build a classical music school for adults and children in the democratic republic of congo. he's tough and demanding conductor armande says this is how he gets the best from his students. to visit. all the. you see if you go to the logistical. support i'm actually a pilot but music is my passion. but it's true i don't have academic training but passion is what helps us get to know instruments and to learn to play if you don't want to see it is a present. and everyone here shares that same passion for classical music barely anyone has professional training instead they all train right here together in this orchestra. seriously i'm happy here and i have a lot of friends. to be modest started learning the violin at the age of twelve and right from the start she was determined to join an orchestra. duffy and lives in this district music she says has helped her enormously. learn music music has changed me classical music has something very calming about it some of this has helped me to reflect and react in my everyday environment may with my friends and others in the city i didn'

sudan the democratic republic of congo the central african republic and morally all countries torn by years of conflict when it comes to rape in conflict impunity is still the. home the perpetrators of those who carry out and direct violence usually escape justice or even sanction i'm now joined by dr chu say to me a big issue he's an author and specialist on gender based violence and she's based at the university of stanford in the united states well come to you dr what perpetrates is i want to begin by asking you that we we've often observed sexual violence being used as as a weapon of war as a tactic in war in conflict zones in africa what in what ways do we see this being manifested. well there you undefined sexual violence in conflicts as rape forced marriage forced prostitution forced abortion forced air and i think . and any type of sexual violence that compared comparable gravity looking for example at their own to conflict i think the definition that came out of the u.n. tribunal prosecuting genocide in rwanda well that sexual violence doesn't even have to include touching so

to environmental conservation is a constant challenge in the democratic republic of congo. the park rangers face a moral dilemma should they protect people. or nature. to my safety if you don't go on the slopes of the wrong as volcanoes including in rwanda and uganda there are only eight hundred eighty mountain gorillas left and they need protection you guessed it a politician says you are threatened with extinction just eight hundred eighty mountain gorillas on our huge continent and only three countries congo uganda and rwanda cinemark on our feet down for the studied nickel. a little under. based on democracy population growth is threatening the grill its natural habitat. in skill level just people here in need fertile farmland and the park is the only place where they can find it like the park. and fact that's why they destroy the gorillas habitat they need fertile farmland. in fifty and. the silverback has become a symbol of the varying in the chanel parks struggle for survival. but the fight also takes a heavy toll on the families of the one hundred fifty ranges kille

rebel groups the un peacekeeping mission in the democratic republic of congo has so far failed to bring an end to the violence the most it's managed to do is encourage a few individual fighters to lay down their arms. until now the saudi mannish are more was a member of or a london group of armed rebels operating in eastern congo he felt trapped until he found out that the un could help him leave and return to the country of his parents first he undergoes a thorough medical examination. the young man knows a little about a wonder he was born in diaz see his parents fled their after the rwandan genocide along with hundreds of thousands of hutus who feared reprisals. came here from a long way away now i'm safe with the u.n. and i think they'll help me i have a better future now. show more on another former rebel who will be taken over the border to rwanda or later today the government there has pledged to reintegrate them into society. i'm so happy that i had wings i'd fly up to heaven. now i'm going back to my country. i'm getting out of the bush. how the man i'm always was born in one t

they are now renamed the democratic republic of congo lay in ruins but was still full of material temptations in less than a year renewed tensions saw the political situation deteriorate. accuse the inca tanya of enriching themselves from the country's resources and made ominous threats toward the tutsis living in the d.r. see. james cover a bay returned to rwanda where the final battles were being fought in early one nine hundred ninety eight in the lake kivu region between rwanda and the d.r. c. former asian o.c. there and armed hutu groups conducted renewed attacks on the tutsis now living there. they were led by general paul row aka b.j. . you were in the. summer one soldiers who had supported can be returned to their country to fight us from there. so that's why we began secretly sending our soldiers into rwanda. about fifty a week also when they left at night and reach rwanda while it was still dark. is a good. risk as they grew a number the new government noticed them and the fighting intensified my keep. if you see i put it down. i. think what it is whoops. see good one insists there'