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But I get. On your hands and criteria
for a very long and if you have

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a great. Report they and. Wind it.

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That's Michelle Gavin the senior fellow
for African studies at the Council of

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Foreign Relations on the recent regional
coup attempt at any Thiel b.-a details

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coming up also security is tight in Mauritania
and internet access has been cut off

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for

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a 2nd day in the aftermath of the coup prone
country's presidential election and the

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Zimbabwean government has effectively
terminated the multi-currency regime which

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has been. In operation since 2009 we'll
have these stories and lots more

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ahead on Africans tonight.

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As we have been reporting dozens of people
have died the last Saturday in fighting

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when

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a former Reagan security chief attacked
that regional government Opiah Reuters

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news agency reports that the regional
government spokesman says are all good

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militia led by General Ai Simon No
Sygate try to seize control of the media

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security forces and the government there
still is considerable confusion about the

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events and motives surrounding the attacks
Saturday 5 senior officials died in the

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attacks including Ethiopia's Army chief of
staff and that regional president those

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events have stuck to concerns over the
Pates prime minister Nabil Ahmed said of

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forums and promote prompted questions about
whether more force will be necessary

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to quell that regional and Sarette sions
to answer these questions via ways Adam

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Phillips spoke with Michel gap and the
senior fellow for African studies at the

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Council on Foreign Relations

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a large part of the challenge for Abi Gavin
says is the country's history of ethnic

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division and conflict. It's

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a question of what. Vision
of federalism really. What

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it used to me there were set of
rules on paper but. Govern in

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a pretty authoritarian manner and the fact
that Gray and within the reclear early

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the dominant group now if the new day and
I think that sensitive things are up for

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grabs needing to churn which we see
reflected in the mass placement the

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communal violence over the last year I think
all of that factored in very dramatic

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events of the last day. General problem
with this kind of so we call it.

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Was it mostly limited to that state I
don't think it's just limited and this is

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always been

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a very challenging question for Ethiopia
it effects access to land in fact

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political rights and you have coming
up elections which should require

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a fence and when you're in it to

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a sion in which division of right then
Doherty's and powered among different groups

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is up for grabs counting exercise is

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a very sensitive one So
everything kind of coming to

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a head but I also want to be clear that I
think there is some degree unavoidable if

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you have a place that they
govern I get anything

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a lid on the pensions and pressures
for a very long time if you have

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a place where there is

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a decision to allow for more political and
pretend it's going to be met this leads

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naturally to the question of the prime
minister I mean he's been very open and

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quite conciliatory in his approach. But
there are people who think that maybe

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a little too far in that direction to
be hard in order for his reforms to be

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adequately realized I think that exactly
right this question of balance their

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pension between returning
a new page we have

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a new governing. Model
needing to provide every day

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a theory that everything is going to depend
on their country forward and it will be

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instructed the how government with the
aftermath at the I know you're not

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a fortune teller but I think that
he's likely. Going forward at least.

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I think that's unavoidable you can't have
justice without order right and things

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are getting so disordered as to be fundamentally
problematic but I am not convinced

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that an impact on some of these are
threatened that interest. In that

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credit be

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a matter of very shrewd judgment about who's
in place where trying to empower those

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who are with the programming. People who
are working to drag the country that.

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Is the former u.s.

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Ambassador to Botswana and currently the
senior fellow for African studies at the

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Council on Foreign Relations She
spoke with Phillips in New York.

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Security is tight in Mauritania and
internet access has been cut off for

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a 2nd day in the aftermath of the coup
prone country's presidential election the

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government reported it arrested more than
$100.00 foreigners blaming opposition

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parties for contacts with outside forces
seeking to destabilize the country through

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protests troops were seen near the
presidential palace and constitutional council

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Mohamed Rooney the hand-picked candidate
of the retiring president won 52 percent

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of the vote according to the official
count the 3 opposition candidates were

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trailing far behind with the best showing
only 19 percent but the majority result

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allowed Sunni to avoid

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a runoff election that might have been
much closer the 3rd place finisher said he

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has filed an appeal up the
results late Tuesday.

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A fair share of Zimbabwe's problems have
been attributed to corruption much if it

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linked to politics in an interesting
twist the ruling Zanu p.f.

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Party's youth wing has taken

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a bold stand against the endemic
issue reporter could sides in

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a washy has the details.

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Is the deputy secretary for sunup if you
think Monday named in same to some of the

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allegedly caught up to individuals within
often limited to the are part you say

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the all is to make corruption and risky
and none profitable friends are they must

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include stem once pharmaceuticals played
in basic commodities as well as long

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savings on opiates big weeks much of the
votes to expose that. The approach of

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naming alleged culprits without supporting
evidence is not new in Zimbabwe in much

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2018 president and
Muslim men were released

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a long list of individuals and companies
who you claimed were externalizing staff

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foreign currency of

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a year later no artists or convictions
have been made so it's unclear what my to

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action may actually you say this
is the beginning of the Zanu p.f.

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You fight against corruption.
It. Will be time

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defunct people is also. We
came to root out corruption

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in Reno's change is blowing under the
leadership of president. Indeed it is in this

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interest. That you all be well meaning
up with you must join us in this

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fight if you aside that you must fight
together for the good of our nation critics

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don't know what to make of this exposé
political analyst Russia. Calls it the

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struggle for the Post
calls balls with pins on

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a pier and fractional struggles over
access to resources in an almost 30 option

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is not fought through

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a smear campaign but through investigation
by well has forced them to corruption

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units and police. Is the
editor of open party an online

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publication that covers parliament and
political developments he says let me

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alleged quite up to individuals is

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a smokescreen. The timing is rather
dubious to say the least comes

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a few hours after the Statutory Instrument
one for 9 had been released into the

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public domain so it seems like

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a strategy to distract from the issue at
hand which is why this that your interest

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raiment was just dropped out of thin air
when the government was making promises

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that the Zim dolo to turn in at least 9
months they're not meant by that will be

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a few weeks came after government introduced
to the Zimbabwean dollar as the sole

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currency off client and for bed look all
transactions in foreign currency context

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say this could spark 1st
functional pickles with things on

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a pier but. Then they should pay them more
attention to always be factions within

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them to be intimate use each other to fight
pitty wars but if the end of the day in

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That'll happen to those people as we have
seen it's best to find that if you'd like

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members who are willing to do in there
getting into trouble their internal

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squabbles within them to be of and they're
using the place in the media to fight

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those things but there will always be
those with we've been going to be mapping

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change at

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a national level policy wise flamboyant.
Matt justice what. It's left

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out and just fellow youth league league
does for lending in swimming big wigs. Look

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as representing the Reserve Bank governor
of Zimbabwe you have served to pass too

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much too. And cutting their intention to
fulfill $1000000.00 Zimbabwe dollars if

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a confession of

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a note had drawn from their way this is
good there's no rush from Harare the

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Zimbabwean government has effectively
terminated the multi-currency regime which

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has been in operation since 2009 in

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a move that it says will strengthen the
local currency had begun to gives us more

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on the reaction to the move by residents
in the 2nd largest city below why finance

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minister I'm telling you has effectively
terminated the use of what intelligence is

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in isn't public so only
the local attitude g.s.

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Will be along for consumption says that we
bring an increase in the supply of flame

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cuttings into the topic for the market by
ensuring that at least 50 percent of the

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site and

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a portion of foreign currency is sold to the
interbank market this will be supplemented

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by the use of letters of credit for importing
$61.00 he's including fuel cooking or

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wheat the government says this move is
intended to mitigate the impact of the new

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measures on next the
country's been dealing with

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a growing economic crisis in which the
prices it's been denominated in foreign

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exchange and inflation is pitched at climate
96 percent by one week and I decide as

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Stephen Hank according to the consumer
confidence in what way the price of food

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basket stands at

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a ts $1000.00 Well civil servants
average years 400 dollars

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a month some observer see the motive kinds
regime to me nation as an attempt to

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deal with the mounting pressure from the
6 to receive their salaries in u.s.

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Dollars and I was told my story sees the
government move as political expedience

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they are trying to address their restive
corporation but mostly civil servants who

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have been threatening to go on strike given
the fact that civil servants and not

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being remunerated in near Stella's and
they've been pushing to be remunerated in

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years to lessen the argument that goods and
services prized in us dollars and other

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. Well Petain government met on Friday
with the leaders of the ethics council the

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civil service representative body over
where could be months for pay raises

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a commitment was met to raise salaries and
move which observers say will force the

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government to print money the finance
minister has been at pains to assure the

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nation that the movement city and to see
that citizens foreign exchange accounts

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will not be affected if you
have dollars you live in

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a peasant on your pension. In that
account from kind of the common struck

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home in Germany there are
people there who want

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a very nice except that one wouldn't
shop insurmountably you change.

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The critics say government seeming
sincerity remain suspect and people are

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skeptical the former government raided
citizens for in kinds accounts in 2008 in

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a desperate move that dented up the confidence
in the banking system that there is

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no genuine as on the part of government
well there queues of people who obviously

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withdrawing money from their last draw
counts obviously the announcement by there

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is panic draw of foreign currency and
there's also panic buying so I've been to

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Nedbank I've been to back late spring
there is panic from the people who with

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Nostromo accounts there with

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a drawing everything they've they've saved
they didn't in the form of what excess

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because they they they they don't know
what's going to happen tomorrow that people

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are reminded I guess again if the government
does more to trade for incumbents at

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cons and choose the most shops and Louella
we know don't accept in foreign exchange

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unit b.

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To comply with and you put these prices
remain pegged at the peril market condition

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it implementation of the new police will
prove the challenge and much of the region

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it is unique in that dozens of twill as it
left the region for South Africa in the

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early eighties due to state reprisals
or alleged does it indicate he's some

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analysts. The numbers now range from half

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a 1000000 to 1000000 living and working
significant cuts when ordered meat runs

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there and like the nanny to the plum tree
schoolteacher says problems you face are

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looking at areas like. Bonnie. Andy
of course paid pretty she thought to

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rely on using the Iran and
they. Don't cite add.

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Those areas you see those areas most of the
ass talk they take it from outside the

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country they take it from
South Africa you see

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a large population of the people of those
areas. In that as easy for them to access

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the ground in favor with or without the
the falling off the dollar or the price

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they offer they have always been
there and they put in for us this is

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a big 1. 21 past the hour

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you're listening to African news tonight
on The Voice of America Egypt's interior

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ministry says terrorists killed 7 members
of the country's security forces during 3

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attacks on checkpoints near the
northern Sinai town of late yesterday

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a number of terrorists were also reportedly
killed during an so in gun battles

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Edward Uranian reports from Cairo. Among
them I'm on to Milan also to let me have

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him on them I think

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a month to them it was an. Attack on
Egyptian security forces took places much of

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the country was on high alert for the
Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament

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Egypt's interior ministry
says the attack on

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a police meeting center took place late
Tuesday outside the northern Sinai port

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city of l r h 4 attackers were
killed including a man thought to be

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a suicide bomber cut
to Rio indulges 0 t.v.

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Reported that the Islamic state militant
group claimed responsibility for the

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attack on its website v.o.a.

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Could not independently confirm the claim
nor is it clear who is behind the website

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a fact that the Mossad almost
funny on the net had been a sham

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a smile he had the memo how come
I know it Gyptian state t.v.

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Reported that the Tuesday attack coincided
with the start of the trial of suspected

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terrorist his sham eyelash male we who was
handed over to the Egyptian military by

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Libya's armed forces who are loyal
to Gen after last month Ashmawy is

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wanted for

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a number of high profile attacks in
recent years including the 2015 explosion

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that killed General
Prosecutor his sham bar

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a cat. Was captured in the Libyan
port city of dharna last October

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kill out because Shan who teaches political
science at the American University of

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Beirut tells v.o.a.

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That he does not think the Sinai attack
is related to the trial of Ashmawy nor to

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other ongoing events including the
conference in Bahrain to put an end to the

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Israeli Palestinian conflict. He says that
he thinks the insurgents in the northern

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Sinai launch attacks wherever they are
capable and that they cannot mount

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operations on

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a daily basis therefore he stresses if the
attacks take place during the conference

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in Bahrain this is coincidental. Because
Shan says that he believes that the main

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support for the insurgents is coming from
the Sinai bed when he argues that the

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Egyptian government has failed to integrate
the Bedwyn into Egyptian society and

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has not been sympathetic to their social
or economic plight it Gyptian media

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however accuse other countries and
groups including Iran Cutler Turkey has

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a blog and how mass of supporting
the militants just 0 t.v.

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Claim that the militants were driving 14
wheel drive vehicles during the attacks

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late Tuesday it was not clear how such
vehicles could have been brought into the

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Sinai without the help of an outside
country several anti-education

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websites also claim that the Sinai attacks
were related to the sudden collapse and

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death of the ousted former
president Mohamed Morsi in

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a Cairo courtroom on June 17th
Edward Uranian for v.o.a.

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News Cairo. Nigeria's movie

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industry Nollywood for many decades
has largely dependent on local movie

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distribution but in the last decade
producers have been shifting focus from low

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budget high volume production to quality
earning the end destry more international

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recognition in 2015 America's streaming
giant Netflix started streaming

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Nigerian made movies but poor Internet
infrastructure and I data costs mean

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stunted growth for streaming services
in Nigeria team at the o.b.s.

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Who reports from

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a. This is the. Nigerian actress and

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filmmaker hubby Juliette has been in Vienna
Austria for many years every year she

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produces many low budget movies to make up
for low payments from local distributors

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and losses from piracy but now she says
she's focusing on quality hoping that her

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movie gets

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a shot at international limelight with the
filmmakers we've been suffering and with

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us this thing in the hands of these
distributors because I don't see any reason why

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I should work for my money everything
comes from me and they want to rip me off

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Nigeria as movie industry Nollywood became
popular undertrained global recognition

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for its volume of production ranks 2nd to
India as Bollywood but vast is change in

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technology advancements and online
streaming are reducing the dependence of

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filmmakers on volume production and local
distribution there's no how near Fleet or

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whatever we have Mahmoud I mean given that
that means there's some money from them

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in the movie we see the definitely the prism
of color the part of the money of food

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from them before they come for to put
it online but eliminating the so-called

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middleman or local distributors is only

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a part of the solution for Marjorie Yes
filmmakers poor Internet infrastructure and

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high dollar cost in Nigeria means desperate
involvement of international and local

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online streaming services with produces
viewers to struggle to access movies but it

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was in the beginning but again he made us
think outside of the box so in other to

00:21:52
tackle that challenge we decided to go
beyond data and we decided to do emphasize

00:21:57
on our stream effect of our business and
focus more on creating an app from scratch

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I thought from that we also came up with
kiosks so what the kiosk does is that

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allows for you Miles. To go to the kiosk
and then they can download desperate

00:22:15
showing the fastest growth rates in
Internet penetration Africa remains in the

00:22:19
bottom rank with only about 25.2 percent
of the population use and the Internet

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Nigeria's government has created an enabling
environment for many broadband service

00:22:30
providers to make the buts' millions of
movie lovers years to depend on local

00:22:36
distributors a proxies that promotes
piracy Timothy abuse and for v.o.a.

00:22:41
News upwards. And that wraps up this edition
of African news tonight and he used to

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a head of state Montagne effective leadership
some African leaders are forced out

00:23:48
of office while others respect the political
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Is Sunday Young in Washington welcome
to the sunny side of sports we have 2

00:25:01
primary topics for you today on this hump
day edition of the show women's soccer

00:25:07
and the n.b.a.

00:25:08
Awards but 1st this note on the African
Cup of Nations which is now into the

00:25:15
2nd set of games in the group phase after
Cameroon defeated Guinea Bissau out

00:25:21
$20.00 and Ghana and been in tied
with 2 goals apiece on Tuesday

00:25:28
Wednesday as early game saw
Nigeria defeat Guinea and in just

00:25:32
a few minutes Uganda plays Zimbabwe
before the match day concludes with Egypt

00:25:39
facing the Democratic Republic of Congo
the big news out of the Egyptian camp is

00:25:45
this suspension of Amir Waratah who was
one of the pharaoh's 1st subs in the

00:25:51
opening win over Zimbabwe according to
reports has been disciplined due to

00:25:58
inappropriate social media behavior let's
move on now to the Women's World Cup

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whose quarterfinal pairings are set
after Italy's 20 win over China and the

00:26:11
Netherlands 21 win over Japan
on Tuesday. Quiksilver fori is

00:26:18
here now to get us up to date sporty
greetings. Dakota fun our state of the

00:26:25
on going fee for

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a Woman's World Cup in France is set with
$7.00 European teams and United States

00:26:31
qualified for marches will be held between
June $27.29 when host country France

00:26:38
will meet defending champions u.s.c.

00:26:40
At puck to Prince in Paris India to
fish just know will face England.

00:26:48
Italy and Netherlands will be in contention
study on 0 in violence in and Germany

00:26:53
will place wooden drives and park in runs
as part of the 1st commitment to promote

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and eradicate all forms of
discrimination from football

00:27:03
a pretty much protocol of the court
of fun our marches would include

00:27:07
a call to action from the cup teams of the
8 participating teams to encourage funds

00:27:12
to unite against all forms of discrimination
and celebrate inclusion irrespective

00:27:17
of ethnic origin gender sexual orientation
disability religion or in the

00:27:24
prison. Name one let alone funds
ready to ring team to victory i.d.f.

00:27:31
If with violence in Venice which is
about an hour drive from death I was

00:27:36
disappointed in the group stage much again
in dummy telling us of cover for his son

00:27:42
the saddest post corporal for in Paris
France thank you Quabbin I am d.

00:27:47
Unfree Del in for a son

00:27:48
a young and you're listening to the sunny
side of sports on the Voice of America

00:27:54
here now is Iron Mike I'm born yeah
I spoke with Emmanuel a car up

00:28:00
a sports editor at The News Agency of
Nigeria Mike Emanuel talked about the

00:28:06
performance of the women's teams from Nigeria
and Cameroon who were both eliminated

00:28:12
over the weekend in the round of 16
welcome Mike and Emmanuel for their

00:28:19
fucked up crushed out of the competition I
do is to each I would say it was not on

00:28:25
his power and performance are such because
all duck Contra's Dr Steve did Contras

00:28:30
duck qualified for his woke up like them
would be shown off possibly going beyond

00:28:35
a strand on maybe one of them will eventually
win but unfortunately for us I want

00:28:39
to felt crushed when it mattered most
and I saw it I would not see it I was

00:28:44
impressed with the way to performed at

00:28:46
a tournament 2 of the divas that represented
Africa make you reckon the room had

00:28:50
issues with the show's course made by did
refer referring to the assistant referee

00:28:57
committee room at the appointing them I
think is inclined try to stay you walk out

00:29:01
now you have to put this that have some
penalties that we all wanted to get and

00:29:04
what's your take on these v.a.r.

00:29:06
Used by before these women want the fake
they've had on the African team for no

00:29:12
d.v.r.

00:29:13
Rule might be causing controversy around
it and I'll describe it to in stage so to

00:29:18
speak but it's something that does come to
Stevie Wonder by the time we get to try

00:29:23
to do with it what decease interpreted.
Since we started just in now on the

00:29:28
reaction of the 2 teams Nigeria and
Cameroon Yeah I worry too much Nigeria or

00:29:33
France that was your only goal France used
to defeat us. Did not move beyond the

00:29:38
line so the way it is even though we
considered that goal which eventually led to

00:29:43
kept us in suspense because we're still
waiting for results from other places to do

00:29:48
time enough it our goal still went on and
played we protested but I wish our d.

00:29:53
Ought to have known that such new rules
and regulations and I blame our fish are

00:29:58
not instilled is to go said look or
dissidence these are do's and don'ts in this

00:30:02
walk up and it gets up to come every nuance
the conflict lead lost for cost there

00:30:06
were on professional after all Diego
Maradona used to sign to score in $1006.00

00:30:10
woke up against England continue
to March they did not stage

00:30:14
a walk out you 1st of all off to

00:30:15
a bitter referee's decision because
it's find out August I work out Audi

00:30:19
a tonne transit through and so on were
not necessary they were not professional

00:30:22
enough I agreed it's

00:30:23
a beautiful decision but you have to
continue that's I suppose to be done do you

00:30:26
think that because tradition of African
Football should introduce the use of the

00:30:31
via our legal cough tournaments in the
continent we just have to catch up with the

00:30:37
rest of the world currently every part of
the world if we're football boots to play

00:30:41
football there we're just is to play football
and when you root and regulations are

00:30:45
introduced we also adopted so there's no
where we're not eventually I dumped via

00:30:50
maybe some countries might not be aware
without the means to but it is inevitable

00:30:54
it does come to stay and we just have to
start getting used to it and sort out on

00:30:58
one beauty about via our Yeah to detect
offenses that are committed off to Bali

00:31:03
students and so on you know there are times
when it favors you I be happy but when

00:31:07
you goes against your be compliant to
become good human nature yes not in that

00:31:10
contact with satisfy everybody will protest
but you just have to accept it because

00:31:15
it's part of the root under conditions of
the game the fact is that African team

00:31:18
has gone in the women what was in 1919 to
do what I thought nothing and that little

00:31:24
snake urea ever since. This low African
team has made it beyond the round of 60

00:31:30
looking forward looking ahead what do you
think the gulf region of African Football

00:31:35
should do and then be very astute in Africa
but thankfully football what should be

00:31:39
done to good beyond the round of 16 and
even get to the semifinals of the 5th I

00:31:43
will start us we should strengthen
women's football league domestically and

00:31:50
Continental so that by so
doing it to a shop and

00:31:53
a competitive edge of our players then
doors that I would enough to play

00:31:56
professional football in countries that
have the infrastructure and all the

00:32:00
necessary where we to boost the more
confidence the skill of display as you go then

00:32:06
the training the kind of training we expose
up to the kind of competitions. That

00:32:12
merely distance psychological 4 course
having to skill is wanton then the

00:32:17
organization How deeply are split because
I want some of our much as we're not

00:32:21
we're still we're still there still

00:32:23
a wide gulf between us and countries like
Germany Sweden United States France Japan

00:32:28
these are countries that have been started
before that 9091 when the 1st World Cup

00:32:33
was heard in China not mistaken one you
know was there and we did well and we've

00:32:36
been having a bit unfortunately
is that if there's

00:32:39
a mental block we just have to go beyond
mental block the moment we get beyond our

00:32:42
mental block I show you will go places.
Thank you Mike and Emmanuel I'm Dan free

00:32:48
Del in for Sonny young and you're listening
to the sunny side of sports on the

00:32:52
Voice of America we're
joined now by Lindsey Gibbs

00:32:55
a sports writer for Think Progress
based here in Washington d.c.

00:33:00
Lindsey has been following the
Women's World Cup and recently wrote

00:33:03
a story about what she called and I quote
from her story the racist stereotypes so

00:33:10
many in the media cling to when discussing
female football players from African

00:33:15
countries both on the field and off it's

00:33:18
a thought provoking story that's worth
checking out Lindsey thanks for joining us

00:33:24
on the sunny side of sports
thanks so much for having me so

00:33:28
a lot of the conversation in the women's
World Cup so far has been about the

00:33:34
difference in caliber of the teams that
have been playing kind of in the lower half

00:33:40
of the Women's World Cup rankings you know
the sense that some of the teams that

00:33:45
have been struggling in the past have been

00:33:48
a little bit more successful this year
we've seen that with. South Africa getting

00:33:53
into the tournament for the 1st time we
see the the team from Cameroon the team

00:33:58
from Nigeria getting into the elimination
phase of the tournament. What have you

00:34:03
thought of the tournament so far as we
head into the 2nd knockout phase Yeah I

00:34:08
think it's been incredibly incredibly
competitive and enthralling tournament of

00:34:12
course during the group stages there were
blowouts and some noncompetitive games

00:34:18
but look that happens in the men's World
Cup it too that's going to happen any time

00:34:22
you know you know such

00:34:23
a variety of teams playing you know in
these knockout rounds but once these round

00:34:29
of 16 matches begin the knockout stages
it's just been there been so many nail

00:34:34
biters and it's been you know it's been
really thrilling to see teams like Spain

00:34:39
and Italy really showing up and performing
well on the stage of course we've seen.

00:34:46
You know to see 2 African teams make it to
the knockout rounds was really you know

00:34:51
historic to the performances of both
Cameroon and Nigeria and you see teams like

00:34:57
South Africa but then also you
know Jamaica made it here chill

00:35:01
a Argentina you know you're seeing

00:35:03
a lot of teams that are. You know they
have not been invested and well that you

00:35:09
know we haven't seen their
federations giving them

00:35:11
a lot of support but these women have
been able to. To fight and get themselves

00:35:17
into this world stage anyways and that's
been really I've just loved every 2nd of

00:35:21
it. But so have a lot of fans who've
been watching these games in the u.s.

00:35:26
And around the world for our audience in
Africa they may not have any sense of the

00:35:33
way the African teams are being covered
by the North American media the Northern

00:35:38
European media so I thought it was interesting
the way your story described some of

00:35:44
the ways that the team from Cameroon and
the team from Nigeria were being described

00:35:48
in the the British newspapers for example
following the England win over Cameroon

00:35:55
and some of the way the commentators were
talking about the players from Nigeria

00:36:00
during the match against Germany when you
were watching those Gamma's What was your

00:36:05
reaction to those conversations that were
going on kind of the overtones of the

00:36:11
game beyond actually what was happening on
the playing field Yeah I thought overall

00:36:16
the conversations were very reductive and
you know were rooted you know in some

00:36:23
stereotypes in recent racist stereotypes
that you know persists to this day it's

00:36:28
something I notice you know often Any time
you know you're watching how the media

00:36:34
is talking about black athletes even in
the United States but it was even more

00:36:39
stark seeing her all the being of the Western
media that the British media and the

00:36:44
United States broadcasters were talking
of these African teams for Nigeria for

00:36:49
instance the fox sports broadcasters
that's where we're watching it on Fox or.

00:36:57
They pretty explicitly talked about you
know Thomason or be the white European head

00:37:03
coach coming over and kind of I mean Cheney
is that is the type of rhetoric they

00:37:09
were using you know the wild skill of the
Nigerians I think the exact quote was.

00:37:17
Nigeria kept making it into the World Cup
based on their athleticism and finally

00:37:22
was dinner be there getting

00:37:22
a proper coach to teach them proper tactical
and technical aspects of their game

00:37:28
and I just thought that was just you know
I mean it not only did I feel like it

00:37:33
shortsighted the intelligence in the
skill of the Nigerian players as

00:37:40
a whole look I mean it was hard not to
associate that with you know. You know

00:37:47
colonial rhetoric that we're using here
so that was really disappointing you know

00:37:51
something

00:37:52
a lot of us notices you know when you see
teams like this you know the. Teams from

00:37:57
Africa they're constantly talked about with
pace and power pace and power and it's

00:38:02
not to say that any time you say pace and
power that that's you know racist or

00:38:07
a stereotype teams do have pace and power
but the the point is that with African

00:38:11
teams the conversation often starts and
finishes there and that's dismissive and

00:38:18
usually incorrect there's much more to
World Cup teams and just pace and power in

00:38:24
the World Cup team. I'm d.n.

00:38:27
Free Del filling in for something young
on the sunny side of sports here in

00:38:30
Washington d.c.

00:38:31
On The Voice of America we're
talking with Lindsey gives

00:38:34
a sports reporter for Think Progress about
the way the the African Women's soccer

00:38:39
teams have been portrayed by the Western
media during this Women's World Cup going

00:38:44
on in France so Lindsey you just mentioned
the fact that you know you can't get

00:38:49
into the elimination stage of
a World Cup without having

00:38:52
a tactically strong team and beyond
just the sort of raw ability

00:38:59
why do you think that there are this why
why do you think there is this kind of

00:39:04
conversation consistently going on when
the teams that are mostly white players

00:39:11
are playing against the teams from Africa
Yeah I mean look it's it's it's these

00:39:16
stereotypes based on racism that persist
and like I said I see this often you know

00:39:22
in you know with United States teams you
know you know what talk about black

00:39:27
athletes is their rock Luddism

00:39:29
a lot and then you know with white athletes
it's their grit in their intelligence

00:39:34
and you know they're just

00:39:35
a smart football player when you know
often I mean the answer is for all elite

00:39:40
athletes is that it's

00:39:41
a combination of both right it's like
there's no and so I think that's what's

00:39:46
frustrating and you know I but it was
really stark this conversation the Cameroon

00:39:50
match against. England of course the
British press is all always very outspoken

00:39:57
and always very dramatic but you
know I mean look Cameroon fell apart

00:40:02
a little bit during the match there were
definitely some months sports that line

00:40:06
like things that Cameron team did and I
think it's absolutely right to point out

00:40:12
that there were some questionable you know
actions when it came to you know some of

00:40:19
the elbows or you know the hits
or even you know there was

00:40:24
a spitting incident which I think you know
some said was incidental but you know

00:40:29
anyways it wasn't great but
also. I thought the. Pearl

00:40:36
clutching by the media and by Phil
novel The coach for camera was

00:40:42
pretty stark I mean you know we're talking
about you know the front page of front

00:40:47
page of sun sport within the camera
loons and shaming the game is the front

00:40:54
page of the of another. Tabloid and it was
really the way it was being talked about

00:41:01
was like the this African team has sullied
our beautiful game and that was the

00:41:07
overwhelming. Takeaway from so many of
these conversations including from the

00:41:12
England coach himself and so that really
stuck out to me as being you know based in

00:41:18
. Stereotypes of Who's Who owns the game
who's you know who's the intruder here

00:41:23
versus who. Is you know
rightfully there and

00:41:30
that was that was really hard to listen
to and to watch and it's even more

00:41:36
frustrating now because you know the Cameron
Federation their sons that did this

00:41:40
they see all this federation all this
criticism and they're not talking about you

00:41:45
know disciplining their players as well
and sanctioning the players and this is

00:41:49
a federation that barely invest anything
in women's football as it is so now the

00:41:54
you know the Western media is you know
dictating that conversation as well and

00:41:57
that's that's

00:42:00
a lot to take in. That's Lindsey Gibbs of
Think Progress and I'm Dan for you tell

00:42:05
filling in for Sonny young on the sunny
side of sports we'll hear more of my

00:42:09
conversation with Lindsay later in the
week now let's turn to the n.b.a.

00:42:14
On Monday night the league
announced the winner of

00:42:16
a number of awards Yanis on to take born
in Greece to Nigerian parents won the

00:42:22
League's Most Valuable Player award just
ahead of Houston's James Harden Rookie of

00:42:28
the year went to Dallas as Luca dontcha
Chu finished ahead of Atlanta's Tre young

00:42:34
pos called come of the Champion Raptors and
Cameroon won the league's Most Improved

00:42:39
Player award rooty go Berra France was the
defensive player of the year and Magic

00:42:45
Johnson and Larry Bird combined to win
the league's lifetime achievement award

00:42:51
We're joined now by Ben Gol over of the
Washington Post to wrap up the n.b.a.

00:42:55
Season and put some context around these
awards Welcome to the show Ben Oh it's my

00:43:01
pleasure Harry Yes I'm doing great I'm
doing great you know we just got some news

00:43:06
about the n.b.a. Off season
and we'll get to that in

00:43:08
a minute but it's good to take

00:43:10
a chance to wrap up what we saw starting
back in October and finishing off in the

00:43:15
middle part of June. First off

00:43:18
a lot of the athletes coming into the awards
ceremony on Monday we're talking about

00:43:23
the influence of international
players in the n.b.a.

00:43:26
We've got 4 major awards won by players
who didn't grow up in the u.s.

00:43:30
So have we reached peak
penetration of the n.b.a.

00:43:34
By international players. lol 'd Resty point
I think it's still going to go I think

00:43:40
the other big international story of
course is that the Toronto Raptors the

00:43:44
N.B.A.'s only to g.d.p.

00:43:45
Wind up with their 1st title ever so it
is sort of you know it celebrates already

00:43:50
time for the league's globalization
I mean this is part of

00:43:54
a you know 20 to 30 year concerted
effort to spread the game to developing

00:44:00
countries and to generate interest in

00:44:02
a sport that really can be played by everybody
I'm not sure that he knows this but

00:44:06
the person who invented
dodgeball was actually

00:44:08
a Canadian James Naismith and his
idea was basically I want to have

00:44:13
a sport that you know anybody can play
you know at any time of the year whether

00:44:17
it's cold outside and an indoor sports
kind of you know prevent them from the you

00:44:23
know getting you know touched by the
elements. But not any. Any player and I

00:44:29
think that something you can see Yonex
attended both from Milwaukee and Scott the

00:44:34
arc of the perfect examples of that Younis
comes to the sport pretty late by at

00:44:39
least n.b.a.

00:44:40
Standards but his improvement has been so
overwhelming that he winds up climbing

00:44:44
all the way to the top
of the mountain in just

00:44:46
a 6 he's going to win his 1st and b.p.

00:44:48
Award is just an incredible accomplishment
so Ben in your story in The Washington

00:44:54
Post you mentioned that
before coming to the u.s.

00:44:56
Yonath had never had

00:44:58
a smoothie so you know some of the people
in our audience might actually not know

00:45:01
what

00:45:02
a smoothie is it's refreshing drink made
from blended fruit maybe frozen yogurt ice

00:45:08
and a little protein added
in especially if you're

00:45:11
a high level athlete I also one
point heard that he had never eaten

00:45:15
a shrimp before in his rookie year with the
box and now here he is one of the most

00:45:20
dominant players in the n.b.a.

00:45:21
So like are there even enough words to
describe his development. It's fascinating

00:45:28
because not only did he really have to
learn English when he came to the n.b.a.

00:45:32
He also had to learn all the basketball
vernacular too so if you think about the

00:45:36
level of cultural knowledge he's taking
in all the off court stuff that you're

00:45:40
mentioning in terms of you don't you
think with the how do you know American

00:45:44
society works and all that but also on top
of that you know it's like going in to

00:45:49
getting a Ph d.

00:45:50
In basketball you know trying their catch
up on all the terminology and all the

00:45:55
schemes and all the technical aspects of
the sport and then on top of that you're

00:45:59
dealing with the media were asking
you questions every single day in

00:46:02
a language that is not your 1st language
so the fact that he was able to come you

00:46:06
know and when he was tracked that you was
described as the most mysterious project

00:46:11
prospect in the draft he was not seen as
somebody who would be an immediate impact

00:46:15
player but he was someone that
you really needed to devote

00:46:18
a lot of resources to it and in terms of
teaching him to game it and getting up to

00:46:22
speed but he did have the phenomenal physical
characteristics when you want to say

00:46:26
it's been able to do and he has these long
strides where he's able to cover ground

00:46:30
much more quickly than a lot
of players he's really put on

00:46:34
a lot of muscle and strength and he's been
able to overwhelm people physically but

00:46:38
he's also really learned and fashioned
himself into one of the smartest players in

00:46:44
the game and you look at their options
it was the 3rd best stop in the entire

00:46:48
league this year and he was the main reason
why basically everything started with

00:46:52
him he would drive into the force on the
defenders to come towards him and then he

00:46:56
would makes really tough choices about where
you catch the bats modifying the open

00:47:00
bat and he learned how to do that stuff
over the course of 6 year and be

00:47:05
a career he was not you
know coming to the n.b.a.

00:47:07
With that kind of knowledge base so the
improvement level for young essentially

00:47:11
come on all sorts of different fronts
not only getting more comfortable with

00:47:14
American culture like you're talking about
but also settling into will need where

00:47:19
you know most n.b.a.

00:47:20
Players especially if they're coming from
America they're almost being prepped to

00:47:23
be n.b.a.

00:47:24
Players by the age of 12 or 13 with some
of the. Speedier programs and Younis was

00:47:29
certainly you know at

00:47:30
a disadvantage in terms of when you started
getting serious about that Lloyd he

00:47:34
made up so Ben How about Cameron's
Pascola seok I'm for example before this

00:47:41
year's playoffs he was basically
unknown playing in Canada. Not being

00:47:47
a heavily hyped prospect coming out of
college and during the Raptors win over the

00:47:51
box in the Eastern Conference Finals it
could be argued he was the the best or the

00:47:56
2nd best player on the floor at some
of the times. He's moved on from being

00:48:01
a developmental player to

00:48:02
a rising star how much better can he kept.
You can be an all star player I think

00:48:08
his story is fascinating because it kind
of shows you what acting is when you get

00:48:12
some you know true diversity within the
management ranks the Raptors president is

00:48:17
Messiah here he he's Nigerian
and you know he has been

00:48:22
a huge advocate of the bass boat without
Borders camps and that which basically

00:48:26
have turned into some nice development areas
that in the eighty's are able to sign

00:48:31
players who could potentially
play in the n.b.a.

00:48:33
One day that's sort of the route that.
Another player Joel Embiid you know for the

00:48:39
sisters and sort of been involved in that
as well now I think that you know some

00:48:44
executives when they see

00:48:46
a player like seok I'm maybe not the most
developed player right when he's being

00:48:51
jacked be would be afraid to take if it's
a bit worried about their job may be

00:48:55
a situation where like if this guy doesn't
pan out the owner is going to look over

00:48:59
your neck and say we went wait

00:49:00
a minute why did you take this guy over
this other player worked out massively I

00:49:04
think with messiah here he's become such
a respected executive that when he makes

00:49:08
a big player like Ascot seok of you know
all there should visit you can blink twice

00:49:13
and he winds up being very invested in
that player's development that enough they

00:49:17
obviously had

00:49:18
a personal connection at some great analysis
we're big fans of the jury here on the

00:49:22
show we really appreciate your time and
that's all the time we have on this June

00:49:26
26th edition of the funny side
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00:54:35
News I'm Gene Randall the Group of 20 summit
takes place in Osaka at the end of the

00:54:41
week Japanese prime minister Shinzo on they
says he'll be looking for consensus on

00:54:45
trade and other troublesome issues when
he chairs the event maybe correspondent

00:54:50
Charles Dillard usma has

00:54:51
a report speaking of the end of Japan's
current policy entry session of

00:54:55
a stressed the importance of global
leaders overcoming their differences and

00:54:59
joining hands in tackling
difficult issues to send

00:55:02
a strong. Ssage to the rest of the world
he said he hopes to lead the summit by

00:55:07
patiently finding common ground in order
to achieve concrete results rather than

00:55:12
stressing over focusing on differences of
opinion they also I think expressed hope

00:55:17
that the u.s. And China will result in

00:55:19
a trade dispute when their leaders meet
during on the sidelines of the summit on

00:55:24
Friday and Saturday and shells that with
as much the battle of insults between the

00:55:28
United States and Iran continues while
each side insists it wants to avoid armed

00:55:33
conflict u.s.

00:55:34
President Donald Trump on Fox Business
News today said he does not want war but

00:55:38
quote We are in a very strong position
if something should happen he warned

00:55:43
a conflict with the Islamic Republic
wouldn't last very long and said he was not

00:55:47
talking boots on the ground Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali how many calls the

00:55:52
u.s. The world's most vicious regime and

00:55:55
a source of wars conflict and plunder in
Brussels Meanwhile NATO NATO secretary

00:56:00
general Jens Stoltenberg says
he expects the new acting u.s.

00:56:03
Defense secretary Marc esper to ask
America's allies to help convince Iran to

00:56:08
negotiate it is extremely
important to take

00:56:11
a message from the United States that they
are ready to sit down with their online

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talk and to play it to reduce the
tensions because we need to.

00:56:22
Avoid escalation. For more news you
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00:56:32
News 2 American soldiers
have been killed in

00:56:35
a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan
bringing to 9 the number of u.s.

00:56:38
Facilities there there's year fatalities
rather the killings come a day after u.s.

00:56:43
Secretary of state Mike Pompei

00:56:44
a was in Kabul for day long talks with
Afghan leaders on efforts to reach an

00:56:49
agreement with the Taliban aimed at ending
the nearly 18 year old war new talks are

00:56:53
set for this weekend in gutter the
secretary talked about the latest u.s.

00:56:57
Deaths my condolences certainly go out to
to to them and praying for them for their

00:57:03
families and for for all the soldiers
that were around them former u.s.

00:57:08
Special counsel Robert Muller has agreed
to testify in Congress in public on his

00:57:13
report of Russian meddling in the 2016
presidential election many Democrats are

00:57:18
hoping Muller's testimony will add to the
case for an impeachment investigation of

00:57:22
President Trump but he Correspondent Mike
Rossi reports there are poll results in

00:57:27
conflict with that sentiment in
a sobering assessment housing.

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