Im christine want to welcome to news africa its good to have you along Emergency Assistance has been making its way into somalia where hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes by severe flooding the aid includes ready to eat food possibles from the World Food Program and blankets and mattresses from the Un Migration Agency done more than kenya and ethiopia have also been hit by be heavier than normal rains but somalia has been particularly affected both and 300000 people there have been made homeless now this is said to be some of the worst flooding the country has experienced it is ill be talking to one organization about the relief efforts off to this report. Roads and villages turned into rivers overnight and tens of thousands displaced. Without guns our homes us have much now and you can only access the area by boat one of the last months of drought the heavy rains are now destroying what was left of people scraps and livestock. Malnutrition and the threat of diseases like cholera and malaria and now on the rise many areas in central and Southern Somalia have been completely cut off and people here are now in urgent need of aid. Programs that really desperately need help from anyone who can help us things are bad and how it needs to come fast before it is too late for very. Aid operations are now under way delivering food and supplies to the most vulnerable but many places are hard to reach with another Tropical Storm heading towards the east africa more heavy rainfall is expected in the next coming days. All right im joined by jim a connal in nairobi shes from the United Nations and is coordinating their aid relief to the affected areas welcome to days of africa gemma can you tell us about the situation on the ground as we speak in the flood affected areas. Sure i think so much for having me today weve got a very serious situation across multiple countries in east africa right now theres about 2500000 people affected by the flooding across the region and that includes in ethiopia somalia south sudan and sudan as well as more people in tanzania and uganda so there are hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced whove lost their homes who has lost their livelihoods weve got many reports of thousands of livestock killed across these countries by the floods those riverine flooding and flash flooding and of course weve got roads down and weve got access challenges to get to people in need right talking about those access challenges how are you getting the aid into those remote parts where bridges have been swept away and roads as you say. So in each of the countries across the region the humanitarians are scaling up as rapidly as they can where using helicopters in many countries in south sudan and somalia for example in other countries where using boats to try and get to people in need and in other places you see humanitarians literally walking the last mile to reach people who need assistance and those if its must become and that we are talking about a situation where we can expect at least from what we hear from the full cost is that these heavy rains will continue for the months to come and really just how prepared are you from an aid relief perspective for this. Its an excellent question so we are very worried about the forecast the one piece of good news is we have seen a small amount of reprieve in recent days with less rains falling but that certainly doesnt mean that were in the clear we do anticipate based on the forecast that we will have more rains in the weeks ahead so how we prepared well this is a real challenge because this is not the 1st shock to his this region this year were actually coming off the back of 2 back to back failed rainy season so up until a few weeks ago we were dealing with drought response in these areas and were also of course dealing with violence in conflict in many areas across the region with millions of people displaced and refugees in all of these countries so this is coming as an additional burden on top of the already stretched humanitarian response across the region so we are appealing urgently for additional funding in each of the countries affected to make sure that we can scale up the response as quickly as we can were running right now on the supplies that we have in country that were desperately trying to bring more in and to do more. Thats Gemma Connell from the uns office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs shes in iraq be thank you. Now as we mentioned the flooding in east africa is the result of and president had heavy rains that began several months ago so whats causing the unusual rainfall well its all about different temperatures colliding as you see here the air around the horn of africa is warmer than normal if meets cooler than normal air coming all the way from australia here over the indian ocean this clash and the movement in the circle of the warm and the cool a is what creates the very heavy rainfall that is of a magnitude not seen in years perhaps even decades. Its a different story in Southern Africa where many parts of the region have been hit with a devastating drought in zimbabwe animals have been affected the most as the lack of rain dries up water holes and grazing areas more than 100. 00 elephants have died in zimbabwe as wildlife reserves since september. A once majestic animal reduced to this. This elephant was trying to get to an area known as the manor pools a water hole for wildlife here in northern zimbabwe instead it got stuck in the drying mud and later died of exhaustion. Severe drought has turned the clay soil here into a death trap park officer. Says he prays every morning for rain but it simply doesnt come. In this d. Water source is all but dried up here and animals cant find enough food either park Authorities Say theyve been forced to abandon their usual policy of nonintervention. Weve come up with if it was totaled now we are similar to supplement. And was i do the flood plan because their food which used to be there. Too because of rain in the city and wounded in this country so. We have to sort of maintain population says the plight of these animals is having a knock on effect on nearby villages earlier this year zimbabwes government declared a National Disaster after the drought damaged harvests now hungry wild animals have been attacking livestock and crops in areas where food was already in dangerously short supply officials here say Climate Change is hitting zimbabwe hard its altered weather patterns right now theres little sign of rest by it. Yes something that i must say surprised me cameroon is a country without cinemas in the past decades all of the nations movie theaters have closed their doors thats because cameroonians are staying in and watching cable t. V. Which is cheaper than going to a movie thats tough for local filmmakers who are deprived of the local market but this hasnt stopped passionate directions from going out on location and rolling the cameras. Are. 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Week long were celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall which of course happened on the night of november 9th 1989 it was in one 3rd change the course of World History and surprised even the highest political officials the once impenetrable border between east and west berlin began to crumble and in a surreal and giddy few hours east berlin poured into west berlin the 1st step towards this countrys we unification. To celebrate the 30th anniversary all of the walls demise berlin has events happening all over the city in historic locations and one of them is the east side gallery and my colleague david levitz is down there now for us hi david can you tell us just where you are exactly and what it might have been like 30 years ago right karen well the east side gallery is the biggest stretch of the berlin wall that is Still Standing there very few of them and this is the biggest and tonight its not just a wall it is a projection screen for a film about the berlin