w. . people for information. they want to express g.w. on facebook and twitter. and in touch follow us. coming up on the program. sometimes we eat. sometimes find. never seen anything like it 45000000 across africa. and the culprit is climate change. tensions mount in getting the south to president resigned saying his life is in danger we'll look at the country's political crisis.

weekend in south africa. and besides. i. and. you're welcome to the program now it's a crisis on a scale never seen before according to the united nations the u.n. says more than 45000000 people across south africa threatened with farming the west affect the country's beak zambia we are the main cause of the unfolding disaster climate change for the past 5 in the region have been rising twice as fast as the global average. to

a chronic lack of rain we look at the situation in people in that country struggling but also adopting by changing the way they from. lizzie walked hours to fetch the food aid so that she could feed her 4 children at least one meal a day. sometimes we eat once in a day sometimes when we find some other sources we eat twice in a day. a severe drought is gripping the area around where in southern. men are tearing groups and ending out my veins is the 1st distribution in the area . food shortages are also affecting schooling. 72 is in my class. this. days that visit to the m. word for today only. last.

statement. it has rained recently but don't be fooled by the greenery crops have been failing for years here 45000000 people are at risk of famine in southern africa according to the un world food programme 4 hours drive east lies the career of the dam which produces around 40 percent is and its electricity but now because of the drought the turbines can't produce enough power. for the year 2020 we're looking at a target of $275.00 maybe. the 25 percent. to be. what it was. lower rainfall is forcing family. to change their methods he now plans different varieties of crops and also uses. if these new measures fail

it threatens his family's future. when. they are no formal jobs in zambia so we have to farm to have food to eat and. secondly this is how we put our children through. the water. from a daily meal to school attendance and to economic growth around is having spiralling effects that are hard to stop. joining me now is nelson found out of the association of environmental and human rights journalist in. time so quickly tell us what kind of struggle do affected people go to every day to survive. thank you for the porch unity something about this ride.

we have been facing literally i will look around like. production water resources human health and though we have been facing regarding the core system and the energy and difference in for extraction because all of this kind of problems actually lead to demean problem which is regarding to prove it is somehow and that's why i quoted a climate change is one of the biggest or topical lately that it took. all of our attention and find a solution for the problems we've been facing is actually emission climate changes of course i was coming to rule as a really plead in all of this. well as you can see lately we have been freezing like many problems regarding for example. discovering of different species of a species we're losing the sea is that we're losing the forest the quality of

a condition it because we have been like a breeding. so these kind of. challenges actually to think twice about. actually about the burning of fossil fuels. to greenhouse it's. clearly clearly it's real and we have to fight it but tell us how are people having to to change our way of living to adapt to the challenges they're facing. well it's complicated if you try to analyze how people without the literature without indication of dealing with climate change because we're not talking about climate change actually somehow we're just for. people living in the inner cities we're not talking about people living in the rural areas i think the most important thing is to think of how these people living or facing this kind of.

people are not the raid to face a clue about change issues because if you are not really was if you if you underlies it for example in the course of the areas you could see that the. bullet for for food for example so i called ask you how can these people without picnics without knowing how to live. because let's face it it's a problem so i think the our governments need to being embarrassed about that but i'm not talking about the political talking about the political strategy so we could help these rural community people to face this problem and find their way out so they're called. face these problems with many problems. and they're now getting to the brink of

a political meltdown the small west african nation has in the last week seen 2 presidents being sworn in only to within hours have one of them resign citing fear for his life and concern of the looming bloodshed getting this hour has had 9 cools or attempted coups 184 markets colony in west africa is one of the poorest countries on earth iran of food and of this was meant to draw a line under the past but it has triggered a new political crisis in a nation where the military worlds huge political influence. the mattress is so cool in battle the electoral commission declared him the winner of the december 29th runoff election. but the former ruling party disputes the outcome it has lodged a complaint with the supreme court which has ordered a recount the outcome is pending. despite the votes raul

and barlow went ahead with his swearing in ceremony last week in a hotel room where you know i swear by my owner that i will respect the constitution and laws independence and national unity i will dedicate my intelligence and my energy to the service of the people of guinea-bissau and i would greatly respect my duties of my office i swear it. with. just a day later no makers in parliament which is dominated by the party and by his challenger swore in their own men interim president cypriano kasama. in a show of force and battle head the military occupy state institutions. after a mere 24 hours in office interim president kasama resigned. who knew minerals. i'm taking into account the death threats against me my bodyguards i have no security here but i was just simply says you have decided to take this decision to

avoid confrontation between the forces on one side and my guards on the other side to go eat or sleep and also to avoid a war. to avoid a bloodbath in my country. the west african economic regional block eco west has called for an end to the turmoil and threaten to impose sanctions on those in guinea be cell hampering efforts to establish political numb ality. africa's a big soccer match there so whether that be celebrated 50th anniversary over the weekend with kaiser chiefs they travel to orlando pirates which is always a big fun chance to dress up and show up for fans 90000 people packed the stadium and created an atmosphere that was both pharaoh's just unfriendly and the kaiser chiefs want. sons of both sides were at fever pitch ahead of sub-saharan africa's biggest game.

does not absolve the reader it is true of every player that they know to do as such they have to really you can make your car your own you can't do your career today the class is going to suffer today because the do not fret whatsoever to get there it was that i was people talking chiefs were looking for a win to boost their bid for a 1st league title in 5 years while pirates knew victory for them could reignite their own championship challenge. little wonder then that supports as went through the agony. in the end a heroic goalkeeping performance help seal a one nil win for chiefs. that group. with group was good to you and i feel like i've been dropped by the good people at the credit goes because that's a good people. but despite the tension funds managed to keep things good natured

both during and after the game. no up nights yeah like these the. game is a game we have to do that sometimes we sometimes we knew it's. easy to say perhaps when your team is top of the league. well that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page so we leave you now with some more of those fun. top pictures of the pirates in black and white and the kaiser chiefs in black and yellow see you same time next time bye for now.

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