working afonso as president says 35 civilians have been killed in a militant attack near the town of our binde in the north of the country 7 soldiers also died authorities say security forces repelled the assailants killing 80 of them were tina faso has been battling an islamist insurgency since 2015. well now to syria where there is no end in sight to the misery inflicted on civilians in the besieged province of eclipse the last major rebel stronghold russian airstrikes supporting the assad regime killed at least 8 people 5 of them children who were sheltering in a school house the united nations is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. that till now min in egypt has become a ghost town people living here have fled the government offensive against rebels. shabab people are fed up fled to live on the leaf trees this is a vegetable market there's no one here i haven't seen anyone other than journalists taking pictures of me and. most of those fleeing are hitting north towards the turkish border. and they did not we run away from the rockets out of the barrel and explosive shells. we

according to estimates working afonso needs 100000 tonnes of cooking oil annually if we can only produce 13000 tons said if you count all the domestic producers together we produce around 25 percent of what's needed with one quarter. did was one us who will not being able to produce enough is just one problem companies there are not catering enough to the needs of their customers who would prefer buying oil in one dieter bottles the import ban is hitting wholesalers hard they're hoping it will end soon looking at it more closely it's not really a ban there just no import licenses being issued just. didn't. hairsplitting that doesn't interest the sugar factories managing director in bun for a he's just happy with the results. and the amount of product in storage is going down but when the imports were banned we had $24000.00 tonnes of sugar in storage now it's less than $14000.00 tonnes that means that the measures of cause customers and outlets to buy our products are so we've also been able to win new customers just as well as to us but the government's policies could also have a negati

frickin afonso president called for 2 days of mourning after 35 civilians almost all of them women were killed by jihadists near the town of our bindo on tuesday at least 7 soldiers and 80 attackers also died in the shootout that followed. in algeria thousands of people accompanied the funeral procession of army chief that guy who died unexpectedly on monday was instrumental in forcing the country's longtime president to resign earlier this year. pope francis has given his christmas address from the vatican his annual or be at or be latin for to the city and the world the pontiff spoke about migrants and people who have endured what he called quote unspeakable forms of abuse that was a reference to spiralling allegations of sexual abuse in churches around the globe francis also called for an end to world conflicts you finished by blessing the catholic church faithful who packed the st peter's square in rome. 50000 people gathered in st peter's square in bright sunshine for the pope's christmas address it's the 7th of his papacy and again the condemnation of war and violence was the hear

and the same thing we did to a certain extent we did begin afonso tension within some ethnic groups and also a concern between the center around the periphery and these other areas was neglected too long we only looked at the north of mali at the epicenter here why you have these all the dynamics of local conflicts that can be taken advantage of all side of that area and what was you know it's the blowback of such a strategy you also need to emphasis local peacemaking and peacemaking between ethnic groups. at the local level in order to avoid this taking advantage of it to just to take i just want to pick up on that just to clarify you mentioned the mopti region in mali and of course you've had in mali a conflict between fama as and nomadic for nonnie herodias is that the cause the reason why al qaida and i sell a strengthening their foothold all rather a consequence of it. no i think it's it's of course and in the case of mocked it's a cause for their strengthening their football to a certain extent in what they did but also they're happening and more of a stepping stone into a big eno

of the echo some of that ended this weekend and previously we heard presidents of mali and broken afonso echoing the same feely now france feels that but much of that anger is targeted at the french who by the way west africans or francophone west africa see as probably the biggest partner the they should have in dealing with a crisis in the region unfortunately for them they don't see the results very very clearly as these attacks continue so these concerns are being echoed over and over again in the region and that's the reason why the french president wanted an assurance or public commitment by leaders in this region to say that they need the french troops there. made a dress there joining us live from a boot with thank you. france is the largest overseas operation is in west africa but the relationship with former african colonies has gone increasingly tense recently ran for a half dozen french soldiers have based in mali and other parts of the sahara region where armed groups linked to iceland al-qaeda are launching attacks the french operation started 5 years ago to coordinate secu