to agree on basic facts, i think that you face a future with a country that is very, a struggle for truth in 45 minutes on d w. they want to know with love a way, but i'm not going to have to was my own go and everyone with later holes and every day getting are you ready to meet? the gentleman can join me, right? just do it on d. w. this is the w news africa coming up on the program. belgium's brutal colonial regime in congo was based on racism and expectation. clear away from belgium's king phillipe, doing his historic trip to the dfcs was not clear is why he didn't issue an apology for the millions of vets on the sheer cruelty of bell general. also,

i had looks tasty, doesn't it meet the man who put ice cream treats on tweets and move from social media, influenza to sell. and so where to buy an ice cream and gas co sign is being eroded by the ocean experts, one that rise in sea levels could wash away and tie our coastal communities. so what can be done to hold back the waves a i'm 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 pillaged for its resources,

particularly under the rule of king leopold. the 2nd that history has a what shadow, the ongoing visits on the current 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 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. 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, 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, the 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 there had been in belgian museums for decades. king philip brought with him an initiation mask from congos suki. people, your 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 did their problem. but also expected back

as the tooth of batteries, lumber, 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 has started visit to the darcy. i'm joined now by an with z in palma, from brussels. she's a belgian congolese art historian, the font of with the art 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, the 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 an air for apology. how was that received? yeah, actually you know, it's kind of an advance that the king is a presenting kind of excuses here in belgium because we really lever 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 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 for human kind. it was actually competing against the king, the up on 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 had, you had 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 ends up calling you know, commission of the commission, vertical real fast in the congo really described in all the atrocities that happened to congo in a report of more than $900.00 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 the 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 to 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 of 13th of june, of 1960, because he made a speech where he really responded to the, to the king king. it's a design which one 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 how humans he was talking about the discrimination, but also 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 his truth 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 and 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 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 reparation politic, you know, like we give back the tooth of that resume. 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 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 simple math. well jen congolese is story and thank you. welcome to the world. let's take a look up some other stories making news across the continent. nigeria, governance, apc party has chosen the veteran political upgrade. bullock tenable, i think the candidate 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 clear my charity among delegates primary spelled and says wants to expedite to india and born

brothers are 2 and roger sculptor arrested into by the for my business typhoons are sought in connection with corruption allegations against for my, for african presidents to consumer. the accused of pain bribes for state contracts that africa has slammed the demand by irish budget. airline ryan at citizens to fill out pre trouble test in africans to prove the legit to meets passport hold us . africans is spoken by only 12 percent of mainly whites out africans. and as widely seen as the language of pop by now i have ryan as decision has left the nasty taste in your mouth. come with me to start 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 finds a way to start that taking pictures of ice cream to sound 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 that increase has more in this report. event photography. that's what's tando mac, who 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. you know, idea, this 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 in the way to a township. and almost everyone here heard about the place on live. going

to my head. i thought it on facebook. on social media, on dog instagram as well, 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, he's some look cool. flip doing section about the little amount of money, both of our work. if you can see all of our marketing with social media in 3 more consortia media, i tell a lot of people that revision, try your social media frenzy because it's the family house now turned into a business here in the kitchen where we make it happen. and i was

spending time here, i get to spend more time with my family, and it's the time where we create our beautiful products can do and now employs his sister, a brother, a neighbor, and his proud mother. he decided, let me take a chance, let me see this or wait and do it did way here we are to day his 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, are the type that wanted to go report to a pause. they 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 tunnels mother who wouldn't mind regaining some of her privacy at home to under already has bigger plans. he wants to add waffles and

smoothies to the board for you and even start some food trucks. ah, to west africa now which is literally been washed away. ganawe's 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 gunners. vote our region that may soon be gone. bare bones of the palm trees on the shoreline 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 rising water, his 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 is bleeding with the government for hope. now this disaster though it is happening, all the prisoners by them was difficult. one is for the, for my here because we share their boundary revolt i, i, so for so, so the, have to put it as if not, i will die. the surgeon waters mean the people over

me have given up a new 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 a little that the half could end up washed are we by the ocean when the next floods come and come the wool 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 lock of co star defenses has let the waves stick the land draw deck. 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 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 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 are awful. i been avo is the look our 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 every brutality that people perceive. but they're not very roommates, visitation, what our bodies. i b, this website to see the what we have available 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 will have to find new ones with no certainty that they want to lose them again, the waves, consuming ganeth coastline. commanders are now joined by profess like we see a pin in our do. he's a director institute for environment and sanitation studies, university of gonna 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 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 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, how bad has it got it? it's really just becoming extremely bad in the sense that we have lot of people now being affected. we have for several years of that was that community is also been affected,

especially the vulnerable areas. and then it really affected the livelihood of people who leave within their post our communities. and by extension, also affecting dare connie, because while the livelihood of people are affected than the economy. so, so, so they're 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 co star erosion. they are natural factors and then also humanity used factors and natural factors as 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 increased as a result of all sage been driven by climbing inch. and 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 and we need but it is not being enforced. so people indiscriminately, air wing sand on the big we also have destruction, of course that visitation and the school started asian, i'm 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 the mentation ones. you

can influence said men dynamics and a sediment that defined that along the shoreline. once you influenza said men dynamics, then you are bound to have some of these activities carried 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, our dentist, vistacomm. and presently the government is used in heart engineering approach, where they try to and manage erosion by what i for fire tenure ocean. so they put, you know, a hash struck just like n c walls and then groins. and the whole idea is due to thin cassette sentiment 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 problem down downstream. so the method that a government has been using over the years, i most of the novel. so we need to rethink as a country how we can effectively managing rosie, but not fighting. ok, professor chrissy up here in ardo 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 in, id us on the state to happen to find new work because of widespread illegal tree felling. a reminder of the importance of protecting and preserving the natural environment i found out, ah

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