This week on Africa Weekly, we meet some of the Central African Republic’s “repats” who have managed to set up profitable livelihoods after returning to their country, despite it being one of the poorest in the world, and we track the growth of the African video gaming industry following the global success of a Cameroonian game.FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY
The government of Central African Republic signs a peace deal in Bangui with the armed groups that control of most of the country. It is hoped that the accord will bring an end to a bloody, years-long conflict.
This week on Africa Weekly, we focus on Nigeria, where locally produced methamphetamines have become so popular that internal security is under threat as armed gangs vye for control of the market. And we follow the Travelling Digital Cinema in Central African Republic, where a small group of volunteers is roaming the conflict-ridden country to broadcast educational films on sensitive social issues.FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY
Despite the outbreak of violence in the Central African Republic, a small group of volunteers is roaming the roads of the country, screening films in the most remote regions. In Bayanga, a pygmy region in the south-west of Central African Republic, where few people have ever seen a cinema screen, the Travelling Digital Cinema broadcasts educational films to sensitize people to contemporary societal issues.
After years of armed conflict in the Central African Republic, there are currently 1.5 million children, or two out of three children, who are in desperate need of humanitarian aid in the country, says UNICEF.
In northern Gabon, the equatorial forest is everywhere and many consider it dangerous… except Baka Pygmies, who know every nook and cranny. The Baka people are held in folklore to be Africa’s oldest inhabitants, living today in forests stretching from Gabon and Cameroon inland to the Congos and the Central African Republic.
A three-man crew of Russian journalists was killed in the Central African Republic, with colleagues saying they were shooting a film about mercenaries in the country. Local police say they may have fallen victim to a robbery. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9bgl
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Every Sunday, young people from all walks of life gather at Bangui’s “20,000 Places Stadium” in the Central African Republic to learn Capoeira and rebuild bonds that have been damaged by war and violence that has plagued their country for years.
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is claiming diplomatic immunity from ongoing bankruptcy proceedings in the UK on the basis that he is an ambassador for the Central African Republic.
International war crimes judges acquit former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on appeal, overturning an 18-year sentence for war crimes committed in the Central African Republic in 2002-3. SOUNDBITE
