brings. to your romance. good morning. with exclusive. don't seem. to be curious. do it yourself network or. subscribe to. this is g.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes they humanitarian emergency aid left by psycho new 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 the green wall being granted along the sahara. i'm christine when the well come to news africa i'm glad you're chained in thousands of people lost in awaiting rescue in mozambique and as floodwaters begin receding in parts of the country hit by cyclonic die it's feared the death toll could seoul as more bodies are being recovered 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 from 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 day africa mr kamara when we spoke earlier in the week you were telling me about the difficulty that you were having getting aid to people has the situation somewhat improved. thank

you christine this is jewish and i was empty in march mainly because he's been running an arc to sing that he. calls out 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 hotel come only just compute the contrast humanity time so the situation hasn't changed much but slightly because we are getting more support all right miss to come are good to have more support is coming through as 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 the worst when we. all call yesterday for example i've been to two areas where people

were displaced hundred 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 might not want to make drugs but he's not that much. since then if you call so if we get our kids will be able to help people much more like way to get the proper water free water. what about the dutch more than that it's also one hospital which is partially destroyed on for. bridge medication that will not use wait times for so however i could see that the situation. right my last lesson see you before we let you go off to do the important point here is so we're hearing that the water levels are receding but i wondered is the weather forecast to have is going to be telling a different story is a rain forecast in the coming days.

the moment we are not one hundred percent sure we're going to run or not are we nor . we nor are you likely not going to rain on me or bring on a whole lot we because you want to make three. from war our war record all right mr joseph 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 secular and you die 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 chimay new money that's the farming town and 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 metta gascon of the country experiencing

a surge in measles cases according to the w.h.o. from october two thousand and eighteen through the tall fair bracy 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 a question. measles is a highly contagious and infectious virus but it's preventable with have vaccine 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. for. measles has always been considered a common disease. just because 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 are chronic. malnutrition paves the way for me. and the most severe cases of measles reported in children one malnourished focus on. on a global level that. conflict complacency and a growing hesitancy not to vaccinate children threatened to undo decades of work to run against the 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.

or is it below his unit's health and measles specialist he's based in a blogger welcome to africa. in the cause nigeria was before me pulling in combat measles why was that. ok first of all and thank you so much dr laura is a very low health specialist and unicef ok niger was performing badly this 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 in manassas on conference now adults and innocent coverage from missiles and on around eighty two fell to eight percent but for now and as a region it and fell by the federal government of niger to andre's issue of routine immunization guts is one of the reasons why are caught in a very good progress towards missiles elimination i mean addition to that. company now was done in two thousand and seventeen and eighteen was very very high is on the type of strike that is now not engaged 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 at all an issue in nigeria and countries in africa. yeah we also have gotten he she nigeria bought. stuff a few nice and unicef american kitchens and it's walking and it did today we did and accomplish something at the level of the city to address it concertina actually since why some of them got us and fast and so we're developing concussion 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 one of the good things like our countries to do and to put the big ones on this was a new zone globally is strong in him and as a strong nigerians when they're part of achieving very strong groups in iran as

a sundance it's an international has been declared that's not in mind since it's a very group of people not just just to focus on implementing high quality written in a sense obvious is the number two but one of the clinton presidency or during the 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 you know saves health and measles experts coming to us from a village in nigeria. now it's known as the great green wall it's an ambitious project is to improve life in africa's desert regions by planting a belt of trees across the continent along the same hell it's hoped that the wall will help combat desert if occasion where land is worn away by soil erosion human activity and climate change 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 sinegal 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 or the jungle 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. there's a journey 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 with that is very hard because of the rising temperatures there's a lot of evaporation. so. there are only eighty trees projects are here. that's not enough. we need three hundred or four hundred trees protect their with your fuel of overcritical the wool produces jobs and food for the community

president not care for the livestock would destroy it 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 now from 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 sing in a street by. the

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