a special day for the conservative kingdom and to success for which the women ref 60 minutes on dw d w's crime fighters are back with africa most successful radio drama series continues them all episodes are available online. course you can share and discuss on d. w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now. hello and welcome to a very special edition of the 77 percent. i'm excited to show you a new series that we've been cooking just for you. we call it dig in deep. i am michael o t and i am glad to have you here this

week, shaw asked about education and the lens that some young people go. so yes, what's coming up in our new series? dig in deep. we'll find out why northern cyprus is so attractive for africa students and will also uncover this come exploitation and human traffic and some of the students have to endure. and we'll get into the mind of a human mental calculator. in many african countries, a foreign degree could improve one's life significantly. that is why more africans are chosen to study abroad. the traditional destination south always been bureau, north america, and china. but literally, a lot of africans are going to this tiny island, specifically each year, about $20000.00 africans school to the tech is republic of northern cyprus, a country that does not exist. so what is this place, and why isn't it

a real country? said buck for a quick history lesson. ah, the de facto states of the tech has republicans not. and cyprus must not be confused with the republic of cyprus in the south, which is part of the european union. the island of cyprus was divided in 1974 after a series of conflicts that resulted in turkey occupy and in northern house. in 1983, the north, unilaterally declared independence, which is only recognized by turkey. to day, the north is largely populated by turkish cypriots and the south by greek cypriots . the capital city is divided into nicholas c i in the south and left kotia to the north. they night admissions maintains a buffer soon to avoid any further house till it is between the 2 sides. it is illegal to cross the border without a valid facade, due to its defact to state us, and force in human rights in the north is hot. regardless in the last 2 decades,

the law has seen a spike in international universities. as of this year, around $20000.00 africans study in that not because education is relatively cheap. some of the students have however, been racially profiled and discriminated against. recently, the mafia has reportedly made northern cyprus, it's backyard. so why do many african still study here? the reason could be that sub saharan africa is witness in a boon in demand for tertiary education because of its young population. and invest in degree could mean a better paying job and possibly a better life. so when i saw this well produced but ambiguous video of a student is as he that said, studying cyprus, a world class education center that promises employment in the you. i got curious, so i have trouble there to find out what's happening on that island. and what i

found out is that, well, all that glitters is sign off for yourself. so come with me with we're in the hut of left kusha in the ancient city in northern cyprus, this mediterranean island office, not just history, but also international education. and as a reason why each year several 1000 african students show up on this island look in fund international degree. so, what makes it so attractive? we find out us of this year between 20 and 30000 african students study in northern cyprus, given an overall population of less than 400000 inhabitants. that's quite and number, no one that they become a pillar of the northern south cross economy and economy to has me struggling since a turkish cypriots declared independence in 1983 after years of war and crises

in the early 2 thousands, no university program started to attract international students with low tuition fees and affordable accommodation. the growing number of students keeps the economy running around 20 universities in the small defact of territory are wound potential graduates. this must be students have in them to find out more. i met with all my in the room who is a student, an editor of a trouble magazine. so besides education, what do students get out of this place? it, as you know, st press has a lot of terrace locations. so we organized that hers places and then take students there. their response is always like or when is the next one happening? ways are happening, puts me on your broadcast list so i can get a notification. so that sounds amazing, but stood and life cannot always be blissful when i asked about potential problems,

oh, my insists so far you cannot have everything in every client you days. always going to be somebody new somewhere. bought it the when you check the bad news compared to the positive aspects. of course you would find a bit of higher ground for the positivity with this talk about bad news made me suspicious. so i decided to do some begin of my own. and what i found was disturbing i've seen stories and leases in discrimination and even the death of some students is this the same modern cypress. there must be something hopping in yet. i want to

talk to some students to find out if there's another side to the northern cyprus story. on the outskirts of left kosher. i'm about to meet brutus tuned up as students up near east university. as president of the library and students association. he said a lot of complaints from other students who came to the island by agents recruit us, who promised them easy work and affordable accommodation. but a reality is, is chemistry for called. currently, i have are more than almost 10 students who are just popping partially with france because they came and in accommodation some of them why the agent told in the price and other stock the os as college at and did talk ish stay low at mount y the in the last instance be high amount for god's sake we students displays us our have a job. why shouldn't be like as plot,

yet it is completely addiction. you feel it ethic by he has blocked a sham as location, but no prospects for whack. and under financial pressure, some students choose desperate meshes. one of my bread us left thea with me. i do do the same misinformation he got from the it in like did his work. so when he came, he went to school the 1st semester, and they said was almost up when imperious to wish him. he couldn't be his wish. and so he decided to finish out of his, off he got arrested and he was sent to jill brutus himself faces severe financial difficulties because his agent did not tell him the truth. on top of all that, just recently, his landlord arbitrarily increased the rent. and how are you going to manage it? well, that's a tough question. well, actually is probably 2 of the struggling i will go to be on radios with

us. where i'm though gordon, i'm no, i'm not working. i am, i have no money to pay aside a story that brutus has just shared. they are some other students who have been deported for things that we will not even consider a crime. and this gave me a glimpse into education in northern cyprus high while i'm you also mentioned that education events can be found everywhere they help many international students find the right university and a place to stay. also in the t r n. c, there are events who have done a fantastic job given some students, a good experience. but uh, this horse misrepresentation of facts. half was some students in a really difficult position. so i went to find some one who knows a bit more about these events in manon i. t re is appear to the student and co founder of voice shot for voices of international students in cyprus,

one of the largest student organizations on the island. and here is what i asked him. and a critical part of this recruitment process is the use of agents are by their very, a senior cities talk to us about how doug works. if i rem age and for example, the apple for university, i have an understanding of the university that for every student i bring to northern part of cyprus. all right, i get paid and what $500.00 to $600.00 by the university. i also reserve the right to ask for a fee from the student i'm bringing and so suggest to understand that the agent able to take it the fees from the students and also paid consult fees from the recipe for bringing the student actually sort of the and i think the really bad thing about the whole agency issues. it's not regulated. in fact, we do know from some of the saudis that we've done. that's a huge, almost 2 percent of students that the agenda misled them. and i to them,

when you said the misled them, what, what, what are some of the things that agents told them that were not true? i mean, we've heard cases as bad, all right, as well. and not mentioned in you, it comes in northern part of cyprus, just saying type rates. and you may be asking the question, move all of the technology information, how these forms are not able to find the measures. and we did as the questions for some agents and what they told us was we, we really, it, we contact the parents, they will not go to the internet and start searching for information about the type of so it's easier to mislead that way. but of course, we also know that some agents will not talk about your comments, was happy to tell you when you're coming to northern part of hackers. but they don't give you the full picture. you are told, for example, well, you can get a job when you come here, you can get a scholarship when you come, but we didn't come on the jobs, the legal we, the vast majority are working in the unregulated or illegal workers, scholarships. well, if she thought sean is going to,

she would not exist. that looks like the agency system is not regulated at all. how is this even possible? i would the very short answer i would tell you is it's by design. in fact, it is not in the misleading information, it is traffic in and the institutions and the administration is duty in a part of this. so the entire system is benefiting from the more practices they formation. manuel gave me was not only to step in, but back by heart. fox voice did a survey of $800.00 students with 79 point one percent of them being offered. more than half of them had bad experiences with ya. agents on an island with little to knoll, student jobs become an agent, could be lucrative. the entry barrier is law. the missing regulation leads to a large number of misled and often for mobile, young people,

easy pre for loan sharks and all sorts of other exploitation. as for seal, assuming a human rights lawyer tells me. so yeah, you are telling me about a mil students who also end up in the construction sector. explain again how that works. so what they do is that sometimes they try to find jobs, they can't. so they fail to pay the university as they become passive students. so they become irregular residence at the same time. and they can go back to their counselors, for our variety of reasons, either because they're scared that they will be judged by their parents because their parents have paid a lot for their child to go up road. you know, especially in some african cultures. this are very, very valuable things to send someone up wrote and they didn't know what to what to do when they go back to their counselors without even a degree. so they still have a hope that they can work and in the future, once they save money, they would complete their studies. basically, this is their major motivation. and they,

they work in construction size. we see young, especially african men to work in the construction sites. and to work in the agriculture in the family, especially mean, of course you don't have to mention that means, but are there specific examples of human trafficking that you have personally dealt with? yes, yes. i mean, actually many cases and they are recently monster related to trafficking of young african girls into and they're forced into sex at work basically by personnel traffickers or sometimes criminal groups. and they deceive them. and when they arrive here they move. they meet with them in the airport and they take them to private plans. and a few days later, they start telling them that they need to engage in prostitution. and that they have depths to that traffic or so we called it that one date in the literature of human trafficking. so they, they say that they are not allowed to leave the home. they're not allowed to go to

the university. and if they resist, most of the time they are physically abuse or psychologically manipulated by the traffickers. so this is a very typical sexual exploitation case in the not down part of texas and kanisha some light on who these groups. these criminal networks with the abuse of the student is a type of trafficking. we see a lot of porting kind of traffic, her groups being there and their numbers are getting higher and higher each year. basically, i'm trying to understand when you see foreign tropical groups, what are some mean? so in that, in the exploitation of young african goes, we see african woman and african men engaged mostly. but also they have collaboration with some locals as well. i mean, it's just horrible and to make matters worse because they're t r n c is a de facto state. it is really hard to enforce human rights on when groups like physiologists rescue some of these girls. it cannot directly talk to some

government in africa because this part is more recognized. and really their quest for education should never lead to situations like we've just head, although investigations are ongoing. what i found out is that many of these cases never make it to the attorney general's office for prosecution. the police often says it is conducting more investigations, investigations that really never end. so i confronted bed lorden safe, ross, minister of education, with these problems. are some of a lot of international students are facing challenges with regard to discriminate, since it's used to do with russia profile in universities as a result of the competition selling programs that sometimes not exist or agents representing the investor in a way that is not accurate. and what is a plan to deal with these issues regarding the international students, her face them,

boudreau of yet they are sure m r. people are not inherently discriminatory by. we can not allow or isolated incidents to generalize their whole turkish community in limerick. a couple of images, wealth of total globular. james build it to them. bill. yeah. but despite all of this, um, they are issues with misrepresentation and students getting here and finding out that their reality i'm is not what is actually on the ground. and this is regards to destiny de invest. he's you seen agents, how is, are these agents and day day recruitment of leasing recipes. supervised a generally in risk to let him, kim, the, with sure that all the universities are in communication with the student. so letter ok, but with regards to the agencies we are preparing a legislation, beyaza's. the agents have to be accredited by the ministry of education. if they

want to bring 4 in students who are the ones that are not accredited, are not able to bring students to the island, what injury was shaking and also dos edge and so mislead students will be penalize her all, even if minor incidents happen, the older than cult michelle of dollars from now they will be held accountable and hankey bureau in japan, burly bill, she, katie, all much that chalk, matthew, that bird a be all i all was also gonna on on that go to nick ish. mit other a gym to let me let him become an occur filter in a state where corruption is rife, get injustice is a no process. still, not in sight process, great universities. the of them ranked in the time high education list. but for your own safety facilities, who has some advice, don't rely on an individual to come to the northern part of cyprus. try to rely on institutions,

try to make your research in the best way. you can don't trust the people that you meet online. don't trust the word. so saying that you will easily find the job here because it's not true. we have an economic crisis here and it's going to get verse and there are basically almost no job opportunities, no decent job opportunities, i may say for years. so probably, even if you find the job, you will be exploited and you would not be able to to seek justice after that. so and plus, make sure that you are financially sustainable enough. and so that if you have any problems here, you wouldn't be in a position financially say on average the semester fees in the north, in cyprus, it's about 1000 years. and this is very cheap compared to europe or north america. and because of this, northern cyprus will continue to be a hub for those who are looking for

a cheap degree. but you need to understand that it is not europe, and it is not the republic of cyprus. and more importantly, in need to listen to the advice that physio, as just given. if you've had any experience in northern cyprus, getting talked with us by our social media and also via email 7 to 7 at dw dot com. you can also watch the full version of our new series begin deep on youtube tunnel from africa, students who are trying to get an education outside a continent. let's meet this teacher who has a fascinating brain. michael de la b does not need a calculator to find out what is 100000000000 minus 3 multiplied by 5 divided by 2 . he just does it in his mind. let's find out how his mind works. they call him the human calculator. turn up michael jewelry is legacy must with kid in seconds, he can crunch big numbers. he can odd, obstruct divide,

find square and cube root. he's see his cube as a superpower. but for tele, it's simple. we got to my been as the magnet and maybe the question just like i don't get up. it's been attracted to immediately. it takes, it's in, it says in mind, these are immediately a geographer, but profession taylor has always been good at mathematics, but he doesn't rest on his laurels. he's obsessed with improving. this is my battery. i travel much as what was going on as it contains number, not in numbers alone on now i can get better with things. i don't know what to do before when to 30 year old is not putting or using his math skills to while crowds in lagos teach you to to, to, to let himself graduated. a year ago. he's already a mini celebrity at lego state university. on miko new mentor for

3 years now. when he left for com, i'd be calling to know much about our development. now my friends tell us skews, often leave his peers in all but the good natured puffin takes it in his trade. if you see me, we might not be an ordinary even when he gets into me about me before the see what i can do, i'll call him you can do this. i know the notary to do he's out of his ward and send those abilities are starting to pay off, even lending him a scholarship for software engineering for an i c t college in or you can, i mean you divide about and i mean. 2 you don't sleep on this much, we with he's abilities and he's definitely want to watch what's their square root toss? 25 minus 3 times 2 into 4 and 40 mean i can't.

that's why i keep an eye on to a lady because this kind of ability, it's truly magical. and hey, talking about magic. less had to kept town in south africa for more than 30 years. the college of magic has been teaching young people everything from clever tricks to spellbinding illusions. and i thought only about wizardry and fun. so come along. let's step into this magical welt. ah, hi everyone. i did it yesterday and will come to the college of me. oh hello, what is your name? what's the, what's post r g? we didn't see that the kind of magic is where young people come and then the ad skill of magic noise is extramural activities like juggling.

oh, i've been dick williams with me since he's so the been using it because it's queued . i was told i'm one of his worst as of this school year of when a lot of prizes here, the college of magic changed my life in the really positive way was i would didn't say i excelled it school, but i, i quote that confidence of whenever we doing our own exam, so i would go in friday and have that confidence. okay. yeah, i'm in front of him. well yeah. where is out before the joining the college of me jingle is just that shy. pissin was sitting in the corner who couldn't approach people to make friends magic and jacqueline yeah. then at the as a fat and like magic a leg. so someone with

a c h 2 in this is going to see that this is the extra rembert ation. we have people from different communities, different religions, and he says, yeah, and now we don't judge each other cause we are here for the same chord which is doing magic. so if you have people in me the same cold in one place that is very powerful. oh, little you interest keeps speaking chemo spades. no, please come to the king of speak, because the king of spirit has been here one time. oh, so now you know that hogwash is not the only magic school, albert. that's our show for this week, and i'm glad you're still with me till the end. we'll be back next week with a brand new episode of a 77 percent. and now we have

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