I. Your welcome to the program. The government in cameroon is stepping up security had of elections in 3 weeks of one separatist in the northwest and southwest after threatening to disrupt the poll theyve been fighting since 2017 for an independent states the separatists they are being discriminated against by the french speaking majority now some are suggesting one way to bridge the divide between english and french speeches could be to boost the status of tension but as our reporter blase young shows this is not where our breasts. Now go. Yes well no i dont do this isnt news and Current Affairs program with a different income group. You must really wanna believe in douala never misses an episode of the issue which is broadcast in p. G. Its a long way just fairly easy for cameroonians to understand. For me pigeon is a language or brings people together because its rare because when you bring somebody you know like we have the its people that you dont understand english but when you speak be the p. D. U. Learn wisdom understand it so i think pigeon is really like i think good always out there well. Hes one of the best known t. V. Host income. He delivers our long shoot a school the sea fleet impeaching the kind of pigeons spoken in cameroon is derived millions from in an unspoken but it millions and reform cameroonians but beyond the English Speaking regions begin a new shoes. Across the entire country there is language to listen. To from before to understand pidgin from go forth to understand you know front of im going to call it from. Theres been so i think everybody to understand even today they have ministers according to at least they do a lot for my programs the. What my programs. Treat and helps to bridge the linguistic gap in a country where ive given above language is practically a National Pastime for. About half of the nation. In some form. Even some french speakers can see few woods in need. I mean my family be. Upset i. Asked at bed and say i love. Him to the issues Critical Issues. Marco and our colleagues are washing a story about cameras military action against separatist militia. These kind of coverage of shocks a big audience. I am so glad that all we do has been according to the news for 15 years most is walk on the stupid and dangerous. But i know i was right we know we know no one. People. You just always wonder when its done. Or you know i just feel. Like challenges i think i may do a report about somebody especially policy Police Officers military the mocambo you hear from cause up and down you talk about the bad guys you hear telephone call and you said this about us so some of those things you know were not afraid of it so our job for his next project i would mostly select a staff feel mission 10 mpg the shorter the truck a big audience might be a simple question. From on this were joined by blaise a young the reports of the story we just watched good to have you so how important is prison in a country like cameroon divided mainly by english and french speaking sides. In cameroon begins quite important to give everyone feels like they have a part of the. We trained with each and everyone feels like they belong and they have a part of the language like french and english where some people believe this is a clue to the language falls down and cant really get so beaten there is no class distinction everyone feels very comfortable with it and this across the entire nation now linking to the reports we just watched how safe is it to criticize the governments intention concert in of course had reaches a wider audience. Just like you mentioned region has been news broadcast has a very wide audience and some of this present is taught on very Critical Issues that affect the masses whole secret because sometimes these issues are very sensitive like the fight against. The insurgency in the opus and the southwest. And sometimes if some of these issues come up on the. Television show some of these people will feel very comfortable and lots of pigeon presenters like the one we interviewed noted court indicated that sometimes full color people are christian and we also have caseys. So look at all the good news but this is how can i rested and so ive been suspended in cameroon for. Inciting violence and things like that according to the government so its very difficult all for be to present as overt being used book as this to freely give the message to the audience as they would like to hear and that is rather unfortunate please because that message has to go on because a separatist crisis has killed more than 3000 people in the English Speaking regions is the government doing enough to end this. Government would do enough to solve the crisis in one region before all that takes it to 1st. Last year the 1st in a report the 1st import just. Mission and say hes going to give women seats ouf separatists fights that are really to drop down their weapons but you also say do that now we need to drop down your weapons there and hes going to go after them and theyre only going to crush them just to do we have to look at all reports from social media that these 1000 homes have been burned down in not this and the southwest. Regions since january 1st 2020 these some people sees as a result of the detours or another burst in me that so far despite those who are not meaning to tone down their weapons im going to be rid and youre going to be here and just after. All is a young reporter and cameroon thank you. And so that an Online Campaign has drawn attention around the world calling for help to save 5 on the ridged and sick lions in sudans capital hot the 5 lions had for weeks been suffering from shortages of food and medicine unfortunately one of the lions died on monday from illness but activists hope the apis also 5. They were hungry and sick and nearly forgotten that was until a group of visitors and well wishes at the aisle correct decided and off is enough. With the hash tag sudan Animal Rescue they launched an Online Campaign to get donations and help the starving lions. After the pictures of the lines went viral on social media we were able to help. The lines of received treatment and now theyre feeling much better and i dont have problems. But for one of the lions help came too late he died a business on monday. Before the campaign the lions lived on a diet of rotting meat on noreast and neglected sudan is in the midst of a worsening economic crisis led by soaring food prices and foreign currency shortage and thats now affecting these lions. We are facing a shortage of Food Supplies but we managed to keep it under control. We have a vet and now the vet is coming to check on all the animals. The african lion has long been classified as a vulnerable species and the population has dropped more than 40 percent in the last 2 decades. Its estimated only about 20000 on a hive today but at least for the remaining lions they can now look forward to some much needed relief. Now this man in money i you see should be smiling a bit more because hes making history this week by becoming the fast black african designer sure in the elite. Culture of fashion week but hes not only joining fashions credit the cameroonian designer is trying to shake up the stereotype of what african materials means. Hes a former dancer and model and now hes one of africas top designers his creations are all painstakingly handmade and as traditional demands he aims to do more than just create beautiful designs. I love to tell little stories that go with the dresses with the collection its all of. This year the theme is. In my native language this is he is a wonder from the center of cameroon means wealth his he works in both sustainable and what he calls indigenous materials but hes not a fan of the popular african wax materials because they were introduced by colonial traders he thinks African Fashion has much more to show for it so. He thought the form. Very important for me to show my work the fabrics im fighting for the real work of african fabric and the origins of african fabrics as well as. African so we are going to celebrate it because its important for us i think its a page of fashion history thats being written differently. Born in cameroon but having traveled around the world including france where his father gained fame as a boxer in man is as much at home here as he is in cameroon. So. I cant say im only a french designer or only in africa. Designed i think both places havent reached me so much. Both have given me something exceptional that im going to try to express in my own way express certain things i have received from both cultures. As the 1st black african and manistee will make fashion history when his show closes paris is good to a week this friday. Good one there thats it for now from d. W. News africa you can catch all our stories on our website and Facebook Page so we need you now with some more pictures off camera and fashion designer. And some of his creations i for now about. Im scared that by a more thats hard and in the end its a me youre not allowed to stay here anymore we was into that. Are you familiar with this. New smugglers were lions and. Whats your story. d with numbers and women especially in victims of violence. Take part and send us your story we are trying in all ways to understand this new culture. You are not of in a turnout and yet you want to become a citizen. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. I am. Played by claire wang see who has been called the most expressive chopin performer of a generation shell be my guest in the studio in just a few minutes time. We begin today though with an exhibition in the western german city of essen which features pictures of 75 survivors of the holocaust you know exhibition was opened on tuesday by the german chancellor and the number 75 is significant because next monday will be the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp in 1945 the exhibition is one of many events marking this anniversary. These people were persecuted by nazi germany and survived. The portraits on display in the german city of essen. The title of the exhibition is survivors faces of life after the holocaust. The 75 photographs by martin shiela german who lives in new york. What i think really brings these people together