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00:02:56of welcome everyone, I'm Grace Kurkanja and This
00:03:00is Africa matters. Conflict in the Middle East has already
00:03:04disrupted global trade. Now, the researgeans of
00:03:08Somali Perisy is raising fresh concerns
00:03:11of about security in the gulf of Aiden and the Western Indian
00:03:15Ocean. What does its return mean for regional and
00:03:18of international maritime
00:03:20security?
00:03:27Now 2026 has brought major. uptions to
00:03:30global shipping with around 20%
00:03:33of the world's oil
00:03:34of passing through the straight of hormos before the US war on
00:03:38Iran. Ansera Houti attacks in Yemen have disrupted
00:03:42traffic through the Bab Almandab straight, vital
00:03:45shipping
00:03:46of corridor that carries roughly 15% of global seaborn
00:03:50trade. And our piracy is resurfacing in the gulf of
00:03:54Aiden, the critical shipping corridor that's between Yemen,
00:03:57Djibuti and Somalia. "the route connects Europe and
00:04:01Asia through the swez canal, further disruption could raise
00:04:05freight, insurance and fuel costs affecting consumers
00:04:09worldwide and increasing risks for sea
00:04:12of fairers. of the shipping should not be used as collateral in the geopolitical
00:04:16of conflict that we need to protect the shipping and the seafoders, otherwise
00:04:20the negative effects
00:04:21of are going to be filled by everywhere around the world, regardless if the
00:04:25countries are or not
00:04:26of involved in the conflicts, when it comes to maritime security.
00:04:30of would say that it's the situation is is not getting better, that's
00:04:34why we
00:04:34of should have better coordination between the member
00:04:37of state and also at the same time better information sharing,
00:04:40because now is the monsoon for example, which is the the sea
00:04:44condition are are rough and we have 97 hostage in Somalia
00:04:48since april on piracy and we have six vessel also being held
00:04:52in Somalia uh some
00:04:54of them like two three days ago and some since April so and this is
00:04:58during the monsoon so... October, November, this will
00:05:02be more actually uh the peak season, because currently all the
00:05:06international forces, maritime forces are distracted in in the in different
00:05:10maritime conflicts, now the internet. National Maritime
00:05:13Organization has recorded at least 15 paracy incidents
00:05:17the Horn of Africa this year, including eight in the gulf
00:05:21of Aiden. One the most notable was the August hijacking the Cameron
00:05:25flagged MV Lutuff which was later released. Now in
00:05:28April, about 30 pirates attacked the MT owner
00:05:3225 as it carried 18,500 barrels of
00:05:36oil to Morgadishu. Five the 17 crew
00:05:39members taken hostage were killed.
00:05:45"I sincerely apologize to the families of my five diseased
00:05:49crew members. I couldn't keep my promise to bring all my crew
00:05:53members back safely. I'm deeply
00:05:55sorry. Now several
00:05:59factors are behind the researgeants. Naval forces once
00:06:03assigned to counter piracy have been diverted to the red sea
00:06:07and the street of hormos, thus reducing patrols off the
00:06:10Somali coast higher." or prizes have also increased the
00:06:14potential rewards for hijacking, meanwhile aid cuts, illegal
00:06:18fishing, insecurity and political instability are
00:06:21deeppening economic headship, pushing up the cost of food,
00:06:25fuel and fertilizer, so while concerning, the
00:06:29recent increase a tax remains well below the peak of Somalia's
00:06:33paristy crisis. According to World Bank data, Somali pirates
00:06:37carried out more than 1000 attacks between
00:06:402005 and 2012. hijacking
00:06:43218 vessels and taking more than
00:06:463,700 sailors hostage. run some
00:06:50payments were and remain a key incentive for
00:06:53piracy. at the height the crisis, ship owners paid an
00:06:57estimated 50 million US dollars in ransoms
00:07:01each year, while the wider economic cost of somile piracy
00:07:04reached as much as 18 billion dollars
00:07:08annually. all right, let's hear more from Richard
00:07:11Ororun. He is associate professor of supply chain
00:07:15management and international trade at Cartoon University, he joins me
00:07:18from path in Australia. Thank you very much, Mr.
00:07:22Richard for making the time for this conversation. I want to start with the
00:07:26gulf of Aiden, how strategically important, is it
00:07:30right now, given the wider maritime disruptions caused by the
00:07:34conflicts in the Middle East? It remains very
00:07:38important, lot of traffic, maritime traffic.
00:07:43passes through the red sea and the passes
00:07:46right into the Mediterranean, so it remains
00:07:50a strategic water way, it also
00:07:53links the Mediterranean
00:07:57and the Indian Oceans, so it's very, very important
00:08:01for maritime traffic. All right, now
00:08:05these piracy attacks that we're seeing, we're talking about
00:08:0815 them, according to the international maritime organization, just this...
00:08:12here are we seeing isolated incidents or are these signs of
00:08:16sustained researgeance? just how serious is this
00:08:20threat? i think
00:08:23it's it's right, it's reason, if
00:08:27you remember several years ago there were
00:08:31serious narval patrols and the rates of
00:08:35piracy actually dropped,
00:08:38but this year since april the rate of...
00:08:42piracy has increased compared to the previous
00:08:46few years and for from my
00:08:49perspective, I believe the instability in the
00:08:53region may be feeding
00:08:56into these rise in the rates
00:08:59of pirate attacks, there is lot of
00:09:02instability in the region, you know we've got the yemy
00:09:06crisis, we also have the crisis
00:09:10in Ethiopia and here we also have
00:09:14the crisis in Somalia and the
00:09:17Somaliland, the tensions
00:09:20there, so all these put together, it
00:09:24seems some the instability inland is
00:09:28beginning to to spread on onto the
00:09:31maritime coast right, and like you
00:09:34said the crisis in the 2000s was caused through a
00:09:38combination of multilateral naval missions, now most...
00:09:42most these vessels have been redeployed to the red sea to the straight of
00:09:46hormos because the conflicts that we currently have. can we afford
00:09:50to have that kind of multilateral naval missions
00:09:54now to secure the gulf of
00:09:55Aiden? oh yes, I
00:09:59think the
00:10:00the capabilities are there by the major powers
00:10:04to redeploy those narval vessels back to the gulf
00:10:07of Eden and and and the red sea, so I believe those
00:10:11capabilities. are there, they just need policy
00:10:15makers just need to be aware that the rates
00:10:19of piracy seems to be increasing
00:10:22significantly, so are you saying that?
00:10:25aware,
00:10:29well, it may not be a priority at the
00:10:32moment,
00:10:33you know, there are separate different levels of
00:10:37prioritization, so if the media
00:10:41like yourselves can make them, you know, more
00:10:45aware a high level, if you can
00:10:48show some the impacts on trade
00:10:52and other repercussions the... rise in
00:10:56the pirate attacks, then it will become a top
00:10:59priority. All right, and let's talk more about Somalia, because
00:11:02conditions on land that helped fuel the piracy
00:11:06attacks 15 years ago, in the early 2000s, they still remain. I'm talking
00:11:10about in security, political instability, illegal fishing, they're
00:11:14still there. So how do we deal with that now, with those
00:11:17being some the main or the core driving factors these piracy
00:11:21attacks? I think the key. thing
00:11:25is economic growth, economic development, people
00:11:29need jobs, people need job
00:11:31security, people need livelihoods
00:11:35and people need stability, economic
00:11:38stability, so for the long term I'll
00:11:42suggest investments, I will
00:11:45suggest trade, I will suggest
00:11:48education, these are the things that contribute to
00:11:52long-term stability and peace. and development
00:11:55any country right, and as we wind up, I want to pick up on something you
00:11:59mentioned earlier, the um conflicts that we're witnessing on the
00:12:03African continent, so could this renewed piracy
00:12:07intersect with other security challenges in the horn of Africa, for instance, including
00:12:11terrorism, trafficking and regional
00:12:13instability, yes, yes,
00:12:17there is actually very, the the lines are
00:12:21blowed between those those things you you have mentioned that...
00:12:25that short list, so yeah, this school
00:12:29all mix up in my view, there is actually no clear
00:12:32cut silos, you cannot separate terrorism
00:12:35from all the
00:12:38instability and all the various goings
00:12:42on in the region, as I said earlier,
00:12:46these things spill over, there are crossovers,
00:12:50and the the you can't put them in neat boundaries, in neat
00:12:54silos. They have to be addressed
00:12:56together. All right, Mr. Richard
00:13:00Or the associate professor of Suplanen supply chain management
00:13:04and International Traded Cartin University. Thank you very much sir for your time and
00:13:08valuable contribution. Still to come here on
00:13:11Africa matters. I am Daran Allen in Western Uganda,
00:13:15exploring how the country is looking towards a new sporting dawn with new
00:13:19Turkish built
00:13:20stadium.
00:13:28to Sudan now where hartuum central streets are slowly beginning
00:13:31to show signs of life again after a long period of
00:13:35silence in one the capital's historic markets traders are
00:13:39trying to return to the routines they once knew even as the
00:13:43effects the war remain all around them. Abdullah Hussein reports
00:13:47from Hartum. Like
00:13:50elsewhere in Sudan, the war hasn't been kind to central Khartum.
00:13:55and its markets, which once teamed with activity, like
00:13:59sugal afranji or a franji market here on aljam
00:14:03street. now, amid the destruction, some are trying to
00:14:06bring back a little of what was lost.
00:14:10muhammad is one the market's long time praders. after
00:14:14more than 50 years among these shops, the war forced him to
00:14:18leave. he returned after a long absence to find that
00:14:22the destruction had reached everything. even his own
00:14:26shops, no one here escaped the damage, when
00:14:30the war broke out, no one could come to take anything from their shop, the fighting
00:14:34was right beside us, perhaps people in other areas managed to do that,
00:14:38but here we were affected an extraordinary way, the scale the
00:14:41destruction is immense and so is the
00:14:44loss, i had three shops, i couldn't take
00:14:48out a single piece, but i have started again a small
00:14:52scale from blow zero, the... image was
00:14:55devastating for traders who had lost the market that
00:14:59once provided their livelihoods, slowly they began
00:15:03bring their goods back, setting up again despite the
00:15:06destruction is still visible around
00:15:08them, we thought it would not
00:15:12last long, but it became years, when we came back we
00:15:16were shocked, we found everything completely destroyed, the
00:15:19shops badly burned and the buildings collapsed, it was a
00:15:23catastrophic situation. yet beyond the business there
00:15:27is an emotional pond between these traders and the
00:15:31market they have known for so long. i don't know what to say,
00:15:34for me,
00:15:35this state is lifeline. i can't. with there is our building you saw
00:15:39earlier, entirely collapsed, not even a trace of it left, but everyone
00:15:43here has come back, they all share the same feeling, we can't work in
00:15:46other markets, purchasing power is no longer what it
00:15:50was, adding to the burden of traders who have already
00:15:54lost what they owned, but they have chosen to return,
00:15:57what may look like a gamble or nostalgia is for them
00:16:01a connection to the life they knew and hope for
00:16:05new one, coming back the... doesn't mean things are back to business
00:16:09as usual, these traders are rebuilding from the ruins
00:16:13with business only slowly beginning to return, for them even
00:16:17this modest activity is part of trying to reclaim their
00:16:20livelihoods. Abdullah Hussain, Africa Matters,
00:16:24Hartum. And from maritime
00:16:28security in the Horn of Africa to the safety of women on the
00:16:32street of South Africa, wave of murders has packed
00:16:35outrage and renewed calls for. stronger action against
00:16:39gender-based violence reports
00:16:41from
00:16:49on the streets of ekuruleni, women are demanding
00:16:52protection, 12 women have been murdered in the city since
00:16:56July 15. For those matching, the fear of
00:17:00becoming the next victim is part of daily life. I'm
00:17:04tired of this GPV, I'm tired, I'm a... woman, i
00:17:08can't even go outside, i'm scared to go outside, i'm scared to go to the
00:17:11bathroom because of what is happening, i don't trust anything anymore, i don't trust
00:17:15even my yard because of
00:17:17what is happening in in in in our country, the
00:17:21protesters say their repeated calls for help have gone
00:17:25unanswered, they want authorities to act
00:17:28so women can move freely without fearing for their
00:17:32lives, until when is this the
00:17:36freedom our four fatherers fight? for are we free? we are not
00:17:39free, we are not free, every day we are
00:17:43scared, every day, we are crying for
00:17:47help, nothing is happening until when, the acting police
00:17:51minister has linked the violence to a high concentration of leaker
00:17:55outlets and police stuff shortage
00:17:57ekululeni. President Sirena Maphosa has announced
00:18:01a four-point plan to tackle the crisis.
00:18:05police have 60 days to set up about how they will resolve
00:18:09gender-based violence and femicide cases.
00:18:13Municipalities have 90 days to make public spaces safer
00:18:17for women, and prosecutors must outline how they will
00:18:21deal with the outstanding murder and rape cases.
00:18:24The government is also placed funding and resources to support
00:18:28the plan. We owe every woman and
00:18:32girl in South Africa, a country in which she
00:18:36does not have to calculate where she may
00:18:39walk, what time she may travel, what she
00:18:43may wear, whom she may trust and weather,
00:18:47saying no will put her in life
00:18:49danger, but for
00:18:53these women the promises have come too late, they
00:18:57say they need protection now, the
00:19:01South African Human Rights Commission says 569 women
00:19:05were made out in South Africa. between April and June
00:19:082026. That's about six women a day.
00:19:12Police statistics show nearly 9 rape cases were
00:19:16reported during the same period. That's almost 100 a
00:19:20day. The question now is whether President Siri
00:19:24Rama Posa's four-point plan to tackle gender-based violence
00:19:28will help turn those figures around or become another failed
00:19:32strategy. Tusokumalo. Africa
00:19:35Matters ekuruleni. South
00:19:37Africa.
00:19:42Now to Burkina Faso where deaf and hearing impaired people are
00:19:46using a special technique to dance. The vibra sign
00:19:49technique helps them fill the rhythm and has opened up new social
00:19:53possibilities for this often marginalized group. Bahar
00:19:57has the story. They may not hear the music, but these
00:20:01dancers can feel its rhythm. All them are deaf
00:20:05or hard of hearing. Their instructor Yaya Sanu
00:20:09has found a way to help them follow the beat. He uses his face
00:20:13to show the tempo and mute the music. The
00:20:16dancers can also feel the music through vibrations in the
00:20:20floor. I really like to dance, the repetition, the
00:20:24learning. Love of dance is what encourages me to keep
00:20:27dancing. In Burkino Faso, deaf people still
00:20:31face negative attitudes. A local study by the
00:20:35Institute of Social Sciences last year. reported
00:20:3860% have negative perceptions of deafness,
00:20:42some people consider deafness a curse or spiritual
00:20:45punishment.
00:20:49in my neighborhood? to be a school for deaf people, i saw these children
00:20:53keeping themselves to themselves, they did nothing, they didn't
00:20:57even participate in sociocultural activities and caught my
00:21:00attention, i said to myself, it's not normal, we have to do
00:21:04something, so decided to propose teaching dance and
00:21:08it all started from there, and when i started, the
00:21:11impact, the reaction, the positive change in the daily life these
00:21:15dancers, these young people made me understand that there was a
00:21:19need. Sanu has trained his dancers to such
00:21:23level that he entered team to the 2023
00:21:26francaphone games in Kinshasa, there they
00:21:30picked up gold for choreography and now the group has
00:21:34taken its latest production to ivory cost and
00:21:38Germany. Before I was only in Bobo I saw
00:21:41the dancers traveling around and I was here doing
00:21:45nothing, but now I can also travel and I really
00:21:49love travel. For these dancers,
00:21:53music has become a way to connect, compete and see
00:21:57the world, and their proving the show must go on,
00:22:00even when the music cannot be heard. Bahar
00:22:04Uighur, Africa metters. Now to East
00:22:08Africa, which is racing to be ready for the 2027 Africa
00:22:12Cup of Nations in Uganda, a Takish Buil stadium is
00:22:16giving the sports sector a boost and hopes are high for a
00:22:20lasting legacy beyond the tournament from western Uganda, Daron
00:22:23Allen Cheyuna reports dript in black, yellow and
00:22:27red. This is Uganda's latest sports
00:22:30treasure. Hoima city stadium is the country's biggest
00:22:34sports facility outside kampala. Turkish
00:22:38farm suma built it in just 13 months.
00:22:42It was completed in December 2025, just in time
00:22:46as Uganda is preparing to co-host next year's Africa cup of nation.
00:22:51we're able to sign a contract of about $130 million
00:22:55project which involves of course constructing
00:22:59this 20 stadium.
00:23:03football is a sport that can unite a community. the crowds here are
00:23:06gathering for a historic moment, the Uganda Crains will play their first
00:23:10international match at this new stadium against
00:23:14Libya. under the
00:23:18crans matched the occasion with victory over their north african
00:23:22opponent with just a single
00:23:23goal, with four more
00:23:27pitches in the region, the Africa Cup of Nations Dream is
00:23:31alive, these stadiums are helping accelerate Uganda's
00:23:34development and dreams on the beach, but it's also
00:23:38a very nice stadium, it's a warm stadium, the field, the
00:23:42players are feeling good, so it gives
00:23:45you mentally more power.
00:23:50Suma is credited for other sports facilities in Rwanda
00:23:54and Senegal. They also constructed a multi-purpose
00:23:582,500 seater indoor arena, a swimming
00:24:01pool, an outdoor running track, along with basketball
00:24:05and volleyball courts at Hoima. These construction
00:24:09projects have also encouraged closer relations between Uganda and
00:24:12Turkey with hopes, it will go even further. If we have
00:24:16such a project between two countries, funded
00:24:20by Uganda and constructed by Turkey, we need to take the
00:24:24next level the sporting relationships, how is
00:24:28Tux football, because they are way ahead of us, how is Tux
00:24:31football and Ugandan football connected?
00:24:35as Uganda continues to finalize its preparations for Afcon,
00:24:39the country is also looking ahead as it will host the
00:24:432031 African games and it knows it will
00:24:47be ready with the same facilities that are being.
00:24:56Western Uganda. And finally, Senegal
00:25:00is gearing up to host Africa's fast Olympic event, but as the
00:25:03car prepares for the youth Olympic games, many residents say they are
00:25:07far more worried about the high cost of living. Hope Kirubi
00:25:11tells us more. The youth Olympic games are taking
00:25:15over darker. Berners are going up across the
00:25:18capital as City prepares to welcome young athletes from
00:25:22around the world, but despite hosting this international
00:25:26sporting event, many residents are still struggling to
00:25:30make ends meat. Lamin sells trousers a market in
00:25:34dakaka but barely makes enough to feed his
00:25:37family. I am focusing purely on my work
00:25:41because life in this country is incredibly tough right now. As the brat
00:25:45winner, I have to cover lot of expenses, organizing the Olympic
00:25:48Games is all well and...
00:26:02much needed boos in tourists, it's a good thing to
00:26:06welcome people from all over the world, so it will help us, the crafts
00:26:10people to benefit from visits and all that, because right now we're
00:26:14in the low season, so we're hoping that the youth Olympic games will give us
00:26:18a bit of a boost so we can sell our goods and have good visibility in
00:26:22the future, but that optimism isn't shared by
00:26:25everyone. At this shoe workshop, Modu says
00:26:29local businesses have felt left out.
00:26:33"We don't feel very involved with the youth Olympic games, honestly.
00:26:37As local tradesmen, we should have been the first to be brought on board,
00:26:41but it doesn't go any further than that. As daka continues
00:26:45to prepare its streets and venues ahead the
00:26:48games, small business owners hope the world's
00:26:52attention will translate into more customers and more
00:26:56income, and with the games just few weeks away, they will
00:26:59soon see whether that happens, hope. rubi
00:27:03africa matters. That's our show this week.
00:27:07Somali piracy is showing signs of return. So what
00:27:10is driving this resurgents and how
00:30:09Saudi Arabia considers serious response after Yemen's Hothi's targeted
00:30:13Ryatz airport again killing over dozen
00:30:15people. Hello and welcome to tierty world live from
00:30:19Istanbul and Jafar Hustan also coming up. I am
00:30:23here in one the neighborhoods in eastern Gaza
00:30:26City. This area is very close to the Israeli
00:30:30military controlled areas in Gaus. known as yellow
00:30:34line. TRT Worlds reports from the so-called yellow
00:30:38line in Gaza as Israel expands its occupation displacing more
00:30:41Palestinians. Ukraine's president says
00:30:45Donald Trump's announcement of an energy truce with Russia comes as a surprise
00:30:49in that Russia has already violated
00:30:52it. Protesters in India stormed the Supreme Court
00:30:56complex calling for the election commissioner to resign after.