a green revolution on some, absolutely necessary. europe revealed the future is thing determined. now, our documentary series will show you how people, companies and countries are we thinking everything, making later changes because you are a 3 deal. starts november 3rd on d w. this is deed of the news africa coming up on the program. nigeria wade through it's west flooding crisis. in the decade, much of the country is swamped and more than a 1000000 people have had to leave their homes. we hear from some of them and also discuss what caused the floods. also coming up, it's the opposite extreme in the horn of africa, which is once again experiencing prolonged drought, are reports,

a visits one northern canyon community that it's particularly hard hit them bob way looks set for a bumper harvest. this year's record breaking wheat crop is expected to even yield a surplus. first floor it, john can guess on. top honors for leading africa responds to the coven, my team pandemic. among other achievements, dr. john kanga san speaks to dw on the recognition and his experience handling the unprecedented crisis. and it's kick off time in syria known as the country's top flight nationwide football league for women. get on the way with i'm told me or lady ball welcome to the program. a humanitarian challenge is a edging in nigeria as the country experiences its worst floods in

a decade. $33.00 out of nigeria, $36.00 states are affected by the rising waters. entire communities have been submerged, losing their houses, their fields, and their livelihoods. so far more than 600 people have died and at least 1400000 people have been forced from best of merged homes. the country experiences seasonal flooding along these 2 main rivers every year, but on a far smaller scale, it's a different story. this time, take a look at this section of the major river as pictured in june this year, and compare with what it looked like earlier this month when the river burst its banks, some communities of witness water levels of up to 13 meters. we'll discuss why the situation is so devastating after this report by d w's flourish chimera. this is what the rainy season usually looks like in an ambrosia, in southeast and large area. and this is what the same community looks like now.

swollen weavers have inundated numerous towns and who midges across nigeria, causing a 1400000 people to flee their homes for camps set up on higher ground. we're suffering but suffering is better than stealing. that's why we're here in this condition. the close that i'm wearing and the only ones i have left, the flood carried away all our belongings. neither. i knew them, i have an acre of farmland night now by and i bought a bag of manila for $40.00. i planted rice one and 2 days later the floods washed everything away. lujan all our schools have been destroyed by water. so our plea is anyone that can help us should help us. any one that your help with should help us please. what help is slowing arriving many

roads and bridges are washed out. traffic chokes. those routes that are still possible, delaying the delivery of the fuel and food supplies around the country. when would you and don't with the checkout we have just returned yesterday from delivering goods in the capital, a boucher and we're back here and we haven't even gone an inch. what about, oh, look, our end used as crumbling to help where they can just care about. the situation is heart wrenching who they are was. we have families where a single mother with 10 or 11 children has lost everything. what is the biggest challenge that currently is the shortage of food. such a family needs more than one bag of rice premier and they eat 3 meals a day. and she many people in hard. he'd stay like an amber as steel waiting for assistance promised by the government to all right. we'll do domain manager,

hub and bomb and not see any results with key infrastructure swallowed by water. many of the flooded communities are without power, and people's generators have been destroyed. critical infrastructures such as schools, health care, santa as police stations, and banks can't or police. and with the number of farmlands that have been destroyed, their concerns about foods kasey in the coming months is lender as gov meant blames most of the floating on on seasonally heavy rain. but other factors play a role. the lad, good damn in neighboring cameroon, opens its gates every year, releasing excess water that flows into nigeria. but nigeria has failed to build a dam to manage the overflow. the nigerian government says that though they

received early warning signs of the flood, they never foresaw at this level of destruction and south eastern nigeria is at risk of flooding until the end of the rainy season. in november. i'm joined now by adequate into in ottawa. she is an environmental researcher at queens university and canada. welcome to the dublin years africa darker. now you've been researching the reasons for nigeria is flooding. we know the main rivers in the country flood annually. why is the situation different this time? yeah, this is vision is the friend these time because of this kill and magnitude. so why major a sponsor on offloading dca will had very bad flooding and don't dissemble experience is kind of flooding last was in 2012 and who have similar factors. so in 2012 there was release of 1000 lire, them some from came in. so does the same. they see. so even though the swan in are

the official reports, will half of the nation. how many still water resources tells us that the flooding we are experiencing is not due to any, is not related to any dam release, but due to rain for so have hiring fall dcea so so higher rainfall means the dams get full and then they get released i mean, we've had a lot of rainfall before it is, it's exceptional this year. so apparently they've had very, very, had a normal reinforce and this is one of the impacts of climate change as experienced nobody glue. what is a very important to differentiate the dynamics of nigeria flooding from the global claimants? you know, i mean us climate change is part of employees, just a very tiny piece of the, of the puzzle in the flooding problem in nigeria. so the main reason for the study we are currently experiencing is the lack of infrastructure and planning. what kind of infrastructure we talking about that needs to be in place and what kind of planning are you should be in place to,

to prevent this kind of flooding regulation. so if you, if you don't enforce them, the people do what they do. so you can say people are developing floor plans then. secondly, there's also infrastructure engineering infrastructure that should be in place to help me to get logged in as the practice on the body. sadly, we don't have that in nigeria, so that is why the flooding is very, very serious. and i want to be what kinds of are you same engineering infrastructure? what exactly are we talking about? can give us examples. yes. you know, yeah, various forms of engineering infrastructure that helped me to get floating. so you could have resolved was you could have dams and actually in this flooding, waste bearings in gary pause that there is a drought niger i supposed to be many for many decades. not that we don't still have in place, and yes, so many engineering as engineering designs i can put in place to help control floating for example, in the need a lance lance is very prone to flood and so they have a lot of structures in place to control flooding, but sadly, sadly,

we don't even have anything. so i'm not saying we should have the type of infrastructure in the last house because it dynamics that also the frame will have nothing to actually help us if that's the mission of defense of floating. so that is why you see every in nigeria, most of us in terms of it. and is this resulting from the lack of a strategy? o, c is due to the lack of trust ag, even though we do not have the flood race management on the scene, please. i say this because after 2012, those who had the governments of how it was disaster, risk management agenda and flooding is number one on this list is the priority. also how the nation i was up on the see. wait, understand the need for controlling for wanting, eat, acknowledges are flooding these traits. so while, while there are some places we do not have also many audits will have that acknowledges the risk offloading the importance of preventing floating post. sadly,

these are not implemented. there is no political will to implement what we have spoke there with a dock who attended. she's an environmental researcher at queens university in canada. from too much rain in west africa to none at all in the east. the ongoing drought in the horn of africa is the worst to hit the region in 40 years. 4 consecutive rainy seasons have failed in northern kenya, which was already one of the country's driest areas. it's particularly tough for the communities that many of whom have to rely on their livestock for a living. as the ground has become even more barren, hundreds of thousands of animals have already died now with their livelihood gone. the situation is becoming dire, especially in kenya's to kind of region as d w's. felix marina reports with selena taylor has 4

children of her own and also takes care of her sister's kids. but with a drought she has been unable to feed the large family at times even skipping meals . know how fireplaces call it. in the cooking ports are mostly empty. how children i surviving when food shift coverage is good. i have to go to the bush and collect wild fruits code, and i seeing the children whist away is causing selina unbearable pain. their sick claim, most of the time they go to bed on an empty stomach and i just feel terrible how husband joseph once had so many goods and cattle that they filled this enclosure and money he used to and from selling meat and milk was more than enough to feed his family, but the drought has killed nearly all of his talk. no more to norman while i, i am all eloquent,

count the number of lifetime we have already lost the draught. i know not which would be more than $100.00. but right now beyond our fight running most men, not the one. 0, don't go, i will run. i know you can at a nearby what a points as that gets water for cooking and washing clothes. this was once a flowing river. no, it's the only water for kilometers. i know that the water here isn't clean. we often have diarrhea, so whether or not this is the only water point, so even dogs drink from here and if i'm thirsty, i'll drink from here to. it affects us so much before the rains stopped falling, they're not then can your region was already experiencing hash climatic conditions, some 500000 people in true color. i in dire need of help. the drought here, most experts fee is partly caused by climate change. the poor population

in africa continue to split it there significant impacts of climate change. so i think it's our goal for, for the globe, and as a whole, to actually address the issue of glance it because he that makes you a lot of people are the only in africa america, continental as well. as for selina and high extended family chinese training out for the while to act, they are already being battered by climate change. or the global shortages caused by the war in ukraine have pushed some countries to focus on producing more of their own food. as a result, zimbabwe is on course for its largest ever wheat harvest. at $380000.00 tons, the expected produce will be more than the country needs to consume for the year. meaning the surplus can be used to build excess reserves. here's d w's privilege,

machinery. a busy time it good grass, elijah cool, michelle farm, east of zimbabwe. capital id. like many other farms across the country we have is think is in progress. pharma, claudia aquanda, is expecting more than $1000.00 tons of wheat. he's best to have it since he started planting the crop. i am happy that we have money to purchase a good yield. and her with the actors which we have put under wheat. and what we are now repeating. ah, i feel prompt. so what we are doing is anisha. zimbabwe is investing in inland dams to move away from over dependence on rain, fit agriculture in the face of climate change. the country suite is predominantly grown and our irrigation, but failing rains that haven't been the only problem. zimbabwe held the bread

basket of africa state us and to early 2000. when agriculture took a nose dive because of the linda reforms from a net exporter to init, importer of ceo's and green. but things f slightly shifted because of mechanization and some of the reforms that the government has embarked on the record which prove that she has been achieved thanks to partnerships between the government and private companies. there are 30 is encouraged to private players like millers and banks to finance farmers for 60 percent of their wheat planted. you were instrumental in facilitating it big at policy positions and from works. in the form of fair joint ventures, we now have joint ventures where by that are settled, farmers drain hands and putting out with the private sector players in that to should lend to utilize it fully, utilize the resources, the dams, the water in the lent saw. we believe that is said pink dividend for ordinary

citizens. they bound for wheat harvest could translate to reduce the bread prices, a loaf of bread costs more than $1.00 us dollar. a price that many struggling families cannot afford. grain millers are fit about buying wheat, growing in zimbabwe is it lost their production costs, or we have served more than 12000000 years dollars a year. in this funds that we're supposed to meet outside is now been redirected to local industries. in the multiplier effect of even 200000000 now, going to the companies out which are into input production mechanization and other related services assembly booths. toys, increasing our g d p is the current bummer. cloudy near corner wants to grow more green to sustain food security. zimbabwe may, once again become africa, bread, basket. oh,

you're watching di. dublin is africa still to come tactics, technique and tough tackling in sierra leone as the professional nationwide football league for women gets underway. but 1st cameron bon via ologist john kanga san has won the virtual global health prize . the 500000 euro award recognizes those dedicated to improving the health of the world's most vulnerable people in kansas on is currently the u. s. global age coordinator. but for 6 years before that, you were the head of africa centers for disease control in this position, he was praised for how he steered africa coven response. i caught up with kanga sawn after he received the lifetime achievement award. and i asked what his greatest concern was, as the coven, 900 virus emerge during his time as africa. cdc director my group just

another time. that is about a piano that you've done, the $9092002.00 and he was the continent was carefully prepared for such a fuss. moving virus virus that we saw. ready what was happening in china, we saw what was happening. ready and so. ready what was happening in the united states, and those are our economies or countries that where he believe could address such fast moving funds yet did give us dition. there was certain, it was very obvious that because of the week has systems that exist on the continent of africa was going to be very challenging to, to back to their virus. as the saying go, you go to what we, what you, you have not what you need soon have ready to come in and you went toward ginger virus with what we had permission at that time. and at any point,

did this concern turn into fear dealing with the unknown it was characterized by a afraid of the, of the knowledge of what could possibly happen. remember, this was an unknown battery. nobody knew it how it causes disease. we knew very little about what's up transmission, and very importantly, we had to diagnostics. we had no vaccines, you have no treatment. so you are dealing with a disease that actually was new and we had no countermeasures to, to fight it through us. pretty scary to, to, to start with. do you think that continent as a whole, did it best to, to fight the pandemic? i think the continent of africa was exceptional. when does each of the make will be reaching very convinced that they would be hooked up to the board to. ready

coordination make any genetic continent put on the umbrella african union, lead by ship us more stuff like the african union commission. the secretary press then to south africa the african to enable us that. ready allowed the after just cdc to, to actually do it job. i think in this a lot of lessons to be learned from how to continent responded. i remember very early on, they were petitioning almost nasa johnson in the next, whatever. they're better 6 months of their outbreak. maybe it didn't happen now and then i must say that it's not because people were not infected if it were infected under continent. but because of those majors that continental guys were beyond, did this kind of depend on nothing confidential,

absolutely created for both political and their coordination because of them that they put in place. what is the biggest lesson? what major lesson do you think you will take with you from dealing with the pandemic that will inform your outlook and your current job working to control the h. i. v. aids pandemic. the lessons that was over in the last 2 years of this pandemic. one is that as humanity we are more connected than we thought. and as humanity we have. busy one and we're done with and as you money to any qualities and any breaches that eggs the not necessarily as a result of their core with it before. i mean to work on addressing just any policies on any breaches. because failure to address those integrated any results to it as you know, security threat, all of the way we saw how the emergence of the death of in india or the

emergence of the only one that was detected in south africa was one that quickly became a threat to everybody to were so if it is disease outbreak anywhere in the. ready threat everywhere in the world. so i think that is the major lesson that we should all remember from this opponent dr. kanga san. thank you very much for speaking to us, and once again, congratulations on the prize. now to sierra leone, where for the 1st time in decades, the country has a top flight professional women's football league. president julia's mother bill and the 1st lady fatima attended the league's opening match last saturday. it kicks off a 6 month season in which 12 clubs from across the country will compete for the women's premier league trophy a cash prize. and of course, bragging rights. this is a start of

a new journey for women's football in sierra leone. c c and it's a cause for celebration. the men of queens from the northern city of mckenney are about to face off against like a home le queens from kenema in the east. the match is a milestone because it marks the launch of the country's 1st national professional women's football league. board member asthma, james told d w, this is a key moment. so this one is unique for many because it's been a while since we actually saw something really b like piece. so it's so important for us here in san diego. and we are all just so excited that we may play football awe. the league includes 12 teams from across the

nation. they'll be competing for a cash prize and a trophy to be awarded at the end of the season. in april. supporters hope the new league will also boost the success of the national women's team, which fell to qualify for this. she is africa, cup of nations. please say the eager to showcase that talent and debunk stereotypes about women and football. my, the wallet told me what guys can do is come north, and i want to fight that battle, and i'm on a loan to show my that approved william. that was the guy's guy. that is coming from much better the hope to is that the new women's league will also be a source fond and entertainment for everyone. ooh, ah, definitely, it wants to keep an eye on. well, that's it for now,

but be sure to check out our other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa on facebook and twitter. we always love to hear your thoughts and suggestions, so do get in touch. we'll leave you with these pictures of that 1st match in syria and he owns women's premier league thanks to the serially on football association for sharing these action shots with us with you next time. bye for now with

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