as we say there about never getting up every weekend on d w this is dw news africa coming up on the program under the threat of atrocities and a food shortage sedans. people continue to bad the brunt of war rights groups. one of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the gospel region as the arrival of military forces back all civilians remain cut off from the aid they desperately need. also coming up mass demolitions in abigail as the ivory in metropolis and forces of a nice agent as africa's biggest cities expand rapidly. we look at how poor people are affected and spreading hope in the fight against sickle cell disease as new treatments and much we ask what this means for the millions of african victims of

this killer disorder. the, you know, i'm told me on lot of people welcome to the program. people in sedan trapped in an inferno of brutal violence. that's how the un humanitarian coordinates of the country. as describe the situation that was fighting continues between the sydney's army and the power military rapid support forces. the violence is restricting the flow of humanitarian aid and their growing concerns about atrocities taking place. an open source investigation from the non profit sensor for information resilience says the iris staff has been sending entire villages a blaze of these satellite images show. this area in the west offers city of l janina in april 20 to an and 3 compare that to it's todd remains as seen in march

of this year and from the same city. these warehouses visible in april 2023, had been removed entirely. nearly a year later, rights groups are wanting that the iris f, a tax amount to ethnic cleansing and genocide in west off for our next report contains images. some viewers may find disturbing. full year old yes mean has struggled to walk since she was shots in the lake. she is from l janina and so don's west stuff full. but he's growing up in a camp for displaced people across the border in chad. last year is fighting me at the home. yes. mean, fled with her family. but the rebel power military groups, the rapids support forces caught off with them. a bullet toll through you guys means leg and he's her mother. well, identity,

her mother who was 8 months pregnant, was killed and yes mean was left all alone. some people found her on the road and brought her here on the road to the boat and we old suffered the rapids support forces killed and wounded. so many people across the way the recent human rights watch report accused as the rapids support forces and allied militias of carrying out attacks in west of full killing thousands. the report says this indicates ethnic cleansing will crimes and genocide. the power military group has been at will with su don's army since april 20, 23 and 4 is a front in the civil war. thousands of people were killed in clashes and asked

strikes, you know, fashion over the weekend. it's the last major cc and all for still under the sudanese armies control, the city is reportedly under siege and there is a communications blackouts. the united nations ones but fighting is endangering 800000 civilians in alpha and preventing aid from reaching the region where millions of people are on the brink of famine. that time is running now to prevent starvation and therefore as intensifying clashes and north. therefore, as capital l flasher are hindering our efforts to deliver vital food assistance into the regions. the u. n. has called the situation ensued on one of the west to monetary and disasters in recent memory. age groups via that, the violin seemed off full, could lead to another mastic, a enforce millions more people to flee for their lives.

let's speak now to them with us. i'm allie, a legal advisor at the wrong one and, but the center for human rights and testing is also from doc for, and survive the genocide the 2 decades ago. he joins us now from washington. d. c. thanks for joining us on the program, which i assume now are you able to get a sense of the current situation in your hometown l, sasha? the size very much for the opportunity and i think um the so the wishing and the devices with it, cuz as traffic we have been sounding the alarm says lives here that uh when the rest of varieties started this evening. the city from all the parts from northern part of the city, from the southern part of the city. i'm from the eastern part of the city. and so now it is actually literally the ira save. and of course, the sort of nissan forces and, and other arm groups aligning with the sort of nissan for us, really in a serious fight. another 5. sure. the already hundreds of people have been injured

and killed in and out 1st and last 2 days. and therefore, the situation is really the best off they got. it requires an immediate attention from the international community, right, with the restrictions on access. how did you gather that information that in your case and you know, evidence for your reports? well, i mean, no federal report relies heavily on options source information that has already being got there by other investigative journalist and other organizations organizations. but with respect to the ongoing conflict, i think despite the black out of the internet blood out, i think there was still a bit of communication between um you know, uh we can reach out to some of the residents but also tasha. uh, so they continue to report in terms of the incidents and, and how many people are being killed and attacked and the like. and so basically

we're able to access a bit of information. so really we cannot get into we and what is happening at this moment in time. right. and do you see any similarities between what's going on now and what you fled back in 2003 as watson only as i mean, as we indicated clearly. and i'll report most of the atrocities that we see today committed by, by the office of both forces. this is a new brand of the magenta. we it right. and a, so basically the crime, so committed by the same perpetrators. and i guess same victims cause we have the messiah didn't, was doubtful. we have 4 as ago in other parts of the 4. and so we will see exact same pattern again of the crimes and the way the all right, so, so you know, uh, you know, be seized the cd, the way that the crime is that or prep or crated using waive us a webinar for,

you know, uh, the, you know, creating conditions calculated to bring about with the destruction of the, you know, they, they, they protected gross here was speaking for is a gallon must have a particular right now that the numbers from the ones that on a staggering 14000 people killed at least uh, 8 medium displaced, 25000000 needing as an aid. how would you describe the way the rest of the world has responded to this? yeah, i mean, i, i said, uh said it before. uh and then i think the, the way the international community then of course the applicant is, stays the community and right. i respond to the trust that it's in delford is, would it, this wasteful? there is no way the other way to describe this, right? and you see people are biggest, laura, we know the perpetrators, we know that enables us way countries, some of them i actually even advocate to states. and yet there is nothing from the

side of that imagining community to hard perpetrator set down. the simplest thing to do is to cut off proper trays from the financial flow that allows for it for you know, for us to act as a continued. and yet we do not see anything from the international community that is done so far. to prevent this, you know, discomfort. i think this is april vegetable genocide. this is not only my words, but by uh, you know, the words of other experts include informing you in a fishing. so i had, this is a preventive which of us, i've, even the eligible side of to thousands were, was preventable. and then again we, i'm a speaking of the, in russian community and deliberately reviews the, you know, to that, to a spot to this. and so i think it is really not an ignore genocide, it is an abundant i just beside what testing i need from the rhode island bag center and for human rights. thank you for speaking to us as thank you very much

appreciated. the advocates major cities are drawing at an unprecedented rate by the end of the century. it's estimated the team out of the world's 20 largest metrology metropolises will be in africa. but one of the major challenges is how they can cater the for people from all economic brackets as an ongoing eviction scandal and every costs economic hub. john shows development often comes at the expense of the poorest dw, see where to read reports from your football. one of the worst effective neighborhoods, and this is with thousands of people used to live, go to school and run their businesses. but now this on the rebel over the last weeks and months, the government of ivory coast economic capital has get the neighborhoods of over 50000 people. most of them overnight. this looks like the

optimize of an earthquake or hurricane children and families tilting through the rubble. school bench is turned upside down and personal belongings flying around every route. but it's not. this is the result of the government's initiative to develop and clean up. i'll be drawn essentially remove and tell you a neighborhood, but no longer for the image. the country speaking on a cub wants to put tray and emailed you a key to use to live in a small house nearby with the 3 children. now they're out on the streets. it's the 2nd time she and her family have been forced to leave the home to pick up before we came here, we were poor, but at least we had some dignity. now we've got absolutely nothing. we can't live like this. it was suffering and the worst of all this that my children no longer go to school. my oldest,

she used to go to school here, to demolition and stuff left thousands of children with all the classroom. one school alone to community 2000 kids. this was my school where i studied with my friends. the dw spoke to nearly 2 dozen people in several neighborhoods. no one received any financial compensation, no where they give an alternative shelter. the government off, i'd be, john did not reply to the deputy use requests for comments and previous statements, just ethically its own supposed to safety risk proof, lots and lands slides, but people yeah, don't believe that's the true reason behind the displacements. so let's take a column that runs the local and geo that is fighting the evictions. he says the government's campaign is less about security and more about money. i'm going to talk to you points deputy is going as well as the government says, these items are a safety risk. they already have companies lined up. we want to invest that the for

the money that we're talking about as a humanitarian catastrophe here. so children are out of school like this prostitution and banditry. not so you see, the government did a bad job. don't. why do you disagree? you, nick? uh, i must have something already. over the last 20 years of each one has more than doubled in size from 3 to over 6000000 people. and like many african cities that continues to grow. but instead of social housing projects, these neighborhoods will be replaced with, with health promotion areas and the water pock amenities and lima into children. when that we never get to enjoy this area, we'll just wait to see if going to give us miracle. the government of the general sense to kill 117 neighborhoods altogether for the cities poor as they may soon be nowhere left to go. you're watching the w news africa still to come. it's savannah, savannah is underway,

and african nations are slowly gaining a foothold. if you help you and bennett, make their debut this year to advocate new commerce to the thailand aust extravaganza. now there might be threshold for millions of people affected by sickle cell disease in the u. s. a new combustion. the license gene therapy has been administered for the 1st time to a patient. it could be a game changer in the fight against this disorder of unusually shaped red blood cells that can disrupt the victim's blood flow. this leads to severe health complications including chronic pain and organ damage, which can also be life threatening. of the genetic condition is found around the world, but mainly among people with west or central african backgrounds. according to the world health organization, 1000 children are born with a disease every day in africa, and the existing treatments can be read and expensive. but let's take

a look at how one, uganda and woman is living with the disease and sharing hope. when bob are on the below is a little go. a parents simply road to off diagnosed with sickle cell anemia up 2 months to them. it meant that child wouldn't be around for long enough to be was about the this to be. they used to be the day so the soon so i do, we do have a webcast. so for the day, you have a clue. a mother even referred to as half a daughter. barbara say she was left hating herself to then to let you say we're going to now me. so they never thought of me as an important person by the, by me, like someone who would grow up or is supposed to get an education to show my tape is that because they use, oh, my mother,

the people like me don't grow money and that we can't go to school, have children in the community. but now bob or his parents are proud of that goal to because she's proving them wrong. she's married and has 3 children. that 1st born, a son is now 7 and the twin girls came last year. age 37 . barbara is still a regular patient of them and body regional hospital and you can just remote east and highlands, but she's passing on her knowledge of how to live with sickle cell disease. the personal story of survival is often the 1st glimpse of hope and julie diagnosed children and then worried parents. and she's also getting treatment. hydroxyurea reduces a number of balance of pain and the need to blood transfusions all helping to overcome the stigma. we used to be saw, frustrated, you know, you can't afford shows,

they may reach like 12 yards and they get so many complications on even you used to wishing on seeing this, this job. so because of that trauma, hydroxyurea has no ching, these legs, it improves on the watch on the quality of life of these patients, eugene therapies of a problem is when was approved in the us last year. yet, despite the hope now also enough to treat the despair for single patient cost of treatment, the cost runs into millions of dollars. joining us now is of the i need not do a professor. ok, mythology and blood transfusion and the direct of the center for sickle cell disease research and training at the university off a booge, a good job you on the program. profess now looking at the emergence of new treatments for sickle cell disease. surely this, these developments must inspire,

i hope, considering how long the disease has posed a threat. as yes, definitely made key. many people laugh quite excited. you know, just seeking that said that can be too rich. he's a 3 main force equal say, disease. of course we've had the pci borne by root transplantation, you know, for some time for these treatments are not available to the major receipts of people. so it's hold on one site that day. so possibility. and then a lot of, uh, uh, you know, just bear, you know, from high budgeting countries because even the evidence based interventions that have been available for some time is not available to major retail for people. we know interventions such as do by screening at the, you know, at pro flax's for infection high drug for you react treatment. a basic feedback patient education. these are not available to major retail people so days full or

one site. you know what? it's like most shots a week before feel, oh, when am i going to be able to even dream? you know, we does have t a price tags of, of 05 access. i've seen that visa inside of a shows like gene therapy, any of the important matter with transplantation. one of the challenges you mentioned earlier was that of the cost when he comes to treatment, but i'm assuming research as well. so what are the practical considerations for implementing these new therapies in a place like nigeria? so, yes, so the go by gene directory initiative has actually been considering these over the industry is facing 19. this is a network of people who are called st. that's a decent rep is when they become ivy level may not become available to the people with the right high research people. so they've looked, we have been able to walk,

walk out very carefully, what's what the buyer has, what is it that is driving the cost and most of feeds has to do with manufacturing in they centralize the facility that the gene directly products. and we've been able to find that, that way you manufacture close to the taste of k drive down to cost. so this has happened, this has been carefully walked side by different prices. and the, the tri outside has been the very low piece to in college. you know, you know, in india, at very low cost of medical college in india, and they've been able to do cartoon to arrive fee on that $55000.00, which is the stock, right? you do from the very high, you know, in the medians. and what has been done, you know, it's uh, can also be wrapped in case i do kind of is also, they don't work in mouse at the possibility of doing the try

a clinical trial. so clinical trial wouldn't be one way off of that. and we'll bring it down because what pissed off k, you know, manufacturer, i mean, did you put drugs at the base of kit is one way you know to drive down because an at fault is going on in that direction. is that kind of global consensus? a way that the world can, can address this collectively to make sure that there is uh, you know, make sure that there's a more accessible treatments to, to the people who need it. as the visual has established has been able to develop a film walk for a treatments, same test as the tides of excellence. you know, that was we cannot just say well to go all the way to gene therapy when the everyday experiences have insurance, we were things like education is lost in place. the majority of the business to it . yes, we can aspire to do gene therapy, but what we know now works now,

should we have a level, you know, 2 major retail people buy it for recess. hi drugs and you wrap a blood transmission. all of these things and then just education of people because you know, people can't do well. patients can't do well if they know well up to my hydration, you know, do you every does reason to have vision and the has each and you know, the health care work as know how to give that is the type of insurance. so we start, you know, from what is available now, and then we work towards those that queue receive therapies in future. okay. professor, okay, i got a note of the head of the university of which is a center for sickle cell disease research and training. thank you. very much for your insights. yeah, you're welcome to italy. now where this is edition of venice is international, odd festival or be an ally, kicked off with the theme following is everywhere is an exploration of colonialism

and the different realities of migration. the exhibition is created by brazilian adriano pedrosa, the 1st from the southern hemisphere to assume the prestigious roll that'd be an outlet takes place across the lagoon city until the end of november. this valuable guess was prejudiced and belonging is one of the most talked about shows what gets his paintings use if you can. i can address the introducing of figurative off and explore rates of identity if you'll just 1st appearance at the amount of as you can see from this you've been on the, on the 1112 countries. uh, let me present it with all having a pavilion for 54 countries inside off week or so. it's just a beginning, it's getting better, but there is a little way to go and purchase presence. this also seemed to the length of colonialism call to go to entry. greenhouse was curated by 3 women of african descent autism,

monique had to meet on the historians, sonya of us bogus and choreography. vanya got recreated the creole garden, the concept of the grill guard, that refers to the lots to extended by enslaved peoples. it is very important to how we see the contemporary challenges of today, such as climate change or to racism, and many other political challenges because the cruel garden rather than being the model culture as the plantations where it is a, a, is a form of cultivation that looks at diverse that brings together multiple species, protecting each other and things of diversity. when cool in terms of cultivation, the republic of fitness, also making some real improvements. this the amount, it was an exhibition, everything precious scratch i. it works that celebrate the spirits of pol if you but women and the deep roots of food. yes,

a very proud to be a lot of good. you know, because i was very important important you have still actually on the, on the international stage by keeping prominence to office we have often been excluded from the great experience of the past. this being all the aims to add a new chapter to our history. well that's it for now. be sure to check out the other stories on dw com. forward slash africa on social media. will it be with these pictures from this is venice being that i enjoyed the next time. i've been out the,

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