minutes. with meeting young gave me an activist who's been mobilizing resistance against female genital mutilation. are reports that the money talks to rest and they get that there are living conditions. and my safety feature. who takes us on a tour of liberia capital monrovia. the housing market across africa is our hot topic today on the fringes of big cities such as lagos or nairobi you see rows of inigo corrugated iron shacks in the media there are four times as many flimsy shocks done properly built houses are surprisingly people living in the area around the capital in talk are growing more and more frustrated with the situation. ok these young namibians are fed up tens of thousands have joined the youth movement affirmative repositioning or are shocked the group's protests have drawn the biggest crowds seen since and of a part fate their demands to the government a clear affordable housing with electricity running water and sewage services i was i was killed was he was he was he was he was leaving i was being was i to see the extent of the problem you need to look no further than the capital windhoek as prices have continued to rise more and more people have been forced into renting overpriced shocks on the outskirts of the city. seven years ago poor ration one hour left her village in the north in the media and came to study in windhoek unable to afford city prices she rented a shark father out in the cut to tour a township the name cut to two rock translates from the local heroes language as the place where no one wants to leave. and it's already had in here the government is to be blamed they don't want to look at people who have for low incomes they don't think of those people they're out the they cause a double with money but without money. we need also places george come by law is one of the founders of the movement who was born and grew up in ca to tura used to be part of the leadership of the ruling party's future league but in two thousand and fourteen he was expelled from the party for occupying a plot in an upmarket windhoek suburb three hundred to two to four hundred thousand people in winter. and out of this at about seventy percent of these people are still in shacks. since independence. in one thousand polity has not surfaced in the local in the in the low income group only thirty first in the upper market in the upper middle class. sectors building roads electricity networks and see words for new housing is expensive emanuel paolo's is responsible for providing land for development on this site the city plans to build three hundred thirty new houses it's a pilot project which he hopes will help young people struggling with the housing crisis we are going it's not mine and i'm going that extra mile driving a bus to council resolution or saying you know what he's going to be sold. he's supposed to be what we are. but few young people can afford to buy land for fifty thousand euros the money see pilot is currently not servicing land in informal settlements like those in ca to tura but consul apollo's sais that such projects in the pipeline perhaps that's a small consolation for. me i would love to have a please where access to what this that i don't have to go out in and go five to fish for that and a place where access to clean toilet. it doesn't look like property prices here will be falling anytime soon but poorer and her friends are already planning what their dream house would be like. now with a population set to double in africa within the next thirty years the pressure on the already struggling housing market could get worse for many the solution is to live in makeshift shelters like shocks but is this really a long term solution in this week's streets debate our reporter either to money speaks with the rest of the ins in nairobi slum district of beara to get to the heart of the issue. we are in nairobi kenya most pacifically kibera it is infamously known as one of the biggest slums in africa and when you look at it it's easy to see why i mean people are packed into really small shacks in a really small area and it really goes to show how big the problem of housing in this country is and i want to begin with someone who actually lives here mr zorra he tells me his name means navy blue but you say living here is not so pleasant when you. talk. about. everything is sounding a little depressing right now but where is the problem i mean you are in the construction business you made your work is to ensure that not only do we have housing but there are proper houses always a problem all these years. in africa. i mean right now we are talking nairobi alone. two million houses for families like us. two million be pending every year we need one hundred thousand we really need must be building but when we talk about affordable housing for the people who are watching in the background what does that mean to you affordable give me a price range what does that look like for you affordable housing would be something like the really low less than what was that for you less than five thousand i think fifty dollars fifty dollars for rent so would we move you know because in kibera there were these houses which were built remember and then people moved into them and then they moved out of them so migrants are asking if the government comes here today and says do you hear you've been in a party a quantum magic when a steamer like you have been shot at the end of the month to me five thousand would . move in there are no no no and because according to come i mean me so that mean in the house. cindy oh i love knocking him but only. an indian is a knock when you when you buy it says and you can imagine the gonna have a millionaire in d.c. your menu new. on our you're nodding your nodding answer i mean the ordinary salary for most people living in nairobi is around one hundred fifty dollars to one hundred dollars this house does not come guaranteed with what i mean even if you cost you fifty dollars if you have to pay full for electricity you still have to get a four for four i mean for the utilities you still have to cater for water so that even makes it more expensive so i think even that five fifty dollars is still very exorbitant for someone living in canberra or yeah it is you cannot have a house independent by by not discussing like you you cannot separate people from like you do that you really must to worry about income per capita you can only be given a good house if you can have income rate all right so what i'm hearing is i'm hearing many things tell me if i'm wrong or i've heard that number one government is not providing enough housing number two the housing the provide a too expensive and we are also corrupt and we're also saying that recoverable we actually don't mind am i wrong so is there really a housing problem or are we just what are we saying here that i would start placing that there actually is a housing problem and you know you asked about responsibility it is solely the responsibility of the government to provide these things in collaboration with international players and investors and all these sort of people most of these people that we elected to going to present us in government are people who are corrupt people who would want to eat out of getting us these houses which is our constitutional guarantee and that is basically the whole problem so then you've told me that politicians are responsible and yet you are the ones who elect the corrupt ones so surely until you're responsible even say politicians are responsible the government is responsible because i'm in to pop. politicians come and go so we're here advocating you know the youth i was stand our position are we really holding our government accountable who is going to solve this i think the first thing that we need to do especially when it comes to our elected leaders it's one of the mandates of our elected leaders is to come up with legislation we need on top of legislation that would ensure that economic and social rights such as housing are actually into minted so we don't have an education in peace and one of the functions of the parliament is to come up with a decision that says so this is how we are going to comment housing across the country and that's where even the problem of slum areas can actually be done away with we would have been very happy to ask the government about this but unfortunately we invited quite a number of officials actually all of whom said they for some reason couldn't be here today but it's all right we've heard that we have to be responsible legislation but you know hearing all these things it's kind of hard to imagine that we will ever get out of this cycle looking at the future in the industry do you see any possible solution out of this government should continue to push for policy. because until people who are making money providing decent announcing it will be very difficult because even as a country with our which deal with the debt that we have i'd be unlikely that the government can find out in the coming years who we really must rely on private sector to my own so multilateral and then a significant component of the local and. for for young people because we're talking about seventy seven percent of africans being young you need to create opportunities of the income inequality problem make sure that you have local investors and also diversify sources of financing any of the solutions what can you and i do solutions here now look at the ins. and. outs of government how many are there and how many are there so. i don't think they happily since the harm i've been committing the policies that's really not. solution is the mentality is so deep that it requires so you can be told this is what's happened is what you should do to achieve what you really want thank you those are some really interesting point pollution solutions the solution. i have read the story of corruption cutting across every time and every time and i think we as kenyans normalized corruption and we think it is right that we looted and then we keep quiet we want people to come out and speak for themselves we are not going to normalize anything anymore we want the government to understand that they are making policies about when they implementing them they are looting us now we don't want to be looted anymore and they will see us on the roads with placards and they will see us even go for strikes any time soon until they can deliver everything they promised and they deliver you to office thank you very much that's all we have time for and this is the beautiful thing about the seventy seven percent of the issues are real and that's why people get angry but so are the solutions and unfortunately we didn't have a key player here government they want able to be here but i sure hope they're watching this because there are a lot of solutions and it looks like it's an uphill task for them and as we've had for the seventy seven percent as thank you for watching. now for more on our streets debates just go to youtube dot com slash d.w. africa or search for the seventy seven percent there you can watch their full debate with it it can money. providing a forum for africa's youth to discuss and debate issues that's what the seventy seven percent is all about let me introduce you to the segment called wheel where we regularly speak to our african correspondents on the ground about the issues that matter most it will leave no stone unturned to find out what they used to think about a weekly topic well this week we asked them for the thoughts on young people on politics in africa. if you want to go president who has resigned the not too young to run into law the most vibrant opposition to present your i'm seventy comes from a youth leader nothing significant it's happened for the youth. zimbabwe is it mainly young population their feeling is the outboard does not matter but in two thousand and eighteen they came out significantly it was because of the cut is not a fourteen year old presidential candidate they wanted to emulate countries like canada and france but alas the old order was retained nothing significant is up and for that you. are most vibrant opposition to present your human seventy comes from a youth leader time the opposition politician bo b. one is just thirty six years old these people are strong appeal for the euro and his music courage every criticism of the government authorities of accused misleading but you're into unproductive activities on the site to the public to protest i'm necessary. if you want to go president will have resigned not to run feel into little though no one of the minimum age for people running for political office in one area this move was a direct result of the. online campaign not too young to run which attracted the support of millions of young people across the country however many young people are not encouraged to participate because of high costs of running for political office as well as other challenges like election rigging and forth by the law has opened the door for young people to participate in politics. our next. young political activist across africa it tells the story of a courageous young woman in guinea how jackie has launched an initiative to stamp out female genital mutilation commonly known as the brutal practice for form of girls and young women have g.m. is officially banned in guinea but what is that worth the fourth don't follow up and crackdown on the practice says she knows exactly what she's talking about. this is a dramatization the everyday reality and the trauma of an old age ritual more than two hundred million women worldwide have been subjected to female genital mutilation it's a tradition that's reinforces men's power in society. give me an activist hi joe idris elba will never forget the day it happened to her. i thought of the process or when i do think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had tools that i have never seen before so that they could do this to me . who first said that. forced to be honest i was mostly anger with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell me where i was going in walling in the will bad idea and they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there he said pratik. i'm traumatized when anyone talks to me about female circumcision i feel i can't breathe it eats away at me here if you see some holes some laws of it officially f g m has been banned in guinea since the year two thousand but the cystic tell another story ninety seven percent of women in the country have been cut after somalia guinea is the african country where this practice is most common but these resistant one thousand year old harder founded the group young leaders club in twenty sixteen with seven friends the club has now more than two hundred members across skinny they fight for the rights of women and girls and against f g m. a particular political yes it is a good it's important to remember that in some canadian communities they don't carry out extension but in fifty lation who got this so the lab yet together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night them up it will demand years in dishy it costs cars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences the secret police is it got too many to name. because they're fictional can even lead to death is only good but we may. never ask a simple. reliable. gals are still being caught during initiation rituals in the forest without anaesthetic naturally the girls put up a fight so several women restrain them and push them to the ground it's not uncommon for the girls to end up with broken bones. had her and her fellow complain of in the young girls leaders club are often on the road in the need to raise awareness of the use films to spread their message on issues such as sex education their goal is to help women to a month to create themselves and to know their rights that's vital in a country where every other girl is married off before her eighteenth birthday and three quarters of women report experiences of domestic violence. all these more steady we're reaching out at the grassroots level and he's also quite easy we hope that educated professional goals won't fall victim to f g m or get forced into marriage so we expect to see positive results on this doesn't happen. cultures can change and her fellow complain of a sure of that they are fighting for a new guinea one which has no place for violence against women and girls. now on a much lighter note we take you to liberia and its capital monrovia metropolis of more than one million people and it's fast growing. capital on the sea and there's a cultural political and financial hub for the entire country the city however is a lit with a vibrant vibe on the street. takes you through has city of monrovia. hi i'm patrice do on a writer and from your and former mislike bierria today i'll be showing you around my beautiful city monrovia. with the one point two million inhabitants of monrovia various capital is home to a quarter of the country's total population it's an extremely young population more than sixty percent younger than fifteen years old it is that ocean on one side and the mis reading leave on the other many people make their living from fishing but the city and its people are still recovering from past traumas of to see even wars ruins in the town are reminders of the city's duck chapter of warlords and child soldiers to come palace hotel in this used to be one of the most serious hotels in west africa like many other buildings across the city that was destroyed during the country's fourteen years of civil war today it's turns as the shadow of its previous self but the story is gracefully changing but the fibrin see reflected through our beautiful city and through our beautiful ship called music your you find out. how it's going to. keep. that's rap music performed in liberian cannot cure it was born in the nine hundred eighty s. in the streets of monrovia with its social and political messages it grew stronger during the civil. war oh. i'll be there. as vibrant as its people monrovia is gradually developing into a modern metropolis new buildings are popping up like mushrooms like here in sync or with its viral of shops restaurants and entertainment center there right place to take some time out from the hustle and bustle of everyday life in one you love brown is only one place to name and know what place in this busy city it's famous for its garden and its delicious smooth. look here patrice finds time and inspiration to work on a project close to her hot foundation provide scholarships and mental intriguer liberia. a really good. enough for a freshman for now the beach is calling. monrovia but fifteen am on the weekend and how do you like the day being to come alive today we are here on grandma made out of the baby was a good sign i really enjoyed showing you around my beautiful little one broke up and i thought he was. my god but now. what. do you think so what are you waiting for the beaches of monrovia awaiting because i believe is the place to be. well out say that seventy seven percent is the place to be right. we've come to the end of the fest the decision of this seventy seven percent the w's new magazine for africa's you if you'd like to write to us mail us at seventy seven d w dot com or go to our website w dot com slash seventy seven coming up on our next show it's all about girl power needed money meets with young woman and i asked how strongly the are pushing back against male dominated society and she finds out more about what they're doing in the countries to make sure that our voices are heard and their hard work appreciate it. before we go here's a truck from an award winning rap dual from liberia 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soon. to be a good. match. discover who. subscribe to documentary on you tube. when the worst merchandising people fight for survival the money they set up i get it but the budget when there's a flood water comes up to our waist buy new clothes fast for everyone and me but. the lack of water is equally dangerous. there's junk you can see people move south so they can plant crops and find food. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could write any going to fix night if you want and probably most of them do come from. the climate exodus starts in. forces commanded by a libyan warlord close in on tripoli as the power struggle in the north african country heats up the united nations calls on the militias to a full third branch of libya amid fears of a civil war also coming up. in berlin.

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