he like witnesses, an unprecedented story with no more than the great documentary series iraq destruction of a nation. this week on d. w. ah, this is d, w. news africa coming up on the program lives on hold the african students facing an uncertain future as the war in ukraine. rage is on. so we're trying to see it in the shot view. so weeks that we have which school is going to accept those because we can't even get our transcript because of what is happening. we don't know about trans people. they don't seem to understand that we don't love drives creek. thousands of african students have finally escaped to safety. some have made it back to their home countries, but all those and now stuck in europe without a visa,

and without a place to study. also coming up on the program. and you know, when i, when i, when i and jim we cannot speak of yeah, no problem. and so making we have been met by them in what many calling blatant sexism women in nigeria are being denied the same rights as men. but they're not taking it lying down and stepping out in style. we meet the women subverting sexual stereotypes in congo. brazza vill ah hello, i'm tommy allotted. boy, it's good to have you with us. the war in ukraine has forced over 2000000 refugees out of the country among them tens of thousands of africans, mostly students. the attempt to flee has been a harrowing experience for many, they've described the bumper admins,

the long journeys to safety and cases of racism along the way. we've been talking to, some of the students caught up in the conflict order. one, my darian who gave his name only as chinney to was stranded in his house as russian forces a launch and assault. he sent us a video a few days ago from the town he studying in sumi in the east of ukraine. as you'll hear, shelling started while he was speaking to us. you don't have any needs to go out so well. mr. clear. no move, made speaking. bombed in the window with this, you know, says fire gas to shooting. lucy, we don't have a clue what that would august. we wouldn't have any food stuff. he usually is busy sometimes will you see biscuits? bread will hold into stores and have him don't have any dinner again. he's not in this morning to margaret esl. where's my school provided the boss is only 10 years to dance nor was use for us regarding the it's like i dont know. oh not being the

so confused. this is good. it is on lewis until the isn't just tuesday and day while you're new spoke you're finding these now. are you sleeping in london? i'm having and it does well much in the more than just getting wookey dove shoes. yeah, no, i can't really you guy. it's not that this is a shorter 0 shot disastrous. it also does well now. yeah, he's on. i don't know if you guys can hear lucy dawson i this is actually fab. well, the los lobos right mom, mom on and we can confirm that she now do, did survive the shelling on the night when he record of that video for us. and he later made it to hungary and also now safe in budapest, hungary is fellow student, be sola, we talked to her about her experience. her escape from danny pro, also in the east of ukraine, then on to live in the west. and then later on to put

a past in neighboring hungary, i started by asking her when exactly she realised she had to leave some thursday to friday. we then sleeva couldn't sleep, we couldn't it, we were scared. the tension was getting more. but our, by our key friday came mean the st in. well i ok, let's do a wait to see if something was going to happen. but then intention was increasing literally like like we literally could not eat. we literally could not sleep like there was no peace, like no risk at all. it was shot in our eyes was like a risk because we didn't know what was going to happen. so saturday morning because up regime just one are now close to the da da da in april. so is there yet from the apparition that the russians were trying to evade? we're going to evade soon, and people in the new for other,

other window nick or they did, they were leaving and all that. so i leave me 2 of the 2 other friends. right? i have to order with major were 3 so that okay, we cannot stay, we have to leave because everybody is leaving. and then from if the rush us, when the russians invades up before you know what they want to comics, denny bro. and then we can state, so that was why we decided that we're gonna leave no longer to say that we're gonna be m. you made it to, to hungary eventually at how did you make it there? ah, we have trouble. are we through middle lake? we have to struggle our retreats. all right, so when the initial plan was actually to go to poland was there was a whole line. but then when i went to the train station i need to transition the

whole lot of people like the please was full. so there where we send is it gets, was trish the for the way is i didn't get to all black. the said you have to and so me to get to one of them to get the of the all is i guess do ukrainian. all right, so we, so we, we thought okay, what, what can we do? we have to leave, we can this eventually we're going to push way through. all right, the trend king, the train came with our lord or it was that which is going up and don't give me the most i was, it was, yeah, it was, it was the struggle was often don't open the order. finally, go to the train, running to go to the train. you know, they said we couldn't enter that we couldn't enter because we didn't have to, kids was there and that you guys would not allow us to you guys not sell to kids tools and let them know that we come inside because we don't have the kids so there were a lot of guys in africa, africa, guys, guys. so they're trying to push yeah,

we would, you know, this people, the, the police usually went inside the train to bring them out like bring them all out . but the ones that could find out when they fight out we and for the inside. so they couldn't go inside, but it was i couldn't go dig inside the train. did it really when it's like to bring them back to bring them out that we, we don't, i literally cause i like ma'am i made crushes and go. we fell down because of the shrub. everything. so we couldn't get on that train. so when the train finally came and they were coming from the parisha because where our friends were on the train were able to also keep seats for i'm helpless. so that was how we had a show. like we had a fight. we have literally struggle and 5 inside inside that tree, even as much as we inside the train. there was no way to sit down. there was no way to see that. like usually people wish, standing people wait, sleeping on the,

on the bike. you entered, drink, know, the 5 who is clipping their way. it's in there and all, but because, you know, kept this will all forms that. so that was how i was able to to push to push trips and go me crazy. where we, where we went that way and that was, oh, it was might need to sit down because obviously it was not, this is right. we have to sit down and treat the johnny from the need to leave was like 18 hours in the drink. it seemed our i thought all the struggle we had it, we had not been, we hadn't seen our, you're in a safe place right now. what's next for you? oh, what makes from the leg? it's literally really complicated because now the, you from our, from the news. yes. the saying that the kind of accommodate students that only has

a pass by with the compounds and go back to the country. so it's really, really complicated for us. so we're trying to see within the shot of 2 weeks that we have which school is going to accept those because we can't even get our transcripts because of what is happening when we don't know what it is. so understand that we don't have tries to greet trans feed so so it's, it's, it's really, really complicated or like, the next step is really, really complicated or, you know, so uncertainty about the future. well miss ally, he, oh god, thank you for speaking to us and we hope that you're able to find a way forward for the future. thank you so much. ah, you watching d. dublin use africa still to come? oh wise,

some women in nigeria of protesting their lawmakers actions and the women subverting sexual stereotypes in congo, brownsville, and some sate beating the men at their own game of style. next is the story of a man who left molly 7 years ago to seek a better life in europe modalities. kara is one of thousands of africans who have used what's known as the western african atlantic route to reach spain's canary islands by boat from countries such as guinea, senegal, morocco, and western sahara. one spanish and geo said more than 4000 africans died last year, attempting to get to the canaries using this crossing the highest number ever. yet, despite the danger, the numbers keep increasing as him or from medulla. now to find out why was so

determined to take such a risk and how this change his life and that of the family he left behind. ha, the past years have been challenging for madonna torn carter. he hopes to one day throw punches in the olympic hawk sing ring, but it's a miracle he's alive to pursue that dream. his toughest match to date came out at sea. the maryan with still a teen when he climbed into a fishing boat in the west african country of mauretania and set off for the canary islands. look beautiful in the last day was the worst part of the whole trip. i was inexperience and simply had no strength left. i was very scared the whole time. but when you're suddenly in an extreme situation like that, your fear disappears. i learned a lot that lay to help me in the boxing ring when you have go beyond your limits and overcome your fears. otherwise you come. when was us? madonna eventually made it to this small port on the spanish island of grand canada . it's dotted by abandoned migrant boats since his arrival more than 7 years ago,

migrant numbers here have risen rapidly and with it, the number of people who don't survive the journey. 8 work is estimate. 4000 people died in the past year alone. the dollar thinks that is a cautious estimate. leanne get out in the mud on time and nobody knows how many dead bodies have read the floating out at sea. often people simply run out of food or water or gas. that's how most of them die. they all know the risk medulla says that they are willing to take it for their families across the sea to 1000 kilometers away. madonna's relatives follow his every move in spain, half of all molly and slid in poverty. the pandemic and political crises have compounded that situation. medallist scrapes together as much money as he can, through boxing and working in restaurant kitchens. back home, it pays for the family, children's schooling, and food. mom is vital to our

survival. he left to relieve our suffering. our family has benefited a lot from a dollars journey and we know he works very hard for his money. and we know things aren't easy for him where he is right now for them and not far from the family home is one of the family coast bus stations from here, young marlin's, like madonna, leave every day to seek their fortune in europe. some remember him from the time when he lived in the neighbourhood, melinda, though. huh. yes was heard a lot about my dollar, but i'm in that the why he's one of us. like had, i knew why we follow everything he does. he's doing a great job. and one day that we want to be just like him, look, i don't, i like that. but i, like i, i headed iowa level medulla has mixed feelings about such statements. he fears many young migrants will not survive the journey. at the same time,

he's convinced the numbers of new arrivals on the canary islands will this year once again, break all records. ah, as you might be aware, the world marked the international women's day this past week, but hundreds of women in nigeria when not celebrating. instead, they were out on the streets of protesting, angered by the countries lawmakers who rejected 5 changes to the constitution that were intended to promote gender equality from a buddha. our corresponded amaco, acoya, sent us this report, or the i determined to be heard these niger and we men see the country's laws and discriminatory on the want change. but stand in india, we are predominantly mil legislators. it's ludicrous that we're still having to have this discussion. it's new to point that we're having to speak. it's ludicrous

that we often for testing for our rights. it's ludicrous that nigerian national assembly, which is dominated by men, do not seem to appreciate the liberty they have disdain or the women of nigeria and spend my life in a male dominated constitution. and i just been a while b i yet today i did on women, i do have women, i and jim. we cannot speak of, we are not part of the decision making. we have been mailed parliament on the back of mad snyder at la mc i by the national assembly. what that against the bills and laws that will be represented nigerian women. some of those include denies that of a ship to and i draw amounts for in the husband and mine, and i did. oh, my name didn't ship in her husband, stayed and lots more today the guy that he had to say, this is in all and it's time ball of this to change my jealous legislators voted on 60 it amendments to the constitution. among these 5 bills were focused on promoting

gender equality, politics, governance, and to society. all 5, where it rejected the b denies citizenship to the foreign bond husband's apply journeyman. but an i joined muns foreign bond wife gets automatic citizenship. it's denies women the ability to take indigent shape in your husband's state after 5 years of been together and also denies fred of 5 percent appointed positions for women. one of the very few men here says a discrimination against women is discrimination against all. i believe that if men do sen woman's rights, not standing up for their wives, for their children, for their daughters, for their system, for their loved, they're not standing up for the memory of the many women who fought for the merger . we up to date is been 37 years since nigeria ratified the united nations convention on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. but the

food is still to be seen. oh, let's bring in dorothy demons. a. she is a human rights activist filmmaker and the founder of the dorothy germans, a foundation in a boucher dorothy. it's good to have you on the program. now women make up only about 6 percent of nigerian national assembly. so should we really be surprised when gender bills get rejected in this manner? oh well, we shouldn't be surprised. however, the surprise elements will come from the fact that when you get into the national assembly, as either a senator or a member of the house of representatives, there is an orientation that is done for people to remember that they are not there representing their political parties but they're there in the interest of all nigerians, irrespective of gender or political party affiliations or whatever else there is.

so considering the fact that that orientation was done on the members of the national assembly, forgot that too soon. and then thing to give women, you know, the basic rights that are enjoyed in other parts of the world. simply because we're women i, that was very disappointing. so do you think then that this, what we've seen here, the rejection of these bills as a reflection of the attitudes of the people in the national assembly or this, does this reflect the wide attitudes towards women in the country? oh, so the national assembly is a general reflection of what happens you know, everywhere in the country. however, considering the amount of resources that has been dedicated to ensuring that the people in the national assembly function in line with ward best practices. it's very disheartening that despite all the resources that have been, you know,

plowed into this, you know, we still have a lot of retrogressive moves. the legal from walks though we leaned on the national assembly to help us bring to be a, you know, bring to bear awe, very importance. and this is so many steps backwards as far as i'm concerned. you know, it's a, it's reflective of what is in the society the larger society was considering. therefore that had been put in does, should have been a place where one would have expected a lot of progressive actions instead of retrogression. now in the recent days, we've seen the house of representatives acknowledge that there should be a review on 3 of those bills, specifically on citizenship, on ones and didn't a status and on affirmative action in political parties. now as someone who took part in the process we saw in boucher do you take that as a victory? no, i don't take it as a victory. a promissory consider doesn't translate to actual efforts,

actual actions as reconsidering rights. so is that i've seen it as a step in the right direction. i see it as a finger pointed towards the direction that steps intended to be taken towards. i look forward to seeing our trials, steps are taking those actions. and also it's, this is an opportunity to remind the nationalists of the house of reps that all the 5 demands from the women are important. not only 3 out of the 5, you know, would pacify the women. and the process will definitely continue until all the 5 demands are met by the house of reps. and what do you think needs to change to make an idea more equal? what lisa chain to make though jerome or equality is we need to have more legal frameworks and that's what people are running away from there right away from a given us agenda. unequal opportunities bill passed to become

a law. and now we've gone to the grown name of the federal republic of nigeria, which is the constitution. we need the language in the constitution to change our reflects that they are, he's as much as dad, she's as much as they are. he's in the constitution. and we also need, you know, this basic please are having highlighted, which seems to be a huge bottle for the national assembly to come to terms rates to be in the constitution of the federal republic of nigeria to and shaw equal rights and equal access to opportunities for men as they are for women in nigeria. okay, i will have to leave it there for now. but thank you very much dorothy and jim, mine's a speaking to us from a boucher thank you very much. staying on the subject of women's rights in congo browser. vill people known as suppers, who dress up in expensive clothes have traditionally, always been men. but women have been demanding to be let into this excuse of club.

as we report some are making quite an impression on the streets of the capital. oh look one as, as if it as if, as we always dress well, we are not lane any time. we are well dressed. do let the how does your b loan? i mean, you do use by now people can understand that a woman can also step out there and dress up with style. one was the back of the whole. let that do. why is you? my name is miss sunny grace. i am a superior from congo browser. vill la something stands for society of ambiance, makers and elegant people. if you are not elegant, you can't be part of las up. through to buy an outfit. you must have some means because it is expensive. jimmy did i hussle? jump in, i have a barn, sal, drinks. i love my clothes. even if i live in a small place, i prefer to buy clothes. salazar,

yes. it will do moose, beloved. they ward their clothes, dressing up sexy. that's what we like. separate azusa. sell out of their deal more . it always gives me great pleasure to see women dressed impeccably and stylish, although with great brands. but before we only saw men wearing suits and good shoes, but now we also see women doing at wauka. it's a great pleasure they honor us. women have a whopping, by law of a supple, natty, i busted go guy who came is supposed to be inspired by my husband since for fashion law. he is a supper. oh, there are some men who refuse to include women in the association of the claim that where women are, there are always quarrels. as few things have changed, i'm going to go because many women have joined with some piece of unique in there, or even women who dressed better than men. they really out do. men wasn't

associated officially, there might be equality between men and women in the congo least society. but in reality, men act as if they were somehow above women who we love civil w. so the 8th of march is important for us up houses. it is international women's day. i did what each woman has the right to celebrate. oh, miss susan sima. even if i am sick on that day, i will get up and go celebrate because it is our day. oh, yes mm hm. ah. it certainly learned something on star, an elegance from them. oh, that's it for now. but do check out our other stories on d, w dot com, forward slash africa, or on our facebook and twitter. now, before we go,

we leave you with these pictures from a cultural festival in abidjan caught devora massa as it's known, showcases some amazingly talented performing artists. so enjoy, we'll see you next time. bye for now. a a a

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