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00:01:54hello everyone, thanks for joining us, you're watching world now, i am
00:01:58of precious, amayu now focus. is on Africa today,
00:02:01of first health and then um security, but let's start with health, the
00:02:05of ebolla of outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is escalating
00:02:09at alarming pace
00:02:10of with Africa's top public health
00:02:12of officials warning that the response is struggling to keep
00:02:15up, since the outbreak was declared in mid May, nearly
00:02:193,900 cases and more than 1,750
00:02:23deaths have been recorded, making it the fastest growing ebola
00:02:27outbreak in the country's history, and the second largest. ever documented
00:02:31worldwild, Africa CDC director general John
00:02:34Caseya says, traditional contact tracing is no longer
00:02:38containing the virus with nearly 70% of new infections
00:02:42of emerging outside known contact networks, that's a clear sign of
00:02:46widespread community transmission. I committed
00:02:50to come in Bunya with
00:02:52of WHO to reevaluate what is going
00:02:57of on and then to go back to uh. to him, what
00:03:01could be our recommendations on the way to stop this outbreak? we
00:03:04don't like the trajectory of this outbreak, and
00:03:08it's already the second largest outbreak in the
00:03:12world, but if we take a photo after
00:03:1514 weeks of declaration, it's the
00:03:19biggest outbreak, seven times more than the west
00:03:23african outbreak, we cannot continue like
00:03:25that. now during visit to kinshasa, world
00:03:29health. organization director general Teadros Adenom
00:03:32Gabriyesus described the situation as deeply
00:03:35concerning, even as laboratory testing and treatment capacity continue to
00:03:39expand. The outbreak is caug by the caused by the
00:03:43Bundebigo strain of Ebola for which there are currently no approved
00:03:46vaccines or treatment. ongoing conflict, displacement and
00:03:50illegal mining activities have further complicated containment
00:03:53efforts. In response, the United States has
00:03:56of announced additional $242 million dollars in emergency.
00:04:00bonding as health authorities raised to slow the spread and
00:04:04prevent more lives from being
00:04:05lost. now
00:04:09Dr. Agota is the vice president of medical initiative for
00:04:12Africa, he joins me virtually for more on this, good to have you
00:04:16a geneta, thank you for having me.
00:04:20so in this latest outbreak, over a thousand people in my
00:04:23close to 2,0 people now have died, um, in the
00:04:272013 to 2016 outbreak is... took about eight months to get
00:04:31to that figure, i wonder why the death rate in this particular
00:04:35outbreak is so rapid? yeah,
00:04:39thank you for having me, several reasons, you would remember
00:04:43that WHO only declared that this was a public health emergency
00:04:47of international concern in May
00:04:5115th of this year, but when we look at the epidemiology that
00:04:55is the look at the history of this condition, sometime in
00:04:58January and in February, March and April, we had already
00:05:02started
00:05:03of seeing cases and when we
00:05:04did a look back on the possibility, we felt that we were
00:05:08behind shadow by as much as three to five months, so what
00:05:12we tried to do now was basically catch up, the the
00:05:15virus had field and was out there multiplying, that has been
00:05:19a critical factor because we were playing catch up, the second factor
00:05:22obviously is that this outbreak is in the region the
00:05:26eastern democratic republic of Congo where there
00:05:30is significant security challenge, in this
00:05:33region we have over 100 non-state actors at
00:05:37play, these are militias who have their interests mainly in
00:05:41mining, e and in the
00:05:43in the conflict between headers and farmers in this area. the militias
00:05:47obviously militias like M23, Kodeco, CRP and the
00:05:51allied democratic forces, these are playing a significant
00:05:55role in that area. the health sector in that area is also quite
00:05:59weak. malaria is about 50% in prevalence
00:06:03and funding is major challenge, so all of
00:06:06this layered on community mistrust, we have
00:06:10people who still eat bts. Actually we also
00:06:14suspect that is this some these practices were important in the
00:06:18transmission from the animal population to the human
00:06:21population. Apart from that, even when people die, there's a lot of
00:06:25interaction in the in the barrial processes. Africans, we
00:06:29love to hold our bodies, we need to bait them, we want to dress them, we want to
00:06:33interact with the dead body as part the process, that also
00:06:36increases the transmission, and another very important factor is
00:06:40that the behavior the health. the healthcare seeking behavior in
00:06:44this region is also contributing, you have people who prefer to go to
00:06:48traditional healers, um, herbal treatment,
00:06:51spiritual home, religious home as the first point of contact
00:06:55delaying presentation in health facilities, and even
00:06:59when we've had health facilities, people do not present there because they also
00:07:02feel that oh, this is just malaria, or they also feel that the
00:07:06NGOs have special interest on why they are even in the
00:07:10DRC any point in time. "just the back
00:07:14of what you you're saying right now, I also understand one the
00:07:17biggest challenges is that four in five of new cases
00:07:21um have no known chain of transmission, which means that
00:07:25they um the cases are still more community based
00:07:28that contact list based - what is the implication of
00:07:32that? okay, so for every
00:07:35ebola case we have, it means that you need
00:07:39to track between let's say 30 to 100."
00:07:42cases so for the for and if you want to come to
00:07:46number and you say maybe let's say 40 cases you want to track 40 cases contact
00:07:50trace 40 cases that means that for the
00:07:533,800 cases we have you probably have over 100 thous to
00:07:57contact trace however our current contact tracing
00:08:00list has less than 15,000 people now that means that you
00:08:04have over 100 thousand people that are not in that
00:08:07list and that is where most the patients we are all now seeing are
00:08:11coming from. that tells you that if you cannot identify people who are at
00:08:15risk, contact trace them and even prevent them from
00:08:19transmitting to other people or diagnosing them, it means that these people will continue at
00:08:23the community level to transmit this condition, so that's why
00:08:26this particular outbreak has outpaced the
00:08:30highest outbreak prior to now, which was between 2018 and
00:08:332020. so so speak to the response
00:08:37air force just off the back you know of this new cases and then the fact
00:08:41that they are still coming from the community. what then is the community sorry the response
00:08:45efforts uh in comparison to the the
00:08:49new case new cases? well
00:08:52the the again
00:08:53the the other issue is that response will always be there, but
00:08:57we we have several response, multiple dimensions, at the local level,
00:09:01yes they've tried to build their capacity, they have lot of experience in treating embola,
00:09:05but they are limited, they have fear resources, at the time of this onset
00:09:09we had less than uh 50 centers. diagnosis, that
00:09:13number has increased in thousands, now we can able to test people
00:09:17faster, but the major challenge again has also been the fact that
00:09:20we don't have a single tested,
00:09:24confirmed treatment of vaccine for bundubigu, we do
00:09:28not, we have vaccine for Zaye which is effective, but we don't have
00:09:32for Bundobigo, there are two candidates now, uh, Oxford has
00:09:35started face one trial for the first candidate vaccine,
00:09:39moderna is going to start a trial very soon, so we expect... the outcomes of this
00:09:43studies to come up maybe sometime in September, that's the earliest time we're
00:09:47going to have vaccine, when it comes to medication, monoclonal
00:09:50antibodies and some antivirals, we have about two or three or four at
00:09:54play now and we are just testing them, we basically do not have any
00:09:58specific treatment, so all the treatment has to be supported,
00:10:02people have fever, you give them paracetamol, antipariretics, they are they are
00:10:06losing fluids, you give them fluids, they are feeling pain, losing blood, you
00:10:09transfuse them, so it's basically prevent. to
00:10:13preventive and supportive care that we need to focus on
00:10:17until we get specific treatment for this condition and just
00:10:21speaking on preventive care we understand that number of studies and
00:10:25research are ongoing also clinical trials for for different several
00:10:29drugs to ensure that and it's not for those who have who have
00:10:32contracted the virus but for those who
00:10:35you know haven't you know just talking about preventive care
00:10:38where are we in terms of that and how fast are things moving and how
00:10:42promising um are these research and
00:10:44studies okay so we categorize those interventions
00:10:48into tree you have a antiviral we
00:10:52tried it sometime when we had COVID not too
00:10:54long ago. v so rem has antiviral properties, so there has
00:10:58been a trial that has now started, it is used as
00:11:02post-exposure prophylaxis, so for patients who
00:11:06are contact, they are not yet confirmed to be have ebola, but they were
00:11:09contact with confirmed cases, so what is been done is that within
00:11:13if you present within 5 days of being in contact with a
00:11:17patient who is confirmed, you are now giving this medication and i think
00:11:21about less than 30 people are now enrolled after.
00:11:25sometime in September we will know the effect because we will need a space of about
00:11:2921 days after treatment to judge and see and then
00:11:33multiply that by 42 days now that's for post exposposure
00:11:36prophylaxis one - there is what you call antibodies
00:11:40injections so you give a fluid that contains an antibody
00:11:43against the virus now we're also trying to see if that's going to work but it's still
00:11:47being studied now the third arm is what we
00:11:50call obeldesv that
00:11:54is also an viral medication that is also being tried in
00:11:57prevention and lastly are the vaccines, at this
00:12:00point none these have been approved, the
00:12:04vaccines are in phase one trial, one is in phase one trial, the
00:12:08second one we hope to hope that will start in the few weeks to
00:12:11come, and for the medications and specific treatment there is no
00:12:15confirmation, the reports are
00:12:18positive, but we cannot say until we that that
00:12:21study is completed according to the the standards.
00:12:25Dr. I want to take a minute to just ask you because one the cherry news coming
00:12:29is that Uganda has declared that it is um it is Ebola
00:12:32free. What does that mean for the rest the continent? Can we
00:12:36relax some the measures that we put in place? Oh no,
00:12:40we can't relax any measure. Esbula yes
00:12:44uh is been declared in Uganda, but that's that is now has to go
00:12:48through the normal incubation period. They had the 42 days after their last
00:12:52case and they did that declaration on the 28th of July. but we still have
00:12:56to wait, what happens is that ebola and the northern
00:12:59part of Democratic Republic of Congo are basically
00:13:03integ, they are they are very related socially and economically,
00:13:07all most the mining that is going on in Bunia,
00:13:10Mongualu, not in Kivo, south kivo and even in
00:13:14Ituru where you have the epicenter of this disease, most the
00:13:17mining that is going on there, they take this mining and they cross border to
00:13:21Uganda where they do the refining, so this these countries
00:13:25the the border there is just they're interfacing so the the the
00:13:29interaction is significant so the are it's not a time ours
00:13:33our our guard it's a time even heighten it and learn from
00:13:37the from from the lessons so far also important is that every
00:13:40flight that is coming from the eastern eastern africa
00:13:44is also risk factor that's why you have to cont of entry
00:13:48screening you have to increase awareness about your programs in
00:13:52place and you and not to lower your down
00:13:55absolutely, absolutely, especially with the the case rates - the coming from
00:13:59the community and then uh the death rates, mean we're following
00:14:02developments in DROC, thank you so much for your time, as always,
00:14:06vice president, medical initiative for Africa,
00:14:09Dr. Always a
00:14:12pleasure, we take a break now when we return
00:14:16attention will be turned to security, still in Africa, stay
00:14:20with
00:14:20us.
00:14:27and thanks for staying with us everyone, let's
00:14:30to a Chad where France is reshiping its military strategy in
00:14:33Africa with Chad emerging as a key partner, and that's less
00:14:37than two years after ending a defense agreement that brought to
00:14:41close, 65 years of continuous French military
00:14:44presence, following months of diplomatic engagement,
00:14:48Paris and Germaina have begon rebuilding security
00:14:51cooperation, the renewed partnership focuses on military trade. in
00:14:55intelligence sharing, medical evacuation and limited air
00:14:59support rather than permanent French bases or large troop
00:15:03deployment. The shift comes after France with drew his forces from
00:15:06Mali, Burkina Faso, Nija and Chad, are prompting a brother
00:15:10rethink of his role on the continent. Chad had explored
00:15:14security partnerships with Russia, Turkey and the United Arab
00:15:17Emirates, but those efforts delivered limited results
00:15:21paving the way for renewed cooperation with France under the new...
00:15:25arrangement, all activities will operate with the approval the Itadian
00:15:28government, reflecting on Jamana's push for greater
00:15:31sovereignty over his security partnerships. now for France, the
00:15:35renewed relationship helps preserve is
00:15:37so strategic I presence am, in central Africa, while for Chad, he
00:15:41provides critical support tackling armed groups in the Lake Chad
00:15:44Basin and along is brought his border with
00:15:48Sudan. Let's bring
00:15:52in director uh Suvera Africa, Charles Yakombo, good to have
00:15:56you join us, thank you for having
00:15:59me. All I, right, of
00:16:01Charles, course, I know that you have been following this development and I wanted to ask you what you make the
00:16:05diplomatic reset.
00:16:07and the security realignment between France and
00:16:10Chard? uh, I think Chard
00:16:13should be celebrated for taking a bold move to
00:16:17relook into the security controls in the country, because the
00:16:21major role of a government is to protect their own
00:16:25citizens, so
00:16:26you know Chard is anoded by you, lot of security threats, whether
00:16:30you look at Sudan side, the war in Sudan, infilating back
00:16:33to chad is very possible, looking at '
00:16:38uh the lake chat base inside where we have security
00:16:40threats that really also threatens
00:16:44the security or under stability of chad
00:16:48itself of course with the bokoko haram also the cases
00:16:51of Nijan of course Libya the top so chard is strategically
00:16:55a very dangerous position in terms of security wise but why I'm saying that chat
00:16:59should be at least celebrated for this is that they are redefining
00:17:03relationship so it is not like the old model
00:17:07where uh the France was you know
00:17:11had had lot of say on what is happening, but now we are coming under our own
00:17:15terms and that is something that uh, you know, if you ask me, I
00:17:18will
00:17:19say that will be leading now to France also
00:17:22the rethinking the approach to Africa, not looking at Africa
00:17:24like you, you know, you know,
00:17:28just a country to, a continent to be buldosed around,
00:17:32so I believe this would be should be the interest the Chidian
00:17:36government uh... of course the ch you know the charder
00:17:40accounts on unless the other
00:17:43arrangements
00:17:44you know after the agreements will be will be re overlooked
00:17:48um defense analyst described it as cautious attempts to
00:17:52return through this france to return through the site door uh with fewer
00:17:56soldiers less visibility and the more dependence on Chidian political
00:18:00concerns do you agree with that
00:18:04I definitely agree uh
00:18:07It's it's a chid must trade also with lot of caution because
00:18:11this is a country that has had dominance for
00:18:15over 65 years and of course just less than two years
00:18:19ago I can say they were you
00:18:21know the relationship was saved so when they are coming in with the new arrangement of course the
00:18:25first question should be asking ourselves that why are they accepting this you
00:18:28know why would they really accept this is there something
00:18:32that chad the west african countries need to look
00:18:36into but again on the other deep side, you know, if you sent me
00:18:39out of your country and now you are inviting me under your on your own
00:18:43terms and still you agree to come that means that it's
00:18:47a signal that France also has
00:18:50lot uh to benefit from from
00:18:54you having their presence in in in
00:18:57in in the west african countries or just in west africa and i think char is france is looking
00:19:01at it from i can say strategic adaptation part of point of
00:19:05view because if "if let's say
00:19:09there is a feeling that they're turning back
00:19:13to the old model, then I still believe the current president, the way he
00:19:16did, he can still save the relationship again, so it it's both
00:19:20caution both on the chat government side or the chard side, the also front
00:19:24side, and I hope that in this new arrangement
00:19:28Chad will still have a full say, and if they feel like
00:19:32relationship is not mutually beneficial, they should
00:19:35be ready to..." so
00:19:37you now cut the ties again
00:19:39uh of course on the on the other side of chad you also seen they
00:19:43have tried to look for relationship from you
00:19:46the uae they have tried to look through the Turkey and and and
00:19:50Russia uh but we agree that
00:19:53security issues sometimes are not just
00:19:56ideologically should be from the lens of
00:20:00ideology we also looking at the capability point of view and now that France
00:20:04has historical knowledge of of course operating working
00:20:08with the chard military uh and of course also the intelligence of France
00:20:12in terms of military has been celebrated you for a while. i
00:20:15think it's also in the best interest the chat government to really
00:20:19you know reinvite them, but of course on on
00:20:23this, i can say new arrangement which should be 100%
00:20:27beneficial to the chat people. what is what is also
00:20:31a very skillful attempt by charge to
00:20:35redefine this relationship and now? make it a partnership of
00:20:39equals? yes,
00:20:43yes, yes, uh, it's it's it's a, i can say it's it's
00:20:46a a good and a positive.
00:20:50gesture on how African countries should actually
00:20:53relate to
00:20:57uh the former colonizers,
00:20:59you know, you are coming in not as a bully or someone
00:21:03who or an unequal partner that you're coming in as
00:21:07kind of relationship that should benefit both of us, of course I'm
00:21:11not proud to say that you know child could not look within
00:21:14Africa to get support because that should be the case, but it also shows
00:21:18that African Union or... should also redefine the
00:21:22principles that govern external military so that any
00:21:25arrangement that any African countries getting into with an
00:21:29external military partner should be something that is
00:21:33benefit to beneficial to the Africans
00:21:36themselves, if Africa or African Union had
00:21:40capacity to maintain
00:21:44peace and stability in African, I don't think Chard would have
00:21:47looked west
00:21:49or or east. "they would have redefined and looked a way in which African
00:21:53can protect themselves, but now if you look at African continent,
00:21:56it is in chaos, whether you look at Somalia, whether you look at DRC
00:22:00Congo, whether you look at it from from from from from
00:22:03Ethiopia, it is just in in case, and and of course internally even
00:22:07Africans now are fighting against fellow Africans, look at South Africa and all that,
00:22:11so security the citizens matter and
00:22:15intelligence the entire and having the knowledge the
00:22:18operation the country." really really indeed, if you ask
00:22:22me, whether we are getting help from east or west, what is
00:22:26important is the life of our people and security the nation, you
00:22:29charles, let me just comment because I was going to ask you if you
00:22:33think that the other uh Sahel states does um uh burkina
00:22:37Faso, Mali and Ninger would follow suit and perhaps also redefine their
00:22:40relations with with France, but just because you
00:22:44mentioned Africa and its defense um strategy and
00:22:48defense spending, I mean it... i want to sort of pivot to
00:22:51that, um, if it's time we start to invest in our own
00:22:55defense, when you look at also consider what's happening between Europe and America,
00:22:59um, if it's time we start investing now in defense and stop looking to the west or the
00:23:02east, absolutely, we need to
00:23:06work on our own defense, it is, it is, it is
00:23:10quite uh, i can say sad that we chad is
00:23:13still is still going to be
00:23:15you know trained by France,
00:23:17you know,
00:23:18you know, it's funny, so... why can't Africa
00:23:22just look for a way in which they can train their own military
00:23:25personnel because I'll train you based on how
00:23:28I fight my war so that means that you do not have any
00:23:32other skill to defend yourself other than the ones that you've been given it's like I'm
00:23:36giving you the new language to to speak so you can't really speak to any other
00:23:40person so it's high time but but of course if you look at the
00:23:44the African countries themselves even the battle they're currently fighting internal
00:23:48battles first if you look at what's happening in the the DRC, if you look at
00:23:52what's happening in Ethiopia and all that, even fighting their own battles
00:23:56alone is a challenge, the west african countries of course you
00:23:59know threats from everywhere, so we have the external
00:24:03threats that now needs a lot of military
00:24:07intelligence and training, then of course we also have the internal trend, so it is high time I agree
00:24:11with you that even uh the the budgets for military
00:24:14should be increased, but the question is who is going to train them, which African
00:24:18country or which African troop is really capable
00:24:22of of
00:24:23of offering such a training, so it is a great, it's a big deficit,
00:24:27and I'm not so sure if this is something that African Union is really keen or
00:24:31looking into, I mean so many defense partnerships and
00:24:35cooperation across the continent, it perhaps just leaves the content continent
00:24:39vulnerable, because it almost feels like we do not have our own
00:24:43intelligence that is kept private without the west the east
00:24:46knowing exactly what we're doing, but we're following up with that development. Thank you so much for your
00:24:50time, our director severa Africa Charles Yakombo joining us from
00:24:54Kenya. Thank you for having
00:24:57me. Right, that's uh World now. Thank
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00:30:35In parts of Nigeria, there
00:30:37is cause people say in whisper, a
00:30:41spell feared by main and surrounded by
00:30:44mystery, from generation to
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00:30:56the Europa land.