ok let's cross to the core of who you saw in that report she's now back in nairobi good to see you mel so tell us more about these rehabilitation centers how effective have these programs been. it seems like they are working very well of course it's impossible to get nationwide numbers we are still in a country which is experiencing an ongoing conflict but in the south of somalia almost $305.00 close former fighters have been in rehabilitation and are about to already have gone back into their communities to start a life there the government grants everyone amnesty who wants to leave the group so there is some incentive to do that but it is very difficult to do so the group makes it very difficult the man i spoke to told me they would want numerous times that if they did leave their families would be punished or that they themselves would be killed so they are terrified every habit of retaliation they truly are but they did want to speak to us and tell us about their experience to inspire obvious to follow suit and to leave as well ok so they leave al-shabaab and presumably will go bac

that report was produced by my colleague melanie cure of the ball she joins me now live from nairobi good evening to you melanie i mean that's an excellent reporting in a story that most people i think would not expect to hear this this is attempts to rehabilitate former jihad is how successful are these rehabilitation programs. it seems very much they are lacking it's of course impossible to get your hands on official nationwide numbers statistics in a war torn country that is currently still experiencing an ongoing conflict but in this facility that you've seen in the report almost 300 former fighters have been in rehab and i have on their way all have already gone back to their communities and to start a life that if the government grants and the state terry one who wants to leave there is an incentive to do so but of course it's incredibly difficult to do that to break from the group the man i've spoken to they told me that they were warned numerous times that they had threats coming their way that he thought violence would be waiting for them if they did the for the group but still t

their report was produced by my colleague melanie cure of the ball she joins me now from nairobi good evening to you melanie i mean that's an excellent reporting in a story that most people i think would not expect to hear this is attempts to rehabilitate former jihad is how successful are these rehabilitation programs. it seems very much they are lacking it's of course impossible to get your hands on official nationwide numbers statistics in a war torn country that is currently still experiencing an ongoing conflict but in this facility that you've seen in the report almost 300 former fighters have been in rehab and taishan and i have on their way all have already gone back to their communities and to start a life that if the government grants and misty terry one who wants to leave there is an incentive to do so but of course it's incredibly difficult to do that to break from the group the man i've spoken to they told me that they were warned numerous times that they had threats coming their way that lethal violence would be waiting for them if they did the for the group but still th

rich management he joins me now from nairobi good to have you with us i mean what's the benefit for these nations to you might say have a new currency an unknown currency while discussing removing what's already well established. frankly speaking absolutely 0 in my view i think it's part of a sort of move post-colonial type move and it's being dressed up as that that this is a high time that these countries a scaped the french yoke the central you know the french central banks yoke and that's what they're seeking to do but let me just put some things out there for you nigeria 70 percent of this proposed eco has a voodoo effects regimes it has 2 foreign exchange rates partly the reason why it's been in the negative capita g.d.p. stretch for more than 5 years is is exactly because of the existing currency system you've got the you've got other countries like senate. who've really benefited from this macroeconomic stability that they've had by hitching themselves to the euro and i think you know what they should be looking at 1st of all is reducing things like non-tariff barriers eco wes's i

is a political analyst he joins me now from nairobi good to have you with us on the program a serious arrest of a sitting minister he's been under investigation for several months is it an open and shut case the police seem very confident that they have all the evidence. many high profile people being prosecuted in kenya and. lived through it but the interpreters to go through the system. taken to court and up on duty and they're convicted in the past you've heard that many cases of people including cabinet secretaries but it never ends up in any prosecution it never ends up in any conviction will this rest in the charges that come with be seen as having sort of political overtones as raw teaches from the opposition and was an appointee forced on the president by his deputy william ruto the potential next president. the reason why the very important is because. production. gets of the cabinet secretary. so it's not going to cause any anywhere. any questions pulling them so you don't need to be the main reason is that you sure. need to do. the president. politically then why has corrup

be one big warehouse for hoarding goods well let's get more on this we're joined by david over euro and dependent economic analyst and he's joining us live from nairobi very good to have you with us on al jazeera so as we've been reporting if all 5455 countries sign on it will be the largest free trade zone in the world what would that mean for the continent and that economy. well thank you for having me this of course would be quite good news because as you know africa in a large sense of way under this start this is do sure that much of what is traded within africa is actually africa's value hard and saw this coming into force actually spell a very good fortune for the one functioning sector within africa because that's where most of our value add comes is treated secondly the traditional trade barriers and one trade barriers of you know very many customs foresee does a lot of checkpoints and you know police checks and so forth would get sort of reduced and there would be some conformity in terms of the regional or continent wide trade policy which would. be beauty and stability for our economic environment mr nigeria has now said that it's going t

chief antone good to visit that in nairobi that's helping young people while boyd radicalisation by learning new skills and finding employment online. the u.s. is facing enormous challenges that employment is as i said in the beginning probably the biggest societies but they use as a much bigger capacity than the older generations to understand the digital world and to use the different tools from social media to. visit the world which means that you are much better prepared to face the challenges of more than. for those young kenyans who joined al-shabaab returning home is almost impossible but some able to escape like. he was with in the kenyan city of mumbai. that paradise it's now struggling to draw in this. new recruits here like 102 years of fighting with the terror group he's now back home and helping to make the city safer. mohammed moved for nearly 2 years for the terrorist group the former christian converted to islam and went to somalia as a foreign fighter. now he speaks out for the 1st time about his radicalization and how he got away from. for security reasons we need to cover

doreen biro who's tracking the emerging market reaction from nairobi there's a starting with you what is the market reaction fill us in. good reactionary has been a relatively muted so far band investors have been discounting our right for quite a while now so there's a decision that's not commissar surprise nor does the ending of the of the reduction of the present volunteer day 2 months earlier that's the question that bleeder is now in may the fed chairman your own problem will give us a hint that doing these present conference is a good these is just a safeguard and appease them to break out similar to the ones that we saw in 1985 or 9098 or even the start of a deep and sustaining more i commodity of cycle trying to a stimulate an economy that could enter a recession. that would be a worry for the world joy what's the reaction across africa well the reaction is very positive it is welcome news for most of the african economies at this point and while most of our economies have been keeping the election in check give an example kenya is a policeman has been in check at least for the past several months but for a country

nations have met here at the un's office in nairobi to talk about preventing violence extremism and countering terrorism the u.n. secretary general antonio good terry's said the threat of terrorism is spreading in africa in the opening session and he also said that whole regions are being destabilized. on the front line of efforts. and the spreads text that is. i deeply believe that. forcing and counterterrorism operations must have strong. u.n. security council backed by sufficient but addicted will and sustainable financial. contribution kenya's president kenyatta spoke are most important and immediate goal is to ensure that. it's sort of gets. a holding territory is this single greatest source of finance and results recruitment training. and also claims of legitimacy kenya the host country is significant in the discussion around violent extremism its army went into neighboring somalia in 2011 find the armed group al-shabaab then al-shabaab of the series of attacks on kenyan thought many kenyans being killed in january this year gunmen attacked the deuce it hotel complex here in nairobi 21 people were killed just over a year ago the un held

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nairobi kenya. human rights and transitional justice explained while the verdict is bittersweet in many ways. it is a good day it's a significant moment of justice for victims who have waited for those last 17 years from the to redistrict. and clearly they will see this as a significant victory for their quest for justice however it has been stated in your report. went on to have a long career starting with different forces including their congolese army for another decade since indignant in 2006 and during that time forces allied to him committed various atrocities especially in the north and south kivu province is and those charges have not been included in today's conviction the wheels of justice may turn slowly but they seem to turn more for africa than any other continent a lot of the cases the i.c.c. looks at involve leaders and figures from africa do you think it unfairly targets the continent most of those who have been persecuted including people from countries like the democratic republic of congo most countries refer themselves to the i.c.c. have it cannot be denied that all the cases before th

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good feeling about this. barry, which is now a category one storm. at least one of the levees that was not reinforced tuafricter ka is now overtopping. >>> and we go to nairobiwhat more can you tell us? >> reporter: typical modus operendi. many people thought that al shah bab had been removed. we're hearing terrifies reports of course that many of those killed were very, very soft targets, including one canadian so so somali journalist. she tied with her husband. several other nationalities, and yet unconfirmed reports of two americans killed in the attack. at the moment 26 people are dead. the four attackers then went on a 12-hour shooting spree with the security forces, not among that figure of 26. the minister there have confirmed that the attackers are not among the dead we are quoting to you. where does this leave this very fragile situation of somalia? just in january we saw a similar attack where four men attacked the hotel on january 15th. and we're talking about continuous forays into the kenyan side of the border. two weeks ago we reported eight policemen had been killed. we know that several hundreds have been killed in raids, ta targeted raids an