Audio: VOA [Voice of America] Africa : July 23, 2018 12:00PM-01:00PM EDT

Closed captions transcript:00:00:00Officers trying to Mayor John Tory says it is time to revisit the question of gun00:00:05control in Toronto we need to discuss why does anyone in this city need to have00:00:12a gun at all and I know even answering that question won't fully eliminate00:00:16tragedies like this but even if we can prevent one of these incidents then in my00:00:21view it is a Scot a discussion worth having drawn to00:00:24a police chief Mark Saunders said the shooting was not random and terrorism has not00:00:28been ruled out U.S.00:00:30President has issued00:00:32a combative warning to Iran maybe Washington correspondent Saddam00:00:35a gun in reports from the White House it was00:00:38a tweet in all caps never ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer00:00:44consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before00:00:49that was after Iran's president said America must understand well war with Iran is00:00:54the mother of all wars is the president looking to incite war with Tehran if00:00:58anybody is inciting anything no further than terrorism spokeswoman Sara Sanders00:01:03then issued00:01:04a statement from national security adviser John Bolton who said the president has00:01:08told him if Iran does anything at all to the negative it will pay00:01:12a price like few countries have ever paid before solder of agony at the White House00:01:17early on then President Paul Kagame is praising China's treatment of Africa as an00:01:22equal calling it00:01:23a revolutionary posture in world affairs and more precious the money she's been00:01:29paying is the first Chinese president to visit Rwanda China is Africa's largest00:01:33trading partner and it also seeks closer military ties this is V.O.A.00:01:39News. Philippine President Terry Davoud Monday to sustain the momentum of his00:01:46bloody war on drugs the ways Martin Seacrest has more detected told00:01:50a joint session of Congress the anti-narcotics campaign which has earned him00:01:54international notoriety was far from over taking00:01:57a swipe at activists and political opponents who seek to hold him accountable for00:02:01thousands of killings on the Cerne east you'll mind right.00:02:09My name is on i thousands of activists protested in Manila against00:02:15a range of President detective's policies no patriotic Alliance spokesperson or not00:02:21already has said should turn to more pressing issues like the economy poverty and00:02:25human rights abuses there was additions to violations of national sovereignty and00:02:30not the self-serving exercise of the think there would be even Martin C.00:02:34Cross V.O.A.00:02:35News if you're has erupted over league documents showing the British officials are00:02:40not requiring their U.S.00:02:41Counterparts to provide assurances that two alleged British jihadi loyal to the00:02:46Islamic state group will not be executed if they are eventually put on trial in the00:02:50United States Steve bear going to has more the Daily Telegraph said Monday it had00:02:56seen a letter from home secretary said he'd job it to U.S.00:02:59Attorney General Jeff Sessions concerning two individuals who have been in custody00:03:04since their capture an eastern Syria in January Britain typically does not send00:03:08prisoners to other countries if they face possible execution and the City00:03:12International U.K.00:03:13Spokesman Alan Hogarth said Britain should not abandon its opposition to the death00:03:17penalty despite the appalling crimes the men are accused of Steve Bera going to be00:03:22away News girder security forces killed the gunmen who had stormed00:03:26a government building in the Kurdish city of Erbil on Monday in an attack suspected00:03:30of being carried out by Islamic state Reuters only whether as more one government00:03:35worker was killed in te policemen when dates and bills busy commercial district00:03:41snipers a pin fire at the militants who may have I building00:03:44a. Iraq announced in December that it Ted defeated Islamic state attacks like bees00:03:51a rare and that will be00:03:53a well being signed up there with the loss of that territory the greatest switching00:03:57to go realist style tactics that was what is reporter Emily whether Italy's foreign00:04:03minister says Rome will now allow migrants rescued by00:04:06a European Union naval operation to land over the coming weeks while E.U.00:04:11Nations figure out how to divide up new arrivals Italy has launched00:04:15a crackdown I'm migration and is seeking to renegotiate operations OFI is mandate00:04:20to prevent rescue migrants from being brought exclusively to Italy for additional00:04:26stories as well as in-depth coverage visit our website or download our mobile00:04:30application from Washington I'm Steve Miller V.O.A.00:04:34News.00:04:45This is Africa news tonight on The Voice of America. Getting00:04:52welcome to Africa news tonight from the English to Africa Service at the Voice of00:04:57America your source for Pan-African News and World developments I'm Jim Lewis in00:05:02Washington and I mean the school here coming up on Africa news tonight if we didn't00:05:07see Western friend city of known to brighten the very center of the city really00:05:14tough to go on and play it out of town for one hundred fifty migrants to a quite00:05:19a few that do quite00:05:21a few unaccompanied minors and women who are traveling on the road to that reporter00:05:26Josefina McKenna in Paris will have full details on this of Michael in story coming00:05:31up also Ethiopia's new prime minister wants to pursue multi-party democracy in the00:05:36country a suicide bomber killed up to eight people during morning prayers today at00:05:42a mosque in northeast Nigeria and the al-Shabaab terror group carried out00:05:46a raid this morning on00:05:48a Somali military base We'll have the stories and lots more ahead on African news00:05:53tonight. Our top00:06:00story the reformist a new prime minister a few G.O.P. B.00:06:05Ahmed keeps pushing the bar yesterday he was quoted as saying Ethiopia has00:06:11a no option but to pursue money tea party democracy and that is in Africa's second00:06:17most populous nation that for decades has been ruled by00:06:21a single coalition to shed light on the matter we have in studio veal we order00:06:28from Africa Service Celeborn about it welcome Salamone Thank you yes and thank you00:06:34Kim for having me multi-party democracy in Ethiopia is it at all possible.00:06:41Why not if Europe is one of. The oldest00:06:48countries in the world as all know we've reach experience of governance and00:06:54civilization and people of European showed that. It's well00:07:01conversant with the ideology or the idea of democracy so it is possible to have00:07:07a multi-party system in the country provided that the dominant party the ruling00:07:14party allows to exercise that right. Over the past twenty00:07:21seven years opposition parties in the country have been made to be we00:07:27neutralized eliminated so how does this scenario going to play in terms of this00:07:33multi-party democracy concept well this talk of parties them is not00:07:40new for Ethiopian soaring Ethiopia we saw in the past twenty seven years when.00:07:48The IF. Rule was. In the country so.00:07:56But the problem the main problem is that the party preferred to take the path of00:08:03dictatorship and. Tried to discourage the parties to00:08:09exercise freely and. Most of the leaders of these parties00:08:16were either arrested or forced to flee the country. That is the problem that the00:08:23country couldn't. Have00:08:25a proper multi-party system but now as you mentioned earlier00:08:32the new reforms. That was a good I mean is that is00:08:37a good characterization Yeah. Prime Minister with new ideas. Promising00:08:44to provide more floor for the opposition parties he doesn't even call them00:08:50opposition parties they call he calls them computers. To give them more00:08:57floor to participate in the political atmosphere so that he has the backing of his00:09:04own party that is something that is something we'll have to wait and see.00:09:11You know most of European satirist to skeptic about the nature of the party.00:09:19But some even say Still it is you know the will of this00:09:26reformist prime minister but there are00:09:29a lot of people in the party that showed their support to this prime minister.00:09:36Leader So for instance the IRA. And or only outgoing and00:09:43the others also expressed their support to the prime minister but we still don't00:09:50know how the vast part of the party the governing front00:09:57to the Prime Minister's moves. So.00:10:04That'll be something that will wait and see it's00:10:07a work in progress so yeah and finally Selam on what should we expect when Prime00:10:12Minister will be visits Washington at the end of this week yeah he will be here in00:10:17Washington D.C.00:10:18On Thursday in two or three days for almost00:10:22a weeklong visit and he will be here in Washington D.C.00:10:28And in Los Angeles in Minnesota he will speak to large gatherings of Europeans and00:10:34if you're going Americans and he will talk to community leaders and religious00:10:39leaders political activists and others intellectuals so he will00:10:46have00:10:47a really busy week it is very exciting week for Ethiopians you know America and it00:10:52is it will be exciting for himself because this is00:10:56a trip. He planned to talk to Ethiopia and this is not00:11:01a state visit to the United States and he vowed to governesses the big support00:11:07amongst Europeans in diaspora and get even some cash00:11:14Yes the diaspora fund that support from the expectations are very high for his00:11:20visit that we're selling more now about that from the always Horn of Africa Service00:11:23thank you for your input thank you for having me.00:11:31Officials say00:11:32a suicide bomber killed up to eight people during morning prayers today at00:11:36a mosque in northeast Nigeria another eight people were injured there was no00:11:41immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion fell on the Boko Haram terror group00:11:46the blast occurred in the main area of Khan do go in Borno state the attacker was00:11:51described as00:11:52a man in his early twenty's who blended in with the worshipers before detonating00:11:57his explosives it was the latest Nic. Of attacks that have been blamed on vocal00:12:02Iran. A Somali military official00:12:09says that the terror group carried out a raid this morning on00:12:14a Somali military base that included two car bombs and a fight00:12:18a fight involving eighty to one hundred militants. A day unit commander with00:12:25Somali forces the son goony camp fifty kilometers north of Kiss my you says for00:12:32soldier then at least eight militants were killed shit Bob claims it overran the00:12:37base and killed twenty seven soldiers Mohammad called dacha Bob's claim baseless00:12:42Mohammad says commanders knew the attack was coming and the car bombs were00:12:47destroyed before they could enter the camp son gooney is the same camp where an00:12:52American soldier was killed back by a notch up by00:12:55a mortar attack last month it's not clear if any U.S.00:13:00Advisers were there in that late is that the act.00:13:08French police moved some four hundred fifty Markland this morning from00:13:12a square and nonce in western France the migrants who were originally from Africa00:13:17were cleared from a square where they had camped out for00:13:20a month authorities moved everyone to00:13:22a hall where their paperwork will be processed authorities have organized emergency00:13:27accommodations for most of the migrants reporter Catherine Field is following00:13:31developments and spoke with me about the clearance operation and why it was00:13:36necessary it was in the Western French city of known to rise in the very center of00:13:42the city police moved in just after dawn and cleared out some four hundred fifty00:13:48migrants to a quite a few males there though quite00:13:51a few unaccompanied minors and women who were travelling on the road there quite00:13:56a few riot police two brigades of riot police went in and cleared the area all of00:14:01the migrants were then taken to00:14:02a nearby official Hola facility where also Artie's had arranged for them to be00:14:09interviewed by the immigration services as well as officials from housing and00:14:13social services now it does all seem as if when trials relatively smoothly but the00:14:18background to it is00:14:19a little more complex the tent city in fact had been set up in that area just over00:14:25a month ago it grew as police were clearing other areas around the city of known00:14:32where migrants had been gathering some two weeks ago the French state asked local00:14:37authorities to clear the area the local mayor said no said that she was not going00:14:42to order police to clear these migrants because she has been in contact with the00:14:48Red Cross who are looking after these migrants the state in fact had to go to court00:14:53last week to get00:14:54a legal ruling that forced the town to clear this particular encampment so it was00:15:00quite00:15:00a backward and forward for the last couple of weeks to get this eerie. Cleared where00:15:04will they be how the problem now is of course what they are going to do where are00:15:09they going to house these four hundred fifty my goodness well the local official00:15:15the head of Public Security has said that he has found at least one hundred places00:15:20for the most vulnerable for those who will file claims for asylum he thinks he will00:15:25be able to send another hundred of those asylum seekers to other areas of France to00:15:31have their papers checked as for the rest he says that he is not sure he has told00:15:36reporters that those who have already applied for some sort of status with the00:15:41protection or asylum status in other European countries will be returned to those00:15:46other countries and what countries are they mostly from pacifically this group have00:15:52come through from silly or Spain and their original countries where they from their00:15:58original countries and their trail this does seem to match00:16:03a picture that has been emerging over the summer as has been increasing number of00:16:08migrants particularly from sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Sudan these are the00:16:14countries where these migrants tend to be coming from and tend to be making their00:16:18way up through it's really Spain and up here and France how did they make their way00:16:24up into the western part of France that is the big mystery seems to be just again00:16:30we're looking at the case of people traffickers smugglers who are giving these00:16:34mostly young migrants as you said most of the males aged under thirty showing them00:16:39how to get to various places across France some of them of course came from other00:16:44areas as they'd been moved on but essentially always looking at the same that they00:16:48arrive in groups and they've been tipped off by people traffickers as to where to00:16:53go to meet help with other members of their community why did the police clear this00:16:58particular area in the submission to the court the officials had said it was00:17:03a measure of how. Public Order with there were these four hundred fifty odd00:17:07migrants camped out and two hundred ninety cans it was said there was and one was00:17:12a tub and one toilet it's said that there were cases of Cavies among the people00:17:17living there and you have to remember it is the height of summer here in France and00:17:22we've been having00:17:22a very hot summer so in this area you've got temperatures of between thirty and00:17:27thirty five degrees at the height of the day that was reporter Catherine fields she00:17:31spoke with me from Paris. Hundreds of00:17:38women whose children have been killed or are missing as00:17:42a result of the separatist warded Cameroon marked in the capital yesterday the00:17:47women called for00:17:48a ceasefire between the government and the armed groups demanding independence for00:17:54Cambodians English speaking regions. Report from your one day.00:18:07These are women who have escaped. From the English speaking regions of Cameroon00:18:14where00:18:14a war has raised between the military and separate for the past year the women00:18:21praying and singing for peace two time today Central African states among them it's00:18:28got this very she say Suck twenty four year old son has been missing since March00:18:35after she says the military destroyed its motorcycle to get revenge for the killing00:18:41of00:18:41a policeman in the south western town of. She says he came out to have00:18:48voice to the protests we could not miss this opportunity to come out and say enough00:18:53is enough last November president's part B.00:18:56Had declared00:18:57a war on people he called session East after men attacked and killed two police men00:19:03in the English speaking southwestern common room the government of Cameroon reports00:19:09that's about two hundred civilians and more than00:19:12a hundred soldiers and police men have been killed since then. And that's in by who00:19:19fled from the northwestern town of but says she has lost her husband and two00:19:25children in the war she says she is taking part in the march to let the government00:19:31know that when the military burns the houses and businesses. Radicalised an escape00:19:37to the bush is where they join fighters in hotels went to00:19:42a church where you sleep in peace to such00:19:46a good that we should talk what is happening what say about. What is coming down00:19:51hard peace let us stop and make peace if we hold our SO what's going to give us my00:19:56desire I piss00:19:58a piece I piss along in June rights group Amnesty International accused00:20:04Cameroon's government of using unnecessary and excessive force that's frequently00:20:09placed civilians in the past of violence the government said their report was00:20:15biased and denied using excessive force the crisis in CA moves to English speaking00:20:21regions started out as00:20:24a protest against my generalization by French speakers who constitute in my00:20:29judgment to in the central African country some French speaking Cameroonians joined00:20:35in on Sundays mileage money yet when the residents who is housing three00:20:42people displaced by the fighting ses she wants the government to declare00:20:47a cease fire and stop what she describes as00:20:50a senseless war. She says separatists should also drop that weapons00:20:57no follow through follow Sunder nose down find new designs are plenty enough water00:21:02to cover right she says no man who no mother who kept00:21:06a pregnancy for nine months and went through labor pains off will want to see her00:21:11child or children killed in00:21:13a senseless war she says everyone should drop their weapons and come out of the00:21:19bush is because the best gift of life is love and peace the United Nations report00:21:26that's about two hundred thousand people have been internally displaced and tens of00:21:31thousands have fled across to Nigeria for safety since the fighting began.00:21:38Malky everyone can say. Yeah.00:21:48You're listening to African news tonight live on the following frequencies fifty00:21:52five eighty and sixty eighty killer her song The boys of America Jim Lewis in00:21:58Washington. I mean.00:22:05Twenty two past the hour here's00:22:06a recap of our top stories Ethiopia's new prime minister wants to pursue00:22:11multi-party democracy in the country00:22:14a suicide bomber killed up to eight people during morning prayers today at00:22:19a mosque in northeast Nigeria and the Shabaab had00:22:23a group carried out that raid this morning on00:22:26a Somali military base and for more news and information visit our website at00:22:32V.O.A.00:22:32Africa dot com. Chinese President00:22:39Xi Jinping is in00:22:40a wanted today as he continues his tour of Africa he has been meeting with Rwandan00:22:46President Paul Kagame he and other officials Zia Rob jesters A after his state00:22:50visit to Senegal his first trip to a West African nation and00:22:55a car he and Senegalese President Macky Sall pledged to strengthen ties between00:23:00China and Africa Saul said he welcomes China support for his country's economic00:23:05development the Chinese leader goes from Rwanda to South Africa where he will00:23:10attend the summit of the so-called BRICS nations Brazil Russia India China and00:23:16South Africa will also make00:23:17a stop in more Rishis before heading home. About00:23:25forty percent of Zimbabweans are estimated to regularly use the Internet and many00:23:31of them are on social media platforms such as What's up Twitter and Instagram young00:23:37Zimbabweans who. Sixty percent of the population make up00:23:41a large share of those are unlined with Zimbabwe's election next week new media is00:23:47playing00:23:48a considerable role in spreading information especially in urban areas Gondo00:23:54in00:23:55a while gives us more on how new media is being used by politicians and voters in00:24:01civic engagement this program is about the Center for Media and information00:24:07literacy recently held00:24:08a summit to explore the potential use of you know media and civic engagement I'm00:24:13told to look for is an activist with women in leadership and development00:24:16organization she explains how she uses new media in her work. Social00:24:23space to.00:24:37Remember.00:24:47He's an activist and founder of the Center for you know vision in technology is one00:24:51of many individuals leading the new media revolution in Zimbabwe and helping to put00:24:56the spotlight on matters of national interest. Some of the forthcoming decisions00:25:03this information on that is going on the first thing that I DO IN THE MONEY when I00:25:06woke up is going to talk to find out I know. From name using.00:25:13Social media to create awareness. To do with the human down scribbly you know.00:25:21That are happening for ground I see something I took00:25:23a photo and I think about it. Some of that to cut out almost00:25:29a room from what is going around. And probably sometimes just make people aware00:25:36that there's something that is happening but I was aware. Also some of the time of00:25:39the ice and opening to modernize it is all cities and all those kind of things one00:25:45of the you know the platforms using social media for civic engagement and by young00:25:49activists called we had no other as long as we have block you know the platform up00:25:53in public and we try to hold up I mean Terence to account to try to advocating for00:25:58me in Parliament to young people using social media fundament is an open data00:26:04project so we aggregate information that comes from Parliament we live tweet00:26:09parliament so since but for you. We live stream them to all community and then our00:26:16young people access into the corridors of power and give them full access to what.00:26:22Politicians get up to when they're in part of it and I was them to participate by00:26:26carrying through social media one of the politicians using social media mail from00:26:31a single you know that is a member of the opposition M.D.C.00:26:34I landed Also we know the Communicate of the white police effort in the engaging00:26:39his constituent issues his experience in using social media to secure the future00:26:44looks to me to continue to do with the issues of sister fighting with writers. You00:26:51know we've had to we could. Enter turn freely they can I kiss them I'm00:26:56a stranger to shore some groups so you're coming from different groups of course00:27:01they're just people. In general just she's00:27:05a just cause situation so what this introduced really just today was some groups00:27:11did it because from there we're going to report on problems that's going to so I00:27:16mean I don't think including the potential to spread the can use or to become00:27:20a nuisance with some subscribers but observers in Africa I watching to see that00:27:25homes will both civic engagement and can get no more just for facilitating social00:27:30data that's especially because it's about just trying to from what it cost him you00:27:35know and health regularly growing Internet usage report. Your this.00:27:44And that wraps up this edition of Africa news tonight I'm used to heat but in00:27:48Washington and I'm Kim Lewis and for all the latest developments on the continent00:27:52twenty four seven visit our website at V.O.A.00:27:55Africa dot com for listeners shown below ways narrow B.F.M.00:27:58Station please stay tune for this walk he'd leave news coming up at sixteen thirty00:28:04T.C.00:28:05For all other listeners please stay tuned for the sun's out of sports Tune in again00:28:09and eight hundred U.T.C.00:28:10For another edition of African news tonight on behalf of our producer Bill work00:28:15injure and our engineer John Dryden Thanks for choosing the Voice of America.00:28:46Hello this is Chicago slowly close to the straight talk of cricket on the next00:28:50straight to Africa host shock us. Live from Harare Zimbabwe as voters prepare00:28:57for the presidential election on July thirtieth the Voice of America and the Zim00:29:02papers television network team up to present00:29:05a presidential debate June in the winner of the day that. Right here.00:29:11Africa. For spans brighten your day by tuning into the sunny side of sports Monday00:29:18through Friday at sixteen thirty and eighteen thirty U.T.C.00:29:23Join us on Facebook at facebook dot com forward slash V always sunny and on Twitter00:29:29at V.O.A. Sunny's sports or check out the blog blogs dot V.O.A.00:29:34News dot com for its last sunny it's the sunny side of the. Sports right here on00:29:39the Fourth of American.00:29:51Friends we can all this into the sunny side of sports great job. Right here on The00:29:57Voice of America. This is video way Sunny Young in Washington well girl00:30:05sunny side of sports let's begin in London where two days of Diamond League00:30:11outlet ICS produced many impressive performances with00:30:16a half orc an athlete swelled to the four they energetic Ganda you had words00:30:22reports from trackside in London's Olympic Stadium in00:30:27a wide range of glittering achievements there was no fine a sign on00:30:31a manual career running the fastest eight hundred in the world this year one forty00:30:35two point zero five was00:30:36a lifetime best for the Kenyan and the six fastest of all time Korea left00:30:41a highly promising American Clayton Murphy and Kenya's Commonwealth champion00:30:45Wycliffe Kenya mall trailing for sure you know it was tough you know I had to push00:30:49all the way from you know two hundred because I knew it was some guys behind my00:30:53game was. That because you know everyone is strong so I knew I have to do it that00:31:00we can brought plenty to the light to the track and field fan with Sid found Hasan00:31:04of the Netherlands running the third fastest women's mile ever to beat Ethiopia's00:31:08good of Sago and Helena beery of Kenya but it's the latter did have the consolation00:31:13of breaking the Kenyan record with four minutes sixteen point one five South00:31:17Africa's00:31:18a world champion and younger continued his impressive consistency in the long jump00:31:23winning with eight meters fifty eight from meeting record it was twelve months ago00:31:27that man younger won the World title here and he has next year's World00:31:31Championships in view it's called Next on stage would to my finals and also the00:31:36water and then. Defend. Champion so I have to keep my consistent by very good and00:31:41also focus on on the bigger goals the power of the USA as women Sprint hurdlers was00:31:46on display as world record holder Kendra Harrison beat compound shoot under lympics00:31:52Brianna McNeill in the fastest time in the world this year twelve point three six00:31:57and that was despite clattering a hurdle which left Harrison nursing00:32:01a Wounded Knee I think I had00:32:03a few hurdles on my knees kind of hurting right now but just to come here and run00:32:07against00:32:07a competitive field and get the job done it's right where my coach wants me despite00:32:12the late withdrawal of the Usas Christian Coleman because of00:32:15a hamstring strain the men's hundred proved00:32:17a cracking race one by his compassionate Ronnie Baker who run nine point nine zero00:32:22in both hates and final on the first day Baker believes everything is coming00:32:27together for the peak of the season I do feel really good I mean the last three00:32:31races I ran in pairs for about an hour here in London I felt amazing I think that00:32:37the biggest thing for me is I know I can go faster because of what my times say in00:32:41practice but you know I'm kind of just trying to figure out the race and once I put00:32:45it together perfectly the times going to be crazy talent from Jamaica continues to00:32:51flow and I came Bloomfield runner up in the U.S.00:32:54Collegiate four hundred metres run his foster seventh two hundred with nineteen00:32:58point eight one victory Bloomfield credits the intensity of the Jamaican high00:33:03school athletic system with his ability to handle pressure Jamaica is I think it's00:33:09no it's a boiling pot for00:33:10a sprint in the Caribbean basically you know. Growing up in the high school system00:33:16in Jamaica with you know boys or girls storms is where it is at the Foundation for00:33:19me to you know you know be you be who I am as an athlete I mean competing in front00:33:24of00:33:24a huge strode into me really gives you the energy that five I need it also has taught00:33:29me to to handle myself in00:33:30a big crowd like to do issues like this one it was certainly anough ability on show00:33:35to prove that athletics can flourish in the post. You same bolt era for the sunny00:33:40side of sports this is Andy Edwards in London thanks Sandie I'm Sunny young and00:33:46you're listening to the sunny side of sports on the Voice of America00:33:53we heard from world record holder Kendra Harrison and Mandy's report you can see an00:33:59action packed photo of Kendra and the other athletes clearing the hurdles in the00:34:05women's one hundred meters final in London at the Sunnyside00:34:09a sports Facebook page The address is Facebook dot com forward slash00:34:15VO way Sunny once again that address Facebook dot com forward slash00:34:22VO way Sunny the sporty photo was taken by Reuters photographer Andrew00:34:29Boyer's and go to my Facebook page later in the show00:34:34a face full live video with Prince Nast stuff Facebook live00:34:41right here in Studio twenty two at our Voice of America headquarters00:34:47Meanwhile the energetic Gandee Edwards also caught up with cement Viljoen at the00:34:53Diamond League made in London so net won00:34:57a silver medal two years ago when the women's javelin at the Olympic Games in Rio00:35:03de Janeiro Brazil once again here's Andy is Saddam in the good London and00:35:10dissident religion of South Africa's African record on the women's javelin has just00:35:13finished competing so now it could just take stock of today and also like to look00:35:18a take a view overall of the season so far for you yeah I'm a shining00:35:23a bit with my with my lower back so he's not he's not ideal. I'm trying at this00:35:29stage you just have my of my heart and what I can do for the Russian wise like00:35:33Andre for you to pay for for meetings because I still have my Milo Becky. Still00:35:39there look at the engine but we're taking it meeting by meeting and it says it's00:35:44just good to be back on the track athletes know the distances that I want to show00:35:48but do you have to be realistic sometimes you see something this has been00:35:53a problem for you throughout the season but who treats fantasies any aid comes and00:35:58goes say getting dated A comes back getting better so I think I just think it's00:36:03from the amount of training for for00:36:05a long time and it's normal and there's nothing that I'm with that I'm learning00:36:10about it's not. In my stand it's00:36:13a very high hand the first it's the ease and amount of day so I free sixty sixty00:36:19one so it's not these Not that I want to do but the what can I do if I can just do00:36:23so much of my life my body now I just lost I mean what you can see in you to throw00:36:28through the season and you think you can manage the injury to see out twenty00:36:32eighteen Yeah of course and I will see what I think with African championships next00:36:36week and the Nigeria Oh do we go off to sell good fighting through eat and it will00:36:42come I think I just need to do through amount of framing and I it's yes I see it00:36:47it's difficult but it is still for00:36:50a sixty. The fire back it's not hundred percent it's it's very easy still promising00:36:56my son that thanks very much thank you so much and thanks to the energetic Gandee00:37:01Edwards for that interview with00:37:03a lympics silver medalists Annette Viljoen of South Africa so net mention how she's00:37:09been struggling with some back problems she finished sixth than the women's javelin00:37:15in London with00:37:17a distance of sixty point three four metres Liu we China finished first00:37:24with00:37:24a throw of sixty five point five four meters I'm Sunny young and you're listening00:37:31to the sunny side of sports on the Voice of America let's give00:37:38a sunny side00:37:39a sports salute to Italian golfer front chase goal Molen already who won the one00:37:45hundred forty seventh British Open tournaments at Carnoustie in Scotland. The00:37:52thirty five year old mole Inari became the first the talian man to win00:37:57a major golf tournament shooting an eight under par to seventy six talked to us00:38:04Francesco federally go this morning when I when I came here I said I'd like it was00:38:09I was ready for the challenge of00:38:11a cyclone shows that it could have gone either way but I knew it was going to do my00:38:16best to that by doing his best front face go Molinari want to first place prize of00:38:22one million eight hundred ninety thousand dollars and his big paycheck00:38:29and big trophy at Carnoustie in Scotland came three weeks after he won the Quicken00:38:36Loans national tournaments right here in the Washington area in Scotland Molnar00:38:42a Finnish two shots ahead of00:38:44a pack of four golfers one of them was Irish star RORY McILROY anything00:38:51under par there today was00:38:53a good score I'm I'm happy with high plate. You know I didn't get off to00:38:58a great start but I you know Chi hung in there and I bottled back and. To sort of00:39:03run out of holes at the end Meanwhile American star Tiger Woods was in contention00:39:09for his fourth British Open title Tiger finished three shots behind Francesco00:39:16Molinari his playing partner on Sunday at five under par to seventy nine how did00:39:22you feel out there Tiger I felt like I knew sick building my way into the00:39:26Championship. It's one of those where it's as I said earlier in the week it's going00:39:32to be a ten twelve guys00:39:33a chance to win on Sunday. Because we're all driving the same areas and. Kind of00:39:39turned out though it a bunch of guys packed bunches with00:39:42a chance to win and I was one of them American golf star Tiger Woods speaking at00:39:48the one hundred forty seventh British Open at Carnoustie in Scotland for our Voice00:39:55of America listeners who are online right now I encourage you to go to my Facebook00:40:01page for00:40:02a Facebook Live from Studio twenty two The address is Facebook dot com00:40:08forward slash VO way Sunny once again that address Facebook dot com forward00:40:15slash video way Sonny you'll see my smiling face right here in Studio twenty00:40:22two. Turning to motor sports for time Formula One00:40:28champion Lewis Hamilton of Britain won Sunday's German Grand Prix in Hockenheim00:40:35Joining us now with more details is reporter Prince NASCAR sporty Formula00:40:41One gratings prime support the Formula one greeting Sonny Louis Hamilton does00:40:47deflate his new fifty million dollar00:40:49a year deal with Mercedes as they cruised through00:40:52a stunning victory in dramatic fashion of the German Grand Prix on Sunday but00:40:57Britain demonstrated his remark it was killed seen00:41:00a rinse that was filled with drama and heavy rains taking advantage of his title00:41:07reign both Sebastian Vettel who scored at home ground advantage in an eight point00:41:12lead crushing his Ferrari into00:41:14a wall starting from up on position and seemingly in control ventilation is just00:41:20a basic entry into00:41:22a turn and sneak over the gravel into the body and with fifteen laps to go I mean00:41:27it on Smith's it is to make voluntary bulletins finish second with federal risky me00:41:32Raikkonen taking to Prince heartbreaking and first Sebastian Vettel squandering his00:41:39home ground advantage and that Formula One late is it over now for Vettel No not00:41:46really in my opinion he has to go back to the drawing board because he has shown in00:41:52previous races like last year's racing as00:41:54a by John and also in Singapore that he is prone to sometimes losing his cool00:42:00misjudgments and also wondering glimpses of concentration but we didn't resist of00:42:06this is selling season still to go I'm going to turn seventeen point lead right now00:42:11is still00:42:11a slender one and if you have accounts if Vettel actually overcomes hundreds of00:42:16Eagan is poor judgement and00:42:19a lack of concentration he can still we need anything can still happen at this00:42:23point in time. And Prince one of the Formula One standings look like now after the00:42:28German Grand Prix Louis humming to and actually leads the standings right now with00:42:33one hundred and eighty eight points here for to feel ready Sebastian Vettel who00:42:39follows closely right now with one hundred seventy one points with another team00:42:44it's Kimi Raikkonen tied with one thirty one points my C.D.'s voluntary board has00:42:50come seen fourth with one hundred and twenty two points when the Red Bulls Danny00:42:55and we can do sums up the top five with one hundred and six points Prince when is00:43:00the next race on the Formula One calendar this weekend all roads lead to Hungary00:43:05for the and Gideon Grand Prix we shall keep you updated of course as far as the00:43:10Hungary and Formula One drama victory and emotions are concerned right on the sunny00:43:15side of sports excellent What about some international soccer news I understand00:43:21a German star making headlines Prince Yeah it's interesting it's no midfield00:43:27a mess its own zeal has quit international football citing what he calls rest and00:43:33disrespect within German football the twenty nine year old still has been00:43:38a key piece of the German national team for years he was criticised by the German00:43:43Football Association in German media after being photographed with Turkish00:43:49President time at00:43:51a London eventing me with the bland intensifying after Germany's disappointing woke00:43:56up until we saw of Turkish descent Sayed and they call it I'm00:44:01a gentleman when we win but I'm an immigrant when we lose I used to wear the German00:44:07shirt and with such pride and exotic mint but now I don't I feel unwanted and think00:44:13that want to have achieved since my international debut in two thousand and nine00:44:17has been forgotten However the German Football Association has rejected the Asin00:44:23old maid for. You know this was in claim00:44:26a meeting and they quote We regret that you missed it on zing from the national00:44:32team that's it sonny but you print German football right now seems sort of00:44:39embroiled in controversy after after Russia twenty eight team Saluki and this is00:44:45the wrong way to go to right because they need team can win in any team can lose in00:44:50the one cup which in fact when the media people in Germany study one thousand plans00:44:57that's very by doing right because it shows a bug that's00:45:01a very bad beat teaches anyone can win anyone can lose it was in Germany time to00:45:07win this statement on but who knows next they might need the same plans you00:45:11demonising the stamen around Thanks Prince reporter Prince ness stuff the prince00:45:17talked about bad pictures how about good pictures good pictures right here on00:45:23Facebook law about a studio twenty two Prince nest stuff and the son of00:45:29a man right here on the sunny side00:45:33a sports you think this passion this energy is phony I've been doing it00:45:40for thirty plus years it's the revealed the L.00:45:44Sports the real hero I'm Sonny young and you're listening to the00:45:51sunny side of sports on the Voice of America joining us now with00:45:58a package of African football news is reporter Sampson Obama00:46:03a good evening Samson evening to you Sunny the confederacy of African football is00:46:09conducting00:46:10a two decent blows him in Morrocco meant to review the two to each in World Cup00:46:15after all five of the continent's sides failed to get over the first Hoddle in00:46:20Russia Egypt Morocco Tunisia Niger. And Senegal were all eliminated in the group00:46:26phase in Russia live in Africa without00:46:29a representative in the knockout rounds for the first time since the one nine00:46:33hundred eighty two finals in Spain coaches and officials of the five countries will00:46:38discuss the disappointing results to debrief in Breitbart organized by the00:46:43Confederation of African football and the Morgan Football Federation. Football00:46:48Manager Carlos Queiroz is currently in charge of the Iran men's national football00:46:53team has declined an offer by the Egyptian football association to take charge of00:46:59the Egypt national football team the pharaoh's00:47:01a country report the sixty five year old has stated that he greatly respect the00:47:07pharaoh's yet has no plan to take charge of any African team at the moment I didn't00:47:12time football manager HC to Cooper recently parted company with Egypt national00:47:17football team after the various miserably failed to earn00:47:21a point and the twenty eight in fee for World Cup group stage Nigeria only twenty00:47:25four team has qualified for the twenty one thousand Africa on the twenty Cup of00:47:30Nations with an emphatic five nil win over Mauritania on the twenty one a fine on00:47:36a six one goal aggregate00:47:38a breeze from now. Including goes from was allowed or corner soup or an hour or00:47:44more00:47:45a fees ensured that the Flying Eagles return to the tournament after missing out of00:47:50a chance to defend their title and the twenty seventh in addition staged in Zambia00:47:55elsewhere in Egypt Egyptian football giant Zamalek will try to get their jump00:48:00player my roof Yusuf Egyptian citizenship to allow him to stay with the team as00:48:06they have reached the maximum number of foreign players allowed in their sport00:48:10which is kept up for00:48:12a country statement on the club's website on Sunday Zamalek chairman Mortada months00:48:17or east examining the possibility of Stanton procedures for Gyptian nationality in00:48:22your souce case the. Spawn the Super Bowl be held to Spain for the first and the00:48:27see it off today if confirmed plans to stitch Dimanche intent in miracle that00:48:34delivery champions Basile no will to conceive you know the could bring us up in the00:48:39traditional can resemble the season I am some see my name in00:48:44a puja Nigeria Thanks Samson I'm Sunny Young in Washington and you're listening to00:48:50the sunny side of sports on the Voice of America in more African football news00:48:57the former captain of Nigeria's national team Shay Given Odegbami has announced his00:49:03intention to join the race for governor in Ogoun state in the southwest of the00:49:10country the sixty five year old Odegbami is nicknamed mathematical for his precise00:49:17style of play and dribbling skills during his days as00:49:21a striker and the nickname also derives from Odegbami graduating from the00:49:26Polytechnic in the BOD Nigeria where he studied engineering reporter Iron00:49:32Mike and bone you called a boob job where he reached00:49:36a goon mathematical Odegbami and he asked him about his political ambitions00:49:42president could like that you cannot tell you know the pretty good haul out long00:49:47God God's eyes I don't mind that if I've tried all the right by him but is it by00:49:54their own way of point you could I really not subtle if you live you just kind of00:49:59want to do such00:50:00a thing I knew up your dad it was sort of on I did you find I tell you because if00:50:04you go out he has to do much ideologies you sure to just thirty glad that you need00:50:09to find00:50:10a bad point if you will but I did want to just out I did you dream that that part00:50:15should shit out so much that Bishop invented it will think about some reason to00:50:20change for my people and my country but why can't you call botched. Able to00:50:24implement them. On the.00:50:31Web for the past couple of months I have been consulting with people who are US00:50:36because. They go to the country for the past twelve years in an act.00:50:44Of social cultural and political group. So I think I have you know how resource00:50:51needs to go into00:50:53a political game where right now because I will not try and.00:51:00Accept that B.G.00:51:01We saw all the Mitchell political parties many of the embroidery in get warning but00:51:07at the moment I have sucked. Whose ideology. Feeds into my Be00:51:14sure and that's one that addresses the grassroots I mean middle class people as00:51:21a whole their priority is the people and that's what she turned to my own vision00:51:25but. Back. During my.00:51:31The hearing where brought home of the above but what I.00:51:38Walked in front. So hard because all I had done.00:51:45In travel. Absolutely either my call all the droids00:51:52you need to program on star generals so I haven't really gone out to correct than00:51:58an. Introductory piece. On the00:52:05social media platform. Exactly like wildfire all of which he didn't00:52:12learn those response from my friends in the media but if you dug the stuff Motorola00:52:17were average right our engagement budget but we stayed back was concerned because.00:52:24In any event was supposed to be very small or the idea that he didn't give us our00:52:29college meet our political. Ticker photo though I got Richard to tomorrow after00:52:36tomorrow we will know where we are headed for the.00:52:44Two things I have. Done I had00:52:47a dream about it that would be illegal and do it in your own off00:52:54when choice Africa that's my genes probably within00:52:57a very short skin and I want to use the mentality and the power of all of the Asia00:53:03of the entire game in fact the current job. The Tories the and so on are so who are00:53:10going to is00:53:11a national of how I used to drive this and rapid development of that area which we00:53:16have are the model for asking around Nigeria I make00:53:20a very good idea at the Center in New Zealand this shows00:53:25a new world huge dream and all are doing brand new we didn't get00:53:29a few years the cuts are posted it was shown that by genes that are among them the00:53:35obvious people have the resources they have the history they are because jobs and00:53:40we have the capacity to be able to grasp the job. We do very good00:53:48the world is preparing for the new black consciousness our blood relations and your00:53:53call that we just concluded rarely saw black people. All that. I mean biggish00:54:00or think that you happen to be black but we need to look back again when you00:54:04discover that's what I've given you that say goon mathematical or the bomb the00:54:10former captain of Nigeria as national football team and mathematical spoke with00:54:14reporter Iron Mike from Nigeria and that wraps up the July twenty third edition of00:54:21the sunny side of sports thanks to video. Producer Bill workin Ger Thanks also to00:54:27V.O.A.00:54:27Engineer John Dryden and thank you for tuning in M V always sunny Young in Washington00:54:34and that's the sunny side of the source I get it.00:54:45Next an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government fostering00:54:50economic development in sub-Saharan Africa is00:54:54a top priority of the United States and the African Growth and Opportunity Act or00:54:59a Goa is the centerpiece of U.S.00:55:01Trade policy on the continent the Trump administration places great importance on00:55:07our relationship with Africa and sees genuine promise in the prospects for enhanced00:55:12trade relationships with our partners said Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan00:55:17speaking at the seventeenth Annual ago a forum in Washington D.C.00:55:22In mid July deputy secretary Sullivan noted that the U.S.00:55:26Partnership with African countries is based on00:55:29a number of strategic priorities we work together to strengthen regional security00:55:34reinforced democratic governance and increase trade and investment he said we do00:55:40all of these things because we understand that security in democratic institutions00:55:46provide00:55:46a stable foundation for economic growth and prosperity at the same time increase00:55:52trade and investment are key to creating jobs in generating resources that00:55:58strengthen security in democracy when partners increase their capacity to confront00:56:04real security challenges that we all face we demonstrate how alliance building00:56:09through economic cooperation promote security. Africa is the major market of the00:56:15future said Deputy Secretary sell of and some of the world's fastest growing00:56:19economies call Africa home we expect that over the next three decades half of the00:56:25world's population growth will occur in Africa and that means00:56:29a projected one point two billion new consumers will enter the African market said00:56:34Mr Sullivan these trends combine with Africa's growing youth population Well our00:56:40African countries to capitalize on00:56:42a growing labor force this great opportunity will come with challenges however00:56:49including the need to provide jobs for this growing population. Expansion of trade00:56:55and investment will be critical to meeting this challenge the United States00:57:00applauds efforts such as the signing last March of the African Continental free00:57:05trade agreement framework because advances another key component regional00:57:09integration the United States stands ready to partner with African countries that00:57:14are committed to reducing barriers to trade and investment said Deputy Secretary00:57:19Sullivan in doing so we hope to encourage policy reforms that increase openness and00:57:24competitiveness within Africa and promote greater prosperity and higher living00:57:30standards across the continent. But it was an editorial reflecting the views of the00:57:36United States government.00:58:09To. 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When news breaks for guys and they bring you the00:59:22news as it happens to listen to daybreak Africa Monday through Friday at three four00:59:29five and six hours U.T.C.00:59:32And five minutes newscast come to you at the top of each hour V.O.A.00:59:38Africa your thoughts the source of information. This is00:59:44V.O.A.00:59:45News I'm Steve Miller Toronto Police are seeking video and photos from people and00:59:50businesses in the area where00:59:52a gunman killed two individuals and shot twelve others in the Greek Town00:59:56neighborhood that attack ended with the suspect being killed speaking on C.T.V.01:00:01Toronto councillor Paula Fletcher says lawmakers have to address the issue of guns01:00:06in the city we have to do something about guns we have01:00:09a gun problem in the city of Toronto why Turi need gown.