intimidation. i wonder is that where we're headed is world. mar responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about the balance . it's about being true. when he was born god and i would you know. this is t.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes they humanitarian emergency left by side till you die team drinking water is scarce in mozambique where any 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 a story of greenwald being taunted along the sahara. i'm

christine wonderwall come to news africa i'm glad you're chindia and thousands of people are still 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 soar 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 bear this is the city that was worst affected by the strong welcome again to do doesn't use africa mr camara when we spoke earlier in the week you were telling me about the difficulty that you were having getting aged 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 are singing the people who live called what's 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 their mother went on have come only just to few people they contradict you many times so the situation hasn't changed much what's likely because we are getting more support all right miss to come are good to have more support is coming through it though you are painting a picture of a very difficult situation under which 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 in riyadh where people were displaced hundred people had absolutely nothing to eat so that's

quite difficult because we can't leave that 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. arc since then if you can so if we get access 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 also means that one hospital which is partially destroyed on for health workers for which medication does not use wait times or so however i could see that the situation. right my last person see you this way if we let you go off to do that the important point here is so we're hearing that the water levels are receding but i wondered if the weather forecasts perhaps is going to be telling a different story if they have rain forecast in the coming days. the moment we are not one hundred percent sure we're going to run or not but are we

north are. we not are you mike you're not going to rain on we'll bring on a whole lot we because you want to make three degrees. from war are war for terror all right mr jones of 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 money 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 madagascar now 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 and 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 writers as preventable would have seen that cost only a few cents yet in madagascar the number of cases rose by five thousand percent last year doctors are urging patience to get help us early as possible. love. 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 at 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 so much. on a global level that. conflict complacency and a growing hesitance not to vaccinate children threaten to undo decades of work to eradicate 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.o. era is a unity of health and measles specialist he's based in. welcome to africa.

in the pas nigeria what is performing poorly in combat measles why was that. ok first of all and thank you so much dr you're is a very low health specialist and unicef ok niger i was performing by live this all first of all because of the quality of campaigns i reckon don't take in the past and also our new level of routine even as a strong coverage now i have it's an innocent coverage from missiles and hold on around eighty to felton percent but for now rejuvenated and for by the federal government of nigeria to andre's issue of routine immunization it's one of the reasons why are caught in a very good progress towards missiles elimination i mean addition to that to quality of computers company down 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 preparation 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 then countries in africa. yeah we also have that doesn't usually nigeria box. stuff a few nice and unicef american continents walk in and day to day with their comical intimate level of history to address it concertino do you actually sense why some of them don't and fast and so we're developing countries on strategies to address that my last visit to you and very briefly if you could what kind of the 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 the new zone globally strong roots in illinois a strong majerus on their part of actually been very strong in the minors and does

it in a national has been declared that's one imagines it's a very group of people not. just to focus on implementing high quality it's in a sense of his is the number two but one of the good in primary g.r. do during their missiles in a sense is not want to go nuts non-business they can count on it in committee. to implement a company that stops l.b.o. is a bill 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 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 will 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 a staggering eight thousand kilometers is at a total cost of eight billion dollars although the end point is a long way off cynical 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 disaster for cation forces them to go for the south leaving their villages or the jungle where all the men are 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 to sort of hard to say yes very hard because of the rising temperatures there's a lot of evaporation. so. they're only eighty trees projects are here that's not enough we need three hundred or four hundred trees perfect there with your little of both. the wall produces jobs and food for the community

president not care for the livestock destroys all. luckily that's a fence that 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 seen a street by by. nobody

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