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and no end is in sight. in south africa, there was looting and riots unlike any before seen in the countries democracy. we also reported on the impact that climate change is having on the continent as a well lead as prepared for the semester that was expected to deliver. and there was the return of some of advocacy, cultural items from europe. the start of repatriation africans have long been porting for ah, i am eddie, my good junior and i'm christine wanda. it is good to have your company and eddie. it's good to be together. definitely. i mean, the last them away together was what exactly a year ago was the right time flies? definitely. time flies. and what?

yes, 2021 has been. we're here to look back on some of the stories from africa that dominate had headlines. that's right. and we're still deep within the pandemic, and that really continued to impact lives and livelihoods. and as the rest of the world rolled out, vaccines in their populations, eddie africa was left far behind. less than 10 percent of africa, or people in africa had been fully vaccinated. and that number is especially low when you compare it to other parts of the world. have a look at asia, europe with almost 2 thirds of its population vaccinated eddy. yeah. unfortunately, the such spark contrast when you compare africa to the rest of the world, but it's not just an issue of vaccine inequality. racine skepticism has been prevalent across africa, and many people are still hesitant to get that job. now, some governments are thinking about a possible solution. vaccine mandates. some of the coffee, 19 of mesa that i put in place in kenya,

i that you have to have your must gone. you have to sunny days, you have to maintain social distance. the positivity rate in that country is at 1 point one percent, and that's necessitated the government talk to you turn down some of the problems in mission that are put in place. the government has come up with a mac sin monday. we see that people have to be much submitted by to 1st of december and the minister of healthy. it is necessary so that they avoid floods in numbers, especially in the lead up to the festivities season. we talked to some other people and they're not amused by what their minister for held had to see about. the fact will open pizza neutral goes to force people to talk over soon. i know i'll be restricted, but i can't take time out to get vaccinated. when i need to be working to feed my children to some of their social, it's obviously that the government said people will not be able to access as from teens. 1st of december include the list of you sees bus services and event health

services, and we met with on the bus and as was actually going to border train right now. and he's just telling us what he thinks about that particular vaccine mandate by that minister for health for seniors to get maxine it's, i did not receive government subsidy is not fair. and $11.00 for the government faith that it plans to have attended vaccination drive where they set up vaccination booth. and they will use some of their facilities in the local government to be able to what's in the maximum number of reports. by the time the vaccine mandate takes effect, and if the government stays to do, it's what then it will mean for you to accept some of essential government services in kenya. then you'll have to walk around with accompanied 19 vaccination certificates. as proof of your moxie mason. so that's the report from can you believe that a number of other governments on the continent have done the same things? and bobby, for example, comes to mind, but i'm interested to know, eddie, what do you think about vaccine mandates? i mean, i think that it will generally help control the spread of the current virus,

but i think it's going to be definitely be more challenging on the continent. concern considering that we have a large informal sector. and i mean, imagine, you know, the police are security forces going around all these corners to check if people have been fully vaccinated. so that will be the challenge. but that's just one of the many challenges on the continent where i term all these challenges have highlighted the need for africa to produce its own vaccines. and actually, this is in the pipeline in yeah, for sure. you know, be correspondent and chris reports from south africa. it's the 1st for the continent. this inconspicuous building in an industrial area of cape town is the base for africa's m r and a vaccine technology up with wick scenes in short supply in africa. the w. h. o and cove x initiative, let the drive to set up a local technology sharing platform. that's one of the positive legacies of closing . we now in the last 8 months have seen this, this,

this massive funding available now by technology in south africa in captain, in also in africa. f regina, the company task was developing and producing m r and a vixen's. these are relatively new, but highly effective vaccines that so far, only 2 major companies have commercialized by on tech and more. dana f region was counting on a cooperation with more dana, the model was that we will receive a technology chance with 10 key technology transferred. but that didn't happen, so the team now is jumped in with our university partners and the knowledge base in south africa to develop our own back. see, one of the key partners is in johannesburg. the antiviral gene therapy research unit at winwood as rent university. they've been working on em, are in a technology since 2015 as one of the only research units on the continent. they are now sharing their skills and knowledge with african we have been able to take

information which is available in the public domain to work out how to p, madonna m organize produced. so we have the sequence and we have the context of that sequence which we've been able to reproduce. but of course, the purpose of that really is to use as a reference rather than as something which we want to try to use as a, as a product. so we would like to develop our own ideas and we are infecting that already. and compare that to the madonna vaccine vacant cape town. piot hotel launch is still hoping would. dana comes on board as this would speed up the process. madana has announced a pate and waiver while the pandemic is still ongoing. but afterwards, no commercialization will be possible without its approval. we would like to have a voluntary license to be able to charles of this technology to other learn middle income countries, to use the platform for other vaccines. h i. v. tv. a bo law flew this hub and,

and the capacity capability building here is, is, is beyond cove. it. so this, this in fact is part of a strategy for, from africa to produce 60 percent will vaccines by 2040. so this is part of building an industry to day. most vaccines used on the continent are imported average in that spot as aim to bring the 1st home grown products to market within 3 . yes. ah, another big story this year was the conflicts any b o p which has been going on for more than a year now after the government 1st launched the tax in the northern region of to grey los mill. hi mr. abby asked me, it was used intervention from the international community, insisting it was an internal matter that would be resolved within days one year into the conflicts. miss daphne, who is a no balconies prize winner,

was on the front line. that's why you see and it has been difficult to get the real picture because journalist are not being granted full access. but we know scores of people have died in this conflict rights group, say, massacres and atrocities have been committed. it's also a match that rape was used as a weapon of war earlier this year. how did of you report are in ethiopia, gained access to the war zone and sent us this report? wow. you may find some of the content disturbing. she's just 20 years old and she's a rate survivor now she's found refuge in the safe house and to grace capitol mckelly here more than 20 women are trying to deal with their trauma. they were raped by soldiers. so was she assaulted in her home village before she fled? an algorithm? it's m r doesn't i came to every house enforced the men to leave and i heard nothing. i was left inside in my home until then they wait. oh no margery soldiers

raped me. after they left me, i fainted harder because i was bleeding so much like a fit and modesty them for some women come here from the cities referral hospital. most of them are suffering severely from the violence that our woman who have rectal pro lupsi women who have bleeding will have pain in their stomach. girls who are not terrible psychologically, the psychological trauma doesn't actually only happen on the victim. it happens to you as well when you hear their stories. the to gray people's liberation front is battling the future national army. i'm hara and airy trend forces and also believed to be involved. fighting alongside the

government troops and michaela survivors accused both ethiopian and airy trends. soldiers of raping them in a single month. the city's referral hospital has received more than 150 rape cases . several women have come to get an abortion. this woman is over 3 months pregnant she was raped while trying to walk to her family home outside of mckelly when the fighting started in a diminished head at a head furiously did try to scare me on. we don't care about you. they said we only listen to our urges. i didn't say anything well after they had done what they wanted, they left, so i put my clothes back on and took all my bags and went out in the hospital, struggling to cope. doctors had been pressured not to make the cases public, but one gynecologist did speak out. it was berry at his beard, and really the lusty there. many. ah god, alyssa gave him, but not as it allows, but as unto his sexual transmute that deserves. we suppose that all my thiefs,

that us, it is all about. i really do anything to graze into them. government has promised to investigate the cases. it says it is boosting the regional police force to try to bring the perpetrators to justice. but many women are still trapped in their villages. so there's great concerned that the majority of rape cases remain unreported and that they are alone with their trauma. now, in south africa, civil unrest into other countries, biggest provinces rock the country, the riot and in luton, was sparked by the jailing of the former precedents to consumer. but it was fueled by the western poverty and inequality in the country. now, christine wanderer, you are they in all of that action? tell us. that's right eddie. i mean, i have reported on a lot of protest in south africa, especially pertaining to service delivery. were communities come out to get the attention of the authorities asking for water, basic services, but this was something i had never seen before. and what it did, it is it opened

a conversation in the country about the levels of inequality. it's something that we all know that in south africa, you have wealthy people, super wealthy people, and very poor people, and the people. so all right, people looked at those images on the television screen and south africans realize this is not something that we can continue to read more anymore at the fact that there are so many people going was out on a daily, in the very same country where they can see excess wealth. and so that was really some of the, that the powerful things that came out of that, you know, just listening to this national conversation emerge, people demanding more from the government. so while the world was, was looking at what some people reduced to pure criminality and south africans realize that, you know, there are a lot of people in the country that are going without. and among those losing, of course, yet people looting flat screen televisions, he would ask, okay, what does this have to do with you? going to be hungry at night that you also saw younger than this, particularly struck me young girls going in to take basic items like sanitary pads

. that tells you like what the situation is for people. one of the main reasons also for one of those going on was because former presidential consumer was in prison. that's right. and this is really what spark that because the former president was incarcerated. he turned himself in and literally hours after that, you had people assembling a different parts of the country in these 2 provinces in wasn't that out and in the province and it took hours and then you had the masses, the mobs reading shopping centers and at the key areas, factories, etc, but the rest of the war president also sort of came as good news. it was welcomed by lot of people because what it showed the country was that nobody was above the law and that had been a long prevailing sentiment. this is a country where corruption levels, especially at government level, are exceptionally high, and there is just the feeling that people get a slap on the wrist and that was it. so mr. zima was in fact, it was effectively incarcerated. jailed for refusing to appear before the probe

into corruption during his time in office. so people saw that in felt, well, he doesn't even respect the law. and so when he went to prison for refusing to appear before that probe, that really gave a lot of fun africans and renewed sense of hope that there is a justice system that it is effective and nobody is above the law that was really at the message there for people and they hoped, and people told me that we hope that people in office today will think twice before they get into dodgy deals, stealing money, getting into those corrupt in the deals that have really crippled the country. now christine climate change has been a mother big topic this year as the world experiences some of the most extreme weather patterns on record from intense rain fall flat on heat waves and greenhouse gases from human activity like burning fossil fuels and generating electricity are contributing significantly to these hazards that is right say m j africa has been

responsible for less than 4 percent of global emissions, but it is by far the most vulnerable region to the effects of climate change. and experts predicts that most parts of the continent will experience much dryer conditions that's already the case in parts of kenya. northern can you to be specific which have not seen rain for more than a year. this as dw correspondent mario miller reports. these mothers have walked for hours to reach this health facility. they want to have their babies checked. some of these babies are severely malnourished, and their mothers were breastfeeding them. haven't been able to eat properly in weeks. now they are being registered here to south facility. and they hope to receive nutrition supplements. one of them is a decay, know his upper arm circumference shows that he is severely malnourished. his mother

has only eaten mace meal for weeks now, so her breast milk doesn't have enough nutrients for her baby. i've ordered and it gives me great pain. my baby is 2 and a half years old, and he's too weak to stand up. health worker, gracie lamar has seen a stream of undernourished children here in the past months, and a and many other children who remain without help. are there no decor center that due to distance? not all malnourished children come here because of the distance. we can't reach out to all of them. it really makes me feel bad. hulahan. nearly one and 5 young children, and mercer county are considered malnourished. life in the arid region has always been hard, but now mar, submit hasn't seen rain for whole year. climate change is said to be partly responsible for that. and it's the children who are suffering that is

a strong relationship between climate change and the minute tricia. and especially if already there's been mild tisha, then it t escalates my increasing the numbers and also embassy, the etc. the frequency and severity of droughts in this region is expected to get worse, due to climate change, a disaster for local pastoralists, their livelihoods depend entirely on their animals. this camel heard a tells us he's been looking for water for his camels for 2 days now. in vain. and these women often have to wait a whole day just to get water. now there's less water flowing out of the tab, and that's the day they cannot spend searching for food. that is,

when food is available at all. selina melissa has hardly anything to feed. her son is painful, but i have to accept it. i can't feed him properly to give him what he needs to grow. then the young mother hopes the reins will finally return stories. i can really difficult to watch any, but it is important that we remind people that climate change drove even more and more people from their homes in africa this year as changing with patterns and natural disasters like floods destroyed people's livelihoods. now a lot of attention was on world leaders and the commitments that they would make to address the crisis. but we, we spoke to young people in africa about the action that they would like to set. so that's why christine, we want you to hear from one young woman we met at a cop 26 climate conference in glasgow identity lattice you from nigeria,

set up an initiative in her home country to inspire young people to protect the environment. now she told us why she feels so strongly about young people play in an active role in combat climate change. yeah, it's very important because i've been seeing that i'm making bringing them in a week. also, no doubt we'll be in the family and i believe that if you don't know that the problem is, is you can't solve the data. you told me, does that we need to change your mind never shows. and that is why we need to bring them up in the be through. i mean that he had enough archie, but i cannot believe just how many coups and attempted cruise we saw happening on the continent this year. they were coups and guinea in asia, in chad. and in molly and always suffer correspondent frame of when you travel to many of those countries. and he was in measure which is besieged by islamist

violence in itself and western regions. and there he found that children were among those bearing the brunt of the insecurity. hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes there for safety. yeah, unfortunately, christine, by those who stayed back often can't access agency monitor and assistance. we are hindered by increasing g hardest attacks. did abuse west africa correspondence. fred, when you traveled with unicef to e, come for displeased people in all, am one of the regions affected by the violence. oh, it's lunchtime, but some of the children are not eating. now. that is not enough for everyone. so they take tons the days when they all get to me is a good day's talking lay well when i, when my father was alive, we had enough to eat and we were grateful to god. but now we don't have enough food . always the wife that she that was being raised just by her father.

when terrorists came to her home 3 years ago, she saw how they tied him up and shot him. she was just 9 and couldn't winecoff. they pushed my father in front of the shop and then they killed him. you know, they left our neighbor tied up and just left you the home. that's when ha and co statin taking her and her sisters along with his family, out of the region to this camp in while i am. she would like to take them all home and we need security with them. we could return to work in our children, go to slowly move them, and hospitals, cont, vancho, eve, the military, good potatoes in our villages. our library would be much better pebble when the family has been here for 3 years. that's

a quarter of russia does life. they are just a few of the millions across new jed incomes like these. one of them that you and says more than 4000000 people need humanitarian assistance in asia. more than half of that number children. but these remitted access to these communities due to the rising freight across new zed without foods, shelter and education, especially for children. their future is at stake. kids like these are getting biz calve from eunice if it's appealing for more than 100 me and us doris to fund the work in asia. but there is no for medication for a sheila and other children at the camp have around what i want to be

a doctor that i it my real desire. my father used to help people when he was alive . i mean, the people here suffering without health care came up. so i want to study and be a doctor then. uh huh. that will become more difficult for her there. august. she's stuck in the camp without being able to go to school. yeah. so you can tell that a young girl as a dream of what she wants. that's right. yes. right. and this really is the future of a continent. she is the future of a contract and a step in the right direction has to be made when it comes to retain and looted artworks to africa. or the people in a republic or been in hub in celebrates in their return from france of 26 artifacts . sterling do in colonial times. that is right. this sacred treasure is include drones and tow tim statute is that were looted by french soldiers. more than 150

years ago and other countries have also announced that they will return onward soon after camp. jimmy's new government actually wrote that in the recently signed coalition deal. that's right. and that's how we wrap up this special edition of d. w. news africa, we'll let you revo in some of these magnificent problems. we'll see you next time. i for now at the holidays. thank

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