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your welcome to the program east africa is in the thick of the brutally unusual rainy season and it's set to get worse tropical storms i expect that to hit the region in the coming days 4 weeks torrential downpours have triggered landslides and flash flooding that that toll stands at 250 with some 3000000 affect it growing fears of starvation and disease outbreak the wet weather is due to warmer temperatures in the indian ocean in a moment we'll get the latest on the response from nairobi but 1st this report from the submerged kenyan village of. these floods may have killed scores deprived thousands of their homes you know they

threaten to wash away the dead. not if these villagers have anything to do with it . any less moaned. a bomb goes late wife. we're putting big rocks on top of the grave to prevent the cotton from coming out due to these floods. the darn pours have only compounded the grief joseph married his wife just last week oh you mean at least the person buried here is my mother in law when we woke up we found that the water was almost removing the coffin from the grave. with the greed fixed or no attention shifted evacuations. is on the we and like many here david a group who is desperate to get his family and their things to higher ground. but

no one here can escape the devastation this extruded weather has unleashed. we don't have farms to cultivate and even our cows were taken away by the flood waters so we have a big problem. the our jewish rebuilding process will have to wait for now survival is paramount. for more on this our correspondent joins us from nairobi kenya. so clearly people still need help how much support are they getting from the government. at the moment it's truly very difficult to gauge because this is a situation that is and falding as we're speaking so government is sort of trying to do preventative work as well as search and rescue but there has been quite a little bit of money that's been pumped into this the government of kenya has put in the equivalent of about 2000000000 u.s. dollars and i do know that the u.n.

emergency fund has also contributed 3 $1000000.00 so quite a lot of fundraising being done in and around this issue as i said as it's unfolding so what is the main challenge of people right now. right now for the ones who have survived obviously it is just that initial trauma some of these people have lost not just their homes but family members life stalk their entire life you could because we're talking about entire farmlands being swept away this is their main source of income and beyond that it's where to sleep where to get food these are all institutions which have been sucked away so we're seeing seeing a situation where people are conversing rather converging desperately of schools and hospitals but these simply not enough to go around so we're seeing quite a bit of respiratory diseases and fording and there's still a big question as to what will happen to that number that still being added let's

talk about long term effects here what long term effects cord all of those have on the region. well we do know that there will need to be a serious pump on infrastructural redevelopment roads and hospitals which have been swept away as they said but the immediate threat is diseases malaria which is a radio on the rise in some of these regions is now threatening to take back rather to take up more lives and more of a bigger concern in the region is food security this is a region the horn of africa which has just come out of a drought and now there are floods the food that was supposed to be harvested will no longer be there so there is a huge huge concern on food security not just in kenya but in neighboring somalia and south sudan as well ok now more rains are expected throughout the month of december how prepared is the region to handle it as you do

not very in fact the governments of kenya together with the governments of the countries that i've spoken spoken about asking for international assistance and this is not something that was expected it's not unusual to have rains at this time of the year we call them the shore trains but to have them be so rather the water levels to be so high is what is unexpected and we're being told it's because of the heating of the indian ocean so there's a huge conversation or a bigger conversation to be had about climate change and how to mitigate any of these future disasters ok either the money you correspondents in kenya thank you. now national museums are supposed to reflect the nation right but what happens when lots props about history in collections around the world many facts where take you know we do in the colonial era it's a question being asked in the democratic republic of congo where your new museum

has just opened its doors. it is vestiges of the congo's past on display in kinshasa 12000 pieces trace its history this is d.r. congo's new national museum. the building was completed in june bankrolled by south korea it replaces the old national museum which has long suffered from poor conditions and neglect. when president felix you see katie inaugurated the new museum he expressed the wish that artifacts removed from the country under belgium colonial rule be returned. though many former colonial powers are reluctant to repatriate african art. it's one thing to demand that return and another to preserve them the idea is there but it needs to be done gradually. if we need to recognize the belgians helped us

to safeguard the art so we can't just take it all back it must happen in an organized manner. much of the art in question is housed here at the africa museum on the outskirts of the belgian capital brussels king leopold the 2nd is colonial rule over the congolese was notorious for its brutality based on racism and extracting resources the belgian museum recognizes that many artifacts were gathered during military campaigns and it says it's open to the return of some items if they're found to have been acquired illegally. but for kinshasa it's about doing what's right not arguing over legalities. you should do it's legitimate for belgium to accept the restitution of the artworks because the artifacts do not have the same significance. to you because you know that it's not just about geography it's about culture it's about returning the works back into

the culture of the people. in the museum opening ceremony it's korean builders say they hope the museum will forge a sense of national unity but critics of the project have said it's been less about what's inside and more about the building itself. congo's government has yet to officially ask belgium to return any artifacts but if they do arrive the congolese have a new home for their cultural heritage. now that is the mountain gorilla the way on the brink office things but after a concerted campaign the number of mountain gorillas in rwanda has begun to increase the total number has risen from 680 a decade ago to more than 1000 today there are states as a stream from critically endangered to just endangered so how did that happen here's a closer look. it's

a very rare sight this mountain gorilla is one of just over a 1000 left in the mountain forests spreading across congo uganda and rwanda their numbers have increased significantly in only one decade thanks to close tracking and constant monitoring health births wounds every movement of every single gorillas recorded. to disability right but i've been busy on the list to be named. and. every baby gorilla is named in an annual ceremony in one of the villages bordering the forests these ceremonies have become hugely popular. and if. we don't want to solve the protect the park with the guns.

protected of course of this park with people who understand and. that is a possibility that is wet and the that is on a. very. sustainable course of action strictly regulated guerrilla tourism has created a sustainable income with tourists paying a $1500.00 u.s. dollars per visit the government still has 10 percent of tourism revenue from volcanoes national park to build infrastructure and surrounding villages including health clinics and schools to date about $2000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into funding village projects 21 year old. loves the gorillas in his free time he works as a porter accompanying tourist to the guerrillas. once i'm done with my study i want to become a god i want to make money so i can look after my family. consideration

is praised for its concerted efforts to save mountain gorillas from becoming extinct but they also warn that after all gorillas are still considered endangered it. now talking about rwanda until our ism the government signed a 3 year deal on wednesday with friends. to assure he visits rwanda no go on the ban as and shits on that a deal p.s.u. will promote rwandan products he saw as close to the french club says the deal is worth around $10000000.00 euros critics say the deal is about thames why the government to cover up he wanted rights abuses in a country where dissent is suppressed. that's it for now from data news africa you can catch all our stories on our website on face book page we leave you now with mall pictures of lots of fights on the d

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