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hello i'm christine linda welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in. ethiopia's journey to reform has hit some severe turbulence 15 months off the prime minister made took office may dramatically to he's back on decades of repressive policies and at his ababa emptying the jails of political opponents and journalists and relaxing the suppression of cifers his movements but that's not gone smoothly in june dozens of people including senior officials were killed in a failed coup attempt by separatist militia in the horror region and federal security forces have moved into the saddam a region at least 25 people have been killed they the past week in clashes between state forces and say persists the separatists there are demanding the establishment of their own autonomous region. you know. saddam has already thought of its own flag and declared that it's
a regional state his victims are the boys of the people should be respected no it's in the constitution that's the people who decide their own fate not an external political power a government which people decide their own affairs. william davison is senior analyst for ethiopia for the international crisis group he's just visited sit down and other parts of ethiopia i would have welcomed to today's every africa when it looks at one stage as if there was agreement on holding a referendum full statehood in sit down. why has the situation deteriorates it. well there's a number of reasons one of the key reasons is that the decision to proceed with the referendum on november came very late it actually came only a couple of days before the saddam a movement's appointed deadline and then it seemed to july when they wanted
a referendum to be held before then and what promising to do otherwise. so there was agreement with the electoral order and the regional states decision to move ahead with a referendum in a few months time from some of the local leadership this is on a leadership. that wasn't effectively or officially communicates it to the rest of this is our movement. there were a number of disappointed activists and large numbers of disappointed saddam it used to spectate declaration of a regional state when they demanded answers and that public gatherings were clashes with security forces in hasa that are organs clashes in rural areas is the dharma and they seem to have included attacks on top and the killing of activists by security forces or cleanup protesters and those are taps and other minorities in the area so it really stems from is latest decision to proceed with a referendum. last month and in that maurice states we saw the assassinations
of regional military need it is prime minister and the athame reform agenda to blame for that. well it would certainly be wrong to entirely blame the reform agenda for those assassinations and that was allegedly caused by carried out a directive by the former security to borrow who was pushing quite a hard line no nationalist agenda in that reason if there is reason to blame the reform busy process and of their 2 leadership and the border leadership media is due to the appointment of the alleged coper and the mouths agape the former security chief is due to his appointment as regional security chief and then the amount of holds on to me that he was given to push his hardline agenda really should have been better political management of that situation should have been
more awareness that i asked him i had potential to cause problems in a heartbeat and state so i can see a what a quick recall process where these considerations were taken into account as one of the factors in the in the. right. at the outlets promise to hold any election next year what's the likelihood that he can fulfill that promise to hold to a fully democratic election next year. well that's always been a very challenging ambition there's something of a mismatch between the time are needed for the reform agenda and the electoral shantel and there's a need to create a strong opposition strong civil society strong media democratic institutions that was always going to be very hard to carry out before the shuttle directions in may next year given the very serious security and political problems we have now that's become a much harder as the government is primarily burgers on fire fighting these issues
instead what happened what needs to happen now is that security needs to be restored and some sort of consensus on the major political grievances afflicting the country between the ruling coalition partners need to be astonished then when there's that sort of foundation people can start thinking about proceeding to an election which will hopefully the democrats are going to transform what they're promised. william davidson is senior analyst for ethiopia for the international crisis group thank you thank you. seconds it die and kenneth hits mozambique with devastating effect earlier this year as well as the cost in lives lost and the damage to infrastructure the storms hit just before the harvest was do you need 2000000 people are dependent on food supplies from outside aid groups are sounding the alarm they say the rebuilding process is taking too long and is underfunded. the aftermath of the site from still
shows 100 skilled and tens of thousands forced from their homes everything last minute you saw there was lucky but she will never forget when the cycle i'm hit. their band the elo they said see not only the roof was gone and the house felt like it was in the sea. there were waves inside the house. it couldn't have happened at a worse time an estimated $400000.00 acres of crops washed away just weeks ahead of the main harvest the country's trying to rebuild and it's not only the rule areas that are suffering the cities too and help is not arriving fast enough. to our reality if people now are suffering they need to rebuild their buildings also they're going to have resources to. the port city of pretty risky to restarting the economy delays and funding i think to everyone there must to be. a must
understand what is happening in that site is also affecting you when you're saying to people and no we are worrying from them or sauces to reveal to ourselves and also source that look taking place here so the strain that what they're doing. here killing people i. mean it is sound and has 3 children now depend on food brought in from outside. it's now the dry season in mozambique and it will take several more months before they can start rebuilding their lives. pangolins all the world's most illegally trafficked animal poached for both traditional african medicines as well as a growing demand for use in traditional chinese medicine pangolin scales like rhino horn are made of keratin south africa's home to the little known 10 makes ground pangolin more and more of these are being held illegally in captivity. they
walk on 2 legs have large protective scales and require armed guards. every time. i walk with her is about as risky as a ride with. her 15 on the black market. early in her life. security helps us on the unpredictability. of. the animals that natalie rogers rescue center. poachers.
need medical help because they haven't eaten for weeks. preferring to trade. some animals are still so young that natalie rogers has to feed the milk from a syringe. they weigh her every day. today she is 4.8 kilograms. since he arrived at the animal sanctuary 5 months ago she's gained about one kilogram one more and she can be released. on her whites but she. usually still be in the mother's tears. before they became efficient enough to find their own food. tray.
a special team of rangers is fighting the poachers glen thompson leads them he shows us traces of an antelope traces of penguins however he says are hard to find in the wilderness over the course of many years observing animals in the bush he and his colleagues have only seen one. if you look at the bottom of it they've got a very slim foot an elephant so it's very soft and got the lines in it and back feet so most of the time to find the sign of the penguin is when it's walking the tail leave marks in the right like this as a team and goes on and it's extremely difficult to see this work glen thompson and his rangers know how rhino poachers hunt but they can only guess how illegal hunters tracked down the hidden penguins. probably suggest that the probably using dogs to. during the day because penguin move around in the bar is during the day so
we suspect it's a lot of dog poaching i mean if they saw it they pick it up and that's. it thompson and his team have repeatedly confiscated illegal goods and live animals and arrested some poachers probably only a fraction of the criminal gangs the rangers depend on tips from the population. well we'll get information that these someone enough a leech want to and then soon as we get that information and we can verify that that is a lot of bank then we'll set up a sting operation what they say and then we'll go in and go affect the race collect the penguin and then take it for medical treatment and medical assessment. these poachers stop to refuel their car the pangolin was still alive and lying in the cargo area the rangers had received a tip from a witness. a rescue mission like this is what saved and gave her
a new temporary home now she's back in the bush at the moment still accompanied by her own personal bodyguard. and that is it for down from africa as always you can catch us on our web site and facebook page i'm christine one plus one makes type i banked. you know nothing out of the gym but just sometimes out of place and i think winter that. thinks deep into the german culture of looking at stereotypes a question that is think the future of the country that i not. yet needed to take to this drama day i'll tell you it's all that. i'm rachel joins me from the german sunday w.
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