deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotype that if you're single you trying to find out i'm right. here you don't see ridiculous grammar on their own you know it's all about their new primary job join me to meet the germans on the w. . post. this is dede every news africa on the program today the storm in a twitter post south africa's finance minister has been reprimanded for calling all december as president on twitter to trace and to mobilize the president a guy who didn't explain why he fired the country's central bank governor the way he has since backtracked but what is to be made off this development in zambia. and a public health milestone the w.h.o. is set to declare africa polio free will meet some of the survivors encouraging

reluctant parents to get their children vaccinated and keep the disease out. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company south africa's president. has had to reprimand the country's finance minister today for comments he made about zambia off as m.p.'s president at the will fired the central bank governor danny callia teachable weighed me off south africa tweeted that presidents in africa must stop this nonsense all waking up in the morning and fire a central bank of it up you cannot do that this is not some fiefdoms of your prophecy you know now boy me for the went on to say that that governor was a good friend why do we do these things as africans the president of zambia give us

the reasons why he dismissed the governor or else help is on its way i will mobilize. mr bowen has since deleted his tweets but he did say that he stood by his statement adding that the central bank independence was not negotiable so talk more on this we've invited doug says it will be able muzzle which went on to the program he served as the finance minister of zambia between 20082011 he is a member of the opposition united party for national development a welcome to news africa doc sept so south africa is fine as minister is insinuating that this is an issue of central back independence do you know what he's talking about is the independence of zambia central bank and that's right yes . by the way i also say if there's a deputy governor of the central bank of india so understand exactly what you don't know about yours i think it's correct to feel that. their central bank independence

is being threatened there's a 4 because of the monitor which they are running has been fired. and that we all feel it will doing a good job for it we're going to run ition. 3 not shows that there's no difference but you also believe that some of the states and it's not the government may have been issuing in the last few days of course in their government to put their name to go down. the flooring. that major annoys the government but even diminish the funds has been saying this incentives been stating the same things that there is need for government to me through orange because my goodness of control that the leader of your party mr hockey in the heat to name a will challenge president a guy who wrote in a column that the sacking of the central bank governor he called it

a now this sad development for zambia what is happening in zambia. it is an honest i don't mistrust everyone knows not so i'm sure it's going through severe economic problems. not just because of the corporate 19 like everyone else but because of the extraordinary amount of. indebtedness not shunned is. this time one would have expected not to talk with this if you're going to be problems good experience. would have been required like that don't expect the governor to stick around this problem and this is a man that was even during the. days when zombie are and may not african countries where every indicator was part of the team that's good so i'm going to let it be less so is an experience mind to deal with

issues like ok rushing to dig in to take him out this time of year sort of such that it was on the ok i mean this is this is the behavior all 5 of a president who who who who who knows he can rule with impunity almost to say and just to get support that we know that human rights groups have said that democratic freedoms have had been eroded in zambia and the president and the new mobile and is this a classic case of power has corrupted the man. absolutely just to give you a specific example we were preparing for actions were next year. and month to month process. in compliance with the constitution says that it is a political party themselves going to elections must go through that. must go through. a little elections but where no up articles for this convention is for interparty elections get arrested. ok but when the ruling party is doing the

same thing they're allowed so how do you even start elect arresting but actually doing into the party elections in conforming to a different tradition that says that you cannot go into another nation and this is a democratic process a strain on budget but you are trained do that shit give a terrorist and this is just an example of the democratic state space that is shrinking every dish in our country. right that is doc says most all the time he's talking to us after the countryside in zambia thank you so much for the time you've given us. now in the next few hours the old health organization is set to declare africa polio free the milestone comes 4 years after nigeria recorded the last cases on the continent now polio is a viral disease that young children and can cause lifelong paths in

a matter of. there's no cure but there is a simple vaccine that's highly effective so long as enough children get it at that can be a challenge in communities where people are skeptical like in in northern nigeria. this simple can prevent a child contracting. car is a nurse or job keep children. enormous progress has been made in recent years she says. that nigeria as it is coming to the end for you. has no true cool dude and new cases. but hurdle 3 main to keep it that way. here in the northern part of nigeria out there are so many conflict zones which are very

difficult to access for health care and the other challenges that many people here don't want to get vaccines. we are in the predominantly muslim north of nigeria it is widely believed the poor is a way to control family planning. the vaccine is just a way to harm people when they will not be healthy because of the vaccine. we believe it's connected to family planning to think there are other problems that are worse diseases like malaria. wants to fight these misconceptions he explains to these men he contracted polio when he was 3 in order to talk to the women of this community he needs to convince the men 1st it is a patriarchal society with its own rules fathers are supporting him and raising

awareness going door to door one house at a time. when the world health organization puts nigeria among the countries that have a ready case of polio. but if we follow the hands think it's gone. but there is a relapse. these women have seen health care before but they did not take them seriously though mark was so used to runaway close our doors we were prepared to chase them away. the mother of 10 has vaccinated 4 children against polio since she met with one. or 2 before we believed the polio vaccine destroys a woman's uterus. a father of 3 is one of thousands community mobilizes spread across northern nigeria back in his house after campaigning he tells me contracting the virus was hard but its impact and being

denied many opportunities in life was even more challenging once you have disability you be able to become if you team of discrimination there are so many places you cannot says there are so many times you can not because of disability while he wants to continue to educate parents so that no more children will have to grow up like him that's a mission that we want and he says not even when nigeria is officially declared poorly or free. and i am now joined by dr off the world health organizations polio eradication program and africa welcomes the adoption congregations firstly it can't be overstated how important this milestone is you've been working on the efforts to eradicate polio in africa what did it take to get.

so what it took to get here was a lot of leadership all the talk from the heads of state to the community is that in behind this cause as well as corroboration with the partners and involving all communities community leaders and families with a lot of investment. to reach it has taken as more than 24 years and there's going to regions of the heads of state wanted us all committed themselves that we should eradicate polio from the african region and. the you know what it is simply declare that we should eradicate or you again contract relations to you but i want it done so what will it take to keep africa polio free. so what do you take is going to need leadership and a commitment by everyone or so we need to strengthen surveillance because as you know this too well part of our us security in pakistan and afghanistan and if we're

not very vigilant that virus can come back into africa and when have very big outbreaks so we need to have very good surveillance so that we can actually disease as quickly as possible if you security and as well as improve immunization so that we have their children protected if the virus comes back we also have to ensure that you know we're protected by a vaccination so that we don't have any form of polio coming back or being made in the african region all right that's that's why they're off the deputy chose polio eradication program in africa now that their mission is accomplished i wonder if you're now going to be retiring thank you so much doctor for joining us here i did have interest africa. thank you very much appreciate it thank you. and that is it for now you can find more awful stories on our website www dot com for what slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter to see an extract of.

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