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00:00Thanks very much for staying with us.
00:05For Iron Africa with me, Georgia Calvin-Smith, tonight, Nigerian officers will face trial.
00:10Over a coup, the government denied ever happened.
00:13Abuja now admits that...
00:15Over a dozen men will head to military court, allegedly trying to overthrow President
00:19Bula to Nuba.
00:20To Nubu last year.
00:23Also, a year since...
00:25Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the capital of DRC's North...
00:30Kivu province, and many still living in Goma are struggling.
00:35With the daily reality of trying to retain normality...
00:40In a city under rebel control.
00:43And the army...
00:45Does not beat up women because they're not worth our time.
00:47The words of the son of Ugandan president...
00:50Museveni denies accusations of having sent troops in to brutalize...
00:55The wife of an opposition leader in hiding.
00:56Bobby Wine's wife is in hospital and says...
01:00That she has no doubt who attacked her.
01:05But first, a group of Nigerian officers are set to be...
01:10Tried for allegedly plotting to overthrow President Bula to Nubu.
01:14When...
01:15The 16 were arrested last year.
01:16The rumours of a coup were officially denied at the time.
01:20Nigeria has seen several military power grabs in the past...
01:23But has been under democratic rule for all...
01:25Almost 30 years.
01:26It's currently leading regional efforts to stop military takeoff...
01:30In West Africa.
01:31But now has to turn the spotlight onto its own military.
01:35Sam Olukwaya Freaks It All Down for Us.
01:38Military Spokesman...
01:40General Samayla Uba said after a comprehensive investigation, some arrested
01:45officers have been identified with allegations of plotting to overthrow the government.
01:50The military says those suspected of involvement in the co-plot will
01:55face a court-marsher.
01:57It is the first confirmation from the Nigerian army that
02:00some officers have been arrested for plotting to overthrow the government.
02:05The military and the Nigerian government denied reports in October last year that some of
02:10the officers have been arrested in connection with a co-plot.
02:15As a result of the military and the U.S.
02:17citizens from Britain in 1960, Nigeria's democratic process has been repealed.
02:20It has been repeatedly halted by military coups until 1999 when the country reached
02:25a return to stable democratic rule.
02:27Reports of the co-plots come in the way of the war.
02:30It has been a work of recent military takeovers in some other West African countries like Mali.
02:35Guinea, Burkina Faso and Niger.
02:38Nigeria is leading the
02:40The regional body echo us in efforts to restore democratic rule in the affected country.
02:45Last December, Nigeria deployed its Air Force planes to
02:50quite a coup attempt in the neighboring Republic of Benet.
02:53A military takeover in Nigeria
02:55will substantially weaken the country's led regional efforts to stop coups.
03:00in West Africa or to return countries currently under military rule to democratic government.
03:06Sam Olukoya there for us.
03:08Now, it's been almost exactly a year
03:10since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of Goma, the capital of North Kenya.
03:15Kivu province in eastern Dior Congo.
03:18Now, it's fall at the beginning of the
03:20the latest phase of a conflict that has upended stability in the country and deepened stability.
03:25regional diplomatic rifts between Kinshasa and neighboring Rwanda.
03:30Kinshasa itself, though, many residents say that they still feel unsafe living under rebel control.
03:35Our team sent us this report.
03:37The roofs are ripped apart and the walls pockmarked
03:40with bullet holes.
03:41In Goma, the neighborhood of Kaembe still bears the scars of the fight.
03:45This house is an example.
03:47There are bullets here.
03:50There are bullets here and bomb fragments even inside the house.
03:55A year ago, the conference was released.
04:00Congolese army and pro-government militia groups clashed with M23 rebels in the city centre.
04:05Trapped amidst the fighting, Augustin Basseme suffered a leg wound.
04:10His wife was killed by a shell.
04:12I can't sleep.
04:14I've lost my appetite.
04:15And I think about my wife and those days of fighting.
04:17If we'd known it was going to be so bad, we would have fled.
04:20We just thought the soldiers were going to fight each other and that it would pass.
04:25It's still impossible to know how many people were killed during the fighting in Goma.
04:30These graves are testament to the violence.
04:33Civilians killed in the fighting were buried here in Goma.
04:35In haste.
04:36With the M23 in control of the city, Goma has...
04:40become a symbol of Congo's military defeat.
04:43For the rebels, there's now an image to uphold.
04:45They claim to have liberated the city and its governance must appear exemplary.
04:50In practice, that means Salongo.
04:52That's a traditional term for...
04:55impulsory labour.
04:56Men are obliged to pick up rubbish and repair roads.
05:00The movement asked us to do it and we responded to this call to do Salongo every Saturday.
05:05to clean up the city.
05:06Goma is getting it.
05:10And we're having a face lift.
05:11The markets and schools are open.
05:14The rebel administration...
05:15is operational.
05:16But the banks remain closed.
05:18Off camera, residents say that...
05:20the city is ruled by fear.
05:22Many civil society actors have fled.
05:24Such as this...
05:25representative from North Kivu.
05:28He says he gets sent...
05:30lots of videos of civilians being whipped and beaten.
05:35Let the people live in atrocious suffering.
05:37Add to that the terror of rebels that...
05:40who forcibly arrest...
05:41who persecute...
05:42who forcibly arrest...
05:43who persecute...
05:44who forcibly arrest...
05:45who instрашивают...
05:46who persecute...
05:47who persecute...
05:48who persecute...
05:49and recruit young people to join their rebellion.
05:50You can see that these people live surrounded by trauma every day.
05:55The M23 has always denied the allegations.
06:00Humanitarian organizations say that abuses against civilians have reached alarming.
06:05Levels and that all parties to the conflict are committing them.
06:10In posts on X, on Monday, Uganda's military chief, Muhusi Kainerugara,
06:15denied accusations that soldiers had been sent to the House of Opposition Leader Bobby Wine.
06:20to beat up his wife over the weekend.
06:22Wine's been in hiding since disputing the outcome of mid-January.
06:25Elections that returned President Yari Museveni for a seventh term.
06:30Kainerugara, who is Museveni's son, claims that troops did not raid Y.
06:35home and assault his wife, Barbara, he says because it's not worth the-
06:40army's time to beat up women.
06:42Barbara, though, is currently in hospital.
06:45She recorded the intruders on her phone and says that they forced their way into her home,
06:49choked her-
06:50mocked her, mocked her, assaulted staff and demanded she tell them where to find her husband.
06:55So when he hit me, he pulled-
07:00me down and sat me down, then he pushed my head and I went down and the-
07:05he sat on me.
07:06I could feel four bodies seated on me.
07:08Then he said, will you-
07:10you give me the password.
07:11I said it again in Unyankwede, you have-
07:15you have already done enough, you are not getting the password.
07:19They came to terrorize-
07:20to put me in this situation so that wherever my husband is, he can come up.
07:25I want to encourage him to stay wherever he is.
07:28I am okay.
07:30I can take care of myself.
07:31I can take care of myself.
07:35Tanya Ruggaba often targets and taunts wine in his posts on Axie-
07:40Tanya Ruggaba often targets and taunts wine in his posts on Axie-
07:40Even before the election, opposition voices had been complaining of increased repression under President Museveni.
07:45More from our regional correspondent, Juliet Monti.
07:50In Uganda, members and supporters of the main opposition party have been facing...
07:55...growing pressure since the presidential election.
07:58Around 800...
08:00...arrests have been recorded nationwide.
08:03At least 18 people have been...
08:05...killed by security forces in Bhutan, Balan, Djeru, Masaka, Luero and...
08:10...and four abductions have been reported in the past few days.
08:15These figures come from the national unity platform, which once the real tool could be higher...
08:20...the ruling party, the NRM, has so far not responded to France 24th.
08:25As a request for comment, we met the leader of the opposition at Parliament.
08:29He accused...
08:30...the authorities of deliberately spreading fear to silence any dissent.
08:35People are afraid.
08:36Even myself, I don't know when there will be an instruction to...
08:40...come and arrest me, even though, yes, I'm an elected leader, leader of the opposition and all of...
08:45...but this regime operates in a rogue manner.
08:48They'll stop at nothing.
08:49So, yes...
08:50It is a worrisome situation, but we have chosen that we shall not sit back because that's why...
08:55...what they want us to do.
08:56One of the most visible faces of the opposition under pressure...
09:00...is Bobby Wine, the party leader and main challenger to Joeri Museveni.
09:05...in this election, fled after security forces surrounded his home the day after...
09:10...the vote.
09:11On the streets, his campaign posters now look like wanted notices.
09:15The chief of defense forces, the head of the military, who is the son to Museveni?
09:19One more...
09:20...and the police officer, Mohonzi Kainerugaba, has been tweeting saying...
09:23...he's hunting down Bobby Wine to kill him.
09:25He has said that on Twitter.
09:26Human rights violations had already been documented by...
09:30...a civil society in the weeks leading up to the election.
09:33The final result giving...
09:35...Yori Museveni's victory with 71% of the vote has been challenged.
09:40...by the opposition and criticized by election observers and human rights...
09:45...organizations alike.
09:46Well, the war appears to have reignited...
09:50...in South Sudan, a peace deal signed in 2018, had brought relative stability...
09:55...but that's now unravelling.
09:57Fighting has broken out in Jongle, which is north...
10:00...of the capital, and the armies deployed troops to block rebel forces from advancing...
10:05...further towards Juba.
10:07Details from our regional correspondent, Bastia...
10:10...in South Sudan.
10:12When we arrive there, don't spare an elderly, don't spare a chicken...
10:15...or anything.
10:16These are the words of General Johnson Ohlone during...
10:20...the deployment of his troops in Jonglei State...
10:22...according to our colleagues from Radio Tamazouj.
10:25His troops are being deployed to stop the advance of rebel groups.
10:30...loyal to Reyk Machar, the former vice-president and leader of the opposition...
10:34...is currently being held...
10:35...in Juba, the capital.
10:36He's accused of being behind attacks on the South Sudan.
10:40...of the Sudanese military in 2025.
10:42The trial which the opposition are...
10:45...seeing as a legal assault on their leader.
10:48It's sort of like the symbolic...
10:50...rallying point for them.
10:53But also there are other factors.
10:55...including government has been actually fighting...
10:57...with the opposition in Upper Nile.
11:00...combarding them from the air.
11:02And some of the areas were actually bombs before.
11:05...the forces merge out to take...
11:08...garrison towns in North...
11:10...and Jonglei.
11:11Large-scale fighting is imminent.
11:12On Sunday, the South Sudanese army...
11:15...gave 48 hours to civilians...
11:17...to escape from three different counties...
11:19...and it even...
11:20...ordered NGOs to withdraw.
11:22I can tell you that in South Sudan...
11:23...many people are bracing...
11:25...for the worst.
11:26The impact is going to be massive.
11:27This is not exactly a replication of...
11:30...the 2013 civil war.
11:32The war we are seeing now...
11:34...it's...
11:35...pretty decentralized.
11:37The leader of the opposition is just symbolic.
11:40The leader, as we speak, is incommunicado.
11:43He's been under house arrest.
11:45He's undergoing trial in Juba.
11:47So he cannot even communicate with the commanders.
11:49And yet...
11:50...these commanders...
11:52...at the grassroots...
11:53...are the one mobilized...
11:55...and they are...
11:56...coordinating.
11:57Since the beginning of the year...
11:58...180,000 people...
12:00...have been displaced...
12:01...because of the conflict...
12:02...more than decades...
12:03...after it's in depth...
12:05...and independence...
12:06...South Sudan is still struggling...
12:07...to achieve peace...
12:08...between 2013 and 2018...
12:10...almost 400,000 people died...
12:12...during the civil war.
12:15Well, after the chaotic...
12:16...Africa Cup of Nations final...
12:17...between Morocco and Senegal...
12:19...last week...
12:20...trade relations...
12:21...between the nation's fans...
12:22...the country's leaders...
12:23...met in Rabat on Monday...
12:25...to show that there were...
12:26...no hard feelings...
12:27...at least at the diplomatic level.
12:28Clare Valor with more.
12:30It's the first meeting...
12:33...between the Senegalese...
12:34...and Moroccan...
12:35...authorities...
12:36...since the AFCON final.
12:38On Monday...
12:39...Senegalese Prime Minister...
12:40...Athman Sonko...
12:41...visited Rabat...
12:42...to strengthen bilateral ties...
12:43...between the two countries.
12:45Meanwhile, the main objective...
12:46...of this meeting...
12:47...was to sign...
12:48...17 cooperation agreements...
12:49...in the field...
12:50...of agriculture...
12:51...higher education...
12:52...or even the digital economy...
12:54...it was important...
12:55...to not mention...
12:56...the tournament's...
12:57...chaotic match...
12:58...between the Taranga Lions...
13:00...the Atlas Lions.
13:01This visit comes...
13:03...at an emotionally...
13:04...charging...
13:05...for a large time...
13:06...due to sports...
13:07...regrettable excesses...
13:10...and images...
13:11...that are sometimes painful...
13:12...for two deeply...
13:13...connected peoples.
13:15It is meant to assert...
13:17...to reaffirm...
13:18...that sport...
13:19...did not divide us.
13:20Several incidents...
13:23...marred the AFCON final...
13:24...on January...
13:25...18th.
13:26Just after a goal...
13:27...was disallowed...
13:28...for Senegal...
13:29...a penalty...
13:30...was awarded...
13:30...to the host country...
13:31...at the end of...
13:32...regulation time...
13:33...after consultation...
13:34...with the video referee.
13:35This decision...
13:36...led to some of...
13:37...the Senegalese players...
13:38...to leave the pitch...
13:39...before Sadio...
13:40...and the money...
13:41...asked them to return.
13:42Moroccan ball boys...
13:43...were also filmed...
13:44...attempting to steal...
13:45...goal keeper...
13:46...Edouard Mendy's towels...
13:47...prompting outrage...
13:48...from his replacement.
13:50Tensions spread...
13:51...to the stands...
13:52...where supporters...
13:53...of the Taranga Lions...
13:54...attempted to invade...
13:55...the pitch...
13:55...for nearly 15 minutes.
13:57The final...
13:58...may have shaken...
13:59...African football...
14:00...but not diplomatic ties...
14:01...between the two countries.
14:03The Moroccan Prime Minister...
14:04...also affirmed...
14:05...that relations...
14:06...between Morocco...
14:07...and Senegal...
14:08...were solid.
14:09An economic forum...
14:10...between the two countries...
14:10...is also planned...
14:11...during the visit.
14:12Well that's it...
14:13...for Iron Africa...
14:14...for now.
14:15...but thanks very much...
14:16...for having joined us...
14:17...and do so again...
14:18...if you can.
14:19Till then...
14:20...take care.
14:20...and do so again.
14:21...you and many others...
14:23...these kinds of...
14:25...what
14:28you've anderes...
14:30...ay-
14:34...by 10
14:35...definance...
14:36...ом...
14:38...aquito
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