Hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of eco africa. The show dates god in Lagos Nigeria its nice to have you with us we have a lot of new reports from europe and africa on brings people are doing to tackle the Environmental Issues facing the m word for me of course is michael present from uganda i will sandra. Hello n. C. Good to see you once again my name is sandra to know youre coming to from kampala here in uganda many thanks to you all for tuning in todays program will take us all around a beautiful continent as we should some light on the environmental threats we face here in ivory coast we will hear about it not look its arguable nonfuel communities on take the pressure of forests we will take a look at what the tom get a wardrobe means here in uganda and find out how he says your boy lives are helping to rehabilitate land in south africa. Alfonse report comes from the ivory coast like many places in africa the country is losing more and more trees to illegal logging
Of peaceful protest same as pivotal in toppling the dictatorship in the form a stalemate on this day in 1989 some 70000 people turned out for marches in the city of lifes ish it was a decisive moment in a chain of events that led to the collapse of east german communism and the fall of the bone and more people held candles and pace fully demanded more freedom and democracy despite the threat of a heavy government crackdown the demonstrations my motto was the people. Well lymans from now german president frank volta on my is due to give a speech commemorating those events lets cross now to leipzig where ceremonies are already underway kate brady is standing by there for us i believe can we hear you kate. Ok 2. I have been listening to good stuff manas symphony number one that to mark the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the protests that really began the end of east germanys political regime and to tell us a bit more ive got simon young data correspondent with me in the studio s