the coronavirus has inflicted losses on countries around the world and especially here in somalia somalia is a devastated country that still recovering from years of war and conflict its economy has been gradually rising from the ashes this year growth was expected to hit 3.2 or 3.3 percent but these projections have been badly damaged by the virus the aviation industry has been hardest hit. according to the african union in the past 3 months the continent has lost almost $55000000000.00 in potential tourism and travel revenue. as the virus continues to spread that figure will rise. in countries with especially precarious economies many no longer know where their next meal will come from. necessity is the mother of invention and that's true even during a pandemic when lock down stop us from doing the things we enjoy most officials at taipei international airport came up with an idea to help those who miss flying a flight to nowhere organizers say 10000 people took part in the draw and 30 lucky winners were chosen they could take a friend and to a given the chance to check in walk past dut

somalia for the last 30 yea rs. defined somalia for the last 30 years. civil war, warlord, failed humanitarian interventions, and terrorism. some of the causes of somalia'sts flying over mogadishu. after world war ii, britain controls for out of the five somalia territories in the horn of africa but the italian and british somaliland. and the ethiopia and ogaden in kenya. this is what the somalis want. as their future state. on the 26th of june, 1960, british somali anna gained its independence. followed five days later by a tag somaliland. on the 1st ofjuly, 1960, they unite to form the somali republic. while this union was in its infancy, the republic florist as a democracy. but beneath the calm a storm was brewing. in 1969, military brought an end to somalia democracy. the minute to the notion of old, the original battery discarded by the colonial powers be reinstated. he set about achieving this by military force. and and beatty ethiopia. after starting a war with ethiopia over territory, his russian backers swearing allegiance to ethiopia and with the help of the cuban soldiers, somalia was defeated. a period of u nrest followed. somalia was defeate

somalia. some worshippers believe their faith will form somalia. some worshippers believe theirfaith will form a somaliaief that many covid—19 debts are going unrecorded. back in january, this was empty land. now it isa january, this was empty land. now it is a large—scale cemetery. there is no way of verifying the true number killed by covid—19. like many, the deceased being buried here showed symptoms of the disease but died at home, undiagnosed. another somali life cut short by the silent killer. bbc news. studio: in the philippines the coronavirus pin then it has cost the economy to shrink for the first time in 22 years, and the culvert cases making lockdown is necessary and government debt is rising. howard —— covid cases. they pride themselves ona covid cases. they pride themselves on a communal spirit, pulling together to get through difficult times. take this, for instance. in january this volcano erupted sending a thick plume of ash into the sky which fell on the surrounding areas. everything is covered. the roof, the road, everything. the community came together to clear some 2000 truckloads o

somalia, too dangerous. canada, too risky. how about paradise? mauritius, four hours away from the kidnapper's homeland of somalia, this island gem with its pristine beaches, crystal-clear waters, beautiful mountain vistas, and luxury resorts. a.k. convinced the kidnapper that he would serve as his book agent and invited adam here to talk about the project. adam lives in mogadishu in a really difficult place to live, and you're bringing him to a place where europeans come on vacation. >> i think what it did do was it solidified my status as an international businessperson, somebody who had the means to get him what he wanted, which was essentially a book contract. >> adam took the bait. here he is in mauritius with a.k. did you ever get nervous that adam was figuring out who you were? >> i did initially. then we were walking around the resort. he turned to me, and said, what did you think of me? i buttered him up a bit. i said your establish wnglish w. you're come from such humble beginnings. then i said wharks did you think of me? he said, first i thought you were intelligent. now we are brothers. >> against a backdrop of serene stillness and beauty, the brothers continued to talk and even relaxed. they each had something to gain in this face to face meeting. he had one objective, getting that book deal. >> he did. >> and it seemed you had one objective. >> oh, definitely we had one objective. >> the objective was to see him, confirm that adam was indeed the man who had terrorized amanda and lorinda. next they wanted him to admit his involvement in the kidnapping. that's where the phony book deal came in. >> we knew he was interested in writing a book. we brought props and one of them was a book cover that we had designed. i was going to sign a contract with him that laid out his and my relationship vis-Á-vis the publisher. >> the contract had a trap buried in it. adam would have to disclose any wrongdoing in his past. >> it had a special paragraph in it that we had inserted, a disclosure paragraph to encourage him to tell us his story. >> he signed and incredibly he told his story, including details of his involvement in the kidnapping. can you believe he's saying all this out loud? >> in my head i was dancing. it was amazing. you couldn't ask for better evidence. >> he even described his role in one of amanda's worst days, that hostage video on al jazeera. >> i showed him a video that had aired on al jazeera television, and he pointed to himself as if he was really, really proud of this. he said, i'm the one who shot that video. >> amanda vividly remembers that video and adam that day. >> adam was now manning this and setting the stage for this video. i would say there was a great deal of excitement among all of them that they were going to be doing this little video and, you know, in their mind because it was getting attention and money. >> in mauritius, investigators accomplished two things. they had identified adam as the kidnapper and got him to admit his crimes. but after all that work, it still wasn't enough to arrest adam. maherishen law prohibited a.k. from recording the confession. so you have no video or audio of what he's saying? >> no. correct. >> investigators wanted to have the strongest evidence they could against adam in order to prosecute him under canadian law. you're leaving mauritius with a success, but you need more. >> yeah, we do. >> how did you feel when you left here? >> conflicted. >> you're leaving him, watching him go back to somalia, we'd succeeded in getting the evidence. we'd succeeded in getting the identity, but we had to let him go like a catch and release program. >> in order to catch adam and bring him to justice, they were hoping they could lure him even farther from home, a place where they could control the setting a, all the way to canada. but how on earth would they convince adam to do that, and how long would it take? while you want justice, this is dragging on for years. >> as the years passed, i started to think the likelihood of that would diminish. >> coming up, investigators set a trap. >> i'm the spokesman. >> it played out like a movie. >> i answer the phone, and my heart started pounding. >> when "dateline" continues. network to deliver your car as soon as tomorrow. recruiting an army of customer advocates to make your experience incredible. and putting you in control of the whole thing with powerful technology. that's why we've become the nation's fastest growing retailer. because our custom

somalia today it's. on the wall that you know how this health system really do love it and we are fighting is really interesting so somalia is in parts of the world that cities and really in the system that we have as most of the people know that it depends on international help and i mean really when it comes to the health sector. those other factors that really were held in somalia for the past 50 years. contributors to financing health systems so it was a big challenge for us when corona virus was came into this well to the last year and really but to add to what is happening is really we see that separate unity to rebuild the country's health system and to the country's infrastructure when it comes to the health system mr deputy health minister and you also face another threat and that's the is not his terror group that your government's been battling for for a more than a decade now just tell me about trying to keep people safe but also trying to deal with this right at the same time. absolutely the threat. is still a yes the government is getting stronger we are now taking over regions i mean that hopefully these. bridges will be out soon and in our vision and the way we look at it but the scene that's the challenge was there the crowd came while i'm sure i was there absolutely it's already challenging this situation with this intuition security sector well.

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somalia's. prime minister. in a north confidence vote and internet blackout followed legislators accused of failing to move the country towards democratic elections the e.u. says his removal undermines somalia's constitutional foundations. egypt is your p.r. and so diane have agreed to resume talks over the disputed hydroelectric dam that is feeling on the river nile negotiations over the grand bernays on stam have gone on for almost a decade so why is it so difficult to settle this dispute over the waters of the 9 years mall. this is the ethiopian ground renee sounds down or good for short. erected on the river niles mean tributary the blue nile it took almost a decade to build and it's meant to be part of ethiopia's transformation. roughly 65 percent of the country is not connected to the power grid energy from the dam could more than double ethiopia's current output fulfilling its needs and making it an exporter but the dems also highly controversial due to its location. denial its main source the blue nile starts in ethiopia at lake tania the river flows toward sudan and joins the rivers other tributary that's a dense capital hard to him before heading downstream to egypt good is being bu

somalia a nation of poets. poetry is the way you express yourself and songs and plays were the way in which this originally nomadic culture passed down information, not much of somalia's history is written. everything was done through song and dance and as part of our education we would have times in which throughout the day we would sing and dance and my aunts and uncles brought that home so they would have my siblings and i pair up and do duets so we were often busy writing songs down so we could memorize them because none of us wanted to be outperformed by the other. >> you did not mention your mother, what happened? >> my mother passed away when i was very little i have no memory and i really didn't have much of a missed experience with her not being around because there were so many adults who provided and fill that space for me. when i became a mother myself for the first time really is what i actually understood the concept of what it would've meant for her to be in my life. i remember being very young, pregnant, going to that experience and wanting to lean on my father and him falling short. it was the first time where he couldn't really give me proper advice and couldn't really have adequate empathy and sympathy for the things that i was experiencing. i remember he really wanted to be in the birthing room with me and i remember my friends thought that was really odd but he knew i was really nervous. i had friends who had had c-sections so as very paranoid about going through that process. he wanted to provide comfort for me and eventually and eventually my first experience at giving birth was like a communal experience in the way in which i came into the world i suppose all of my family was there, the nurses and the doctors really didn't know what to do with her room filled with 20+ people who came to experience it with me. >> you talk about that in your book come you talk about you talk about the "eyes" of somaliathat followed you around. what is that mean? >> when you're growing up in a family that is as big as mine was it's as if you are growing up in a small town where everybody kind of knows one another. not only was my family huge but almost everybody else also knew my family. that kind of followed us when we came to america and moved to minnesota where they were also somalis i kind of always grew up living in a sort of fishbowl in the way i which i am now where everybody had an opinion about how i was being raised, what i was learning, how i was spending my days. but i was wearing. we are a very expressive community. people aren't really shy to share their opinions. it was hard being a teenager in that environment because you are not only accountable to your parents, your accountable to a whole set of community that often doesn't fully have a comprehension of what values they are speaking out. so there was always a push and pull and many contradictions and hypocrisies that showed up. luck

somalia, and urgent conservation work is under way. the bbc went to meet a man determined to save the hirola. hirola antelope is a unique antelope found on the kenya somalia border. they have a population of less than 500 individuals, so they are so special in the sense that nothing like them in the rest of kenya, and for that matter the rest of the world. i am a kenyan conservation biologist, working to study the hirola antelope. this species have declined from about 16,000 in the 1970s. the reason for the decline is unusual. it's basically lack of food. 0ver time, there has been sort of a landscape change. we used to have about 5000 elephants in these areas. by the 1980s, all these areas. by the 1980s, all these elephants were gone, and those elephants used to maintain open grasslands for the hirola. the hirola relies on grassland. they subsist entirely on grasslands. we found out that food was the problem. we are doing a variety of activities, primarily habitat restoration. so now we are working with the local communities to open up these areas. regenerate the grasslands, and now we are acting as the elephants, and is the change agents here, where we are thinning down trees and also receiving these areas. —— reseeding these areas. one of our goals is to empower the next generation of conservationists. insecurity remains the biggest threat in our area. remains the biggest threat in ourarea. 0f remains the biggest threat in our area. of course, we work in areas along the kenya somaliathat has also been with us for a number of decades, and we hope the situation will improve in the near future, where we situation will improve in the nearfuture, where we have situation will improve in the near future, where we have a suitable environment where we can do all this conservation work peacefully. the elusive street artist banksy has spray—painted a coronavirus message for london commuters on the underground. in a video posted online under the caption, "if you don't mask, you don't get", the graffiti artist is seen on the central line tube dressed as a professional cleaner. he can be seen stencilling his famous rats holding a blue mask as a parachute and wearing a mask while holding a bottle of sanitiser. not your average commute, but then, these are hardly normal times. he also adored his name across the driver's door of a train, and the words i get locked down, but i get up again. you may remember a chumbawamba song from i think 1997. london underground says it has now re

somalia to develop relations with the breakaway african region all somali land effectively knowledge in its disputed independence somaliland is a self the 5th state but internationally considered to be an autonomous part of somalia the move designed to escalate tensions between taipei and beijing china considers taiwan its territory with no right to state to state tiny's. at least one person has died and more than 70 people arrested during protests in trinidad and tobago people have been demonstrating against police officers involved in the deaths of 3 men on saturday the men were shot soft are being suspected in the death of another police officer earlier but they say the events are part of an orchestrated plot to quote destabilize the country and the gang members were planning to use the events to cause destruction. all of the world's biggest contributors to plastic for the ocean indonesia has banned single use plastic bags increased online shopping and takeaway food during the pandemic has added to the mountain of waste and is just a washington reports landfill so no almost full. on the outskirts of the indonesian capital this is where jakarta is rubbish and up a mountain of garbage that never shrinks and the

somalia, thank you for your time. this money instantly needed. thank you, yes, the current situation in somalia, which has been chronic crisis, is compounded by the covid—19 situation, we are seeing a situation that is spiralling out of hand. the high rate of serious politician, limited access to basic service, and the weak health systems are forming a deadly combination in terms of affecting people's lives, so the money is really, we need to step up and scale up access to water, sanitation, hygiene, security programmes to save life today in the difficult months to come. somalia like social distancing, is that even possible any refugee camp? it is absolutely not possible in those crowded sha ntytown, it is absolutely not possible in those crowded shantytown, it becomes that spread across the country. this is more difficult in other settings but even in normal somalia, places that have faced the brunt of multiple simultaneous shocks including what you mention but also the flooding that displaced nearly half a million in the last few months. you have communaltoilets, huge areas where people gather because it is the only place they can, iamjust because it is the only place they can, i am just wondering what money can, i am just wondering what money can do to help that, because the issues would appear to be so huge.” think it is definitely time to act, we have a very short window of opportunity to intervene, to save lives. the country is just one step away from family, one additional child and you have manifestation of famine situation. besides that, what we are