the and have there been, i'm usually these and the all 5 of the words that they offer and we'd love to hear from you in the com. the body to go start of so far. country is not good at all. first of all, we as the opposing party, we initial narrow already does not in my that violet entry. i have 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. leave a life of fear with the dead or alive there's to ation keeps getting tougher for me and up i do now. whenever i think about my child, i just cry a frustrate. me just 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 planned and i would definitely accept. i want to see my child and know the names of the people who getting up and bell rang. i don't know how my life financial ideas of the get an update. 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 her 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 a legal anti government protest in the commercial capital doris along one of the leading figures to do loose who is suing the government. she says, present it, her son is returning to the authoritarian practices of her predecessor john michael, fully in 2021. when she took office, there was in this,

it's also been political in human rights circles, that her government would bring more openness and democracy. the moment police jump into action, the opposition says, this is the latest except the last, the government's cracked down on defense. and they accused the security forces of kidnapping and killing the members. one leading opposition fee assess the packing of refreshing goes back. he is. he plans to suit the government off the evidence emerged that he says, prove officials concluded with the telecoms company in a plot to kill him. 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 wear any shoes other than the type i am wearing now. i cannot walk properly.

i walk with a bullet in my back, where my body is full of metal. banner, decisive. in 2017 on noon gunman, shante diesel, 16 times b. so 5 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 abducted and found that it early september preston has on, has called for an investigation into the killing. many intensity have little faith on the line now is tenzing the an opposition figure to a new lease who, 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 uh, the gunmen had been following me from pon, i meant to my residence. i didn't know they were off uh my life. i thought they were just uh, automatic 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 a tax 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 10s

indian 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 much cops and the legal proceedings as yet what uh we have with we have what kind of done is tool is tracked. my lawyers in london to explore the possibilities of legal action in the bridges cards are in america and all european clocks. and this is bad on the trees and revelations in the british cox that to go and it's part of the company, mainly call. i had provided the governmental tonnes, let me out with that and live that top well location and, and, and, and so you know, my electronic data which and that was the government. and it said 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 um, substitute jenny? oh, hold hold on was infractions. we had provided 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 page saying that he is on the is that for the past 7 years, the government will townsend? yeah. has refused consistently and fundamentally i 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. i'm yeah, because i refused to investigated the tons. i'm young cards to yours. the same testimony that was given in british quote times. i mean i'm cards most independent very yeah. i bought the fun of the executive of the president for a point. it's all the judges sometimes. 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 a way 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 then 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 tenzing, ia a free country? a cause i'm here is not a free country. delayed ali. the ball was actually adapted about 3400 meters from my residence for where i am right now. uh, pulled out of the boss which was the top 10 that 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 be in, in se, so it's kind of 3, which tolerates which commits a total of 8 i action. so the best match up, i'm up but, and it's time to be described as a frequency. why do you think no one was held accountable for your 27th teen assassination attempt? and do you believe your 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 taken at least a bad action to investigate and punish those would be that the people who

authorized your see to i was before i was a kind of the president, the then president john pond a month before the citrus petted on live missional television. that those who oppose the easily jim's economic policies did not be there to leave. and to our play top i, i was very my, the so it's been directly from the president. and now we know, now we know about, for the previous, for the previous 2 weeks, i was on the phone comp, subdivisions, electronically and for all human could kind of get and then and saw 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. are you safe in tanzania? no, i'm not. i'm not safe. cause i, me, is not a safe country and the, the roof of that a fashion is the mind of me. so i need to buy all on the last month. and yet for those to go back to ignite. 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's up at the base model off to, i mean has to be fast. it has to be a pause, but it has to be, it has to be a 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 as the stuff on the nation most kind,

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 here, i'm upset and precisely because of that we have to organized resistance even on the, been with the, with this to a tend to need an opposition figure to new lease to manufacturer. thank you so much for having me, michael. we should mention, we invited to engineers governments, folks person to respond to mr. lewis's allegations, but we received no response choosing bob boy next where the un says almost 60 percent of rule 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 fail. so dire officials even

and now its plans to coal elephants for food. but some people, particularly women, are foraging. wild crops like bile bought food as a critical source for both food and income loveliness. 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 a good 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 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 and i can't even talk of school feel for children's clothes.

she didn't just have to ride on off the top of the tree of life. the bay about produces fruit that is extremely nutritious, rich and fat and victim and say it's tice is often compared to that of great food and vanilla. it's been eaten in africa to 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 for 30 years in germany, but loved nice 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 kilo pockets of corn meal put into prefers into moms, but the trees didn't produce much this year would be brand new, so some days icons, so $101.00 to $1.00 for loving us. the by about trade only took root in her

area in 2018, and it's proven a lifeline for tens of thousands of rural people like the opposite convey about alliance estimates at 2 and a half 1000000 african families could profit from the fruit soon by which state run export agency estimates that the country has about 5000000 by about trees. a commercial exploitation is the basis of a growing industry, but 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 go to the local leadership. we agree on price and go to die. so still we have to go to, to get to see people have no choice because they have nothing. we did you, we did not 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 that is going to do. you might have she . busy loves nice, has already collected all the food from the trees close to home. and she have to spend 8 hours a day searching through the stuff on us some more. the next lean period will last till next march and right now loved this kind of know how long her 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 of the harvest is a service in the icon speak for harvest is order 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 the box into the international market. then they would be if they had been selling it into the local market, just for sale as a whole route. 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 earning more . that's natural and i'm quite confident. as i said that in 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 probably about fruits. unlike any form of agriculture production, which requires a farmer to buy seeds from an international company to bach, personalize it from an international company to put in their labor in reading a land preparation with bob. all that 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 in bunch 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 august the that is depending on file but fruitful that income is doing so because out of choice. yeah. they are doing so. so it's not like anyone's got a choice in it. they doing so because in the area with bob, bob exists and is producing fruit. there's basically nothing else. busy it's an unfortunate situation for them, but let us also looking at 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 earner for rule african communities. the biggest challenge right now about is constraining growth in the bottom of industry and benefits. the flow of benefits to real harvest is, is the lack of awareness internationally around by about 5 a fridge and the relatively small demand for it. if we were able to see major international food companies incorporating bob up into some of the periods 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 harvest is across the african concepts. and

again, one more time how critical eased above up trade for these local african harvesters, particularly women in these rural communities. see, bob trade is incredibly important to them because a very try area and very dropped problem areas where they, they tend to grow agricultural practices, tend to rid of all around the crops that are actually from other parts of the world . so in that area, they are often bob way that primary truck is maids. mays does not come from africa . mays comes from central america. it's not adapted to african agro ecological conditions. and when a drought happens, as it does very frequently, especially with changing problematic conditions, but major fails, fall off trees. on the other hand, are evolved to suit the local conditions. and i've never heard of about trees

failing to produce fruits in a drought. yet the bob trees produce fruit every single year, irrespective of the problematic conditions. so it is the one thing on which those communities kind of rely, no matter what the crime it does to them. our thanks to a 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 bastard for basketball, has died after battle with brain cancer. he was 58. the turnbull was the same for his finger wag, 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, on each one of our big draw market washer and dryer. lots of the grid, but i couldn't use hard for little bit too much 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 once he was a great star, it hurts. and if today we came to play, but we're feeling sorrow, i'm up losing the company more tongue boys 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 on a sudden the new us up logic. definitely most for me it's very moving. and especially as a basketball player, it really has because he's one of the greatest basketball player as far as income goes. he said general liable to ken bay is 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 course of the grades. 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 you next time. and by for now the,

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