on the. baker john stretch this line with the rules for removing the. cards nor. stepping recipes for success strategy that makes a difference. baking bread on d.w. . this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes with the continent reflecting on the full of algeria's of delicacies pacifica and saddam's old model but share what happens often the dictators have been deposed we have a report from the gambia only one real culture and this tells us not much has changed. since yeah yeah being left office. sort of opportunity to be a part. in doing to serve him to change this country for good roads is a good movie is to leave not trying to be prosperous we are moving the dorm room seven feet. not standing. and we need to be activist in told content seeds off environmental awareness for the generations to come. i'm christine wonderwall come to d.w. news africa i'm glad you're chewing day in it's been just over two years since he made lift the gambia or left office in the gambia was forced into exile and equatorial guinea in january twenty seventh seen off to he refused to concede defeat in the presidential election how the month before his refusal to accept defeat to adama barrow prompted a military threat by the african union and the west african regional body ecowas may is accused of corruption on a grand scale in the two decades he ruled the tiny west african nation but some in the country say even with his departure a little has changed in this economy corresponded funny for char reports. they are published every second day even though no one ever drives them these cars are visible relics of a regime that ruled the gumby oh for over two decades all of this because once belonged to the former president president says reappear right here on the license plate it was your story about his lavish lifestyle while at the same time these people didn't have enough food didn't have proper housing and lack access to health care. internationally met was a welcome guest despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in his country in twenty seventeen he lost the election and fled into exile. a possible gravesite is being excused on the outskirts of fungible a number of german support killed or disappeared during his rule as gambia has begun to deal with the past jemez once again all over the papers focusing mainly on the money he and his associates store people are angry because they got off scot free it's like an insult to the gambian people really want to see people that you know. we would like to put in corruption to pay for it to go to the right to a little more hundred of them but just how much money was stolen according to the investigative reporting organization. jumma and his cronies fluted at least nine hundred seventy five million u.s. dollars the official ministry of justice figure is much smaller three hundred four million u.s. dollars we are meeting a local journalist who believes the research is figures are closer than the government estimate i have more trust in god indorse people than i would in the government asked you. because you can't police yourself he says the government is still full of the same elites only the head of the government changed after the election in twenty seven to be sort of opportunity to be. in twenty seventeen to change this country for good policy is a really good leader mr we've not sort of in the past we are moving into on seven feature that's dangerous johnny has left but a lot of his associates did not none of them responded to our interview requests except this momodu sub ali he was secretary general. we are a small country small society and a big complex or. it's not going to be easy to get to the bottom of things he says he knew about the looting of public fun. but he did not do anything wrong and. he has a possibility of coming back here i don't know when and where was one of the things going for him here right now he says are these parties still very strong as the r.c. is still very popular in some parts in this country gambians enjoy who freedoms his departure but many politicians from his government have been recycled into the new administration the country still awaits justice for crimes committed during the past regime. friday it's more than a month after cycling to die hits the coast of mozambique killing hundreds of people displacing thousands and cutting a path of destruction emergency operations have now given way to recovery corresponded. with the head of the un's resettlement program in the devastated port city of beirut to oscar if climate change was complicating the toss rebuilding flood hit communities i think now is we have to look forward to see how we can be integrated into holistic sustainable government plane not only for being around but also for debris to protect an area in the corridor. we cannot look at. one area but are the areas it's one thing to do we do look forward looking for solutions it is simple i'm. trying to convince the donors and also. the funders to find. an awful one to come out we did design. because you and maybe to use would also be looking in myanmar in philippines we have done quite a lot of involved in the secular areas so i think a lot of knowledge that we can we can share together everyday government of blues and be in me of. governance. parts of the region are below the sea level ready your background as town planning is the whole city city in your view under threat in the future i was a mayor before for seven years and my city experience almost the same criteria as bera my city was sixty percent below. area below sea level in my city in printing militia was here in twenty seventeen but of course it's not so strong to my second thing we come back and look for solution. for a better planning for a better resilient design building maybe an hour. after the disasters we all do flood prone area with steel and then we look into the design of the building and reducing the local material and must be affordable to the local people thirty a lot of things can be done but we cannot we have to face this. climate change and by doing some adaptation. of course you can relocate everybody out of the area but we have to find ways to do at that. climate change by using technology and using the knowledge sometimes a technology is a local technology how simple in my cities look at thirty because when you release it put on steel and every design who more resilient even the roof with these and be sure we're here for we study do we do we and for the last year because michelle had monsoon. in november and december last year it was raining. interlarded a misuse very less so i think we improve year by year and from the s.p.d.m. day we see thank you very much from climate change a sort of stay on the theme and go to togo now where one man has the workings of raise awareness about preserving natural resources and using them with maximum efficiency he has the story of santa at. he's initiative young volunteers for environment it's a pan african organization with representatives on the continent. these performances celebrate the environment the dancers costumes are made out of cocoa sacks from the region the annual festival called the cultural biodiversity week or c.b.w. has been held for fifteen years now. it's organized by environmental activists in our luca. in my language we say if you want to know me watch me done some listen to me sing. with song and dance my people express their attachment to the land and their respect for biological diversity. the guests at the festival are also offered a range of local scenes. the idea is to convince farmers in the area to grow native varieties. we have a great diversity of local seeds in our region and we promote them because they're more adapted to our climate unfortunately the farmers use a lot of cheap imported seeds which are not adapted to our soil and don't produce good heels. the people here in south western togo live from agriculture farming grain casaba rice coffee and cocoa. but the ground has been depleted of nutrients and many farmers now use pesticides and chemical fertilizers on their crops. we use pesticides on crops like here with the young because of. otherwise the insects will destroy the leaves i need to use the pesticide at least three times for it to grow. the plants might grow faster but the pesticides pollute the ground water and the river say now luka remembers how much cleaner the environment used to be that's what motivated him to become an activist well you know you see how this field reaches all the way to the river water so the river doesn't breathe anymore it can't grow bigger and can't play its natural role of climate regulator and the sediments don't nourish the ecosystem here it was it was just there you see. but it's not just about chemicals contaminating the water deforestation is another major environmental problem here. because. every day i see what's going on. i observed as elation illegal logging. some trees that are more than one hundred years old with great value for my people of being caught a disappearing and sometimes being sold for next to nothing. luka wants to boost young people's awareness that's why he plants trees with children f. the c.b.w. festivities. and that was apple come on we learned how to plant trees because we need them to live in our environment laughter the forest is important because it gives us life rain fruits and trees. and their support from the villagers in the evening older people talk to the younger generation to encourage them to care for the environment is built on the buffer the i'm very happy to take part in these meetings for example i learned today that in the past they didn't use any fertilizer and they still succeeded in having a great harvest by leaving the fields follow and i learned how to protect the forest of my book which is you know. at the end of the weeklong festival the children perform 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