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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 christine. africa it's good to have your company south africa's president . has had to rip provide the country's finance minister today for comments he made about zambia off his m.b. as president at the little fire at the central bank governor danny callia teachable wynnie of south africa tweeted that presidents in africa must stop this nonsense of waking up in the morning and fire a central bank of it up you cannot do that this is not some fiefdoms of yours your personal property no now boy any further went on to say that that gov was

a good fit why do we do these things as africans the president give us the reasons why he dismissed the governor or else help is on its way i will mobilize mr boyd he has since deleted his tweets but he did say that he stood by his statement adding that the central bank independence was not negotiable zichal more on this we've invited to be able to enter the program he served as a finance minister of zambia between 20082011 he is a member of the opposition united party for international development a welcome to news africa dog south africa is fine as minister is insinuating that this is an issue central bag independence do you know what he's talking about is the independence of zambia central bank and the. yes. by the way i will serve 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 that. their central bank independence is being threatened those are for because of the money about which they are going to. fight at. best and that we all feel it was doing a good job trying to we don't think they spun ition. of us 3 not shows that there's no need brendan's but you also believe that some of the states and it's not the government have been issuing in the last few days of course in the government to put their names to scale down. flowing. and that may have to annoy each the government but even diminish the finalists has been saying this in thing is been stating the same things that there is need for governments truly true morally because it's getting out of control that they are all fuel pazzini and mr hadley in the he to name a would challenge the president a guy who he brought in

a con and that the sacking of the central bank governor and 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 that i'm going through severe economic problems. not just because of the corporate 19 like everybody else but because of the extraordinary moment today it's indebtedness not shunned. and that 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 you governor. to steer around this problem and this is a man that was there even during the. days when zambia and minot african countries where you're going to judge was part of the team

that's good so i'm going to let it be less so is there no 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 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 will and is this a classic case of power has corrupted the man. absolutely just to give you a specific example we were preparing for the actions were next year. and month to month process you can see the point 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 bunch where no articles for this convention

is for interparty elections get arrested ok but when the ruling parties in this country they are allowed so how do you start elect arresting baksheesh during a party elections in conformity to a different tradition that says that you cannot go into an election and this is a democratic process as within your own budget but to try and do that to give a terrorist this is just an example of the democratic state space that is shrinking every dish in our country right that is doc says to me so much time he's talking to us from the countryside in zambia thank you so much for the time you've given us. now in the next few hours the world health organization is set to decay africa polio free the milestone comes 4 years after nigeria recorded the last cases on the

continent polio is a viral disease that mainly affects young children and can cause lifelong palace's in a matter. 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 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 i. don't feel. that nigeria is going to end well for you or fish or. recorded 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 another challenge is 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 due to 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 cagey polio. but if you. think it's gone. but there is a relapse. these women have seen health care before but they did not take them seriously the markets were 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 one. before we believed the polio vaccine destroys a woman's uterus yeah. 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 cities you can not have 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 polio free 'd. and i am now joined by dr pascal off the world health organizations polio eradication program in africa welcome to adoption quite their congregations 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.

so what it took to get here was a lot of leadership all the talk from the heads of state to the community is letting 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 to themselves that we should eradicate the african region and since the war didn't simply declare that we should eradicate or you again congratulations to you but i wonder dr what will it take to keep africa polio free. so what you take is going to need leadership and the commitment by everyone or so we need to strengthen

surveillance because as you know this to you what part of our us security in pakistan and afghanistan and if we're not very vigilant that virus can come back into a freak i 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 know we are 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 starts up as the w.h.o. as 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 on these happy trees africa. thank you very much appreciate it thank you.

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