also had a dark side for years, he painted hel, just as masterfully in seriously as the poet dantes depiction, body chillies inferno, d, w. d, w's crime fighters are back with africa. most successful radio drama series continues prim them all episodes are available online. and of course you can share and discuss on d, w, africa's facebook page, and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now. welcome to a special edition of d. w. news africa. looking at some of the highlights on our show, this year our correspondents were 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 arms to defend her community. against rebels and in northern mozambique tourists. paradise island are turned into refugee camps because of an islamist insurgency. and a magical place in cape town, 9th and formerly divided communities. ah, with hello everybody, i'm christine wonder, and i am eddie micah junior. welcome to the program. it's good to have you what as, as always, christine m j and now they years come to an end and you don't look any older love. 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 protest this. yes,

that's right. i can be very hard on dangerous reporting in the field, right. are you stuff got correspondence, mario mueller. that's 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 a now us, you just saw a tear gas kind of style was fired directly at taco, responded maria 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 is 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 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 robot held area 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 cannot 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 shaley machine damages and i felt defeated my own my life had defeated me in there . i saw what they had done to me were and how they killed my family dinner and i

couldn't continue my life like it had been meliss 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 silla barbara. they killed my father that they killed every one in my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. the glue offered her revenge and survival benefits. 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 consent 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, she measured, i would have had a good life with my husband. one like other people have emotion. that was taken away from me. so they look at them now she poor's would hope she has and her children that they will have choices one day. ma'am, what? anybody going to look at the woman. so if god blesses me, i could at least give them an education. if they are blessed, at least i can never get another job. so i cannot help them by myself. beloved cindy,

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. 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 of 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 used 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 off one head 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 who had lost his parents on the way to the next day we started for the neighbouring island of kids in the u. n. food program has also planned to mission year to have the but our trip. and that's when we were halfway there. so we just would have to, shana try to push the weekend forward to the scatter. the, i mean all the surrounding islands here. one point where attacked by 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. gonna know, 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 pay 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 them without the food aid that it'll be chaos here. oh said elma, it is at the dawn about 4000 people lived on this 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 the exactly a safe place. last year, terrorists attacked the island, 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 would 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, my name is melanie she wore. i am originally from middle info it. so i am

a female spin out in the spinning world or in 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 the spinning industry every week. mother's 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 giving myself this car. lot of power.

i 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 all 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. 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 at the end of your dreams and do whatever it is that you want to do. i left at one m j. i was super cool if 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 about hundreds of people who died early last year from a mystery sickness in many states have been poisoned by a bound pesticide contaminating nearby. now 80 the sale and the use of that pesticide has been illegal for years. but as the w is 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 poisoned without water. i used to go to school before would seize my mother day. i can go, my sister, i struggle to eat most times because our older brother and sister who used to pick

your voice also day. the only have their father now, but he needs help soon. he's blind. his wife and older children were crucial to the family. oh, the pain is too much. i don't feel like being in this world a more. i feel like leaving this earth and being 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 that the water now then would drink better, but to lower my bill would they take both that particular water? no detailed box? no, don't peg this water drink. now does i still get caught up when glen judo 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 until the state health commission. i spoke with d. w. i want to pause imbecile for endo so fine doesn't belong in a river. if the pesticide and it's so toxic that it's burned in many countries including nigeria, but it's easy to get hold of back illegals. we got to do my will market. a major place to buy can 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 knew how to use it, it says here that it was manufactured for a company major. i'm with 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 lakers. we asked one of the senior officials why these band products were still getting through that kind of report needs to call out for

people to see. and the reason why they should not use this benz pest. 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 law 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 girls have fallen victim to sexual abuse and have little or no access to birth

control as data abuse. julius more gambler reports. ah valet chill is 17 years old and already has a baby. she was a student in eastern uganda until schools closed last year to stop the spread of coffee. 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 is pregnant. it ha! violence mother sees that. i did her was safe in school. this school hadn't closed . she wouldn't have gotten pregnant, he'll that's a fact. that was the wrong way. this is violence. school. like all schools are

crossed, 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, amenities even to get ready to, to my, during this time at home, the kids have like being that way didn't know about at their age. when you did anybody remember, this is a digital age where children watch pornography and phones and try out stuff and it says that is a glimmer. 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 $4.00 had goes, fell pregnant in uganda. these has grown to nearly one in 3 girls. in some villages, the government is now vaccinating teachers to foster truck, 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 or let stay where the school topic carumba their dreadlock been. we reported on in ghana up to us the fear and kids were denied enrollment at agony and school simply for wearing dreadlocks. yeah, and any we followed up and in the end they didn't have to cut their hair after 2 months and caught 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 are likely to have. yeah. i kind of,

i said 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 writer indication is a fundamental rights and shall not be subject to any form of discrimination on the ground or gender on ground to with the city on grotto, religion on grant or socioeconomic status on initial shift on the graph and having that are founded by our rock. what's in gamma 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 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 a

hello, what is your name? what's on the west coast r g? we didn't see that. you kind of magic is where young people come in. then the ad skill of magic is extract mural activities like juggling oh, i've been the college of music since these. so the been using because it's good college of magic had me 3 alerts like in, 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 big, helping a child to taking them from, from those streets and giving them like a better skill to, to have something laid just to change the someone's life or the teacher of, with more given bid to do the college for 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 applicant next year 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. so you still at the new year with

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