know what the result will be. president alexander lucas jenco has been in power since 1994. he hasn't held any election, riley's this year, telling factory workers, he's been too busy working for the nation. what do i need, talk with your interest, and i'm not as confident of being re elected as trump was, but i've already started signing decrees. i'm not waiting to see if i get elected on also the biggest threat to lucas shank goes, grip on power came after elections in 2020 tens of thousands of people protested across the country. for months. the president flew over mintz armed with a rifle. 35000 people were arrested hundreds of thousands left the country. this year there is little chance of repeat that the process of 2020 human rights group biomass now, which is labeled as an extremist organization, says that all around $1250.00 political presidency. all the opposition leaders are either in jail or exxon. the opposition claimed to the real winner of the 2020

election was spent long, a ticket of sky a sheet stood in place of a husband who was jailed ahead of the boat. now exiled, taking up sky the and the when i was working in oxford, which brought attends in my career was really a pinnacle movements. my mother was very proud and i should like. but you know, but what do you think you can do back in 10? 20 is how is it going to help anybody to improve the lives of the people that lives in philly. it's a wonderful time for me because i have seen the other side of what

i can imagine in the bar 3. and what is even more exciting is that i'm seeing a applied research effort just something i couldn't even imagine you when i was trying to find somebody. my name is sheila car. todd, what's your budget? i was born in nigeria. i studied medical by chemistry and then went on to do a ph. d, and plunge by chemistry. i do some pit stop troll what in upsets at the institute of viral a g at environmental micro biology by specialized on the system. african countries and developing countries basically, and not the course of climate change per se, but the other ones suffering the most from the impact. so

the a silly is a county that adopted me when i came back to kenya in 20142015. so it's account to that, i feel very close, john, very personally invested in the future if you see me. so one of the projects that were involved in working on and going to increasingly patel resources in energy is the highest and project in to see how it's important that communities understand the science that affects them. and so when we look at the communities like you see

me, which is very much impacted by a pest on the lake and when communities, i'm not empowered to help to understand that system, they can't make decisions. well, i said we're here to come on your side. yeah, god, what do you do before? do you need to much to me? and as i said, what does he like to do in the a room lock? it will come on. are you doing well? it will be the one that i'm, i knew that out loud and as i do, you can do solve you'll, you'll be getting the use you're the one in the room will come on, man. just spend that although it's a pass, they can harvest it in the same way as they have this, some of the pirates and all the of us resources that they can use it to make products. i'm over time, they've begun to make more more sophisticated products and they've begun to open up markets for higher. yes,

this is exciting. i need to introduce you. so this is the show naturally is the head of africa office here, a human environment. and um, this is mess rituals meeting our energy work on the african coincidence in janet who is the head of our agenda program here in the launch here? yes, yes, she was at the launch of now indeed, it just happened that on the 1st of march, the united nations sort of the government to those salvador put together a resolution which was passed on the 1st of march for the you when decade on the system restoration yeah, and we know how much land on this continent is degraded, you know, how many women suffering. so this decade is now 2021 through 25 to the last 10 years of the sustainable development goals. what are the things we found in um, environmental governance is that women are not at the decision making table. we might say that women are the ones who are in touch with their environment because of the work they do on a daily basis. but in terms of decision making, the i'm up there and it's important because they feel the front of the decision,

the by the next us easy, scrolling down a pump. the advantage of one of the areas of focusing on was an energy waste to a slightly change that isn't the same story every with i think in the face between policy and science is fundamental. yeah. for us as a c a, and this is the size and the what's the now we use. yeah, exactly, and, and i think for, for us part of all thinking around the network and african women environments. and this was what we've just discussed, looking at the political elements, which i think was so important. and also looking at the realities. what is the reality in women's lives? it's going to take off and restored. it's a lot of, um, funds and lands in real africa. i've left because the we, i'm the 1st generations that children have west opportunities in

the now even we climate change this thing you came here to georgia. so you really in the planet you left us in las vegas. each generation has brought me some gift. we have this generation, the fashion that's about the environment. right? so that's what i'm saying. we're going to have like apple products around where you had the page. so good, so you in front of me and then you can list the series, excuse me, the whole i didn't go blunting up. what does it take to make a transformation? we can now measure it. if we could work hard to make sure many of those goals that empower women, empower children, come to be the picture that people having the heads of africa will transform. it's an amazing thing. it gets other countries have done it. okay.

the within the generation, you can transform outcomes, take certain things, and i pray that i will be part of that and that my children who were born in the u . k. and come back will be able to say, wow, you know, i might just move traffic because it's really great. you know, it has many opportunities and it's got great web, a great people, great opportunities. i can build a life the, the soon as 9 years old. i went to london and i went to the primary school. i remember i was playing in the playground. i was being bullied because i looks very different. and they would last set me in that would be like the u. k. you from africa, you live on trees,

and i remember how shocked i was that they would they would speak about the place that i loved. and that i missed so much that gave me all of my identity in such derogatory terms that they could not understand. the beauty, the power, the opportunities that i got from those 9 years i'm, i thought, moment i said to myself in my head, when will be the day that i would have to make so many explanations because it will be obvious how rich, how beautiful, how glorious and all of us on this planet, not just the fact that the we are just one sessions on this. find that just one. we happened to be the most

to hold the solutions. 6, the kids to survive without us. we can destroy ourselves. i'm having to show that many candidates out there that are, i mean have it to the way the so that's a little as to a significant have to come. extraordinary advocates in thinking that it's just one species effect in successful be here. when it's all going, let's be humble, and let's begin to be back to students of the gifts that we've been given. the

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