with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech freedom of press. giving freedom for. those that matters. made for moderns. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the humanitarian emergency left by side to die team drinking water is scarce in mozambique where aid is still unable to reach remote regions hit by the storm we'll be talking to somebody in beirut. then the ambitious project to improve life in africa's desert regions we have the story of a green wall being planted along. i'm

christine one come to africa i'm glad you're chained in thousands of people are still awaiting rescue in mozambique and as floodwaters begin receding in parts of the country hit by a guy it's feared the death toll could soar as more bodies are being recovered the relief agencies are warning the number of deaths could be more than the one thousand predicted by the country's president earlier this week joseph come out of the christian aid agency bold vision joins us now from beirut this is the city that was worst affected by the strong welcome again to. morrow when we spoke earlier in the week you were telling me about the difficulty that you were having getting age to people has the situation somewhat improved. thank you christine this is jewish and i was empty in march mainly because it's

been raining and arks assuming that the. courthouse in the areas that are flooded has been difficult so far rescue efforts have been going on but mainly by helicopter because it's very difficult to reach the modeling on have come only just too few people with a concrete humanity this time so the situation hasn't changed much what's likely because we are getting more support all right miss to come are going to have more support is coming through it though you are painting a picture of a very difficult situation under which you have to operate but one of the most pressing needs in bandra at the moment would you say at the moment we are worried that the people are getting hungry because all they are washed away to. spoil the whole yesterday for example i visited two areas where people were displaced and of people had absolutely nothing to eat so that's quite difficult because we can't leave much to say i want to take and drop them but trying of my stuff to make crocks but he's not that much.

arcsin since then if you can so if we get our kids will be able to help their people much more like way to get the proper water free water. what about. also one hospital which is partially destroyed on four. bridge medication that will not use wait times for so however i could see that the situation. right my last person see you before we let you go off to do the important work here is so we're hearing that the water levels are receding but i wondered if the weather forecasts perhaps that is going to be telling a different story is there rain forecast in the coming days. the moment we're not one hundred percent sure we're going to run or not but we nor . we nor do you mike you're not going to rain on we're going on hold. because

you've got to make three. war our war record all right mr jones have come out of from the christian aid agency world vision talking to us from bear we appreciate your time sir and the work that you're doing in mozambique. symbolically which was also hit by cyclonic day is preparing to hold two days of national mourning this weekend at least two hundred fifty nine people there have been killed bodies are still being recovered from chin many money that's the farming town on zimbabwe's eastern border with mozambique that was battered by the storm with bridges destroyed and roads flooded the town is still cut off from the rest of the country more than two hundred people are still missing there. it's to mete gascon alba country experiencing a surge in missiles cases according to the w.h.o. from october two thousand and eighteen through the twelfth of a bracer thousand and nineteen

a total of sixty six thousand two hundred and seventy eight cases have been reported nine hundred twenty two deaths have been reported doctors warn against complacency saying often people do not come to the hospital until the problem has reached a really complicated stage that's of course haitian. measles is a highly contagious and infectious virus but it is preventable with a rock scene that cost only a few cents yet in madagascar the number of cases rose by five thousand percent last year doctors are edge and patients to get help us early as possible. has always been considered a common disease. just people used traditional remedies to try to cure it. the population has somewhat neglected the symptoms of measles and they only come to hospital when it's a really complicated stage. the world health organization says that's not the only

problem in madagascar food shortages chronic. malnutrition paves the way for me. and the most severe cases of measles reported in children one malnourished. on a global level that. conflict complacency and a growing hesitance not to vaccinate children threaten to undo decades of work to eradicate that disease. nigeria has also had a particularly bad experience with the camps to checking measles but now the number of measles infections is generally on the decline in the country to talk some more about this i'm joined by o.b. aura is a below he's units health and measles specialist he's based in. welcome to africa. in the cause nigeria what is performing poorly in combat measles why was that.

ok first of all and thank you so much um the doctor here is a very low health specialist and unicef thank you nigeria was performing badly the fall first of all because of the quality of campaigns i reckon don't think in the past and also our new level of routine immunizes from conference now adults in innocent coverage from missiles on around eighty to thirty percent but for now and as a region it and fall by the federal government of nigeria to andre's issue of routine immunization guts is one of the reasons why are cuts in a very good progress towards missiles elimination i mean addition to that. company i was done in two thousand and seventeen and eighteen was very very high is on the type of strategies that. engaged in during the repression and implementation of the missiles. so that was also a very very good positive for the country right now we're noticing that in the

developed world for example part of the problem is that people are anti vaccines is that on an issue in nigeria and countries in africa. yeah we also have doctors and she nigeria bought. stuff a few nice unicef american kitchens and it's walking and i did today we did. intimate level of history too and i see it concert you know do you actually sense why some of them don't pass and fast and so we're developing come to some strategies to address that my last visit to you and very briefly if you could what could have african countries learn from nigeria's experience. ok well one of the good things like our countries to do and to put the big ones on this was an image from globally strong groups in illinois a strong majerus on their part of actually been very strong in the minors and does it in the national has been declared that's one imagines it's very group of people not. just to focus on implementing high quality written in

a sense of this is their number two but one of the going to do during their missiles in a sense is not want to call us numbers they can count on it in committee. to implement a company in that stops l.b.o. is available he has saved health and measles experts coming to us from a budget in nigeria. now it's known as the great green wall it's an ambitious projects to improve life in africa's desert regions by planting a belt of trees across the continent along the sun hell it's hoped that the wall will help combat does it if occasion where land is worn away by soil erosion human activity and climate change now the great green wall project involves twenty one countries in total with the wall set to run from senegal in west africa all the way across to djibouti in the east now when completed it will stretch as staggering

eight thousand kilometers is at a total cost of eight billion dollars although the end point is a long way off senegal has made the most progress so far twelve million trees have been planted there in the last decade let's take a look at how the great green wall is already transforming the lives of communities there. in the plains of northern senegal cattle herd is a struggling to feed their livestock deserts if occasion forces them to go for the south leaving their villages. where all the men. there someone. many migrate because where they live is becoming too dry to survive what i have there's no food left we have to move away to look for grass for the animals. it's in places like this that the great green wall can help the trees provide shelter from the wind and soil erosion their roots keep moisture in the ground.

once to trees are planted the soil becomes more fertile. in this kind of micro-climate the population is protected against desert if occasion. they do there's a jury in the rainy season it's now much greener here but it's still not easy many trees die with the help of an ngo villagers are trying out new planting techniques . is destroying hard yes very hard because of the rising temperatures there's a lot of evaporation. grow. there only eighty trees per hectare here. that's not enough. we need three hundred or four hundred trees protect there with your fuel of overcritical the wool produces jobs and food for the community president not care for the livestock destroys all. luckily that's

a fence if there wasn't the cows would come here eat the grass and the people living here would have problems. look on the other side of the fence there's no grass there anymore. thanks to the wall people are now encouraged to return to their communities and stay. that's it for africa you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page we leave you now with these pictures off trees across the sahara region part of an if it's to stop the spread of the deserts have a lovely weekend see you next week bye bye. every

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installation art is famous for her explorations of body extensions and machines and turns seventy five on sunday and take a look back at her career. an exhibition that looks at the influence of late pop star michael jackson on art and on other artists has opened in bonn and the bonus queens talent that's hosting it is having to justify the decision to go ahead with it and the show opens just weeks after the h.b.o. documentary leaving neverland made new allegations of jackson's alleged sexual pardon me abuse of children forcing us to consider the king of pop in a new light who was this man who millions of fans still hail as the king of pop this exhibition portrays michael jackson through the work of more than forty contemporary artists include some well known works like these portrait.