This is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes with the continent reflecting on the full of algerias of desis parts of the car and saddams old model bashir what happens off to the dictators have been deposed we have a report from the gambia we want to know for sure this tells us not much has changed illicit since yeah your job if doctors. Sort of opportunity to be current. And doing to seventy. Two to this country for good or is a good movie if youve not shown to be promised we are moving to drone on seventy job cuts do. We need to be activist in told little whos Content Seeds off environmental awareness for the generations to come. Im Christine Wonderwall come to deeds every news africa im glad you did its been just over two years since he made lift the gambia or left office in the gambia jamey and was forced into exile and Equatorial Guinea in january twenty seventh teen often he refused to concede defeat in the president ial 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 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 politically corresponded funny such are 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 that life style while at the same time these people didnt have enough food didnt have proper housing i lacked 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 grave site is being excluded on the outskirts of fungible a number of Jamais 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 its like an insult to gambia and people want to see people that you know. We would not be in. To pay for it to go to the right to an island dont know how to
do them but just how much money was stolen according to the investigative reporting organization. Jumma and his cronies 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 here meeting a local journalist who believes the research is figures a closer than the government estimate i have more trust in god indorse people than i would be government. Because you cant 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 seventeen. The sort of opportunity would be hard. In twenty seventeen to change this country for good policy isnt good least not sort of the past we are moving into on seven feet. Thats dangerous johnny has left
but a lot of his associates did not none of them responded to our Interview Requests except this man. He was secretary general. We are a small country Small Society big complex. Its not going to be easy to get to the bottom of things he says he knew about the looting of public funds but he did not do anything wrong and. He has a possibility of coming back here i dont know when and where was one of the things going for him here right now he says that his party is still very strong as the sea is still very popular in some parts in this country gambians enjoying new 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. Right its more than
a month after cyclonic 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 uns Resettlement Program in the Devastated Port City Of Beirut to oscar if Climate Change was complicating the toss off Rebuilding Flood Hit Communities i think now we have to look forward to see how we can do the integrated in the cessna plane you know a little bit for debris to put in the area. We cannot look at. One area but. Its one. We did we were looking forward and looking for a solution and same time as i said that is also trying to convince a da da da da nurse and also. To find us to find in. Our research an awful the one that we originally come out we did designed so that its not because the end of bitter is so it also will be looking in myanmar in philippine we have done quite a lot of involved in the sector and areas so i think a lot of the knowledge that we can we can share together everyday government of mozambique and also me of. Freedom a as for the governance part of the region are below the sea level already your background as Town Planning is the whole city city in your view under threat in the future i was a mayor before for seventy s. And my city s. P. D. And almost the same criteria as bera my city was sixty percent below or to an area below sea level and and my city in printing militia was here in twenty seventeen but of course its not so strong that my secular and i think we come back and look
for solution for for a better planning for a better resilient Design Building maybe an hour. After they discussed us we all do flood through an area we build and steal 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 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 depth. Of Climate Change by using technology and using knowledge sometime to do. Then already. Because when you release it put on steel and we designed. The roof with this and be sure. We studied it we do and for the last year because. In november last year it was raining. Very less so i think we improve year by year and from d. S. P. To. Thank you very much from Climate Change resource 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 heres the story of santa and look at his initiative young volunteers for environment its a Pan African Organization with representatives on the continent. For. These performances celebrate the environment the dancers costumes are made out of cocoa sacks from the region the annual festival called the cultural biodiversity weaker c. B. W. Has been held for fifteen years now. Its organized by environmental activists in
our luka or. In my language we say if you want to know me watch me dance and 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 scene its. 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 theyre more adapted to our climate unfortunately the farmers use a lot of cheap imported seeds which are not adapted to our soil and dont produce good yields. The people here in Southwestern Togo live from Agriculture Farming Grain Kosova 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 all our crops like here with a 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 thats 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 Doesnt Breathe anymore it cant grow bigger and cant play its natural role of Climate Regulator and the Sediments Dont Nourish the ecosystem here because it will just their music. But its not just about chemicals contaminating the Water Deforestation is another
major environmental problem here. Because. Every day i see whats going on as i observed as a lation 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. Else in the luko wants to boost young Peoples Awareness thats why he plants trees with children f. The c b w festivities. And that. We learned how to plant trees because we need them to live in our environment 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. But
im very happy to take part in these meetings for example i learned today that in the past they didnt 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. Well but not. At the end of the weeklong festival the children perform a play. Or two sons talk to their father about deforestation and Climate Change. The cultural biodiversity we give them a chance to practice what will hopefully become a lifelong role that of protectors of the environment. And that is that. Is africa you can as well as catch all stories on our website my Facebook Page and talk to me on twitter. Right now
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