Said we have a lot in store for you on the program today heres a quick peek at whats coming up. How to charge your fun by riding a bike. Why recycle tiles are good for more than just artistic creations. And why the disappearance of wild dogs in zimbabwe is a threat to the environment. We stop the show in south sudan a country that banned the use of plastic bags following kenyas example the countrys government says the Plastic Bag Ban has already reduced pollution in the countrys capital city by up to 50 percent. But there are still big challenges ahead many say more needs to be done and are continuing their campaign in the countrys markets. South sudan imposed a ban on the Important News of plastic bags some time ago but there are still plenty around thats why jubas former deputy mayor neil majak talks to the people directly about the hum plastic bags because while the number of bags used has health since the law was introduced theres still a lack of awareness about the issue he says m
Uganda we meet some courageous animal lovers who are helping to save the rhino. Rhinos are one of the worlds most endangered species in africa only zimbabwe kenya and namibia and south africa have reasonably sized populations of them the reason is poachers who came to profit from their valuable homes they fetch a fortune on the global black market traders get around sixty thousand u. S. Dollars. In uganda their numbers have slowly been increasing in recent years our reporter. Paid a visit to a privately run sanctuary and met with some committed conservationists. Very safe here in this century it covers seventy square kilometers and a sponsor by the rhino from. The southern white rhinoceros has been wiped out in other parts of uganda but here twenty four of them roam the savanna and what learns. Raymond o. P. O. Is trying to find one for us. The rangers sometimes has to trek far into the bush to track one down. Finally we catch a glimpse of her baby who was born in june. The gestation p
Be like in the desert city. Urban centers created on a computer rows of uniform houses all are acted in record time planned cities can be found around the world the modern prototype is brazils capital brasilia built on a towering plateau it was the late one nine hundred fifty s. Architectural megaproject. Barcelona sent petersburg and manhattan all also conceived on a drawing board and now its egypts turn. Its fifty kilometers from cairos eastern edge through sandy deserts and blistering heat. On the horizon is the somewhat of a new mosque its egypts biggest with four massive minarets and a huge dome a gigantic building at the entrance to the new capital a city of soup. Privative. Apartment blocks for up to six Million People appear as if from nowhere investors sense big money. Mohamed comics and his companions want to invest a sizeable sum in the town houses villas and Office Buildings out on the desert sand. Not far away the new church the biggest in the middle east their tour of the
To terror attacks with its sister force everything from arbitrary arrests to forced to disappearances but it is making the country safe from external threats. Im christine window while come to news africa im glad youre choosing day and we begin today with a warning from the u n of a growing humanitarian crisis in the democratic republic of congo the uns Refugee Agency says more than 300000 people have fled their homes in the past 2 weeks off to a new outbreak of interesting exciting the most recent flare up off islands in the d. R. Sea is centered on if to restage and thats in the east of. The country now the region is also currently the center of an Ebola Outbreak the u. N. Aid c. R. Says there are concerns that more and more people will try to cross lake albert is to seek safety in they bring uganda now well cross to geneva in a minute for more on this looming emergency but 1st this report on recent violence in a tory province. A makeshift camp in the town of the nia momentary shelte
Welcome to do the news asia its good to have you with us they said rape and torture but are now forced to sell their bodies just to survive a grim reality for many of your women and girls a group that escaped whats been called ethnic cleansing and genocide in myanmar. Most ended up. In sprawling camps in coxs bazar in. Camps which supply a sex trade that everyone knows about but doesnt talk about a team of reporters but doctors bizarre want to cover what is fast becoming a 2nd tragedy for a government. In the Worlds Largest refugee camp in bangladesh the life for women and children is particularly difficult. This woman fled from me and ma with her 3 children and husband after their village was burnt down 2 years ago. My husband left me and my children after we came here and it was difficult for me to make ends meet. I didnt have any other option and i want. Any other option that is going to work as a prostitute now when she gets the call she travels to the neighboring towns outside of