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infectious killer after coven, about with new vaccines in the pipeline. there is more hope of fighting it. class young people in nigeria say if they have time to decide the future of the country as they prepare for elections celebrate and african music, that's what the aftermath in synagogue was all about. will bring you some of the highlights a i am eddie mike, a junior welcome to the program. south africa is facing on energy crisis as the country struggles to prevent a total shut down or the energy sector load shaddon has become a necessity. but at what cost, michael league christine manuel has more the

this generator is keeping tandem was business running. but the backup power solution is not a cheap one. and it's costing a whole lot more to continue serving the local them as a brit insulated. be a fortunate that we have invested in the generator pods. the costs of running swift look remedy have grown because we need to purchase petrol on a regular basis. the past few weeks has seen some of the worst power cuts on record in south africa. with the pow utility s. com rolling out nationwide blackouts, locally referred to as low cheating for up to as much as 10 hours a day. even hospitals have not been spared. it does affect a lot of our equipment that we do have on site. for example, like i have mentioned, we have elevators that are obviously put onto the generators which keep going on

and off, which is most patients in very dangerous situations by being inside, they're not being able to be able to get out in a country that already has high levels of crime, the power outages of further compromising safety and security. in some areas, people are scared to even use the roads at nights. so peach blacks the sexual right behind me being one of the hot sports people are getting robbed. getting mug cars are being stolen a gunpoint, so those are the issues that we face during low trading, especially when it's leach back at night. south africa's coal power stations supply most of the country's electricity. but these power stations are not functioning at full capacity. sub africa uses on average, about 27000 megawatts the moment re struggling to produce 21.

and in an electricity system, you've got a match supply and demand instantaneously. exactly. the reason we have load shedding all load reduction in south africa is that is to prevent the grid from collapsing while the power outages are a necessary evil public outreach is growing. what really riles people up here is that much of the countries electricity problems have been attributed to endemic corruption at the state and power utility and slowness by the authorities to invest in new sources of energy, especially as the countries coal power plants are very old. they breakdown easily and often have to go for maintenance. that puts them out of commission. as the electricity crisis further deteriorated, the managers of the pal utilise, he held emergency meetings with the countries president and other stakeholders that south africans have been warned. there is no quick fix and that the outages will

continue for at least a another year. from honors, let's bring in longer, really, a marcella, an economist on energy experts will joins us from bertoli, asada, africa. hello lou, gilly. welcome to the program. now, in a recent tweet about the energy crisis, you said the quote, we reached crisis mode. it's critical now. the world is ending. is that a genuine description of the energy crisis? well, you know, thank you for having me and that might have been made in a very light hearted manner because i was referring to wine entities a wine produces basically not being able to produce the quantities that are required. however, the situations of africa is really dire. we face up to 10 to 12 hours of electricity, cats known as load shading. this doesn't just affect wine, produces it affects everybody from school going children. the ability to make food

in the evenings, from hot water, if it's even the provision of water. because this water needs to be pumped from these pump stations to be provided. and so then you have what water shedding as well. and it affects everything from more cherries to grocery shops and provision of fuel as well. so it's a never ending night me, especially when you live in the country. yeah, i mean local, we're talking about south africa, one of the richest countries in africa. how did we get here? you know, it's a myriad of issues, but maybe them starts with the political issues in 1997 then leadership is from the state owned it utility told government that at the rate that they were electrifying that they were going to run out to be tricity by 2007 and government up to,

to do nothing. and this is exactly why we are here. couple to with is, comes financial problems which have been exacerbated, particularly over the last decade where they have not been able to receive a cost repetitive tariff. furthermore, they have been issues of miss miss management in the past, particularly the capital projects, the new build droopy. and we'll see the projects which had significant time and cost overruns, as well as for up to the t linked to them. you then have a leadership crisis at the utility itself that has over the last 10 years had more than 10 c o's. so you're looking at one of them, but perhaps the biggest one and why we are we are at the moment is a lack of maintenance, especially reliability, maintenance that was supposed to have been continued from 2007, but never was due to financial constraints. and yeah, this is why are the situation? yeah,

i'm sure we could go on and on and give so many reasons why you mentioned the energy provider. ask them, well, it's state controlled politicians control the state. how much has the political elite been complicit in this problem? well, we found ourselves here because when the decision was made to build in a new capacity, it was the ruling party that decided through the investment on chancellor house to invest in these projects. and they made over 5000 percent return on investment. and when questioned about it, they said no, but there's nothing wrong and we are allowed to be making money that they were basically making money on behalf of infrastructure projects that the country need. it now load, shed in, in itself is not new, right? of african countries are gonna, for example, also suffered chronic lucian, but not anymore. what they're gonna do writes that south africa landfill. so

garner was very intentional gunner realized in 2014 that they were experiencing them. so they were having anything up to 20 hours of no electricity in the country . they basically throw money at the problem. this was from the government. they then said ok, we are inviting anybody who can provide a solution into the country. so therefore you had a deluge of investors coming from all over the world. you had projects that such as, you know, power ships and you had gas plants that were built like 18 months. they basically went on an accelerated pro program of infrastructure development, especially in the energy sector. they looked at big gas of availability in the east of the country and they said, right, we need to expand this. also a waste of the country. look at guess, exploration activities, issue out rocks licenses. they went for out full scale and he threw a lot of money at the, at the problem gunner now is facing another issue,

which is capacity payments. and quite frankly, that's an issue with rather face than not having any tricity. so why can south africa do the same thing? honestly, it's the reason why we're still here is no political will. and every other 6 months, we're told that their plans, their ideas in the concept, they're looking at this and they're looking at that. but there's nothing tangible, nothing on the ground. over the years we have been implementing renewable energy projects. but those have the invitations in terms of energy, the i was going to ask you about the renewable energy if that is not the way forward, but from what you just said, you don't think that's the solution into certainly not the silver bullets that we wanted to to be yes, it will help and yes has been helping. if we did not have renewable energy projects, i'm sure we would already be a state that was the 8 node shading suite certainly is helping. however,

in terms of moving forward is from also needs to do, it's just i'm making sure that maintenance is being done on its fleet hopefully as, as well and supplementing that with the renewable energy production. yeah. so supplementing will definitely go a long way. now, you've come up with a lot of interesting ideas and ways forward. so i'm gonna let you finish with this . if you are sell africa's energy minister, what would you do now to tackle the energy crisis? at the moment i'm throwing money at the problem is come, would need to go into a reliability maintenance program. they need to look at the plans that can be salvaged and then say, right, we're now going to work on a 12 to 24 month program reliability. maintenance each go on to procurement, especially for the long lead items. and i would go out to the market and also try and get emergency power, trying to convince a lot of the procurement rigmarole. and the red tape,

which often goes with procurement of energy in south africa. i was going to wrap this up, but i have to ask this because you, you said a statement that though in money at the problem is what you believe s. com should do, but it doesn't seem but ask them has enough money lying around. so what to do next? absolutely. so that is sitting the been our problem, how it went. the last week is from has received an 18 point. 65 percent tariff increased. government has also committed to take him on a lot of is it that combined by 2024 sit in the room is, is comes financial was the position which will then allow him to do the maintenance and the work that is ashley and i it okay. and gillian mazili, economist and energy extract from south africa, thank you. cherokee loses the lung disease has been declining around the world, but across africa cases by increasing the,

especially in sub saharan countries. but now there's hope with new vaccines in the pipeline. at a welding economic forum in davos, the head of the world health organization said that one of the most important lessons from the coven. 19 response is that solutions can be delivered fast if they are prioritized internationally. so when we have no 16 candidates and a level of mm hm. many of these vaccines, by the way, where they're the candidates before the been cove it and the difference between cove it and the 16 guided aides is the whole world focused on really finding a solution for coverage. so accelerated, the development of the club vaccines, while d b that starts a decade. so go, some of them are lagging behind, we have the besieged, which is 100 years old, 100 years. that's it. so what's now needed?

is there a new commitment real one? i own roemer, really action with a sense of him with a sense of urgency. herb, believing that we can do it. it can be done. if it was done for gov, if there's no reason that this cannot be done for us, and we have a lot of information on the 16 candidates are already are and we said for gov. it accelerate. so we can accelerate this one to to talk more about this as my next guest. evelyn keyboard, she, she is the chief national coordinator of the stopped tv partnership, kenya. hello evelyn, welcome to the program. now we just had the w h o director general that sets address given us. see if we can fast track if you were close as vaccine. what would that mean for your work?

that would be really exciting news because we have, we are wanting to know so many people get you back losses just in 2020 a lot. the white last about 1600000 laser tuberculosis, which is preventable. so if we had a vaccine, then we would greatly reduce the number of late that we're losing 2 tuberculosis. okay? but we already have their b, c, g vaccine against you by closes. how might the new candidates be better? we all know that the b, c, g vaccine, 1st of all is very odd. it is not effective. it's only meant to prevent the most severe forms of tuberculosis. and right now we are seeing even people who have been vaccine, knitted with busy getting infected. we are getting children of 3 months who received the bcu vaccine getting infected with tuberculosis. that means that busy g vaccine is not effective at all is not helping us in any way in reducing the number of new

infections and dead through digital t be. so in a new vaccine would be very welcome. okay, now am mass vaccination. we all know requires a lot of money. now we're talking about introducing new vaccines. where is the funding going to come from? if we can learn from the experience of javion we had conveyed, and within about 2 years we had in new vaccines. and we had been able to give mass vaccination to almost everybody in the world if that has been possible with a d. c, that has just renovated the one for 2 years. then they believe the same fine best, or the sim grands that have been used for profit vaccine. am sure, those are institutions will be generous enough within the standing. the said they're saving legs to invest a similar effort, and similarly, invest meant to ensure that we get out to be vaccine. that is effective,

affordable, equitable end. that is going to stop the cents less in new infections. i just saw that people can really understand the situation on the ground. tell us about the scale of the tv problem in kenya. your country, for instance, kenya is one of the countries that are high in the list of the high to be. but in countries, this is their list of countries that contribute to 80 percent of their total global by then kenya is among those countries. i'll, we have been losing about 21000 in 2021. we lost 21000 lights to tuberculosis that compared to the number we lost to heater to copied, which was about 7000. we can see it's more than 3 fold. the late last 2 tuberculosis in one year. enemy, we have still actions. we have drug as is density been fiction and the still having children getting infected and bank from t b. so it's still

a huge public health men. us there sounds like a dire situation. so oh, what are you saying? what hope is there for someone who catches tuberculosis? now there is hope out. see in that we still have, we still have a treatment that is effective and is affordable. it well, in fact is it offered free in the good, you're not government hospitals. so this hope in somebody will get infected. what i am not very sure off is the hope in somebody who is not get infected, who we could have prevented had we had to vaccine, and not from seeing that hope and t rehab. and he fixed the unaffected vaccine. ok, now i quickly, before i let you go, how can people protect themselves against tv? we can protect ourselves by a fast understanding what caused this to be. that is staying with somebody who is

infected, who has not gone for treatment, living in congested places, having a poor nutrition, and not seeking and stay with somebody who is infected and has not sought treatment . so if we landed was things that we avoid in being in congested places, opening windows and doors, wherever we can, whenever we include the places and angles we infected to seek and the treatment that will be can keep away from we can reduce the chances of getting infect, you know that we can keep away. okay. evelyn keybo g sheep national coordinator stop tv partnership. thanks for sharing your expertise with us. thank you. ah, political campaigns are already kicked into gear nigeria, the head of next month's general and for social elections. voter apathy has always

been a concern in previous elections, especially among young people. but at now seems to be changing. many are talking about getting the permanent voting carts pvcs so they can help decide lee, this of africa, largest economy. he has more from deed of use or lisa tacoma. ah, it's early. we are in the outskirts of lagos. normally chicken, my low beat would. she will be going to his chicken far. but to day is prepared in what he calls his morning cry. com. yahoo! 02000 people to do what level. he's been doing this every morning since the start of the year, where you can determined to get people to vote. i think that the board responsibility will rest on me because i realize that i'm if i take all the names you and so i'm probably starting to be company according to my my,

my views from my own and i have to be involved. so financial that you want, you have to do something to sort of change the start to school or even $93000000.00 nigerians add registered to a very tindy selection. nearly 40 percent of them are 54 years old. from different parts of the country. young people can be seen mobilizing ahead of the electrons. they say is that time to decide if you show up nigeria, and they, once you have words, 2 accounts is huge, and sas protests like this. in late 2022 are seen as to root of this new young political movement inside was aware, by the same time in many young people understand the power of organization, power of organizing, coming to get that to, you know, to demand. so biondi and so being a trigger,

the little law was no little law was what now switzerland, the houghton that has given this rise, young voters seemed to be looking for something new and fresh. do you want something you saw the jaws once landed our voices and see if it will make any difference? basically, i'm woodson, i've got to might be vc. i'm young and i just feel like this is the right time for me to do it. and a lot of i thought i used to go on get out previously. so can get the bit the initial. no, we have to do. these guys wants to force meal fi, mew junk people are just right. got tired. and that's it. as may jerry and prepare to vote, young people are also preparing to have dare say ah, now the all africa music awards aftermath have just wrapped up in synagogue capital,

a car thief and celebrates africa musical talents who are rewarded for their hard work. but it was not all about the big stars. ass correspondence, maria garrett nicholas school reports from decker. it was songs, stars, and some of synagogues finest at the all africa music awards in the eclectic outfits on the red carpet. senegalese guests, clearly proud that their country was hosting the glittering spectacle, a chance for the countenance, brightest talon still shined and decor company. it's a pleasure to be here. it rings together many nationalities, many young people, many singers, and i think it's a big step for odd, for music, for synagogue, and especially for africa in general. i think with african musicians and african dance, took center stage. ah, nigerian singer elsie skills that the tone

ah congolese musician rogow. olga also captivated the crowd. and one of synagogue 6th mommy neve local hero seeded yep. lit up. the duck are arena late into the night with a focus on awards regional palin, a prima was also a chance for emerging artists from all music genres to showcase their creativity. kenyon, sol, artist moo taca received the prize for best female artist from east africa. with alliance lights, with

elaborate international organizations such as b, u, n. c, music as a bridge to empowerment and cohesion. what you can do is it can send messages out out the agency of why we need to be together to be as one. and it's very important that we have this so that we can for that nice all artist and help them promote them so that they can do more. and so that they can also write songs that are about all continents that i bought the problems we have, and also give solutions with the car. a prima edition was the 1st to be held in a french speaking african country. the next is set to take place in ivory coast. the event is receiving global attention. yet more proof of the surging interest in the continent rich musical tapestry. and that's where we draw the catins from all our stories go to d, w dot com slash africa. you can also visit us on facebook and twitter. we leave you

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