government to silence critics in the country somewhere dollywood is amnesty international's western central africa defeated regional director she joins me now from the senegalese capital dhaka hi samir good to have you with us thanks and welcome to day to be as africa what is your assessment off the situation in cameroon as we speak. to what you can say that the situation in relations human rights is getting worse and worse in the country. and nation in the area. in. their recent religion and. any kind of. region. and this is why we've seen the. hugely mass arrests during the demonstrations in region last month all right so we're talking about the leader of the opposition going on on trial on that sort of point out view is that the procedure in the country that we're talking about camera is that a judge is still assessing if there is enough evidence to go to trial and that's where we're at right now. i just want to know is there a chance as a mirror that this judge finds that there is not enough evidence and that there won't be a trial offer or in which charges that could result in the death penal

the royal museum for central africa and we're brussels has one hundred eighty thousand works. and berlin's new humboldt forum will feature seventy five thousand african art objects but what should be done with the new. artifacts. europe's ethnological museum collections are full of objects that were plundered from africa simply taken or gained through underhand means other items were bought or bartered by european explorers some eighty percent of africa's historical art is thought to be in europe including some of the most iconic museum pieces. should it be given back. yes a lot of it works taken without consent that's the conclusion of a groundbreaking study of europe's colonial era acquisitions the proposals put forward by french art historian benedict savoie and the senegalese scholar filin sour could have far reaching consequences for. their report was commissioned by french president emmanuel mock home he's pledged to begin repatriating stolen art works to africa within five years. we really hope that mccalls announcement on our report won't just be empty words but will h

far frank since france pulled out of central africa in the one nine hundred sixty s. the say five currency zone comprises six central african nations from a quarter of two central at the central african republic and eight west african countries these include booking a fossil and senegal in all fourteen states the current currency policy is effectively laid down in france and the safe from which was paid to the french franc now has a fixed exchange rate to the euro all members of the from have to deposit half of their currency reserves in france the central bank some say being picked to the euro create stability in member states others believe it keeps them dependent on the old colonial occupies it's a controversial topic and not just in senegal mali pulled out of the save our fall in one hundred sixty two but it changed its mind and rejoined the currency in one nine hundred eighty four d w spoke to molly's president ibrahim a book about and asked him how he views the front today. not to undergo. any measure of hands evolution i think this is the end of a front gives us

would have a ripple effect across the region because it would be the first country in isto and central africa to successfully determine lies homosexuality that is if the so-called repeal one sixteen petition is successful on friday so how important will that be for the l g b t i q community our correspondent melanie crew at the bow met with mary moody who is still in office in society where you peeling the law could change everything. this goes. by. so why would someone just because i used to love you frank. if it won for marion with three scarves she would have a hard time guessing what she's been through mary identifies with lesbian that is why has that father cost her out into the street when she was still a child that is why she was attacked by a group of men as a teenager and infected with hiv b. . it took. me all of about. and then after i. saw the bible to pull of my own. thank you. both and then even killed most of those because they are. just a local. and i'm so thankful group who made clothes so when twenty years ago. the mom. has something. to give me. some christopher has given ma

decision that would have a ripple effect across the region because it would be the first country in central africa to successfully determine lies homosexuality that is if their so called repeal one six two petition is successful on friday so how important would that be for the l g b t i q community our correspondent melanie corrado bow met with mary moody who is still in office in society where repealing the law could change everything. this goes will be we hope you but. i hope. so. just because i used to love frank. if it weren't for marion with three scars he would have a hard time guessing what she's been through mary identifies internets b. and that is why his stepfather caused her out into the street when she was still a child that is why she was attacked by a group of men as a teenager and infected with a to be moral. it took. me all of about. and then after me baffled. by the whole of my own. thank you. and then even killed myself those because they are. even just when i don't know i was pregnant. and i'm so thankful who make clothes so mean to me as a. consumer the mom. has something. to g

that would have a ripple effect across the region because it would be the first country in and central africa to successfully determine lies homosexuality that is if their so called repeal one six two petition is successful on friday so how important will that be for the l g b t i.q. community our correspondent melanie corrado bow meds with mary moody who is still in office after that in society for you getting the law could change everything. the skulls may be healed but never mind real fire which i passed through the years . sometimes i ask myself why you were a good somebody just because i used to love for him. if it weren't for mary with three scars she would have a hard time guessing what she's been through mary identifies as a lesbian that is why has stepfather koster out into the street when she was still a child that is why she was attacked by a group of men as a teenager and infected with hiv be with me all. it took. me all of. them there after me baffled the song by the pool of my own blood. type thank you. both should they even kill myself that's because they have done that to even

part of that reference material for the identification of wood samples in this case wood from central africa. d.n.a. is isolated from bark and believes there are genetic differences between trees of the same species in different locations. we create a map with our genetic analysis correlate the genetics and the countries of origin and if all goes well. then false declarations won't wash anymore you can no longer claim a piece of wood comes from cameroon if genetic analysis proves it comes from ghana a fail safe method and a great many tool in the fight against the illegal lumber trade. is. damages not just to the environment but also to the economies of these countries their tax healed is reduced if the trees are felled and uncontrolled fashion. the wood detectives have just one goal to boost the sustainable management of tropical forests now sometimes all that's needed is a simple solution to trigger a sustainable change just like our next story that i just drank some of the states in india where the arguments of child above the national average the read me project in the city of joy is emp

sudan is highly involved in central africa, in south sudan, in libya. destroy africa, because the fabric of africa is based on diversity. again, bashir has ruled sudan for 30 years. this fact has to be considered. ok, so he is wanted in the international criminal court over his dealings, his attacks in darfur, allegedly. and there are those now in sudan, like the chairman of your group, who say the icc should freeze the case against bashir as a kind of exit deal for him. we have also had a very prominent sudanese businessman, ahmed abdelatif, saying the same thing — to lift the charges if it means that omar al—bashir goes from power. is that something you would support? well, before we go into all this, did bashir ever express that he wants to step down? did bashir ever say? and what he is doing, he is killing more sudanese... but would you support the icc freezing or lifting its case against omar al—bashir as part of an exit deal? your chairman says yes. first of all, bashir is not ready to leave power, so i am not going into hypothetical issues. and t

the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians were armed groups control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with fourteen rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to begin end to the six year conflict. al-jazeera. the u.n. secretary general's deputy spokesman says the report can help peacekeepers take action on the humanitarian crisis the appreciate receiving this new information from medicines on frontier any sort of information that can help us do our work better is to be lauded actually and we will be studying these findings to see whether there is any truth to what can be improved if we spot deficiencies with any particular contingent we'll try to respond accordingly but right now we're the stage simply of studying what these new findings are. to brawl to has dismissed actions by a spanish naval ship as a child is returned to bully the territory the crew of the spanish wars

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the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians were armed groups control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with fourteen rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to revive end to the six year conflict. now the u.n. secretary general deputy spokesman scott says the report can help peacekeepers take action on the humanitarian crisis the appreciate receiving this new information from medicines and frontier any sort of information that can help us do our work better is to be lauded actually and we will be studying these findings to see whether there is any truth to what can be improved if we fix but deficiencies with any particular contingent will try to respond accordingly but right now where the stage is simply of studying what these new findings are. a new round of trade talks between the united states and china take place in washington on choose day it follows last week's roun

the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians who are obtuse control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with forty rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to begin to end the six year conflict. dizzier. town after a check of the world weather with robin roberts spring already strong in europe you might think if you look at the pictures behind me look at those temperatures and what do you think the months was april there was i thinking very much because this is just that in the last couple of days that's not really surprising down in spain to see twenty one and particularly in southwestern hundred seer it's always you know they have is going up every year but the rest you know it just doesn't look right for febrile that's correct if you compare it with the average we've got a sways for a good part of the heart of europe is about ten degrees ten degrees above the norm and surpr

way in so it looks like we'll see some rain in morocco including force in rebuts for the central belt of africa plenty of sunshine here as you'd expect at this time of year the showers they usually a long way south and we'll see just one or two for us as we head through sunday including in brazil. welcome to alton vines. a soviet era automobile manufacturing booky both. with the decades old boardwalk is being torn up and re written by scientific. and western style management and socialist workers. appeared destined for a cockroach the russian shop a witness documentary on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching out there is a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump is a european allies to take back more than eight hundred i said find his captors in syria and put them on trial he says the caliphate is ready to fall. if the rebels in yemen say they have launched a major attack because the border with saudi arabia is the most significant border fighting to take place. it is aimed at deescalate the violence. and the u.s. military is airlifted tons of aid to the colombian t

drop further as we head through chews day with the winds coming down from the north for the central belt of africa plenty of sunshine here and plenty of dry weather to lagos there will be up to around thirty three degrees but there are some showers most of them in the fall southern parts of arm up moral to all the heavy ones there in. a face can tell a story without uttering a single. unknowing gone. a simple touch inform. the young convention manity of life witness through the lens of the human eye. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. al-jazeera on arab media where every. welcome back quick look at top stories this hour now the u.s. and russia have come up with counterproposals to end the political crisis in venezuela the u.s. is calling for elections while nicolas maduro is still president russia's counter plan expresses concern that any attempts to use force to topple him talks to a version of the u.s. government shutdown of reportedly stalled as u.s. president all trying to add to that the democrats terrible off as indicate they want to shut down and a british newspaper s

but the east a falling for us as well kyra getting to around seventeen degrees now for the central belt of africa we are seeing more showers now they're pushing a bit further north which we could see some of those in uganda but also in the western parts of africa too in the south of. the of. all the presidents on donald trump jr was promised damaging information about hillary clinton allegation want to see the investigation sit down to see did the trump campaign with russia did you at any time former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form the close sort of batten down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question bottle field washington on al jazeera. the latest news as it breaks also after the explosions to report to save the city save the civilians for the targets. with detailed coverage despite the high cuz young men are still volunteering to fight this policy out of a sense of profit off the juices. from around the world it must be a different now about is it through the troops for through by many many people here in the brush to rip up the. comeb

into friday so our temperatures will be topping this time at around twenty four degrees the central belt of africa is also going to see plenty of sunshine as we head through the next day or so i think for us in lagos we get to around thirty two just the chance of the old shower here but i think the greatest chance of a shower is going to be for the south so bone is likely to see quite a few during the day. welcome to all to. the soviet era automobile manufacturing. with the decades old has been torn up we were. selling to. the western style management and so she was at work and. appeared destined for a car. the russian regional a witness documentary on al jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour now u.s. spike syrian democratic forces have started evacuating civilians from my sil's last remaining pockets of land in eastern syria several trucks have left the besieged village of. the british teenager who fled london to join the ice will not be welcome in bangladesh this according to the country's foreign minister who made the announcement off the person move just a u.k. citize

into friday so our temperatures will be topping this time at around twenty four degrees the central belt of africa is also going to see plenty of sunshine as we head through the next day or so i think for us in lagos we get to around thirty two just the chance of the old shower here but i think the greatest chance of a shower is going to be for the south so bone is likely to see quite a few during the day. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in liberal i was the global floods and the like and the others through the green line continues with kosovo year of fear and hope this was my return to kosovo and the little village of but one decade on i've come back to find out what happened to those hopes and dreams rewind on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire the grip of several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a fire broke out in a residential complex and complex that is an old part of the city and that building also

the central text home and in fact current in asia. from places like bangladesh to africa is actually because ghana used to be a country that really dominates in the textile industry then we had issues with. piracy coming in where pirated textiles are coming in from china and so ghana gannets industry really struggled but we have beginning to see a revival of that's where the incoming of some content is from europe and the government obviously giving them the incentive to come in and establish because we have that base yeah and the raw material is also here in ghana it's full for this to happen and so yes it is one critical area put a lot of young people back to jobs because many of them are unemployed and with their schools in this sector obviously we should have africa. in the coming years. briefly if you can unemployment maybe the growing problem populations could be a problem briefly if you. yes it is an issue that. few. all right over for it we lost the line has gone down the apologize for that. growth in many african countries is solidly in the green the internationa

drop further as we head through chews day with the winds coming down from the north for the central belt of africa plenty of sunshine here and plenty of dry weather to lagos there will be up to around thirty three degrees but there are some showers most of them in the fall southern parts of arm up moral to all the heavy ones there in. take the worst possible material eurabia ground into dust comparable to flour and make a lot of it and put it into a place where people live because the cost. is growing so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. for those who make you feel like a movie we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. welcome back look at the top stories this hour the u.s. and russia have come out with counterproposals to end the political crisis in venezuela the u.s. is calling for elections while nicolas maduro is still president but russia's counter plan expresses concern that any attempts to use force to topple him. talks to avert another u.s. government shutdown of reportedly stalled as u.s. president donal

way in so it looks like we'll see some rain in morocco including force in rebuts for the central belt of africa plenty of sunshine here as you'd expect at this time of year the showers they usually a long way south and will see just formal to force as we head through sunday including in the reveal. actually the against addiction very thing that brought her down now she can teach people how to come back i know it's hard for me to believe that he's going to get a full time job in radio but i have to be supportive family. with my grandson i just say ok then we have marty she's been we have to lease and i'm going to keep working part time this moment that feel good hard. on al-jazeera. when the news breaks a few minutes ago we were able to hear a huge explosion fifty people are still missing when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told we need to invest in development you can best making sure the people of the three hundred zero has teams on the ground join us for this historic shift in american politics to bring you more of the world we need documentaries and life on and on line. ar

drop further as we head through chews day with the winds coming down from the north for the central belt of africa plenty of sunshine here and plenty of dry weather to those that lagos that will be up to around thirty three degrees but there are some showers most of them in the fall southern parts of arm up moral to all the heavy ones there. in the first time lands of the mesopotamia with the first settlements from the cradle of civilization iraqi people who've depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution outages are world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. hello again the top story. for peace talks with president. and the u.s. is likely to start pulling its troops out of syria few weeks. so far. on the timing but his top commander in the middle east. on the. freedom square right now in. return from. nicolas maduro is vowing to defend venezuela against any attacks the president says his soldiers are ready to fight th

but the east falling for us as well kyra getting to around seventeen degrees now for the central belt of africa we are seeing more showers now they're pushing a bit further northwards we could see some of those in uganda but also in the western parts of africa too in the south of. the of. one day for a ride with to become free float on the east side of playgrounds. and certainly if you can catch tourists to show you right sure we. all of the brits or cubans over are these read reviews and. a chronicle of the revolution and it's our separation through the prism of its architecture. unfinished space. walking back just a quick look at the stories making headlines donald trump's full of lawyers told congress us president is a racist a con man and a cheat michael cohen said trump knew in advance about the wiki leaks release of democratic e-mails during the twenty sixteen election and ordered him to threaten people and groups five hundred times over ten years. drug meanwhile has started his second summit with north korea's leader in vietnam's capital one noise u.s. president held kim jong un as a gre

into friday so our temperatures will be topping this time at around twenty four degrees the central belt of africa is also going to see plenty of sunshine as we head through the next day or so i think for us in lagos we get to around thirty two just the chance of the old shower here but i think the greatest chance of a shower is going to be for the south so bone is likely to see quite a few during the day. at the time it was the worst environmental disaster in brazil's history but it was also a tragic for taste of what was to follow. people in power investigates claims of warnings ignored. i'm the disturbing ties between lawmakers and the mining industry that let. you go on trial. just brazil river of mud. donald trump as told of a special bond with kim jong un. now the u.s. president a north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very honored to. making history in singapore and they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally end the korean war follow us on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera. welcome back a look at the top stories now us

united states, in europe, where reacting to influxes, these waves of from sub sahara africa, from the middle east and centralng at the global patchwork as this sort of myriad reactions. one of which, which we're seeing on ywhere, is cracking down the things that have made democracies, western democracies. open borders, not completely but permeable borders. of wing for the movement trade and goods. and the united states, you're starting to see this reaction to millions of borders. moving across what is that reaction? what is the public sentiment? is it similar in other countries to what we're seeing here in the united states the push to build a wall. are we seeing the same thing? >> absolutely. hungary, for example, you have a giant border fence now. victor -- has e, implemented all kinds of law from revent migrants settling there. they have criminalized the act undocumented person of any kind. another, you know, one of the de facto leaders there. e turned away boats full of refugees at the board last summer. his rhetoric, if you listen to some of these anti-immigrant leaders in europe, they sound very simila

africa on the w. welcome. but first zimbabwe's central bank has really. new devalued cause i currency into circulation that replaces the zimbabwe and bank notes which were pegged to the u.s. dollar people lined up in the capital harare to be the first to get their hands on the replacement currency this is the latest effort by zimbabwe's government to bring back some stability to its ailing economy and economists say the move could make prices more predictable in the country analysts see it as a step towards a launching a new currency zimbabwe and dollar was abolished in two thousand and nine amid soaring inflation. well this sunday senegal will elect a new president and that could also be a first step towards a new currency opposition candidate whose mansong course says he'll abolish the safe route for a safer from if he's elected the abbreviations c.f.a. stance vocal and the phone says duffy currency therefore he says is a relic of colonial times which keep selling.

agreement would hold and it will bring fine of peace to the people of the central african republic. five countries from africa sahara region have asked the united nations for help in their fight against armed groups leaders of bikie in a fast so chad ten year and made the plea for money and other aid at a summit in bikini capital attacks by armed groups have surged in the region since chaos and gallop to libya and twenty eleven coincided with two attacks near bikini border which left one thousand people dead nicholas hackers monitoring events from dakar in senegal and this is a region where there is no physical front chair it's a region used to buy nomadic herders that come across into greek faso in search of food and water now no one has been able to independently verify the circumstances of the death that occurred during this operation but it's certainly a small victory for the brick in a fire so army that have come under attack they say it's in response to an attack on villagers late on sunday night where armed men went house to house killing villagers and it comes just days before the start of the u.s. tr

twenty three degrees meanwhile this must drive now across the good parts of south africa the heavy showers continue to central areas of mozambique will be down posed to me to madagascar moving. sponsored by qatar and. by me every. series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what the phrase. the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most. if. they're listening post on al-jazeera. hello again i'm just. a reminder of the news this hour iran has warned of an increased risk of war with israel foreign minister mohamad job and zarif accuse the united states of being the destabilizing force that could trigger a new conflict in the middle east. members of the european parliament invited to visit venezuela had been refused entry and expelled from the country they would use meat for the country's national assembly and opposition leader. to discuss the ongoing political crisis. the u.s. special e

to africa now where the government of the central african republic because struck a peace deal with fourteen armed groups it was agreed in sudan's capital khartoum a week of talks backed by the united nations and the african union was slim and christian fighters have been in conflict since twenty thirteen thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. an alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president of france what was easy is government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader. was sworn in as interim president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters also known as the anti black continued the un sent in the peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces are already there and since then cease fires have been signed and violated all sides have been accused of war crimes in mali cheers is an assistant professor at george washington university she says achieving peace in central african republic will provide stability for the surrounding region. they're at a point now where the pe

showers here as well down towards the southern parts of africa there's plenty more in the way of plants of wet weather here all centered over the central belt here but then it does bend backgrounds was the eastern parts of south africa and this is the region again we're expecting the wettest of the weather as we head through the day on thursday. orgon. well you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour a suicide bomb attack in iran has killed twenty members of the elite revolutionary guards another ten were wounded knee is ahead on close to the pakistan border city is the capital of sistan baluchistan where security forces repeatedly. battle repeatedly with drug smugglers and sunni fighters in predominantly shia iran. voters in spain are facing the prospect of their third general election within four years after members of parliament defeated the budget plans of the ruling a socialist government. venezuelan opposition leader one. who has ordered the armed forces to allow the delivery of aid sent by the united states within the next ten days president nicolas maduro who continues to have the backing of the military says threat