correspondent in kampala uganda many thanks for your time. the u.n. has stepped up its emergency a few for zimbabwe warning about more than 5000000 people it's said of the population are in desperate need of food aid are least half of them on the brink of starvation. nothing to sell and even if there were a few people here i mean if money to buy food daily life has become a struggle for survival in zimbabwe people spent hours just trying to get by all too often conveying. when you go by day they will begin we have reduced our daily food portions that previously we could cook without rationing but now we have to do small quantities just to make sure that everyone in the family gets something to eat what you been widowed. traveling to get drinking water and food the cost of living is high one cannot even afford to buy basics. the climate crisis hyper inflation bad management corruption there are many reasons for the desperate situation zimbabweans are in. but international donors acknowledge the will to get out of the vicious circle. ready was once the

to talk more about this correspondence julio's joins us from kampala uganda and welcome to the show now charged with intending to annoy or ridicule the president how does will be challenge this. hoping why no charges have been brought to monetary sense. trumped up charges and if that is not enough. to convict them and they know that they have it now well to defend themselves. so what is very. right up here you are now told is fine this is not going to ship and i'm not anywhere with it because. now all these charges come a day after the death of ziggy wine he was a musician and a close friend of bobby and also a constant critic of president 70 bobby and the police have 2 very different accounts what fresh information do we know about is death. victor mention wieners to charlotte from the from a position of quality is that the musician died more for a city and she was shoveling on a motorbike crush and that's how he ended up dying because they're rushing towards people to try to trap achieve a child who died from it it has refused to accept the boby want him or refuse to accept it because

on uganda he's in the capital kampala and friedman. africa good to see you both julius i think maybe start with you i mean we're talking about a border that's been closed since about february i'm just give us a sense of just how bad things have gotten on the ground and when that border will actually open. president we know the progress has been signed it's been great news for the people in uganda for the people in rwanda but this is great most especially for the cross border trade does and the people that survive in the business of the border. the people who give money it's to use an old out there really look forward to this border being open anytime soon otherwise it's been really tight for the business for 6 months you can imagine what that means to the trade does what that means to the contracts for supplies and and so it's really tight for the money they are looking forward to seeing this really practically applied right fred i'll come to you now i mean so you know we have the signing ceremony we saw the 2 need is almost touch. but

kampala. idi amin ruled uganda with an iron fist for eight years after taking power in a coup in 1971.d half a million people had died during his reign. this man was only 21 when idi amin came to power. a year later her father and three brothers were executed for allegedly having links to rebel groups. she recalls life under his rule. those who had nothing to do with those people who are victims enjoyed life. they even took advantage of that situation to kill others. they would share the woman. they would come and say you are fighting idi amin. that matter to them —— matted for them. they are killing some women because of personal issues. sara is one of the many people who have come to uganda's national museum to see the exhibition. the roles of never before seen footage had been discovered, some on the premises of uganda's national broadcaster, in 2015. anybody coming to the exhibition would not find the idi amin stories they have heard about. this is because the organisers say they were trying to tell a positive story. we wanted a discussion, but a discussion that comes from the posi

let's get the view from both sides now julia gumbel on uganda he's in the capital kampala. africa good to see you both janice i think maybe start with you i mean we're talking about a border that's been closed since about february i'm just give us a sense of just how bad things have gotten on the ground and when that border will actually open. we know the progress has been signed it's been great for the people in uganda for the people in rwanda but this is great most especially for the cross border trade does and the people that survive and the business of. the people who might makes you use an old out there really look forward to this border being open any time soon otherwise it's been really tight for the business for 6 months you can imagine what that means to the trade does what that means to the trucks for supplies and. really tight for the looking forward to seeing this really. right fred i'll come to you now i mean so you know we have the signing ceremony we saw the 2 need is almost touch. but show me it doesn't mean that all the problems are solved. yeah definitely

uganda on high alert. to get an update i'm joined by days every journalist julius mogambo he is in kampala hygiene is good to see you what do you know about this latest case of ebola in uganda. i've just heard an interview with the district health of the so this is the senior medical personnel who is managing the outbreak on the ugandan side of the border and he told me that god the god they're collaborating now with the medical teams that video recording go supposed to come and pick the body and bury the body on saturday he says they are intensifying the screening and the vigilance is we high they're trying to make sure that most single case goes past the border unnoticed. ingenius as you mentioned this the case was discovered at a screening say to talk to us about how how those screening sanchez are actually working. according to dr buss to the d.h. will he told me every single individual who is crossing into uganda has to go through a through our screening some people have been screened more than once they are trying to make sure that even their colleagues on the they do exactly the same thing and then

on uganda he's in the capital kampala and for. africa good to see you both julius i think maybe start with you i mean we're talking about a border that's been closed since about february i'm just give us a sense of just how bad things have gotten on the ground and when that border will actually open. we know the progress has been signed it's been great for the people for the people in rwanda but this is great most especially for the cross border trade does and the people that survive in the business are. the people who might make some use and old but they're really look forward to this border being open any time soon otherwise it's been really tight for the business for 6 months you can imagine what that means to the trade does what that means to the trucks for plays and. really tight for the forward to seeing this really practically. right fred i'll come to you now i mean so you know we have the signing ceremony for the 2 need is almost touch hands but surely it doesn't mean that all the problems also. yeah definitely it means th

sustainable materials in uganda for instance people are making paper soon manufacture bags and other products but rather than cut down trees for the paper one enterprising group of women in kampala. but not a 5 security. plastic bugs a record one site in uganda. but not at this restaurant in the capital com paula instead of plastic bags known locally as. the money meant here uses people bags and we are very very environment friendly and we do not want to use contaminated and not so. it is definitely reliable which is not only for us it's for our children and for our grandchildren and much more. uganda is planning to implement a bun on plastic shopping bags this year and to replace them with biodegradable paper bags he says encouraged a group of local women to start making paper bags using locally available but on a fiber. that most farms in uganda but then a fight is considered the west product but this group is using it to make paper from the cut they are using this is that after the cutting with them after the cooking we blame them blend them like for 5 minutes they turn into a pole with a big container with water leave them on screens we drain the screen through the fiber sti

kampala. president paul kagame e of rwanda and president 70 of uganda signed the agreement in angola as capital luanda and it states that both governments should refrain from subverting or destabilizing the other and also that cross border activities should resume as soon as possible but it contains no solid commitments and in a press conference held after the signing the 2 leaders barely acknowledged each other tensions reached a head in february this year that's when rwanda closed its main border crossing with uganda to cargo and stopped rwandans from crossing into uganda both governments have accused each other of a spear knowledge some ugandan security agencies blame the rwandan government for a series of high profile murders in uganda of the last few years that have included a senior police officer and some government officials meanwhile people in the rwandan government have blamed uganda for rounding up and arresting and torturing its citizens as well as hosting and supporting rwandan exiled dissidents is a running government says trying to overthrow it. 70 have been allies since the 1980

kampala. president paul kagame me of rwanda and president 70 of uganda signed the agreement in angola as capital luanda and it states that both governments should refrain from subverting or destabilizing the other and also that cross border activities should resume as soon as possible but it contains no solid commitments and in a press conference held after the signing the 2 leaders barely acknowledged each other tensions reached a head in february this year that's when rwanda closed its main border crossing with uganda to cargo and stopped rwandans from crossing into uganda both governments have accused each other of a spear knowledge some ugandan security agencies blame the rwandan government for a series of high profile murders in uganda are over the last few years that have included a senior police officer and some government officials meanwhile people in the rwandan government have blamed uganda for rounding up and arresting and torturing its citizens as well as hosting and supporting rwandan exiled dissidents is a running government says by trying to overthrow it. have been allies since th

the leaders of uganda and rwanda are expected to finalize a new deal in angola it's aimed at reducing tensions between the 2 comforts malcolm webb has more now from the ugandan capital kampala. tensions reached a head in february this year amid a sea of accusations and counter-accusations from people in the governments of rwanda and uganda that each was spying on the other followed a series of high profile murders here in uganda over the last few years that included a senior police officer as well as other government officials some people in the intelligence services here believe that the government of rwanda was responsible meanwhile some people in the government of rwanda have accused you canned of hosting and helping exiled dissidents who want to overthrow the government it's important to understand that both president 70 and president. military men who both came to power by successfully leading armed rebellion and overthrowing their predecessors and both live to some extent in fear that one day somebody will do the same thing to them today's meeting is the 2nd is being mediated by angola's president. was a meeting in july which both sides tabled their grievances we didn

trade on both sides then in may uganda police accused rwandan soldiers of entering the country and killing 2 men a charge rwanda denies malcolm webb has more now from kampala. tensions reached a head in february this year and made a sea of accusations and counter-accusations from people in the governments of rwanda and uganda that each was spying on the other followed a series of high profile murders here in uganda over the last few years that included a senior police officer as well as other government officials some people in the intelligence services here believe that the government of rwanda was responsible meanwhile some people in the government of rwanda have accused uganda of hosting and helping exiled dissidents who want to overthrow the government it's important to understand that both president 70 and president. military men who both came to power by successfully leading armed rebellion and overthrowing their predecessors and both live to some extent in fear that one day somebody will do the same thing to them today's meeting is the 2nd is being mediated by angola's president. was a meeting in july which both sides tabled their grievances we didn

country and killing 2 men a charge rwanda has denied has more from kampala president paul kagame e of rwanda and president 70 of uganda signed the agreement in angola as capital luanda and it states that both governments should refrain from subverting or destabilizing the other and also that cross border activities should resume as soon as possible but it contains no solid commitments and in a press conference held after the signing the 2 leaders barely acknowledged each other tensions reached a head in february this year that's when rwanda closed its main border crossing with uganda to cargo and stopped rwandans from crossing into uganda both governments have accused each other of a spear knowledge some ugandan security agencies blame the rwandan government for a series of high profile murders in uganda are over the last few years that have included a senior police officer and some government officials meanwhile people in the rwandan government have blamed uganda for rounding up and arresting and torturing its citizens as well as hosting and supporting one the exiled dissidents is running government says by trying to