the 77 percent the platform with, you know, or this channel, we are not afraid to happen delicate the tub because population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution. the future with is 77 percent every weekend on the w this is the da the news africa coming up on the programmed belgium's brutal colonial regime in congo was based on the racism and expectation. clear away from belgium's king felipe doing his historic trip to the dfcs was not clear is why he didn't issue an apology for the millions of that's on the sheer cruelty of bell

general. also, i had looks tasty. doesn't it meet the man who puts ice cream cheats on tweets and move from social media influenza to sell in to where to buy an ice cream and gas coastline is being eroded by the ocean expands one that rise and sea levels could wash away and tie our coastal communities, so what kind of be done to hold back the waves? ah, i am at you, mike, a junior and you're welcome to the program. belgium's king felipe has expressed his deepest regrets for his country's brutal rule and it is for my colony, the democratic republic of congo. millions of congolese where caled, mutilated or died of disease as the land was pillow finance resources,

particularly under the rule of tingly upon the 2nd. that history has a shadow, the ongoing visits of occurrence king, with many congolese, expecting restitution of some kind. a 1st official visit to the d r c for king philip, and he arrived to a warm welcome from his hosts. the trip comes at a time of heightened consciousness of europe's colonial history in africa. it's a painful past to reflect upon as the visiting king acknowledge for colonial regime was based on exploitation and domination. he was a regime of unequal and unjustifiable relationships marked by paternalism, discrimination and racism. he led to violent acts and humiliations. here in front of a congolese people and those who are still suffering from it, i wish to reaffirm my deepest regrets for these past wounds. deep regrets,

but no clear apology for the deadly plunder of this lands resources the limbs and lives of millions of congolese were brutally lost for the insatiable demands of king leopold the 2nd who govern this territory as his personal property. in fact, it was one of the worst mass killings in modern history. yet it took the recent emergence of the black lives matter movement to question, while leopold is still celebrated in belgium. in kinshasa d r. c. government says it's not forgetting the past, but looking to start what it calls a new partnership. one step in this direction is the return of some congolese artifacts that had been in belgian museums for decades. king philip brought with him an initiation mask from congos suki. people police objects went to the west a long time ago and have now come back home. is the spirit of our ancestors. let us returning. this is important of the congress people can appropriate where own culture in their focus, but also expected back as the tooth of patrice lombard,

the former prime minister who was assassinated lori, in 1961, belgium took partial responsibility for backing his killers, one of whom kept his tooth, as a trophy. later this year, a parliamentary committee in brussels is expected to release a report examining belgium's historical record in its former african colony. meaning more detail on the past atrocities could emerge and possibly create room for the justice that many congolese seek. for some analysis of jim believes his story visit to the darcy. i'm joined now by ann, with seen coma from brussels. she's a belgian congolese art historian, the font of wittiest gallery, and a former member of an experts group on belgium's colonial past. hello and welcome to the program. so for the 2nd time that king has again expressed profound regrets for his country's brutal colonial past in d r c. but once again,

he failed to issue on it at 4 apology. how was that received? yeah, actually you know, and it's kind of an added then said the king, it isn't present in kind of excuses here in belgium because we really lever in a very, a conservative place. ah, birds are what we expect or it's not only the king to apologize, but it's really dug of the government to recognize that uncle neal bass was something brutal was a crime against humanity. and we also would like to have a politic um, reparation. the hearing belgium, so dicking me present or not present, his excuse is but after the words we also need action. so just to be clear was a disappointing for him not to apologize. ah, it was a,

a good time now. i don't even have like, it's not even disappointing anymore because he did it already in the past and, and nothing really happened afterwards. ok, so you mentioned some of the trustees that were committed by the belgians on the colonial rule. tell us more about the atrocities. oh, there's so many things to, to, to say, but, you know, like the 1st international campaign of for human kind. it was actually competing against a politic of the, the 2nd in the congo because they were getting members or guns of the people like the hands of the people who didn't produce enough for. so what i would say is that, yeah, you hm, you had this brutality. you also had of

a labor force labor. you have it. i don't even know where to start is actually because the experts or history ends up calling y'all. commission of the commission for the court in your past in the congo will describe the all the atrocities that happened to congo in a report of more than 900 pages. so it's really like, i wouldn't know where to start, like really. but maybe start with the colon, your propaganda, who really know which the aim was to convince belgium people. but also can these people themselves, that they were less than human people and that it was no more than they were treated as being because they were not totally fully human because they were black people. now even after independence,

belgium still try to keep influenza. why it's for my quality. tell us more about patrice the member and why he has such a tower in figure in the history of the aisle seat. yeah, that was the moon bow was the 1st prime minister of the congo, and he really he really resisted, at least he tried to resist and he really felt the call in your system. and you know, he's very famous for his speech of the day of the independence, the 13th of june, of 1960, because he made a speech where he really responded to, to the king king. it's a distance which one who was a king between and this king did this speech really made him famous in the whole world because really he really spoke about how people were treated

as house humans. he was talking about the discrimination but also about the appetite that was also present into the cities of the congo. and he also, he is also a hero today because he has been killed because of he's a real to really a fight for the freedom of his country. and other people, the only remains left is his truth about them has pledged to return that. it's just one truth, but how symbolic and significant is it. it's, it's so it's really about respect to in about the dignity of, of, of his body. he was a hero, like he really stood up for his country. and he has been killed because of dad. and until today, there is still a propaganda of a former colonial people. do also deny and discredit his work, you know and say that he murdered people,

that he was an organized and that he wrote a disorder into the country. so i think it's really, it's, it's the, it would be the 1st step into a repair rich and politic, you know, alike. we give back the tools of bet resume. bam. maybe we also start to give back some new to the artifacts. and we start to speak about reparation, and we start to recognize that colonization was a crime against against humanity. and we stop talking about the good deeds, dad. belgian colonizer due to the congo during this period. and you'll, congolese, live in belgium. is there widespread understanding in belgium that has to make amends for its colonial past? yes, actually, most of the people do recognize that a belgium has to make a man for the best and for the brutality is that occurred in the best and for all

to call, you know, propaganda. it's only a small portion of the population who doesn't want to admit it, but it's a small portion that has a lot of power. and that can really blog the situation and resist to, to the change that is coming. ok. and which impala belgian congolese? his story and thank you. welcome. ah, let's take a look at some of our stories making news across the continent. i do as governance a p. c party has chosen a veteran political operator bulletin ogle. i said candidates for the 2023 election to succeed precedent for how much people have to know who's known as the godfather legos for his political clout. when he chair majority among party delegates, primaries held in south africa wants to extradite to

indian born brothers tool. and rochester, i rested into by the for my business tycoon, sought in connection with corruption allegations against for my father, african presidents to consumer. the accused of pain bribes for steve contracts. and south africa has slammed the demands by irish budget, airline ryan, their citizens, to fill out pre travel test in africans to prove the they did meet passport, hold us africans is spoken by only 12 percent of mainly white african and as widely seen as the language of pop by now i have ryan as the session has left the nasty taste in your mouth. come with me to south africa and meet the man who's making people crave the sweet side of life. after losing his original job because of the corporate pandemic and event photo graphite where to start that taking pictures of ice cream, sales, social media, and well, they went viral. now he's selling ice cream to customers from the comforts of the

family home, 88 as a way to query at or increase has more in this report. event photography. that's what's tando mccaul would. it's before the pandemic struck, but after almost all events where cancelled, he had to find new subjects to photograph. he saved about 40 euros from his covert grands to come up with creative ice cream design. the pictures posted on his social media channels went viral and he decided to open an ice cream parlor at his mother's house. they have no idea. this is a stupid idea. you know, we just have to try it out and, and work hard as it's so crazy and interesting and it makes me feel that i can achieve anything on, on good days. he now makes more than 1000 euros up to 200 customers, find their way to his home and the way to a township and almost everyone here about the place on life. i was just going

smoking. yeah, yeah. i had, i brought it on facebook, on social media, onto the dog in the glare, as on facebook to find a place my facebook. and then that was my 1st time coming here. so i like it go very good faith. i found it on social media and when i found out that body that was like, wow this, these are some really cool for doing section about it. a good amount, amount of money is really most of all walk. if you can see all of our marketing, let's say if you're feeling through social, anita and 3 percent is world of love, fossil more social media. i felt a lot of people that really should try and utilize social media simply because it's the family house now turned into a business. we're in the kitchen the way we make you to have and i was

spending time here. i get to spend more time with my family. i missed the time where we create our beautiful con condo and now employs his sister, a brother, a neighbor, and his proud mother. he decided, let me take a chance, let me see if this will wait and do it did way. here we are today is in a position to feed him, had to fit himself and help out in the family because my kids, when doing anything it, i think we all await us. there's no jobs in south africa. they have been to school, but they can't get employment annually. wow, tando is, are the type that wanted to go report to a pause. so wanted to be his own boss. so this is a blessing. since the business is growing fast. so way to creamery is now looking for commercial space to rents, much to the liking of time to his mother, who wouldn't mind regaining some of her privacy at home,

who are already has bigger plans. he wants to add waffles and smoothies to the portfolio and even start some food trucks. ah, to west africa now which is literally been washed away. gas coastline has been eroded by the ocean. this is a natural process, but it's been made worse by human activity. climate change and more severe weather patterns. for communities on the coast, the lack of c defenses are the increase in wind and wave activity. mean many ghanaians live precariously close to one unpredictable neighbor. the gulf of guinea did of you report isaac ology visits at one part of gunner's vote. our region that may soon be gone. bare bones of the palm trees on the shore line. show the last remnants of a village under siege from the sea food there may in ganawe's voice our region

could soon disappear forever. last november, the ocean waves crushed into this community. washing are we homes and livelihoods the floods displeased hundreds of people. many families are still homeless knowledge, the one who was forced to flee by the raisin water. he's back in the house where he grew up. the place that was his home for decades. no one who was driven from his 4 walls by the waves that swept through the village, still traumatized. he's bleeding with a government for help. now this disaster, though it is happening, all the bases by them was difficult. one is the for my here because we shared the boundary, volta i so for so on. so do you have to put it as if not that we

will die. the surgeon waters mean the people of fermi. have given up in hope of rebuilding for hundreds of families. the only shelter is to make shift stretches built of palm fronds. they can't afford more expensive materials and fear what to little the have could end up washed. are we by the ocean when the next flights come and come they will as the half for decades now. for them, a used to be a prosperous fishing village, but now the sea is just a few meters away from its ruins. a sea levels have risen. the lack of co star defenses has let the waves take the land g o deck. he's an environmentalist and researcher into coastal erosion. he says, climate change has contributed significantly to the rising waters. a long gun is

shoreline. destructive waves have become more frequent. he fears that the are also a threat for community is behind their coastline. the space between the long and the sea is me narrowed. this is about to enter the last died are with that. okay. the see went into the lagoon. the waves went to town to remain in town and went into the lagoon. a sign that in few years to come the semitic over those places. so there is a great danger head defenses lay these. i've been built to protect some communities, but the government says there is not enough money to build. see was to protect. everyone are awful. i been avo is the local representative for this district. his inspect the damage done to for me. the one who told him he feels let down by the government. a benevolent makes more needs to be done to protect the community. and

the environment is a matter of every brutality, the people, per se, but rather not very rarely the visitation, what the bodies, i bid this rabbi to see what we have available back of this community. you have my group back of this community, go groceries. you lost as many as 7000. there is only the show left standing of knowledge. there were no child or home. he and thousands like him will have to find new ones with no certainty that they want to lose them again to the waves. consuming ganeth coastline. commanders are now joined by a profess like we see a pin in ardo. he's a director institute for environment and sanitation studies, university of ghana along welcome to the program professor. he researched the development of ganeth coast from historic records since the late 19th century. what

developments did you discover by the yes. thank you very much and hello to your cherish listeners empty ways. what we identified is that erosion is not new, is something that has been there for a long time. but then the challenge is that sam development has drawn so close to the shoreline, and therefore, interacting with a natural dynamics of the system. and because of their, the interaction between human development and a natural dynamics of the shoreline. that is what is creating the problems and is the enhanced impact of the rush in on people and communities. and then there are people around how, how bad has it gotten it's really just becoming extremely bad in the sans does. we have a lot of people now been affected. we have for several years of it was that communities also been affected. michelle, in one rabble years,

and then it's really affecting the livelihood of people who leave within their post our communities and by extension also affecting their con army because one of the likelihood of people are affected than the economy. so, so it, so that all sorts of factors that play here, but what is the main driving force behind coastal erosion? several factors, as you rightly said, can be actually be tend to go start erosion, the are natural factors and then also humanity used. at fact, as a natural factor, there isn't much you can do about it by the human induce practice out what we can do, something about it. what we offset is that in recent times, the intensity and severity has increased as a result of all, sage been driven by climate change. and then we also have increase in

activities with regards to an intensive waiver wave wave activities. and then we also identify the increase in sea level rise, which has also resulted in some of the active. so these are some of the natural factors driven by climate change where somebody can also say that climate change is human induced. well, it true, but these are some of the natural factors that are driving your ocean along our coasts, in terms of human activities, we can talk about land. we ne auto. there's a band on some wind, but it is not being enforced. so people indiscriminately, air wing sand on the beach. we also have destruction, of course, that education and the school staff visitation are very vital in naturally fighting erosion. so these are some of their factors that i can easily talk about. and we can also talk about test edition once you last into said men dynamics and

a sediment dead, the sand that, ah, i along the shore line once you influenza, said men dynamics, then you are about to have some of these activities. karen? so clearly something should be done about it. we've had criticism of the government coastal management plan. can i help our toll or what's the way for it? yes, definitely. something needs to be done about it. by the way, we go about dentist protocol and presently the government is used in heart engineering approach where they try to and manage erosion by what i call fire tenure ocean. so they put, you know, a hash struck just like m. c was and then grinds, and the whole idea is to defeat cosette said meant and help to build b g in areas where they are eroded by then as you shop sentimental build beaches

you deprive that down griff side of sentimental. so it's like robbing peter to pay paul is trying to solve the problem here. you create a bigger problem down downstream. so the method of the government has been using over the years, almost the novel. so we need to rethink as a country how we can effectively managing routine, but not fight ok. professor chrissy up in in i do from the university of ghana. thank you very much for the insights. so pleasure. thank you. that's it for now, from all of our stories go to d, w dot com slash africa, or visit our facebook and twitter pages. finally, logos in ideas on the state are having to find a new work because of widespread illegal tree felling. a reminder of the importance of protecting and preserving that natural environment. i for now ah,

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