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which is once again experiencing prolonged drought, are reports, a visit 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. lori john can get on. top honors for leading africa responds to the coven 19 pandemic. among other achievements, doctor john tango san speaks to dw on the recognition and his experience handling the unprecedented crisis. and it's kick off time in syria. neil and as the country's top flight nationwide football league, women get on the way with i'm told me or lady ball well him to the program. a humanitarian challenge is

emerging in nigeria as the country experiences its worst floods in a decade. $33.00 out of nigeria is $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 their submerged 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 a lamp,

rusty, in se talmadge area. and this is what the scene community looks like now. my mom swollen weavers, have inundated numerous towns and whom ages 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 i have an acre of farm land night now but and i bought a bag of manila for $40.00. i planted rice one and 2 days later the floods washed everything away. studio on all our schools have been destroyed by water. so our plea is anyone that can help us should help us

. any one that can help us 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 is when we went down 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 of alameda was like, 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 states like an amber as steel waiting for assistance

promised by the government to all right. we'll do domain manager. you haven't gone and not seen any presence 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, st as police stations, and banks can't or creek. and with the number of farmlands that have been destroyed, they are concerns about foods kasey in the coming months. dangerous. 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 the 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 ha into in ottawa, she is an environmental researcher at queens university and canada. welcome to the dubliners 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 defending time because of this kill and magnitude. so why major a sponsor on our flood in b. c, we've had very bad flooding and the time was brain is kind of funny. last was in 2012 and who have similar factors. so in 2012 there was release of bounce. the fear

them some from came in. so does the same this year. so even though the one in our, the official reports will half of the nation are 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 had very, very, had a normal reinforce and this is one of the impacts of climate change as experienced nobody clue what is a very important to differentiate the dynamics of nigeria flooding from the global climate. you know, mean 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 those kind of flooding? yeah, 1st of all, robot planning would mean that there is no development on flood fan plays festival . so it's easy to blame the people for beauty, no flood plains when, when you have regulation. so if you, if you don't enforce them, the people do what they do. so you can say people are developing a floor planes 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 then what kinds of are you same engineering infrastructure? what exactly are we talking about? can give us examples. yes. yeah. yeah, various forms of engineering infrastructure that helped me to get flowing. so you could have result was you could have dams. and actually in this flooding, waste bearings in gary pause, and there is a drought niger i supposed to be many for many decades. not i don't still have in

place. and yes, so many engineering as engineering designs i can put in place to help control flawed. for example, in the middle, lance lance is very trans flush 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 half because it dynamics that also the frame will have nothing to actually help us if it's the mission of defense of a floating. so that is why you see every in nigeria, most of us in terms of it. and is this a resulting from the lack of a strategy? i will see due to the lack of trust ag, even though we do not have the flood race management on the scene, please. i said days 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 learning it's acknowledges are flooding is a trait. 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 for them both. suddenly 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 not 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. we. selina 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 angle 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 above them. i just feel terrible. how husband joseph once had so many goods and cattle that they filled, the st closure and money he used to and from selling meat and milk was more than

enough to feed his family. but that drought has killed nearly all of his talk. no more than not 11. i wish i had them all. i can't count the number of lifestyle 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 go. i know you can attend yet by a what a points as that gets what a for cooking and washing clothes. this was once a flowing grava. no, it's the only water for kilometers. i just the water here isn't clean mud. we often have diarrhea, so whether or not this is the only water point, so even dogs drink from here and if i'm a thirsty i'll drink from here to it affects us so much before the rains stopped falling, they're not and 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 explore it a significant impact or calamity. so i think it's a cool for, for the blow as a whole, to actually address the issue of glass. it because he that makes you a lot of people how the only in africa about another continental as well. as for selina and high extended funding time is running 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, illogical. michelle farm east of zimbabwe, capital radi. like many other farms across the country, wheat harvesting is in progress. farmer clouding aquanda is expecting more than 1000 tanza with his best to have it since he started planting the crop. i am happy that we have money to purchase the good yield and her with interest, which we have put under wit and see what we are now repeating. ah, i feel proud of 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 land reforms from a net exporter to init, importer of ceo's and green. but things if slightly shifted because of mechanization and some of the reforms that the government is em, bugged 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 air peak at policy positions and from works. in the form of fair joint ventures,

we now have joint ventures whereby the re 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. so we believe that is said ping dividend for ordinary citizens. the 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 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 candace

on after he received the lifetime achievement award. announce what his greatest concern was at the coven. 19 virus emerge during his time as africa, cdc director my group just concerned at a time that is about a piano that you've gotten a $99.00. eli 2002 and he was the continent was carefully prepared for such a fuss. moving virus virus that we saw. ready what was happening in china. so what was happening in europe. ready and so. ready what was happening in the united states, and those are our economies or countries that where he believe develop 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 with what you,

you have not what you need, soon hatch and ready to continent and you went toward ginger virus with what we had permission at that time. and at any point that this concern turned 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. was pretty scary 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 at no cost press then to south africa where the geographical 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 the continental responded. i remember very early on, they were petition almost nasa johnson in the next, whatever. they're better 6 months of their outbreak and 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 as you wanted, this kind of depends 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 are over in the last 2 years of this pandemic. one is that as humanity we are more connected than we thought. and as you money g, we have. busy 100 we're done with as you money to any qualities and any breaches that is not necessary as a result of the call with it before i'm going to work on addressing just any

policies on any breaches. because failure to address those inequality any results to it. as you know, security threat of either 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 the one that quickly became a threat to everybody to were. so a 3rd of this disease outbreak anywhere in the world everywhere in the world. so i think that is the major lesson that we should all remember from this point of contact us on. thank you very much for speaking to us. and once again, congratulations on the price. 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 matter deal. 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 price, and of course, bragging rights. this is a start of a new journey for women's football in sierra leone. c and it's a cause for celebration with the men or 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 years because it's been a while since we actually saw something really big. so it's so

important for us here in san diego. and we are all just so excited that we mean 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 that is can and i want to fight that battle and i'm on a loan to show my battle truthfully that was the guys can move it is coming from much better. the hope to is that the new women's league will also be

a source of fun and entertainment for everyone. ah, definitely want 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 with living with these pictures of that 1st match in syria, leon's, womens, premier league, thanks to this early on football association for sharing these action shots with us with you next time. bye for now. i ah

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