one meter and it costs back to you as dollars? now the said i didn't care what i wanted to use it, or if i even knew how to use it, it says here that he was manufactured for a company major. emily, where exactly it was manufactured. it also says clearly that it was manufactured in 2011. that's is 10 years ago. and a shelf life is just 2 years. which means even if it was in bonding nigeria, it's already expired. that expiry date doesn't mean it's safe, but it shows how unregulated and dangerous the situation is. and so we followed up on the story, eddie, with an interview with the national environmental standards and regulations enforcement agency in lake cost. we asked one of the senior officials why these

band product was still getting through that kind of report needs to call out for people to see. and the reason why they should not use this band pass. this is the reason why it was banned in the 1st place. they need to know and then we need support as much support as we can get, you know, says the physician and i well is a very, very expensive, very expensive and government long cannot do it. we need all the support from wherever this supports can come from. now, i know, i know we all really fed up with corona on the pandemic. this year has been tough for many across the continent, particularly for children and all the students who are forced to stay home due to school closures unlocked downs caused by the cobra 19 pandemic. now in uganda, this has resulted in a rise in teenage pregnancies. that's according to child write scripts,

many goals have fallen victim to sexual abuse and have little or no access to birth control as data abuse. julius will gamble, reports violate she is 17 years old and already has a baby. she was a student in eastern uganda until schools closed last year to stop this breed of carving 19 valerie turned home and then got pregnant. again. i was afraid my mum was so angry with me. i ran away from home, but returned later while her school remain closed while i helped her mother run a restaurant. that's where she met the man who impregnated her veil as mother sees that her daughter was safe in school. in the school hadn't

closed. she wouldn't have gotten pregnant, he'll, that's a fact, was the wrong way. this is wireless school. like all schools across the country, it remains closed and abandoned. the teachers here are worried that the more their students are kept from school, the mothers teenagers are exposed to abuse. i'm an amazing to me to where did it on my during this time at home the kids have like things that we didn't know about at their age when you did anybody remember this is a dis. dark age where children watch pornography and phones and child stuff funny is that is equal my, even the churches that would have helped the children remain closed. so many kids are likely on their own. yeah. but, you know, according to government figures before the pandemic, one out of 4 adolescent girls fell pregnant in uganda. this has grown to nearly one in 3 girls. in some villages, the government is now vaccinating teachers to fast track the reopening of schools.

viola hopes to resume studies, but with the baby to take care of landing may never be the same for the young mother. now let's see where the school topic carumba the dreadlock been we reported on in ghana to us fearing kids were denied enrollment at a gun in school simply for wearing dreadlocks and any we followed up and in the end they didn't have to cut their hair after 2 months in court, the judges ordered them the school to admit them, so we met up with them in a cra on the 1st day of school. today marks the very 1st time i am going to school, i thought to myself, a long bottle of being caught. i doing this at home, all gillian by myself and a whole lot of painful experiences. but today really is on and usually accepts. now as i would say, i feel when i came in to people will come in,

they'll take the teachers i'm likely to have. yeah. i can continue with the school is complying with a court order for now to allow that kids in. but it doesn't to rule out appealing in the future. monday, less education and human rights activists say they're willing to get their students back to school. is ground breaking. we've seen courts make 2 announcements that are frames that the rightward occasion is a fundamental rights. and shall not be subject to any form of discrimination on the grounds or gender on ground to where to city, on grotto, religion on grant or socioeconomic status on initial shift on your house. and having a family by our law, quoting gamma is, is a sub trillion landmark for me. classes over for to be on for these kids who have

been under the spotlight for months for that much us now is be able to attend school irrespective of your religion. or hair style. critical one. yeah. yeah. now i wish i had always been so happy about going to school because it can be fun faster. it can be fun. i imagine go into a school where creativity and magic hour and a time table. yeah. that's right. in cape town, south africa, that's a possibility. because whole more than 30 is the college of magic has been teaching biting, magicians everything from ken card tricks. there's always get me to spell binding illusions, and it's not just about wizardry and fun as you're about to see. ah, hi everyone, and welcome to the college of a

hello, what is your name? what's on the west coast r g? we didn't see that kind of magic is where young people come in then the ad, skill of magic. yours is extra mural activities like juggling oh, i've been the college of music since these each. so the been using because it's good college of magic head me through it looks like it. you know, that in the townships we have this challenge of kings that is in crime and everything. so for me, it's like giving back helping the child to taking them from, from those threats and giving them like a better skill to, to have something laid as to change the someone's life or the teacher of, of, of, with small,

given bid to be the college we're helping us going through the life. i mean, this is the college of life. i love magic and jacqueline. yeah. the end of the college of badge and like magic a leg. so someone a see yeah, you do quite a good with ha or you need to go to magic school and that's where we'll leave it for this. yeah. be sure to check out the diabetes african next. yeah. because special correspondence will continue to dig deeper. reporting all over the continent. that's right. we leave you now with some tricks acrobatics from around africa. could buy from us. see you soon at the new year with

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a glass. his child sleeps from the streets because her family threw her on. here, online bullying. pushes a teenager over the edge. ah, just because you can see violence against children doesn't mean it. doesn't there make the invisible, visible open. mike, violence against children's disappear to people in trucks injured when trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. order families and see the reason for the credit on its way to get administrative people fleeing extreme drought. ross getting 200 people from the jews around the world.

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