This years record breaking wheat crop is expected to even yield a surplus laureate john can get on. Top honors for leading africa responds to the coven 19 pandemic. Among other achievements, doctor john kanga sons needs to dw on the recognition. And his experience handling the unprecedented crisis. And its kick off time in syria known as the countrys top flight nationwide Football League for women. Get on the way ah, im told me or lady ball welcome to the program. A humanitarian challenge is emerging in nigeria as the country experiences its worst floods in a decade. 33 out of nigeria. 36 states are affected by the rising waters. Entire communities have been submerged, losing their houses, their fields, and their livelihoods. So far more than 600 people have died and at least 1400000 people have been forced from best submerged homes. The country experiences seasonal flooding along these 2 main rivers every year, but on a far smaller scale, its a different story this time. Take a look at this section of the major river as pictured in june this year, and compare with what it looked like earlier this month when the river burst its banks, some communities of witness water levels of up to 13 meters. Well discuss why the situation is so devastating after this report by d. Ws flourished shakara. This is what the rainy season usually looks like in an ambrosia, in southeast and large area. And this is what the same Community Looks like now. Swollen weavers have inundated numerous towns and comedies across nigeria, causing a 1400000 people to flee their homes for camps set up on higher ground. We are suffering, but suffering is better than stealing. Thats why were here in this condition, the clothes that im wearing and the only ones i have left, the flood carried away all our belongings. Neither acre i knew i have an acre a farmland night now, but and i bought a bag of manila for 40. 00. I planted rice one and 2 days later the floods washed everything away. Lubano color schools have been destroyed by water. So our plea is anyone that can help us should help us. Any one that can help us should help us please. What help is slowing . Arriving many roads and bridges are washed out. Traffic chokes those routes that are still possible, delaying the delivery of fuel and Food Supplies around the country. Is when you, when down in whitaker, we have just returned yesterday from delivering goods in the capital, a boucher and were back here and we havent even gone an inch of alameda. Were gonna, oh, look, are and use as crumbling to help where they can just care about. The situation is heart wrenching who they are. Once we have families where a single mother with 10 or 11 children has lost everything. What is the biggest challenge that currently is the shortage of food. Such a family needs more than one bag of rice premier and they eat 3 meals a day and many people in hard. Hed stay like an umbrella as steel waiting for assistance promised by the governments twilight limiter. Hobbled on and not seen only razzles with key infrastructure swallowed by water. Many of the flooded communities are without power. And peoples generators have been destroyed. Critical infrastructures such as schools, health care, st as police stations, and banks cant or creek. And with the number of farmlands that have been destroyed, they are concerns about foods kasey in the coming months. Dangerous. Gov meant blames most of the floating on on seasonally heavy rain. But other factors play a role. The lad good damn in neighboring cameroon opens its gates every year, releasing excess water that flows into nigeria. But nigeria has failed to build a dam to manage the overflow. The Nigerian Government says that though they received Early Warning signs of the flood, they never foresaw on this level of destruction and south eastern nigeria is at risk of flooding until the end of the rainy season. In november. Im joined now by adequate ha into in ottawa, she is an environmental researcher at Queens University and canada. Welcome to the dublin years africa darker. Now youve been researching the reasons for nigeria is flooding. We know the main rivers in the country flood annually. Why is the situation different this time . Yeah, decision is different these time because of this kill and magnitude. So why major a sponsor or flooding b . C. Weve had very bad flooding and dont get away springs its kind of flooding last was in 2012 and who have similar factors in 2012. There was release of 1000 lire. Them some from came in. So does the same this year. So even though the one in our, the official reports will half of the nation are many still Water Resources tells us that the flooding we are experiencing is not due to any, is not related to any dam release, but due to rainfall. So have hiring fall d c. So so higher rainfall means the dams get full and then they get released. I mean, weve had a lot of rainfall before it is, its exceptional this year. So apparently theyve had very, very, had a normal reinforce and this is one of the impacts of Climate Change as experienced nobody glue. Well is a very important to differentiate the dynamics of nigeria flooding from the global climate. Nasa Climate Change is part of employees. Just a very tiny piece of the, of the puzzle in the flooding problem in nigeria. So the main reason for these flooding we are currently experiencing is the lack of infrastructure and planning. What kind of infrastructure we talking about that needs to be in place and what kind of planning are you should be in place to to prevent those kind of flooding . Yeah, 1st of all, proper planning would mean that there is no development on flood plays festival. So its easy to blame the people for beauty know floor plans when, when you have a chance, if you, if you dont enforce them, the people do what they do. So you can say people and develop, you know, floor planes. Then. Secondly, theres also infrastructure engineering infrastructure that should be in place to help me to get logged in as the practice on about it. But sadly, we dont have that in nigeria. So that is why the flooding is very, very serious. And what, what kinds of are you same engineering infrastructure . What exactly are we talking about . Can give us examples. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, various forms of engineering infrastructure that helped me to get flowing. So you could have resolved was, you could have dams. And actually in this flooding, waste perience in the area that there is a john niger i supposed to be many for many decades. Not i dont still have in place. And yes, so many engineering as engineering designs i will kind of put in place to help control flooding. For example, in the native lance. Lance is very drones of flooding, so they have a lot of structures in place to control flooding, but sadly, sadly, we dont even have anything. So im not saying we should have the type of infrastructure in the last house because the dynamics are also different. Will have nothing to actually help us if its the mission of defense of, of flooding. So that is why you see every in nigeria, most of us in terms of it. And is this a resulting from the lack of a strategy . O, c is due to the lack of trust ag, even though we do not have the flood race management policy in place. I say that is because after 2012, those who had the governments had it was disaster Risk Management agenda and flooding is number one on this list is the priority. Also how the nation i was up on the see. Wait, understand the need for controlling learning, each acknowledges are for the music traits. So while, while there are some places we do not have also many audits will have that acknowledges the risk offloading the importance of preventing for them both. Suddenly these are not implemented. There is no political will to implement what we have spoke there with a dock who attended. Shes an environmental researcher at Queens University in canada. From too much rain in west africa to not at all in the east. The ongoing drought in the horn of africa is the worst to hit the region in 40 years. 4 consecutive rainy seasons have failed in northern kenya, which was already one of the countrys driest areas. Its particularly tough for the communities that many of whom have to rely on their livestock for a living. As the ground has become even more barren, hundreds of thousands of animals have already died now with their livelihood gone. The situation is becoming dire, especially in kenyas to kind of region as d ws. Felix marina reports with Selena Taylor has 4 children of her own and also takes care of her sisters kids. But with a drought she has been unable to feed the large family at times even skipping meals, know how fireplaces call it. And the cooking ports are mostly empty. How children i surviving when food shift coverages. And i have to go to the bush and collect wild fruit code angle i seeing the children whist away is causing selina unbearable pain. Their sick claim, most of the time they go to bed on an empty stomach above them. I just feel terrible. How husband joseph once had so many goods and cattle that they filled, the st closure and money he used to and from selling meat and milk was more than enough to feed his family. But that drought has killed nearly all of his talk. I am or another one. Well, i wish i had a more la cant count the number of lifestyle we have already lost the drought. Not it would be more than 100. 00. But right now beyond the of 5 running, mostly another one. I dont think i will go on. I know you can atanya by water points as that gets water for cooking and washing clothes. This was once a flowing river. No, its the only water for kilometers. I just said the water here isnt clean. We often have diarrhea, so with this its the only water points to even dogs drink from here. And if i am thirsty, ill drink from here to. It affects us so much before the rains stopped falling, theyre not. And can your region was already experiencing hash climatic conditions, some 500000 people in true color. I in dire need of help. The drought here, most experts, fee is partly caused by Climate Change. The poor population in africa continue to split it the significant impacts of Climate Change. So i think its a cool for, for the globe as a whole, to actually address the issue of glass. It because he that makes you a lot of people are the only in africa america, continental as well. As for selina and high extended family chinese training out for the while to act, they are already being battered by Climate Change. Or the global shortages caused by the war in ukraine have pushed some countries to focus on producing more of their own food. As a result, zimbabwe is on course for its largest ever wheat harvest. At 380000. 00 tons, the expected produce will be more than the country needs to consume for the year, meaning the surplus can be used to build excess reserves. Heres d, w privilege, machinery, a busy time it good grass, electrical michelle farm, east of zimbabwe, capital id, like many other farms across the country. We have this thing is in progress. Pharma, claudia aquanda, is expecting more than 1000. 00 tons of wheat. Hes best to have it since he started planting the crop. I am happy that we have money orders that would yield and her with the actors which we have put under wit and to what we are now repeating. Ah, i feel proud. So what we are doing is anisha. Zimbabwe is investing in inland dams to move away from over dependence on drain, fit agriculture in the face of Climate Change. The country suite is predominantly grown and our irrigation, but failing rains that havent been the only problem. Zimbabwe held the bread basket of africa state us and to early 2000. When agriculture took a nosedive because of the land reforms from a net exporter to init, importer of ceos and green. But things f slightly shifted because of mechanization and some of the reforms that the government has embarked on the record which prove that she has been achieved thanks to partnerships between the government and private companies. There are 30 is encouraged to private players like millers and banks to finance farmers for 60 percent of their wheat planted. You were instrumental in facilitating it big at policy positions and from wax in the form of fair joint ventures. We now have joint ventures where by the re, settled, farmers join hands and putting out with the private sector players. If that to should lend to utilize it fully utilize the resources, the dams, the water in the lent. So we believe that its sir pink dividend for ordinary citizens. The bound for wheat harvest could translate to reduce the bread prices, a loaf of bread costs more than 1. 00 who has a dollar, a price that many struggling families cannot afford. Grain millers are a fit about buying wheat, growing in zimbabwe. Is it laws they are production costs . Are we have served more than 12000000 years dollars a year in this funds that were supposed to meet outside is now been redirected to local industries in the Multiplier Effect of even 200000000. Now, going to the companies out which are into input production mechanization and other related Services Assembly booths, toys increasing our g. D. P. Is a country bummer. Cloudy near corner wants to grow more grain to sustain food security. Zimbabwe may once again become africa, bread, basket. Oh, youre watching di, dublin is africa still to come tactics, technique and tough tackling in sierra leone as the professional nationwide Football League for women gets underway. But 1st cameron bon via ologist john kanga san has won the virtual Global Health prize. The 500000 euro award recognizes those dedicated to improving the health of the worlds most vulnerable people. And can guess on is currently the u. S. Global age coordinator. But for 6 years before that, he was the head of Africa Centers for disease control. In this position, he was praised for how he steered africa coven response. I caught up with candace on after he received the Lifetime Achievement award. Announce what his greatest concern was at the coven. 900 virus emerge during his time as africa, cdc director. My group just another time that is about a piano that you know 99. Eli 2002 and he was the continent was carefully prepared for such a fuss. Moving virus virus that we saw. Ready what was happening in china, so what was happening in your. Ready and so. Ready what was happening in the united states, and those are our economies or countries that where he believe could address such fast moving funds yet did give us dition. There was certain it was august that because of the week has systems that exist on the continent of africa. Was going to be very challenging to, to back to the virus. The seeing go, you go to what we, what you, you have not. What do you need soon . Youre ready to come to and you went toward ginger virus. We had a dentist position at that time. And at any point, did this concern turn into fear dealing with the unknown it was characterized by a afraid of the, of the knowledge of what could possibly happen. Remember, this was an unknown battery and nobody knew it. How it causes disease. We knew very little about whats up transmission, and very importantly, we had to diagnostics. We had no vaccines, you have no treatment. So you are dealing with a disease that actually was new and we had no countermeasures to, to fight it through. Was pretty scary to, to start with. Do you think that continent as a whole, did it best to, to fight the pandemic . I think the continent of africa was exceptional. When does each job dependent make will be reaching very convinced that they would be hooked up to the board to. Ready coordination make any genetic continent put on the umbrella African Union led by ship us more stuff like the African Union commission, the secretary at no cost press then to south africa the african to enable us that. Ready allowed the after just cdc to, to actually do it job. I think in this a lot of lessons to be learned from the continent responded. I remember very early on, they were petition almost nasa jones in the next one about 6 months of the outbreak. And maybe it didnt happen now. And then i must say that its not because people were not impacted if it were infected under control. And that because of those measures that continental, as you wanted, the strength of depend on nothing complementary absolute. They created for both political and their coordination because of them that they put in place. What is the biggest lesson . What major lesson do you think you will take with you from dealing with the pandemic that will inform your outlook and your current job working to control the h. I. V. Aids pandemic. The lessons that are over in the last 2 years of this pandemic. One is that as humanity we are more connected than we thought. And as you money g, we have. Busy one were done with and as you money to any qualities and any breaches that is not necessary as a result of the call with it before im going to work on addressing just any policies on any breaches. Because failure to address those integrated any results to a Security Threat of either way we saw how. Ready the emergence of the death of in india or the emergence of the only one that was detected in south africa was the one that quickly became a threat to everybody to were. So if it is disease outbreak anywhere in the world, everywhere in the world. So i think that is the major lesson that we should all very much for speaking to us. And once again, congratulations on the prize. Now to sierra leone, where for the 1st time in decades, the country has a top flight professional womens Football League president julias might appeal, and the 1st lady fatima attended the leagues opening match last saturday. It kicks off a 6 month season, in which 12 clubs from across the country will compete for the Womens Premier League trophy a cash prize, and of course, bragging rights. This is a start of a new journey for womens football in sierra leone. C c and its a cause for celebration. The men of queens from the Northern City of mckenney are about to face off against like a home le queens from kenema in the east. The match is a milestone because it marks the launch of the countrys 1st National Professional womens Football League. Board member asthma, james told d w, this is a key moment. So this one is unique for many because its been a while since we actually saw something really big. So its so important for us here in san diego. And we are all just so excited that we may play football. Oh, the league includes 12 teams from across the nation. Theyll be competing for a cash prize and a trophy to be awarded at the end of the season. In april. Supporters hope the new league will also boost the success of the National Womens team, which fell to qualify for this. She is africa cup of nations. Please say the eager to showcase that talent and debunk stereotypes about women and football. My mother told me what guys can do it is kind of and i want to find that botswana on, on a loan to show my that the approved claim that was the guy that is coming much better. The hope to is that the new Womens League will also be a source of fun and entertainment for everyone. News definitely wants to keep an eye on. Well thats it for now, but be sure to check out other stories on d. W dot com, forward slash africa on facebook and twitter. We always love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. So do get in touch with living with these pictures of that 1st match in theory, and he owns Womens Premier League thanks to the theory leon Football Association for sharing these action shots with us with you next time. Bye for now. I use with ah, with ah, in with you with do you like it with do you want it . Okay, then buckle up, put the pedal to the metal and lets ride with red in 30 minutes on d. W to the point to strong opinions. Clear position, international perspectives. Civilian targets and ukraine have come under heavy russian fire, including from so called kamikaze drought. And the west is mounting a response. Today on to the point we ask, as a war in ukraine escalate, will nato cindy b party to point with d. W. With the 2nd i have been beaten, i have been taken straight it because we tried to to show the face of mafia all over the world. Environmentalists are in danger. 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