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as the cost of living continues to rise in kenya, we visit a community where residents a landing each other, a helping hand to survive hard times. that 2022 german africa award goes to the 2 scientists who discovered the cobit on the con. variant, they join us in studio to discuss their achievement. and the unexpected aftermath was how do you animate teenagers to live their best life and award winning series made by africans for africans is hoping to provide answers. ah, i'm told me on laddie. boy, it's good to have you with us the un climate summit and that in egypt with a deal to provide funding for vulnerable countries as they suffer the impact of climate change and what's known as loss and damage. but while the talks were going

on in somalia, people were paying the price for the climate crisis with their lives. the worst drought in 40 years has left me millions of people. on the brink of starvation, our correspondent morale mila travel to buy a door at the center of the hunger crisis. and would like to warn, but this report contains disturbing images. oh, these children are fighting for their lives. from all over somalia, those most in need get referred to this hospital in the capitol, mogadishu, many die on the way. little amina abdi was less than half of what a healthy child her age should. for days, she's been in a coma. i mean, i've been now she is summer. good. are unusually normally she was supposed to be 60 good again with severe because none of the issues get the go condition to

the smaller. so now she is a better mil. okay. a terminal case it only 4 years old. this is the impact of the extreme drought. that's devastating somalia. it's the worst in 40 years. by dora, it's 250 kilometers west of the capital. it is seen as the epicenter, the hunger crisis. the situation in the hospital here is desperate. according to the u. n, a child is being admitted for medical treatment every minute. famine hasn't been officially declared yet by the government, but a doctor told me based on the case as they're seeing, the situation now is even worse than during the last famine. 2011. when a quarter of a 1000000 people died, one and a half year old mariam was admitted a few days ago. she showing typical symptoms of man attrition, diarrhea, vomiting and whooping cough.

for her mother and aunt the weight is unbearable. elsie now fell them. i feel so sad for my sister shantia, i pray to allah that she will recover and also that he will alleviate the drought. i like most the monies, both wear livestock farmers, until the drought took everything from them. for rainy seasons have failed, and they are fears that a 5th will now fail to high food prices due to the war in ukraine, decades long civil war and climate change have created an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. 8 organizations worn millions on the brink of starvation. the united nations children's fund units of says, $1000000000.00 you as dollars in aid is needed to avoid the situation getting worse . if we have half a 1000000 children that are severely accurately, my lot was basically means that if don't, if they've gone to receive assistance,

timely, they are just simply gone to that 800000 people have sought refuge in and around by door. they've doubled the city's population, mayor abd ally, what teen says he needs long term solutions to deal with the crisis. so mother is one of the effect of the areas in by, by the climate change. but what would have been of the, the brought them this. we wait until another funding comes or we re esteem, come up with with image dufus though to mitigate it from to shocks that he expects help from the world's biggest polluters. while african countries contributed less than 3 percent to climate change, they are among the most vulnerable to its impact. joining the program now from nairobi, kenya is one jerome by the managing director for africa, global partnerships at the world resources institute. welcome to the dublin years,

africa. and now after years of debate, the world has finally agreed on a loss and damage fund at the just concluded cop $27.00 summit in your eyes. is this a game changer? well, thank you for having me. first of all, but yes, it is a game changer when you consider that this has been 30 years in the making a symbol, something that shows an acknowledgement that we have absolutely differentiated responsibility with respect to the crisis that climate is wreaking across this planet. so yes, it was a game changer. now, the formation of the scheme is still in process, but could you sum up how you would propose that the system should work? well, i've certainly would not put tend to know how the system should work, but one some of the principles of the lawson damage facility and why it was

important to have a lawson damage facility is surely the swiftness of action, the scale of action. look at a country like pakistan, nigeria, chad, all of which suffered significant flooding very quickly. and now kenya and the horn of africa, suffering significant drought. what happens in situations like that, the frontline communities, fist, the brunt, it is quick, it is fast, and the losses and damages happen pretty relatively fast. so we need something that works quickly. financing that flows in the significant sums that are required and they flow swiftly to the countries that need them. so this is the biggest opportunity to the gap that, that needs to be filled with respect to financing the modalities of the fund. will be worked through this the, the rest of this year by the transition committee. and so we expect that a lot of those pieces will be addressed,

but swiftness is the biggest one. speaking of swiftness, some of the wealthy ah, countries already failing to deliver on the existing climate funding pledges. so how can we ensure, or even trust that bill deliver this time? well, this has been the challenge, of course, the trust deficit. so deep with the lack of delivery of the 100000000000 for for adaptation. but we have to believe that this is different. i was really encouraged by simon steals focus in his remarks, the, the new executive, secretary of the u. n. f. triple. see that accountability will be his major effort . he will put place a lot of attention on delivery and accountability. we need to see accountability, that's what multilateral systems are about. let's just say that we never expected loss and damage to make it to the agenda a few years ago. it made it on to the agenda. and today we have the decision to

create a financing facility that's significant. i think the rest of it should follow, especially because of what we've seen with respect to the losses and damages, and that they're not always geographically related. we've seen heat waves in europe . we've seen forest fires in north america. we've seen a lot of loss and damage across the board. so we know that this is not a unique situation, but what we must acknowledge and what this fund acknowledges is that they're most vulnerable among us. are hit harder. and on the, on the notes of the, of the accountability, the payments into the fund or expected to be voluntary. but on that same note, can it be sustainable if no one actually bears responsibility? well, i think people are starting to acknowledge responsibility by creating this fund. we know now with as the science has gotten tighter,

the science of attribution is very clear. pollution in the north is causing an increase in, in temperatures, and those temperatures are causing the changes in climate that we're seeing and wreaking havoc today. we can tell that a storm is climate related, flood is climate related. so attribution is a lot stronger now. so i don't think we can see it's difficult to tell what we need is the political will to acknowledge and take responsibility. that's where the effort should be and that's where the effort will be. ok, lender, my thigh. thank you very much for speaking to us. thank you. ah, you're watching the dublin years africa still to come. the scientist who identified omicron tell us about the moment of their discovery and the kids t. v series made by africans for africans wins and emmy in new york. we explore the

secret to with success, but before that, let's visit kenya, where the rising cost of living is putting a strain on people's pockets. but even through adversity, there's hope of some community organizations in low income areas are empowering residents to pull through. this is michael and informing settlement in naval be. the majority of people who live here are unemployed and struggled each day just to put food on the table. estonian sharma is a single mother. she can't find a job to feed her 10 children. at that, go on our aunts, our cattle, we go to sleep hungry, i am very desperate. i have nothing more. every time my children go to scold, they seem to hire him because we can't pay the fees. and of course, but to day esther is full of hope. every come butcher has come to visit her. he trans community based organization called slums outreach program and he wants to

help her get work as a house cleaner. eric himself is intrigued, but almost everyone in mccooler knows him. his the local barber. he wants to help his neighbors out of poverty. so he uses his many contacts to been job seekers and employers together. and maybe these are odd bingo some somewhere with our building . so i'll, i'll, i'll telephone or i'd visit some over there. my friends, i tell them our guys. yeah. we would implant being, we would do that then that person will get linkedin will be, will be recorded for that job. michael. nature trained as a taylor, but struggle to get a job until eric lent him up to an employer. grass all my life is not as hard now because i'm in work and i'm able to put food on the table. at least i can feed my family, that old vomit in aqua area keeps in touch with the people he helps to find out how they're getting on. entering shirley can still under leaving one of them is

harrison. he owns a small business in fruit juice. he says that through eric's help, he was able to get the space and capital he needed for his business or only, but they ab, okay, no, i'm happy with the little income that i guess they and i'm able to put some into my accounts. i did this creates employment. what helps me buy enough food every week. how soon can now save some money and even employ some of his friends? it's a subtle future that is so also hopeful that with eric's help, she'll soon have a stable income and be able to provide for her family. this year's german africa prize has been awarded to 2 scientists to identify the omicron variant of the corona virus, secretly loyal and toyota olivera are based in botswana and south africa respectively, and have been praised for helping the world better understand the pandemic and respond swiftly. we hear from them right here in the studio in just a moment, but 1st dw corresponded. adrian krishi visited their labs. the botswana,

harvard aids institute is one of the leading h i. v. research institutions on the continent with some of the best buy religious, including secretly loyal. when the pandemic hid voyo and his team turned their focus from sequencing h. i thee to cove it. and in november 2021, they made an unusual discovery. a new pattern with a high amount of mutations. the only cron varied. they reported it immediately. i think isn't it a little put to it? so maybe infections? ah, the only unfortunate reaction was within a few hours few days. that many countries in southern africa with black beast, it almost 2 years into the pandemic. the world once again went on full alert, borders were closed flights to southern africa,

cancelled entity. and suddenly those who discovered it became scapegoats even receiving death threats. a lot of people say you signed to said big mouths, look what you have done. and it was a bit uncomfortable. a few hours after it was discovered in botswana, scientists here in south africa see consent to toyota olivera was one of mario's ph . d supervisors. now they closely collaborate on their research. that's what these from them. it showed that the african can become a scientific leader on, on, on the pandemic response. which surprised many conscious in there was the but but, but not surprised us because that's big investments that we have been doing. especially people, but also in big lads and equipment for the past 20 years. the only vera is one of the leading scientists in the field of viral outbreaks and is also from the global south. what surprised him was how busy the north was with itself during the

pandemic and effective at travel bands. yeah. so i think that was very, very, very sad, how there would had the chance to respond to a global problem. and they decided to respond with a nationalistic approach with the didn't help. despite these challenges, mario and olivera continue their work, proving that leading medical research is also done in africa, and that europe can learn lessons from the continent. joining me here in studio, i, dr. secretly loyal and preferred to leo de olivera this year's recipients of the german africa prize. welcome to the w and congratulations on your achievements. take us dr. moya to that moment when you were in the lab and you realized you were on to something. thank you for having us. what an incredible moment to contribute to the world. mid november or special our during routine ah, sequencing of pathogens that we do on

a daily basis with experience from issue for many years. we are used to looking at the pathogen sequences to see if the patterns are similar to what we have seen before. so that mid november was critical for us. we observed 4 sequences out of the 99 were generated that particular day there were clustering away from us. and when we looked at them, they had not seen been seen anywhere else. we thought it was a mistake. we worked on the lab, we looked at it and we contacted the minister of help with crowded an unusual lineage. immediately after the data came mean, we realized that this is a class of individuals travelling together. and our sequences were really showing that is something that there's not been seen before. and out of that, of course, working with our colleagues, we see that the same pattern of mutations were seen elsewhere or within the region that showed that something was going on. and immediately new cases that had going

prefer oliver. it did do of that time realize how globally significant this was so, so it happened in the same day. we also saw a gentlemen of south africa, we contact each other, we work together for, for, for a decade yet. and that time then what do we have to do? we have to call like a urgent meeting, and we call all the main big labs in south africa. and then we identify where was the source of infections. and then we do this very fast sample transport 100 samples from a 100 different clinics come to our lab. and we start producing genomes in very fast and around time you're talking about hours by then. so less than a day after we were sure that this was not unusual cases where not just a little cluster, whether something completely widespread. and then there's my job as the head of the network to communicate with the government. and that normally fall, talk into the health minister to the minister of science innovation. and they

decided that we should the co urgent meeting with our president president cedar rama father, who gave a clear direction that he could really see a big but then emerging there. and that we should the go public and that's and that's how, within days off i didn't find the 1st cases in using a very the ones that network that was constructed during decades of investment, infectious disease we could characterize in record time there, there was potentially the most important variant in the pandemic, a lot more merger come back to you. this was an important moment for collaboration . and it was a, something that had been normal in, in, in your sector or did the pandemic sort of bring your work together across, across the different labs, across the different borders. this actually highlighted years of work that we have done in ha v in working together with our colleagues within botswana in south africa, especially with a 2 year process or 2 years group that we've been looking at. new titian's of t

b ha, v and other infection. so this was a platform that allowed us to respond very quickly. but professor, as soon as you've achieved this is significant moment. there was swift travel bands on african countries. there also some people locally who are blaming you for, for, for disrupting their travel, their holiday travel plans. did you feel that this just detracted from your achievement so so so that following days were quite hard. yeah. we because the travel band, which was absolute and necessarily, and even an an app to co, we've got many ad that threats. we and that perhaps to work and i'm security in our lab. but but, but, but to persevere yet we were protected that very high level by our on president coming public and highlighting that this is not the fault of the scientists. and what became quite clear is that the only crunch spread everywhere. and i believe

it's called a massive, a wave of infection, germany, for example, even despite the travel band and what become very clear is beth all microns, not even come from south africa, is just that we have a vested for decades. hundreds of millions of dollars to construct some of the most advanced infectious disease programs in the world. and do you think, van, that this is proof of what an african medical research can do, can offer the world from, from what you able to do in the labs? yes, of course. and, and now after that there would learning that we should not punish individuals and countries for the scope of pathogens there. begin to come together. and that's why we're here. we have spend a week in germany and now we just met with the chancellor yet to receive a wad. and that's what we are saying. if we work together with the would the imbued the on the big investment and scientific infrastructure and knowledge that existing

africa, we can really help there would be, must safer place. and i hope there would ellen from their mistake sir, instead of now yet. yeah. if blaming and punishing for discovery is that we support the encourage that you see as well as strong partnership. but we've met so many people this week in germany, but they can learn from what africa's doing, especially in infectious disease. right. and we can learn from the high technology and innovations that germany, as scientists have have developed. ok, well, have to leave it there. dr. city loyal handled professor, toyota olivera. congratulations again and thank you for speaking to us. thank you. thank you. i know a t v series created and produced in africa has won a prestigious international emmy a word series. my better life is broadcast across 5 african countries with

a reach of more than 140000000 people. it follows the adventures of 6 african teenagers as they try to deal with the challenges of daily life. welcome to my better. well. hi, my name is abby mill is best bet on my journey. that is all about improving your line. so how are the series with its positive message and relatable characters has proved to hit with millions of young africans. ah, i like my better world because it encourages african scenes to, to do their passion or what they want to be like in the future. when i see girls doing this amazes doves in houston inspired me very good for is rosa nicholas. she's a scientist and i want to me a scientist to now to learn scientific things,

now landing wildly. it teaches me math team work having good friends. correct. so healy, william, critical thinking, salazar new food now to me, i, ah, one of the creative directors explains why the series is a 1st full of the continent. and my to date hasn't really been something to that size in africa, not to an animated series specifically. and also like a dismantle, with like the collaboration that occurred across all of the, you know, like across 5 africa countries, the show aims to empower when inspire the younger generation by featuring real people pursuing their dream. one touch, it uses entertainment to get this message across from before. and in some cases

it's brought about concrete change. when the series don't broadcasting, we were hearing from communities that they were really enjoying it. but what's amazing is we've actually got data now. the communities who have watched the series, there's been a 40 percent increase in the number of girls enrolling in school and lots of other positive data points as well. but what this shows is that you can actually make a social impact with entertaining program. yeah, rosa to hope is that my back to world will animate teenager allow me to do the best they can put themselves into it and for others to make a difference. oh wow. okay. my bad to well, that definitely looks fascinating. that's what we'll leave it for today, but be sure to check out our other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa on facebook and twitter to leave you with some more from my better world. i for now.

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