tillman to the q one. you have, you have a one, dodge saw the lead this, of course, we've got this 5 and the on expected sides of the, this is the w news. africa coming up on the program was pennsylvania is government behind and attempt to assassinate this top opposition. politicians tend to lease it says the orders to shoot them. dad 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 of african giant has gone to campaign between both the

congolese american global ambassador for basketball. as don. we're here from the man himself and tributes from his home. the intensity of the government has suspended the online operations of a beating newspaper. this, after it 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 clips released online earlier this week by the citizen showed president somebody as a 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 of countries know 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 alive there's to ation keeps getting tougher for me. ended up i do now. whenever i think about my child, i just cry. a frustrating. 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. i know the names of the people who getting up and bell rang, i don't know how my la definitely 40 years of being kidnapped at different times. don't take. no, they just cried. frustrate. so he won the meal 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 illegal anti government protest in the commercial capital doris law. one of the leading figure is to lose 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 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 except the last, the government's crack 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 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 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, 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 in 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 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. do you better have time to think? because of the gunmen had been following me from pioneer much to my residence. i didn't know they were after my life. i thought they were just 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 do 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 tends to be in 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 content, the legal proceedings as yet, what uh we have which we have what kind of done is tool is tracked to my lawyer on the line, but to explore the possibilities of legal action in the bridges cards are the american all european clocks and this is bad on the, the reason to have elections in the british cox that to go and it's part of the company, mainly call. i had provided the governmental cons that 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 the what, who demanded that i be tracked electronically by mail. com and its tom. let me have substitute jerry what, 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 page sent that he is on the is that for the past 7 years, the government will townsend? yeah. has refused, consistently and federal mentally 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, automatic on costs. 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 investigate it because i'm young cards for yours. the same testimony that was given in british quotes times. i mean i'm cards most independent very yeah. i'm rather fond of the executive of the president for a point on 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 or north america cops precisely because there is no other way of getting justice in the courts in terms of yeah, 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 tanzania, a free country? a cons i'm here is not a free country. the late on the keyboard was i've turned it back to about 3400 meters for my residence, for where i am right mount pulled out of the boss, which was the top 10 that right in the middle of the highway. find all the input

the product is used by i intended to have some security to people in this country and kindly protel a torture before being my dad endows the in, in se, so it's kind of 3 which tolerates which come me a total of 8 actions 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 seem to have taken the action to investigate and punish those would be the people who authorized your see to i was

before i was attacked, the president then president john pulled him from performing such as pets. it online, i missional television, that those who oppose the easily jim's economic policies did not deserve to leave. and to our play top 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 on the phone from somebody else 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,

or you save intents and you know, i'm not, i'm not safe because i mean, is not a safe country. and the, the roof of that a fashion is the mazda of me. so i need people on the last month and yet for us to go back to not 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 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 out of the stuff on the national scale. i guess this too. 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 even on that to be with that we'd be still tend to need an opposition figure to a 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 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, are foraging wild crops like bile bob food as a critical source for both food and income loveliness. but tony, as long collected pay about food from the massive trees around the homestead. it's been a welcome addition to find these usual staples of coal and mail it but this year drought driven by climate change and now nino meant to regular krupps sailed. it would include 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, no, no, no problem. we see the payments and sometimes i spend a month with a buying a bar of so many into on i can't even talk of school fees. oh, for children's clothes. she knows how to run off the top of the tree of life. the

bay of bob produces fruit that is extremely nutritious, rich and fat and victim and say it stacy is often compared to that of great fruit and 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. a key low, so since so 2 euros in gemini, 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 quino pockets of corn meal put into buffers into moms, but the trees didn't produce much this year. would you buy new sundays icons? so 1011 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 applicant by 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 because local politicians will and the power is with the buyers of the wheel play doh. 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. 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 assume

loving us has already collected all the food from the trees close to home. and you 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 bible but the lines. he joins us from just north of the capital her, i guess, give us some perspective here or african harvesters. again, mostly women, anywhere close to maximizing their profits from this route. yes. so i mean, i think most of harvest is uh, service in the icon speak for how does this 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 any 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 agricultural production, which requires a farmer to buy seed from an international company that you bought for july, is that from an international company to put in the labor in reading a land preparation with bob. all that harvest that needs to do is go and collect the fruits and store it and then saw if they're getting close to what they should

be getting in terms of the prophets on this. given the fact that there is a, a drought, an ongoing draft 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 carpets the that is depending on valve up route for the income is doing so because our choice. yeah. they are doing so as far as like anyone's got a choice in it they doing so because in the area with bob, bob exists and is producing food. there's basically nothing else. busy it's an unfortunate situation for them, but let's 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 ro harvest is, is the lack of when it's internationally around by about 5 of the fridge and the relatively small demand for it. if we were able to see major international food companies incorporating valve 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 is the above of 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 then 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 maids. 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 major problem fails, fall off trees on the other hand, are evolved to suit 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 investigator for basketball has died after battle with brain cancer. he was 58, the 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 cord

off court, he helped them. here's the man, in his own words, each one of the drum, washer and dryer, plus the grid, but i couldn't use one for 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 control. so 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 on this because 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 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's the general lied little the to can base among the greatest basketball plans that the d r c is evan know, personally was a child when i 1st deal with him. i saw him play for the 76 is he made many young people dream of seeing that the congolese 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 in by for now the,

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