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this is steve every news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes two weeks since i killed it dies smashed into southern africa launched thoughts of affected areas of mozambique lost still suffer in neighboring zimbabwe too many people have lost everything soup you've heard. three cops. get an update on the situation correspondent in zimbabwe who's just returned from the areas worst hit by the storm. and. paying homage to africa's greatest need is ivory coast commodity. i'm christine one welcome to news africa. it's been two weeks and.
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smashed into mozambique's coast and leashing hurricane force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the country before battering east and killing more than seven hundred people now an outbreak of waterborne diseases thracians to aggravate the already daya conditions facing the millions who survived. thousands of people in the mozambique i'm problems of many were left homeless due to cycling. there'd be forced to live out the side of the road. all the houses of collapsed everything we had is gone we have no way to live with our children so we decided to come pear the emergency shelters are overflowing. forty thousand people need help in the province of money alone the second worst hit area of mozambique. and those who have fled their homes face hunger unless they can
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pay inflated prices authorities have condemned anyone trying to turn the tragedy into a business opportunity and called on people to help each other. that we call on all mozambique show solidarity to one another this cannot be a moment where fellow country men take advantage of each other worsening the suffering of our people here in the province. so we're asking traders and bearer exactly what we asked of their colleagues in tomorrow susan and across the entire province. but let's unite and be sensitive towards the situation our fellow citizens are in. their suffering they have lost everything and they need our help. the people here have little choice but to wait until further help arrives in africa is
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privileged report said from zimbabwe's worst affected area that's to money money he joins me now from the capital had at a high privilege good to see you what is the current situation in the hardest hit parts of zimbabwe right now. yeah risky and for the missing people. is two under way right now we understand. a units from south africa that has been enlisted by the zimbabwe government. dog and risky units that came through into the country on tuesday that is started where in the eastern part today in those areas where people are believed to be buried under rocks and rubble was to try to identify the places where they have buried so that they can be excavated from those
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places so by this morning the teams with the dogs had to tie started to go into those areas and wakey is underway and then the other thing is that. food distribution and also aid distribution is i know is well distributing in most of the parts that we're affected by the issue some of the places. but now more chilled pas that i'll go into those going into those areas and recently on monday world food program brought in. here through e.u. funding that is now fearing it be got tonnage into the affected areas with food aid right pretty cheerlead it says at the exits and a way to recover the bodies of missing people and but are we talking exclusively off the recovery mission on this still some people out there that can be rescued who are still alive. chances of
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people being rescued alive are now slim because now it is gone over it week since this disaster happened so most of the missing people are now believed to be dead but to kill early in the valley who would place called corpus and see to where the entire towns he was buried under rubble during their fifteen march afraid to fifteen might night you find that sense as of now rescue people our lives are very slim so people have lost hope they're just now hoping to find closure if the bodies of their loved ones are recovered apart from shell so food and water privilege what other resources has been committed to survive this office disaster. the
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resources that have been poured in so far you find that a lot of. the international. aid organizations have come in to help but the government is poured in something like kondrat million but not issue of dealing with the psychological effect on the trauma that the community lots of money money has gone through so you find. organizations that. cycle a social support to have moved in and now they are offering counseling to victims and survivors and also families that have experienced this disaster particularly in that area because you find there are some people who survived this disaster. only left you know a family probably a family that was between six and ten so it is very difficult to deal with such a situation because if they don't do that suicide who would be on the rise in that
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area ok privileged. from zimbabwe thank you it's common to say listen to music and watch films made in africa by africans but when it comes to video games the continent games designed and developed in africa make up one percent of the global markets next story is. where a group of. african inspired games on the will stage. they have twenty four hours to come up with a compelling idea for a new video game made in b'nei this is the been in game jam injury chooses three ideas with the most potential and will help the young developers towards an entrepreneurial project that a challenge for the participants. to feel to this song always run in those we love playing games since we were teenagers but the games were orders from other
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countries already but i was so if we get to a level what african programmers are thinking about using video games to solve the problems facing africa i think it's a good initiative. is a pause and africa so what initiative will be up till now video games designed in africa make up only one percent of the global market but this may be about to change while. the one video game is a video game islamists have fun or learn something but growing up and so for a few years now because i've had the idea of a to video game bearing and african density could be an export hit. letting the europeans and western a c. in africa differently so. they. exchange and empowerment instead of import and adjustment video games are fun but also a powerful instrument to put african culture on the map. now
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these coffee beans behind me might have a look off minimalistic chic about them but there is no automatic the coffee bean is a national treasure in ivory coast the country is one of the leading girl is off the commodity and the cup of coffee has inspired the work of one ivorian artist take a look at what he's brewed up. you could make this politic with mikko water and just drink it but not. the every an artist has developed a unique painting technique he creates his portrays a famous african leaders such as the late president thomas aka wealth a special mix of coffee and cocoa powder his courage seem to be experimental and that took him back to his fruits. my mother and father are farmers and when i was growing up my mother drank
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a lot of coffee my father also drank a lot of coffee. but he was a bit more refined with it because he would mix the coffee with cocoa my mother would make coffee everyone had to drink it so when i was growing up we drank a lot of coffee. it brought us all together and those are the memories that inspire me. and he wants to inspire his public this is why you've painted black leaders like patrice lumumba martin luther king. did this and then he puts emphasis on personalities or people who we've forgotten. people who we read about a long time ago and he brings them back to life through his work by using coffee. culture and when you look closely the textures and colors are different it's original. first was the use of the band origin ality has its
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price levels of paying around five hundred euros for the most expensive coffee on the market. well the winner of the global teacher prize two thousand and nineteen have each he has been welcomed like a pop star by his students when he arrived at nairobi's jomo kenyatta airport the math and physics teacher from a secondary school in a village in kenya's rift that he says he will invest. one billion dollars in prize money in projects for the community here he is coming home. expected and therefore it was really a good woman's not just for me but for kenya and for africa or to students who struggle big. with so many challenges. and they had to go to get to do very good things and that's it for now from africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page now kenya's president kenyatta
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