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yes, i've met him 3 times the interrogation. yes. so you go unwise in charge of my and is a long way from gibbon to germany. we meet the salsa denise filmmaker, whose work is the 1st film from her country to make it to the berlin film festival . a film about her politician parents. for me, one man, one. no, i'm silly. lower the over the news period is that on me all the day. class despite sanctions being imposed artists in marley's stand firm to show off a colorful culture at the so go on to festival and it's the women who came out in force this this a part of this goddess and every woman the power of women is innate from every woman has the power to change the world and to do with it. what ever she won south

african texas. ah, hello, then i'm really mohammed is good to have you with us rights groups and the international community are raising alarm over the human rights situation in uganda, raising attention to what they call occurring, credible accounts of arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and torture in the east african country there are blaming the government of present. you are in was 70, has been in power since 1986. now there's outraged after rights at queensboro, kara boucher alleged he was tortured for weeks while in detention. after being arrested in december, a magistrate ordered his release last month he has since published images of his back on social media, showing clear signs of alleged torture. while care care,

basha has now fled. uganda. human rights watch is demanding that uganda should drop all charges against him and investigate his allegations. a satirist most recent book is banana republic where writing is treasonous. and then he is also the author of the 2020 satirical novel which is the greedy barbarian which describes high level corruption in a fictional country. now before raquira bush, i fled, i spoke to him in kampala and i 1st asked him to describe what happened to him when he was detained last year. now on the 28th december, i was military men broke into it and via into arrested me without it took me to special forces command the military,

the disposal for the president of security and his immediate relatives. and i was detained there for 14 days. and during the detention the tortured me too much interested rivers damage to my skin, my position. and i was later smuggled into court and sent to prison, which is actually a miscarriage of justice as our law elucidate. because when a person of human rights, when the magistrate judge be they didn't go over the matter that he cannot send him to the host into the prison instead he sent him. ready to the

hospital, but the magistrate decided to send me to prison. and even when i was bailed, when i was they, they came to me from the prison and took me again to the minute. that is because when do you have any suspicions about who may have ordered these acts? of course it is the sun most i never go ordered for my arrest. ready ready presented over my butcher yet. and i've met him 3 times during the interrogation. yes. so you go on was in charge of my. when you mentioned the lead torture, can you give us a little bit more detail about what happened to you? receive and punches in the stomach when they were arresting me, they bit to me, they hit my encore using button bright. took me to the interrogation. same thing.

that detention center. they used. people put i must weeps. oh. who you pricked? demetris got association over my body. that is the mid call report stays my buck over my body. full of guys. yeah. so they really hit me buds 2 legs in that they fell out again. was just up the lake 6. how was was the president, john did president during this torture? yes he was you physically saw him there in the same room. yes, i saw him, i met him. he asked me to give me an offer on each of my job in form of a job and some other material benefits. i refused. he begged me not to write about

my touch again because he knows that even after this arrest i am going to write another. so he take me when i was victim, when i was hidden up from prison, people was handled portion. he made to me again and told me not right. let me ask you lower. think about the few bill warners. no lead to the press yet. you've decided to give interviews to the media any way before your trial concludes in march. are you worried that speaking out could lead to you being arrested again? do you fear for your life? lay no way. they know a state they want to arrest the new, they will come back on the neighborhood and have you been able to receive treadmills or after you are brutally beaten? we saw some pictures that you had published on social media and with the bruises on your back. not received any medical attention. i went to the hospital,

they did notice they did everything and i was referred to you on monday, but my question was my passport was, was it into one of the conditions for vale yesterday, but one question to get my bus for today on monday, the magistrate and refuse to give me both my passport. so i think you want to try to see why did that do them? that is what the one you don't want me to go and get medical treatment. they are sending me to drop uganda. they cannot monday my so i that is why i am determined to speak again. it's my to the $1.00 again in the maurice now i've been on the get the 1st time you were arrested,

entertained. this also happened back in 2020, where you described the situation as in you in humane and degrading. where does this leave the future of satire and freedom of expression in uganda? i believe that the president in that house actually legitimate today, you will not leave forever. so even if we actually touched the wrong button, you cannot the day it was, it was if i was laid out, that is on record. so i said it be to him, you see things that you were out believe but he will not leave forever. you will not leave to keep frustrating. you know, writing will never going forward. now what do you think needs to be done to ensure that there is more accountability? suppose the president has to go,

missouri must be the saw problem. we have other countries here. mom is a son now with us on once he thinks that the presidency is a kind overhead. it doesn't mean he was in his father barbarism. so we have to send them off. all of them. cochran's are raquira, masha, ugandan ryan to thank you very much for your testimony and speaking to teach all the news africa. thank you so much forcing sir akira busha alleges torture and attempted bribery by general kiner gaba. the satirist had in the past referred to the garden, president's son as pig headed and plump for his part. the general denies any claims of torture and says he has never met the writer on twitter, he wrote, i don't know who this young boy is whom they say was beaten. i never heard of him. i've never met him or talked to him. i did have

a news africa also reached out to the uganda authorities about these allegations of arrest and torture. he is part of the response from the government spokesperson a form to a pando poor. now the government has an evidence and the government cannot operate on here. see, because suspects can admit anything. well, seen that before, somebody could have had pre existing condition. what we can say is that torture is illegal according to your request ition. according to him, as the commission act, according to the and torture law, you're going to have 1st of all to quick say government and say, government officials including defrauded. the government sees no problem. i say.

because we are in a democracy. we are in a democracy with the free speech free electro discourse, the giving david point of view, as long as we don't impose it up to the individual to choose to use the language over the course or a celtic. how about a policeman? how about a soldier who have is the same indicated that they know the low he may be carried away by emotion, by anger. he had pursued it, criminal suspected criminal, and he thinks dismissed him as with a pain. it is understandable if this kind of policeman is this person and goes overboard. even when it is not official policy, that is understandable in i would appreciate the anger of that policeman, the anger. oh good surgery. you're watching

d. w. news africa still to come. we take a look at this, they go ot festival on the banks of the niger river in molly, where women are dominating the stage on my analyst and the maryan tradition. wasting a lot about women in all communities. we know the value of women and the place in society. like my father, she grew up poor with few opportunities. i recognized her ambition because i have some myself. she encouraged it. she also insisted that my sisters and i learned how to cook clean, take care of children to let sunday we'd make good rives and mothers. you think

there never seemed to be a contradiction between these things for her. for me, i'm struggling to reconcile. being ambitious, being a woman, and being from south sudan, poignant images there from south saddam. well we bring you a premier on d w and use africa. that was a clip from no simple way home. it's a 1st film from south the dawn to screen at the berlin international film festival . a coil de ma b o. is the daughter of former rebel fighter, john garen. a leading figure in south to dawn. he seen by many as the father of the nation, who like millions, died in vain in years of war. her mother rebecca, yon dang demario is no less a giant known as the mother of south to dawn. she is now one of the countries vice president for the way mary matter what all the film is produced in collaboration with the d. w academy and the german ministry of economic cooperation and

development and the organization steps. so what does it mean to return home from exile when you are the child of parents like these? as one of the questions i asked that was austin the film. take a look. okay. okay. oh no ma'am. dear. okay, i'm doing that on minute on why you chose not to to me, mary. school, me. it's a question that i wouldn't think to ask, but someone else my case manager who m a c o m a we offer lower mary murder. what don't people get their nose up to them, but not of good, not up to me. will new one man only will for mission. ok. you mr. government is long overdue. it is crucial. the new government works

a small war. oh wow. oh my pleasure. you know, godaddy, my, oh, i mean you are all waiting for things to get better for stronger peace and civility. but waiting for me at my mother's house is worlds apart from waiting elsewhere in the capital and beyond. for more in this and joined by a cool deer. ma, vio, sal sudanese filmmaker based in nairobi. welcome to d. w. news africa. i thank you. thanks for having me. now your film is deeply personal for you and your family,

but the personal is also political. there's a scene where you reflect that you thought that you were making a film about your mother and also about the nation. could you tell us more about what exactly is this film about? so i come from a political family and i was hoping that in the process of making this film be could think about what it means to reconcile country and family, the political and personal. and it's been that the film making as a, as a mediating element has, has helped, i think, in, in, in, guiding us in thinking about what it means to reconcile the personal and the political when i come from such a political family. and this is the 1st film from south don. that's been

screamed at the by the natalie. do you think you achieve what you're hoping for? we're very excited about it and such a wonderful festival and something that my mother said when we got the news. and after she washed the phone, so this is all very recent is that it's putting south down on the map in a new way. a lot of the people that i've spoken to who recently talk about how they've they're there. what they've heard of south didn't, tends to be depressing and, and disaster. and this is a part of our story, but it's not the whole story. so i think we're very excited that we can bring south sedan onto the world stage in a, in a different way. and at the same time, the title of the film is no simple way home and it covers your families flight into exile and then your return. where did that complex road to take you

on a journey the journey in exile or the journey home? well, i guess the journey home to finding yourself, right? mm hm. so it, it challenged me a lot. i, i think i had, i wanted easy resolutions. i wanted to figure out quickly what it meant to call south sit on home and in the process of having a, having really great collaborators. filmmaking being a very collaborative art form meant that any time i tried to come to some kind of an easy resolution, for example, i said home is where my mother is at one point. and one of our collaborators was like, how true is that really? and initially i was taken back a little bit, but it forced me to think deeper about what does home really mean to me and,

and by the end of it i thought is home, perhaps not somewhere you would want to be able to rest. and i think i'm still, i'm still thinking about where that place is. i think generally people think about what whole means to them for their whole lives. and there's a pond on the film where you visited your father's ancestral homeland. and yet the, his community were very surprised that you didn't speak thinker. how did that feel? that so i, i used to speak didn't go and i was very young and apparently i spoke it very well and i forgot it. so our, my whole life, it's been, it's been a something that i feel very guilty about and something that i'm reminded about often because we are very pride full about our language as a,

as think of people and our traditions and our culture. so we're constant, i'm constantly reminded that this is a thing that i lack, the ability to speak my own language. so i wasn't surprised. but in that moment, and by the time we were filming that we had been doing quite some filming i, i, i tried my best to communicate to understand where she was coming from, to accept the challenges that she, she put in front of me and to embrace them so i was trying to by then i was trying to push it differently. you know, like as a teenager, i think i would have been maybe i might have been a little bit more upset by the challenge. but now i understand where it comes from and i appreciate it. let's take a quick look at the scene from the film where your mother talks about never wanting to re marry. will new one man only?

no, i'm still along with your father. a new spirit is around me all the time. yeah. i don't, i don't get this bible saying that until death do us. but say a father, a soul clearly very present for your mother. and both of them are towering figures in sudanese and also south to denise politics. and they both clearly had a vision for the country. do you think that can be achieved? i think that it's changed and things have changed so much. the division of the se alarm was, or wasn't to, to divide the country, or perhaps that might be received as controversial. but i think that doesn't mean that good things cannot come. it just means that the vision made need to be revised and i think it can be and what's next for you? politics or full making?

no politics of filmmaking. please, lots of filmmaking. i call them avo salsa. denise filmmaker in nairobi, thank you very much for speak to d, w. news. africa. thank you. ah . well, they used to call it the african woodstock. tens of thousands gathered near the niger river in miley, but last december, a co us ordered the country's borders to close after a double miller cheek, who organizes had to make a tough choice. to keep 18th edition or postpone where molly's biggest stars once took to the stage. growing insecurity in recent years has now forced the say go our festival to down size of the w news. africa goes to the city as they go in money. i thought a gun can sent us this report. ah,

the vibe is no less vibrant. organizers were determined to show the world how resilient maryan culture is. even though embargoes and kill was borders meant several african stars couldn't make it. innovative young female artists did almost half of the musicians shut off for the main concert were female. marianne connie, a rising star of the new generation, paid tribute to molly and women with her song, serena muscle. oh that and so my and i was in the maryan tradition wasting a lot about women in all communities. we know the value of women and the place in society say covian became art lovers overnight. 50 young artists from west africa took part in this a go out competition independence don't. young was one of the prize winners. her sculptors tackles breast cancer. whittaker, yet if you seem, are there something missing from the work?

so i'm emphasizing that with breast cancer. it's not just the breasts that i've removed, but really a part of a personal phone. it destroys the person that is at the tape, measures evoke time passing. therefore i walk in a thought be better. my guy is a dance and performer from gao in northern marley. have i been performance? the spirit of water is dedicated to the beauty of the nysha river. ayesha from existence is a part of this goddess and every woman is. the power of women is innate from every woman has the power to change the world and to do with it. what ever she was so fast that said one thing. well that so, so be sure to take her the other stories on d, w dot com, forward slash africa were also on facebook and twitter. now we leave you with pictures of this a go our festival in molly? i really mohammed, thanks for watching bye for now. ah

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