50. What do you do if your poor you want to help you find be financially and someone with loads of money comes along and offers to pay you fix. Thats the difficult question facing many young gun a gandhian and a dictatorship 2017 and even after the leadership change you with unemployment is still over 40 percent so its no surprise that some young gun violence attending to prostitution but how high is the price for a better life. The gambia a small country in west africa and a hot location for sex tourism we head to the coastal city of serach under center gambia road is the go to spot for parties and prostitutes at night the bars are buzzing with young locals and older tourists both men and women. In the side streets plenty of hotels of the rooms by the hour we want to hear from the prostitutes themselves. Why do they do this and how do they really feel about it. Were on our way to meet a bump as the male sex workers are known locally just now were so lucky someone called us and said we can talk to you so were driving there now lets see what he says hopefully we get him on camera. Run him as he calls himself goes to bed with men and women for money. Does anyone know that this is the business youre doing here in the gambia. How it works how it started just how the tourist gets connected to the people here. However. And you know only. 2 people see them to talk to them so its up to them to. Nice to them to sleep in the how much money were you offered that you thought you know what this is actually. More about my brother 500. 1500. 00 euros might sound like a lot but its not for this price brahim is that the women. Sex tourist 24 hours a day for a whole month with his money he can support his family and his cannabis habit he smokes to forget is there 1. 00 point where your brain switched and you said its fine i have to do it so i might as well enjoy it. And. It was good for business for the moment was it something you felt comfortable with. For a. While to. The majority of tourists to the gambia come from Great Britain the netherlands and belgium many are looking for sex the client longs for a certain kind of companionship while the sex worker longs for a different life the only politician to get worked up about this is tourism minister how much bad. News. Believe. The. Blues let me learn let me learn. Well in the market is this how but. I was looking over the web and i discovered things that. I discovered that. The students of good. Reputation for sex tourism is not new but theres little politicians can do about it the bumps just simply offered too much money to refuse but what are they sacrificing in return. Do you feel good at any point. And never feel good about on the ground because the 4th time involved after the. Start of recruitment its terrible to stop feeling guilty about what you do you see the people who would like to judge you if they drug me in that way they have all that i. Was its worth its the money that did it help your family a bit and i saw. It doesnt. Dive i was i think what it was for us to see. The tourists bring in money that much is clear. But can any amount of money really make up for the effect that sex work has on the young people here. Wow thats a truth not everyone is happy to hear the minister of tourism criticize us and other journalists for linking the gambler to sex tourism but its time to bring that issue to the table in farah khuda our reporter he money and gets in a heated debate with young residents people walking in the Tourism Sector and government officials however not a single sex worker was willing to participate that just goes to show how talking about sex. Is called the smiling coast of africa and looking at the shorelines across the at. Mantic its easy to see why the gambia is a very popular destination for tourists but equally those escaping the winter in europe but what are some of the unintended consequences of tourism well i have a group of young people here who are going to help me answer that question and im going to start with killer is actually a rapper but he uses his music to amplify the voice of young people and the issues around here so killer ace of heard it said that the gambia is a sex tourism hot spot is a true. Absolutely it definitely is a hot spot. I could understand if it was only limited towards people who are on the same category as adults but its even went down to a level where you see paedophilia like on a rampant basis children as young as 9 years old you know being preyed on by tourists you know so its not just the sex tourism of prostitutes and women beautiful gagnon women you know but also the young generation who are coming up and are being exploited by such to sex tourism ok i want to speak to somebody who is actually an official from the Tourism Ministry mr hummingbird john you are the Senior Product Development office saying the ministry youve heard what the young man has said but you minister has said that this is not true so where is the contradiction well if you say it is a sex tourism destination thats where the const contradiction is. Nobodys saying theres no sex tourism in the grammar of what is a corner the Success Stories in this nation that it looks like to hold this nation is prepared you know. Proud of developed you know market sex Tourism Business which is the ministers argument ok so potato potato here it sounds to me but when you deny that this is really happening in the country dont you think you also deny people a chance to solve the problem again i insist on what i said in the beginning that theres no denial of sex tourism taking place in the country because were seeing it what were denying is people calling sex tourism destination so its not potato potato its this is the difference you need to do. The line between the 2 where the destination is a sex tourism destination or they said sex tourism going on i am not denying it or if the minister says its not a sex Tourism Business and im not aware of that. Ok yeah i mean my point being i believe the minister have to understand that his country is being labeled as a sex Tourist Destination by who the sex tourists who come there and feed back the information and market gambia as a sex Tourist Destination so were saying that its definitely happening and its happening openly even in places like restaurants so i just want to ask the because were talking about these stories coming in the stories coming in but theyre engaging with gambia is so why are gambians participating so thats actually a good point that you make because theres a problem we have to sensitize the gamete communities a little bit more theres got to be a grassroots effort to educate the families because at the end the other day if a family is poor theyre making a 1000. 00 see a modern almost certain this white european male or female comes with thousands of pounds thousands of dollars offer to take their child to europe give them a visa give them a better life they turn a blind eye and that is what the issue is and i think its starts with the young people as well because some of them know theyre 18 theyre 17 theyre 16 they know what these people are coming here for but again its the poverty at the same time though the hotels they cant turn a blind eye the policeman cant on the line and weve got to make sure that everything is in place so when these peddle fly its all these dirty harry thats what we call them dirty harrys back in the day these dirty harrys are dirty severus when they come to the gambia they know that its a no nonsense policy ok i want to speak to a gentleman from the Tourism Committee his name is Sulaiman John and is it a question of marketing or is it just that people have become complacent that this is how things work here and this is how they will continue to work days from thing that we call responsible tourism and discuss who is you know who may have come here just to have you know form 6 but we also have responsible tourists who come in here to develop. Our local communities i think this is something that is a holistic approach that we need to take at least. You know responsible. The tourism board and the ministry because this policy is already in place come back and ask about implementation but i want to go back to something theres a cause and effect to 6 years in the cause being unemployment can you talk to me about that was a situation like for young people here this courageous because like we were talking to out of town we have about 41. 5 percent of young people who are unemployed in this country so you realize that there is a high tendency of young people getting themselves involved in certain acts that can just give them income but also i believe the government will be watching to know that young people are tired and even though were talking that opportunities are there but we still have 41. 5 percent who are still unemployed if we start investing in young people and believing in their potential im sure we have a lot more that we can offer higher than being victims of sex tourism well thats far too a little lives in just much she actually has to rush to the airport so if you dont see her again thats why youre a waitress youve been working in the industry for about 3 years have the owners been gambian or have they been foreigners most of dems are foreign. Many gambians want to invest in their country but due to lack of finances they cannot do it so most of the people who owns this business are for a mass ok so let me go to mr bush on here because were hearing that yes the industry is hiring a lot of gambians but the conditions are not great. Before i stood up and said to the minister the minimum wage for for for people working in the industry is so low and if you are asking people to pay 1500. 00 to a waiter then you are encouraging them to employ people who are not skilled and this is the problem with our Service Industry so i said to the minister and i proposed i jokingly said before i actually was the minister for tourism and everybody laughed this is what im going to do im going to put a minimum wage for tourism employees i went up for 7000. 00. That would have. Done that would actually. You know youre being accused of campaigning yeah so i just want to bring this to a close and look for solutions because i think its important looking forward how do we create a balance so that the gambia is not swallowed by the negative effects of tourism and id like to hear from you mr slim. Could be drawn through. Responsible tourism and try to become passive people who are working in the industry and also government to reinforce you know to come up with good policies i have to catch up because our batteries are running out so i want to hear from you very quickly well i think the government 1st of all should make sure that all of the money that is generated from our 2nd highest owner goes back to the people so that the people will be poor enough to always come back here and be exploited one and also for the government to work on all year around toryism i believe that theres more opportunities and theres more ways to fix issues that we are facing i think we can do anything and i just wasnt well so the gambia is where we are a country named after a river and one that has had a very checkered history but clearly based on what weve heard here there is a long way to go and young people clearly have the solutions thank you for watching. Thank you as always for bringing us this discussion you can watch a longer version of the debate on you tube tourism can have devastating effects as we just saw but not all tourism is bought for example tourism revenue can also help stave off because precious system heres the thing beyond that is a south African Marine biologist who is determined to protect my way in life while also providing a decent income for locals in the tourism industry. Off the shore of south africas Cape Peninsula lies a picturesque marine protected area its a large storm of around 1000 square kilometers species which were once under threat in this region are now able to thrive. She is helping to identify which of them are in areas should be given protection status this will also benefit locals in life Going Forward how i am proposing to design marine protected areas is to incorporate also the thoughtful as the social benefit that people can derive from marine protected areas so were not just protecting the Natural Environment but we also protecting the benefit that people can get out of marine protected areas now and in the future vision as a transitional industry along the coast but taras them could provide residents with even better paying jobs. Archaeological artifacts ive been discovered online for example in Table MountainNational Park that dates back thousands of years caesar says these sites could also be incorporated into an even larger protected area and it would assure tracked plenty of visitors i found that some communities didnt realise that there was tourism potential in the area and that they could switch from harvesting to thumb thing like tourism taking people out teaching people about the area using the indigenous knowledge which people are so hungry for 4 or 5 tours in south africa come to visit protected areas tourism is a cornerstone of the National Economy in 2181500000. 00 jobs were linked to the tourism industry. As a dive my stuff when we took people. To dive in the m. P. A. Areas the reaction after diving is just amazing most of them will be like you know you from a using this in but it makes me feel good at a investee of cape town sees a composite on marlin biodiversity uncle society of interest she also estimates the social impact of creating protected areas a lot of the time what we do is we dont acknowledge that people are part of the system we think conservation has to be on the one side people on the other side but we are part of a system. Sees us research will help authorities decide which areas should be given protection status making sure that south africas Natural Beauty remains untouched while also creating revenue through tourism its a win win for people on nature. What an Inspiring Initiative but. Now lets head north far away from south africas coast to mileys capital bamako its a vibrant city moves to its all the local sound here is a mixture of modern music and people dont take my what for we. Must assume we played guide for a day and showed us ironically his home city. Yes i must. Persist in the streets noir the voice of the voiceless. Homemaker the city of the 3 came and come with me and discover my city. Is my largest aka my stuff so me its one of mollys most famous records he was born in bamako in 1983 and has lived here all his life around 3000000 people call this place home but pretty much everyone knows its rough but its name and its no wonder over half of malis population is 18 in their own that music. Can accommodate 35000 spectators their march and. March is many conservative Mental Health theres a lot of huge concerts the stadium is named of time with. The 1st president of the republic of mali have also performed many times you might be better than them are jeb bush rishi. Loves playing in bamako the city which was built on the banks of the revive niger innis one of the Fastest Growing metro police in the world sometimes at the expense of those who are ruth below the poverty line. Must assume he comments on the social change in bamako in his news right. Now when he needs to recharge must assume a heads. To the National Park in the heart of comical this is why he filmed a very personal video back in 2011 a doctor a muslim and midwife of a piece is dedicated to my mother it was my way of honoring all midwives going to college and he doesnt shy away from political topics in his either that. Explain your islam he condemns the jihadists creating fear and violence particularly in the countries not after they really of another song even received death threats. Before i wrote my career i have used music to speak out. At times i have been so critical that people have even wondered whether i work for the opposition but i. Was never compared for any Political Party no matter how much money. We tackle the boulevard of independence to gets to must assume new studio here he gets the Creative Energy he meets the rapper sings in french and mali is most widely spoken language. His countrys Musical Heritage is a huge source of inspiration for him. To give my music an authentic stern used traditional instruments because you say down 40 theres. No gosh i think about which traditional instrumental fits best my goal is to create a symbiosis music a mix of the modern and the traditional music you know you say music. They dont need to do traditional. Must assume he grew up in socorro. And hes never forgotten his fruits he often organizes festivals and invites produces as a way of giving back to the young people in these communities yes i must say i am assuming the system i hope youve enjoyed this tour through my capital the city of the 3 k. Months. Later we are one. Thank you matthew we for showing us around that was really cool now lets talk about something a little more private. How. Have you ever wondered if having more than one could spice it up always sex and relationship expert cars is bought to share her thoughts on how to build and maintain a fully feeling love life. Hello there and welcome to the spread a safe space where we get to discuss everything revolving around sex and relationships and i just want to take this opportunity to say thank you to you guys for all the emails 6 youve been sending in the love and the support we really do appreciate today our question comes from a gentleman by the name tobias all the way from a bus or kenya and his email goes dear cat ive been married for over 15 years now and as much as i love my wife things have been a little bit dead in the bedroom for a while i dont know how to spice things up anymore and have been considering opening the marriage but i dont know where to begin i truly love her but i am extremely unhappy in that Department Help oh my dear tobias he would be surprised how often i get this question so many people are under the impression that opening a marriage is the solution to a sexless marriage but its not let me explain couples who agree to an open relationship have a really strong lines of communication and more often than not have been having these conversations from the beginning of their relationship an open relationship is a beautiful concept and i support it completely but it requires so much more love and support than a monogamous relationship you and your partner have to be clear as to the reasons why you want to stop seeing other people and not were trying to save our marriage imagine asking your wife to open the relationship so that you can satisfy your sexual needs there are so many different responses that you get to that question and i warn you not all of them will be pleasant 1st she could think that you are already in a relationship and were just looking for a way to tell her this might make us feel unwanted or neglected maybe shell think that youre looking for a way out of the. A relationship and regardless of how many times you tell her that you love her she might not believe you but i understand its a tricky situation so here are a few suggestions that will help you strengthen your marriage tobias go to therapy i know therapy is deemed taboo in so many different african context but to be frank sort open honest relationships a therapist can act as a mediator between you and your wife and help you fix any underlying problems you might have before you decide to make the next big move let your partner know that youre willing to Work Together to fix things chances are shes dealing with her own issues and shes not even letting you in on the most important thing is that she feels loved and respected and if after youve fixed all of your problems you still feel the need for an open relationship ask your wife in a kind and respectful manner if shes still eager to pursue an ethical nonmonogamous relationship put everything on the table and be ready for her response from me cavs good night. Thanks what do you guys think about that you can connect with us through our Facebook Page all by email and you can always watch more content on our you tube channel in our next edition our report at the money travels to south africa. In many other african countries young people yeah expected to support their families financially as soon as they have a job is this just calling directly or does a face too much special to the race of please fill that part. Thats it from me but dont go away yet we are in the show must assume was your tour guide. Now you get to hear what thats music is he struck. Enjoy. The music or listen to the be. The be. The best slave the be. The be. The number. One love for sheep what did. I say. To expose it. Did it. To me yeah well song but the budget. Cuts. Oh of obscene wealth. Indias new machos allow fleeting glimpses of it. To some continents economics has made the billionaires. Balance their own wrestling and there are limitless fortunes. 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The mind and the music. Beethoven 1st 12019 from september 6th to september 29th. This is deja vu news live from berlin hong kong protesters defy a police van to march again and Police Used Tear Gas or as a 10th of a weekend of Anti Government demonstrations turns into a confrontation to get the latest from our correspondent also coming out. As separatists take control of yemens temporary capital their former saudi backed allies call it a coup