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an unusual movement of fish sparks, a frenzy among anglers in south africa. we witness the action and find out why they are pulling out all the stops. and that's a big catch. ah, hello, i'm told me or let it go. glad you could join us. africa is facing what's been called a brutal resurgence of the corona virus pandemic. the world health organization says the new wave threatens to be the world yet at least 14 countries are facing an exponential growth in infections. and unlike the during the last surge health care systems in several regions are struggling to cope. making matters was, is the emergence of more infectious new cove in 1900 variance and a shortage of vaccines. less than one percent of people have been inoculated so far . africa, the top public health official. john candice on said. it's

a disaster in the making. we are running behind time. yeah. because we their value is ahead of us. let me put it bluntly, we are not really in africa. we are not in africa, these batter against virus. it really doesn't matter to me at this point, but other vaccines from callbacks or from an engine that we need is rapid access to about seems to be invested in a moment. we'll hear from another top african health official who says it's unconscionable that rich accomplish countries already vaccinating a dollar since when some of the most vulnerable people in africa potentially facing death. first though, the w. my married mother reports from one hospital in kenya, trying to cope with the onslaught of the 3rd wave. screams for more oxygen, the intensive care unit, and consumer hospital. one of the biggest in kenya. yes. nurse nicholas piano has

seen a 3rd of his covert patients die. you might think of if you might think the patient is improving. they may talk to you in one second and then they just collapse and die. the i see you is for a piano and his colleagues overwhelmed, they just lost another patient with the hearing patients calling from oxygen here in this intensive care, you mentioned about 15 people who are struggling for their lives and we just had to witness how the body has been removed out of a room full of patients and as it can see, the same as quickly being filled again. the hospital director is worried. they need 5 times more oxygen and far more high flow oxygen machine than they have. and we in africa need those high flow devices. they're very expensive for them. we lose lives that could be saved because these devices are not available. house officials believe the number of corona virus cases is much higher than recorded,

especially in villages, where people can't afford the transferred to a hospital. you know, come on. come on. true. well, jennifer, a witty bird. her youngest sister, 2 days ago, it went very fast and says a bad headache, fever, shortness of breath would be when it all started on a sunday when she felt unwell by the time saturday came, it was too much for her to bear. she was taken towards the door and the same day she died. death has come to this village resident say, there's been 50 barrels here in recent weeks. the only oxygen plant in the region has reached breaking point and won't be able to meet an increasing demand. i'm getting so many calls from the person will need to do or need to be done

home people of the regular does, don't use them as far as possible. then the next few minutes. that's a little be gone back as soon was a little. there's some good news, a patient who's been dependent on oxygen for weeks will be released soon. somebody should not. your cut out and that is not, this thing is really when you want to take life, just try to remove whatever they're giving you. where you are in sentiment, then you feel it's luck was on his side in the health system, so overstretched. luck as what these patients will need. let's speak now to a professor the lim abdul karim is an epidemiologist. he recently chad, the south africa government task force on cove at 19 and he joins us now from durban. professors, could you good to have you on the program? what's your greatest concern right now relating to africa and covert 19. i know

it's a vast continent, but, but what, what are your greatest worries right now? well, when we look at the current situation, the number of cases in africa going up quite rapidly. these little question that africa is currently grouped in the 3rd wave. the number of cases have been rising about 20 to 25 percent weak on weak. right now we have something like about 14 countries in africa where they are now in rapidly upward trajectories update the weights of africa itself as a rapidly rising number of cases, parts of the country, and already experiencing quite a lot of pressure on the health care services and of course, all of this is occurring against the backdrop off, you know, health care services that are somewhat fragile. and in the midst of an overall low

vaccination rates because of lack of access to vaccine doses. now we've seen the rise in cases of are all as you mention, but cope 19 has not been as lethal in africa as elsewhere. do we know why that is? africa dealing with the 1st wave tended to have a wave that really wasn't that. many people thought it might be there, all kinds of doomsday predictions of millions of people in africa dying, but we really didn't see any of that. and now we have a better understanding that due to many factors that we don't necessarily understand all of them. but among them is the general usefulness of africa that gives it some level of protection because the, the disease is most severe in the elderly. and africa has

a small number of elderly individuals that we do not see the same kinds of pressures in the hospitals in many countries. however, that's balanced in that. there are parts of africa that have come and have high prevalence of co morbidities like diabetes and hyper tension. and so that practice in as well. we don't fully understand why the cases and the death haven't been as high. some of its relates to under reporting. but even in the presence of the reporting, we haven't really seen overwhelmed hospitals in many countries in africa. so i think the youth dividend is what we'll scribe it to for now until we understand it better. right. and we've talked about the shortage of vaccines, the low deployment. what risk would africa oppose to the rest of the world of africans and not vaccinated soon? and their risk of africa being cut off from the world be at

a very fundamental level. there is a misconception and misunderstand me about covert 19 code maintain is a pandemic. it is a disease that knows no boundaries. if one just takes any one of the variants within a matter of 3 months, they've already spread to $100.00 countries. so there is no scenario in this world where can she can go on the basis that it will vaccinate it's population. and that all will be well, while the virus spreading rampantly in the rest of the world, that that is not winning scenario. we have to teach covert 19 as a panoramic and we've got to suppress the virus and the tons mission of the via this globally, if we are to make an impact. and so we really need to deal with it in that way. and

that means equitable distribution of back it. it is not a solution where one country hordes vaccines and vaccinate its own population. indeed, it is unconscionable to me that some countries are really vaccinating adolescence while you know most countries in africa haven't even yet completed vaccinating their higher this health care workers or the elderly professor asylum abdul karim, one of south africa leading epidemiologists, speaking to us from durban, still to come on b, w, news, africa, few people know exactly why millions of sardines start moving along south africa coastline at about this time every year. at the fisherman, they know that they want a piece of the action. and the french military is accused of failing to reveal the

true number of civilians killed and its mission in the how to nigeria. and now and a slum community in lagos, it's residents mostly make a living from fishing. but the younger generation could change that. many of the children are in a quest to be educated and hopefully transform their families, fortunes w's. fred move, one year, reports from the school, trying to keep their dreams afloat. harmless may feel the market is one of the most densely populated in their good. it makes you how's you do? tons of unfounded by floating around 7 m kids that i for school one by one they took from the bought some have, they've told me with an stomach those who are enough get breakfast here.

michael was fishing. community is one of the place in the country. but the fond of the only school is trying to make change happen through education. and in order in this, they will believe in fishing, what an educational i don't want to miss. the nurse will fall into this category as always, school. when he started the school in 2009, many parents were not interested in sending their children to see the source of livelihood here in michael, most of the people here in this community have no formal dedication background. so convincing parents was saying that kids the school was out of whack. for no, i said the with the arrival of the coffee, the 1900 pandemic know, as school, like many others had to close. must children where st. fishing by their parents to

make ends meet like in the old days know are hard to find ways to attract kids, but to fill up on a bit as a school window damage. and we are smart, serious. we have incident school that we use into teachers. what do we do? a lot of it because what it is, sometimes what we do we've got to do because for them to do this group who called me morning just calling us when she now has more than 200 students, children who have bigger rooms than their parents unless they've been in the future because i've been with the things that they've been through the market because i've been i just made it, should i? my father was me. i'm not going to become if he could be only lawyer.

noah seem pretty cold. these children will keep coming because i saw that dreams like he's not completely out of reach. certainly hope those dreams come true. france recently announced that it's ending its military operation against its limits, militants in west africa, the hell region. paris launch operation barton 7 years ago to try to upper roots to had as from several countries, including molly, but can also nisha and chad. now france says it's not abandoning the region and will retain troops on the ground as part of a wider international force. but critics say the mission was struggling to achieve its goals. on their way out, these french soldiers had finished best entered molly, and soon the operation they've been part of will come to an end to over $5000.00

french troops stationed across the region for operation bar can launched in 2014, its goal was to push back islamists, militants gaining ground and influence. but the mission hasn't made the progress that was hopeful. in molly, she had still control suede of the country and the situation remains volatile across the region. for some that's caused a call for france to stay. is it there monday afternoon to best i ask everyone with a little bit strange to let these foreign forces cooperate with molly and forces to cooperate with our armed forces in order to be able to complete this task, which impatiently awaiting us. but many welcome to change it up. i want to know what i'm worried about. sure front is to our advantage. because since the french seeing that we have not seen any improvement,

we only suffer from day to day. i'll say the french mission was always a tall order. it covers more than 5000000 square kilometers across west africa, expert se securing such a huge area is almost impossible adding to the difficulties. there are also accusations that french troops have killed more civilians than they've admitted. for now, though, the french aren't completely going away. the plan is they'll be part of a new mission that relies more on regional and international partners. as you had that frances operation in this a hell has experienced a number of challenges, a group of investigative journalist is alleging that paris is also failing to be transparent about the number of civilian casualties. a recent investigation on the website, the new humanitarian says, there are many incidences where the french troops have claimed to be targeting to harris,

but in fact have ended up killing innocent civilians that speak to patricia law. a journalist who worked on that investigation patricia joins me now from johannesburg. south africa, france is accused of killing innocent civilians and it's the how operations patricia, what did you find out in your investigation? so we've been working on that investigation for almost a year or so. we've been several months in many, we interviewed a lot of witness to survivors. and then we looked at the document and basically what we were looking at is, what is the tv and torque of friends and tga, the war in may. so that was that event center in january where there was the trench strike and 22 people were killed. and one of the french were saying that they were all terrorist but then other people like witnesses. and also

a report from the united nation and investigation from them was saying that actually among 222 people were. busy killed 19 were civilians, so we our sub spoke to people from one team, a people in cocoa so they are headers captain breeder, one of the men was in the sixty's, another one in the seventy's. and like they, they story like even the details were really matching. so what the thing is that is what's the wedding and to 19 to be, have been killed. but then the french are saying no, they were or terrorist. and they refuse to, they say we have the proof or it's like the images from the throw. and that's what i'm doing. observation that they, they refuse to share those images. so it's like, well they take a word for it. ok, patricia on that note, you know,

the in the hell johanna are often said to be sometimes embedded in local communities. so when you have the french saying what they're saying and you have your, the people you spoke to giving an alternative view to it. how is it impossible to independently verify whose account of the casualties is accurate? well, it takes to really complicated to like, since 2013, the french army has recognized that they killed 7 q b. and by mistake, we actually like in that investigation, we came to the conclusion that number is probably of 50000000 that have been killed. and that's my young me the tip of the iceberg. so let me give you an example. and we had sex that document confidential document that week. and

so there was an internal document from bobcat and in that document, it was stated that the video was killed in may 2020. so the guy wasn't, wasn't the mother. basically 2 other people. he came close to french, shorter, they saw us, the terrorist, they shot him, the men and women clearly say, then they realized you was a tv. so a compensation was paid to the, to the family to be and that that event was never made public to the french on the publishing press release on the regular basis. but they will talk about the good news, the successful operation. and sometimes say for example, like the also very vague to terrorist have be neutralized toward that rather than just learning about overall, patricia,

the french are making the exit. we're hearing the news that the operation block on coming to an end. what impact will be exit? have on the security situation in this a hell of a abandoning this region to his fate for no president, my call has said that he once to put an end to kind of a ration in its actual form. but of course, it's not going to happen in one day. france is not going to throw the 5000 soldiers to having this ahead for one day to another. but yet probably some of the troops will we leave and what friends would like to see other european countries being more involved. but many of them stream the reluctant to send troops in the country most, you know, that it seems more and more obvious that it's not going to be sold by only by your

military intervention. ok, patricia was a journalist based in johannesburg, south africa. thank you. oh, now for a story that is making a splash in south africa, fishermen that have been on the alert for weeks now looking out for the movement of billions of sardines along the coastline. the sardine run, as it is called, is a phenomenon that is not fully understood, but it happens most years. and for those fishermen lucky enough to net a big catch, the rewards are great. as b w address increase reports, this isn't an oil leak. it's a shoal of sardines, fishermen, gerald michael and his team a waiting for this warm. okay. yeah, no, that was within seconds. everything suddenly gets very hectic. so i wouldn't

want to go by what i call saudi feel. everybody got to read and shack. yeah. yeah, yeah. right, every year between june and august, the saudi and move along the east coast of south africa following the cold currents in the indian ocean. bigger hungry fish follow them. and so do the fishermen. the closer the shoals of sardines gets to the coast, the better. the chances of catch sightings in the middle. the better thing on the road

is huge disappointment when the net gets caught in rakes. most of the sardines get away. rough put of course it off a few kilometers further on. another team has more like throw and catch us. 150 crates worth of sardines in a net 2 thirds of the fish i sold for more than 2000 euros. the rest goes to the team, it took a chance, took a gamble and paid off. and like you can see, that's obviously, as you know in this game, it's very dangerous. as you can see. having to myself, i had a cable, go through my leg. and that's the name of the game, will play what shocks, rocks net, rough seas, everything. but if you can get the fish, you can make some money. for gerald tobacco and his team,

the 1st thing to do is repair the net. and then go home, empty and bed to bed. 3 bad luck. everybody, i suppose, and they get according to buckle. saudi fever should be around for a few more weeks. center goals and louis jazz festival is back after the pandemic man. it was cancelled last year for the 1st time and its almost 3 decades history, musicians, and jazz love us from across africa and around the world are enjoying live music again for the coastal city of saint louis in northern senegal, the festival is providing much needed economic the city of so far, not being haunted by coven 19, but after months of restrictions, music is bringing back to life. now that's it for now, be sure to check out other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa, or on facebook and twitter. we'll see you next time. bye for now.

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