huge public outcry about what's being done about it speaking to the country's press lady for the mamata view. also coming out. as a crime in kenya the high court's meetings that on friday we meet one woman for whom the landmark ruling huge has no him. jr welcome to news africa i'm glad you tuned in rape and sexual violence has been a continuing crisis in syria and for yes and it's getting worse in fact it has led presidents matter be you to declare it a national emergency in media now spends i made a public outcry over the issue after recorded cases of rape and sexual assaults doubled in the past year two thousand five hundred activists believe the actual figure to be much higher as many victims don't report sexual attacks and that's another shocking statistic seventy percent of the victims are under the age of fifteen one recent high profile case. involved a three month old baby president he'll also announce that people convicted of sexual offenses against minors will be imprisoned for life the move was welcomed by activist victims of sexual violence well as vice president of an organi

and votes are being counted in nigeria where president mamata biharis hoping for a second there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election first before voting began a town in the north east was attacked by suspected boko haram fighters. protesters in sudan's capital of tires on fire as they continue their calls for the president to step down bashir announced a state of emergency on friday and dissolved his government but just hours later he appointed sixteen ministers. more civilians were killed in afghanistan last year than during any of the previous nine years figures from the un show almost four thousand civilians were killed in twenty eighteen including nearly a thousand children it blames the spike in deaths and an increase in attacks and airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition report comes as talks between the u.s. and the taliban to end the country's seventeen year war appear to be accelerating. government of killing these eleven chaldean un peacekeepers in a military base in northern mali early on sunday morning near the border without jira the un has

commission postponed the votes at the last minute voting is now scheduled for next saturday reza mamata bihari has demanded the election commission make public its reasons for rescheduling the polls with so little notice not tensions in the north of africa's most populous countries another concern ahead of saturday's vote mom at our door reports from kaduna. is one of the survivors were blocked by hundreds of men armed with guns and machetes the shark was killed with a bullet wound to the arm but twenty two members of his family including his wife four children and is a limo grandfather were killed here you. know we'll go back to know. who or anyone left what wrong did we commit to deserve this brutality several villages in area and could do most to talk judio are talked. among the rules the bodies found while at least twenty two children under the age of ten these. at the hospital in could do nothing to mcu days taking care of two grandsons four year old . and two and a half year old bashir both were injured in the attack they are the only surviving members of my extended family doctor

the town of blood here in the south of the country al-shabaab has claimed to be behind the attack mamata doe has more on the story now from nairobi. the talk happened in the town of bottom the region solved and somalia al-shabaab already claimed responsibility for the up talk saying they were targeting an ethiopian peacekeeper base but the attack actually hoppin at the checkpoint not far away from the ethiopian peacekeepers base eyewitnesses spoke of a dusty minibus full of vegetables speeding towards the checkpoint forcing the ethiopian soldiers manning it to fire the minibus which did not stop until it exploded al-shabaab fighters in the past couple of months stepped up their tocs inside somalia and also outside they've cut it out attacks against somali national army bases they're also cut out on a toc last month in kenya in which they killed twenty one people but they've also been on the receiving end of u.s. forces who've been cutting out asterix against them inside somalia on thighs the u.s. forces said that killed twenty two fighters in hit on a region of southern somalia as well j

blamed it on logistical problems but its food the delay could affect voter turnout the president mamata bihari is seeking a second term with more than seventy presidential candidates it's a crowded field but the election is widely seen as a two horse race the other leading candidate is from a vice president of a bucket both pledging to revamp nigeria's struggling economy just hours before polls open gunmen attacked the town and northeast nigeria and the residents fled the town of. seven explosions were also heard in my dewberry the capital of borno state that follows warnings from the armed group boko haram but it would disrupt the vote will have a tacit joins us live now from nigeria's commercial capital lagos sahara bring us up to date on what's been happening there with the vote. well they've got a highly commercial capital of the mining areas but if they don't know what is a very rigorous medical i mean the poor with the paperwork or even if they're in for a lot of people don't have a job some people don't have active running water and electricity that's why they didn't want to vote

being counted in nigeria where president mamata bihari hoping for a second there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election just before voting began a town in the north east of the time by suspected boko haram fighters. voting is underway in senegal as people choose their next president the incumbent leave his campaign on a booming economy because opponents say corruption unemployment and a still major problems. but more now on our top story the crisis in venezuela let's take a closer look at where the aid is trying to get in prison because material has closed for crossings along the border with colombia the main entry point is that international bridge that connects the city of kuta with san antonio in venezuela but to has also shut the border with brazil there was violence on saturday at the gateway in part imo that's on the brazilian side as trucks carrying aid try to cross into venezuela. has more now from the colombian side of the border. it's been a long day of fighting here on the steam on believer bridge as the volunteers the supporters of the venez