Accusing the. Divided yemen once again. Also on the grid of political protest in moscow once again leads to the arrest of the prominent Opposition Leader. From the president ial election from. Dr led by nigerias president we were telling you more though about the least corrupt country in africa what is behind this. Are your followers online or are they fake Company Followers and stealing social identities. Your account. It with the news grid live on air in streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and of aljazeera dot com as we say fifteen People Killed in fighting between Security Forces and secessionists in the southern yemeni city of aden this by itself could simply be considered part of the ongoing war in yemen but the Prime Minister is calling for an immediate cease fire after earlier accusing separatists of staging a coup and even more significance lies in who is backing the Security Forces as youll see on this map they are on the side of president. Hadi and they are backed by the Saudi Led Coalition the secessionists though supported by the United Arab Emirates so for the first time these two countries very much close allies in yemen and in the wider gulf are now on opposing sides of a conflict. Coverage. Yemens Prime Minister says secessionists have staged a coup in the port city of aden. Thats where the government had been based for the last few years there are reports of several people being killed in fighting between progovernment forces and separatists. This mobile phone footage appears to show people arriving in the city thousands of protesters have been gathering against an internationally recognized and saudi backed government the demonstrators are backed by the United Arab Emirates which is supposed to be saudi arabias ally in yemen. Not necessarily in that situation when youre. Really upset that you have very important. You know you were here. And youre you know. Who you. Think you are all that you have its own you have your own lives. And the more of. Your your country i think we didnt want. To reason. The conflict in todays yemen its complicated the country used to be divided between north and south yemen until unification in one nine hundred ninety but the difference is never really went away since the fight with the who began in two thousand and fifteen the secessionists have fought for control over here in seaports of aden last week seven forces led by the man appointed by president of the rebel months who are highly as the governor of aden announced to overthrow hardys government and that Major General rule is to be rejected the deployment of northern forces to the south there have been calls since last sunday so its been about a week for people to go down to the streets to protest and. South Transitional Council has been calling on had the head of government to dissolve and for a new government to be appointed and they are calling for independence as well as weve seen on the ground the clashes are continuing and the situation is. Very quickly now the future of president hadi is in question he has been based in saudi arabia along with this Prime Minister had been the other who struggled to control southern yemen despite support from saudi arabia. Womens elected government was pushed out of the capital sanaa in the north and now it doesnt seem to have a place in the south as well as some of the job there. To get a better understanding of all of this thats happening now you have to go back but quite far back into yemens past you know for much of the latter part of the Twentieth Century the country was divided into north and south the north enjoying support from saudi arabia the south went from being a british colony to a marxist state backed by the former soviet union but in one thousand nine hundred two sides the united with the president of the north. Remember that name becoming leadership but after just four years the Fragile Union was torn apart by civil war salaries forces captured eight in defeating the south and forcing yemen back into a unified state and the frictions continued between the sides with the south all from complaining about what it sees as unfair treatment by the north and the south is resource rich but says the north gets more investment and attention this is led to the birth of a Popular Movement which wants independence for southern yemen weve got on with us now yemen project coordinator for the International Human rights n. G. O. S reprieve and was a former member of yemens National Dialogue and its nice to have you with us so he was actually done if you could hear in that report but one of the people we heard from said they believed we were going back down the path of a divided yemen do you believe thats what were going. I think its not that simple although there is. A high demand inside the south south yemen specially by supporters of the southern Transitional Council who who have announced escalating against the current government but the tensions in the south is quite different so both factions are fighting in ardent today theyre both southerners so the president ial forces and the security belts both both of them were formed after the pushed out the who is in twenty fifteen august twenty fifteen and since then each group has been working independently so in a way theyve been sharing control in aden but couldnt Work Together in a unified in a form of a unified unified government or governing governing form until we reached a situation where the southern Transitional Council on that idea was a baby is demanding secession and is collating against ahmed been dubbed a commitment of or himself the Prime Minister is a southerner but he is so much supportive of unity so i think the situation is that little bit more complicated than that what you guess not fair enough fair enough whats why i should say hasnt this been addressed previously on going back prior to the war which is going to use the issue of secession and divided it or at least the concerns of the south never been properly addressed. Well i mean it has been discussed multiple times but theres always been the issue of. Does the. Shell of the politicians whove to be to be to be honest most of them come from come from the north should they agreed to giving an independent state or the right for a friend for an independent state or should they just. Give some reforms that would give some authority and give the share of power and wealth to the to the south this was also discussed during the National Dialogue and the National Dialogue resolution came out to be that we have to move towards a federal a federal system now after that because of the coup none of that was addressed and of course the demands of the southerners remained there so they just didnt go away now the difference is that the southern Transitional Council feel they have forces so they are more ready than before to escalate and to claim independence from from. The united but what do you make just briefly of the fact that we have saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Stand simply on opposing sides of this particular conflict is that a concern. It is a concern i mean thats definitely what we are seeing today and i would then complicate things saudi arabia still supports a unified country because having two. States and its southern border doesnt provide that stability and in i could Arab Emirates have been supporting the transitional Transitional Council so it definitely complicates things for there and i think things are still early so i think were going to wait for a couple of days to see how things are going to move forward to watch it closely dont we but are joining us from london thank you so much for your time to get in touch with us on that story or any of the stories coming up Contact Details on screen for you now the hashtag a. J. News grid with the you would like to use twitter more than welcome help on twitter reply to the tweets in the a. J. 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V. Station called opposition t. V. Campaign is saying it all fits with a pattern of heris mints. Rory chalons with all the details now from moscow but even before most muscovites it got out of bed this morning arrests were taking place at other novelli demonstrations across russias many different time zones and here in the Capital Police launched a raid on the values h. Q. Trying to shut down his online t. V. Channel and she evaded the police so you had been sent to arrest him at his apartment they caught out with him later though as he came down to the demonstration roughly bundling him into a police van. That youre really now actually in a valley insists that his arrest does not matter at all that the people who turned out to demonstrate across the country are not protesting for him theyre protesting for their own futures and hes encouraging them to stay away from the elections in march elections of course in which its widely expected the Vladimir Putin is going to win another term in office thats right chalons there is an indepth profile of alex and of Ahmed Al Jazeera dot com including video links to his mayoral bid his previous arrest is also good background to a man who once said dont try to fight for me our issue today is against. Is in the fight against corruption i should say just search for profile me at al jazeera dot com corruption and conflict topping the agenda at a meeting of the African Union leaders from the fifty five member nations are attending that annual summit in the capital of ethiopia nigerias president has been put in charge of the blocks first of an Anti Corruption drive theyre also going to discuss the goal to end all wars across the continent by the year twenty twenty but as you can imagine there are challenges thirteen of the eighteen a u. Member States Holding elections this year either in conflict emerging from conflict or have a history of electoral strife here is mohammed oh hes in a before a time of whats been happening today take us through it. Well come on a lot of discussions particularly on the issues all caught up on the institutional on financial reform of the African Union in terms of the discussions on corruption for the mamma to go holiday off nigeria a man who was that can put option even that idea had. Is has been had declared them to corruption champion hold a year two thousand and thirteen and soon as he was given this position he can lead us to move beyond the issue of just creating new laws and to cut off from those and implementing them the skepticism whether the fifty five leaders who are gathered here some of whom have come to apollo through questionable elections will be able to come up with measures that will be quickly taco hut option however that they are talking about it is seen as a huge progress in terms of institutional reform on thought so financing for the African Union that you can union the Commission Wants all the fifty five members of the African Union to implement a scheme in which every member state will impose zero point two cost Center Living on imports but so far only twenty one countries have implemented this pm and some of the big dont go on as to these. Union having doubts about the whole scheme and i am of the goal as i mentioned before ending conflicts on the continent by the year twenty twenty my goodness that is a real challenge i mean im just off the top of my head im thinking libya sudan south sudan somalia. South sudan some through africa republican libya the fight against boko haram ill shut up all but will be discussed throughout this two day African Union peace and Security Council is charged with at least possibility and theyve been meeting and what they want to see first of all hes a quick resolution to the conflict in thought sudan which is a very crucial one to the union at the same time the African Union is appealing to the u. N. Security council mulcahey stand there with the goal of which fluxion peacekeeping mission is somalia amazon which are the african the United NationsSecurity Council wants to see a plan drawn up for its withdrawal African UnionOfficials Say any hasty withdrawal from somalia could see alshabaab coming back and even taking over the capital mogadishu. Hominids oh is that the are you summits thank you mohammed this talk of corruption its not just anecdotal observations it is the finding of groups Like Transparency International which releases an annual Corruption Perceptions index this is the latest one here your basic guide is that countries in the light has shades the yellows and the oranges they are considered less corrupt the countries in reds particularly the duck rates are corrupt its a scale of one to one hundred so when we come to africa unfortunately most of the continent is red the worst ones there libya with a fourteen with as i said number one being the most corrupt youve also got south sudan on fourteen there south sudan even worse and eleven but if you go bit further south the picture starts to change namibia for example fifty two thats namibia of course and next door so if youve got the least corrupt country in africa at least according to Transparency International it is botswana. You can botswanan along i was just there for christmas and was surprised at how safe i felt there actually and buts want to compared to its border countries it also reports fewer crimes and bribery cases it even has a whistleblower hotline where you can call and report corruption if youre convicted though youre looking at time in prison prison and some pretty hefty fines the directorate on corruption and Economic Crime is in charge of investigating and prosecuting corruption within books wanna the office has nearly three hundred permanent staff and a nine Million Dollar annual budget the service has been around since one nine hundred ninety four now weve been talking to some of you in neighboring south africa a country with a much higher corruption rating about what can be learned from their closest neighbor as a south african who has been personally affected by the crime scene in my country i mean by and by and look up to be true i know if anybody in country because of its relative you know quite option that would give me hope that it is possible for African Leaders to put aside their selfishness and greed for the sake of citizen than country acting as truly this would make for a country that i have and developed what it could afford to live in when i should not only be an example for leaders in my country but for the lives of other african countries as well because of corruption was low in africa i believe it can be a very powerful and driving continent in a speech against corruption last december the president of books won an income a he said the government of books want to has been working tirelessly for the past twenty three years tracking the scorch of corruption in our country during the early years the most common form of corruption was bribery where exchange of money for a favor was the most common thing bribery is still a common offense but over the years the trend has shifted to highly complicated and complex corruption offenses. But one is tourism is another reason for the crackdown on corruption the president has been pivotal in developing the sector and encouraging tourists to visit the country without fear of being ripped off if your own butts want to we want to hear from you weve heard from some of you already please do let us know how you see corruption getting tackled in your community you can write me directly at leo Harding Agency or you can use the hash tag aging is great thank you leah let me