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hello i'm christine one the welcome to news africa it's good to have you along this behind me here. 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 reputable on rights to adequate housing she's just presented preliminary findings off to make a 10 day fact finding mission to nigeria 5 say and 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 said to be living in informal settlements the u.n. reports states that africa's most populous nation has a shortage of get this $22000000.00 houses so how are people living our

correspondent and if a char in lagos gives us a glimpse. lagos has been dubbed the mega city of slums and marco corner 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 were 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 he trains 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 2050 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 rolled 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 in informal settlements now that is because of several

reasons one of the reasons is because we have received an ted number of people moving from villages from rural areas so the cities just to try to find a better life to get a better life for themselves and so the cities are 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 settling wherever the confines of please do leave your 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 number 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 leave on $2.00 a day and with this lead to money how are they able to pay the rent and many of these long loads require that people pay at least a year old soon advance so that's very far reaching for most people the nigerian. especially in lagos that's why you find that several houses have been built but they're just sitting there vacant with nobody to see to leaving them because they're too expensive for an area people. furnish the records also raise 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 in nigeria where you have people just settling over the years good example is michael cool like was just seen in the reports where hundreds and thousands of people are living on on on what's hour and these 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 house no plan no plans for many of these people that have been a victim yes they are carrying out carrying them out of the slums and out of this inform us that's amazing 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 but what is you'll government doing what action have we seen from you will government to tackle this this housing crisis. well 1st of all there are low income government provided low income houses but even this low income housing still 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's 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 too 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 now 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 unprotect to sources which could lead to the outbreak of water borne diseases like cholera now correspondent privilege is for more on the story hi privilege good to see you so you know better than than we do here that this situation of foreign currencies only compounding a water crisis that already exists in herat and perhaps broadly in the country. yes as you rightly say christine. the situation. of foreign currency in the country is compounding it's affecting almost every sector. relying on importations if you look at the heresy to cancer at the moment they're using a regiment of 17 chemicals to purify the water from lake superior 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 it's 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 they have to come so 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 in how to thank you. south africa we any dance company is arguably the best in the country and the latest production is said to be breathtaking and that's not even the story one of

their truth is a dance with a difference let'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 form and the latest piece by south africa's most prestigious dance company the yani 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 tough love for music and movement remain . was not am now i was 15 i was a d.j. in the 8 distillate dancy as i was dancing to merge piano days you know things and studying to love dancing and stoller trained taught me how to dance really fine

you know in a to get serious illness that it is you know as if today is a before i was dancing as pooja and inventor yeah before you can do contribute 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 it is able densa has to work harder than the other this full force for trio able woodies to to create something and it can take them that fafsa gets for me going take me 10 sick you know that's only the difference yeah. yeah but for their country it. was. when he isn't dancing motors the motivational speaker he wants to inspire others living with a disability to dream big. when he dances the audience is an old fist

effortless grace. and you can even saw her on crutches i think that's one of the things once i finally noticed the moses like no way so it was 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 mine because they were just the dancer truth be told for me it was so amazing it was very amazing seeing something like that it was actually it was a shock because you couldn't see me the way you saw it was like. hoping to make it big motor will be heading to new york next to wow audiences there. and that is that south africa has always been casual our stories on our website. because we've seen all that dot say today. even after johnson the way. i didn't. fall.

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