this is d.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes extreme poverty is declining everywhere in the world but not in africa why is that we visit one community in nigeria also coming up how do you turn your life around and go from gangster to role model to x criminals from south africa's notorious class done just that. the gentle giant to become acutely unstring i.m.d.b. is one of the strongest men in tokyo and now he's going to. i'm edith kimani it's good to have you with us is enough being done to end extreme poverty in africa world leaders have committed to eradicating it by twenty thirty but recent studies show that that will not be achieved four hundred million people are still expected to be living in extreme poverty by then now

a person is considered to be in extreme poverty if they live on less than a dollar ninety a day extreme poverty figures have declined globally from eight hundred million five years ago to an estimated look at this six hundred million people today now these figures have been published by the overseas development institute but in africa poverty is on the rise the continent is already hardest hit africa's account for about two thirds of the total number of people living in extreme poverty nigeria has the largest number of extremely poor people in the world and funny for a child went to look at how one community is coping. a lot of poverty we are passing by people who live in inhumane surroundings need to tour seen one family they were evicted from their heart just like tense of thousands of others in recent years in lagos bus col a father of five was already poor before the eviction

but he says at least he had a livelihood. now we don't have a now no real house no boats go fishing no business during the day we can stay here to prepare one meal but at night we have to sleep outside in the rain this is something no human being should experience. today smeal tomato soup and this part of our must feel several families in the neighborhood. this is just one family an estimated eighty seven million people that's roughly half of nigeria's population are thought to be living on less than one dollar ninety cents per day nigeria has overtaken india as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty one of. these young men and women are newly minted volunteers in their slums they are being

trained how to let others know what kinds of price they have before they are evicted the ultimate goal is to stop extreme poverty from spreading i want to change the poverty level in my community and to provide sea level not our communities that means knowing how to mobilize other people so that lawmakers do their job and solve the deteriorating situation in slums magen chapman founded the justice and empowerment initiative five years ago she says eviction creates more extreme poverty unfortunately the government is not working with those people hand in hand to eradicate poverty and help them to find a solution to their situation instead the government is putting in place policies. that actually criminalize the livelihoods of the urban poor and demolish and destroy their homes the government wants to turn waterfront slums into attractive property they must be shut down because a breeding ground for crime and harmful to the environment but for her full fledged

residents on the brink of extreme poverty the slums are for better or for worse their home imagine yourself somewhere in the bush giraffes zebras and a fence and probably even rhinos make up parts of the scenery you're likely to picture yourself in but recent evidence suggests many subspecies of these animals are endangered in fact a total of six hundred thirty six species of animals are critically endangered in sub-saharan africa from the black rhino to the mongoose these creatures that you see here could very soon disappear if nothing is done to help them but there is a glimmer of hope a story of survival sea conservation experts say the population of these guys right here mountain gorillas is growing and they have now killed back the gorilla status from critically endangered to just endangered the success story they say shows that extinction is internet of all. it's

a rare sight this rugged figure in the forest. but not as rare as before. thirty years ago the mountain gorilla which is darker and shaggier than its low and cousins was nearly extinct. now its population has risen to over one thousand. two hundred. in rwanda tourists pay large sums nearly one thousand five hundred euros to see these great apes the revenue goes toward protecting the animals. it's amazing. to me anything here if you have. a pretty excited. to be almost it's a lot of money family. only will be able to do this once in my life but. looking at that our will have this memory for my life.

the mountain gorilla lives almost exclusively at higher elevations and as humans have encroached on its habitat its population has dwindled. years of war and human conflict have also contributed to the decimation of the species population. these four gorillas were found dead allegedly killed by local charcoal traders angered that the forests protected status impedes their business. the mountain gorilla is still not thriving but conservationists hope that their efforts will continue to bring them back from the brink. let's head to longer township in south africa and an unusual success story the township is a poor area on the outskirts of cape town and it's there that the next x. . who've given up their lives of crime then all finding prosperity and helping others to transform their fortunes in the i.c. industry want to know how they did it watch. as teenagers

seal a chapel of music always. they were gangsters violence was just part of a normal day. and that's not unusual here in langar a poor area on the outskirts of cape town youth unemployment is running at fifty percent it's practically impossible to stick clear of crime they say i thirty business properties and hires to jobs and be. for two years being involved in car and i was able not to own two cars intervention apartment in tal and we had expensive designer clothes i end up now my lesson for the roadside all of the law because more of the people that were doing. langar is part of the infamous cape flats the slum at the foot of table mountain. it's like a war zone every month around seventy people are killed. dozens of gangs are

fighting for dominance and control of the drug trade the cape flats are one of the most dangerous places in the world. ended up in prison eleven years behind bars but he emerged a changed man prison cannot claim that if they've changed to be. what they give to the prison gave me time time to reflect on the life that i was living and being able now to have also ample time now to develop and build on the life that i want to live moving forward. kevin lolo wanted to start a computer school. dream but today it's a reality so he got sponsors on board he managed to get banks and business people fired up about his idea students come from the slums and classes

a free of charge creating websites developing apps. teaches these skills but he himself is self-taught. the only deficient of southwest patty they can be able now to see which is truckloads and against us you know so it's very much important to to be able now to give them hope you know but to also now being able not to connect with. that i was there i look at where i am so anything is possible. javelin has found a way out of poverty is a computer teacher. now he can drive around the smart car just as he did before when he was a gangster but driving through town he sends out a message of hope. chevre lerner has built a traditional thatched huts in his mother's garden using his first legally earned money he knows how much worry he caused in his old gangster life.

with the children in the us than what we would like to be in the. or in the future us then those rules and then for no they had dreams if you follow the edward school children would never go over old. and cilla's tshabalala calls on the family ancestors asking for their support for a prosperous future free from crime his name is iron b.b. he comes from book in a fossil and he showed us tree trunks and toes trucks and is sixty three centimeters around his biceps not someone you'd like to meet in a dark imagine but i and b.b. is as friendly as they come as they are about to find out i in b.b. is not a man you want to pick a fight with at a towering one point nine meters the bodybuilder weighs one hundred eighty

kilograms but he's not just massive he's also extremely strong. the two largest record right now i'm recognized as one of the strongest when it comes to shoulder strength and it's pretty hard for anyone to top me in that area said the player. over the years the twenty six year old has built up a collection of middles and trophies today he is the guineas world record holder for the human standing shoulder price he lifted a person weighing sixty kilograms sixty nine times in sixty seconds but as a child he strength wasn't always welcome. very often kids of his build are violent. the prison they beat up other children. but he on the contrary he is very kind is very sweet so children often made fun of him to look good to be today b.b. is a celebrity a nice home town off but would you last saw him put in a fossil a few lucky grown ups with selfies but the fun is really for the kids. as they say

. i love r. and b. because he's strong and kind of like to follow his example. babies dream is to open a sports into him broke in a fossil and develop dietary supplements. at the moment the strongmen eats up to a chickens a day he needs all the protein he can get for his next big goal be seeing the long lived world record. that's it from the news africa for now you can catch our last henri's an all website and off facebook page we leave you with pictures of is gorgeous great apes in one doll once critically endangered but now their numbers are slowly increasing thanks to massive conservation efforts by. the food. the food.

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