are exploiting the amazon rain forest. indigenous peoples are now bravely opposing them because it's not only the earth's brain lines that are dying. the reinforcement cease to exist and or people die out. a long term report from the heart of brazil starts march 9th on d, w. this is did on the news africa coming up on a program. what happens to africans stock in ukraine up to russia invasion? many africans are desperate to be evacuated home to safety. we speak to in nigeria and students in ukraine who was woken up by explosions. also coming up, we take you to be therapy at to meet some of the women suffering the cruelty of war . as a un says all sides and the t gray conflicts have used rate as a weapon of war. and we take a closer look at land reforms in south africa and ask,

how can e core land ownership be truly achieved? locals of the community in south africa have taken a church to court or by land ownership rights. they claim to be original owners of the land. and once it's back, ah, i am eddie mike, a junior. you're welcome to the program. that war in ukraine has thousands of africans on edge that are currently around 30000 people of african descent in ukraine. and nigeria has the 2nd largest african community that many of them are students gone to study in europe. on the day the attack started, we managed to get hold of one of the nigerian students in ukraine. autumn we, dia dennis has been in caucus, in east, in ukraine since december and studies medicine, not a khaki institute of medicine and biomedical sciences. i asked him how he felt when

the russian invasion begun. definitely, it's not funny. it's not funny because at, at 5 pm, you know, he's not so bright. so when you look at the atmosphere, you can try me from my window. you can actually see the screen door was a quad. yes try. you can see the lightning. i know that the sound of the bomb last actually woke me up this morning around 5 am. i can definitely yeah, yeah. the nissan from, from my window basically saying are you scared of what's going on? oh, i'm not scared and i can't see. i'm scared. i'm just disturb. ok, are you here? are you alone there or are you in touch with fellow african students? we have a lot of africans, we have a lot, see lots, lots of africans,

nigerians who lots of them and talking to them. what are they saying? the citizens, i will ukrainians, most of them in my comp on the left the left the compound, but from what i got the info i got most of them of we are going into poland more for, for he knows, i don't think most of it actually going dad was a, have a mean, so from a b, c, the private guy who i believe a family or a friend or a private car. so they can actually move we, we tease only major o means of transportation is actually the transition on mitchell. we she's, she's shot down right now, so there's only 4 in us. can i try leave? what do you expect from your government right now?

needle sandy, we have up. it was when the airports open, we dont when the airports are built on and there was an open washer we do right now . i mean, couple of i have been trying to reach out to the embassy. this is money. have not been able to do that. the contact the gifts was one of the number you want is going to, our number gets picked up. so i don't know, we need to get in touch with somebody from the authority doubt your friend is a reliable source right now is not just bombings about like nigerians. dia especially the fema is the are so scared. i am for about soon i insurance premiums are they are not friendly. my compound bots day seems to me the economy every time i'm calling them every time. so most of the mass jay, very, very, very scared. so i think the goal may need to step up and step up immediately and see how, how we can be involved with immediate alacrity. ok. oh

to medea? dennis, thanks a lot for making time to talk to our stay safe. and we will stay in touch and keep our fingers crossed, that things don't to escalate to affect you. thank you very much to media dennis medicine, student from nigeria, ukraine. now to find out what the nigerian government is doing to help its citizens in ukraine. we caught up with you soon. bye. yeah, cool. chairman of the house of representatives, committee on foreign affairs in nigeria and war is not there within that. any human being. so think about what we hope and pray that this issue with dissolved diplomatically. ultimately, i speak to you, and the government is making every arrangement to see that. and i just don't want to be migrated will be if i q entered in your course to fail. i discussed

implications of rush as innovation of ukraine did of use, told me a lot of will joins me now in this to be handled. tommy, nice to have you here. so tell us how our african governments responding to russia's invasion of ukraine. what was seen the 3 african countries that are present at the un security council that's gonna go bon and can you give strong statements of concern recognizing ukraine sovereignty and seeing this attach? should this invasion should not have happened was in the african union, as well as an organization give a similar statement. calling for russia to respect ukraine sovereignty. now, in particular, south africa's presidency, or i'm opposed to has come out himself giving a more robust statement condemning the way this has gone about and seeing that maybe you as president of joe biden and russian president vladimir putin should have spoken. i should have talked without preconditions and maybe that would have prevented this war from going ahead. and he says,

mediation is the only way out. nigeria, for example, has been a bit more quiet. and as we've seen with the students that they're more focused on getting the citizens are because that's where the pressure will be for them. but if this issue were, you know, not to be sold in the un security council and actually went to the un general assembly, i think that's where african countries will play a bigger role because then numbers. so what are the immediate implications of this conflict for the continent? we've seen, for example, the prices of oil and wheat go up, that's global. so african countries are not only was affected by that, but of course, that affects african countries. maybe the countries that produce oil, for example, would be the ones to benefit, at least the short term from the rising price of oil. um, but if europe decides to cut its dependence on russian gas, for example, we could see european countries turning to other sources like in africa for gas.

we've seen countries like nigeria like mozambique, for example, that can pro, produce this as to whether they can actually produce and meet the demand that is there at the moment in the short term that's, that's hard to say. but maybe the longer term they might provide other options for, for the rest of the world. so we see it happening already as, as the west tries to counter the threat from russia. could there be a focus on most schools dealings in africa? you know, we have to look at what must have dealings are in africa. and those are predominantly military. we've seen, you know, just the supply of arms, for example. a lot of african countries find that it's much harder, a lot more strings attach when you want to buy a military equipment from the west with countries like china, with, with russia, for example. it's not that hard. and so there's, there's been quite a lot of that. we've also seen russian private military contractors in particular. the wagner company operating in africa. we've seen them in central africa republic,

briefly in mozambique as well as now in miley, i think there will be pressure on those particular countries. what to do with, with this particular relationship going forward to me either both, thanks a lot for the insights. ah, to with your piano that he great crisis in the north has led to tens of thousands bed and millions displeased as governments troops antigua enforces battle of a territory. a u. n. investigation has found at all sides, and the conflicts have committed by allusions, including using rape as a weapon. a war did of your report on mario mueller has been to the m high region to need women trying to recover from their trauma. just a warning, this report contains descriptions of sexual violence. jeanette had no chance to run when 4 men came to her garden. we are not identifying her in this report and didn't where she got it and normally one put

a gun to my air. the other one, put a gun to my ribs, couldn't that, don't design it. the girl looked when they took me into my house, let them go for they picked me up and threw me down. and the answer thought that one of them put his feet on my shoulder and burned me. why one of them burnt me with a cigarette o correct? another was forcing me to have sex with him. the 4 men raped her for several hours. they left her with ha and other infections, and a deep fear. citizens good can win if they come back and take control of the town again. i have to die and very scared. in this town hike during their trade last november, the men were fight as loyal to the t gray people's liberation front or t p l f. but men on both sides are using sexual violence as

a weapon of war. when janet asked the to grands why they were raping her, they told her government forces had done the same in their towns to their mothers and sisters. she's doing her best now to build a future and has started a distance learning course. she wants to set up a small business. nathan, her, kim and madam, i want to go to school because i didn't attend to school as a child. now education is good for my work to get more knowledge and live a better life than just a few streets away. a 14 year old girl. she also wishes to remain anonymous, that the grand fighters came to her home to cassandra. so we'll go look, go latrell, and one of them said i will take one of you and al kill one available are going to bend my sister faint, adam rachel. my aunt begged him, but he said no,

i will kill you and take one of you or to my sister. so i told him to leave them and do whatever he wants to me, only other clinging up. yet. i was scared at be killed or raped and not letting a door to fling, but if so i didn't expect to come back. i am, i feared at die. what had holiness? he didn't kill her. he raped her for much of the night since then. she often misses school for medical appointments, but also to avoid gossip. and bullying or cotton would also get by her to silly. but i prefer not to go to school and tell him to sort a people i used to play with there. but now when i agreed them, but they don't want to play with me as al ambulance and i took but let jeanette salem, his plans. she intends to become a police officer or soldier herself and get her own form of justice. but i said, jeremy, more distilling, or i say i wish i could find him and kill him. i want him to die by my hand carving

we've listened to several other women with similar stories across from her region. they can tell the world what happened. women over the board, antique grey, have suffered similar attacks. but the defect of ban on journalists means their voices can not yet be heard. really horrifying accounts of violence and abuse. their g, w correspondence. maria umbrella filed the report, and after her return from high region and if you of yeah, we asked her, what help are the women getting to deal with a trauma? the women you saw in that report only received limited medical and psychological support by local authorities, even though a spokesperson told us they offer help in hospitals for example. but those are often hard to reach for affected women. many hospitals in the region have been looted and transport them. nearby city is expensive already last year, right group,

amnesty international found that women and girls and te grey was subjected to rape gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation, of a form of torture. by members of these, you can defend forces, a retreat and defense force. and i'm her a militia groups and a joint investigation by the united nations and state appointed if the human rights commission also accused all sides fighting in the war of committing atrocities, of which some may even amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. but since then, not much has been done to protect women from these kinds of attacks. i best not take a closer look at the issue of land in south africa and athens, the end of our pop, i'd land ownership has been one of the most sensitive topics in south africa. does 5 political promises? reformers are moving at a snail's pace. as things spend the white minority in that africa sto owns the majority of the land at about 3 quarters of it. although they make up under

a 10th of the population. meanwhile, blocks that africans just own 4 percent of land, even do the account for more than 3 quarters of the population. so it's no surprise that blacks that africans are seeking more land, they believe rightfully belongs to them. he has a story of a small town near cape town that's taking the claim of ownership to court. will begin the village of elim and south africa's western cape. many of the 500 households here earn a living farming, including yard glitter, but he doesn't own the land. he farms it belongs to. the church criticize that's a problem because he and other farmers in the community can apply for loans and government funds that would improve their lives. if you're not getting that man or woman that freedom to, to, to farm property or to own land property, what do you have? you do not own land. and the people just want to have that, that ownership back to play that only the economy be part of the economy. so life

will improve and the local ton economy will improve. the problem goes back to 100 years, when german missionaries set up a station here. they bought a vacant land to provide a home for freed slaves and indigenous clay people. now their descendants wants to own at themselves. the moravian church says it is willing to hand over a residential land, but at once to hold onto the lucrative farmland. some residents say the profits are being clouds back into the church rather than benefiting the local community. the church denies that the leadership thinks, personal interests are behind the drive for private lead. i have a feeling that our youngest is far more materialistically inclined. not that it is wrong and nothing is wrong. but in relation to allow for bit um where we'll do mcneil in the place, if it is to day an air, make sure that it will always be

a place of refuge that is not on the forefront anymore. the issue has split the community and ended up at the high court in cape town. the case started off as a claim by the church for unpaid rent, but locals made a counterclaim arguing. they have historical rights to the lens and 14, we got to make use of the court procedures in order to, to, to ensure that approaches, all of which agree placed the language to store back to, to each cycle own. isn't it? well, it takes time, but we have hoped it for, for once in a lifetime, ah, just as will, will prevail and, and, and lane is going to be stored back loans, yukon, be a slave with a young don. although ellem is not a typical example, a ruling in this case could have wider repercussions get glitter, hopes it good center presidents and reignite south africa, stalls land reform debate. to talk some

more about this. i li, i spoke to would to me into benny, political commentator and writer, he wrote a book on the frontier history of land dispossession in the late 18th and 19th century. i 1st asked them about the land disputes we just reported on if the church should handle by the land to the local community. no, isn't it? it follows why did believes it should give it back to the locals because that i didn't like the tricia, the collision function, as i say, say that, but when there is a greater need and that for common good, then that there the rights of property, the individual rights of property should be given up and thought noted and subordinated into that needed that is required by the community. so if they they, they, they, they, they follow what they believe they should give that lent up. okay. miss, i'm and have any. please stay with us before we continue discussions. let's look at house out africa. got to where it is to day. a situation where 3 quarters of land

is owned by a small minority. oh. when nelson mandela became president in 1994, he promised change a complete break with the past until that point apartheid had ruled with the white minority in charge. the majority, black south africans were forced to live in townships the land having been forcibly taking since 1913 as resentment amongst the majority increased. so did the protests . and so to did the governments of brutal response post apartheid montela said almost a 3rd of land would be returned to black south africans within 5 years. but that still hasn't happened. there are around $37000000.00 hectares of privately owned

land across the country. almost 3 quarters are owned by white south africans, even though they make up under a 10th of the population. just 4 percent is owned by black south africans, while they account for more than 3 quarters of the population. a public discussions have been held over whether to push for land to be expropriated, without compensation ah, to his malicious economic freedom fighters party has been campaigning for this. for years. the land is coming to our people. why thou barbara abala to the land is common. and south africa's president also put land reform at the heart of his 2019 electoral campaign. we outline elements offer planned to accelerate land reform making use of a range of complimentary measures including when appropriate expropriation

of land without compensation. yet despite that public backing, last december, the policy failed to get the 2 thirds majority needed in parliament for its implementation is the ball will not be the 2nd thing. the lack of the resolution on the issue only in trenches the feeling among black south africans that decades after the end of apartheid injustice still reigns over to means of any thanks for staying with are so clearly the inequality of land ownership in south africa is a huge problem. so why is it taking too long to address it? i would say currently the problem is with, with our current government, it has introduced a confusing, sometimes even contradictory law to follow the mandate of the constitution,

which i said that that mandate is to give more than to the people. and if you, if you will see, especially the laws that it follows, they are based from the columbia law and the law and they have not been updated. and hence the, those laws are unable to carry out them effectively. the monday that is given by the, by the constitution, because our constitution is new and founded in 1992. so i think the conclusion is that currently in our parliament, there is a debate if, if, whether it's legally to expropriate land without compensation, which is a silly debate because the concentration does allow that when there is public good, that is in consideration. so there is that confusion and that's why i'm saying, but they're the ones i try to live with our current government. but you talk about confusion. that's because it is quite a complicated situation, isn't it? what could be

a pro power distribution of land strategy that will appease all sites involved? looks us, all right, where there is a need for people that need land. and there is a land that is lying, undeveloped, or it's, it's, it's follow then that the government should, should, should, and should take that land and which is to be a good to their, to their people. and the thing about it where they feel that comes in our land phone, is the fact that the laws under forms are there. and sometimes it happens that the government buys the land from the people who owns the land. and let's not delete dolly yet. and that the land just was in our country is the people that work for the and so the people who own that the great my area of the land are the white people who have acquired it from the tons of a. but what is happening now when the government sometimes buy the land from this

pro, from, from the owners of the land. they load the price is because that is this thing that is called willing sell, willing buy went by and willing seller must be the one who puts the price of the land, which is where the problem comes. and then they're willing to sell up the price. and the government buy a lot of places and the next thing, most of the time, the government distribute the lead to not to the communities that needed. but among the political leads the current political end. and that is where the major problem lies and that's how we wrap up the show. from all of our stories, you can go to d, w dot com slash africa. you can also visit us on facebook and twitter, talking about social media platforms. why not? you can also follow me on instagram and on twitter at eddie micah. now we leave you with pictures from the 6th edition of international public festival in cape town,

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