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the majority of people who are needing to get to be power, exact price that he's giving to people who i mean either san africa is living on the edge. that's the gloomy assessment from the international monetary fund. india, latest economic outlet for the region. we find out what that means and i'll talk with the i, m f. which of these things could, could get worse. and you know, as the managing director has been saying quite a bit, we need to for the best to prepare for the worst and also on the show. once again, the chiefs are dancing in tribute to the king. we check out the festival in northern gonna fall of excitement as people gather to celebrate their culture. and remember the history. this is, as i've written, the dunbar fest where i just did the submission more with come so annually that bad news ship your body ship your body. that is when you buy

them with i am eddie mike, a junior and you are welcome to the program. will begin with an exclusive report from the democratic republic of congo, the kill, the rape, the bend down villages. there my my uncle, tomb by rebels, show no mercy to do the c as the enemies, women, children, the elderly. that makes no difference when they attack, very powerful armed group, which controls lucrative gold mines in east in d. r. c. no international generalist had access to the gold mines until now. in the region around the c, c. r correspondence, mario mueller was the 1st to enter to rebel controlled gold mines. she spoke with miners who are forced to pay taxes to the armed group, and also with

a virus of its brutal attacks. the silence victims of a multi $1000000000.00 gold business. this gold may gleam brightly, but it is stained red with black people likely died for this precious metal destined for the rich world's finest. julie's, the democratic republic of congo has some of the purest gold in the world. but experts say almost all of it smuggled out of the country illegally. that often means links to armed groups and human rights abuses. it all starts here in suffocating lea, hot tunnels that hid up to 40 degrees celsius. young man scrape out the gold bearing rock. they earn barely enough to survive on for fear of reprisals. this man wants to remain anonymous. when you go to work, he just pray to god because we're feeling like it's a death sentence. often it is when the minds cave in 6

years ago, more than 20 people were buried alive. when i was there with my 3 brothers and other miners, all of them were trapped inside the mine. even now their bodies are still inside. when i was sad both really down then it was doing it, but i can't be sad for long. i have to earn a living. i then it was nice and i do my eyes and stuff with them. and on top of that, this mine is controlled by an armed group, the my, my, yeah, catawba, according to a recent u. n report, the rebels demand what they call taxes from each worker. it beat me up with an iron rod because i couldn't pay that tax. they threw me into a mud hole for days with no food. i was imprison there with 6 other people. he lost 10 kilograms. he says, other miners tell us similar stories. they say that my, my are never, far, even now they're hiding further up the mountain because they were informed we were

coming. this is the 1st time journalist have access this mine both the my, my yahoo to amber and local government officials declined our interview requests. it's widely known that the rebels often work together with local authorities and even share profits with them. but with the money they also finance, brutal attacks on an ethnic group who they see as their main enemy, their my, my claim, the bonham will linger, don't belong to the d, r c. so they're burned down their villages, rape, and kill scores of people east and under were our survived one of these attacks by law to the core of a to put on a value. they found us at the place where we had sought refuge and they killed 3 people. he was sure no wrong then young they murdered my father in law and injured my mother in law, nay, or cold me. both of them were over 80. she says she and her family were forced to

march for days with no food. then there took her husband. she never saw him again. later, she learned he was hacked to death with a machete. they killed dozens displaced hundreds. now is that safe? sheltering at a friend's house, rebel control of the minds means conflict gold. but that's not deterring this business man. the purity of the precious metal has convinced him soon he plans to open the 1st gold refinery in the country and export from dear sea to europe and america. at the moment we're discussing a lot with the government. they will check all artisan war coming to work here. we will, they will try and trace how is going on and maybe it will help. i hope it will help . but ensuring authenticity will be difficult. traitors tell us, they fake certificates to hide, the real origin of the gold is done and

a who are are can only appeal for an end to the trade and black gold. i can hear me last year when i year my, my cell go to white people to buy weapons, to verify that is why they sell the gold i live, you know, is there an i want to tell these white people to stop buying from them. best buy so they don't kill us, we're least backwards or you're poor that we're for easter. it is a simple equation. as long as armed groups can re profits from gold mining, they will keep earning the cash to kill from on those were joined by as far in galaxy and activist within lucia, which means fights for change. does the non violent a nonpartisan social movement in the d r. c l o s for we just saw s t i in our reports though, arm groups will graduate, a gold mine in mad at her family. now she's alone with her 8 children. can anything be done to bridge the link between the gold and the violence that the

area where those who lose their control and by am group and those who as supported by foreign countries. and some of those who buy only 40 ition and be in the lee key to understand the corporate over the more classic and probably more natural suited land. i don't see any power power, i think in power economy. one told me you are controlling mine and you're going to try to big and tre between go and neighbor. and i don't, i mean, look you from go my where lou john was found at 10 years ago. give us an idea how

dia, the situation is back. yes, this edition means that go might be got to talk to he all and enough people call it . and one, i mean, the talk or privacy is already wor via. and he, every time those. c era that are controlling by rebellion, that if chloe those natural resources and they said to some business man, cause them can leave some chinese sound on one guy. and they're selling cheaper than the value of those natural resources and helping those people. why? importantly, who are in those kind of business called business and it's that cause people are killed and for them they're becoming oriented in

another thinking, the link between neighbors to neighbors, like all of our neighbors. yes. the between them they want and we're on the country. yes. up quoting some and rule that up 140 those area. i mean, being those, those got it to show that they pulled up the doors with mentors like one of the one that does into those resources and national trade be saying that we are exploring and for what they're saying that they're exploring. it comes from all we know what's happening, why consti authorities, taco the illegal mining of gold. the majority of family authority, those who are in security, those who i am,

the and those who are in question big came from the rule, the majority of them, even those who are elected the some of them was a 1000000000 in 10 years ago. in some cases and be not able to fight those kind of things or the, or update though the majority of authority, the rocket and is the or up that they don't care about. we need, they don't care about good traffic or do they care about how they get much money and how they become richer and richer and put them in tuition even maintain like that? my wall. it's helping them to maintain the power when it was the last one totally was what you want to controlling and grow. you are able

to control p e security the people power less in all of this. how can they really challenge you have 30 days to get the best situation for their lives? this is what we're doing is a little job to, to show people that these tuition is not normal. and you are showing you in them that what they are doing, what they are supporting is not the norm. and i said we were going to not do or the fight. we had only doing what we're able to do. we are clearly we, we are doing the best to make them more demanding what, what lead authority and we are needing that to make even those authorities more comfortable to see that you an activist with lucia fight for change for a decade in goma. what change do you expect in your home region in the next 10

years? so the 1st one he thought about to stop we oil and who quoted by navy black ronda for now we have a great group that is supported by one e a. m 23. another think he the pro, my country's have to be mighty, and we need to be supported by other africans country before a foreign country. they can come in during the after day to be eaten a message to our teeth, the how to understand that a be a big leak between the violent and wall. and i mean, we have to understand that belief between the violating line. i mean,

in order to sit and power the power in the, the majority of people who are needing to get to be power. i mean, like if right, that is given to people who are killing either and next year we hope that the international community in african country, we have been to speak loudly. what we are speaking says menu and ok. and the tenure i called that according to the community, you will, you will be more comfortable for you then and will be more demanding to watch. ok. optimism as being felt. yeah, thank you very much. as while in galatea activist within la lucia, thanks a lot for your time. thank you so much. ah. you're watching

d w. news africa still to come. people in northern gonna us celebrating the dunbar festival. it's a time to another key and celebrate local culture. that's last centuries and survived the colonizers before we get into that, the international monetary fund has just released its economic outlook for sub saharan africa. and it's quite depressing to read the title alone, says levin on the edge. in a nutshell, that means a dublin of inflation. their recovery stolen $1.00 and $8.00 people in the region on the brink of starvation, while rising cost and prices i increase in social tensions from on this let's bring in the catherine bottle cheese deputy director of the african department of the i m f and joins us from washington. hello, catherine. so the report is titled living on the edge. that sounds very depressing . how bout is africa?

economic outlook. the title indicates that right now, our policy makers in the region are facing a very, very difficult environment. and this is after a number of previous shocks. so countries had faced the pandemic. and now the syllabus from the war and ukraine and now given very high food fuel fertilizer prices that are like a laser beam hitting some of the poorest countries and the poorest people given they have large shares of food in their consumption baskets. there is really a cost of living crisis in, in many countries, and this is in the face then of a very difficult global environment where global interest rates are rising. financial conditions are tightening, growth is declining across the world, particularly in the advanced economies. and so this compounds

the difficult on environment and then, you know, domestically, countries are facing a range of different shocks. also you have climate shocks, a drought in the horn of africa, one of the worst droughts in some time. and this is a compounding also the food insecurity of problems. and this comes at a time also with very high debt vulnerabilities. so countries ah, space then to deal with these problems has been compressed. okay? that is why help is needed. i mean, as you say, the i m f says advertise the region in the world that is in the most precarious position. so what possible help is there, and what will that mean for africa? so countries need to help themselves by navigating as best they

can out with, with strong policies, but they need international support also. so the fund, the i m f, i has been supporting countries with programs, ban financial support, capacity support, policy advice. and the international community also needs to support with humanitarian support. helping countries that are there in debt, difficulty is and, and providing um, financial support through this difficult time in your outlook. can you say about that quote, significant downside risks. so things could be even worse. am i reading that? right? that is the message now that i'm sure you're hearing coming out of

these annual meetings globally. we are looking at a very difficult situation this year and but you know, unfortunately things could, could get worse. and you know, as the managing director has been saying quite a bit, we need to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. and so we are looking at the, your countries to look at their own vulnerabilities and to be prepared that globally you could find out, you know, additional shocks from tighter global financial conditions. um, further downturns, et cetera. and alcohol was have spill over to our region. the country's need to prepare for ok. let's wrap it up with us. do african countries? i've amy grounds for termism, for example, in the medium term. hopefully in a long time to tremendous grounds for, for optimism. i am incredibly optimistic for the region. think of the youth

population and the fact that within 15 years or so, half of the global entrance to the entrance to the global labor force will be coming from the region. so this is a huge amount of young people, large martin who are going to be, you know, dynamic and entrepreneurial, innovative. you think of the, you know, the innovation in our mobile money that happens in the continent. you're going to have, you know, large markets then, and the potential with the energy transition that i mentioned in the continents potential there for a really a positive and a vibrant contribution of africa to

it's own people and to the, to the global community. ok, catherine, but you know devotee there i told the african department of the i m f. find you. thank you. ah. now who doesn't glove the pomp and pageantry of festivals? well it's not any different in ghana. when it comes to the annual dunbar festival, it brings people aligned to the traditional kingdom together to reflect on the origin and how to confront social challenges. it's considered the most widely celebrated in the northern part of the country. feed abuse maxwell soon joined the climax of the celebration in it, and i will go where it's time for people to come together, put on the dancing shoes and celebrate the ancient line of royalty stretches all the way back to the now. meanwhile, the famous past king, who or our history says, was the found out of 5 kingdoms in west africa,

generation and excitement i didn't know either party descend is or the 5th king. now you are dancing today. readings from india with the kingdom with bucking tatum century. the coloring of mom produces novel a 2nd has written since 2004. with all about the tradition. they will persist albriton dunbar festival where justin the sub racial mood which comes on annually done by means shit, your body shape your body. that's what we mean by number ma'am. process. first day kill from child. it is on fire in northern virginia. so it does, the descent is now bill was who said brit, this done by fest,

about dancing with ts line. this is an important part of the test. it is to inform enemies about a standing army protecting the came mom who is one of the came don't know, went to war and in west africa is straight across north of ghana into neighboring countries. the king of mumford, who has some of his some yes him enough i saw in toggle crossed some regions in the country, ghana, in those days the whole kingdom was just ruled by the king of mum pro traditional came on the slide where by the fusion of our, during the net era. let me try melinda board is drawn by the european for those. the festival is an opportunity to connect the pre colonial past

it. this is the young guy wants to know our culture. and i'll try to, it's right. for months on the joy is very massive. everyone is very excited. every now go put your social life money. i'm. i found the restoration on people for i don't know, my god vent. preventive read division. she came by the king muscles are shown yet ana, especially them, but down if we glenn, for many some choose some people who are asking, go back to that for me and will never come back to the king again. so it is this time that all of them will come up to come back and pay homage to the now you then you'll be dancers kills while the mom people can go. confronted with morning the challenges watermain saw lead in the desire to present the heritage or true defense

divide. and that's how we wrap up the show. from all of our stories, go to our website's d, w dot com slash africa. you can also visit us on facebook and twitter. we leave you with these pictures of the king of them on proceeds, on the chip, tens a and home each other done by festival. i don't forget, down by means shake your body. so i expect you to do jess back. see you soon. bye for enough with

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