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thinks deep into the german culture. if you. really think. it's all that. you. post. this. coming up in the next fifteen minutes. more than one hundred people things may get worse for that region. is on its way. from the drop in crime to picking out the microphone the former criminal in nigeria the new music wrapping up life.
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your welcome to the show now nearly a million people have been affected. mozambique. in the middle of last week. we. beat least seven hundred forty thousand people have felt the impact we while one hundred forty one thousand people have been affected in mozambique and it's expected to get worse each cycle on the die is approaching and is due to make landfall in mozambique on thursday authorities there . for help meanwhile is also at the risk of flooding. to bring heavy winds over the coming days. into scene more than two hundred people were killed by fly. and in my.
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joining me now is alderson segarra a freelance journalist with kindly in the flood affected areas in south in malawi hello allison thanks for joining us what is the situation like on the ground as we speak as we speak now the situation on the ground is not all about groups and this information shows that fifty seven people fifty six people have so far died. i find and if you think. thousands of people are still being evacuated the numbers keep increasing each passing hour as a stick now there really isn't that good. for sure but movie from to a lot of it could be some more rain coming and not what's happening on the ground nami in this asto people being put to safety what something key you can tell us now. currently government through the department of disaster
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management are deployed what is fun stuff they could parts of a city district and hundreds of being deployed to one of the most crucial areas in two thousand part of malawi sanjay a district where the people who are white. men women and children so the situation in the ground is like the government would be there trying to rescue people who have been affected and. talking about the government how well equipped really is it to handle this. it's very tricky because the government has been spending a lot of money already on organizing silliness telling people to move up front before the flood can find the usual government like that of malawi hasn't got enough money budget in sorting thought the same so it is dependent on the
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chinese have organised somebody's mind then he says only companies licensed. now finally before you go i mean maureen's i expected so it could get where as i like you said many hmong being found dead so what is being done to prevent that. escalating the situation. at the moment government has actually provided some camps in all the affected districts we have people are being evacuated and are being given equal treatment and there's also some other line for id and otherwise there is much that can be done of them or moved people can be saved anywhere else for your information some people are coming as far as mozambique crossing into malawi because the flood of also affected part
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of mozambique and saw the numbers they believe in and i'm sure this will give them a live government tough time to find money to help these people who are being fitted. out of st. thomas generalists thank you very much for the time. as we've had earlier regions of mozambique have also been hits by flooding the government has declared a red leds due to the tropical cyclone the die a specter had to reach that country soon let's talk about where michael chiles from international federation of red cross and red crescent societies who is coordinating that response thank you very much michael for joining as that what exactly are you doing to help the people in mozambique so if you have you rightly said you know we're expecting a tropical storm to heat and it's going to hit a few provinces i'm busy as we'll find the provinces especially and we have our volunteers on the ground as you know the red cross is a volunteer based organization and in mozambique we have thousands of volunteers
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who are preparing who who are one in the community members who are trying to look at them to higher grounds and ensuring that you know they safety within the communities and be a state of this cycle is not as brief as it should be. so a cycle is coming everyone has spun a king what exactly can be done to survive a cycle of. well what exactly can be done is exactly early warnings that we need to want one the community members we need to ensure that you know they can move to safer ground when to cycle incomes we need to ensure that there is proper shelter for them and we also need to ensure that years there will be diverse station and we have the red cross we're already preparing so we're pre-positioning our stocks and which is non-food items blanket shelter really preposition in that's closer to the site so that once the cycle hits the floods the effects of the flood gates at least wait will to bring relief to the people that are needed to bring relief to the
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communities in terms of health education in spencer safe water in terms of hygiene and the red cross as i said you know where we're at the ground really preparing the community members to be able to respond so early out there was a flood and we understand the nice to see since the six people have died from the vats now a cycle is coming is going to be an even bigger impact what's the worst case scenario or how big is this going to head well the worst case scenario we're not sure of but we are prepared in terms of really engaging at the community level yes unfortunately sixty six people died but we're hoping that at least with the relief we're bringin em with the coach called initial mechanisms that are on the ground together with governments together with other humanitarian archer's we as the humanitarian community can really come and support you know the people that will need us the most ok all the best michael michael charles from
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international federation of red cross and red crescent societies thanks for your time and you very much. to another tragedy now in the northwest of the continent in nigeria three story building collapsed in the commercial cup its own leaders local media and rescue officials see many children were trapped in the rubble this footage shows one of the children who was food free the top floor of the building house the private elementary school with about one hundred students. now for decades the oil rich niger delta in southern nigeria has been spared of violence went viral and groups fighting for a share of the region's natural wealth in cities like worry in delta state oil theft contributed to rum punch criminality and a number of environmental problems one man who got caught up in crime is thirty one
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year old at riga he was jailed for robbery oil theft and dealing drugs but i still have used funny explains he's now embarked on a new path that successful musician. he has been filling concert halls and jumped to stardom in nigeria with his biggest hit so far. the most people. began playing music a decade ago here in warri this city brings the. worry is a city in delta state in the troubled self nigeria rich in oil known for what comes with it robbery large scale theft and drunks all be a part of life as an adult he spent time in jail his childhood he spent on the
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streets this was his neighborhood so. i'm not supposed to be called doing with. food these down and pick them like now he has returned pretty. far. crime is often the only resort for a youth grappling with chronic unemployment many get into e-mail scams to make money musical form. but life too could turn once out of jail he met people who supported his music he's proud of what he has achieved. all i wanted was for my people to give up equal voice because whatever it is basically the struggles that every word we boil every legs of. every deal to life they can say it's made it but for the majority
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here the daily struggle continues. this is not just a place for fisherman but a popular high for people involved in oil bunkering who feel that the government is not. sharing profits evenly. and there are other consequences to nigeria's oil industry the pollution that comes with the production the dentist fisherman and women banda brunt of the environmental damage. here are down for it because of all the oil that isn't much fish in the water anymore. also sings about their plight and he sings his songs in pigeon english to better tell the story of the people in his neighborhood these people deserve to be heard in a country that's sound in the distance. you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page.
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