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tv   Africa Now  RT  February 28, 2023 6:30pm-7:01pm EST

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hi, i'm rick sanchez, and i'm here to play with you whatever you do. you do not watch my your show. seriously. why watch something that so different my little opinions that you won't get anywhere else work of it please, or do have the state department to see i a weapons makers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. i changed and whatever you do, don't watch my show stay mainstream because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show was called direct impact, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just changing the way you think. ah, the 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
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326000000 cubic miles of water. but no, where is there was spot per person like him or like have more than 100000000 people are currently displaced from the homes. one in tweet is in africa, new when abandoned the home and is forced to no one month for border. i miss his whole city is running with him. no one carries the anthem of his homeland and his grip to a phone 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. kimmy host, some of the world's largest numbers of refugees,
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and had 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 are some 30000000 refugees asylum seekers and internally displaced people in africa. we ask the question, why have these numbers come about? and who is to blame? we posed our 1st difficult questions to the you and h os 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 interactions you look at so many or is you can
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even see that there are other groups that are waging war against governments. so that also contributes to any similarity that needs to live in yard froze. and why are so many refugees from somalia? well, there are 2 drivers of the population movements with the inside the country or out to the outside. and those are conflict. and so many has seen more than fair share of conflicts 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 add to this the main factor. the 1000000 for population
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movement across the whole of africa is glenna change. but broadly speaking, if you look at the, the bill from the indian ocean to the 2nd in west africa, this is the reason that is most affected by climate change in the entire world. and this way you see that in these also know most of the region in the world by conflicts. how many somali refugees are there in other countries and how many internally displaced people are there in your country? well, i don't have an exact number of reviews of somebody go there if you lose it started since the early 1990 s since $991.00 to be exact. so it is hard to give you an exact figure of how many somebody's are actually revenues in other
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countries. some people will as far as 5000000 somebody's in other countries as to the intel in displaced the number that we have is 3800000 people. some of them displace most recently, and some of them have been in displace guns 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 2023 is point 2 into 3000000. somebody's and that is almost half of the population. we need some form of the assistance of those. we anticipate that 517000 children will see nearly
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acutely managed between april and this year. therefore, we have to scale up our response to save as many lives as we can. but given the fact that this is a climate induce crisis, we also need some tenuously to in this more inclement adaptation and with management. and we're going to vision. and those kind of interventions require development in this means that would enable the continue to adapt to this rapidly intensifying afflicting 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 types of help, we need assistance that would allow us to save lives
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and that is mainly in for key sectors health, nutrition, put security and water and sanitation. those are the key. it is of course that are other areas as well. so shows 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 brands. so the way it works in that, that is a national loan implant. and then there is a cooperation from work within the government and the united nations. and the cooperation framework is mainly to enable us to support the government if the involvement initiatives. and what we see there is some relative focus on the humanitarian leaf component. we see less investment being done by the donor
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community on the development site. and we, we just think that to break the cycle in this humidity in closes, we need to much the interventions development information. 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 stronger build the infrastructure, do the climate adaptation and develop natural disasters? hit many countries in the world, but someone is for a unity, leads to discard the construct solutions we have in order number from people in need of immediate assistance. so this is unsustainable. and that's why
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the only way to end it is to, in this more in the development of a country in northeastern kenya, in a semi arid district, the dob refugee complex is the we'll just refugee camp. it's made up of 3 refugee camps and dates back some 50 years. the 1st refugees arrived in 1991 escaping was enabling somalia. the next big influx was 20 years later as some, all these sort refuge again in the camp from hunger and starvation. today as many as a quarter of a 1000000 people live in the dub refugee complex. from where our next proposed come . 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 picked up the ties between government forces and what the courts banded in that
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part of the country to cross not another 55 between the side. but the april was close to a slight pulling to the east for the country. not only is that the most lisa molly refugees came to kenya fling was in the own country, only to find themselves in the midst of another conflict. bandit use them if jesus cover moving in and around him and laying improvised explosive vices targeting security forces. so not only do the refugees have to deal with hosp kemp conditions and now a conflict. but there's also clipping dropped and famine. and each date movie t y manya, the so called climate did not when they were concept. but they know leaving and pushing wilson program to beyond capacity. it's struggling to feed everyone and con, exist attempts by a road. it could have complete attack band. he didn't need food. gina,
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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 food distribution. look, thanks very much your interest and there is a really challenging situation with drought right across the horn of africa. we just start with the regional situation at the moment. there are 22000000 people across the one of africa who are struggling to find enough to h, including 4400000 people here in kenya. 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 conflicts, drought from conflict. we've seen more than 800000 people reach the de gab refugee
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camp in eastern the country near the somali border and rising numbers in the other main camp in the country. inca creamer refugees who were refugees even before the food crisis began. specifically that group of people, how was they being affected? there have been around for 1000000 people in kenya. so quite a long period of time displaced by really a conflicts either coming across the border from places like sudan and self sudan, or from somalia, or even e t o p or 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, 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 families in peace, which is something that all of us are being alternately to be able to achieve prior
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to even fire, to rouse the situation for refugees in kenya was quite dia, refugees, and kenya last experienced a full 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 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
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also been addressing outside their frustration. western countries cannot hide from dave involvement in the refugee crisis in somalia was triggered by western involvement that led to the influx of somali refugees coming here to kenya. and that was back in 1992 when you were mandatory in peacekeeping mission in somalia. but once started as famine relief ended in war at tamale's. do not appreciate americans wanting military operations in the country. like then again, now they will win the resources from the way to days from a conflict they started, which they spiraled and lead to mass migration. what the and now again,
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history is repeating itself. the, the most recent refugee crisis has again been triggered by the waste. this time they've chosen the tiny african country of wonder at the destination for thousands of refugees seeking shelter this time from europe, most notably ukraine. what this means is that you, in countries like denmark and britain, are 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 under way. and we'll do the potations was scheduled for april last year. then june. they have since been back tracked due to logistical issues and opposing court battles. it started with the
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then british prime minister, bobby johnson and johnson planned to deport illegal ukrainian refugees. to wonder. as an incentive, he pledged a 120000000 pounds to the one piece president port don, 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 its 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 in 23 rebels is under way. we can are keeping host refugees for which we are later on held accountable in some way or
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even abused about refugees as a result of ethnic cleansing based in another country. and we must be a dumping ground of these people who are being deprived of their rights. but surprisingly, while ago mcclain's, his country has no capacity to have neighboring populations. he has accepted the request for ukrainian refugees. wonder now 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 a single and different television. the different. busy listening 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
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to stop these killings of every day of innocent people. like i said, i'm going to linger well, some us municipally, the united initial, their budget. oh and a buzz. come killing, still got to us government. not even to protect us. i goes to do it to hear my voice to says ling lindley, people clear to like other people. god is a creator. but do we don't like it a month? we are voiceless. i tell, do i get to hear my voice and look at the solution of my and when you're dying,
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i saw kids, they dug women, they kill him and the ripping on the cutting there. but is the increase of wifi chief and the decrease of budget by the united nations means that this problem will only get worse cup of vet 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 this place people just behind me. we have mo, done 100000 cockle, is people who are still very clean from them. 23 cruises, and also we have mo, done people who don't have access to their food. they don't have access. also
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today you monetary assistance. so the, i still need food and or so, according to the testimonies from our different people who are, we're living around, deny specially near obama territory and also a different areas around where there is the closest between the m 23 and they kimberly's army to f r d. c. there is 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 beetle western states. it is out of sunless zip prod, get a lab military brilliance which crumbled the much flaunted british imperialist. i need to improve. of course,
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that was because we had russia in china is our key allies in dismantling tradition am, which was a proxy to the imperialist position. this plan failed to install the cartridge did of michelle. his sovereign is what is attracted, a sustained type 10. and again, simba was deemed in m me because of the linda form program was dividends have notably revived. i was about when the 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 report to sanctions actually work. i the 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
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last 20 years or so have actually had a positive impact. then you are part of a movement that anti 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 realize is that sanctions, we're taking a huge tolliver and by which they were killing the economy. and by so doing, there were destroying jobs, destroying factories, destroying industrial and in the process to set realizing, and bob were end, are displacing above with, in 2 neighboring countries and cetera. so one of the things that we wanted to do was to create unity for some bubble. give awareness, involvement is what is destroying the economy to displace people in intertwined unites above winds. to try and see how we can fight the scourge. that is making people coming to south africa. look at a neighborhood like this. i mean, it's full of displays. people predominantly zim bob width. is this the reason why
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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 day year because of human rights abuses there. because the thing is, 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, hate 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't go back home cuz they're being persecuted and only then can you get a refugee stages. and that's why people have had to lie. but the reason that is in
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bub wins have been displaced in white. they're coming here to look for iceland is because the big displaced by persecution is about. so we're just saying is that even the south african government didn't appreciate the course of this inflow of people that they 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. christopher didn't appreciate that. the sanction veterans above, we were illegal and they were a violation of human rights, and that there were destabilizing people, i mean, destabilizing the country, and killing the economy. to displace refugees into some africa. kelly, even a need, you know, a voice that's helping zimbabwe. if you will come together and cannot be solved by
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them, bob winds alone, all is leave us alone. so kind of solidity, do you, do you see within zimbabwe end, outside of zimbabwe through neighboring countries? do you, do you feel legs and bub we need 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 some bub ones when somebody don't understand it on plato, we can't expect other countries to unite with us. can expect we're not to be xenophobia against bob wins when we doesn't, but when people have been divided by dissenters. so that is why one of the very 1st thing that we did and that you can see the logo here is what people holding hands and bub 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 better than some bubbling in that itself is now beginning to galvanized above words, to start tackling this elephant in the room of sanctions. and the propaganda that
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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 in human rights. 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 the 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.
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ah, ah luis counter russian state will never be as tight as on the north landscape diva with within the 50000 feet. okay, so mine is 2000 speedy. one else, with little fan in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state on rochester date and square r t sport neck, even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube. and with
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dish. with since the beginning of its history, the united states of america has officially declared this driving for freedom and people's rights to happiness. however, in reality, having won independence, american colonists headed for that total extermination of the indigenous population of the continent, american indians were deprived of their land. local residents were driven into reservations and given the worst agricultural territories. while the best land was appropriated by white colonizers, the strongest blow to american indian tribes was the extermination of buys of
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native americans lived by hunting these wild colonists slaughter the buys in, and in fact, made them nearly extinct. every buffalo dead is in india and gone, said colonel richard dot, a veteran of the bloody and vicious indian wars cynically the indigenous population was simply exterminated us army general phillips sheridan expressed the essence of this policy. in the infamous words, the only good india is a dead indian, the genocide of native americans of north america lead to a demographic catastrophe. the exact number of deaths is deal unknown, but the number of victims is in millions. having been the majority on the continent before the indigenous people make up less than 3 percent of the us population today . ah, ah, isn't time to talk. it would seem so the west rhetoric is at odds with hard
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realities on the ground in ukraine. the chinese have presented to proposal and it is believe the u. k. france and germany, or cobbling together a plan for zalinski. but are they willing to talk to russia? ah, the 2 main opposition parties in nigeria, coal to nullify that presidential elections, stating their preliminary results or a show on the the voting process has been manipulated. uganda and south africa are set to strengthen bi lateral cooperation. as the ugandan president calls for stronger treating relations between the states and i'm confident in general during a visit to the country on the u. s. secretary of state.

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