good morning good. to see sunny culture to. do it yourself network. subscribers don't miss. the good. news after that coming up in the next 15 minutes a taking time bomb in. way fears of famine all growing up to floods destroy cops and kill livestock the u.n. warns the lives of more than 5000000 people could be at risk. and helping people get back on their feet also take you to the clinic in guinea bissau that's become a rare beacon on hope in one of the poorest places. in traditional healing in south africa it's a 21st century make but not everyone thinks it's. hello

i'm christine window welcome to news africa it's good to have you along there is a race against time in south sudan with warnings that parts of the country could tip into famine in the coming months devastating floods that submerged entire towns have destroyed crops and killed livestock the world food program says 5 and a half 1000000 people facing hunger next year. she bore the capital of ball must state is normally a flourishing town but since october when unusually heavy rain started falling nothing is normal anymore. you know. i've been destroyed by floods.

people. so most of. the been destroyed the whole market. is really covered with a lot of human private been destroyed and disappeared you need. to know this situation is not just causing hunger but could also threaten the fragile peace in the area violence between rival ethnic groups has decreased of late u.n. engineers repaired roads relinking areas where the groups live but now because of the floods these roads are no longer usable people fear this could have dire consequences for stability who made their peace. we need their movement. to move. so that they we discussed about how to make peace then. come here.

and with violent international aid organizations like the world food programme are delivering emergency aid but much more is needed just much worse than we anticipated and in fact if we don't get $100000000.00 in the next few weeks and next month we literally are talking about a famine in the next few much the floods have inundated vast areas of fields and postulant wiping out harvests and drowning tens of thousands of goats and cattle as a result 5500000 people are expected to go hungry in this region in early 2020. we're going to go over to nairobi where journalists there joya foster is standing by she has recently been in south sudan for reporting bochum to africa joya so how dire is the situation in the country from what i can see it's

very dire i went to visit the region we don't hug a zone which is the north west of the country you know the sudanese border and most people there are subsistence farmers everyone i spoke to had lost either entirely or partially the cuts that they need to survive i spoke to a 28 year old woman for example a mother of 4 and she told me that she had lost all of the crops and her storage of food and she her in a family and are living in a small hut that wasn't no tension built for the storage and she says she really does know what to do and how to feed her family in the coming weeks and months and how are people being helped well enjoys of rushton many people are getting food aid from jug of pune other n.g.o.s and a lot of people are living in temporary shelters as well because they lost their homes and some n.g.o.s are also giving our financial aid so that people can buy some of the most needed items joy how is the political instability in south sudan

affecting the situation. well the country's been in war for many years thousands of people had to flee they lost their livelihoods and they were already credibly vulnerable the folder flooding that was a peace agreement signed last year and by and large there hasn't been much fighting but a lot in security and you know i'm sure whether this piece is going to hold a deadline for a unity government has been pushed several times the deadline is not temporary but it's unsure whether the government will be standing by then or whether they'll be new fighting so there's a lot of security a lot of areas are still not very easily reachable fortunate erin workers and many n.g.o.s have told me that the government isn't providing a lot of the service that's that people need and a lot of these things schooling roads medical services are being provided by u.n. agencies and n.g.o.s. i mean joy just listening to this reports as if you know when

you think about this nation south sudan the youngest in the nation in the world there's been famine there's been disaster political instability fighting one wonders if things can get worse for the people of sudan but how do they see things well it really struck me in the conversations with the people that is how little and how unable people are. planned for the future. and the people i spoke to i think about the next few weeks the next few months how to feed their family but there's very little and people can do to think about how they can build on their lives and how they can improve on their lives so i really feel like in order for that to change their needs to be real long term peace and security. that's journalist joy foster thank you.

the west african country is one of the poorest places on earth there are few hospitals that the health system barely functions yet atlantic for rehabilitation there has become a rare beacon of hope for people with disabilities and problems largely funded by the international committee of the red cross it creates thousands of patients from across the region lisa ellis reports from. turning things around. these people are learning how to move again they've all suffered strokes and there's a physical rehabilitation center in guinea the sound west africa but it's a clinic with a difference it's a track's patients not just from going to the sound but from across the region by offering a service that is unique in west africa. we provide free treatment for everyone there is universal treatment for everyone who needs it even if they are vulnerable or very poor if they cannot contribute to get it for free.

clinics offer of treatment for free for those without means is unheard of in this region it's especially unusual for going to be sound one of the poorest countries in the world and a place where most have no access to even basic health services. the standard of medical treatment across going to be sour is very poor this center offers people with disabilities hope that they otherwise would not have. it's made possible with financing from the international committee of the red cross. they also found a prosthetic sweatshop in the 10 nick and train it staff. the organization stepped in to help and 201220 to the south was going through a period of political turmoil. the center originally opened to the 1980 s. at this time most patients were amputees who'd been injured in the country's war of independence. today many of the artificial limbs are still made for patients who

died by landmines left over from conflicts in neighboring countries. now though patients are just as likely to have lost limbs through traffic accidents and like this man diabetes a condition staff say is increasing because of poverty a bad diet. that runs in the play it started with the wood and then the wood became gangrenous i came to the hospital and the amputee to below the knee and then the same thing happened to the other leg. whatever the cause of the disability doctors say their goal is to help patients start moving again so that they can continue their lives. now traditional healing in south africa is getting a 21st century old the whole sum he is all using social media and smartphone patients remote but as you're about to see not everyone in the profession is happy with the

technological twist. the end up part 2 is seeking help of a traditional healer traditionally this would have meant going in person but these days she's able to consult healer d. by simply calling him. for advice every year around the same time members of her family become victims of car accidents. jay's said to me that there was a family member who was involved in an accident some time back the correct rituals for this person who died in the accident weren't followed. almost to follow through on these rituals car accidents will keep happening i need to speak to the older members of my family to see who this family member was who died in a car accident around. 80 percent of south africans consult a traditional healer 1st before turning to

a doctor consulting healers by social media and phone is becoming increasingly popular south africa's traditional healers organisation is about to take things a step further introducing an ep application which will be tailor made you know for certain interests and for certain specific needs of patients that cannot afford to travel to iraq because they don't have money some of them because they're too far from the patient some of them because they're too to walk out of the bed but days approach is proving controversial with some he list for a number of reasons. i don't support it the president didn't trust neither him mean it's about quantity and we took that in spirit it's not something that you can just do it well all over the phone i can pick up some spirits over the phone but i'm not allowed to tell that person because i don't know

their state of mind he let de those sees things differently or this is not a human thing this is a spiritual thing whether you are fallen yet it doesn't matter it's about me knowing you're climbing. has not abandoned face to face consultations just yet patients also still visit in person but for him the process is the same he burnt the traditional plant called in papal lights this candles and connects with the ancestors to find solutions. and that is it for now from days every news africa catch all our stories on our website and facebook page well leave you now with a chance to offer additional across africa so next time i'm back to.

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