news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes ethiopia is on a progressive pop up for a fall off of the ministers in the country and now women but while these decisive changes are being made at the top how much still needs to trickle down to the places where cultural biases still persist. and since he's twenty fifteen election when tanzania's president has seen his support slight with these power base seemingly fading how dangerous has he become for his opponents. then we'll take you to her idea ways involve ian's big farewell to the music icon all of them to pussy. i'm christine mundell welcome to news africa i'm glad you're today in ethiopia's prime minister has become a symbol of what a new generation of african leaders could be at forty two is the continent's youngest leader and he's proving to be a reform since coming to power last april hundreds of political prisoners have been freed and a facility known for torture related activities has been closed now that's open the path for renewed international interest german president frank my is currently in the country with a dele

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reporter: this campus could be anywhere in the world but this is ethiopia. and something here is strikingly different. >> i'm lucky to be here at the university, because most girls in ethiopia do not have access to a university like this. reporter: that is because most girls do not even make it to secondary school. hard to believe given the fact that ethiopia made headlines when -- was named the country's first female president. there are more women in politics. in the countryside where most ethiopians live, women are still confined to traditional roles. the opportunities for women are limited. it's all about batteries and families, influenced by culture and tradition. here in the village it is still men who dominate the life of women. i see girls coming home from elementary school and ask them about their goals. >> a doctor. >> a teacher. >> engineer. reporter: though almost all children go to primary schools these days, only 30% of girls make it beyond eighth grade. the notion that girls do not belong in school persists in the rural villages and if a famil

this is the man bringing change to ethiopia. and showing berlin support for this change is why german president funk is here. as. well you see was this coming to power last year prime minister abi ahmed cemented a peace deal with former rival every trail. she released thousands of political prisoners and also appointed a cabinet in which half the members are women next to the first female president of ethiopia sally works saudi acknowledged what he called revolutionary changes in favor of democracy. i've come to a country that has changed a country that is rising and we new ng itself and i believe i can speak for everyone visiting here with me that we have tremendous respect for what still has to be done with my of a courage it took you to begin peace reforms. the two countries are seeking to strengthen their economic ties to help boost development in ethiopia. so they work so he prays started my us presence and said that one shouldn't wait until everything was rosy to engage in a more solid partnership. if your pia is still tro

and my is in ethiopia i want to talk about europe's relationship with africa because my is a visit to ethiopia is essentially an endorsement to prime minister needs reform agenda so is you're saying to africa do what we'd like and we'll bring the money is that the case and if that is the case is it fair and then it begs the question has europe changed the way it deals with africa now face this have a listen to what the german president had to say when he was talking about ethiopia . i've come to a country that has changed a country that is rising and removing itself and i believe i can speak for everyone visiting here with me that we have tremendous respect for what still has to be done we have a courage it took you to begin beast reforms. all right i want to bring in more joy he's a blogger and political commentator from nigeria he's in all stages of course for us all right j.j. it's good to see you so we're talking about you know real reform and investment we just heard from the german president talking about the changes that they're seen in ethiopia and how happy they are about it

and german president frank died by a visit ethiopia with the promise of rewarding reform with investment we ask is that the relationship africans want with your. i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're cheating did well taking off in gone it's a day a small town called known for its tough streets so what makes it special well this town and be capital accra has produced some of africa's greatest boxes guys like richie cole me. like course they and joshua cross him these are just three of the five world boxing champions that hail from tangled anyways and it's no surprise that most of gone as national champions all from that so my colleague forester cora visited where she met an aspiring boxer well while champion dreams. the more new routine of a champion. a german gets ready for his first run of the day. here in bookham most grind out a living from the fishing treat but fenech says it's not much of a life he has dreams and boxing could be his escape route. for this office i mean cereal gets enough money. to take care of us. throughout the show corey i say young boy you

in ethiopia is dangerous. with his arrest and dumbbell a freshness mind argyll has fears about the government. but i was a foreigner making a film about agricultural development i could contact the company. magazine. this was it. so the story. before we start you know just to get some coffee don't shout to. reach may not be disclosed to some interviews they've made quiet most of the shift at all. and so yes. this is you know one thousand. and this one like this it is two thousand back that the yellow section these three thousand of the that this one is four thousand a day that sort of become ten thousand so of course all of the clearing got to vittie of this had it almost twelve in it so this is it is. that is there and the same time and the fact that it's now under construction was in the six months this is a vice million five to it would be fine and i was. just to. exploit the. it was a must see moment. twelve and it was the government is to provide us some moron the source that we can expand. we are lucky t

our africa editor fergal keane reports now on ethiopia's age of change.and most daring reformer. abiy ahmed emerged from the one—party state, but he's rewriting the script of how leaders behave here. we are very happy, really. it's like a renaissance, this man told me. after decades of political and ethnic division, abiy ahmed is promising healing. his pace is relentless. we travelled with him as he sold his vision — to villagers, to factory workers, to medical students. you should be part of the reform, he said. use your words and knowledge, don't fight. the country he took over nine months ago had thousands of political prisoners. all are now free. a 20—year conflict with neighbouring eritrea was ended. the presidency, chiefjustice and half the cabinet posts are allocated to women. birtukan mideksa was a political prisoner and exile. abiy asked her to come home and run elections. thousands, if not millions of people, paid to see this kind of change in this country. to have the former opposition leader, a former dissident to lead an institution with sign

kummel heiresses considered a heavyweight and what promises to be a crowded field of candidates ethiopia meanwhile already has a woman president and a gender balance cabinet but are these changes trickling down to all levels of society. and in sports defending bundesliga champions byron munich stay hot on the heels of league leaders dortmund after a brocky start to the season byron showed there back on track to get struck hard and there are certain to make it a tight race for the title. sumi so much going to it is great to have you with us international adore smith of venezuela self declared interim president is growing israel and australia are among the latest countries to recognize one why though his rival president nicolas maduro has rejected an ultimatum from some european nations to announce fresh elections within eight days both men are now locked in a fierce contest for the support of and as well as military. target practice under the eyes of president nicolas maduro it took place at fort. twenty seventeen a group of soldiers rose up against the government this time it was about s

but the government of ethiopia decided that in. the way that they wanted to distribute basic services by forcibly moving people. into new villages. it was possible that some of the money being provided by the most bank was being used directly for the implementation of the education including for serious human rights abuses that were going to focus on the moment of the been one the one. i believe that with some hard work and advocacy we. we can get the world bank to be accountable for what it's done. it's a bit difficult for me to say but i mean i wouldn't i wouldn't be here if i didn't believe that this was worth it. was the world bank listen to the newark people. what happens if they don't. owe. you know. somebody. but i don't know. oh. i know there's. been a little. getting on with the new number because it was only. the risk that it was either loved or citizen when i was only with. the room got the money and the wouldn't be on the roads in the. subway and that it was as if i go over to. london and walk the other level in a. worl

into that once every chair was labeled as a spoiler it gave every anti eritrea entity including ethiopia. the treasonous individuals that ran around bad mouth in eritrea and the ferocity of the media on the. eritrea propaganda really helped to to to sway public opinion of course some countries are now wondering why this sudden shift in washington london other countries is this because of the war in yemen does it mean that every trans going to help or bomb yemen does i mean eritrea is going to take i.m.f. money privatized all its industries and basically give up the revolution absolutely not search and made no conception in order to get these sanctions lifted she was in compliance with the sanctions regime even though they didn't agree with it and even though they were fighting it for the nine years but they didn't give up anything to become to the for the sanctions to be removed and the peace and stability in the horn of africa and the peace between eritrea and ethiopia was a direct result of the two countries that have nothing to do with the u.n. and the those who are not the reasons wh

was sanctioned in the first place so i'm not sure why they are trying to tie the peace with the ethiopia and the resolving of. issue to the sanctions but their chair was wrongly sanctioned because it fit the narrative that was being pushed for what the intended to do in somalia had everything to do with the propping up the regime in somalia that they wanted had everything to do with supporting ethiopia in its mission in somalia and it had absolutely nothing to do with wrongdoings obviously now that we're not under sanctions we will have more leeway to take care of some of our domestic issues that are economically for sure yeah there's no a government in the conscription will end however and i've got to ask you mention propaganda really a britain of sanctions against russia to have certain sanctions against china or in other countries people may know how a country like cuba withstood u.s. sanctions how did eritrea withstand sanctions from countries like britain and the united states for so long a share will power. it was easy to nine years were very difficult for the people of eritrea but

today's focus is a movement that fight for gender equality how it tells us the problem in ethiopia is not just with men though most times we talk about issues of women we're talking about the issues do suffer from men but women also we put ourselves down we do not not exactly put ourselves down but we do not realize or put into how sometimes we go along with the status quo so the things that we do to change that status quo the mindset we have towards our own selves that's very crucial if the o.p.'s capital is single rapid change on the prime minister ahmed but there's still a long way to go before noticeable progress is made on improving the lives of ordinary women. denmark started building a fence today along its border with germany copenhagen hopes the seventy kilometer metal construction will halt the spread of the african swine fever which is transmitted by wild boars it's attracted lots of controversy for environmental and political reasons. is fully las. there is public joins me now in studio doing some muckraking on the story. why is them are so concerned about african swine fe

tigrayan people will need to be included within abiy ahmed's vision for governance of ethiopia.ealtigray, there is anxiety over the tensions. this man as a farmer who tells me these travelling to parts of the country because of his ethnicity. do that is the man who can do abiy ahmed is the man who can do that, he - bring that it isa it is a very big ask. the division is by far the biggest challenge to abiy ahmed. allowing the largest ethnic groups to rule their own regions has not helped to ease tensions, and the tensions are not confined to tigray. ethiopia has more than 80 different ethnic groups and violence between some has displaced more than 2 million people. more than 70,000 ethnic somalis travelled here following fighting between the somali and another ethnic group. there are just so another ethnic group. there are just so many people. i was shown around bya man so many people. i was shown around by a man who fled here with his family after his business was burned down. the not confined to this months of area. in the first nine months of last year, more than 1.4 million

africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes migration to big cities is outpacing urbanization in ethiopia we meet the children forced to make a living on the streets of ideas. and just days into a new presidency hundreds of rebels lay down their weapons is it a new door in the democratic republic of congo. then a fishing sandal we'll take you to the people carving out the gluttony and funeral tradition that's one of extravagance. and pristine one built welcome to news africa i'm glad you're choosing. what happens when development is concentrated in the cities and excludes the rural areas in ethiopia one of the on says too that christian is visible in the capital addis ababa the city has seen an influx of more than two million people in the past twenty years and the meeting its size has almost doubled but infrastructure like housing and schools and the number of jobs on offer have not grown according to the result children many of them a false live on the streets here's a report my colleague funnier char compiled. over the youngest children even six years old they spoil is begging for anyt

today's focus is a movement that fight for gender equality how it tells us the problem in ethiopia is not just with men though most times we talk about issues of women we're talking about that you should stay suffer from men but women also we put ourselves down we do not not exactly put ourselves down but we do not realize our put in charge sometimes we go along with the status quo so the things that we do to change that status quo the mindset we have towards our own selves that's very crucial if the o.p.'s capital is single rapid change on that a prime minister ahmed but there's still a long way to go before noticeable progress is made on improving the lives of ordinary women. right to some soccer news now and in the bundesliga byron munich have been playing catch up to first place darkman all season but they've once again moved within six points of the league leaders thanks to an emphatic win at stuttgart. by a mere nick piled on the pressure from the start things they've come on separate blocks but the ball eventually landed in front of tiago and he threaded the needle for the bank

this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes ethiopia is on a progressive offer of fall off of the ministers in the country and now women but while these decisive changes are being made at the top how much still needs to trickle down to the places where cultural biases still persist. and since he is twenty fifteen election with tanzania's president.

but the government of ethiopia decided that in. the way that they wanted to distribute basic services by forcibly moving people. in two new villages. it was possible that some of the money being provided by the most bank was being used directly by the implementation of the education including for serious human rights abuses. with the q what about the mumbai woman the been one thing we want. i believe that with some hard work and advocacy we. we can get the world bank to be accountable for what it's done it's been difficult for me to say but i mean i wouldn't i wouldn't be here if i didn't believe that this was worth it. was the world bank listen to that you have people. what happens if they don't. look good. but. you know. you've got to. send them to me so they'd. they say put on what i know not. i mean. i know there's. been a little. gun grabbing i was. sick and it was only because someone or really spending it on was losing the load as it was when i was only going to be in the room got the money at the end of the year many women

in ethiopia water being in theater helping the people responding to people if they don't want to getany wasn't going to security. so you live in paris if you live right in human dignity rather than those people that would have you thank you. well there's always a price to development the issue is to understand what that is and there are in theory winners and losers in all projects our challenge is how to science is to make sure that you know there are mostly witness and very few losers . when the banks report is released it does admit the connection between the development program and the forced evictions. but nevertheless it says it's not the bank's fault that the local people lost their life. the claims from the enron are not correct it's. the you know there are there are a lot of good people that work the world back trying to do the right thing but then you know there are the decision makers and they're completely removed from the people on the ground who are impacted by the decisions that they make can decisions that they make about dollars and cents and maintaining cozy relation

do with propping up the regime in somalia that they wanted had everything to do with supporting ethiopia mission in somalia and it had absolutely nothing to do with wrong doing obviously now that we're not under sanctions we will have more leeway to take care of some of our domestic issues that are economically for sure yeah there's no a government in the conscription will end however and i've got to ask you mention propaganda britain of sanctions against russia by certain sanctions against china in other countries people may know how say a country like cuba withstood u.s. sanctions how did eritrea withstand sanctions from countries like britain and the united states for so long a share will power. it was easy nine years were very difficult for the people of eritrea they decided to concentrate inward and develop their country in the using their own resources and. by time so when the sanctions but we didn't sit idle just decided there was time to do even harder work so we managed to to work hard and achieve the millenium development goals when no other country in sub-saharan africa was ab

see professional clubs have to fight to be professional player the first professional player for ethiopia. when it comes to football if you pass a strange country although they have the second largest population. i read my life after. famous for the actual math i now have one play on this planet actually. now is being watched by many. offering serious my. final match to the places it's. sapping when i'm driven. to work then they. like to think. it's in in bits my back pain the pain is coming slowly. it's just painful then and i didn't finish the match from the man she flashed his seat to see chance to. want to know the time since be smart to eat. i accept the steps. but you know me as a pretty tough guy. that makes me really miss my mom. the most fun to be feeling the. heat from the school i want to play. in general and. then i have to see the as that ocean. but for myself. i need to play germany. this is starting points. let's go we pick how things go on the. street. challenge takes five thousand five hundred kilometers from home. twenty seven the jews. have opposing. the passport that t

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there was east african dominance on friday at the dubai marathon with ethiopia and kenya taking top on as it was a record breaking performance in both races to get an a model of ethiopia finished first in the men's race east time of two hours three minutes and thirty four seconds broke the course record by twenty six seconds it was also the sixth the fastest men's marathon time ever. on the women's side it was kenya's a ruth chip get h two record of the food fastest women's marathon time in history two hour was seventy minutes and eight seconds more than enough to take victory and smash the course record by more than two minutes. italian dominate paris says a man who enjoys the hahnemann cum cool scene kids in austria and prove why yet again on friday paris one will cut down your victories here in twenty thirty twenty seventeen and again on this occasion the telly and was the only man to dip under the one minute fifty seven second mark but the event was overshadowed by a horrific crash this is sweden's alexander coach during his downhill attempt and as you can see it did not end the wa

and german president died my visits ethiopia with the promise of rewarded reform with investment is that the relationship africans want to live your.

there was a stuffer can dominance on friday at the dubai marathon with ethiopia and kenya taking top honors it was a record breaking performance in both races of ethiopia finished first in the men's is time of two hours three minutes thirty four seconds broke the course record by twenty six seconds it's also the six fastest men's martha and time ever. on the women's side it was kenya's roof chetna gets recorded the third fastest time in history two hours something minutes eight seconds also smashing the course record by more than two minutes italian dominic paris is a man who enjoys the common calm course in kitzbuhel in austria and he showed why yet again on friday paris on world cup downhill victories here in twenty thirteen twenty seventeen and again on this occasion italian was the only man to dip under the one minute fifty seven second mark but the event was overshadowed by an incredibly broad crash this is sweden's alexander code during his downhill attempt and as you can see it didn't end the way he had planned so he had to be elif to by helicopter after receiving a lengthy me

in this time lucky to be here at the university because most girls in ethiopia do not have access to university like this you know you need to look at that and not dealing and if yes well that's because most girls don't even make it to secondary schools hard to believe given the fact that if the opium made headlines when they was named the country's first female president and there are more women in politics. in the countryside where most ethiopians live there men are still confined to traditional roles the opportunities for women are limited it's all about baldur is set in families influenced by culture and tradition here in the village it's still men who dominate the life of women i see girls coming home from elementary school and ask them about their goals as a doctor. so each or engineer the almost all children go to primary school these days only thirty percent of girls make it beyond eighth grade the notion that girls do not belong in school persists in the rural villages and if a family can afford to send a child to school boys usually take precedence. from others believe that

the research team sent ethiopia needs a translator with local knowledge of gum below and they ask. almost feels obliged to help the truth get out and so he accepts returning to gambia despite his fears. a dead donkey cannot fear him. because it is already a date. so this is where we have. a year later the world bank's report is finally getting ready yeah newark refugees in the camps are mobilizing. and so this is a very important time for you to try to influence the world bank it is very important that they hear your voice a lot is the reason why a comeback. because i want to collect your messages and take them to washington to deliver to the bank supported characters. but i'm one of them of one of my mechanic on a copper wire bunk i rank that i know what the new going to take but the minute in walking i don't want to walk and while my notebook a better now will via this apartment unit want to perform a talk we are now hearing on look a little bit and yeah little bit of an odd one and them all go no data what got biggie gilgo. people go out i would really thought. we are practicall

there was east african dominance on friday at the dubai marathon with ethiopia and kenya taking top on as it was a record breaking performance in both races to get an a model of ethiopia finished first in the men's race each time of two hours three minutes and thirty four seconds broke the course for a group by twenty six seconds it was also the sixth the fastest men's mountain time ever. on the women's side it was kenya's a ruth chip get h. record of the food fastest women's marathon time in history two hour was seventy minutes and eight seconds more than enough to take victory and smash the course record by more than two minutes. italian dominate paris says a man who enjoys the harman come call seen kids hell in austria and proved why yet again on friday paris won world cup downy a victory is here in twenty thirty twenty seventeen and again on this occasion the italian was the only man to death under the one minute fifty seven second mark but the event was overshadowed by a horrific crash this is sweden's alexander cole during his downhill attempt and as you can see it did not end th

billions of dollars to the ethiopian government this project has a good purpose to fight poverty in ethiopia but the government of the european decided that in gambell the way that they wanted to distribute basic services by forcibly moving people. into new villages. it was possible that some of the money being provided by the most bank was being used directly to the implementation of the education including for serious human rights abuses but i want to work with the folk you call them on the muslim and the been one the one. i believe that with some hard work and advocacy we. we can get the world bank to be accountable for what it's done. it's been difficult for me to say but i mean i wouldn't i wouldn't be here if i didn't believe that this was worth it was. going to. get. better but. you know. you got to. put a hood on. i mean. i know there's. been a little. thing i was a member because it was only on the war room instead of seeing it on or was it the love this is when i was only with. the room got the wouldn't be on the edge and look. at something and thought it was it. ended. and walked

it was a record breaking performance in both races to get an a model of ethiopia finished first in the men's race each time of two hours three minutes and thirty four seconds broke the course record by twenty six seconds it was also the sixth the fastest men's marathon time ever. on the women's side it was kenya is a ruth chip get h. record of the food fastest women's marathon time in history two hours seventeen minutes and eight seconds more than enough to take victory and smash the course record by more than two minutes. italian dominate paris's a man who enjoys the harmon come call seen kids hell in austria and proved why yet again on friday paris won world cup down to a victory here in twenty thirty twenty seventeen and again on this occasion the italian was the only man to dip under the one minute fifty seven second mark but the event was overshadowed by a horrific crash this is sweden's alexander cohen during his downhill attempt and as you can see it did not end the way he a player and he had to be airlifted by helicopter to hospital after receiving lengthy medical treatment and

and german president frank coltish died my visits ethiopia with the promise of rewarding reform withinvestment we are asked is that the relationship africans want with europe.

ethiopia as controversial grand renee's on staten is expected to be fully completed and operational by the end of twenty twenty two the water and energy minister says it should start producing energy in twenty twenty the dam as part of ethiopia's bid to become africa's main power exporter but neighboring egypt is concerned the dam could lead to major water shortages two people have blown themselves up during a gunfight with security forces and the tunisian town of jeremiah the interior ministry says it happened during a raid of what it called a terrorist hideout three other fighters were also killed there thought to be senior members of an ice a linked group operating in city of the saide province south of the capital tunis. southern thailand is bracing for the arrival of tropical storm public hundreds of people have been taken to shelters set up by the government very services have also been canceled for cost as a predicting torrential rain strong winds and waves up to four meters high when the storm makes landfall later on friday china has made history by landing a spacecraft on the

ethiopia is expected to finish building its grand renaissance stand by the end of two thousand and twenty two the water and energy minister says it should start producing energy in twenty twenty dams part of ethiopia's bid to become africa's main power exporter and neighboring egypt is concerned the dam could lead to major water shortages. thirty three million visitors are heading to greece every year and they're helping revive a previously depressed housing market non europeans are being encouraged to buy with the chance to get a visa to stay if they spend enough johnson reports from athens. has just sold this one bedroom apartment to a chinese investor it has a panoramic view of athens but until last year the owners would have been lucky to get half the price it fetched two hundred eighty thousand dollars that's the minimum investment required for a greek golden visa which allows non europeans to live in europe it's the cheapest such visa in the european union and it's brought a flood of new money into a depressed real estate market. the main priority for people who buy these properties

this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes ethiopia is on a progressive fall off of the ministers in the country are now women but while these decisive changes are being made at the top how much still needs to trickle down to the places where cultural biases still persist. and since he's twenty fifteen election when tanzania's president has seen his support slight power base seemingly fading hope dangerous as he becomes for his opponents.

we'll try if we can to come back to jamil a bit later in the program let's move on shall we because ethiopia and somalia finding a military offensive against al shabaab the armed group a time to ethiopia and soldiers on saturday in southwest somalia announcement comes just a day after the u.s. military said it carried out an asteroid killing fifty two fighters one of the dough has this report and a warning you may find some of the pictures disturbing. the destruction caused by u.s. warplanes targeting al shabaab fighters near the port city of kiss my you in southern somalia bodies and bundled shells of vehicles sliced through not around and remind us of the intensity of their strikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes as five to two militants the somali army's sais that total is higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five ship bab militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about the victory today the estimates came hours after al shabaab fighters stormed a somali i mean base three hundred seventy kilometers sout

live in a station in ethiopia we meet the children forced to make a living on the streets on fridays. and just days into a new presidency hundreds of variables lay down their weapons is it a new door in the democratic republic of congo. then a fishing santa will take you to the people causing out the gun and funeral tradition that's one of extravagance.