i even got white hair. this gets me. in trouble let's say you want to know their story. reliable information for margaret. news africa coming up on the show there's a creep across the latin. that's trying to stop the son jesus as the march towards the. black nothing grows here anymore. if it keeps on reaches the people living on the river.

mike i join you now it's great to have you with us on the show now it's changing and the new report from the u.n. details the deepening crisis it's a catastrophe that's not made in africa but it's already hits in the continental my colleague kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. it's a widely held belief here in africa about climate change is a problem for the rich it's no surprise and the fridays for future protests barely gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participating in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that it's poor an ordinary africans were most affected by the impact of climate change here in kenya had who are running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all the way up here just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities as. that's if occasion puts pressure on their land the

african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sprouting all over the continent but the african governments say that they can't do it alone and they need the rest of the world to hold up their end of the bargain. you have mentioned that there's it's spreading as average temperatures go up the well doesn't just get hotter droughts and dust storms also growing more intense our next report still starts on the edge of assad as it he huge genes are creeping closer and closer to the capital of the army but some people standing in the way children and teenagers lead the fight. not far away from me on the bank of the river sand dunes have formed but the final trip will enable the peoples to understand the phenomenon of desertification but we'll also see what people can do locally to stop the spread of the desert and to

anchor the sander and. the gigantic duno of settler a i think gates of the capital neon man the pupils only want one thing to climb onto the dune as quickly as possible. some of these sand dunes wander up to 20 metres a year depending on the wind their height can reach $30.00 to $40.00 metres the pupils are overwhelmed once they get to the top. wow it's awesome i've never seen anything like this i've never been here before it's so beautiful. visually. it's good maybe beautiful but it's a nightmare for humans and animals so you want it you don't want sand there instead bury your homes you have to try to prevent them from shifting. with sand drift fences for example sonny yuba explains what everyone can do to help stop the shifting of the dunes the students are pensive. after seeing this

here i'm quite troubled. as you had some point the sand could reach the town. that makes me afraid. there's only semed left here nothing grows here anymore it's a real desert. she keeps advancing and reaches the people living on the river now and it'll be all over. with off. the outing had a big effect on the pupils they're now motivated over the holidays they're going to environmental camps where they will set up sandra fences and plant trees anything and everything to stop desertification. like you just saw him in that report sonny are you is like it's of director of young volunteers for the environment sonny welcome to africa now the young people in your project seem surprised at the deserts on the out doorstep how did we realise now how dangerous that is so what i . want is to be number one. or

we're going to need new. or well. well again it will more oil or people. or any of them and i understand you have a project this weekend it's a lot of festival when the faithful slaughter sheep so what does not have to do with it does it because we had eyes that all quantity every year is like a dam or 2000 on the. news on the only day of people milling shoes so for people in the local or. on the seats that comes out on the 11th so it's too much or we've got all on to also have fun things and you force the news of rude things. and that's why we decided and i'm bent on

getting it will is like neat all to still it waits. and there was citizenship and there was it in a ship or so that's why you keep on or come to the leave use the consumption would be the 1st thing is the award it was or would an indignity is more like well it's not their mission or their own religion so people can awaited all they have. it and also is. like i kind of elect ok making that if france did it ok also. sounds like a very smart idea sania you as accounts of director of young volunteers for the environment thank you. and there.

sunny's for there. is just one initiates of his involved and another one involves a completely new type of stove that runs on the waste. to the fi the deficit. and environmental protection in action. xenia is learning from master blacksmith eve rahima mana how to build an oven that works without wood all parts must fit together perfectly so that the oven closes tightly and no heat can escape. ibraheem amana is building a series he just received in order for 50 ovens from the ngo volunteer how porn on feel through. this oven is a tool in the fight against desertification because it's not filled with wood but with rice husks the husks can't be used for anything else not even animals eat um

you know like that every day tons of rice husks accumulate in the state rice factory it's waste with no nutritional value everyone who has an oven can get it here for free to use as fuel sunny yuba visit schools to talk about the ovens importance after all trees and bushes hold the desert sand in place so this is about our behavior we have to change our behavior and our way of using raw materials we have to as you said correctly use clean energy and especially use power sources that allow us to reduce our use of wood. the pupils are allowed to test the oven at home for a week. his family how to use the appliance. when. they don't. know we have it seems easy to use it produces hardly any smoke and you don't need to use wood any more that's good i want to try the oven

out properly. a new oven costs about $15.00 euros and the also gives credit. and my next guest. from the university of he's a study in the environment across south africa. thanks a lot for your time now your project studies several ecosystems which up mostly dry . that's what's happening that well we study it. so hard. and compassing all the different ecosystems and there. is a. very diverse so we have to distinguish. real desert. sense as it's expanding in south africa and the maybe especially during the last 5 years there was

a perfect storm of climate change and intensified land use. affecting each other. human activities are expanding we see this disappearing. forest. and there are really dramatic changes really calls for action by politicians forest being cut down the river as drying up what concrete effects people live in that. well again a wide diversity let me take 2 levels in lusaka zambia several times where we experienced up to 48 hours power failure per day there was no electricity in the capital under whose city and the reason was a lack of rainfall and weston's mbia and eastern angola many months before and that

caused less water and zambezi river and finally ends a cover riba dam so that the remaining water had to be used for agriculture irrigation to avoid food problems and no more water was allowed to runs through the generator systems to give electricity so you see there is a cascading effect yeah there are nexus being very different areas and more important in the country where people clear forests for charcoal they still believe forests are never ending however from our country relations we would say and 5 to 10 to 20 years the different groups will meet in the middle between 2 roads and then there will be no more forests this will be dramatic this will have dramatic economic impact and again political must set up the management of these ecosystems . dramatic problems not of the more you go nobody for you go refer station has been proposed as one of the ways out of the climate crisis briefly as

a viable solution. sometimes yes sometimes not a single it's over estimated there's a reason why there are no trees in many areas because the soil the sale and you can't clone trees there as a regions you wouldn't like to feel with trees is a beautiful africans of venice was older animals shouldn't disappear because of open areas of trees. all the areas that have been de forest during the last decades by human use should be replanted and there again we really need political activity to make it happen ok well noted professor jurgens from the south african science service center thank you. that's it for now from g.w.

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