this is africa coming up in the next 15 minutes and the drugs hailed as the promise to save lives from that scientists say the virus is no longer an incurable object trial of 2 drugs should significantly improve to survival rates so what does this mean for the current ebola outbreak which is the 2nd deadliest in history. and began people taking it upon themselves to protect the city from. worse or through. the pews with. our emergency. the smoke speed and all the elements of south africa's costing the most are racing pretty cheap hoping to be the base.

hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa i'm glad you did scientists say they are a step closer to an effective treatment for him bola off the 2 experimental drugs in a clinical trial were found to significantly boost survival rates data from the trial shows mortality rates dropped by about 50 percent for people receiving either off the 2 drugs as compared to the mortality rate in the general population when the disease is not being treated by a drug now a bowl is transmitted to people from wild animals it spreads among humans through direct contact with the blood or the sea christians of infected people or with surfaces on chaminade head with their fluids now the 2nd deadliest outbreak on. the

virus is currently raging in the democratic republic of congo in which 1800 people have died now because the drugs have done so well in the trial they'll now be given to all patients in. the country. the world health organization is a co-sponsor off the trial we're going to go over to. the d.r. janet diaz from the deputy is standing by while considering the africa janet would i be understating it if i say that you're excited about the outcome off this trial hi thank you for having me on the show no i think it's a correct statement we are very excited and happy about the preliminary results from the randomized control trial. janet what does this mean for the full court for this outbreak of ebola that we currently are seeing in the democratic

republic of congo which as i said in the beginning is the 2nd deadliest on record. so that means many things i think the most important thing to remember is that we've had these therapeutics in that the air sea since the beginning of the outbreak we started to use them about one week into the outbreak under a monitored emergency use protocol so we have those therapeutics in use for patients who arrive to treatment units in november we started the randomized control trials of them patients who are in rolled into that study now the big challenge we've had is to get patients from the community to the treatment units because once they're in the treatment units they have access to these therapeutics so we do hope that these new results when community communicated well to the population to the people here of the dea or see that people will hear this and know that if they come early to the treatment units they can get treated and the survival is actually quite good. ok it is so as so much so janet that

moving forward as i understand it having read a statement from the w.h.o. bed people with ebola going forward will now be treated with these drugs could you give us an explanation as to how this treatment is actually administrate sure so yeah so since we heard the rate these preliminary analysis results patients that all the treatment enter centers are treated with these 2 drugs the drugs are intervening. administration so they were by between 30 minutes to 2 hours of i.v. administration. ok janice diaz from the world health organization thank you. thank you. next story takes us to northeastern nigeria where a group of young men and women are taking the fight against boko haram into their own hands calling themselves the civilian joint task force they say the army has

failed to protect the people the vigilante group was formed in 2013 with the aim of driving the islamist fighters out of their towns and cities now these young people armed themselves not just with guns but also with daggers machetes sticks and iron baas but some fear these young people might one day themselves be the cause of trouble prego reports from my degree. the city of my degree during the islamic festival of salafi muslim families intermingle s. groups of blue clad civilian paramilitary stand guard against possible bull karama tax something they say the army has failed to do the young residents begin arming themselves in 2013. we just. feel sort of the peers will reign in that is our emergence that this ideology their beliefs to be and that it will today the civilian j t f has around 26000 members many

a school dropouts who says little atlanta to have to fighting in the militia their growth has left residents worried that my degree is turning increasingly violent activist ahmed bullmore is one of them locals call him a peace ambassador all the while adam blows the more government counters in inappropriate manner the more you know you know aggressive our people are trying to be it's giving it's changing the cultural mindset of our people our people are now right becoming violent by the day and i would have to fight to survive day in day out every month he gathers members of the community to build networks of activists and to work on education programs one initiative aims to encourage young people to return to school and to speak out against hate speech and here courageous our community. before we had no idea to them to school i knew we were

being it's a sizable for our children. and also. especially you helps me with question time a story of my own business with his 1st major curry's official motto is home of peace but peace disappeared when boko haram came says. he hopes that the lorry will push harder to. improve the situation. however many youngsters admired the civilian joint task force a while yusuf a research at the university of my degree calls it of resistance culture of violence this village idea what they are doing really attract a young ones. to join them are also to be like them they are supposed to be in this school and the problem is going to surrender so bad not fighting. mohammad is checking worshippers for weapons she joined the militia when she was 17

after poke around had killed her husband and father she prides herself on being braver than her male co fighters nevertheless she still dreams of becoming a doctor. i was there but is thinking that we are hopeful that one day we will study and get good jobs and i might add our government has promised his bat that the wife will say. but for now the civilian j t s does not expect a defeat anytime soon they continue to recruit new members steadily in militarizing my degree and so grows the need to offer its youth and i'll turn it to future perhaps ended then can the city reclaim its place as a home of peace. to discuss the security situation in the region reset down with the deputy chairman off the african union say we also why it is so

difficult to overcome in the chad basin it is not for want of trying and certainly not for want to we in. this situation we probably determines everything and the institutions when they are world developed assists you know but at times you know even. in brazil. and he's going to move for a start you know looks out used to be there with the body would give life and the. living to our other countries the neighborhood surrounding it. not a charge is drying up. with a drop of liquor. from their livelihood to life in general. leads to depression. of having

a hoot the young people in the school. become easy targets for front teeth some extremists. and die slowly introduced to. them becomes too full of trouble and i think there is sort of no hope in it and then it's like region and its relationship with coral. that was a deputy chairman off the african union commission. where switching gears now to south africa's cost printing which is a celebrated cultural phenomenon it dates back to the 1980 s. but cost money was recognised as an official noticed me and $24.00 team and it's growing into a big business you're about to meet the 13 year old hoping to spin his way to national fame. extreme speed extreme stunts extreme spending welcome to the past time so dr kim

carr not going crazy for. those. who figure for me everything he knows he learned from his dad and father like son not concerned with getting heart. i'm not afraid because i have. never been. my brother so far the only we're in tears on the wheels tires not to give the mere a fighting chance of becoming the best spender in south africa spending is bordering on an official national sport in the townships. proud like. going by their 7 inch he's heading in the right direction though it may be some

time yet before dad lets him pull a stunt like this. and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page now because we've seen all that spinning will leave you with law images of cars. come out how. much.

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