wells policy, capital tele, these focus on one year is, well, how much will starts october 5th on d, w the, this is the w news, africa coming up on the program. west. pasadena is government behind and attempt to assassinate this top opposition. politicians tend to lease it says the orders to shoot him dead, came from the very top, citing testimony in london about his phone being tracked for, for his car was riddled with bullets. we'll hear what he has to say. also on the program. they are an icon of africa barrow above the trees. an income from their fruit is proving a lifeline for communities who have lost all their crops to the biting drought in southern africa. and another african giant has gone to campaign between both the

congo leaves american global investigator for basketball has done here from the man himself and tribute from his home. the intensity of the government has suspended the online operations of a beating newspaper. this, after 8 released advertising clips featuring the president and referencing recent abductions, in killings of dissidence, the citizen, one of the most influential english language papers said it's online publications had been suspended for 30 days by the 10s, in the communications regulatory authority. one of the eclipse, released online earlier this week by the citizen, showed president somebody and so knew who her son, watching news clips of dissidents and victims of state repression. want to show you

that video in full. so you can make up your own mind a party to go start us. a fuck country is not to go to an order. first of all, we as the opposing party, we initial narrow already does not in my that violet entry has a request to make to the president. please, please don't take no. someone who lives different from here has more peace than i do. i leave a life of fear with the dead or a life there's to ation keeps getting tougher for me and up. i do know whenever i think about my child, i just cry. a frustrate does been a long time, but dikes to come for get and dusty. great big i see is on the i had but my child out of knowing it was, gets plan in the what else?

except i want to see my child. i know the names of the people will keep them up in the same building. i don't know how my layouts definitely 40 years of being kidnapped at different times. i don't know. i just cried frustrate. so he won the title for many that video might look like normal political commentary, but not for the government of president. somebody else will do. who has a son? this is just the latest development in what the opposition says is an ongoing government crackdown. several of its members were arrested last week. police say they stepped in to stop illegal anti government protest in the commercial capital doris law. one of the leading figure is to lose who is suing the government. he says, president has son is returning to the authoritarian practices of her predecessor john michael, fully in 2021. when she took office, there was initial hope in political and human rights circles that her government

would bring more openness and democracy moment. police jump into action. the opposition says, this is the latest extent. last the government's crack down on distance. and they accused the security forces of kidnapping and killing the members. one leading opposition freak assess the patent of refreshing goes back. he is. he plans to sue the government, off the evidence emerged that he says, prove officials concluded with the telecoms company in a plot to kill him. if i knew what was done to me as an act of terrorism, means that the attack on me has deeply hurt me because i was left disabled for life . many find that i cannot, we're any shoes other than the type i am wearing now. i cannot walk properly. i walk with a bullet in my back. with my body is full of metal,

decisive in 2017 on noon gunman shots, diesel. 16 times. he survived and went into exile. he's now return to the country and campaigned in the upcoming local elections. this just often not the opposition data was adopted and found that early september preston has on, has called for an investigation into the killing many intensity. you have little faith on the line now is tend to need an opposition figure to least to who joins us from jerusalem to alicia. it's a pleasure to have you. thank you so much for having me, michael. i want to start by asking you to take us back to the 7th of september 2017, just moments after you realize you might be under attack. what went through your

mind? uh, michael. i did not even have time to think because the gun man had been following me from pioneer match to my residence. i didn't know they were after my life. i thought they were just a all united police officers will head out us to me 8 times in the previous year. so i did not. i did not have any clue about about the fact that there was about to be, i've talked to and, and when they, they came out of the vacant with the automatic rifles. i simply did not have time to think about what was going on. it was just kinda money, old man with gun fire and all the terrible noise. so i didn't, i didn't really have time to think why or you pursuing legal action against the tens and he and government and to go the telecommunications company, of course,

in other words, what do you hope to get out of this, both for yourself and the countries we have not talked to the legal proceedings as yet, what uh we have, which we have. what i have done is tool is tracked my lloyd's of london to explore the possibilities of legal action in the breaches cards are the american all european clocks. and this is bad and the reason to have elections in the british cox that to go and it's part of the company, mainly call had provided the governmental cons, letting me out with that and live that top well location and, and, and, and so you know, my electronic data, which enables the government and it's a, it's got government to track me down from parliament to my residence and trying to me. so if my lawyers besides about we are going to go to,

to court in europe or north america as a wish. uh, the intention would be not only to get justice for myself, but also to get to the bottom of the estimation of 10. we would like to know who did what, who demanded that i be tracked electronically by milly. com and its tons. let me have a substitute, jerry. oh, who, who on was infractions would provide the information for me to go to got the information. who passed it on to the government. we want to get to the bottom of the sent that he's on is that for the past 7 years, the government will tons on. yeah. has refused consistently in sacramento, they refused to investigate the the monitor. i'm doubtful if we have to get to the

bottom of it. we must get it. we'll have to get it through the use of a british or american court. why don't you believe you can get justice through that evidence intensity in court? or in times i'm yeah, it is simply impossible to the government of cons on. yeah. because i refused to investigated the tons. i'm young cards to yours. the same testimony that was given in british quotes times. i mean, i'm cards most independent today. yeah. about the fun of the executive of the president for a point, it's all the judges of trans. i mean, i'm cards are incapable of dealing with this my top that because of that because they lack the message that independence would be with the med jackass involving

a manager or position she got like these particular kids and we'll talk about story need it. we're going to pursue way to in, in british all, not the american cops precisely because there is no other way of getting justice in the courts in terms of you. sure you are well aware of course, that under the new administration, they've been crackdowns arrest disappearances and one senior member of your party was abducted allegedly killed and doused in acid all in recent months. is townsend e a, a free country? a cause i'm here is not a free country. the late on the ball was actually a back to about 3400 meters for my residence, for where i am right. mount pulled out of the boss, which was pumped into right in the middle of the highway,

find all the into the product is used by. i intended to have some security to people in this country. and brooke, county protel of torture before being my dad and dogs the in, in se, so it's kind of 3 which color age, which come me a total of 8 options or best match up. i'm up but, and it's time to be described as a free country. why do you think no one was held accountable for your 27th teen assassination attempt? and do you believe you were legal action might change that and there is on that the no one has been held accountable for the attack is because with the people who seemed to have the option to investigate and punish those would be that the people who authorized your c to i

was before i was attacked, the president, the then president john pulled a month before the citrus petted on live missional television. that those who oppose the easily jim's economic policies did not deserve to leave. and to our flights up i, i was barely my, the saw, it came directly from the president. and now we know, now we know about, for the previous, for the previous 2 weeks, i was, i'm was comp subdivisions, electronically and for all human could kind of get. and then, and so it is, it is very clear about the school public trip at this, at the director of the president. and they come out to close, investigate themselves because they are still in power. you appear, sir, to be talking to us quite freely. i'm curious,

or you save intents and you know, i'm not, i'm not safe cons, i mean is not a safe country and the, the roof of that a fashion is the mind of me. so i need people on the last month and yet for those to go back to night, and yet you chose to go back to, to engineer and you were still there now. yes, i did, i did that. i believe that the, uh, the base model off to, i mean it has to be fast. it has to be a pause, but it has to be, it has to be the vista and bring it from a design is my to difficult and i can, i can tell you that for 5 years i was x. i was better difficult to, to organize this stuff on the national sc a i guess this to and so i'm here because we need no one is

safe. i'm not safe. i mean, you know, sometimes i'm, yes i'm up say. and precisely because of that, we have to organize resistance in order to deal with that. with this to a tense, any an opposition figure, to least to manufacturer. thank you so much for having me, michael. we should mention, we invited to engineers, governments, folks person to respond to mister misses allegations, but we received no response. choosing bob boy, next where the un says almost 60 percent of rural people will be living with severe hunger between january and march of next year. in april 2024, the government declared a state of emergency and then disaster the harvest failed. so dire officials even

announced plans to coal elephants for food. but some people, particularly women or foraging wild crops like bile bought food as a critical source for both food and income loving us. but tony, as long collected by about the food from the massive trees around the homestead, it's been a welcome addition to the family as usual staples of colon and miller. but this year, drought driven by climate change in el nino, meant to regular krupps sailed split into a bundle of a 9. we didn't harvest any crops this year in oklahoma, so we're only able to survive because of the money from bay about for it was a going to was to go simple. we can only find the horn and sold it in be due on the luxury because of the money simply knows enough when we see the pants. and sometimes i spend a month with a buying a bar of so many into on. i can't even talk of school feel for children's clothes.

she didn't just have to run off and up the tree of life. the bay about produces fruit that is extremely nutritious, rich and fat and victim and say its taste is often compared to that of great fruit vanilla. it's been eaten in africa for thousands of years in the us and the u. license beside the fleet 15 years ago. since then, the bay of bob trade has been booming. key low sales since so to your i was in germany, but love night size. she only sees a fraction of that present the prices are low, sometimes just $0.50 for 5 kilos. need 5 stocks to buy a 10 quino pockets of corn meal. we can do but fears into moms, but the trees didn't produce much this year. we'll be running some days. i come so one stop. i don't want to go on for loving us. the bab trade only took root in her

area in 2018, and it's proven a lifeline for tens of thousands of rural people like the african bay above alliance estimates at 2 and a half 1000000 african families could profit from the freight st by with state run export agents, the estimates of the country has about 5000000 by about trees. a commercial exploitation is the basis of a growing industry, but the local politicians will and the power is with the buyers. as we alternate though, i know i see when the buyers come to take our product, they have their own listed prices based on what i think they should do is to meet and consult us, what we're going to do to them. as the local leadership. we agree on pricing, go to die so, so we have to know to, to get to see people have no choice because they have nothing we did. you read in a place, but the buyers are imposing prices on us and we don't have the capacity to resist it because of hunger force you to see what god is going to do. you might assume

loving us as already collected all the food from the trees close to home. and you have to spend 8 hours a day searching through the savannah some more. the next lean period will last till next march and right now loved this kind of know how long, how lifeline is. for more on this, we're pleased to welcome gus libretto in from the african bob up the lines. he joins us from just north of the capital here, i guess give us some perspective here, or african harvesters. again, mostly women, anywhere close to maximizing their profits from this rude? yes they, oh, i mean, i think most hospices says it's in the icons speak for his disorder across africa because it's obviously varies from country to country. um, but the harvest is that i am familiar with here in southern africa are getting,

searching these 3 or 4 times more from selling bob bob into the international market. then they would be if they had been selling it into the local market just for sale as a whole week. so yeah, i think they actually pretty well a lot of it, of course they would like to be doing better and they would like to be any more. that's natural and i'm quite confident. as i said that in the future they will be able to more, but i think right now they do pretty well out of it. all things considered then. and then the other thing that's very important to understand is that there's no cost to harvesting, involve upfront, unlike any form of agricultural production, which requires a farmer to buy seeds from an international company to bought fertilizer from an international company to put in their labor in reading a land preparation with bob, all the harvest that needs to do is go and collect the fruit and store it and then saw if they're getting close to what they should be getting in terms of the profits

on this. given the fact that there is a, a drought, an ongoing drought that's been going on and much of southern africa, it sounds like what you're saying is it would be a bad idea to rely on the selling of this fruit for most of your income. or i don't think any of harvest the that is depending on valve up route for the income is doing so because our choice. yeah. they are doing so. so it's not like anyone's got a choice in doing so because in the area where bob up exists and is producing fruit, there's basically nothing out. so it's an unfortunate situation for them. but let us also look at it the other way around. if that was not an international market football, but those people would be in dia, dire straits, and the income that they are earning this year from the sat above 3 is probably the

difference in, i'm not exaggerating the difference between life and death for those communities. what is the biggest challenge right now preventing the bell, bob trade from becoming a major urn or for rule african communities. the biggest challenge right now about is constraining growth in the pop up industry and benefits. the flow of benefits to ro harvest is, is the lack of when it's internationally around by about 5 up for each, and the relatively small demand for it. if we were able to see major international food companies incorporating valve up into some of the fruits and it's an amazing taste deep super fridge from africa. if we were to see more of that, you would see formal benefits flowing to a much greater number of rural women offices across the african concepts. and again,

one more time how critical eased above of trade for these local african harvesters, particularly women in these rural communities. see, bob trade is incredibly important to them because of the very try area and very dropped problem areas where they, they tend to grow agricultural practices, tend to revolve around the crops that are actually from other parts of the world. so in that area, they are often by the way that primary truck is. mays, mays does not come from africa. mays comes from central america. it's not adapted to african, i wrote ecological conditions. and when i draw happens, as it does very frequently, especially with changing problematic conditions. the mays cult fails fall off trees on the other hand, or evolved to shoot to the local conditions. and i've never heard of about treat failing to produce fruits in a drought, yet the bob tree's produced fruit every single year,

irrespective of the climax of conditions. so it is the one thing on which those communities kind of rely no matter what the climate does to them. our thanks to gus libretto and from the african valve up alliance again. many think ser thank and finally he was quite literally one of the giants of the game, the candidate between the one of the best defensive players in n b, a history. and a long time global, and bassett, or for basketball, has died after a battle with brain cancer. he was 58, but timbo was the same for his finger wagging his enormous smile. his unique voice and his tiring height at 7 foot to his nickname was mount between bow and he was one of the best shot blockers in the game. but while he obstructed people on chord

off court, he helped them. here's the man. in his own words, each one of our big draw a marketing partially resorted additional and after dr. plus the grid plugs, i couldn't use my boards. i little bit better bread, but timbo changed lives for the better in his home country. he built a hospital in new york, he named after his late mother, which has treated hundreds of thousands of the congo. these people news of his passing brought these tribute on the basketball court. in contrast, good going, he was a great star. it hurts. and if today we came to play, but we're feeling sorrow, i'm up losing to can be more tumble is not easy. almost. he was a great inspiration, one that we can't know if we will have any one of his stature in his place. a new

us up logic, that's the most for me. it's very moving. and especially as a basketball player, it really has because he's one of the greatest basketball players for his income goes. he said general lydel in lucy to ken bay's, among the greatest basketball plans that the d. r c is ever known. personally, i was a child when i 1st deal with him. i saw him play for the $76.00 is he made many young people dream of seeing that come to lease could also sit in the courts at the grace that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on dw dot com, forward slash africa, or of course, on social media. so your next time in, by for now, the,

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