start with stability and business deals, which allow me something living on that we have very close propaganda. you know, price here in new york. i think we don't know the aftermath any time that you're not allowed to ask questions, you should ask all of the questions. some more questions ask a better, the answer is will be the i am the room, but here the slaughter of case you're going to 7. see my child cas county in the republic of kenya. and we are talking about something that is of great significance to the continent of africa. this state of the florida station and the under i, billings, i'm say, or the lowering to mean that this a higher a does,

that is moving down south. and we want to ask ourselves, what in the book, the tut from a new comic standpoint, in order to appreciate that it is important to look at the continent of africa and look at some of the apply market zone. and this is the continent that these are diverse a diverse can be, you have the must've so hard is that up in the knots, you have the non made visits out. you also have semi, i read thoughts of the continent of africa in the home to include fox. so can ya. so my, the to include thoughts even all the seal p. i literally, and the continental us dry savannah line, but the continent also has launched purchased, if you go to the democratic republic of congo, which is now described the long use of the word is the biggest rain furgas off to the amazon. and do you see the big grievers?

if you look at the reverse, of course, the continent of africa you leave denied, and you go to the congo, which has one of the largest volumes of what to anywhere in the world. you go to this reverse, the center, the gum, the, and when you come to the eastern part you have denied and you have the little one, the golan on. do you have many reverses or including the limpopo down south and many lakes or as a link which the europeans call victoria and in uganda is called a narrow by and of costs in kenya is called lulu and in one day scored in youngstown is one of the biggest lakes, if you go to the lakes and you've done that, the numerous late, i didn't townsend the, the numerous lakes in the west. i'm father of cause we are where i've already talked about the reverse, but the voltage is up degree, but they are the new j ease of degree by the end of costs of the chart. but the

question these, these revise that we are talking about is what up, what is that we are talking about knowing, as we do that they are the lifeblood of the economies of many african countries. what is happening to them? and what is bringing about all of these things? one of them is deforestation. you know, they all has the time when many african countries not that those times are behind us, assume that you could destroy you afford as full funding purposes without consequence . we now know that if you don't take care of you afford as then you are going to suffer. we know that because you have seen nigeria suffering because of do for this fish you have seen can yeah, suffer because of do for station we have seen many of the countries suffered because of different a station because when there is different, it's vision

a number of things happen, you know, affect the rain full, boston you that fits the side with the consequences that you have a lot of floods in different areas. and these are some of the things that africa has been looking. not particularly when we get into the i v, not of a team but harvesting or lumbering without control. i know for a fact, for example, in the democratic republic of congo, they are a lot of individuals and companies that i gave in this put him in a login. and that was beginning to affect the chromebook based and in a very fundamental manner. and many governments while also engaged in the it's the side, the really for this patient. but the need for a station was not using indigenous trees, which have the ability to holler to the side. this was fried in uh,

in the savannah vision in the science region. they introduce new varieties waived from from booking of fi. so a to send a gun on don to have no tell on one need to on the lies. they in fact of the 1st station on the impact of the expansion of the so how do i does that to the economies of africa? countries that has lucas, this chad young best basin is one of the most important based and full purposes of funding and fission. in the last 20 years, they've tried the best and has shrunk by more than 70 percent. then that is 2nd is the official community in those areas of no economic activity. the reason why you seem, for example, in a gun or you have these additional gold mining which is polluting the, what that's called gallium say is because there is no economic activity. and not

only that in discharge and reason, agent, you come to the nile, for example. the nile has not todd is to what a volume but it use in a dramatic way. but the egypt sions on now, why did this, if that does, that continues in the mind that it is then i'll bring the car in egypt is going to be affected. and as regards denied, we know that when the british controlled that part of the world in 1929, there was a pretty, in 1959. there was a pretty and these 3 days. why designed to ensure that the use of what size is controlled from the source of denied to mean the areas in kenya, uganda tonnes, and the one the one the even up to a to up you, which has the blue and white knives. and we now know that in fact, because this, the appearance of decided to build the ground itself and we and also done the jeep

sions actually threatening. at one time, it was thought that there would be a wall because of the what, as you know, the words, we say that because of the continued expansion of the dead and deforestation of the ground, what is being affected on one's ground? what that is being affected is then the economic viability of some of these areas is compromise. we begin to see that you've been generation of hydro electricity, which could be used for industrialization, is beginning to suffer. the vault is such that um, in gone not that now begins to stuff up because of different station and because of this, uh huh. that is creeping down with the canes. you done in nigeria is also suffering because of that in the democratic republic of congo. the grand inga has not suffered because they have forest is to lice and has not been accepted in

a very dramatic way. but if you come down south and you come to the country, but in the yet $10.00 to $24.00 degree, but dried out. oh, almost 80 percent. what is normally referred to as the victoria falls or what is known in the local language? the most c o 2. now for this month, the funders was no longer funded on people who are wondering what it is that is happening. but when you look at it very candidly, you see that the mana in which we have dealt with the afford, has been discriminate money in which we are cutting down trees in order to convert land into agriculture alone. we are not only you losing the furnace, but we are also losing this side. and we are not only losing the side via also losing the water. and that in my view is something that is going to affect african countries in a very major way. in the east possibly countries if you go to

a countryside, just can you. it is now imagine that most of well what abilities are a that dead or dying the dead or die? because the width lines i've been converted into agriculture alone or the wetlands. i've been converted into construction site, then that is that is that we deeply thing the up we 1st and it is a flip thing is the quality of land and it is affecting economic activities in the month of october, for example, in the attempt to print default the countries of the 9 best and such on the agreed that they would re negotiate some of the arguments that in place with a view to ensuring that the what is of denial used in a manner that is proper because they are trying to bound to the and therefore, ought to be used carefully, but that is easier said than done because in regard to the 9,

what does the gyptian understood that needs have refused to sign into the framework argument which then bends the question, what is the economic impact of this the hydra what is the economic impact of deforestation? number one of what, what the is going to become a man job problem in the continental africa, in the not to distance is just simply because the quality of what day is being undermined on where people depend on the ground. what on the ground, what is being depleted on a daily basis? and that has major health and economic implications number to upgrade cost you. when we are losing our sorry to cover, it means that the quality of, sorry is suffering and it is not lost to me. that in the 2024, there was a heads of states and governments meeting in nairobi, canyon at which they were discussing the question all beside the quality and the

impact the tubs in terms of agriculture, in terms of nutrition, and in terms of the ability to feed ourselves, i'm saying this because as we speak now, africa imports almost 70 percent of our food. we import fish from china. we import the ends from romania, we import shifting from brazil. very important and she can feed on all of these when you look at them directly through just about to the fact that the expansion of the desktops of hard, if you go to countries such as what's on where you have to not move does that all you go to countries such as in the media, you would begin to see how this is also affecting the livestock industry. people lose their lives stuck in the millions with the consequence that people, economic circumstances are undermined in a very dramatic way on when that happens,

the economy has major implication in terms of the house. the people no longer have good nutrition. the people no longer have the ability to be resilient, and of course, when that happens and you cannot make up with unity is already used. then it also has security implications. and it has never been lost on me. that when you look at the countries where you have this, the hydra, all countries where you have lost all these, the levels of violence as very high. because it is easy to recruit a young man on these days. even young women to participate in the anti social activities on, in, in such as is because they have no economic up to it. so as we look forward, it is important that africa ask us of what are we going to do to ensure that they decide if the cation does not continue in the mind, that it is. what are we going to do to ensure that we are the forest idea of what

a station is given is prior to the place so that we don't lose the side cover? what are we going to do that we clean? what time to ensure that the aquifers chug, what are we going to do on the critical question of climate change or participation in the conversation around climate change should not be relying on what is happening in europe by dint of public couple of credit. which should as a continent, us cost sal is fundamental questions, particularly in the context of africa agenda. print to $63.00, which promises that it will deliver africa into on a bit of sustainable development. and will ensure that we are capable of feeding all ourselves on these things critical. and anybody who thinks that this, that if occasion the expansion of this, the hydra is something that we can continue to know, must know that it is a luxury that you cannot afford. anybody who holds the view that we can continue to

cut down or trees with objects to abundance without consequence is the new thing themselves. because history on nature, very harsh on the visit pain up on those people who have been all of them. and i, on of the view, the time is now to get into the every now and begin to do that, which is right to address the certification on this, the deforestation, and begin serious programs of 3 for station the can physicians on the continent of africa and diverse issues continues the pace for let us say, or good advice for the moment, and we see you on another occasion as we continue with the confrontation, the

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