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conquering foreign lands and bringing them onto the help of usaa western economic interest to pop in santa, i do not needed to go by the democrats yet during returning call. are they so no, we say low, their soft power america to the final goal of these thing. revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. oh, some say the world is a global village, where every human being is connected to a shade, history and destiny. 510000000 square kilometers of mass and 326000000 cubic miles of water. but nowhere is there a spot for a person like him or like hes more than 100000000 people are currently
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displaced from the homes. wanting tweet is in africa new when abandoned their homes and is forced to no one month for board unless his whole city is running with him. no one who carries the anthem of his homeland and his grade to a foreign country. unless he is a refugee who hello and welcome to this week's african now. so we're coming to you from the kenyan capital ny rosie, which serves as the central hub for refugees team from central african countries. can you host some of the world's largest numbers of refugees and some of the world's largest refugee camps in this week? so we explore the growing number of refugees on the continent at the moment there. awesome. 30000000 refugees. asylum seekers and internal displaced people in africa
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. we ask the question, why have these numbers come about? and who is to blame? we posed our 1st difficult questions to the you in h. r. adam up to molest from the united nations assistance mission in somalia. thank you for joining us. why does the horn of africa have the most number of refugees? well, it is one of the most affected regions of the world. michael, i'm a change also, the region some of the longest lingering insurrections look at somebody or you can see that there are groups that are waging war against
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governments. so that also contributes to any similarity that need to live in yard froze. and why off so many refugees from somalia will there are few drivers of population movements with the inside the country or out to the outside. and those are conflict. and somebody has seen more than his fair share of complex since the collapse of the central government in 1991. and as we speak, there is a war going on here. the government fighting against the instructions. and up to this, the main factor, the major for population movement across the horn of africa is glenna change.
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but broadly speaking, if you look at the, the bill from the indian ocean to the 2nd in west africa, this is the region that is most affected by climate change in the entire world. and this way you see that in these also most of the region in the world by conflicts. how many somali refugees in other countries and how many internally displaced people are there in your country? well, i don't have an exact number of for the use of somebody go out fluids is started since the early 1900 ninety's since 991 to be exact. so it is hard to give you an exact figure of how many somebody's are actually revenues in other countries. some people will a lot of 5000000. somebody's in other countries as to the intentionally displeased the number that we have is 3800000 people.
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some of them displace most recently, and some of them have been in displace comes for extended periods of time. what can be done to deal with a situation? the 2 things need to be done concurrently. one is to provide as much assistance as possible to save as many lives as possible. we estimate that this year 22 and 3 is point 2 into 3000000. somebody's and that is almost half of the population. we need some form of the assessors and those we anticipate that 517000 children when we see nearly acutely managed, between april and do this year. therefore we have to scale up our humidity
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response to save as many life as we can. but given the fact that this is a climate induce crisis, we also need some tenuously to invest more inclement fission and water management was going to vision. and those kind of interventions require development investments that would enable the company to adapt to this rapid me intensifying an affiliate in climate change. what sort of help does the united nations need in order to be able to continue to help the effect of communities? we need to that of help, we need assistance that would allow us to save lives and that is mainly in for key set of health nutrition
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for security and water and sanitation. those are the key is of course that are other areas as well. social protection and so on, that's on the one site that's on the live saving site. that the, the you in also works on development in accordance with the national glance. so the way it works in that, that is a national development plan. and then that is a cooperation from where the government and the united nations and the cooperation framework is mainly to enable us to support the government involvement initiatives. where we see that there is some relative focus on the humanitarian relief component. we see less investment being done by the donor community on the development site. and we, we just think that to bring this cycle in this community in closes,
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we need to much the interventions development interface. do you see an end to the crisis they see and into the crisis when the end will only come? if resilience is built? if someone is enable to be a strong that build the infrastructure, do the climate annotation and digital? natural disasters have many countries in the world, but someone is for unity leads to discuss the kinds of traffic situations we have in order number, some people in need of immediate assistance. so this is unsustainable. and that's why the only way to india is to in this more in the development of the country in northeastern kenya, in a semi arid district,
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the dobb refugee complex is the world just with the g camp. it's made up of 3 refugee camps and dates back some 50 years. the 1st refugees arrived in 1991 escaping war enabling somalia. the next big influx was 20 years later as tamales thought refuge again in the camp from hunger and starvation. today as many as a quarter of a 1000000 people live in the da da, but the refugee complex from where our next report comes. it's now 3 days. we've been waiting for the flight to, to dive. and again, the april closed edison william nieto was elected president of kenya. a few months ago, he's picked up the ice between government forces. and what's the bandits in that part of the country to cross? not another 55 between the side meant that the a port was close to flight calling to the east for the country. not only is that
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these mostly somali refugees came to came yet fling war in the own country, only to find themselves in the midst of another conflict. bandits use the refugee to cover, moving in and rounding and laying, improvised explosive vices targeting security forces. so not only to the refugees have to deal with cost chem conditions and now a conflict. but there's also clipping dropped and famine. and each day the movie t y to manya, the so called climate do not leave when they were constant. but they know leaving and pushing wilson program to beyond the capacity, it's struggling to feed everyone and con, exist attempts, fire road. it could complete attack band if you didn't solve any food. gina, thank you so much for joining us. what is the situation like at the moment? but typically with regards to the refugee camps in kenya, when it comes to fi,
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distribution, look, thanks very much your interest. and there's a really challenging situation with drought right across the horn of africa. if we just stop the regional situation at the moment, there are 22000000 people across the horn of africa who are struggling to find enough to h, including 4400000 people here in 10 young. bad as it is in kenya. and we have more than a 1000000 women and children of 5 who are severely malnourished and the native treatment is even worse somewhere else. and so what we have seen is increasing numbers of people traveling across the border from ethiopia across the border from somalia, and arriving in the refugee camps driven by a mixture of climate and conflict. drought from conflict. we've seen more than 800000 people reach the de gab refugee camp in the east. the country near the somali border and rising numbers in the other main camp in the country in prima
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refugees who were refugees even before the seed crisis began. pacifically, that group of people, how have they been affected? there have been around half a 1000000 people in kenya. so quite a long period of time displaced by early conflicts, either coming across the border from places like sudan and south sudan, or from somalia, or even ethiopia. some of those people have been living in these encampments for so long that they have families as their own. and it's been my privilege to meet with some of them and to understand what it was that drove them from, from their homes. in most cases, it was, it was conflict and or a lack of access to food, water and the ability to simply raise your family in peace, which is something that all of us are the ultimately to be able to change prior to even flyer to rouse the situation for refugees in kenya was quite dia, refugees, and kenya last experienced
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a full food ration in 2018. and depending on the availability of international food assistance funded by governments around the world, then the the ration has been as low as 50 percent through parts of 2021. it's incredibly difficult a choice to make working in partnership with governments and, and the international community to, to make those decisions. but we recognize that it is a challenging time for the whole world. and i would like to recognise all of those international donors, international governments who have continued to step up and who continue to deliver last year. all of the top 5 donors to the world food program in kenya increased as supporting this region. notwithstanding significant challenges that they may have also been addressing outside this region. western countries cannot hide from dave involvement in the refugee crisis. in somalia was triggered by western involvement
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that led to the influx of somali refugees coming here to kenya. and that was back in 1992 when the us man, italian peacekeeping mission in somalia. but once started its famine relief ended in war at tamale's to not appreciate americans wanting military operations in the country. like then again, now they were wanting resources from the way to help from a conflict. they started, which they spiraled, and lead to mass migration. what the and now again, history is repeating itself. the, the most recent refugee crisis has again been triggered by the waste. this time
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they've chosen the tiny african country of wonder as a destination for thousands of refugees seeking shelter. this time from europe, most notably ukraine. what this means is that you can country like denmark and britain effectively, offshoring refugees and sending them thousands of miles away as human cargo. so as not to have to deal with the problem on a day by day basis. we now travel to one just to see what preparations are being made for these refugees. preparations for the camp underway and will do the potations was scheduled for april last year. then june. they have since been back cracked due to logistical issues and opposing court battles. it started with the vin british prime minister boris johnson, announcing planned to deport illegal ukrainian cheese. to wonder. as an incentive, he pledged a 120000000 pounds to the one beat president,
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poor dom that it was presented as once again. you have come to the aid of the world, but left many unanswered questions. why wonder and why in africa, even ukrainians himself, i'm not happy. as not only is wonder miles away. it's also a language and cultural barrier. the british public itself has pointed out that it's government has accepted white ukrainians and even pleaded with locals to accommodate them. while prom ones are the ones likely to be deported. so much more claiming there was no institutional racism in the system. the move has gone to a court battle, which the u. k. one. meanwhile, the wondering president continues to traceable refugees from neighboring democratic republic of congo, where the conflicts between the government and m. 23 rebels is under way. we can are keeping house to refugees for which we are later on held accountable in some way or even abused about refugees as a result of ethnic cleansing based in another country. we must be
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a dumping ground of these people who are being deprived of their rights. but surprisingly, while ago mclean for country has no capacity to have neighboring populations. he has accepted the request for ukrainian refugees. wonder no faces the same fate as the camps in kenya, with refugees being sent from the west. wonder be able to cope with the escalation, constant upkeep of refugees caused by another waste and conflict. people, innocent people dying every day. even while sitting on different television the different. busy listen in the news, but they didn't even take a steps to lead to the solution. i couldn't tell the world to hear my voice to try their best to stop this killings of every day of innocent people. i gotta say in my,
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going to a well, some us municipally, the united nation, their budget, our neighbors come killing still and got to us government not even to protect us. i goes to do the, to hear my voice. to says ling melinda, we are people created like other people we are going to do the creator, but do we don't like it and we are voiceless. i can tell do, i'll get to hear my voice and to look at the so solution over make. and when you're melinda dying, i saw kids, they dug women. they kill him and ripping on the cutting there. but is
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the increase of wifi chief and the decrease of budget by the united nations means that this problem will only get worse. couple that with climate change and also the increasing number of conflicts in africa. and it's clear why many people here feel desolate and disillusioned behind me. you can see they got a refugee where you can see the display people just behind me. we have mo, done $100000.00. kunkle is people who are still very clean from them. 23 cruises, and also we have more people who don't have access to their food. they don't have access. also today you monetary assistance. so the, i still need food and our so according to the testimonies from our different people
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who are, we're living around, deny, specially near obama territory and also a different areas around where there is the class between the m $23.00 and are they kimberly's army the airport is seed. there is a, a very serious situation wanting some bob way washington's policy of imposing crippling sanctions on the mcgarvey government for 25 years. basically left that country in financial room by stating that the protracted demonization of zimbabwe is mainly from peter western states. he said it's out of sunlight, cried gary lab military brilliance which crumbled the much flaunted british imperialist and need to move. of course that was because we had russia in china is our key allies in dismantling through dish and am, which was a proxy to the imperialist british sham. this time fed to historic art tribute of
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nationalists. sovereign is what is attracted, a sustained type 10. and again, somebody was deemed in m me because of the linda form program was dividends have notably revived. i was about when economy to the shame of countries, we impose sanctions on us. it also created an immigration exodus that saw some 4000000 people move across the border into south africa as refugees from south africa that we bring you this next for port to sanctions actually work i, they just the source of economic hardship and displacement. we came here to windsor one of the multi cultural hot pods in johannesburg, to speak to communities of zimbabwe. to ask them about whether the sanctions of the last 20 years or so have actually had a positive impact. then you are part of
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a movement that ality sanctions, particularly in them. tell me what spurred this on and what are your being you'll achieve? well, one of the things that we realized is that sanctions were taking a huge tolliver and bubble. they were killing the economy, and by so doing, there were destroying jobs, destroying factories, destroying industry, and in the process to stabilize things and bob were and are displacing above with in 2 neighboring countries and cetera. so one of the things that we wanted to do was to create unity 1st above it. so give awareness, just above ones is what is destroying the economy to displace people in inter trend unites above winds to try and see how we can fight discourage that is making people coming to south africa. you look at a neighborhood like this. i mean is full of displays, people, predominantly zim. bob width. is this the reason why be here? because some might say is the, is the government's fault that they're here because they can make the economy work that they yeah. because of human rights abuses there, because the thing is,
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sanctions are tailored to be here. weapons they supposed to destroy an economy. and after destroying the economy, they supposed to make people be divided in their own country, hates their government so that they can remove the government. so there's been a lot of propaganda put by the americans, the europeans and the united kingdom to d, campaign doesn't baldwin government to give the impression that they're the ones that are causing people to be refugees. and then what also began to happen is that in south africa itself, in the effort to try and control refugees from coming to the country, they need reasons to give you a refugee status. and part of the reason that they accept is they accept a story that says that some bobbins can't go back home in the can go back home, could they have been persecuted and only then can you get a refugee status? and that's why people have had to lie. but the reason that is bob wins have been displaced in white. they're coming here to look for iceland is because the big
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displaced by persecution is about. so what you're saying is that even the south african government didn't appreciate the course of this inflow of people that they'd seem to south africa, so diplomatically do they understand how to, how to defend zimbabwe, as a fellow, sadly stayed as a neighboring african country. now because sanctions are a very sophisticated weapon, even the south african government did not fully appreciate what it is that was going on. first of all that and appreciate that the thanks veterans above we were illegal and they were a violation of human rights. and that there were destabilizing people, i mean, to stabilize in the country and killing the economy to displace refugees, interest of africa, jelly is going to need, you know, a voice that's helping zimbabwe if you will come together and cannot be solved by them. bob winds alone or is leave us alone. so kind of solidity, do you, do you see within zimbabwe end, outside of zimbabwe through neighboring countries?
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do you, do you feel legs and probably needs in order to finally get this noose around his neck? first of all, one of the reasons why we were created is that we can't expect said countries and other countries to understand the plate of zimbabwe engines and i was don't understand it on plato. we can't expect other countries to unite with us. can expect we're not to be in a for be against bob wins when we doesn't, but when people have been divided by the sanctions. so that is why one of the very 1st thing that we did in that you can see the logo here. we've got people holding hanson, and bob went to have to come together. and bob went up to begin to understand the problem. and they've got to have solidarity for themselves. sometimes african, seem to even understand some bubbles, plate bit events, baldwin's. and that itself is now beginning to galvanized above winds. to start tackling this elephant in the room of sanctions. and the propaganda that comes with it that has been dividing this and by when people to hate each other, instead of hating the sanction centers, we're actually breaking international law and human rights.
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a refugee is not only and number as a refugee father in congo, once told me, my biggest dream is that my daughters go to sleep at nice. not on an empty stomach . ah ah, well that brings us to the end of this week so you can always reach out to us from one of our social media platforms. we look forward to being with you again next week until then from us. and the team here in nairobi quite harry. good bye. ah
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ah, ah ah, ah, in government has been killing his own people and on boss pay is it's amazing. the admission not being covered in western media hasn't been covered for the last 8 years. i'm here for 5 minutes and then i'm told the 1st 5 people they found it was 5 decapitated heads up in
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a quarterly request on demand. a boy fos get that. it's getting mckinney's me no fiber to say k is when your father law kid, the v v, inflammation war. almost all the independent journalists pointed out that nato and the u. s. were directly responsible for initiating the military conflict and ukraine, our casualties of it as long as we want the war to continue. we will fight that more using ukrainians as proxies and we will fight it to the last ukrainian death. that's what's happened in dunbar. this whole time, this is, these aren't objects, these are people. and so that's why i do what i do. that's why i'm here. o, in 2022. the italian government approved a package of military aid to ukraine. coordination with nato to help ukrainians
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defend themselves. and fight back about 150000000 euros. well, i make a week, almost even i told me bombs are hearing all the same, naco and the you are with you. sure. i'm the one that people will die just for make morning. the one that i have, i have been yes, carol, why you mess you got through on it. if you gone through and i she thought complete, i mean there's water damage. you thought if you are doing me only wi fi, you get one for the month is will daughter more saw me my show it bizarre tool or able hopa zak. leila. lesson opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. campbell, i landed in confront with the day. don't flat land after you flat to don't a little yet, levi and more on
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a skid out and go home and do not. she named de la by the lily dazzling w lucille my last food bought a lot. you think is gonna be affordable because we're not returning fund fee to the layout ah through a some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities and other countries.

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