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is the 2nd lead in infectious killer after coven, about with new vaccines in the pipeline. there is more hope of fighting it. class young people in nigeria. it's that time to decide the future. the country as they prepare for elections on celebrate and african music. that's what the aftermath in synagogue was all about. will bring you some of the highlights. i am eddie micah 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 montoya has more

the this generator is keeping tandem with business running, but the backup power solution is not a cheap $1.00 and it's costing a whole lot more to continue serving the local them as favorite insulated. be a fortunate that we have invested in the generator pods. the costs of running switzer creamery 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 is come. 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 of, for 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 even use the roads at night. they need to so peach blacks the section right behind me being one of the hot sports people are getting robbed, getting mug cause or being stolen at gunpoint. so those are the issues that we face during locating, especially when it's peach black at night. south africa, his coal power stations supply most of the country's electricity. but these power stations are not functioning at full capacity of africa uses, on average, about $27000.00 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 low shading or lead 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 country village tricity problems have been attributed to endemic corruption at the state. and paul, 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 manages of the pol, utility held emergency meetings with the country president and other stakeholders. but south africans have been warned,

there is no quick fix and that the outages will continue for at least a nother year. the mourners, let's bring in long de leon marcella, an economist on energy expert who joins us from pretoria, south africa. hello, gilly. welcome to the program. now, in a recent tweet about the energy crisis, you said quote, we reached crisis mod. 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 or why improve juices, basically not being able to produce the quantities that are required. however, the situations of africa is really dire. we faced up to 10 to 12 hours of electricity, cats known as low shading. this doesn't just it mind uses. 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 water, water shading as well. and you know, fix 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 they may start 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 me to be and will see the projects which had significant time and cost overruns, as well as corrupt exhibit. he's 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 all of that, 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 us 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 there are basically making money on the 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 80 more what they're gonna do writes about 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 through 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 back in 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 west of the country. look at guess exploration activities issue out locks 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. there's 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 worry to be a space that was the 8 node shading. so it certainly is helping. however,

in terms of moving forward is from also needs to do it's, it is i 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 s africa as 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 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 as come house enough money lying around. so what to do next? absolutely. so that is sitting be been how problem, how it went. the last week is come, has received an 18.65 percent tariff increased. government has also committed to taking on a lot of is it that combined by 2024 sit in the root is, is, comes financial was the position which will then allow them to do the maintenance and the work that is ashley and i it okay. and julie, i'm a shelly economist and energy expert from south africa. thank you. ah, she, rocky loses the lung disease has been declining around the world. but across africa

cases, i increasing the, especially in sub saharan countries. but now there's hope with new vaccines in the pipeline or the world 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 then we have no 16 candidates and the level of mm hm. many of these vaccines, by the way, where there are the candidates before the ban cove. it and the difference between covered and the 16 guided aides is the whole world focused on really finding a solution for koby. so accelerated, the development of the club vaccines while dbi that started decades ago, 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, that 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 to evelyn keybo g. she is the chief national coordinator of the stop tv partnership, kenya. hello evelyn, welcome to the program. now we just had their w h o director general, that sets address given us see, and we can fast track if you were close as vaccine. what would that mean? for your work that would be very 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 later tuberculosis, which is preventable. so if we had a vaccine, then we would greatly reduce the number of lake that we're losing to tuberculosis. ok, 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. first of all, it's 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 the busy boxing is

not effective at all, is not helping us in any way in reducing the number of new infections and deaths related to be. so in a new vaccine would be very welcome. ok, 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 copied and within about 2 years we had in new vaccines. and we had been able to give mass of acts initial to almost everybody in the wild. if that has been possible with a disease that has just renovate the one for 2 years, then they believe the same find best or the sin grants that have been used for hobbit vaccine. am sure those are institutions will be generous enough with understanding 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. and that is going to stop the senseless in new infections just so 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 can years amanda's countries. i'll we have been losing about 21000 in 2021. we lost 21000 lives to tuberculosis that compared to the number we lost to heated 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 drugs as,

as density been fashioned and the still having children getting in figures 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 at well, in fact is it offered free in the good, you know, 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 the vaccine and not from seeing that hope and t, rehab and effects the unaffected vaccine. ok in our 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 treat to me. so if we landed was things that we avoid in being in congested places, opening windows and doors, wherever we can, whenever we're in the places. and those are infected to seek and the treatment that we can keep away from. we can reduce the chances of getting infect, you know, that we can keep a week. okay. abilene kabuki, chief 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 on for special elections. voter apathy has always been a concern in previous elections, especially among young people. but that now seems to be changing. many are talking about to get in the permanent voting carts, pvcs, so they can help decide lee, this of africa, largest economy. he has more from the, the abuse or lisa shakuma. it's early. we are in the outskirts of lagos, normally chicken, my lobby would. she would be going to his chicken farm, but to day is prepared in what he calls his morning cry. com. yahoo. com, 2000 to go to the warden has been doing this every morning since the start of the year. determined to get people to vote. i think that the butner responsibility rests on me because i realized that i'm a protocol the lang and so i'm 40 started to be complete according to my,

my views in from my own and have to be involved. so financial that you want, you have to invest, you know, do something just wanted to change the thought to school. we've been 93000000 nigerians had registered to vote in the selection. nearly 40 percent of them are 34 years old. from different parts of the country, young people can be seen, mobilize them ahead of the electrons. they say it's time to decide if you show up nigeria and they want. yeah, boards to account is huge, and sas protests like this in late 2022. as seen as to boot of this new young political movement. the, as us was about police brutality, where, by the same time, in many young people understand the power of organization, power of organizing, coming together to, you know,

to demand. so biondi and so being a trigger. the electra law was now electra law was what? not switzerland, the houghton that has given this rise. younger voters seem to be looking for something new and fresh. do you want something you saw? they just want to learn to do our voices and see if it's will make any difference. basically i'm votes in, i've got to might be recei, i'm young and i just feel like this is the right time for me to do it on our device . what i used to go on get our pvc. so can get the bit on issues. we have to do these guys wants to force meal fi meal, junk people are just very tired and that's it. as nigerians prepared to vote, young people are also preparing to jesse ah, now the all africa music awards aftermath have just wrapped up in synagogue capital

decor, fever and celebrates africa, musical talents who are rewarded for the hard work. but it was not all about the big stars asked correspondent maria, geared nicholas school reports from decker. it was some stars and some of the synagogues finest at the all african music awards in the eclectic outfits of the red carpet sniggle, his guest clearly proud that their country was hosting the glittering spectacle, a chance for the countenance, brightest talon to shine in the card it's a pleasure to be here. it brings together many nationalities, many young people, many singers, and i think it's a big step for rod, for music, for senegal. and especially for africa. in general. the african musicians and african dance took center stage, the nigerian thing or else the skill sets the tune,

the congolese musician rogow. rhoda also captivated the crowd. the and one of synagogue 6 mommy, nice local heroes, seated yet lit up the duck or arena late into the night. i with a focus on awards, regional helen, a prima, was also a chance for emerging artists from o music genres to showcase their creativity. kenyon, sol, artist metallica, received the prize for best female artist from east africa. i felt that it would be a different country

international organization such as the u. n. c. music as a bridge to empowerment and cohesion created by what it can do is it contin is 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 get nice all artists and help them promote them so that they can do more. and so that they can also write songs that are about our continent that about 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 receding 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 of our stories go to d,

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