ah, that up stories on al jazeera ukraine's president says he's been told that russia will launch an attack on wednesday, but warns his citizens are ready to fight and address to the nation. laudermill lensky said he'll declare wednesday, a national day of unity of youth. his comments came after he held talks with the german chancellor in kiev, where he said ukraine will still seek nato membership, which is a major sticking point for russia or western nations have been engaged in a massive diplomatic push to avert a russian invasion of ukraine. my would not only ass said though nice for our future alliances. our ambitions, you know very well that this is our wish. but apart from that, there is a war in the east, and we believe that middle membership will insure our security. german chancellor, on our shows will hold talks with the russian president vladimir putin on tuesday and says he'll warn him of the economic consequences of an incursion on your fraud

unless don't often wish to. we encourage russia to use these offers of discussion. as we emphasize again, in any case of military escalation, we have agreed with our allies and we are ready to undertake and implement very serious sanctions. the territorial integrity of ukraine should not be violated. and if it does happen, we know exactly what to do. russia's top diplomat sagel lever off has told president putin that his government should continue talks with the west and its allies in a televised exchange sag oliver was asked by putin on progress. after weeks of talks with western nations. ralph said there was still room for diplomacy. russia wants limits to nato expansion and military operations in eastern europe. canada's prime minister just intruder is reportedly planning to invoke emergency powers and protests that have paralyzed parts of the capitol and border crossings with the u. s. traffic has resumed on

a major crossing in the city of windsor. ultra police raid ended a fixed a blockade by truckers. a so called a freedom convoy and began as a protest against a mandate requiring truckers to be vaccinated officers and albert province of arrested and seized guns from 11 protests as a separate crossing, accusing them of planning to attack police if the blockade was removed. and at least 2 people have been killed in dallas. protest is once again returned to the streets to denounce military rule. ready security forces a 5 paragraph to disperse demonstrators, marching towards the presidential palace in the capital cartoon. 1000 staging weekly rallies since a minute to take over in october. around 800 people had been killed. those headlines do stay with us to do next up the stream looks at the drought. devastating east africa of more news after that. i know me ah

ah ah, i am from you. okay. we start the stream with an appeal. this is michael dunford. well, food program, regional director for easton africa the drought is refugee gone of africa. 13000000 people across ethiopia, canyon and somalia face via hunger following 3 consecutive failed ray. the seasons harvest ruined livestock. a di and malnutrition rates are on the rise. this is the dr. this region has been in 40 years before the situation theory rates even further

. it is by who the wi fi and all the humanitarian actors in the region get the resources to scale up assistance and support vulnerable families. w peace regional response plan builds on the lessons of previous drought, recognizing the importance of early actions to ensure the recovery is sustained to achieve w t needs $327000000.00. now to vote another major humanitarian catastrophe in the horn of africa today on the storm haddaway malice as regular droughts that happened in the horn of africa. joining our conversation, we have esther nemo and rania. it's a big conversation. i know that they have expertise. they will help us have it as the welcome to the screen. please introduce yourself to either audience. tell them who you are, what you do. i am gonna be an assistant professor. i've been terminology and african american studies at the university of them, you know, banish, and they,

and also food security expert and sidney up there now with aspen institute new voices. thank you, alex, good to have hello neil. i welcome to the stream. introduce yourself, try international audience. good evening for me. thank you very much. and my name's name hafun. i am the director for somebody to do a concert in a platform where and use both international and a local, coordinated and glad to be here and get to have and hello ronnie, are welcome to the still nice. have you on board, please introduce yourself. thanks very much, emmy and hello everyone. my name is ron dish. i work for unicef in the regional office for easton, southern africa. really get to have you. all right, so on you chief of you on youtube right now, watching right now, how many times has the string talk about drought in the horn of africa? talked about drought, talk about possible solutions and workarounds. the comment section is right here. i

don't need you to tell me how many times i remember, but do you have comments? do you have questions for our audience? i really, really appreciate you being part of today show run a, let me start with you. but really, this is the same question for, for all of our gas, which is why are we still here with the technology, if our forecasting ability with the amount of money that has been donated over the years, why do we have now a drought in the horn of africa that let me just look at the number here. it's just the well food program. it's not what you just have is asking. well, super as after $327000000.00. why don't we keep seeing this over and over again? and we don't come up with better walk around better solutions. so we're not continually appealing to the region and to the world for money. i think it's a great question and it's a question i must see. i asked myself when i started,

see the situation evolving since and did last year. sadly, the horn of africa isn't a region that is unfamiliar with droughts. as you said in the last 40 years, we've seen about 45 of them in varying scales. and, and i think we're really good now at predicting and doing the early warning. the tells us that we have this coming, the rainfall shortages were relatively good at assessing who's at risk. but i think the 3rd part, which is about response, we do extremely well for life saving, but we don't underpin it as well with the resilience and the development narrative because truly this is, it's a development crisis. it's a water scarcity crisis. it isn't just the, the elements that you see today in the pictures that you put up,

that's these are just the symptoms. and so it's fundamentally a humanitarian and the development crisis into twined. we deal with one extremely well, and the 2nd we have to address a bit more serious was very polished, asking for donations, but not very polished at developing region so that they can actually be sustainable . this comment caught timing youtube. i'm going to to is to you nema, please build off the back of it. the horn is suffering reoccurring, drought, and these find the least the extinction of rural areas. and they live because furthermore, it also weakens the economic stability of the eastern countries or the horn of africa. countries. niema, are you seeing that in the work that you do want a daily basis? and absolutely, i have to agree that is a very relevant comment on it does impact on the overall life of the community is affected and it's not just about the lifesaving activities for us. ronnie said,

i think we really, it's really important that we get to the root causes of the, of the problems and that we are still adjusting and developing to address those lifesaving interventions. but also building the capacities of the local infrastructure, the capacities of the local community so that they're more resilience one drops like this happened and i think is really important that we are looking for locally lead solutions. i'm building those livelihood so the communities can resist these changes and it's not just you know, the, the biggest problem now. i think it will be climate change. i think the impact of corporate 19 on things are getting far more serious on it. it's really important that we, we address in a timely manner, but also ensure that we are doing serious development and resilience in events investment for those communities to be able to better support themselves when those

drafts do come in at this all sounds good. i'll peddle, i'm going to challenge you know, development speak no capacities, no looking at capacities, accenture, because what does that really mean? if you are a farmer living in somalia, for instance, let me just bring an esther here ester, so we're looking for sustainable solutions. have you seen them? are you finding them? what do we need to be focusing on? thank you, once again in echoing like, leaks if you're not hungry, if this data statistic does not move you than i don't know. and a, probably you'll, i've done because you've had this statistic over and over all year after year and i grew up in kenya, actually as a child, i saw my fellow called africans died today almost 40 years later as

a profession, as an expert, as a scientist, i see this, why and yet, i know, according to scientific evidence, we know what are the foundational ingredients to dealing with recurrent drugs don't do the communities of access to at 365 days, year round water sources. we know this communities depend on agriculture. how can they frown when they don't have water? so for every dollar that's donated every dollar that is acceptable. why don't we put $0.50 into building that resilience, ensuring that this communities have access to water, that the livestock we are seeing that is dying can have us sustainable water sauce . secondly, we know if it's not sustainable access to water, we can also enter this communities,

are having our crops that are drugged on the run. where is research, where is the research that has produced? drought tolerant, says that this communities can of planned year in year out. secondly, why don't we have in thus communities are places where this, ah, community members can have access to food. i do it. i think i think the solutions will come in and again, possible anticipating, we know this is up every february, probably all and just looking here at an article, how for got some beans, could help fight malnutrition in africa. i'm wondering whether part of al, looking for solutions is going to be in agriculture and farming in a different way. nemo, come in here and then i'm running, you come off the back of it. now you start and definitely i think for, for communities in somalia, who i cook bastrop pastoralists,

i think it's really important that they have more smart and innovative way of farming to those drought resistance, definitely cereals. and i think is really important that you know, i, what ronnie i said before about the serious of water management. i think it's really important that we are having serious investments into this. and the reason why you have a drought we current so much as well is that we have in short term life saving interventions and not following up with those in a very innovations to ensure that communities a capacity to in terms of being able to given the the equipment, the support, the know how to expertise to be able to farm appropriately football with those cereals and ensure that we follow. i think it's a whole holistic approach to,

to, to addressing the situation. it's not just one sec that we, we need to ensure that we having education quality. so we have an access to quality education. we have the knowledge to be able to farm. and it's really important that we are talking to those local communities unsure. and that are part and parcel of the decision making processes when we are developing and designing interventions and definitely in the long run. that is why, essentially, how i play ronnie. a comment that miss emma jane sent to us a little bit early. just a few hours earlier and he was just thinking about not just the way that we think about maybe farming and agriculture, but also the way that we think about aid as well. this is what nissan told us. please have a look, have listened and respond immediately off the back of the video. but we really need to see is full aid agencies for government, for other actors to prioritize their she monetary and rational above

political considerations and in particularly above a, an aversion to risk. and we're not saying this to anywhere near the extent that's required, as is particularly the case in somalia, where aid resources are very much focused on a handful of 8 hubs of cities and towns. and there is a lack of effort and initiative to try and reach beyond these areas. and it's really important that organizations think beyond the normal ways of working yeah, this one to rally. i, i don't if i can jump it. yeah, yeah. you my, you confess this, if this one's really cold, this is a difficult one for rodney, isn't as i, yes, you take a go ahead. i mean, my go ahead as well, but you know, i'm putting you on a lot think that i think i am said,

i'll tell you about drought. i want is allusions. you i want you experts bring me solutions. all right. me my you guys best yeah. no, absolutely, i think i totally agree with that video and i think we really need to, i mean, with conversations that we have on a regular basis, we're kind of challenging ourselves and saying, well, what are we doing wrong? you know, in the some of the context, after 30 years of protracted this conflict there is insecurity. and with that we've been having with current droughts. actually, we, you know, we've had the 2011 time in, we had the 2017, which actually people pain. the stakeholders came together to the catastrophe. what we need to be doing is to ensure that we're having the longer term programming, that we are critically and reviewing the strategies that we use at the moment. and like i said earlier, the focus here reviewing the strategies that we're using. what does that mean? does that mean that we're not effectively translate for me?

but i mean, i mean the question is the question. the question is we are here, like you said at the beginning of the program was still here 30 years old. we still talking about drought in the horn of africa, and if we, if we, if we think about climate change, actually these countries have very limited even not 0 contribution to, to the, to the climate crisis. and i think there are been in the, the brunt of the problem and we continue to do so. so i think it's really important that we take us to international communities. we take the responsibility and we have the responsibility and obligations. yes, we do address the situation that's yes, we do show that people are getting the lifesaving interventions, but i think has this something has to be missing and that is what we need to critically examine and review and ensure that we are addressing it properly. whether it's innovation, whether it's resilient, want more resilient programs. and it really does need serious, serious investment,

especially if you want to build dance and show that these communities have access to water when a rainfall, you know, in somalia we have areas where we're having flood some one season and then we're having dry spells on the season, so there has to be something really that we could do as humanitarians and the international community and ensuring that we are you know, talking to our look global leadership. we talk to the local communities and we are, you know, building those conversations and ensuring that we're listening to those local solution. certainly, you know, new more. i agree with you. i think we are challenging ourselves, but where i slightly disagrees that we haven't moved forward. i actually think we have just just by way of example, i think water and ground water is one of the main issues that we all need to tackle and ground water extraction. specifically. we know that 17000000 children in the

horn of africa live in areas that are extremely high water vulnerable. and so one of the things that certain be read have been toying within unicef is our ability to extract that ground water and to reduce the amount of water trucking we do in a crisis. the crowd that we focus on the potential for war to security. because that has and so she can all make benefit. and i think the approaches and the innovation it's very toying and that we are in fact piloting in parts of the horn will change the way that we're able to drill groundwater. and that gives us better access, prevents illness and saved lives. but sent me to your question, despite our collective frustration, i just don't think we can glide over the immediate life saving. no, that isn't, i don't, i didn't even ronnie, i tell you that. but also,

every time we make this appeal, people would say, but what happened the last time, how are we not be building some resilience into it? i believe in, i believe in the appeal of us, we wouldn't be sitting here now. but the have to be what we're doing is i know the old adage of why, why somebody a fish. why not patient a fish, which is buying a lot of fish, right? no fishing. well that is site, but also what we are doing differently this time and i must, i must log in. i think that one area in world. ok, no true that. but i think there is still evolution. it's still still a crisis, but social protection networks. so if you allow me, i just want to, to flag this, we do that differently to date cash and cash to families that are affected by ground wasn't something that we did 10 years 20 years ago. but it is something that we are able to do. and to build with governments and with communities,

social protection networks that can enable us to transfer cash and help hold a pasture list from selling the remaining 2 cameras that they hold. so i really think there is potential, but what we need to do is just like this dual problem approach and not just focus on the life saving much as needed. the resilience building and all our programs that go with that are necessary. but the funding that goes with that is necessary and to me, we've relied on governments far too long. i think this is a call to every foundation out there to every individual listening to us, to every person with ideas or thoughts and research and think tanks, incentives, and also fundamentally to, to the private sector. we're all collectively in this and we can shift it. so some thought of that is what this one, stakeholder, ha, now i'm talking development language. there's, there's one section that we haven't spoken about ester briefly. i know what you

wanted, you to go ahead and say, and then i'm going to put something on youtube to you. go ahead, go ahead, asked. so 1st and foremost i would like to challenge everyone thinks that we've made an effort. we've clearly not. and we're just coming off from covey. 19 in just a speck of a year. we got the vaccine. why are we allowing everybody to keep on using this issue of drought, or is it a moneymaking thing? we have to critically examine this. and i think calling on every african, everyone that cares after we are everyone is african by the weight. so as everyone should feel well, they need, according to science, we all came up from africa. so we africans an issue, trouble you. if years and years we should allow this to happen. i think there's something that's wrong. yes. yes, dr. yeah, we will keep on telling ourselves we should talk on both short term but long time.

clearly, i think we should take a step backward and see what is missing, and we should call everyone including the expert who are right now solving. mitchell, a lot of people with expertise from our countries are all over the world. can we come together and, and draw very concrete solutions and then accountability, build that accountability saw to the fermi asking, what happened last year, we made the sim card. what happened? what did we do to mitigate to ensure that at least if that happens, we have some cushion of and we can show that this is the resilience that was built in. we truly have to ask are difficult questions. so i'm going to say, oh, i'm a pause i conversation from a here because there's somebody and some this is a part of this puzzle that i haven't addressed an audience. the actually saying this on youtube, i hear you. i see you. this is allen in 32 food insecurity in the horn of africa is

a politically motivated disaster. they so often that we have the leadership that is focused on an issue that could have self. the problem, it's deliberate negligence. that is allens for and lots people echoing this. what about the governments want to governments doing? they have know that there is climate change. i would say climate changed right now . earlier we spoke to mohammed, well, how many to had a really interesting take here is both the regional government and government hasn't given the impact. the other concept that we have would be content management efforts and contributions from private. and that's commendable. you have to say and also talk to governments as well. not just donors,

not just the international committee say, please come help us. that there is a government conversation you have to have. i'm going to ask you esther to talk about this one cuz it's, it's more difficult for rania. and phonemic, who are in country to be candid about what they need from governments. you can do it because you're not in country. go ahead. esther. i think that's the 2 governments, our country governments need to at the end, i mean, they need, 1st of all, before even aid comes, they need to have their concrete locally thought of, especially using actually expertise that is on the ground. and i'm sorry to say yes, our country governments are failing us. and of course we can see sometimes even that don't have money when it comes. and there's a reason why we don't see change because probably is going to people's money. there's a lot of corruption in our countries, so the aide ends up not getting to the people that they need. and when it gets

there, we do some kind of sub standard job. let's say we're supposed do a big dig. what else? the government saucers, for contractors that are actually not doing the best. and so in 5 or even a year, that water will, is not functioning. why are we doing that to our own city? they so much power, if our governments would actually 1st of all put in place national measures, we don't have to wait for aid from united nations one food program. why don't we have low on food banks that i stopped by the country government. there's a lot of budget that got it. that should be number one, as if you citizens are not healthy then. whoo! i think our governments have to do so i'm not, is that i'm going to come come by, you know, so oh yeah, and running. i'm going to, i'm going to cover that full circle to you, right?

and i'm coming back to you. i just want to show you one more thing because we have about 30 seconds left in the show. so i want you to just say what the immediate needs somalia, millions, hungry was life that risk. i just want to show you give you an example. one of the countries in the horn of africa that is suffering right now. 70 percent of households do not have enough food to eat. 60 percent households reported at least one person, their family has lost their source of income, and livestock are also threatened and at risk. ronnie is a very last sentence in this conversation that we're having today, which is a really honest conversation is what, what are the needs in region right now? til from our perspective, for me, we need about a 120000000 that goes into supports of about 10000000 children. and that in nutrition, in the water, in education, to your point mold and half of this is designed to go into the resilience programming. i was referring to ronnie,

we have to leave it. the 1st conversation is not over more to come, but order another episode, run the nemo. thank you for part of the string today. appreciate you. ah. a sports tom mum flying the flag for her nation. we have been putting, i'm getting busy and playing crickets and rugby for her country between ring mussman made dream playing in the wood while providing for her family cries in by ways winning games. that's amazing about precious moran gay

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