ours carry the effects of climate change, i mean, felt worldwide before a station in the rain forest continued, carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people all over the world are committed to climate protection. what impact will because change doesn't happen on its own. make up your room, mind d. w, late for mines with this is deed of the news, africa coming up on the program. the un climate summit ends with a deal is this a game changer for vulnerable african nations among them. somalia, whose youngest are some of the 1st victims of a brutal drought in an ever changing climate. also coming up 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 coven on the con variant. they join us in studio to discuss their achievement at the unexpected aftermath. less. 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 last. well, 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 moorland, 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 and 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 has been in a coma. i'm enough and now she is summer. good. are unusually normally she was supposed to be 16 good. again, with severe good. none of the recently get the go condition with the scarlet shock

. now she is a federal case. 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 is 250 kilometers west of the capital. it is seen as the epicenter, the hunger crisis, the situation and the hospital here is desperate. according to the u. n. a child as being admitted for medical treatment every minute. famine hasn't been officially declared 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. i feel so sad for my sister, i pray to anna that she will recover. and also in that he will alleviate the drought. like most money, both where 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 and ukraine. decades long civil war and climate change has created an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. 8 organizations worn millions on the brink of starvation begin donations, children's fund. eunice of says, $1000000000.00 us 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 don't receive assistance timely,

they are just simply going to die. 800000 people have sought refuge in and around my door. they've doubled the city's population mayor of july. what teen says he needs long term solutions to deal with the crisis for mother and one of the affected areas in by, by the climate change. but what will happen after the end, if we wait until another fund comes for me, we have seen come up with with initiative the we are to mitigate it from the 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 10. i'm a vi vi 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 loss and 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 droughts. what happens in situations like that, the frontline communities faced 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 lawson 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 a 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 fond are 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. when tara math, i a 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 its 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 some community organizations in low income areas are empowering residents to pull through. this is include an informal settlement in naval the. 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 and children. at that when our aunt, our car, we go to sleep hungry, i am very desperate. i have nothing more. every time my children go to scold, they are seen higher because we can't pay the fees and of a group. but to day esther is full of hope. erica boucher has come to visit her. he runs a community based organization called slumps 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. he's 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 rog, bingo some somewhere without 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 with would in 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 clint him up to an employer. brazil. 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 family aqua eric keeps in touch of the people he helps to find out how they're getting on. entering shirley can steal and leaving. one of them is harrison

. he owns a small business and fruit juice. he says that through eric's help, he was able to get the space and capital he needed for his business road, but they are book, you know, 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 est, 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 it'll be 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 hit, mario and his team turned their focus from sequencing h. i v to cove it. and in november 2021, they made an unusual discovery. a new pattern with a high amount of mutations. the only contrary. they reported it immediately. i think that the laurel put in so maybe infections. ah, the only unfortunate that we have shing was within a few hours. few days. that many countries in southern africa were blacklisted. almost 2 years into the pandemic. the world once again went on full alert. borders were closed flights to southern africa, cancelled entity cookies,

and suddenly those who discovered it became scapegoats even receiving death threats . a lot of people who say you signed to said big mouths look what you have done. and it was very uncomfortable. a few hours after it was discovered in botswana, scientists here in south africa see consent to toyota olivera was one of my own ph . d supervisors. now they closely collaborate on their research. that's what these on them. it showed that the african can become a scientific lead there on, on, on the pandemic response, which surprised many conscious in the was the but, but, but did not surprise 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 olivera 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 the air had a chance to respond to a global problem. and they decided to respond to with an nationalistic approach, which 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. secret lillian oil 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 i during routine ah, sequencing of pathogens that we do on

a daily basis with experience from each over 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 others. 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 health. we quoted an unusual lineage. immediately after the data came mean, we realized that this is a class of individuals traveling 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 pin of mutations were seen elsewhere are within the region that showed that something was going on. and immediately new cases that had going

for oliver, did you 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. yeah. 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 in re stat producing genomes in very fast and around time we are 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 width was something completely wide spread. and then there's my job as the head of the network to communicate with the government. and that normally fall talking to 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 the 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 once a network that was constructed during decades of investment, infectious disease we could characterize in record time there was potentially the most important variant in the pandemic and not to my 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 h a 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, yet 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 that this is not the fault of the scientists. and what became quite clear is that the only crunch spread every way,

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 invested for decades. hundreds of millions of dollars to construct some of the most advanced infectious disease programs. there would, 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 scientifically,

infrastructure and knowledge that existing africa. we can really help, there would be, must safer place and i hope there would a learn from their mistakes or instead of now, yet yet if blaming and punishing for discoveries that we support the encourage that you see as well as strong partnership, but we've met so many people this week in germany that 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 and dr. professor toyota rivera. congratulations again and thank you for speaking to us. thank you. thank you know, tv 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, but 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 is pyre. miss erica, for is rosa nicholas. she is a scientist. and i won't me

a scientist now to learn scientific things calendar wildly. it teacheth me, math team work having good friends. correct. so healy, william, critical thinking, salazar new food loud to me. ah, one of the creative directors explains why the series is a 1st full of the continent. oh many my to date hasn't really been something to that size. it in africa, not an animated series specifically. and also like i just mentioned, like the collaboration that occurred across all of the, you know, like across 5 african countries, the show aims to empower phone, inspire the younger generation by featuring real people pursuing their dream. in one touch, it uses entertainment to get this message across since 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. they, in 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. vieira. the hope is that my better world will animate teenage in abbey to do the best they can for themselves to look into it and for others to think it different. oh, wow, my bad to well, that definitely looks fascinating. that's what we'll leave it for today. but be sure to check out on other stories on b, 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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