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superman. superfood stylish starlight come on. let oh who's. lifestyles go. on. this is news africa coming up on the program. virus very few cases are being confirmed in african countries so what is the risk of the mosse i'll break on the continent on what all countries be equipped to deal with an epidemic we speak to a w.h.o. experts also coming up. education is an expensive privilege for me across africa a one young woman in nigeria is helping to provide basic education to kids living in the slums. the rain gentle and

gigantic but these drops called 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. in the show for now africa has been spared by even major outbreak of the disease so far they have been just 12 confirmed cases that's in egypt tunisia algeria moral call 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 mean africa being particular. screening has been introduced at most major african airports and border crossings using mechanisms already established during the a ball 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 loving a flu and cough dollars in 4 months they may begin from but all its numbers are taken from them they were 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 masks 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. the airlines from many african countries have suspended flights to and from china now kenya has also canceled 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 doesn't marry many thanks for your time now africa has recorded

very few cases by the international community is 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 likelihood that would be importation of kisses into a half week is very high and they might also be worried because. of the for ideality of the systems in africa 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 a guess and also respond appropriately ok now about 14 african countries are not

have are testing the equipment for corn are virus that obviously is a challenge how prepared are we. oh ok so you are right so we have right now for countries that have the capacity to test. and know in many countries we are helping them to prepare and their capacity to confirm 1000 boe for dos and do not currently have the capacity for christine. we are encouraging them to send a big habits of search suspected cases to say they are samples to their new born countries and also the kind of send the samples to dereference laboratories in south africa and still in dhaka so in terms of we've heard this at the beginning of the outbreak we how far assists the capacities of all the 47 countries

still fall under argued of literature you know office for africa so we pretty much ignored. 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 the i hope in the end we were really pleased to do assessment again to see how far they help or goodness in terms of ok i do ok now goes into canada as i have going on ok then i'll now let's get a bit practical here a lot of people are panicking we see that all the time people are wearing face masks here and their hand sanitizers have run out so so give us 3 major points for individuals how they can prevent them saw some contact in the virus. so to prevent . oneself from conducting noko know by us 1st of all we talk about a sore show this season so you still wanted to me because they were good and also

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 so called by your nose we book quickly dispose it afterwards or use the. call to sort out we prevent spread of our souls to people around us ok i'll tell you what i'm going to wash my hands and use a hand sanitizer right after his interviews are ok. you have to go ok i'm ready to go thank you very much dr mary stephen with a w. h. or regional office 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 cannot 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 flourish 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 abject only one of the most notorious slums in lagos gangs drugs and street fights i usually the order of the day active very young age kids must learn how to make it through this tough streets going to school is a privilege that many cannot afford 20 year old teacher who's our museum was among the lucky ones with the help of a sponsor 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 experience school children fights

in one cor. was hard for me get it's a fine piece for granted in verse after. school everybody seemed to want to. now rose is committed to helping other kids from unity together with her sister and we've help from several n.g.o.s she set up is really not a school it's a no cost school that provides basic education for children in the song was. overwhelming getting these kids. to gain rights from not a contract takes weeks and no longer like auntie auntie anthea decided this is that . thanks to some of them are giving us textbooks. promotes tristan louis skewed parents only have to pay

$15.00 us to last part and many of them still struggle to make up rows recently introduced the recycle pay 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 mrs carr is $1.00 of the beneficiaries of this program a single mother of 7 children she says she can now dream of a brighter future for her children. you. know when my own same. ladies. don't you know this. happened this. very have. rose hopes to be used in a city that. children are. very

beautiful creatures right but giraffes in sub-saharan africa clamming up more than 10 percent a decade according to giraffe conservation foundation there's a giant 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. 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 mainly due to the loss of

the natural habitat but not only the 2nd threat especially for giraffes is the i was a state of ohio by the processes of. all saw our ports shoot is a big number recent very world. we follow that a number of. giraffes legally imported to europe and the united states of america to save your rats 7 african countries proposed a concerted action plan can your cameroon child 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 about the phone now from did a new software guy you can catch all our stories on our websites on facebook page so leave you now with some more pictures of the gentle giants called giraffes also

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