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a cohost and producer is here and bringing your feedback and plenty to talk about and covering it all in africa. >> the international community is jazzed about the summit taking place in washington d.c. and great hash tags trending and this is africa emerging and cell phone my screen and another is africa summit but however with everything lisa there is push back and president obama is not meeting the leaders and some countries were not invited. they are talking about the summit in the united states, their own continent not good meeting. president obama is hosting the summit to discuss the pressing security, health and development issues facing the second largest continent in earth and turmoil in nigeria and central african public and south

sudan has a lot to talk about, the international monetary funds projects 6.1 economic growth in the region this year. now the summit is not without controversy. as we mentioned african leaders won't give one on one meetings with the president and a handful of african countries were not invited because of issues with democratic process or lack there of and we have robin sanders and former ambassador to nigeria and republican of congo and works on economic development and on skype in south africa, associate edder at the daily maverick, a south african newspaper and former u.s. diplomate to africa and thanks to both of you for being there and this is historic event and 40 leaders coming to d.c. for the event and what is president obama hoping to get out of it? >> one of the things is to raise the u.s., africa relationship and historically it is thought

that china and india had a different perspective and different relationship with us. but i think this is historic in so many ways and it's 50 countries coming and only four countries who is not been invited and egypt is invited and central african republic and weste western saraha and zimbobwai and they will talk about the next generation and africa has a population of 1.5 billion and projected to be 2.4 billion by 2040 so that is a lot of people that we need to have a positive relationship with and looking at the trade-in investment portfolio and looking at small and medium enterprises and how we work with them on both sides of the atlantic and good things and some concerns about but having bilateral meetings with 50 leaders who are here and a

legitimate comment. i recently wrote about the fact we can have regional meetings and come up with five meetings if we cannot do 50. but i do understand that the nature of the focus, i think the themes that the u.s. government has chosen are the rights themes for the summit. >> so, brooks, people may assume a lot of this is about the united states helping africa come up with ways to be less dependent on aid. but is this also about the u.s. sort of jockeying for a position on the continent with china and india and brazil and japan lined up right behind? >> it's good that you brought that up. because officially the u.s. government is not saying that this is a response to the kind of relationship the chinese had been developing with africa. but in effect it's a way of saying wait a minute now, we are here, we have lots of trade. we have some very special trade

relationships that we are creating, not the least of which is algoa, the african growth and opportunity act and we have the kind of expertise and the kind of products that people on the continent will be interested and continue to be more and more interested in getting ahold of. one of the things when robin was laying out the various statistics, one of the things that is important also to add, that the projections are assuming economic growth continues as it has in the last number of years that something on the order of half a billion people on the continent will be roughly counted as an emerging middle class and that is a large number of people who are really interested in the problems that the united states can solve. >> brooks, talking about the economy and regional power and china and communities talking about it and says without the research which is quote the main reason not even china would have

a link with africa and now it's the united states and they say leave africa alone and stop trying to call on them. that is a message to the united states and china too. however united states should help and support anticorruption campaigns and international condemn nepitism and the united states has done enough at this point and could open up trade barriers that prevent opportunities and ambassador talking about economic opportunities there is 6.1% economic growth in africa in 2014, six of the fastest growing economies in africa, how should the united states create a mutually beneficial relationship that helps both? >> it is on target and i think some of your social responders i think that there is a balance here that has to be had. partnership is not a center piece of a lot of relationships and one of the things we are trying to do or the u.s. is trying to do is change that paradigm and make that a partnership.

however there are some dynamics that get you there. certainly 6% growth of about 7 or 8 countries in south sahara and africa is important but how do we work together with africans because the main issue for me for that population number that i gave you is that 63% of that population is below the poverty line and that is the paradigm shift that has to take place and how do people get fed and clean water and health delivery systems and see what is going on with the ebola crisis now and those are key areas including education. and it's the big e in education and about vocational training. it's about s and e development and about working with deaspra in the united states and has good ties and cultural understanding and those are really key things about partnership. what i would like to see come out of the summit i hope is an interactive dialog as opposed to a one-way conversation.

and i think that what we will hear out of the white house is that is their goal is to have an intering intering a interactive dialog and conversation between the united states and with the african nations and leaderships that are here so we can address some of these really, core poverty issues. >> countries like japan are offering 10,000 business internships to african students. do we need to do something tangible like that with young african entrepreneurs? >> well, i think part of your lead in to this particular segment talked to a group of younger african leaders that are also in washington. that's part of a program that the obama administration has put together. this young african leader initiative which now has the moniker of nelson mandela's name

on the front and to understand the population of the continent is predominately young and the way to deal with relationships going in the future is to become much more connected to people who are in their 20s and at the very latest early 30s because those are the people who move it forward and in the future. >> thank you for joining us and ambassador sanders and staying with us and hundreds are dying from ebola virus and no cure and doctors dying treated infected and families urged not to bury the dead and how people are dealing with the deadliest out break in history. young africans are pushing a different narrative through the >> saturday. gaza, experience what it's like on the ground, first hand, as our crew gets caught in the chaos. the reality of war. shujayea: massacre at dawn.

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♪ welcome back, the ebola virus out break is claiming lives in several west african countries with hundreds dead and hundreds sickened and doctors are working endlessly to contain the virus and educate the public and last week the top doctor fighting the out break in sierra leone contracted the virus and died and explained the severity of how the virus is spreading.

>> by the time you have one contact of the disease people say you are dead, avoiding hiding and taking care of the dead. don't forget the ebola. so ten more will be effected. >> reporter: joining us with ambassador sanders and catherine muler for the international foundation of red cross and red crossent in africa and it started in guinea and in short order is the worst in history and how is it spreading so wide and so fast? >> it gets back to a lot of what the doctor was saying there. people continuing to bury their own, the traditional burials with a lot of miss information and a lot of miss trust and a lot of denial. i came out of sierra leone after spending three weeks there and a lot of people still don't

believe that the out break is real including some healthcare workers. i just returned home actually and i'm staying with friends. they tell me today that at work they are calling with questions about allowing her to stay at your house, you have children. you can imagine, if that kind of miss information exists here in the first world country, trying to get those messages across this a third-world country where people practice vodoo or living in extremely remote places it's a big challenge. >> seeing loved ones go in clinics and not come out so we are understanding that they are actually hiding sick people so they don't get taken to the that? >> that is right and happening. we were actually called to go and prepare a body for burial when we got there the community denied there was a body. that we had been given incorrect information. there was nobody who passed away in that particular community. whether or not that is true or

not we will never know. if that community did go and bury that person and prepare the person for burial themselves, the risk of that community becoming infected grows and in death is when it's strong and contai contain and in sierra leone they hug the bodies and not able to do that if red cross teams come in to prepare the body for burial and still continuing to do it on their own. >> when you were ambassador of drc there were several ebola out breaks in central africa and more isolated and people traveled less. now it's in west africa, hitting capitol cities, people have an entirely different way of life, how is the lifestyle affecting the out break do you think? >> in the republican of congo it was isolated but the same challenges on a smaller scale existed and understand how

communities work and wanting to wash the body when they pass and all the traditional things still are affecting what we see in west africa. and the fact that the virus or someone passed away, the doctor also passed away in legos is even more frightening in some regard because we don't know all of the people he came in contact with and recording about 59 people. i'm sure if you were at an airport as crowded as this airport and landing in legos you are in contact with more than 59 people, as many times as i have been through that airport. so i am very worried about the containment aspect as well as the education aspect and whether or not the healthcare delivery systems which are already fragile in some areas in nigeria can manage such an outbreak. the real challenge is really communication. healthcare workers communicating with other healthcare workers, communities communicating with each other. but really having a better appreciation on how the government needs to get this

information out and building the trust of what the government is happening. >> speaking of that we spoke with the assistant administer of health in liberia and that is one of the countries hardest hit by the ebola out break and asked about the toll it's having on his people. >> they are panicking and afraid. we have got over usual denial. when the outbreak started in mid march and up to june, july, people were thinking that this is from the government but now we have gone beyond that now. >> reporter: just the general fear and lack of understanding expressing. >> it has gone international and peace cores told people to leave sierra leone and guinea and thanks for sharing this on course so these are the 35 countries, one flight away from ebola and guinea and sierra

leone and nigeria and lisa goes to north america and europe and middle east and ebola out break and this is the trending hash tag and international and a whole community and world is worried about it and asked the community does this constitute a global health crisis and they would say it already is one. catherine you came back from sierra leone 632 people died since february and march since the out break in guinea and sierra leone and would you say now this constitutes a global health crisis and have we reached that point yet? >> we have to keep perspecti perspective. yes, it's a serious out break and no, it's not under control and highly contagious but the chances of it spreading beyond the area where it is now, it's not impossible. but it is very unlikely. the steps that need to be taken to protect yourself are rather simple so it is a matter again of educating people on what they need to do to protect themselves

and to help prevent the spread. remember it's not airborne, if i touch the sweat of someone who has a fever from ebola i don't get it unless i have a cut on my hand and that is how the virus needs to come in contact of an infected person. if i don't have a cut on my hand and touch that person i don't get infected, so it is rather challenging to actually become infected with the ebola virus. it is a huge challenge and as the ambassador was saying about education, education i think is the key to getting control of this outbreak and it's finding a way to speak the language, the lingo that these people in very remote communities are going to understand. at the red cross we are actually engaging with the traditional healers, the people they go to first instead of a hospital, religious leaders, village chief and

sensitizing them and are held in high regard the communities are starting to understand and not just understand but accept the messages they are hearing and starting preventative measures in place. >> we are out of time and thank you so much for all of the wonderful work you and your colleagues are doing there and sanders thanks for joining us and ahead hear how young africans are using innovation j

>> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. the war and the youth have been at the forefront of war and in a position that will never cause harm but should get a position future. >> we are discussing how african nations are confronting the pressing issues of the time and many instances young people are leading the way and we have cofounder of nature's way a business offering alternative healthcare services, out of washington d.c. cofounder of the youth action center and mgo in

the democratic republican of congo and a program of the arts and in washington monica, for disabled women and youth and she is deaf and you will be hearing the voice of her interpreter brenda denver who is just off camera and thanks for being here and you are all in d.c. as part of the young african leaders summit because you are leaders in your community. christian innovation is a big part of what all of you do. you have seen two decades after war in the drc and very much a generation of hopelessness, how do you use art to turn all of that around? >> thank you very much for the question and thank you for the viewers and thank you for al jazeera to giving us this chance to be able to interact with the american audience. we have been here in the u.s. for the past six weeks and i have said again i'm a cofounder of youth action center, initiative we started three years ago to empower youth for responsible leadership through art and communication. now, when you talk about eastern

part of drc many of us know of the sad and gruesome war incident that has been going on for two decades and youth have been on the forefront of war and used by politicians or malitia groups to cause harm. it happened to us as we thought about what could be the future of this country if its youth are not totally involved into building the nation. and we thought of the best way to actually start a new paradigm, a new generation of leaders is to empower them through art. and it is true, of course, that many young people in eastern drc look at art as something that not only helps them to enjoy and to just have good time with other people but look at it apparently as a tool for social it. >> you wanted to work in natural medicine and took an entrepreneurship course and how did that impact your decision to stay in your community and invest in your community? >> i always wanted to stay in my

community and it's a beautiful country and a stable economy and a great democracy and where i wanted to be. i studied this because i wanted an alternative to offer professional service because a lot of people don't necessarily want to go the alopathiy way or failed them or want to complement what they do already and i studied and graduated and came back and didn't have a job and that is how i had to become an entrepreneur so it was sink or swim situation and i started my business nature's way and started my practice. >> our community is very inspired by young leaders and we have dred loc diplomacy and with the state department and goes to mandela and is it the theme and access to young leaders so they, capital they can institute changes and we have questions for the leaders. if given $20 billion what are you likely to do with the money? where would you like to see change come to your people and if you were given $20 billion

and in an unique situation and responsible for kenya sign language department in nairobi and if we did that how would you bring about change in africa? >> thank you for the question. if i were to receive $20 billion, i would make sure that all the nation of kenya would have sign language and sign language interpreters. i would have youth centers. i would have hospitals. i would have churches. places of work. who would be able to help deaf people have access to full communication, even on t.v. in kenya we don't have captioning on television. and so the captioning would help people have full access to what is said in our nation.

>> christian there are 500 of you in d.c., the three wonderful guests we have on the show today and all doing such innovative, amazing work and give us a sense of what is happening on the ground across the different african nations in terms of young people, the entrepreneurial spirit and the hope they have across africa that is really making a change into the next generation? >> the hope that we have come with from our african youth is we can be able to learn from american best practices and be able to bring that back to our country so that the youth can benefit from what america is doing right and try to practice it. and in eastern part of drc many of the youth that we work with are coming again to ask and that they are expecting when we go back home we can share some great lessons and talk about especially what makes young entrepreneurs in america succeed and to see how we can use those experiences and those contacts to empower them and show them

there is hope. the president of the united states recently gave us a speech and one thing inspired me he said is african future relies actually on the hands of the youth today. we don't have to look at the past but we need to embrace the future and i think that is the message i'm going back home with to remind the youth despite the war that tore our country we can still start again and start a new beginning and it all takes everyone's creativity and the word really is to embrace. i have an idea that actually the youth and eastern drc proposed, a contest of entrepreneurship and we are going to start that. >> monica, do you worry there are not enough young africans with the same type of determinations of the 500 of you that are here? >> there are many people with disabilities and they feel

isolated, so many of them wanted to join yalli but the decision was made that only a few could join. there are two deaf people who are in yalli. we are here six weeks and when i go home i'm going to be sure to share the message about what we've learned and in three years there will be 20 more people sharing the message from yalli in my country who are deaf. >> outstanding. well we are eager to see what all of you are going to continue to do in your home nations and thank you to all of you and to all of our guests who joined us today, thanks for being here and until next time we will see you online on al jazeera.com/stream. ♪

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