Girls shes fighting corruption and force to be president of nigeria as aggressively joins me in the studio. Im Eddie Michael jr youre welcome to the Program France is asking its ruffian partners to send more so just to mali and other nations in the silo the region has seen an increase in attacks by jihadist militants only last week 40000000 so just died in clashes with militants france says it needs reinforcements from its fatness involved in training the mali an army so that its own soldiers can focus on the fight against insurgents yes a senior french diplomat speaking at a security conference in senegal on monday. We are committed to working alongside all friends in this a help working alongside mali. Mali is not alone in facing this situation says france is particularly committed to the anti insurgent operations in the sahara whose. Jihadists seized large parts of northern mali into into devolved before being repulsed milledge means avenging by friends the current of slinging violence shews the issue is far from resolved our correspondents funny meant for my jihadi fight in the modern capital but marco his message the country remains vulnerable to the jihadist threat. Somewhere in burma im waiting to meet a form of jihadist will he turn up it was a struggle to arrange a suitable location finally we meet at a place he deems safe enough during our interview he calls himself but daraa he wants to remain anonymous hes hiding from both government and the hardest he says but daraa is 35 he spent 3 years with on star dean the militant Islamist Group active in mali since 2012. Are joined because life is hard here when it comes to the government they dont care much about mali and people. When you can go to school he was seen as special as noble so if you cannot its like you are not a citizen of this country. There are several armed groups in mali answer dean wants to impose sharia law across the country various groups selling to al qaeda and the socalled Islamic State in recent hears they have expanded from the north to central mali and into the neighboring countries. Who are governments cannot fight the jihadists because they do not have the right policies in place they dont help the civilians the jihadists are much better organized. Unemployment a lack of resources and a crippled government mali is an easy place for jihad is to find new recruits. This country has become a real new for jihad is that again means that its a blind spot. And reacting to the growing threat of islamic militancy. Citizens are growing weary of the instability in mali. Even the young people will join the jihadists. Because theres no work. We all have a family so one should think about whether its good to join youll kill people this is not good. Can ever that chair a lot of people leave the worst to fight many of them returned as dead but i dont understand. Why there are explains that before he joined dean he was teaching the koran and that was also his job with the militants but when he was asked to teach from a book describing how to carry out suicide attacks he decided to leave. Some People Killed others even when that person recited the shah there was no gold but gold muhammad is the messenger of god. I saw they killed certain people but is not. They also killed innocent people. Is just one of many in mali frustrated with the lack of opportunities he left answer dean in 2018 since then hes been hiding. So organized in our studio today we have a prominent woman of the african continent as a christian he led a Global Campaign to feel nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram a stream is this yes run for president of her country saying she is fighting for the soul of nigeria africas largest economy and most populous nation is former World Bank Vice president for africa she also cofounded Transparency International one of the world leading organizations against corruption. As aggressively many thanks for your time youre always on the move what i have to distill is well i am. I am. Spending the next couple of months working on the outlines of what i call fixed politics and that is a focus on the brooke system of political competition in my country as well as on the continent in order to enable a better. Sets of outcomes when we do our usual democracy ok talking about politics well busy earlier this year was a big one for you you run for president in nigeria and you said you were fighting for the soul of the country what do you mean by that well you know its really struck because the country that i come from nigeria is one that globally everyone sais has so much potential so and yet as a platform to be law and batted below its possibilities and thats because governance has not been. You know really well done the bad governance is clearly no and as an obstacle to Good Development and when you analyze that you would realize that what usually happens in societies that you see dominant bad governance is that there becomes a discussion of of the of the busiek numbs and values of society so that bad behavior gets rewarded Good Behavior gets punished thats thats thats of distortion and so if youre going to remedy that situation youve got to fight because there are those that interests that are not interested in recalibrate in. A very perverse reward system that that that that that benefits them but then is a source of sorrow to the rest of the people ok and all you talked about fighting and youre fighting for a lot of different causes you who founded the bring back our girls campaign. Niger are you satisfied with the fight to bring back the remaining 112 girls lived not one bit satisfied we have a 107 girls back out of the 219 that will regionally abducted include in one gal who was part of the next batch of girls that with abducted literature so 100 schoolgirls that are still missing the 107 girls that are back in school one or 6 of them except one that islam is still a trade. But for the 112. 00 its almost silent on the part of our government today hadley ever talked about the sentiment but the battles meanwhile while that is a huge issue of not. Only would any sense of empathy shared humanity would. Prevent very strong and we do not think it is right to forget them so the end never to be forgotten we made a commitment that we will keep reminding our government about them and thats what we continue to do thats a very good cause now also cool fun of just 1st international what would you say about the strides africa has made in tackling corruption overall well i would say that africa is not a continent because Different Countries have made different degrees of progress to regression but one thing that is said to me is that there is much more openness because of course we live in the world of openness that is forced on everybody by the i. C. T. Revolution Information Communication Technology and so you find that there is absolutely much more scrutiny of government no matter what country it is theres a level of social Media Presence so there is more Public Discourse and now thats important because the demand side for Good Governance and trust her and see is driven by. An active citizenry so in terms of that you see that africa is not doing badly in terms of the institutions and systems that prevent currents of corruption theres a lot of work yet to be done finally in terms of sanctioning bad behavior oh my goodness we need mush law vibrancy of prosecution and judicial processes by the courts and then share in that the rule of law when nobody is bigger than the law we need that. Now the number of lions in africa has dropped by more than 40 percent in the past 2 decades thats left the species vulnerable to extinction the reason is mostly to do with the loss of habitat people killing lions who are talking live stock is also a threat a project in tanzania aims to help headers live side by side with the big cats while ensuring no loss to the lifestyle petrou sayto t. Is on a mission tracking lions to save them you will staley across the must sidestep watching their moves was one goal informing her adieus where to go with their cattle to keep away from the big cats. When tracking wildlife in the bush we check every path we go across fields maybe we see a lions footprints then we check to see if the footprints are from a lioness a lion or a cub. When a lion eats a cow warriors hunt down the predator they depend on their cattle for income in food but ways lie in money just like to true this doesnt happen as often as before you know gains asian African People in wide life has trained fish to my size to petrol disadvantage. It has also helped more than a 1000 households to build fences to protect livestock a cannot. Explain several years like 9 yes thats the time ive had a fence ive not been attacked once the goats and all cows absolutely nothing. 2 years ago 15 lions were killed in retaliation for a life stuck death c. C. R. So far that number is down to 3. News africa you can catch all our stories on our website on Facebook Page my colleague christine mood will be with you tomorrow also the next time its been 5. Years after the fall of the berlin. Summer night. Hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture here is whats coming up on the show today. We follow in the footsteps of a renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci who spent his final years nazi in italy in france. And the german photographer rudys the best and his fascination with water in all its forms. We begin with a new film about the most legendary woman in science maggie kookery radioactive is currently doing the festival circuits and all man scott rocks for a quarter with its a rainy and director marjon satrapi zurich Film Festival in switzerland hell be here in the studio in a minute but 1st his reports about fellow scientists changing. 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