around 50000 hectares, have been burnt. a pair of anteaters and for my cause will be reintroduced to the wetlands once it's safe to do so. researchers found a new way to track down elephant poachers in africa. they conducted dna testing on over 4000 tasks seized in shipments. it revealed family ties among the elephants killed, helping pinpoint the air as they lived in its hope. the research will help identify illegal trafficking networks. ah, i have a quick check on the top stories here. ukraine's president has told the nation that a russian invasion may happen this week is called for a day of unity on wednesday. russia has consistently denied any plans to attack its neighbour. last, located legally the newly we are being threatened by a big war that ended date of when military invasion was scheduled. once again, it is not for the 1st time with

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threats of an invasion of ukraine is currently the biggest threat to international peace and security. we listen, we are focusing so much on the unitarian crisis that we forget the long term development. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. i thought i heard from you, okay, we start the stream with an appeal. this is michael dumb, fed throughout food program, regional director. the easton africa. the drought is ravaging gone of africa. 13000000 people across ethiopia, kenya, and somalia face via hunger following 3 consecutive failed ray. the seasons harvest so ruined livestock. a di and malnutrition rates are on the rise. this is the driest is region has been in 40 years before the situation series. even further,

it is by holding wi fi and all the humanitarian actors in the region get the resources to scale up assistance and support vulnerable families. w p regional response plan builds on the lessons of previous droughts, recognizing the importance of early actions to ensure the recovery is sustained to achieve it. wsp needs $327000000.00, now to avert another major humanitarian catastrophe. in the horn of africa today on the stolen, how do we manage those regular droughts that happen 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 to welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to either audience. tell them who you are, what you do. i am esther gandhi, an assistant professor of entomology, an african american studies at the university of note banish and b. i'm also food

security expert and sydney up there now with the aspen institute. new voices. thank you. oh, good to harvey. hello nemo, welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to our international audience. good evening. thank you. thank you very much and my name's name or her fan, i am the director or for somebody and do a concert in a platform where endures. both international and a local are coordinated are glad to be here and get to have you and hello ranier. welcome to the st. nice. have you on board? please introduce yourself. thanks very much. me and hello everyone. my name is ron dish. i work for unicef in the regional office for eastern southern africa. we'll get to have your all right, so on you chief of your new chief 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. and i can easy 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 the day show, ronnie, 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 image is look at the number here is still well food program. it's not what you must have is asking is really well through program. as after $327000000.00, why do we keep seeing it 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 say i,

i asked myself when i started seeing the situation evolving since the end of last year. sadly, the horn of africa isn't a region that is unfamiliar with grabs. as you said, in the last 40 years, we've seen about 45 in varying scales and, and i think we are really good now at predicting and doing the early warning. the tells us that we have this coming, the rain for shortages. we're relatively good at assessing who's at risk. but i think the 3rd part, which is about the 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 humanitarian and the development crisis, intertwined. 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 comic con, came in youtube. i'm going to talk to you nema, please be off the back of it. the horn is suffering reoccurring, drought, and this find the least the extinction of rural areas, and then livelihoods. furthermore, also weakens the economic stability of the eastern countries or the whole of africa . countries, niema, are you seeing that in the work that you do on a daily basis? and absolutely, i have to agree that is a very relevant comments and 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 soon adjusting and developing to address those life saving interventions but, but also building the capacities of the locals infrastructure, the capacities of the local community so that they're more resilient. one drops like this happened, i think is really important that we are looking for locally lead solutions. i'm built in those livelihood so that 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 we sit in invent investment for those communities to be able to better support themselves when those

droughts 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 probably you are 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 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 our water sources. we know these communities depend on agriculture. how can they frown when they don't have water? so for every dollar that donated every dollar that is asked for, why don't we put $0.50 into building that resilience, ensuring that these communities have access to water, that the livestock we are seeing that is dying can have us sustainable water source . secondly, we know if it's not sustainable access to water, we can also insure this communities are having our crops that are drug toner.

and where is research, where is the research that has produced drought, taller and perceived that this communities can of planned year in year out. secondly, why don't we have in those communities are places where this 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 is 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 has got to be in ab culture and farming in a different way. niema come in here and then am ronnie, you come off the back of it, you know, you start and definitely i think for,

for communities in somalia, who i called buster 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 want to, 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 innovation is to ensure that community is a capacity to in terms of being able to given the, the equipment, the support and the know how the expertise to be able to farm appropriately fulfill 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 sector we, we need to ensure that we having education to quality. so we have an access to quality education. we have the knowledge to be able to fall. and it's really important that we are talking to those local communities, ensuring that our part and parcel of the decision making processes when we are developing and designing interventions and definitely in the long run that is, was essential. can i play you rania a comment that mr. magick 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 earlier. please have a look how mr and respond immediately off the back of the video. what we really need to see is for 8 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, 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 going to think, ok, this is a difficult one for rodney as well as i think you take a go ahead. i mean, my go ahead and, you know, i'm putting your on the hot seat. did i think i am said i'll tell you about drought

. i don't want is allusions you i want you experts bring me solutions. all right. me my you processed. 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 drugs actually we've, we've had the 2011 time in, we had a 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 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 they, they 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, asked the international community. 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, it's 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 as the international community uninsured. and 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, the 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 certainly we have been talking with unicef is our ability to extract that ground water an end 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 happens, 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 ground water. and that gives us better access prevents illness and saved lives. but send me to your question, despite our collective frustration, i just don't think we can glide over the immediate life saving. no, i got isn't, i don't. if i don't, i do anything wrong. yeah, i like that. but also,

every time we make this appeal, people will say, but what happened 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 is 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, i think are the humanities one area in the world. ok. no true that. but i think there is still every lucian, it's still still a crisis, but social protection networks anymore. if you allow me, i just want to, to flag this, we do that differently to date cache and tash to families that are affected by crowd 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 to can most that they hold. so i really think there is potential, but what we need to do is to flag this world prong approach and not just focus on the life saving much as it is 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 thought in research and think tanks and centers and also fundamentally to, to the private sector. we're all collectively in this and we can shift it. so some thought stuff is, what is 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 esther. so 1st and foremost i would like to challenge everyone thinks that we've made an effort. we've clearly not. and we'll discuss off from corporate 19 in just a spoke 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, every one that cares after we are everyone is african by the weight. so it, everyone should feel well they need. according to science, we all came up from africa. so we africans an issue, trouble you give years and years. we should allow this to happen. i think there's something that's wrong. yes. yes, dr. yeah, we are. we will keep on telling ourselves we should talk on what shut down,

what long time. clearly i think we should take a step back one and see what is missing. and we should call everyone including the experts who are right now solving mutual. a lot of people with expertise from our countries are all over the world. can we come together and, and draw vertical solutions and then accountability beyond 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 sure that this is the resilience that was built in. we truly have to ask are difficult questions. so i'm going to, i me pause our conversation for a moment here because there's somebody and some there's, there's a part of this puzzle that i haven't addressed and, and our audience are 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 a leadership that is focused on an issue that could have solved the problem. it's deliberate negligence. that is, alan's thought, and lots of people are echoing this. what about the governments want to governments? do they have know that there is climate change? i would say climate changed right now. i earlier we spoke to mohammed mohammed had a really interesting take curious boston government management does mean 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 for nemo, 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 sources for contractors that are actually not doing the best. and saw in 5 or even a year that what a well 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, how 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 who i think our government have to do. so i'm not, is that i'm going to come come by, you know, say, oh yeah, and ronnie, i'm gonna, i'm gonna call wraps. we'll circle to you right now,

but i'm coming back to you. i just want to show only has one more thing cuz we have about 30 seconds left in the show. so i want you to just say what the immediate needs somalia, millions, hungry with life's at 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 life stock or so threatened. and at risk, ronnie at the 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? so from our perspective, tammy, we need about a 120000000 that goes into support to about 10000000 children and not in nutrition in the water in education to your point in the mall. and half of this is designed to go into the resilience programming i was referring to, ronnie,

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