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hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along this behind me here is in nigeria we begin with this today because the un ses the country's housing is the worst in the world they line a far is the u.n. special reckless full on rights to adequate housing she's just presented preliminary findings off to make 10 day fact finding mission to nigeria 5 what i witnessed is that in so many ways the lives of so many nigerians are at stake because of the housing situation now about 2 thirds of nigerians in urban areas are say to be living in informal settlements the u.n. reports states that africa's most populous nation has a shortage of get this 22000000 houses so how are people living our

correspondent funny in lagos gives us a glimpse. lagos has been dubbed the mega city of slums and now kokoda torrijos for its squalid conditions is one of the city's worst and i visited mccorkle and its people in the floating slum for the 1st time i realized there are degrees of just how bad bad housing could be even here some have a roof over their heads others are forced to seek temporary shelter when it rains this family of 6 were evicted from their home during the day they can use a makeshift kitchen to cook their meals that was a year ago since then many more evictions have taken place the authorities in lagos are raising houses to make way for luxury waterfront properties but luxury homes are beyond the reach of most nigerians and then there is growing population with 200000000 people today nigeria's population is expected to double by 2015 what the

country lacks is affordable housing and supplements with functioning toilet cleaner water and waste disposal the un criticised this week but terrible housing is just one of the visible symptoms of an even bigger problem facing nigeria the country has the highest rate of extreme poverty world wide i'm now joined by d.w. correspondent flourished who is in lagos for us. to see so we have just learned that 70 percent off nigerians in urban areas live in informal settlements why is that the case. well christine you are very right most. areas in nigeria leave you from all settlements and that's of because of

several reasons one of the reasons is because we have precision ted number of people moving from villages from rural areas to the cities just to try to find a better life to get a better life for themselves and so the cities unable to really plan are on this number because they don't really know how many people are coming into the city so you find people just secondly wherever the confines of pleased to be their head and that's the reason why most people even in foremost it to me ok sure and i guess nigeria is not i mean that's phenomenon is not unique to nigeria but but here's the thing i mean this is never really shocked me you have the u.n. saying your country needs 22000000 houses right that's the deficit but then we also hear of stories like in the city where you are laid low as there are thousands of houses that are that are vacant to help us understand that. well here in lagos you find that thousands like you said thousands of houses are vacant and the reason is because these houses are just too expensive for ordinary people to

afford you can imagine most people here in lagos and leave on $2.00 a day and this leads to money how are they able to pay their rent and many of these long loads require that people pay at least a year old celina advance so that's very far reaching for most people be nigeria in nigeria or especially in lagos that's why you find that several houses have been built with they're just sitting there vacant nobody to see the actually leaving them because they're too expensive for an area people. push the rep it's also raised the issue of what she called the forced evictions of entire communities what is that all about. well there are communities in lagos and other major cities the main jury out where you have people who just said lean over the years it's a good example is michael cool life was just seen in the reports where hundreds and thousands of people are living on on on what's hour and this these are obviously

informal settlements that he's a city planner and in an effort to try to enforce the city plan the government just goes with bulldozers are wipes out entire cities and what you find is that hundreds of thousands of people i rent out homeless and i think the shocking part of the thing is that the government actually has no plan no plans for many of these people that are being evicted yes they are carrying out carrying them out of the slums and out of these informal settlements but what is the other option left maybe sleeping on the roads or having to sports meets family members ok financial i mean this is a multifaceted problem what is you'll government doing what action have we seen from your government should tackle this this housing crisis. well 1st of all there are no income government provided no income houses but even this no income housing us till very far reaching for an army of people and there are

definitely policies in place on paper but the implementation of them is where we really have a problem * for example in lagos non-lawyers are free to charge what ever amounts they wish to charge for their houses and nobody is going to call them to account for it because there are no regulations to guide how much it particular apartment or house should should go for so right it we're not really seeing much of government intervention in that area it appears as though the government does not yet recognize the urgency of the situation. in lagos for us thank you. it's true zimbabwe's capital harare away officials shut the city's main water treatment plant because they have no foreign currency to import chemicals needed to clean the water that has lived millions of the city's residents facing dry taps and

that's not the worst thing it's feared people will now result to fix the water from unprotected sources which could lead to the outbreak of water borne diseases like cholera now correspondent privilege will shine 80 is in for more on the story high privilege good to see you so you know better than than we do get that this situation of foreign currencies only compounding a water crisis that already exists in harare and perhaps broadly in the country. yes as you rightly say christine. their situation the lack of foreign currency in the country is compounding it's affecting almost every sector that is relying on importations if you look at the heresy to cancer at the moment they're using regiment of 17 chemicals to purify the water from lake shapiro i

think from the visuals you can see that. the water contaminated when i went to the dam you you you could you were greeted by you know a heavy stench you know from a distance of 500 meters to the dam we thinking that maybe you know it's something that is coming from a damn site but this is water that is meant for consumption so you can see that. you really need a supply of foreign currency weekly and monthly to court to decontaminate this water so that it is portable for drinking and for use in houses privileged. thank you. south africa we only don's company is arguably the best in the country and their latest production is said to be breathtaking and that's not even the story one of

their truth is a dance with a difference it's take a look. new summer target is getting ready to burst into the spotlight he's up next at the johannesburg theater motors the lead phone line the latest piece by south africa's most prestigious dance company the 1000000000 it dances. was was was dancing professionally is a dream come true and something more to never thought he'd achieved he lost a leg to bone can someone who's 11 or more does love for music and movement remained her are now. on our i was 15 i was a d.j. in being 8 this can lead to dancing as i was dancing to merge behind additional things and starting to love dancing and stoller frame told me how to dance to it if

i you know in a to get serious illness that it is you know as the traditions of before i was dancing as pooja and and buy into it before you can contribute i was much has been a full time dancer for a year now it's an outlet for his agility and physical strength he says it also proves his determination but as a disabled densa has to work harder than the other us full fulford trio able bodies to to catch something and it can take in the fresh seconds for me to go and take intensity you know that's only the difference yeah. yeah but for their country it. was. the when he isn't dancing motors a motivational speaker he wants to inspire others living with a disability to dream big. when he dances the audience isn't or

a fist effortless grace. you can even see on the on crutches i think that's one of the one of the things once i finally notice the moses like no way so it's just one of those things of it's not even a case of being on crutches it was a case of like once you know somebody like michael because they were just a dancer truth be told for me it was so amazing it's just a maze you see something like that it was actually it was a shock because you couldn't see maybe when you saw him it was like wow. hoping to make it big motor will be heading to new york next to our audiences there. was and that is it for alfie deputies afaik as always the cattle are stories on our website of page because we've seen all that dot say today will leave you with it. even after johnson the late nights i don't.

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