remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and sixty four percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovia's disadvantaged poor from the witness series in two thousand and twelve here is alfred's free press. hello. hello. what we're doing is like this our responsibility. to measure the information. from those who. tell you they receive. our job.

remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and rise and sixty four percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk his blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovia's disadvantaged poor from the witness series in two thousand and twelve here is alfred's free press. hello. hello. what we're doing is like this our responsibility is of theirs over to get the news to you. then to measure to inform visually from those who. tell you it is a receiver that's our job. offer just leave and i am the phone in a creator executive director and managing editor of the day to talk. to create in news people that will be on the street and everybody have access to it. people just believe that this will never come into reality. but. that's the kind of president our facilities. i believe that people should be informed o

remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and sixty four percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovia's disadvantaged poor from the witness series in two thousand and twelve here is alfred's free press. hello. hello. what we're doing is like this our responsibility. to measure the information. from those who. tell you they receive. our job. and they did it tom. to create a list before that would be on the street and everybody have access to it. it would just believe that discreet things will never come into reality. but. that that's the kind of present our facility is. i believe that people should be informed of what is happening. to. the leaders of the world really want to be rude harsh. it is this war that prompted the creation of the di

the peruvians down at the stadium, the monrovia stadium, they're stadium, the monrovia stadium, they‘g christian eriksen‘s dames at the moment. it is 0—0 with ten minutes to go there. just one more match after this one, it can be nigeria and croatia down and grad, the enclave away from here to the west. sandwiched between poland and lithuania, the nigerian fans have been generating an awful lot of noise and atmosphere here in moscow. 0ur reporter spent some time with them. welcome to russia! ahead of them. welcome to russia! ahead of the nigeria— croatia games, scores of nigerian fans came to russia to celebrate their team. i‘ve met a few 110w celebrate their team. i‘ve met a few now in moscow, and they are here and all their regalia to support their tea m all their regalia to support their team and make some noise about nigeria. there you go. cheering .as nigeria. there you go. cheering . as you been walking, the nigerian fa ns . as you been walking, the nigerian fans keep getting stopped by other people being asked to take photos. they love it, they feel like celebrities. there you

depths and hospital provides free health care to a large slum area in monrovia it was at the heart of the demick which killed one hundred eighty four doctors throughout the country and had to be shut down when it became violent. patient intense recently opened. the narratives i meet the money team made by hand and graduates of the toxic stew program and now a supervisor of the other trainees how many syrians have you done even counting yeah more than one race more than one hundred and look at you so well i'm. gonna have to wait for the data coming to a scrap i'll make it better by the bishop but if i have a patient my spleen is that they should come in on the weather stat in the middle of a conversation and i was told that one of the patients has just gone into labor as we go into theatre the generator goes down. dr i don't know it's quite a hard day the. city lights are all ok so they've been powered the moment. i mean i can see now we have all the trainees are taking charge they're quite you know in control. good set of lungs on the baby or. to. watch as a. how do you find working i

set up a protected area of fifty square kilometers on the river island not far from the capital monrovia it's going to be great because it's going to be a natural environment for them to learn how to climb there's certainly some food that they'll be able to eat but they'll learn about living in the wild and then if we ever do a reintroduction program where we have to have a secondary site where we then to teach them you know about the force that they would be living in but really it's going to be great for them it's just a more natural environment than the current environment that they're living a dream hopes to release the fusty pansies into forests next year and hopefully in a few years little will get to monkey around to back in their natural habitat. after visits to liberia nigeria where wanda and morocco more or less the four corners of the continent of africa would have returned to germany it's time to say good bye this week i hope you enjoyed the show as much as i did and that i'll get to see you again same time next week we'll bring you more interesting and exciting stories from

sorry i'm back to you i'm from monrovia liberia. her. that is. giving. gives us hope in the minute i leave. if you. like my life have to come here. for me. is it before it's to. what. is in many. obstetricians to lick africans in south africans in particular to her. it's what you make me are loads of blood to this woman bella first of all the people because he was to go to the free zone in order that citizen to have their rights in order that the city's in. the southern free cut to get the freedom. to look to me here my dear to me a good leader one day look to me is just a little to follow the. money and. then. i'll challenge. for the next generation of african leaders. like. everything we do about the continent we still play people and. part of what we do. and you can join in the conversation on africa africa's facebook page on facebook dot com for was laugh d.w. africa it's that easy this is data you're still to come. the european journalism prize is honest reporting on integration and cultural diversity the civis awards ones out last night and. robin

to a concert and wander in monrovia thank you. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world mexico's presidential election campaigns in turmoil after the murders of five members of the leftist party leading the polls the five including state assembly counterfeit and make and make do you know lopez of and donna was shot dead in the southern state of a a diner was the nineteenth accountant to be killed during the campaign voting takes place on sunday. columbia's government says it will use drones to spray herbicide on coca plants that use to make it ok the country saw a record surge in the production of coca last year with colombia back in the spring of her size from planes three years ago because of health and environmental risks the government now says drones pose less of a hazard because they fly at low altitudes. mimo says it will no longer cooperate with the current un special rapporteur who's documenting human rights abuses against the rangers earlier this year the investigator said to be a m

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