well you know every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word emerged in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn with them simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nikos free german made easy. this. coming up on the program. virus very few cases have been confirmed in african countries so what is the risk of algebraic on the continent and would all countries be equipped to deal with an epidemic we speak to experts also coming up. education is an expensive privilege for many across africa why young woman in nigeria is helping to provide basic education to kids living in the slum. plus the.

gentle and gigantic but these schools also will be facing extinction if we don't make some important changes very soon. it's great to have you on the program so how prepared we are virus will be seeking in the show for now africa has been spared by even major outbreak of the disease so far there's been just 12 confirmed cases that's in egypt tunisia algeria morocco nigeria senegal but is this because that is these has not spread all because it has not been detected that's the $1000000000.00 question the world health organization has wanted that countries with poor health care systems may not be able to cope

with an outbreak would many in africa being off particular consent. screening has been introduced at most major african airports and border crossings using mechanisms already established during the apollo outbreak in west africa from 2014 to 2016. comes to the new coronavirus health officials know early detection is vital if an epidemic is to be avoided. even if it even airlines normally somebody that you're fluent in for months and they begin from the airport but all it's taken for them to go negative. so as we talk in uganda we still don't have anybody thought about us in senegal which has so far reported 2 confirmed cases people are buying up sanitizers and must some pharmacists say they're running short already. there's a certain panic which even though it doesn't look too serious for now seems to be

increasing. airlines from many african countries have suspended flights to and from china now kenya has also cancelled flights to and from northern italy. testing facilities on the continent have been increased meaning by now most countries able to test. the capacity of countries to address this outbreak has improved extremely in the last few months while we've been working with countries however as medical workers across major cities are preparing isolation wards and hospitals their concern remains most african health care systems do not have the capacity to deal with a large scale outbreak of coronavirus. now let's go have a quick chats with dr mary stefano the regional office for africa in brazzaville republic of congo dr mary many thanks for your time now africa has recorded very

few cases by the international community is awarded why. good so as you know where the outbreak started in china and it does spread to different countries and of course africa is also at weeks because of the volume of travelers between africa and order affected areas so the like you would that would be importation of cases into a very high and they might also be worried because. of the for ideality of the systems enough. and also the population we have in africa but just to assure the world that we are enhancing our level of preparedness in africa so we can take the test is and also respond appropriately ok now of 14 african countries are not have tests in the equipment for cohen our virus

that obviously is a challenge how prepared are we. oh ok so you are right so we have right now $34.00 countries that have the capacity to test. and knowing many countries. helping them to prepare and their capacity to confirm $1000.00 beauford also do not currently have the capacity for christine . we are encouraging them to send a big habits or sit suspected case to say they are samples to their newborn countries and also the kind of sending samples to dereference now brittney's in south africa and still in dhaka so in terms of we've heard this at the beginning of the outbreak we how far assessed the capacities of all the 47

countries still fall under argued of literature you know office for africa so we pretty much ignored the capacities that the countries half and so we are helping them to enhance capacities in places where they have some weaknesses so we have already deployed response to some of these countries and they actually open then we were really pleased to do assessment again to see how far they help poor girl is in terms of ok ok ok so clearly there's a lot going on ok in an hour now and let's get a bit practical here a lot of people are panicking we see that all the time people are wearing face marcell in their hand sanitizers have run out so so give us 3 major points for individuals how can prevent themselves from contacting the virus. so to prevent. oneself from conducting no co no by us 1st of all we talk about a sore show this season so you still want to me. and also

a hand washing with soap and water or we use hand sanitizers to make sure that clean and also if one is coffee in upward use of. coffee in socal by your nose we dish you on book disposing of the words or use the . call to sort out we prevent spread of muscles to people around us ok i'll tell you what i'm going to wash my hands and use a hand sanitizer right up that is interviews are ok. you know when you go ok i'm ready to go thank you very much. mary stephen with the overage in our face for africa in brazzaville many times for a time. now basic education is very important so it becomes a challenge when many across the continent can not afford to be educated that is

the case and i jerry where many children are unable to make it through primary or secondary school bought thanks to remarkable individuals there's always hope our correspondents flora's to go out takes us to lagos where one young woman is providing basic education for kids living in a slum. a quiet stay in. one of the most notorious slums in lagos gangs drugs and street fights i usually the order of the day at a very young age kids mostly learn how to make it through these tough streets going to school is a privilege that many cannot afford 20 year old teacher lose our museum was among the lucky ones with the help of a swan so she was able to make it through secondary school and university but it was a real shocker. so it was all for me i got to experience schoolchildren fights

in one cor. it was hard for me get it's a fine piece for granted in verse after. school everybody seemed to want to. now rule committed to helping other kids from me and it's together with her sister and we've help from several n.g.o.s she set up is really our school it's a no cost school that provides basic education for children in the so i was. overwhelming in getting this kid. to gain rights cannot conduct textbooks and no longer write like auntie auntie and c.d.c. did that. to. some of them are giving us textbooks now kanaya she promotes interest free on lunacy skewed parents only have to pay $15.00 us to last part and many of them still meet up

rose recently introduced the recycled piece system to high school it's a system that allows parents to pay for their children's fees using recyclable materials that are easy to find here like plastics on my lawn. missy's is one of the beneficiaries of this program a single mother of 7 children she says she can only dream of a brighter future for her children. my own time. to be happy with this. very happy new rose hopes to be used in a city that. children. very

beautiful creatures right but giraffes in sub-saharan africa declining of more than 10 percent a decade according to giraffe conservation foundation the gentle giants are already extinct in 7 nations but only around $100000.00 left in the wild a group of african nations including kenya ethiopia and zimbabwe are working together to help stop the giraffe becoming extinct altogether it's a silent extinction according to conservation it's that's getting too little attention well giraffe populations are plummeting over the past 30 years we've lost about 5 percent of the dreadful pollution we now have about a 110000 us remaining in the wild so in draft language that means we've lost we've lost about 35 percent of the population in 3 generations so that's a quite steep decline. tallest animals are disappearing many due to the loss of the

natural habitat but not only the 2nd threat especially for giraffes is the sustainable hard to buy the process of. all saw our ports she is a big number we sent a very warm very we fall that a number of. giraffes. imported to europe and the united states of america saves energy rubs 7 african countries proposed a concerted action plan can your cameroon china if you object turns any end zimbabwe are now working together to collect information protect giraffe migrations routes and secure funds for their conservation with one hope that the decline of the syrian giant will be halted. well the. news africa you can catch all aust always on our website facebook page so we'll

leave you now with some more pictures of the gentle giants called giraffes next time. don't miss our highlights. program. w dot com highlights. closely. carefully. to.

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start with an explosion of energy in the form of one nicholas kurla he hails from fire in southern germany and even though he's only 15 years old he's got star quality on stage as a dancer all at the recent world dance cup in baja guy in puerto rico he was named dancer of the year from a field of 6000 participants not poetry in motion doesn't come easy. you let go you let your body do what it wants. to do everything to take the audience with you.