ah, hello guys, this is the 77 percent the platform with, you know, or this channel. we are not afraid to happen delicate topic because population is growing. with young people clearly have the solution. the future belongs to the 77 percent. now, every weekend on d. w with welcome to a special edition of d, 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 india. c. a met one woman who's picked up arms to defend her community against rebels, and in no been mozambique tourists. paradise island are turned into refugee camps because of an alarmist 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 with us as always, christine m j another years come to an end and you don't look any older. but just as we were just before, we put 2021 behind us, we want to look back at some of the highlights that our wonderful and amazing correspondence have test this. yes,

that's right. i can be very hard on dangerous reporting in the field, right. you suffer correspondence, mario media, that's right here in the middle. well, she found herself in the crossfire while reporting on protests against locked on restrictions. and i will be a mm. now us, you just saw a tear gas kind of style was fired directly at taca responded by your 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 or failed was another shot. and then i just felt like this burning pain on my thigh. 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 and so it's really strong and the impact was really strong. so yeah, that's what i, that's what i experience today. well, we're going to stick with more of mario's reporting, and now we go to the democratic republic of congo, way on groups have killed more than 2000 people that was in 2020. now the eastern part of the country is ruled by a complex web off. competing, malicious, that region is dangerous. definitely difficult to access a d, w 's, maria mula managed to get into one rober how they are in my c. c. she brought us a story of one woman who has taking up arms because she's tired of being a victim. from now on is what they called 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 our way at norman's land begins and lessons were also had quieting happens on a regular basis. we are on foot. the beauty of the landscape can not distract from the constant fear of kidnap are 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'd already been married. the same group had killed her husband earlier. my shaylin shim damage, ag amish, i felt defeated my own, my life had defeated me the nearby. i saw what they had done to me well and how

they killed my family in around. i couldn't continue my life. leggett had been mis physician, really. so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out while 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 in her group survived similar atrocities. it's a militia of traumatized, damaged young people, all. santa barbara, they killed my father that they killed every one in my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. the globe also to revenge and survival. they control around 20 villages in the area. security for food in a deal they say is consensual prompt that we saw local people running in fear from them. the idea of consent is complicated for every one of them. it's only when we

are alone that mamma for either says this garza when 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, linger she the were my shadow. i would have had a good life with my husband. one like other people have emerged them, you know, a 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 um or more than anybody going on with that that will muscle. if god bless me, i could at least give them an education. if they are blessed, at least that an opportunity, i can never get another job. so i cannot have them by myself. the lovely, say d,

now are correspondent in southern africa address increase, 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. now, this year was on big, received support from rwanda, an answer back troops to help fight the insurgency in april or correspondence. other increase ventured into couple delgado in was i'm b as a province that it used to be a tourist hall sports. 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 hut with her 3 children. she has adopted another child. we had lost his parents on the way. yeah. i thought it was the next day we started for the neighbouring island. our kids in the u. n. food program has also plans emission to have the but our trip ended when we were halfway there. so we just would have to, shana try to push the weekend forward, which is a scary the, i mean i was 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 mangrove 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. it's critical for survival. you said i'm happy with that. i'll probably up without this food. we be in an utter crisis. up it 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 will be chaos here. oh, i 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 with thousands of displaced people leaving the mainland and coming here in the past months looking for a safe place to stay. just that this is 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 la sport 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 and so it's all i am

a female spin out in the spinning world or the spinning life. my name is bang. 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, which used to be 100 percent male dominated. we've got a lot of females getting into a sport now. and i'm very happy to see that there are more and more women getting into the streaming industry every week. i was great 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 parts. so for me, it was just an actual thing. i started by giving 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 to so and 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 one 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 it is 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. i will, 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 with 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. dr. walked up. now ben would do better, but to glower now, then we detect above that particular water. no detail, but now we don't pick this water drink now,

does ice to go to call hoppin glen joe, at 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. ha ha ha ha ha ha. was due to poison in brazil, 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, ma'am. we're market immediately to buy came cause of all sorts. we didn't see and do so fine on display. but after asking for tree, does we got a bottle of aim to find that the brand name of andrew sofa, anita,

and the cost to you as dollars. now the said i didn't care what i wanted to use it, or if i knew how to use it, it says he had that he was manufactured for a company major, emily, it said where exactly it was manufactured. it also says clearly that it was manufactured in 2011. that 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. just 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 at 80 with an interview with the national environmental standards and regulations enforcement agency in late because we asked one of the senior officials why these band product was still getting through back kind of report needs to call

out for people to see and the reason why they should not use this benz 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 it's a very, very expensive, very expensive and government's a 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 course, 19 viola returned home and then got pregnant. again, i was afraid my mom 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. valez mother sees that her daughter was safe in school and the school hadn't closed . she wouldn't have gotten pregnant you'll. that's a fact. was the wrong way. this is violence 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 on a receiving to be 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 distant age where children watch pornography and falls and child stuff funny is that is equal not even the churches that would have held 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 learning may never be the same for the young mother. let's see where the school topic carumba the dreadlock been we reported on in ghana to us fearing kids were denied enrollment gagnon 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 alan usually accepts now as i would say, i feel really great. and i came in to people will come in. they'll take the

teachers. i tell you, 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 grown to freakin who's seen courts make 2 announcements that are frames that, that right with the kitchen is a fundamental rights and shall not be subject to any form of discrimination on the grounds or gender on grant electricity, on grounds of religion on grant or socio economic status on initial shift on the grass. and having that are founded by our law quoting gamma is, is a sub trulia landmark for me classes over for today. and for these kids who have been under the spotlight for months or that might just 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 we're more than 30 is the college of magic, has been teaching biting, magicians everything from kevin 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 with hello, what is your name?

what's the west coast r g reason? see that kind of magic is where young people come and then the ad skill of magic. yours is extra mural activities like juggling. oh, i've been to college with so the been using because it's huge. college of magic held me through. it looks like it. you know, that in the townships we had this challenge of kings that is in crime and everything. so for me, it's like giving back helping a child to taking them from, from those threads and giving them like a better skill to, to have something laid just to change the someone's life or the teacher of, of, of, with more given bid to be the college for helping us going through the life. i mean,

this is the college of life. i love magic and jacqueline. yeah. then at the corners of badge and like magic lake. so someone a see you back to you. this is quite a bit of ha ha, you need to go to magic school and that's where we'll leave it for this year. be sure to check out the diabetes up again next year, because for sure, i'll correspondence. we'll continue to dig deeper, reporting all of 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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