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sustainable production. all of the sos are available online and of course you can share and discuss on g.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now . africa coming up on the program. sometimes we eat once a day sometimes when we find some of the sources we eat twice in a day. the u.n. says it has never seen anything like it 45000000 across south africa threatened with farming and the culprits as climate change. tensions mounds in given the sour house one of 2 presidents have resigned himself saying his life is in danger we look up to countries that never ending political crisis.

this weekend in south africa. the 53. teams the site. i could you know and here with us your 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 africa are threatened with farm in the west affected countries. zambia and zimbabwe the main cause of the unfolding disaster climate change for the past 5 years in the region have been rising twice as fast as the global average. chronic lack of rain. the situation in

people in that country struggling but also adapting by changing the way they farm. so that she could feed her children at least one meal a day. sometimes we eat. sometimes when we find. a severe drought is gripping the area around where inside the. humanitarian groups are ending out beings it's 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 they are only.

out. it has rained recently but don't be fooled by the greenery crops have been failing for years he 45000000 people are at risk of famine in southern africa according to the u.n. world food program 4 hours drive east lies the dam which produces around 40 percent is and is electricity but now because of the drought the turbines can't produce enough power. 2020 we're looking at a target of $275.00 megawatts so that's about. 25 percent. to be. what it was. lower rainfall is forcing families to change their methods he now plans different varieties of crops and also uses

a water meter 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. secondly this is how we put our children through. the roof. from a daily meal to school attendance and the economic growth around is having spiralling effects that are hard to stop. joining me now is sergio nelson found out of the association of environmental and human rights journalist in . the. meantime for the time so quickly tell us what kind of struggle do affected people go through every day to survive. thank you for the porch unity

something about this rug. we have been facing literally i will look around like. production water resources human health and though we have been facing regarding a cost system and the energy and the folks in for obstruction because all of this kind of problems actually lead to the main problem which is regarding to prove it to somehow and that's why i quoted a climate change is one of the biggest there topical lately that you took. all of our attention to find a solution for the problems we're facing is good as. well as you can see lately we have been facing 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 like condition it because we mean like a breeding. challenge us actually to think twice about the. actually about the burning of fossil fuels. the greenhouse effect. 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 a fork in zone a stone 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 this people

living. this kind of. people are not the rate for a sickly about change because if you are not really was if you if you underlies it for example in the course areas you could see that they are. so separable for for food for example so i called ask you how can these people without picnics without knowing how to change because the face of this problem so i think the our governments need to embarrass throughout the years but i'm not talking about the political talking about the practical so we could help these rural community people to face this problem and find their way out so they're called. 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 us out has had 9 cools or attempted coups in 84 markets and he's colony in west africa is one of the poorest countries on earth iran our vote and of this was meant to draw a line under the past but it has triggered a new political crisis in the 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. you know i swear by my honor 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 you need to sell i will basically respect my duties of my office i swear it. with. just a day later no makers in parliament which is dominated by the party of them by his challenger school 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. good union minerals. i'm taking into account the death threats against me my bodyguards i have no security here but i was just citizens not decided to take this decision to avoid

confrontation between the forces on one side and on my guards on the other side you see and also to avoid a war. to avoid a bloodbath in my country. the west african economic regional block request has called for an end to the turmoil and threaten to impose sanctions on those in guinea bissau hampering efforts to establish political normality. africa's a big soccer match that's what the babby celebrate said 50th anniversary over the weekend of kaiser chiefs travel to orlando pirates which is always a big fun town to dress up and show up for fans 90000 people packed the stadium and created an atmosphere that was both ferocious and friendly and the kaiser chiefs won. the. sons of both sides were at fever pitch ahead of sub-saharan africa's biggest game. they're

just not that result of research that has brought out every player that they know to do as such they have to win the day you can make your cardio oh you can't do you good yet today the class is going to suffer today because the do not fret or search you get very high as that dot dot i was table topping 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 helps you a one know win for chiefs. group this. week who was too good to go i feel like i've been robbed by their good people at the credit goes because that's a good people. but despite the tension funs managed to keep things good natured

both during and after the game. no up nights we are like this with. a game is a game we have to know that sometimes we sometimes we lose. 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've you know i would solve all of those fine. just off the alarm go pirates in black and white and the kaiser chiefs in black and yellow see you same time next time i find out.

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