and i am ready to dive into the hands of gentlemen who to us with you one day. have you as a one, the front porch and unexpected side to side. the so this is the, the news advocates coming up on the program, kenya is protest as false presidents, where you and roots or into a may just climbed down to balls to pressure from the streets and withdraws a controversial bill. the proposed punitive taxes on the nation, but with many dead will this be enough to appease the young disillusion protest as i can see. and therefore, i would not sign the 2024 finance bill and it should subsequently be withdrawn. also coming up on the show,

they survived the west of prostitutes against have done. now refugees, in chad, we have the painstaking efforts of survivors trying to start over draft in court for the may be an l g b t q. community as a law banning, fed between man is lifted and will this guarantee safety and freedoms for the career community. the immediate kimani, welcome to the program. we begin in kenya, where the country is president william router has announced the withdrawal of a controversial finance view of the sustained protest against the legislation. now please open fire demonstrates us will strong the parliament building on bunch government offices. at least 22 people died in the process. the most the young for testers, what we with the proposed tax hikes of correspondence, phoenix, maureen got reports from a ruby. the tendency was

a morning to for the individual event. kenya's parliamentarians have come to be their last respect. travelers goes on and on the head, another protest. your next most i die that we get from a my bone allegedly 5 by the police. the streets of the day will be. 6 nobody named images on the breathing of i indicated preparatory after weeks of not sleep peaceful protest, flashes interrupted between police and dallas. people demanding that the government trumps from us. so it has to be the community we've got on. the young people are tired, they've seen new time has come this bad governance and our tax is being used

wastefully. they take our taxes, but we can't see where the money goes up. a 20 is yes and then the often with yeah, we are experiencing, telling us we're having confidence in terms of peoples and everything. and we can schedule what destructive, rob, to mean agenda is that they've been impeach router and then we'll talk about that. but listen, i think that governments, but for now, executives that speed as m p 's law passing an amended device on of that being protest does have broken into they came in. they said parts of the building on fire, forcing design for safety valve for testers. have been able to bring down fundamentals you bought, they've got to parliament and then that way we defend that's because miss and some of the got to lose their lives. there are conflicting reports about the exact number of deaths. hundreds of young people haven't ingest public in the like,

this is a big change in kenya that demonstrations have traditionally been led by political parties. like i'm on the line to about the process for social media. young people like him being a driving force in this process. it saves energy numbers. nobody paid us these low lead, other, nobody, the faithful, anything not, not even a post of water to come outside. yeah. outside people don't own freewill. this protest i've seen the national and then i see to see the i'm not to this to having reclaimed from national narrative, brutal in his government, the drone of the b. that's who is playing down and the huge risk, it's unclear. that's enough to win over this new political force that can and president who had a defied the protest as quote to reject the bill back. peddled on his position, saying he now wants to work together with your citizens listening

to the people who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with these finance people. the 2024 i conceit and therefore i would not sign the trinity. trinity for finance bill and it should subsequently be withdrawn and we can bring in jose and coming towards executive director of how to africa a kenya of civil society organization. he joins us now from ne ruby. so it was saying, router has said the fine us who is history, this means the protest as have one having the not quite sure the participants have one because we've lost lives of hundreds actually uh, injured. uh, it wasn't really about winning, but more about, you know, standing out for just just finding out for the country,

standing up for the resources of this mission. so while it's a big step forward, but the struggle continues, president, for to didn't say or of that together with parliament to try to use the military to suppress the protest. and then we saw the judiciary restrict to that. what does this mean for kind of institutions and this democracy? i think 1st of all, it shows that as a country we have our priorities long. clearly you can be deploying the military, and then at the same time, during the same week, you are deploying police officers. to another country, i mean why deployed the military and send our police officers to another country. it doesn't make sense. but it also means that the judiciary, the institutions mandated by the constitution to deliver on the monday it's actually steadfast. they have us to try me with the people of canyon and they have defended the constitution at no time. should the executive deployed the military without the problem its approval. and the judiciary announced itself on that

position. and district who is that, you know, there is independence. the rest is not yet at the ideal situation, but definitely we must acknowledge and appreciate the positive steps that we are making as a country can moving forward. and speaking of the plenty service at the start of the week, you tried to speak to the police about the chain for testers. and then you will help yourself know, is this just one example of how the government can whip when i is the police service? i guess, democratic processes as indeed i think we have made huge sites in ensuring independence of our various institutions in the country. but unfortunately, the police tend to be main. uh, you know, a tori, so used by the executive. the police have refused to change the police to remain largely a political, the tools to be used and misused by politicians. and we feel that, you know,

more effort to, particularly in the dialogue. but hopefully we'd be done in an open and transparent my not the police have to be put in check. we have very clear recording on the inspector general authorities to resign from his position. he has shown that he's the inefficient incompetent in dealing with these kinds of issues in kenya. and, you know, moving forward, the spotlight is on the police. so you want the inspector general and the leadership of the police to resign. but the young for testers want the president to go. so he met one of the demands. but how safe is he? well as the young for just to say the bone of contention was the finance be and you know that the tax is that what we'll do is just crazy. um yes, we're clearly man the president easy. no watch situation. benji has ever been, they the jury is the i was on, she's public, he's a, he's dealership,

and we still that the time has come for us to ask questions. i think 5 years, he's the very far ahead. but all the same, it's kenya until we decide the face of the president. because, you know, we are all governed by the constitution at no time have we, you know, i asked for anything and respects of the constitution patients. we recognize that she's in office as an elective, eda, but as canyons i've spoken loudly, you know, the next few days will be crucial in determining the waste board course and connie, executive director of how to africa. thank you for your time. thank you very much. now for more than a yeah, the so then these ami has been fighting the paramilitary, wrapped in support, forces, or recess of the control of the country. the conflict has left thousands dead and displaced more than 10000000. many fled to neighboring chad. right to go save our

assessment, allied arab munitions have committed widespread killings, rates and other prostitutes, possibly amounting to genocide in west or for the targeting people of one african ethnicity in particular. the muscle needs. there was a majority in the city of bel janina in west or full until the recess brooks and the attractive citizens last year. many fed across the board to chad and a student living in audrey of correspondents, mario will a travel of that and met survivors of sexual violence on sunday. my can remember she has missed and can skip this case because every time she thought she found safety, another attack happened. it was always the same perpetrators and their allies. she says the full much engine treatment is now known as rapid support forces or as of today and in june 2023. they attacked the area of age. and nina, where she left, i didn't was i got the 151. i saw how to get people to the 1st day when they

attacked the killed many and ago, and they fell down right in front of us and then we'll go for them that they felt like it would never end me. and let me know, you can imagine that we've got a lima whose name was changed to protect her. she was living with a family at the side for the space people. when she heard the militants arrived from the motor bikes laughing to this town. mean my room, 4 of them charging me with guns. windshields minus the others left the room. the one who stayed raped me. i fucked him a lot. i didn't want him to raped me, but i was so scared of his gun. then i only felt pain in the ceiling. when it was over, she ran away, stepping over 20 bodies lying on the road. then she stopped counting. after crossing the border to side, lima felt safe, but couldn't find any medical help. 3 days later, the pain subsided. the memory store keep her from sleeping. she says the hour of

iris f melissa, talk to her because she belongs to the muscle, leads an applicant in mississippi we. we spoke to more than a 1000 survivors of killings and sexual violence. all of them told us the attack us was specifically targeting muscle, each aiming to ethnic weekends, african ethnic groups from the for, i can say is one of his mouth. and he ask, what's your try? i didn't send him all his muscle lead. i said, i'm for trying this thing. you said if your muscle, it's all listed, your throat depends about next. some value that they said there won't be any land belonging to myself anymore. this is there and they don't want, i must sell it to own land. the survive of stories are backed up by human rights watch. it is documented numerous atrocities and want of a possible genocide against the most of the people in west the 4 hours of did not respond requests for comment however, whose name was also changed by

a safety survived similar attack. she says and ours f i to enter to home on june 8th, 2023 and let us to law. he loaded his gun to shoot my mom. and so he's charging for me. i'm not sure the bulletin i said shooting me instead of the 2 said i won't kill you. i told your brothers outside looking looking for them. he went in short to a 20 year old cousin. then she heard her mother and i go to the good and he beat me to hold for when i go with the whip, the sticker on the wall to contain. i have seen this morning on the line you can defend, threw me on the bed and started to write me. she bled heavily. the days later she was able to find a hospital where she needed stitches. she still sometimes feels pain when she walks . these women now in safety and shot at many here live in deplorable conditions.

and that comes like in medical support, food for to and basic shelter. the u. n. has called this the largest displacement crisis in the world with more than 10000000 people forced to fee that homes almost 600000. so denise refugees now living and neighboring chat. but 8 organizations say massive funding shortages mean they are unable to cope with the needs in become a group of refugee women have created a safe space where survivors can talk openly and without stigma about what happened to them and the hopes for the future. and if they're not coming in, i mean my hope is to complete my studies and economics one stuff. and i hope to work in a bank as an accountant, or as a business administrator, whole guy that it's, i'm not going to look for the kind of the situation improves. i want to go to

university, i'm advice, but i want to learn to be a doctor. they say all they want is to get their lives back. they're hoping for peace, so they can finally move on. so how widespread is sexual violence in so done? that's the question i put to primula patton, the united nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict is, is always very hard to get up to a data on an active battlefield and sexual violence remains the drum logic of the under reported crime due to many factors including shame and stigma, but feel reprisal and lack of access to the services all reporting. and it is nearly impossible in the context of the current will still it is to get accurate data because the un i'm the majority of the international after. so i've had to leave the country and the work of civil society is also hampered by run punch and

security and switch. but we do have some indications of the gravity and the brutality of sexual violence. the annual report of the secular general for 2023 documented cases of wave dang, rape, attempted rape, abduction and trafficking perpetrated against 98 women. aging goes one man and one boy and in a single attack. as many as 20 women were reported the way, there's also information more recently that we have received about the abduction of over 160 women and girls held in captivity, including reports of these women being great and kept in slavery like conditions when we have we, boards of women and girls, didn't cartoon state what they could do, other parts of dial 4, allegedly even change in the back of trucks and all those, you know, those, all these cases are as of elements. oh,

i see data admitted show where implicates right. so because the be because if you're going to do the rest of this, because i've introduced the rest, if i just want to jump in there because i know that you didn't speak to the, the need a shape of they acknowledged i told the rates that are happening there, and if so, do they plan to do anything about these atrocities? i was seems to start with the conflict in april 2023. i gave you both bodies as c, f. a. notice that on the 1st of august of 2023, i had a meeting. we've general abdur rahim de got the deputy commander of the of the iris and i raise, we've seen all these. we both reports that are had at the time, reports of sexual violence and called to mend off will reports of an increase in the number of abducted women in goes reports about the targeting of medical infrastructure and personal giving support to victims of sexual violence. and also who would have had to do something by the existence of slave markets in industrial

. we women and goes being sold, including into sexual slavery or helpful ransom. and i urge team to issue the full no undertaking of the full amount that you need actual community condemning sexual violence and committing to effective measures to prevent of the address such violations. including fluid time bound into my different blog, as well as combined order as a degree as your daughter when's with sexual buttons as part of upholding military disappearing? he acknowledged, i must see the gravity of sexual bought into the context of the conflict. he agreed to issue both, so you need to communicate and the combined to what as declaring 0 daughter was, was actual guidance. and you did so after, so shortly after, after the meeting. but unfortunately, i must say that's up to now i do not see any discernible behavioral change on the ground because we boil continue to pull in a, by the atrocities being perpetrated by our assess that is of video to administer.

and that is why in the context of my upcoming visit to try them both to the next month. i intend to re engage with the leadership of the r a. so in order to bring to their attention all these reports, which i mention, but also to remind them of their commitments and it'll be jason's under international. all right, well i thank you so much for your time coming up, attend the, the united facial special representative on sexual violence and conflict. thank you . now, hi, caught in a maybe a has struck down those criminalizing sexual acts between men. sex between women is not illegal in the media. the laws base it back to the 19 twenty's when a maybe a was administered by south africa. and it's really the country's court said, binding, same sex acts was unconstitutional. the ruling has been celebrated by him if he is

eligible community. 2 for them, the decision marxist off to the new era, the case was brought to my local act to base freedom dallas up with the support of an n g o in london from me, personality disorder, kidney inside my life. when my legs are waiting on it never be a climb again. for the past, 50 is as well as the game and we've always been swimming now. some deadlines certainly come today or caught this declared thesis unconstitutionality below criminalizing sex between men, dated back to the colonial era. it was really enforced puts, it meant many game and left instead of the rest. it's also fused discrimination of the algebra community. i need all the beacon of hope because we are living in the climate. they'll see a from state sanctioned homophobia and hate speech. the judgement may represent a victory if a gay man and the allies, but some fit could also cause a backlash will make is already pushing for legislation,

outgoing gay and lesbian. marriage and large segments of no baby and society remain deeply conservative. being a 3 she is in the use of websites and it comes in all 43, she, i mean to go into these. even so despite beings, because we have to think about, if you don't fall to the is always going to have famously to does to comes fortunately the back to this, the judges that even if a majority of number being held such views, this would not justify making sex between men, a crime are. we spoke to the active list, you saw him that report for the del sol, and i asked him if the overturning of the law would be enough to end discrimination and violence against the eligibility to community in the media. i only see this a lot that was supposed to have gone 50 years ago. we still have discrimination in employment and no express protection for sexual orientation employment

law. while we still have a domestic violence a that it excludes things that's couple's. a system is did relationship and we have a whole lot of law assuming that i know protections. what has happened with the removal of this law from the legal system is, is really address uh the criminalizing. what we need now is, but that definitely those and then employment in have in all sorts of us including marriage equality, right. so as i mentioned, the career community is to, doesn't enjoy some rights and protections. and we know that there may be a still criminalizes support, promotion or even celebration of same sex unions. do you have any plans to challenge some of these laws as well? a little bit of correction. um, it is not criminal as what is

a beautiful body and where we do need international support at the moment. is that the punishment after our last? yeah. when the don't the side rights we have provided to the for inputting us of number of medians. many in the country restrictions like germany, uh, or south africa uh, able to get it on the side of it. uh uh, punishment is proposing to know that it's uh, that is fair to both of us as a punishment, and he's now sitting with a precedent that sort of law st. 6 married. but we're also creating a life, some sort of nice, some of the same sex marriages in the media at the moment. uh, unfortunately it's not a crime, but we do need international support and press up to ensure that the slow does not come into effect. so for, i don't know, maybe it has now joined several countries in particularly south africa where we

have people how successfully need to get to for their rights. do you think that this successful struggle in the media will inspire perhaps of the african countries on the continent? this is the home. uh and we, if you do read the baby of the sort, i'm going to challenge it is really happening that uh, for example, uh the taxes on the pin out of sort that human rights of entity into my not additions and cannot be left to the populace. or the other majority, but it is the duty of the courts to ensure that big human rights of the weakest and the most vulnerable, you know, communities to protect it by the quotes s and the constitution. and so we, we spend strongly on constitutional provisions. we hope that either

a luca jurisdictions but it's somebody you've got and guy and i did. yeah. i but they used to be the uh and, and various ending in the launch. it also costs uh to cut it more humane, more just um and uh, a great outcomes for the challenges in those countries mentioned before for the dallas of joining us for soccer point in the maybe a thank you so much for your time. thank you. well that's it for now. be sure to check out other stories on d, w dot com, forward slash africa, or on social media. thank you for watching the

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