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you're welcome to the program the new experiment with genetically modified mosquitoes be the solution to your advocating malaria despite some progress that is easily means one of the welds they get. currently about more than $200000000.00 cases of the mosquito borne disease each year and nearly half a 1000000 of those die most of the children the 6 countries with the highest rates of malaria are well why all in sub-saharan africa. is one of them now. i started on the experiments with drastically reducing the spread of the disease. it's part of daily life for many in became a fast here at the local clinic this young boy presents with

a high fever he tests positive for malaria and must stay at home in bed until he recovers but it may not always be this way. the international research consortium target malaria wants to rid the country of the disease and it's focused its efforts on this village in bana heading the project is abdul idea about a canal based scientist who has dedicated his life to eradicating the disease. as a consequence of us a reason. to be about it radio of people affected by the disease but now statistically. 10000000 people affected by the disease. in july scientists released genetically modified male mosquitoes here to study how they interact with the local ecosystem the anxious to one day release female mosquitoes and produce stair our offspring in a process called gene drive. if we don't need to. pass the local

complement it is the one big it's a little difficult to get rid of this is likely to get a fossil. here in the western region of. malaria is endemic during the rainy season mosquitoes breed in stagnant water and into homes with open windows. before though . we see a lot of malaria cases i can't even tell you the exact number or day but at this time of year half the patients we see have malaria some have had treatment which hasn't worked and some haven't received treatment at all for mortgages. it's not the 1st time became a fast so is experimented with genetic modification g.m. cotton was approved for use in 2008 but abandoned in 2016 after the quality of the crop declined. activists are now demanding an international ban on the use of g.m. mosquitoes in the wild they claim birchenough base was shut out of the expensive

roll up process and say too little is known about the side effects the movement only for quite a few inject it would turn the media we ask why we have to inject billions into this highly controversial research. while almost nothing is putin to a proper health and sanitation policy. that would mobilize the community to avoid sites where mosquitoes breed sick when you look at the manipulation of these mosquitoes which receive new talks and that could then be released into the environment that could damage the food chain. for now target malaria is forging ahead with its plans to release more genetically modified mosquitoes in bana but it may be several years before anyone can tell the true effects on this community. joining me from johannesburg south africa mario my ads as i guess of director africa the center for biodiversity. thanks for your time so you've spoken

strongly against using genetically modified was key tools to help eradicate malaria why. thank you very much i think when writing me i think the 1st thing we must realize is that this is because the time that a genetically modified insect has ever been released on the african can continue and in the context where there's been very very little experience on the part of african governments with g.m. crops and in the case of the king of paso with the g.m. mosquitoes had been released in july this year. there's been a dismal failure on genetically modified cotton now the genetically modified mosquito project can only be assessed. what we have already experienced with the release the 1st thing is that on their own version of target mammalia there is no benefits to be accrued to the population or to malaria eradication as

a result of the release the release was intended for 2 purposes one to test the regulator capacity of the regulators of that country and to to by public acceptance not courtship and mosquitoes but for the project's main and that is to release to net equally a release gene tribe organisms in particular faster in particular gene drive mosquitoes ok. so regarding that then what are the risks involved so the risks involved in regard to 1st the g.m. mosquito let's let's look at what they're doing they actually need to clean modifying one species of the nominees mosquito namely and after this can be aware as many and of these species transmitted malaria. 2nd

very very little independent by a safety risk assessment has been done many independent by safety scientists have expressed great concern about the lack of adequate scientific evidence showing safety 2nd many. female mosquitoes were released and these would bite humans and course and foreseen epis health impacts. i think that we have to also consider the bigger political context within which this project is been unfolding in africa ok you know fossil is and you want to target that we have to think about the not the longer term projects goal is to release gene drive mosquitoes in books you know fast so in order for gene drive organisms to be released aswell in the world ok we'll have to end it there thanks

a lot for the information maria my ads from the african sense of a by their presence the change of heart is big south africa thank you. rwanda has agreed to host hundreds and potentially thousands of migrants trapped in libya the country signed a deal on tuesday at the african union headquarters in ethiopia a fast 500 people mainly from the horn of africa due to be evacuated from libya in the coming weeks they will be fast housed in transit sentai and wanda before being resettled elsewhere some 42000 migrants cowardly in libya hoping to cross the military and. many of them being held in detention centers often in overcrowded and inhumane conditions. because. of maggie go brown has dedicated herself to working with children who grew up in poverty in the egyptian capital she has set up nearly 90 community centers in which

she looks after the children and teaches them to love and respect themselves at work focuses on coptic christians in minority that has long complained of discrimination in egypt many of them live in the slums around cairo on street a living from sorting through garbage. because they live and work in garbage in the sweltering heat surrounded by an overpowering stench boutros and gorgar sort plastic bottles every day from 5 in the morning until sunset they have to quit school to support their families meaning they will probably never find a way out of. the. if i had the chance to go somewhere else of course i would do it a little a little. sadness of her because there's so much i used to wish for but it will never happen for me in the land. it's the fate of hundreds of thousands of people

here in munshi atmospheric the so-called garbage city on the outskirts of cairo these videos were made secretly filming is not welcome here most of the garbage collectors are coptic christians a marginalized minority in egypt each day they saw through some 6000 tons of trash mostly by hand infectious disease outbreaks a common many children die there a few hospitals and schools here. this woman wants to bring hope to where despair reigns if children out of poverty and change their outlook for the future in the garbage slums they call her mama maggie or mother teresa or of cairo. she has a simple message i love. to hate you michaela garecht to him to get out of. the devout christian has brought thousands of children from garbage city to her aid

organization in cairo funded by donations from all over the world here they're given health advice lessons and war meals for 2 days the 1st step on the way out of the vicious cycle of poverty disease and shame. it's a mission of love says. respect and self esteem. and it's a message that seems to be getting through to many children. i learned a lot about love happiness and solidarity here and to listen to what my mother and father say. from mom or maggie washing the children's feet as a symbol of respect they often go barefoot in the garbage and injure themselves here they get sandals and learn how to look after themselves better. when they asked mother to do. what you're doing is like one drop in an ocean she said the ocean will not be the same without. we're just

putting piece of sugar in every human. have resigned themselves to their fate of working in garbage city but they hope that one day their own children might have a better life. well that's a far now from news africa you can catch all our stories of our web sites on these . images of the exhibition connecting afro future care in berlin it's about fashion hair. you can check it out also the fast of the stuff goodbye.

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