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i know i'm totally online. people welcome to the program to the outside world center goal has appeared to be one of west africa as more stable democracies at least until now. but internally, the political scene is in town while the country was supposed to be having elections. and just over 2 weeks time. but president mackie saw who was due to step down instead, postpone the exercise. and that sparked angle security forces removing opposition, members from the chamber as they try to block the vote. president monkey saw had asked parliament to approve at the lee of the upcoming elections or with these pati holding majority in parliament. the bill quickly passed. the

opposition has called the move constitutional cool. but the president denied. he was clinging to office. my bottom one from my pock, my solemn commit, but not to run in the presidential election remains unchanged. so i will engage in an open national dialog zillow to bring together the conditions for a free, transparent, and inclusive election process. but on it includes the early of the constitutional code at disqualified civil presidential candidates, including the man endorsed by the president. marcus saw said that iraqi laboratories in the registration of candidates meant the elections had to be postponed. scenic, all has been seen as a beacon of peace and stability in west africa. obviously some candidates see that image is not tonisha to be in this country. that was

a champion of democracy. a country that had become a benchmark in africa and the world was a country respected by all and everywhere. if i'm what has happened to bring us to this point, he will not marry as a suggestion, but seen a goal has seen its fair share of turmoil. in recent months, demonstrators and opposition members have been arrested and killed, fueling more tension. they planning on keeping the disobedient, disobey gimme they're going to go on and on and on and on. we don't know. so we do everything we want to confirm election election that's all we want. we don't want anything else. not the, the senate goals appointment with democracy has been delayed. many here fear that monkey song, at best, has said a worrying sign, and at worst is boring from the playbook of his autocratic neighbors.

so has mackey, sol changed his mind, a box spring and power. i put that question to lie to your team from the grey institute in deka, the speed she repeated that he's not supposed to stay. so once leave, that is why he said he, when he was having to speak to the, to the center of the nation. and he, or know that max on decided not to run for us it to him. but uh, what happened really is that is the pressure at the most no, nothing, no labor that makes him uh, dropped that decision to run for sending it sort of thing to him. but what do you see now that he's not really yet to include the power? because uh today. uh, he wants to stay 10 more months and a lego the he's, he's monday is the pause and at the april the 2nd. and that from into

nathan, the be the president standing, the money stays the cost, region $1000.00. i log in to state. ask for that. know now uh what is going to be done? i have a date from uh, april. the 2nd. yes. but what the issue is, uh, i got somebody to people who say that, that we're going to use that to use not really yet to or we're not gonna change. because as you may know, he's not running towards that term, but i'm gonna go back and use the prime minister today. he's the one who's chosen drunk for addiction to the for the, for the, for the, for the bigger property and power. and i think that the as some, some, some, some, some pro, some studies i showed you when i was commissioned today, uh to me and do this. and that is why you decided to pay the preference out because you're going to use it in there because i want everybody to accept and use. he's a decision because i think free a free people that you put

a good body to run for an action as a president. right. so where do we think this is heading? we've seen some of the anger out in the streets. we're seeing politicians as well. express the the outraged um will this be settled in the street so in the quotes. oh yeah, yeah, definitely a hobby. i think 2 strategies. the 1st one is uh, the, the, the, uh, the, uh, the quotes the, the, that the, i'm assuming that happened and that's a very defend finance. and now some you can finding the position. i haven't been complain. and but that requested by the forty's, because that is supposed to have those command because then it showed up plus phone by the, by the problem. and for this 1st day that this was, this was for the sunday this sunday, there were some, uh, some, some people in the person who i received because they decided to do the company.

and most of them were, i received a back, they were released at 25 hours later. this a good spot to use that to go to court. because today this decision has to be confirmed by the customer code. and they have protested toward the simple to say that they have to come to this decision made by the vice president and confirmed by the by didn't that's not somebody because the last award is for the. ready course the console and now they have not. yeah, yeah, yeah, they honestly try to help the company. but at the same time i've done some purpose for the call us to the corporate governance. this is the president. i'm just wondering send a go for a long time, at least from the outside, has been seen by many as a beacon of democracy in, in, in the region where we see trouble. we see military coups and, and things like that. but is this a view actually misguided? it has some of goals. democracy actually be at being as stable as the outside world

seems to think to i think i think that is uh, that is the mentality that the, the, the actual present did not really uh, uh, many things because uh since you got it, you see always seem to say as a, as a more of them across in west africa. if you see the country that are honest and the guy that have gone through. uh, who did the honda go onto uh, uh see if you have going through. uh, uh, anything enterprise is it may not be a social even uh that i have shown that democrats is not really uh, something really vista humphrey and uh, synagogue was quoted as an example because you have gone to, uh, uh, transitions, uh, apply what has come to the car for 5 hours after uh, $1040.00 used for 5th in power and done yesterday too much time has come. uh,

wednesday, if there's any due today is not really some deflected a ways to run a country because as an example, i think this the 5th is, is it is not for you to why that because you're not as artist you today. i'm hundreds and hundreds of opponents who are in jail because they just uh for 50, for the you mean by the, by this particular the body and barbara. uh, something that is i see are the internet is got. so i think that the feeling of even that is that the number i have in san diego. and now what we see today is the quoted uh, uh, because uh, the prison 5 decided to, to postpone the election to stay in powell for about one year. and uh, i don't see the difference between what you had done and what is happening in the credit card. you had to configure the site. oh, wait a minute to re comes in. uh, and just because uh, going on and just say that i see the file from now because legally she doesn't have

the right to stay again to. but what's happened is the set to data echo us. and that's going to meet the age and the condemned to means that even when the president, i send violence, the deputies of vehicle russ, date 1000 and really condemned by company incentives is really unfortunate because the sending of these people expecting more than that from the international companies that will be wanting to see how it unfolds with, let's here, teen senior program officer for peace building and conflict prevention at gore institute and dot com. thank you very much for that analysis. thank you. and reason he has political protests have become more common incentive goal and human rights groups have accused the countries the security forces of using excessive force the crack down on descent. while the threat of violence awaits

those taken to the streets, some senegalese are using the odds to express their grievances as dw throughout to a report from deck off. an odd collect isn't that costs up, but normally this building is full of students learning how to express their frustration through graffiti today. it's almost m t mobile internet switched off across the country. many people staying home, fearing violent protests a mad through the co founder and teach, use a square 50 to denounce this government's actions. you can see some people killing or not. i want to send this to son some one last summer at least 23 people died during anti government demonstrations. and this, the international says some were shot by police just one hour of the month to

finish this ad work, the well was taken down by the government. he suspects we cannot talk about democracy if it's, it's kind of, for example, where someone by himself can decide to lead or who, who go to, to go to succeed or not. that's not the marks we are the generations wake up, brutally and understand that something is definitely wrong and we have to change it right now. what else are you going to call residents express? they just release as much as sides decision. so today's the election, when young people just respond to change the st. someone to do than usual and protest smaller than in previous yes. but many, yes, yeah. that lots of potentially more violent protests. i got to come here, but i'm really short because you're perfect. i really thought we were going to, but i've never seen anything like this. i was born off to independence and i never

thought we'd lived through what we see, you know, the african countries here in center go looking phase applicant. what am i to profit by the or not, but we schedule it with with terrorized because we live in complete insecurity to that. when you see the protest and what's going on here, it's difficult to lift the violence again. so we have the heart of the government, the young people here they've sold. the claim is but they don't have any luck. there's no work, there's nothing here. a tool don't try out the end of this a little a little bit silly cuz he don't found that. let me look back the so san san francisco and this video is, was about the last demonstration. instead of go about telling the president to, to stop, you know, all these troubles instead. i go and try to go down the situation to use the days. it seems that everything's, we're going back from 0. did. yeah. why?

the is a rep of who's thinks about the backsliding of democracy in this country. he's urging old people to come together and send up for their rights to decide about sending those future. um, we can put it on my side. i'm waiting for. i'm hoping i'm praying that every cent of the lease is on all these own development. and if we all believe we know what the insanity we can discuss it back in master's add gallery, his team of developing the next visual assaults and the presidents. the few years ago, and i believe people will never be able to go outside and expose themselves on the front of the police just like it would have gone fully charge point of view. it used screaming for the center. the i was other from my i see that that's my, that's my personal experience. i see that of this population want to

be we wouldn't need any young people know exactly what they want jobs, peaceful elections, and a prosperous future. the evolution of technology is changing. the way we live in many ways, including the means and manner of media consumption. podcasting is one of those sectors that is growing even in africa, and it's giving content creators opportunities and freedom to get their voice has had. the scene is also mostly led by women as dw edith kamani reports from nairobi . can you another fundamental of reach 6 for me is the freedom to be super loud. we did t m and we were given. we may have a few to conversations, but the podcast eyes carefully to reach the image. they've disrupt up creating

content which will be released over the coming month for the airport test, the mfc in between or t m i. recently they've been named, one of africa's talk shows, they see they're offering something new for an african audience, talking about their lives in a fresh and uninhibited way the sample was to be like, you young adults are going to be talking about the fuel cap thing. the on the you with, with something and the others were like, wow, thank you for talking about these. thank you for sharing some of these things that you know, other we've been a week. i thought i was alone, you know both the way through it. and for us i feel like those people that 2nd group, they'll what people are going to you might discuss is sensitive and taboo topics in a bunch of being relaxed. style is like no one is uploading a one for being a mom to a kid that should give birth to. yeah. but people, ultimately it's an intimate way of talking but has indeed them to a normal, fun based. we'd like to create an feel tight. and so, and that's what we're doing our own individual pages like authentically creating and sharing knowledge, journeys in a big, vulnerable, and open way. so we want to,

to, you might to be boxed but not a stronger concentration and more focus when the struggles we've been have moved across the city attending younger and had team a guessing a boost, ready to take a new media company to list africa to a large beauty exhibit, she started a personal podcast 5 years ago. now she runs a fully fledged media onto price, offering training to budding podcast. so what i did is come up with that curriculum to the digital digital curriculum to coach africans on how can they make sustainable contents and then needs them to be new me, dep petition and those that we've had our own in house master classes on podcast. thing teaching about the business angles is a big part of sustainability is not only the content, but also how do we make sure you're making a decrease revenue? seeing women make that revenue and keeping it is something close to many simple with hot. she works for africa part fist, which supports podcast, us in

a range of different ways. we can see this future, this potential. but if we don't step in like in, in and talk about the money, talk about how we going to auction creates business models out of this. how we going to make sure that the money flows in a way that sent us us the historically marginalized. and you know, then it's going to pass by us pass. so we do pass and other people who kind of take it over if they're not. if they don't come and find us back at the studio, lydia and we will be rough to these shoots. we still have a 1000000 plays across various platforms. their pod cast is now able to do what most cannot pay them speak now to josephine car and a co founder of africa pod fast. hi joe, and we also had your colleague in that reports melissa, co founder as well. and in that report,

just talking there about how podcasts have created korea's for people in kenya, you've been studying the continent and, and the trends with podcasts. what makes for a good podcast? ok. well, thank you for having me. so one of the things about agreed african flood cast is that it is created with the african audience in mind. so agree podcast knows exactly where it's being listened to. so you already got the idea and this name mind whether they're sitting in traffic and they will be, or they have a business in a cry or they are add, you know, somebody who's in a position of leadership in lagos, wherever the are you know, exactly how long they are going to listen to the broadcast and why they're listening. so you've got to grab the attention in the 1st 20 seconds. if you don't have the attention, you gotta start again. it's a great podcast one because it's responds to the language of the person who's

listening to that pun costs. and of course, it is rooted in the things that people love about africa. great storytelling, great accounts, great personalities. and that's what i think would make a really good um podcast. what trends are you seeing around podcasts both in terms of the way they're made, but also in terms of the way they're consumed to? so the advocate part 1st we started looking at what people are thinking and consuming from a perspective of asking people what would you like your put cost to be a favorite point. cost is talk about and the fall that people want to hear stories about what's happening in the country. what's happening in the neighborhood, what's happening in the industry. and a lot of people really enjoy listening to pop culture podcasts. they like listening to stories that don't necessarily get time on the national stations. they want to see about topics that know we sped in many contexts and it could be everything from

how much money do you on to what are the latest trends to what's going to be happening in 2024. so a lot of people who responded to us serve as africa pod, fast when really identifying that'd be want to see themselves in their pod cast. they want to kill themselves. and then in reverse, we heard from the broadcast to say, great, we love this data. we're going to take it, we're going to amplify that what they've been doing. and so you find like the top one costs across the continent responds to the people's need to really have authority to voice. is that really speak their language and understand the context . but because, you know podcasting is, is accessible, it's the whole scene is democratized in a way as let people to even say that possibly they ought to many contests. um, because of the kind of content. um, do you think this freedom in this unfiltered nature can become

a problem as well? i mean we launched africa podcast. they have to be on february 12th of every. yeah . and every yeah, we've had some people saying, i still haven't had a podcast like the one i want to create. and so there are lots of interview style phone costs like this particular interview. there's lots of people who are going into nice areas. they have shoes, growth in spirituality and religion, podcast of all, nature's and also multi lingual podcasts going across the country, of course the continent and that's really exciting. these are generally around individuals and they use a community. so sort of this organic ground level. but how can sort of the, the biggest fish the coal praise the n g o is the government's get involved and at frack, this same kind of audience and get involved in that coming conversations the same way or so i think i would really like people who have an you know,

a currency to invest in forecast to remember this. it is a read we're reaching. busy whole audience and we've seen this happen this seen heads of state. um, you know, go to podcast to have their, um, you know, audiences reached. we've seen that a lot of the audiences that are growing across africa on jen z b, i, you know, the fastest growing demographic across africa. so, you know, as a person who is creating content building around a message. if you have stories that you need to, if you have to be involved in audio, we're seeing people build around the concept of the way that audio is portable and creating really like, you know, content that can be transferred using social apps that can be transferred to even using a flash, this that's taken by um, what's the bike to the next audience? we've seen that happen and you've seen audiences really respond to that and say thank you for reaching me where i am. so anyone who's got a, you know,

a moment to think about where to put their advertising, where to put their people, put caustic is going across africa, thanks to on cost as they've been doing it. you know, in its original form, using narrative port cause people who are award winning globally. and so there are experts from across the applicant, broadcast fees when making the best context readily available. if you open up our websites for point testing to africa, you'll find some of them. if you go into many, many, many parts of africa, you will find a podcast produced that's producing great content. we are excited that this is going to become a big part of what's happening across africa, but people need to be informed, you know, get knowledgeable is lots of free resources. if you know, just where to click. so it is an opportunity. i think people should take advantage of the fact that african produces, i'm needing discharge, and african markets are ready for that. okay,

we'll look forward to seeing how the scene develops just being tied into a of advocate pod for us. thank you for your insights. thank you. and you can also check out all of our d, w podcasts, wherever you get your podcast, but be sure to check out other new stories, a dw dot com, forward slash advocate or on social media. that's it for now, but will leave you with these images of the south african single tyler. she's just one of the 1st grimy for best african music performance. what it for hit was a next time bye for now. came up and then just the

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