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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.
01:35But the other government...
01:36Sam Olakaya breaks 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02:17citizens from Britain in 1960, Nigeria's democratic process has been repealed.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 execute...
05:46who persecute...
05:47who persecute...
05:48who persecute...
05:49to recreate...
05:50ц Frege Geralt...
05:51Who
06:06kalo
06:10pa
06:12advanced
06:13Chief Muhusi Kanerugaba denied accusations that soldiers had been sent to the house.
06:18Opposition leader Bobby Wine to beat up his wife over the weekend.
06:22Now, Wine's been in hiding since.
06:23Disputing the outcome of mid-January elections that returned President Yari Museveni for a...
06:28...seventh term.
06:29Now, Kainerugaba, who is Museveni's son, claims that troops...
06:33...did not raid Wine's home and assault his wife, Barbara.
06:37He says...
06:38...because it's not worth the army's time to beat up women.
06:42Barbara, though, is currently...
06:43...in hospital.
06:44She recorded the intruders on her phone and says that they forced their way...
06:48...into her home, choked her, mocked her, assaulted staff and demanded she tell...
06:53...them where to find her husband.
06:56So when he hit me...
06:58...he pulled me down and sat me down.
07:02Then he pushed my head down.
07:03I went down and they sat on me.
07:05I could feel four bodies seated on me.
07:08Then he said, will you give me the password?
07:12I said...
07:13Again, you have already done enough.
07:16You are not getting the password.
07:19They came to terrorize me.
07:21To put me in this situation so that wherever my...
07:23husband is, he can come out.
07:25I want to encourage him to stay wherever he is.
07:28I am okay.
07:29I can take care of myself.
07:33Kanarugaba often targets and taunts wine in his...
07:38...posts on X.
07:39Even before the election, opposition voices had been complaining of increased...
07:43...oppression under President Museveni.
07:45More from our regional correspondent, Juliette Monti.
07:48In Uganda, members and supporters of the main...
07:53...opposition party have been facing growing pressure since the presidential election.
07:58Around 800 arrests have been recorded nationwide.
08:03At least 18 people have been killed by security forces in Bhutan-Balanj.
08:08Peru, Massaca, Luero and Mitjana.
08:10And four abductions have been reported in...
08:13...in the past few days.
08:14These figures come from the national unity platform, which was...
08:18...in the past few months, the real toll could be higher.
08:20The ruling party, the NRM, has so far not...
08:23...responded to France 24's request for comment.
08:26We met the leader of the opposition...
08:28...at Parliament.
08:29He accuses the authorities of deliberately spreading fear to...
08:33...the silence any dissent.
08:34People are afraid.
08:36Even myself, I don't know.
08:38I think there will be an instruction to come and arrest me...
08:41...even though, yes, I'm an elected leader.
08:43I'm a leader of the opposition and all of that.
08:45This regime operates in a rogue manner.
08:48They will stop at nothing.
08:49So, yes, it is a worrisome situation, but we have chosen that we...
08:53...shall not sit back, because that's what they want us to do.
08:56One of the most visible faces of...
08:58...the opposition under pressure is Bobby Wine, the party leader and main...
09:03...fallenger to Yoeri Museveni in this election fled after security forces...
09:08...and surrounded his home the day after the vote.
09:10On the streets, his campaign posters...
09:13...look like wanted notices.
09:14The chief of defence forces, the head of the military...
09:17...who is the son...
09:18...to Museveni, one Mohozika in Erugaba...
09:20...has been tweeting saying his hand...
09:23...and pointing down Bobby Wine to kill him.
09:25He has said that on Twitter.
09:26Human rights violations had...
09:28...already been documented by civil society...
09:30...in the weeks leading up to the election.
09:33The final result giving Yoeri Museveni victory with 71% of...
09:38...the vote has been challenged by the opposition...
09:41...and criticised by election...
09:43...conservers and human rights organisations alike.
09:48The war appears to have reignited in South Sudan.
09:50A peace deal signed in 2018...
09:52...had brought...
09:53...relative stability...
09:54...but that's now unravelling.
09:56Fighting has broken out.
09:58...in Jonglei, which is north of the capital...
10:00...and the armies deployed troops...
10:02...to block...
10:03...and the rebel forces from advancing...
10:05...further towards Juba.
10:07Details from our...
10:08...and regional correspondent...
10:09...Bastien Renouy.
10:11When we arrive there...
10:12...don't spend...
10:13...don't spend an elderly...
10:14...don't spend a chicken...
10:15...don't spend a house...
10:16...or anything.
10:17These are the words of...
10:18...General Johnson Ohlone...
10:19...during the deployment...
10:20...of his troop in Jonglei State...
10:21...according to our colleagues...
10:23...from Radio Tamazouj.
10:25...his troops are being deployed...
10:27...to stop the...
10:28...advance of rebel groups...
10:30...loyal to Rayek Machar...
10:31...the former vice-president...
10:32...and leader of the...
10:33...position...
10:34...is currently being held...
10:35...in Juba, the capital...
10:36...he's accused of...
10:37...being behind...
10:38...attacks on the...
10:39...south Sudanese military...
10:40...in 2025.
10:41The trial...
10:42which the opposition are seeing as a legal assault on their leader.
10:47It's sort of like the symbolic rallying point for them.
10:52But also there are other factors, including government has been actually fighting
10:57with the opposition in Upper Nile, bombarding them from the air.
11:02Some of the areas were actually bombs before the forces merged out too.
11:07To take garrison towns in the northern jungle.
11:10Large-scale fighting is imminent.
11:12On Sunday, the South Sudanese army gave 48 hours to civilians to...
11:17to escape from three different counties and even ordered NGOs to withdraw.
11:22I can tell you that in South Sudan, many people are bracing for the worst.
11:25The impact is going to be most...
11:27as if this is not exactly a replication of the 2013 civil war.
11:32The war we are seeing now, it's pretty decentralized.
11:37The leader of the opposition is just symbolic leader as we speak is...
11:42he has been under house arrest, he is undergoing trial in Juba.
11:47So he cannot even communicate with the commanders.
11:49And yet, these commanders...
11:52at the grassroots are the ones mobilizing and they are coordinating.
11:56Since...
11:57At the beginning of the year, 180 000 people have been displaced because of the conflict.
12:02More than a decade after its independence,
12:05South Sudan is still struggling to achieve...
12:07peace.
12:08Between 2013 and 2018, almost 400 000 people died.
12:12during the civil war.
12:13Well, after the chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final...
12:17between Morocco and Senegal last week...
12:19frayed relations between the nation's fans...
12:22the country's leaders met in Rabat on Monday...
12:25to show that there were no hard feelings.
12:27at least at the diplomatic level.
12:28Clenvala with more.
12:29Clenvala with more.
12:31It's the...
12:32the first meeting between the Senegalese and Moroccan authorities...
12:35since the AFCON final.
12:37On Monday, Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko visited Rabat to strengthen...
12:42bilateral ties between the two countries.
12:44While the main objective of this meeting was to sign...
12:47the 17 cooperation agreements in the fields of agriculture, higher education...
12:52or even the digital economy...
12:54it was impossible to not mention the tournaments...
12:57chaotic match between the Taranga Lions and the Atlas Lions.
13:02This visit comes at an emotionally charged time due to sports.
13:07regrettable excesses...
13:09and images that are sometimes painful...
13:12for two deeply connected peoples.
13:14It is meant to assert...
13:16to reaffirm...
13:17that sport...
13:18did not divide us.
13:19Sport...
13:20did not divide us.
13:21Several...
13:22...
13:22incidents...
13:23marred the AFCON final on January 18th...
13:25just after a goal was...
13:27disallowed for Senegal...
13:28a penalty was awarded to the host country...
13:30at the end of regulation time...
13:32after consultation with the video referee.
13:35This decision led to some of the Senegal...
13:37for these players to leave the pitch...
13:39before Sadio Mane asked them to return.
13:41Moroccan...
13:42ball boys were also filmed...
13:43attempting to steal goalkeeper...
13:45Edouard Mendy's towels...
13:46prompting...
13:47outrage from his replacement.
13:49Tensions spread to the stands...
13:51where supporters...
13:52of the Taranga Lions...
13:53attempted to invade the pitch...
13:55for nearly 15 minutes.
13:57The final may have shaken...
13:58African football...
13:59but not diplomatic ties...
14:01between the two countries...
14:02the Moroccan Prime Minister...
14:04also affirmed...
14:05that relations between Morocco...
14:06and Senegal...
14:07are solid.
14:08An economic forum...
14:09between the two countries...
14:10is also planned...
14:11during the visit.
14:12Well that's it...
14:13for Iron Africa...
14:14for now...
14:15but thanks very much...
14:16for having joined us...
14:17so again...
14:18if you can...
14:19till then...
14:20take care.
14:22you...
14:23you...
14:27You