Drought in Africa: Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe declare state of disaster | DW News

[@frankblangeard8865]

As a very young person about 65 years ago I remember contributing coins to help the starving people in Africa. Same countries in Africa. Still starving. A lot more people.

[@t_whelms]

Zambia is not in East Africa but in Southern Africa, get facts straight.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

was the map shown wrong? No.

[@t_whelms]

​@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885That's not what was written when the video was first posted in the caption

[@RemixKingzMusic]

Another main problem is mono-cropping. They need more trees of varies species.

[@vladnickul]

LOL

[@imtheeastgermanguy5431]

The problem is that the soil is not covered and the rain can't soak in the soil. It runs of and create flooding and erosion

[@Wavy_Gravy]

Manbearpig tried to warn us.

[@christophermgwadira4400]

I was in Zimbabwe some weeks ago. The situation isn't looking good.

[@josephinemuringo2453]

Sorry guys. May you receive sufficient rainfall soonest.

[@imtheeastgermanguy5431]

I would like to go there and meet Allan savory and get a lesson about holistic planned grazing Management 😎

[@ubaidnazir1222]

Africa is not responsible for global warming. But they are paying for it

[@raclark2730]

Yes let them have industry and industrial agriculture. Oh wait cant now climate change. What is really going on here.?

[@kalengera]

Well said.

[@MotokoOgawa]

Deforestation is massive in Africa, and it is also opaque on account of corruption, war and isolation. When trees are felled they release the carbon they are storing into the atmosphere. So, while Africa is not an industrialized civilization, with the exception of South Africa and Egypt, not to mention fossil fuel extraction processes in other African countries, Africa, in fact, contributes massively to global warming.

[@ubaidnazir1222]

​@@MotokoOgawa you are partially right but This dark continent is being exploited by major powers who are investing in after like china Russia usa etc. There is a scramble for the resources in Africa Majority of the people residing in Africa are tribal people.

[@sindibadage]

Egypt went from 8 mil to 100mil people in few decades. As the rest of Africa... I'm pretty sure, it'd be easier for rich countries to help if the reproduction wasn't out of control..

[@margaretneanover3385]

Prayers for these places and people

[@nutzeeer]

prayers never helped anyone

[@Olivia_Bennet]

Unfortunately, this is just the beginning. Already in the coming years, stronger calamities will start happening much more often worldwide. More powerful and more frequent earthquakes, eruptions of super volcanoes, mega typhoons and abnormal floods will begin to occur. If we don't take action now, in 5-7 years it will be impossible to live on the planet. Please explore what is happening to the planet now and what we can do to save ourselves and humanity: *"Global* *Crisis.* *The* *Responsibility"* *Creative* *Society* (a fragment of time 1:45:54-2:01:40).

[@Eric-lx8hp]

​@@nutzeeerhopeless

[@nutzeeer]

@@Eric-lx8hp no

[@robertkaruga7088]

You're wrong Zambia is not in East Africa

[@the5gguru]

East Africa?

[@kangwamngandu3671]

Right last time i checked Zambia, Zim and Malawi are Southern African

[@kangwamngandu3671]

@caspar9794 bro we are Southern African geographical and culturally

[@kangwamngandu3671]

@arkangel2000 yeah but what about the Lozi in Zambia and Namibia which is closely related to Tswana which is spoken in botswana and South Africa

[@the5gguru]

@arkangel2000 You are trippin right now. I am shona and lived in Rwanda and we have very few similarities in culture. Needless to say, I have been to SA. Ndebele is a nguni language and undeniably close to Zulu but RSA is not only Zulu. There are Pedis, tsongas and Vendas amongst other tribes. Trust me, there is more similarity between shona and sa culture than rwanda or east africa. All these groups are bantu so to some level a nguni person will also get some kinyarwanda words. anyways, we are all one and african. just my perspective as a southern african who has lived in rwanda for more than a year.

[@kangwamngandu3671]

@the5gguru Excellent analogy , couldn't have said it better myself .. Even down to historical and traditional times southern African countries pulled together to liberate this region

[@robertguildford]

Moving heavy industry and manufacturing production from the colder climates to the hotter climates was never a good idea.

[@Paul.957]

Southern Africa not east Africa

[@ElTIBURON826]

its both

[@stivo9730]

Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are in southern Africa, not east Africa. Such inexcusable inaccuracies bring into question the credibility of this channel. Also, it suggests that all African countries are the same to you or that getting your facts straight doesn't matter when it comes to Africa.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

I saw the map in the vid - it was accurate.

[@skyloveofficial43]

Plenty rain in east Africa. ... that's southern Africa How do you misinform your viewers ?

[@hyndriandelmundo6855]

el niño now 2 years Asia one effect Philippines danamge great so much cost livelihood each hit lead to downfall millions people also next generation

[@vinaykumar-ld3yi]

Entire Africa & Asia should have introduced one child policy 40 years ago

[@malcolmodoy2651]

Lies

[@josephinemuringo2453]

Africa is not overpopulated, it is just breaking even 😊

[@thisoneistheuglyone]

or you could start with yourself, if you want to tackle overpopulation

[@vinaykumar-ld3yi]

@@thisoneistheuglyone I did

[@filiplachance8576]

I figured there might be drought in Africa by the amount of dust drifting over the Atlantic lately.

[@paulinemutheu4461]

Zambia, zimbabwe and Malawi in East Africa!!!!!.How now?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

the map was shown and the map is accurate.

[@FroskiTheBroski]

Anyone who doesn't know I suggest you find why Africa is dry because Africa should not be dry. Also see why it hasn't been fixed by foreign aid that is present in the region taking advantage of the situation, suppressing the people taking good land & reserving water for their colonial subsidiaries residing within the continent. Colonial rule is still alive and our tax dollars support it

[@FritsKist]

You're not smarter?

[@everypitchcounts4875]

And? Most of these African nations kicked out the western nations and United Nations yet USA has invested over $100 billion in public health across the African continent. 2021 Africa received $8.5 billion USAID. 2022 USAID over $6 billion in life saving, multi-sector humanitarian assistance to the people of Africa. 2023 $7.77 billion USAID to Africa. 2000-2021 USA annual foreign direct investment in Africa $44.81 billion. Since 1960 developed countries have sent over $2.6 trillion in aid to Africa.

[@ReginaJune]

3:08 with all the atmosphere pollution , does the increased rainfall bring the pollution to earth/soil level? Assuming it does, what things will it effect? Like soil leeching or purification like composting?

[@Debbie-henri]

Yes, rainfall does bring atmospheric pollutants down to earth. You're correct. Pollutants can be carried hundreds, even thousands of miles (to take a natural example, sands and dust from the Sahara blown into the atmosphere by sandstorms are carried over the Atlantic to rain down over the Amazon rainforest. This has always been an important source of nutrients for the forest, what's left of it anyway. Just as sand or dust can become the seed for a raindrop, chemicals and other pollutants can either become the seed or be absorbed/dissolved into raindrops forming inside clouds. Any substance that is causing aerial pollution can make its way halfway around the planet without a problem, which is why fallout from Chernobyl rained over Europe, even as far north as Scotland. It is why industrial chemicals, pesticides, lead from car exhaust in the past can be found on Himalayan peaks and in deepest Antarctica.

[@Debbie-henri]

Additional - you will never be able to 'purify' any soil. There is, essentially, no such thing as truly organic, no matter how careful you are growing your own. That ended with the introduction of pesticides, industrialisation, chemical weapons and leaded petrol. However, organic produce is still worth buying as it has 'less' pollutants than conventionally grown produce - we assume. Or you can go one better, growing at home, going as plastic free as possible in your garden, using no sprays and begging your neighbours to do likewise (good luck with that). But to be totally safe from pollutants - you're going to have to find another planet.

[@freeheeler09]

Temperatures are rising and weather patterns are changing so rapidly that water supplies and agricultural production are being disrupted. Even relatively small food price increases can increase food insecurity.

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

Was it drought or to much rainfall or both?

[@imtheeastgermanguy5431]

Both

[@matthewevans963]

'no consensus that climate change is making el nino stronger' Meanwhile sea surface temperatures are off the charts, massive coral die off, 'unexplained' mass mortality in fish populations, flooding, wildfires and storms the likes of which the world has never seen, avg surface temps 1.5 above baseline for the past 365days, >1.7 for the past 180 and, serious climate tipping points in play. But of course, the responsible journalists at DW are treating each side equally as befits 'fair and balanced' journalism. 🙄

[@natanulsiref]

Well, that's their job. Panic is better suited to the comment section.

[@matthewevans963]

@@natanulsiref It's not about panic, it's about accurately portraying the gravity of the situation. As opposed to carrying water for the captured consensus, with a transparent bias towards safeguarding BAU which is sacrificing the literal existence of organized human life on planet Earth. Though I guess, to be fair, that ship has long since sailed.

[@FroskiTheBroski]

Blame the settlers taking the good land diverting water for their own good

[@neverrl3379]

The worldfire comes.

[@oyeahjustcomenting]

Crazy how the situation people are in today is what the world is hysterical about people in Gaza may be in tomorrow

[@ManlyHandshake]

Rhodesia come back

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

Then do as God intended allow the River Nile to flow freely upstream, stop the blocking of this water via those man made dams!

[@guesthe90]

And then the problem will go away yes 😂😂😂 It's not just the dams it more the global warming but if you say it's the dams it's the dams 😂

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

@@guesthe90 There are over 30 mega dams PREVENTING water flow on the nile, and over 300 smaller dams on the East Nile. Work out why Burundi and Uganda suffers with FLOODS and high regions DROUGHTS. This has been a problem since the Brits first started to build the dams. Also, I do believe Zimbabwe build a dam, and soon after started to suffer with more aggressive droughts. Africa's problem is not rainfall, its problem are the dams, every last one of them.

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

@@guesthe90 Burundi suffered with a flood, a couple of weeks ago, it is happening because the dams are blocking water flow.

[@phoque121]

Now that they produce less food, maybe they should have even more children. That seems like a logical response 🤷

[@Eric-ue5mm]

The wind is often blowing in the WRONG DIRECTION??? Jesus christ guys, were starting to get to some amazing levels... Who are you to say the wind is blowing in the wrong direction?!?!?! LMAO

[@policeman1104]

They mean that wind which would usually blow a in a certain direction blows in the contrary direction. Which changes weather patterns and leaves some areas to conditions they wouldn’t usually face :)

[@Eric-ue5mm]

@@policeman1104 Then that needs to be stated clearly, implying the wind is blowing in the wrong direction is ridiculous.

[@JG-xi4tu]

If you did not extract that "wrong" means "in an untypical way leading to drought" then elementary school is missing a student.

[@Eric-ue5mm]

@@JG-xi4tu okay son

[@JG-xi4tu]

@@Eric-ue5mm Good you saw it young man👍

[@masterlee7598]

africa is a continent, call the countries by name

[@joseenoel8093]

Anyone else noticing mother nature is making it very difficult for us to reproduce succesfully? My kids, one's a biologist and other's a nurse, no easy task!

[@raclark2730]

Its not mother nature, its society and chemical pollution.

[@MacGuyver85]

Not mother nature, this is our own doing.

[@kruxitka]

sad 😢

[@raclark2730]

Yes they need development like dams and power generation. while these preachers take it away from them with their other hand.

[@tdunde]

One bus in a flood in rural Kenya makes news in the west!!

[@CharlesDaniels-u3l]

Because Africa need to develop cloud seeding

[@D.R658]

We have no responsibility for the whole world. Stop saying that all the time. If you want, give your private money there and not our tax money. Africa gets a lot more money than Germany, for example, with the Marshall Plan and is still not able to feed itself

[@nigelgarrett7970]

You are aware the Marshall Plan ended in 1951? Please also tell me which other planet we have if we are not looking after this one?

[@CharlesDaniels-u3l]

Cloud ☁️🌨️ seeding takes away drought it ends hunger cloud seeding

[@asasinu4g]

oooooo so sad, its not like they received BILIONS and BILIONS and BILIONS in aid in the last 10 years, where money? It's prob the wihte ppls fault right...

[@robotycs]

money doesnt stop rain from falling you know

[@realandimaginedxyz]

@@robotycs I think the point he is trying to make, is that they could have spent the money on being more resilient, and have more modern tech to not face immediate starvation when something happens. Most aid doesnt end up doing that is part of the problem, generic greed and corruption another. Most normal people are exploited there. Usually not by the 'white man' anymore, but by their own governments, conglomerates or warlords.

[@D.R658]

@@robotycs Sure it does. Desalination plants and fountains

[@neverrl3379]

So in other words, when Africa couldn't self sustain and had low population numbers because of that very fact, the situation was better for all of us by a thousand fold. Now, they have grown rapidly but still can't self suistain. Humanity makes mistakes all over the place.

[@neverrl3379]

Mankind runs a system on this planet here that is merely one step away from insanity.

[@natalieclairezaloumis2174]

The geography in this interview does not quite make sense. I live in Southern Africa. Live between South Africa & Zimbabwe.❤

[@dalecampbell-s2e]

THEM HAVE TO DIG MORE CANALS AND CARRY THE WATER INTO THE LAND

[@monhut6124]

From where?

[@bushouse]

Bindan'ombe Dam

[@joyimbat2147]

Sign of the times. Matt.24:6,7,21-war, earthquake,hunger,- great tribulation

[@menschin2]

Venezuela is a military dictatorship. 7 million people have fled. Venezuela will invade Guyana. Why should I respect a country like that? Japan is a democracy. Hamas deserves nothing but contempt for 10/7/24. Read “Son of Hamas.” Nevertheless, Palestine needs aid supplies.

[@Tt-bf6nr]

The government has the equipment to make rain anytime they want, so a drought today is planned

[@teachmetheway928]

ROFL LMFAO

[@christopheklinger3217]

It’s HAMAS !

[@بوحميدةمحمدبنأحمد]

- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago - I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010. Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us one thousand years to the past of the universe. Today April 12, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 86 thousand years ago. On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past. On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million in the past. On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past. On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past. The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago. Mohamed BOUHAMIDA.

[@JamesBond-k3r]

I am successfully growing tomatoes, broccoli, etc. by placing good soil inside a two litre pop bottle, and putting the pop bottle in the soil, leaving it a few inches out of the ground, watering it just inside of the bottle - which keeps away some bugs, and suspect many more garden plants can be grown this way, via (again) placing good soil in the two litre pop bottle, burring it in the garden, and watering just inside of the pop bottle... and it uses so little water.

[@GregMoylan-pn6sr]

DW never miss a chance to blame climate change on humans. Clueless commentators.

[@tiger_powers]

All i hear is fossil fuels - methane (insane animal agriculture) too peeps

[@GregMoylan-pn6sr]

Earth's climate has been undergoing radical change for 4.5 billion years. Industrialisation commenced around 250 years ago in Great Britain. If the earth's age was compressed to 1 year, industrialisation commenced less than 2 seconds ago. Human impact on climate is infinitesimally small compared to the climate change due to unstoppable astronomical (such as changes in earths tilt & rotation and solar activity) and macro-geological causes (such as volcanic activity and the oceans absorption/expulsion of gases).

[@Debbie-henri]

Oh, there were times when the climate on Earth was far more extreme than now - but then, the Earth usually arrived at those 'extremes' long before the advent of complex life (Oxygenating eventually, Snowball Earth, global volcanic events), or times of sudden cosmic events (dinosaur-killing asteroid, suspected gamma ray bursts), or due to major geological events (the closing of oceans to conveyor currents by tectonic activity moving land masses together). They did not occur and 'never did occur' during times of cosmic or geological 'normalcy' - which has been the case for the past 250 years. When has there been an asteroid, gamma ray bursts, a huge rise in volcanicity, a tectonic motion that has changed the ocean's currents in that time? Never. So, what else has been happening during that time, that incredibly short period of geological time, a time that barely registers on a geological scale? Oh, that's right - humans have burned their way through tens of millions of years worth of 'carbon stores' in every way imaginable. 'Plus,' we have created and released chemicals that produce greenhouse gases with multiple more times the effect of plain old carbon dioxide. Plus, we have sat by and done next to nothing as permafrost melts to release methane that has 80 times the effect of carbon dioxide. Scientists are only 'now' discovering that permafrost is actually far more widespread than it was and now northern oceans are also releasing methane from seabeds in terrifying quantities. Plus, wildfires abound with greater frequency and over larger areas, not just one season a year in America, but every day of the year in some parts of the world Plus, more land is being put to the plough, roads, buildings, car parks, airports every year as humanity continues to breed out of control, every baby born needing its own way and making its own not insignificant impact in the world in a geological dust speck of time. Plus cement, that wonderful versatile material, produces huge amounts of CO2 during production, and continues to release it for 2 years while it continues to cure. Cars produce it. Humans breathe it out. And add to this the wildfires that destroy oxygen breathing forests, the droughts that dry and kill plant life over entire nations for weeks, months and years; the floods that wash away banks covered in trees and taking human infrastructure downstream into the sea. And all the plastic sitting in town dumps, roadsides, in rivers and seas - it all produces CO2 as it slowly breaks down over a minimum of hundreds of years to come. So don't tell me we are not responsible. Me, you and everyone else 'is' responsible. So take responsibility and do something to lower your impact, and stop hiding your head in the dance - because that won't save you, and it won't save your children. Time is running out.

[@GregMoylan-pn6sr]

@@Debbie-henri Wow Debbie, I'm impressed... and humbled.

[@Olivia_Bennet]

Natural disasters are on the rise, but CO2 has absolutely nothing to do with it. Our planet is literally boiling from the inside because of the impact of special cosmic radiation on the Earth's core. These periods of devastating calamities occur every 12,000 years, and we're entering this cycle right now. Based on the progression charts, catastrophes will continue to increase at a record rate. For humanity to survive, urgent action is needed and we have very little time left.

[@Olivia_Bennet]

We are entering this cycle at the end of 2024. As a result, the frequency and strength of natural disasters will increase many times over. If we don't take action now, in 5-7 years it will be impossible to live on the planet. The topic of cyclicity with all proofs is very well covered in the *"Global* *Crisis.* *The* *Responsibility"* *Creative* *Society* (a fragment of time 1:45:54-2:01:40).

[@GregMoylan-pn6sr]

@@Olivia_Bennet What action?

[@Kolendamp]

It is written, the Apocalyps

[@zahrantraders9104]

can science shower rain

[@Mikinaak2023]

Always a state of disaster. Nothing new over there.

[@christophermgwadira4400]

😂. . Your right it is always a state of disaster in these countries but Zimbabwe is in it.. I am not a Zimbabwean

[@intellectually_lazy]

then stop making them grow a bunch of cash crops for export

[@Imovement]

China & India to the rescue Greta is on holiday.

[@DgurlSunshine]

YOU LIE BAD TOO!

[@samanthaklassen6083]

How about USA put that 14billion (Gaza war) dollars to some of this?? Hmmm? Somebody is confused about priorities 😂

[@everypitchcounts4875]

USA has invested over $100 billion in public health across the African continent. 2021 Africa received $8.5 billion USAID. 2022 USAID over $6 billion in life saving, multi-sector humanitarian assistance to the people of Africa. 2023 $7.77 billion USAID to Africa. 2000-2021 USA annual foreign direct investment in Africa $44.81 billion. Since 1960 developed countries have sent over $2.6 trillion in aid to Africa.

[@FreddyKrueger007]

Japan 🇯🇵 condemn Russia 🇷🇺 but support Israel 🇮🇱 attacking Palestine 🇵🇸 Double standards Japan 🇯🇵 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@D.R658]

Free Palestine from Hamas

[@menschin2]

Venezuela is a military dictatorship. 7 million people have fled. Venezuela will invade Guyana. Why should I respect a country like that? Japan is a democracy. Hamas deserves nothing but contempt for 10/7/24. Read “Son of Hamas.” Nevertheless, Palestine needs aid supplies.

[@Godislove-m5w]

We are tired of copy and paste

[@intellectually_lazy]

@@menschin2 venezeula was cool when chavez was in charge. he gave heating oil to the poor people in nyc

[@pinchez6067]

East Africa?