7 percent. in 60 minutes on d. w. what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get the app now. this is the w 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 during his historic trip to the dfcs was not clear is why he didn't issue an apology for the millions of bets on the sheer cruelty of bell general. also, i had looks tasty. doesn't it meet the man who puts ice cream treats on tweets

and move from social media influenza to felons, to where to was finest ice cream and gas coastline is being eroded by the ocean. ex spreads worn 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 or his country's brutal rule, and it's for my colony, the democratic republic of congo, millions congolese, where caled, mutilated or died of disease as the land was pillaged for its resources, particularly under the rule of king leopold. the 2nd that history has a what shadow, the ongoing visits of the currents 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 truck comes at a time of height and 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. it 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,

there 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, the darcy 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 congress, suki people, if release objects went to the west a long time ago and of now come back home is the spirit of our ancestors. let us returning. it is important that the congress people can appropriate where own culture from. but also expected back as the tooth of patrice le member, the former prime minister who was assassinated in 1961, belgium took partial responsibility for batting his killers,

one of whom kept his tooth as a trophy. or 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 ken phillips historic visit to the darcy and join now by an would seem palma from brussels. she is a belgian congolese at historian, the font of with the art gallery and a former member of an expert group on belgium's colonial past. hello and welcome to the program. so for the 2nd time, the king has again express profound regrets for his country's brutal colonial passed in d r c. but once again, he failed to issue on an air for apology hours that received. yeah, actually you know, it's kind of an advance that the king is

a presenting kind of excuse is here in belgium because we really leave in a very conservative place. but what we expect are, it's not only the king to apologize, but it's really the government, the government to recognize that colonial bass was something brutal, was a crime against humanity. and we also would like to have a politic of reparation hearing belgium, so the king, 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. it was already the 1st time the 2nd time. now i, i don't even have like a, 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, our trustees that were committed by the belgians on the colonial rule. tell us more about the atrocities. oh, there are so many things to, to, to say. but you know, like the 1st international campaign of for human kind. it was actually competing against the king, the of the 2nd in the congo because they were getting members are against the people at the hands of the people who didn't produce enough for so what i would say is that, yeah, you hm, yeah, this brutality, you also had a labor force labor you have it. i don't even know where to start is actually because the experts history end up calling

y'all. commission of the commission, vertical real fast in the congo really described all the atrocities that happened to go in the 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 going to 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 is such a tower in figure in the history of the i see yeah, better. remember,

was the 1st prime minister of the congo, and he really he really resisted and i think 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, or 1960 because he made a speech where he really responded to the, to the team, to get to design with. 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 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 really remains left as his tooth about them has pledged to return that. it's just one tooth, 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 that. and until today, there is still a propaganda of a former colonial people to also deny and discredit his work, you know, and to say that he murdered people, that he was an organizer 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 reparation. but it, you know,

like we give back the tools of battery. so 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, the dad belgian colonizer due to the congo during this period. and you can release living in belgium. is there widespread understanding in belgium that are asked to make amends for its colonial past? yes, actually most of the people do recognize that belgium has to make a man for, for the best and for to pretend it is that occurred in the past. and for all the calling you know, propaganda, it's only a small portion of the population who doesn't want to admit it. but it's a small version that has

a lot of power. and that can really blog the situation and resist to, to the change that is coming. ok. and with the po belgian congolese, a story. and thank you. welcome. the . let's take a look at some of our stories making news across the continent. nigeria as governing apc party, has chosen veteran political upgrade to noble affairs candidates for the 2023 election to succeed president. well, how much have you to know who is known as the godfather of lagos, for his political clout when he can? my charity among the delegates, primarily held in general setup and wants to expedite to india unborn brothers tool and rochester, arrested into by the for my business typhoons are sought in connection with corruption allegations against for my father, african presidents to consumer the accused of pain bribes for steve contracts,

that africa has slammed the demands by irish budgets, airline ryan, their citizens, to fill out pre travel test in africans to prove the they did to meet passport, hold us, not for kansas spoken by only 12 percent of mainly white africans. 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 just at africa and meet a man who's making people crave the sweet side of life. after losing his original job because of the corporate and demick and events photograph i and where to start that taking pictures of ice cream to say on social media. and well, they went viral. now he's selling ice cream to customers on the comforts of the family home, 88 as a way to query and increase has more in this report. event

photography. that's what's tando mccaul would. it's before the pandemic track, but after almost all events were 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 she decided to open an ice cream parlor at his mother's house. you've no idea that is a stupid idea. you know, we just have to try it out and, and we'll cut 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 heard about the place on live going to my degree area. i got it on facebook, on social media, on to instagram as well,

and said to find the place my facebook. and then that was my 1st time coming here. so i like to go because i found it on social media. and when i found out about it, that was like, wow, you look cool for doing section about the little amount of money mark. if you can see all of our marketing, what you're saying is social media in principle is word of mouth. so more things, social media, i tell a lot of people that revision, try and utilize social media simply because it's the family house. now turn into a bit in the kitchen where we make it happen. and i was spending time here. i get to spend more time with my family. i'm in the time we create our beautiful candle now employs his sister, a brother, a neighbor,

and his proud mother. he decided, let me take a chance. let me see this will wait and do it, do it. here we are to day, he's 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 aware there's no jobs in south africa. they have been to school, but they can't get employment annually. wow, tando is the type that wanted to go report trip also wanted to be his own plus. so this is a blessing. since the business is growing fast. so wait, a creamery is now looking for a commercial space to rent, much to the liking of time to his mother, who wouldn't mind regaining some of her privacy at home. donder already has bigger plans. he wants to add waffles and smoothies to the board for you and even stopped 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 sea defenses are the increase in wind and wave activity. mean many guardians, live vicariously close to one unpredictable neighbor. the gulf of guinea did you report, isaac ology, president, 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 remain in ganawe's water 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. his barking the house where he grew up, the place that was his home for decades. the one who was driven from his 4 walls by the waves that swept through the village, still traumatized. he is bleeding with the government for hope. now disaster though it is happening all the places by them was difficult. one is there for my here because we shared the boundary of the river volta i so for i so so the have to put it as if not, i will die. the surgeon, what is mean the people over me have given up in hope of rebuilding for hundreds of families. the only show that is to make shift stretches built of palm fronds. they

can't afford more expensive materials and fear what to lead to the have could end up washed our we by the ocean when the next flats come and come, they will as the half for decades now. for van mae used to be a prosperous fishing village, but now the sea is just a few meters away from its ruins. as sea levels have risen, the lack of co star defenses has let the wave stick the land you are dec, he's an environmentalist and researcher into coastal erosion. he says, climate change has contributed significantly to the rising waters or longest shoreline. destructive waves have become more frequent. he fears that the are also a threat for community is behind the coastline. the space between the

lagoon and the sea is me narrowed. this is about to enter the last die that 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 loose place he saw there is a good 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 raffle i buy novel is the low car representative for this district is inspecting 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, if you brutality that people perceive, but they're not very busy. you are, we have

a lot more back of this community. you have my group back of this community qualities. you lost as many as 7000. there is only the show left standing of knowledge. there were no childhood home. he and thousands like him. we'll have to find new ones with no certainty that they want to lose them again to the waves. consuming ganeth close to line commanders are now joined by profess like we see a pinado. he's a director institute for environment and sanitation studies, university of ghana. hello and welcome to the program professor. he researched the development of gunner's coast from historic records since the late 19th century. what developments did you discover over 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 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 erosion on people and communities. and then there are people around how bad has it got it. it's really just becoming extremely bad in the sense that we have a lot of people now being affected. we have for several years old. it was that communities also been affected, especially the vulnerable areas, and then it really affected the livelihood of people who leave within their post our communities and their bias tension also affecting death conroy because one of the livelihood of people affected then the economy. so so,

so now our sort of factors that play here, but what is the main driving force behind coastal erosion. several factors, as you rightly said, can be attributed to co star erosion. the are natural factors and then also humanity used a 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 c v every t has increase as a result of all sage been driven by climbing inch. and then we also have increase in activities with regards to an intensive wave of 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, or 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. a longer costs, in terms of human activities. we can talk about land winning. and although there's a balance on winning, but it is now being enforced. so people indiscriminately, air wing sand on the big we also have destruction, of course, that education and the schools that 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 sedimentation once you influenced segment dynamics and a sediment that just found that along the shoreline. once you influenza said men dynamics, then you are bound to have some of these activities carry. so clearly something

should be done about it. we've had criticism of the government coastal management plan kind of help at all or what's the way forward? yes, definitely. something needs to be done about it by the way, we go about dentist vistacomm 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 structure like n c walls and then groins. and the whole idea is due to seen cassette segment and help to build b g in areas where they are eroded by then as you trump sentimental build beaches you deprive that down griff side of sedimentary. so it's like robbing peter to pay paul in trying to solve a problem here. you create a bigger program down downstream. so the method that a government has been using over the years, almost the novel. so we need to rethink as

a country how we can effectively managing rosie, but not fight ocean. ok, profess laquisha opinion 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, log s in i. j. s. on the state. i haven't to find a new work because of widespread legal tree felling a reminder. of the importance of protecting and preserving that natural environment, i found out, ah ah shoot

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