tovan is for her. is for the. beethoven is for cars. is for the beethoven 2027250th anniversary here on display. this is deja 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 any threats and to mobilize the president it google 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 christie will go to africa it's good to have your company south africa's president so rama has had to rip provide the country's finance mrs day fall. 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 personal property no now boy any further went on to say that that governor was

a good friend why do we do these things as africans the president give us the reasons why you dismiss 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 to muzzle that one 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 bank independence do you know what he's talking about is the independence of zambia central bank and that's right yes . by the way also served as a deputy governor of the central bank was done via so i understand exactly what you

don't know about yes i think it's correct to feel dr. the central bank independence is being threatened so for because of the monitor which they run it's been fired. and that we all feel it will doing a good job for it we don't think brownish and. obviously not shows that there's no dependence 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 the government of alternates to go down. boring. not moved. the government but even diminish the fun of this has been saying the same thing it's been stating the same things that there is neutral government. true story because it's getting lots of control that the leader of your party mr hockey in the

heat in the whole 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 san. it is an honest i don't mistrust everyone knows that i'm just going through severe economic problems. not just because of the corporate 19 like everyone else but because of the extraordinary amount of states indebtedness next number is. this time one would have expected not to talk with this if you're going to be problems experience. would have been required like that and just like the governor to steer around this problem and this is a man that was even during the peak. days when zambia and minot 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 month to deal with issues like ok rushing to dig in to take him out this time of year sort of such that it was under 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 at that number 0 and is this a classic case of power has corrupted the man. absolutely just to give you a specific example we don't we're preparing for actions we're next year. and much obliged 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 when no articles for this convention is for interparty elections they get arrested. ok but when the ruling party is doing the same thing they're allowed so how do you even start elect arresting baksheesh doing applied to elections in conforming to a different tradition that says i but you cannot go into another nation and this is a democratic process a strain on budget but you are trained to that should give a terrorist that this is just an example of the democratic state space that is shrinking every dish you know country. that is stopped says. he's talking to us after the countryside in zambia thank you so much for the time you've given s's. now in the next few hours the world 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 affects young children and can cause lifelong palace's 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 but that can be a challenge in communities where people are skeptical like. in northern nigeria. this simple can prevent a child contracting. some of the car is the nurse or job keep children from the enormous progress has been made in recent years she says. in the country i don't think. that nigeria as it is going to end well for years fisher has not true cool dude and new cases.

but hurdle 3 main to keep it that way. here in the northern part of nigeria 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 you haven't seen 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 others are supporting him and raising awareness going door to door one house at a time. when i could tell you. why the world health organization puts nigeria among the countries that have already k.q. polio. but if we follow the. think it's gone. there is a relapse that. these women have seen health care before but they did not take them seriously. we used to run away close our doors we were prepared to chase them away. the mother of 10 has vaccinated 4 children against polio since she met with. 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 have been able to become if you discrimination there are so many places you cannot assess there are so many teens you can not see because of. disability provider 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 poor you free 'd. and i am now joined by dr pascal off the world health organizations polio eradication program in africa welcome to adoption quite the congregation's firstly it can't be overstated how important this milestone is

you've been working on the efforts to radically polio in africa what did it take to get here so what it took to get here was a lot of leadership all the talk from the heads of state to the community is learning behind this cause as well as corroboration with the partners and involving or communities community leaders and families with a lot of investment for us to reach it has taken us more than 24 years and there's going to be units of the heads of state who wanted us all committed themselves that we should eradicate polio from the african region and has since the war they were simply declare that we should or you again congratulations to you but i want the dots of what will it take to keep africa polio free. so what you take is going to need leadership and commitment by everyone or so we need

to strengthen surveillance because as you know they steal what part of our us security in pakistan and afghanistan and if we're not very vigilant that virus can come back into africa and don't 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 that you don't 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 or at that stuff such as why doth the w.h.o. polio eradication program in africa now that that mission is accomplished i wonder if you're now going to be retiring thank you so much stuff for joining us here on these happy trees africa. thank you very much appreciate it thank you.

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