explain the issue in africa right now. we have seen it as so far being spared from, well, with the united states is going through but is that a matter of lack of testing or are the numbers do you believe truly low on infections and death? >> thank you for having me on your show, first of all. we have always been very clear the pandemic in africica was a delayed panandemic, thahat the continent was not spared. rather b because of the aggrgree memeasures t that were putut ine very earlyly on to do strongly - different countries and strong coronation approach fromom the african union andhe presisident have to africa that blunt the pandemic. thiss always clear pandemic was going to gather momentum. here we hahave the situation. i will call it ththe second phae wherere countries arare beginnio sesee dramamatic increases i ine number of cases. examplple a south afafrica you t mentioned. should be carefulhehe way we look at the numbers. we still have over 40 countries with less than 10,000 cases. constituted is about t 750,000 c

south africa southern africa. others vigorously defend the ban on ivory is an indispensable weapon in a fund to siphon reference. we have seen in the past massive declines in elephant populations we saw poaching of up to 96 elephants a day a couple years ago because of the rampant ivory trade and the involvement of organized criminal networks we have to keep the ivory trade closed there is no way that the elephants of west africa central africa or east africa would survive if we allowed out more ivory trade even legal trade from healthy populations in southern africa. but it's a fact that bands have not succeeded in reducing punching so what is the solution. i went to the last conference in 200. on the ground floor we had all those. animal right tristram whatever it is i went to every single one of them i've got too many lives no answers got to me the elephant no answer i have a drought whatever you want us to stop the income from sustainable use for hunting no longer. for conservation a struggle to find the right

south africa southern africa. others the grossly defend the ban on ivory is an indispensable weapon in the fight to save elephants. we have seen in the past massive declines in elephant populations we saw poaching of up to 90 of 6 elephants a day a couple years ago because of the rampant ivory trade and the involvement of organized criminal networks we have to keep the ivory trade closed there is no way that the elephants of west africa central africa or east africa would survive if we allowed more ivory trade even legal trade from healthy populations in southern africa. but it's a fact that bans have not succeeded in juicing poaching so what is the solution. i went to the last conference in johannesburg. on the ground floor we had all those . animal rights risks and whatever tips i went to every single one of them i've got to make a large loss i've got to meet the elephants no answer i have a drought whatever you want us to stop the income from sustainable use or hunting logs or. for conservation a struggle to fi

according to the africa cdc in addis, the cases are accelerating in africa and about 100,000 a week now. so we have not reached our peak on the continent and we don't know the trajectory of this pandemic yet. but the fact of the matter is you may never know because testing is so sparse in africa. i mean, some countries — ghana, senegal in the west are doing pretty well because they were used to the ebola outbreak and so on. but really, you are just completely in the dark. i wouldn't say that, zeinab. i mean it is true that testing is not where it is supposed to be. we are supposed to be testing about 12 million a month and we are doing about 6 million now. so we are halfway where we need to be. but i think that has improved greatly over the months and i think as we get... countries get more test kits, and more support, this should improve but your right at that testing is way behind... all right, your own nigeria is one of the worst affected countries on the continent alongside south africa, and egypt. and you've had about 750—800 deaths so far in the country and the government's ap

in technicians from africa green tech set to work right now go rock. that there's lots to do before the lights can go on one after the long journey every component needs checking the container spent 6 months at the customs office followed by a long drive lasting many days over sunday roads the solar system costs 150000 euros the hope is it will strengthen the local economy. and offer the effort to make a solar plant like this worthwhile you need a village with at least 4 to 5000 residents we also look very closely at whether there's potential for a productive use of electricity unlike home solar power providers our focus is on strengthening small and medium sized businesses so we want to know are there carpenters and welders and tailors here and we look for 40 or 50 small and medium sized businesses. there i need a shriver was born in mali. she's particularly keen to help the women here many of them sell goods she wants them to benefit from the new supply of electricity to . them and i want to give them an example and i love the brim of the city most o

but africa green day when africa greentech does this offer them an opportunity to receive training and improve their chances of earning money it's worth it to see . if the economy in the village improves the residents will also have more money to invest in their children's education so beyond providing electricity it's also about improving the villages prospects. in the village if they leave a 5 hour drive away that's already evident here a solar plant from africa greentech has been operating for 2 years now and the local economy is flourishing. kaito runs a restaurant on the main road that leads to molly's capital bamako he also has a workshop and a chicken farm. in. the before the 21 i was already on my way to spain but when i heard that electricity was cut. integer leiber i came back and opened this restaurant and thank god i'm now earning enough muscle of. this to my cater has also created jobs providing a secure income for many other families in the village. to. fadia and thorsten's keep contact with customers like my cater to learn from their experiences his successes confirmatio

they're the founders of a company called africa green tech they arrived to great fanfare. thank them to neighboring solar power plants to remote villages in the south pole region. but everyone here has been looking forward to this day for a long time. this is also in life so it is such a relief to finally achieve this and make it possible for the people here. you know . this is taken nearly 9 months of preparation when the moment finally comes where you know now it's happening tomorrow checking the containers spent 6 months at the customs office followed by a long drawn. i've lasting many days over sunday rhodes the solar system costs 150000 euros the hope is it will strengthen the local economy. and offer that for to make a solar plant like this worthwhile you need a village with at least 4 to 5000 residents we also look very closely at whether there's potential for a productive use of electricity unlike home solar power providers our focus is on strengthening small and medium sized businesses so we want to know are there carpenters and welders and tailors here and we loo

global brand that's the moment because it's the 2nd already south africa installed one already at the early stages of the lockdown then after every president from the industry they decided to relax it's to reintroduce aco again and now the hospitals have been complaining about the massive increase of patients we have that 17000 patients read midgets through trauma hospital it's per week during the last weeks which is of course a massive number but then also i lament is when i was by through i'm up was up quite softly and produced a nice good if you enter another very controversial thing it's also yellow it's sexy it's the minibus of the guy responsible for lobster tail probably transport here to operate locally and 100 percent something that has been heavily criticised already by every developed just to see that as a very very risky. south africa has become one of the world's hot spots for cold 19th do you think these new measures are going to how. well i mean certainly they will help to clear the hospitals to some extent spots of course the health sector still trace this massive mass

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to landsberg national park in south africa. iran has been spotted but steadily help has come too late after ripping off its horn coaches left it as prey for lions. helicopter pilot and he could jacobs is out on patrol surveying the area he's a founding member of the anti poaching group a rhino 911 an organization that provides emergency helicopter rescue to rhinos injured all fun mostly due to coaching but it also carries a preventive measures. in a last ditch attempt to save them rhino 911 has been assigned to help d. horn rhinos in the province the animals are sedated before the precious horn is sold off. europe or home probably about. 56 kilograms. tragic i mean if you do this but unfortunately the only option that we have. been trying to do something else brian do trimming trees like these animals while. the team needs to up quickly before the rhino wakes up again horny is a drastic procedure that removes about 90 percent of the horn that conservationists tell us that in some areas even d. horn rhino is. to extract the rema

largest hospital in africa but if you have almost 70 years as folks walk in . a factory and you would make this is the biggest producer of cause in south africa we export a lot from here into the world so that because part of all the all the supply chain the factoring set up so fast it's nothing unusual to spring into action and you can see that. many german companies offered their help mercedes in east london produces personal protective equipment b.m.w. and per toria provides hundreds of hospital beds and clinical oxygen together with south african partners siemens pledged to build 20000 ventilators by the end of august. the so-called national ventilator project is at the heart of the government's response to the virus xena down no more is the c.e.o. of siemens in south africa her company provided the digital platform to design and build the ventilators audience to experience from other countries specifically italy and spain we have seen that you know numbers can increase quite rapidly and it was clear that is a force in the world africa might not have the 1s

the center was opened in 2016 around 2000 scientists mostly from nigeria and west africa have passed through its doors professor happy trains them as top researchers in biochemistry and genomics his aim to cause a poll to young african scientists to the top of scientific research he wants to develop affordable solutions for tackling infectious diseases in africa and in the rest of the world under 30 years in the world but it was a great trait of this that would be focusing on the easy to understand that the very rich and that this might be over the save copies team has already set down another marker in the battle against the corona virus they've devised a fast track test the cost less than $3.00 euros by the end of the year the lab will have moved to a larger building it's set to become the biggest you know make research center in africa and with an ongoing pandemic the world is counting on us. a german cruise ship set sail for the 1st time since the industry was shut down due to the coronavirus with stricter cautions for passengers and crew but from ship building to luxury travel t

the center was opened in 2016 around 2000 scientists mostly from nigeria and west africa have passed through its doors professor happy trains them as top researchers in biochemistry and you know makes his aim to catapult a young african scientist to the top of scientific research he wants to develop affordable solutions for tackling infectious diseases in africa and in the rest of the world we understand that you if you had to go the way it was evening train for this that would be focusing the easy on this time that the guy moves very quickly and that is the focus of the copies team has already set down another marker in the battle against the corona virus they've devised a fast track test the cost less than $3.00 euros by the end of the year the lab will have moved to a larger building it's set to become the biggest genomic research center in africa and with an ongoing pandemic the world is counting on us. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. north korean leader kim jong un has called an emergency meeting after person exhibited covert 19 symptoms in case song nea

south africa has become one of the world's hot spots for cold 19 a do you think these new measures are going to how. well i mean certainly they will help to clear the hospitals to some extent spots of course the health sector still trace this massive massive challenge as we see a massive like off census care units like some feel there's a massive lack of tests kept presidency at the moment it's almost impossible to get tested on lists you are older than 55 yes or you have co-morbidities otherwise public institutions will just not carry out a test for you so that means official numbers that we're seeing of cases are probably much much lower then the reality at the moment well be that as in my south africa at the moment accounts for 40 percent of all confront cases in africa the other african countries are getting right. well it's tough tough to say because we actually don't really know the numbers in the other african countries testing that 'd in most countries and definitely ways to know it so it's difficult to say how bad the situation is there so why is there 'd and then people mainl

sub saharan africa, middle east, north africa, regions in countries with commodity exporters will see significant decline in their growth rates. even in south asia, a region that has no-- will see historical contraction as india will contract by 3.2%. next year growth will come back, but they're expecting the a modest recovery. few downturnturns that we had this year. this is a true historical global recession. if we go back all the way to 1870, which we have reasonably good data, there have been 14 global recessions. each global recession you saw global economy contracting. this will be the fourth deepest global recession, deepest one since the second world war. the other three global recessions are important to understand here. two of them, they're associated with-- so if you take out those two, this global recession will be the deepest since 1870 after the great depression. and the future is that global is the highest economy per capita also, slightly more than 90% this year. this is higher even than what we saw at the height of great depression. there are risks down the road and t

the storm is up on us south africa's president brings back a curfew and a ban on alcohol sales off the cove in 1000 hospitalisations that. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program voting ends in the tights and baser race for the polish presidency we'll look at who the exit polls project to win. aid agencies are warning that russia's victory in limiting syria a deliveries to just one border crossing will cost lives and intensify the suffering of 1300000 people. and in mali the opposition leader is calling for calm off to 4 people die in protests against the president 2 of them teenagers. from the americas to asia the coronavirus pandemic is infecting people around the planet wreck old rates the world health organization has reported more than 230000 cases in the space of 24 hour as a single daily increase since the outbreak 1st began globally the death rate is remaining steady though around $5000.00 people dying each day but in the world's worst affected country infections and fatalities are both rising and the u.s. state of florida has

but where in africa did the ivory originate from they assume this much ivory must come from multiple sources authorities send samples to washers lab for analysis right now from anywhere in africa we can assign a seizure of ivory closer than 300 kilometers to where it came from wasser and his team get to work the 1st step is to prepare the samples of seized ivory. we cut off a piece of the ivory and then wait we do is we stick that piece inside a plastic tube with a magnet and stainless steel plugs on the end we drop that in liquid nitrogen which cools it to about minus $240.00 degrees celsius so extremely cold within 3 minutes it comes out like baby powder. so it's a whole over us is the ivory and it preserves the d.n.a. at the same time that was one of the biggest breakthroughs of our. elephant d.n.a. from the ivory seized in singapore is extracted and analyzed in last year's lab the d.n.a. from the tusks is then matched. against a genetic reference map of africa's elephant populations this map has been generated by d.n.a. taken from another source rich in elephant d.n.a. i am holdi

africa as there was and that's today of about $44000000000.00 a year. and you realize that if this was one or 2 percent we actually would have to be a number of 15000000000 so you ask yourself what is this 30000000000 risk premium for . you know and both we come to the point. that we need to plan let me ask. then whether you think that the e.u. is truly serious about that mutuality when it comes to the global south europe is having trouble working out mutuality even within europe amongst northern you member states and southern ones do you think they're really going to be equally ambitious about the global south and if so what carrots and sticks to they have available i think we need to recognise that so far the e.u. has often treated the governments of the globe ourselves as subcontractors rather than as general partners and i think that their prices possibly can lead european governments to the realisation that more cooperation will be needed i have to say that my key concern from this crisis before migration police you have a plan that police see is t

a woman will come to this overall environment show africa i am sandra teen nobody from kampala in uganda of course will also be covering the effects of the current of virus pandemic in africa here in uganda for example the looked on has led to the street side newspapers to dry up many people are clearly staying at home and minimizing quote hello how is the situation in nigeria for you and of course the neighboring countries hi sandra and hive us a big hello for me in lagos nigeria indeed the pandemic is far from over here have to unfortunately say but because people are staying at home the use of cashless digital payment systems has risen by almost 15 percent in the last few months i have a feeling that a lot of things are going to change here in africa as a result of coverage 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green femurs coming up this week. the environment needs volunteers to help more than ever nowadays will need to kenyans doing what they can to assist. with meat and on the usual environmental activists from senegal and we will introduce you t

live with wild animals in africa and write books about them. and i was fortunate to meet with dr louis leakey, the famous palaeontologist, and i think he was really impressed by how much i knew about african animals from the reading i had done. you know, when i grew up, there was no tv, so it was reading. and so he offered me a job as his assistant, really, and then he became, i suppose, more impressed because he saw that i really, really had this thing about being with animals and watching them and could cope with the bush. and so he gave me this extraordinary opportunity. i mean, i would have studied any animal, and it was chimpanzees. and, interestingly, louis leakey, i think, encouraged you to run with this idea that meticulous observation of the chimpanzees might reveal new sort of connections between their behaviours and human behaviours. is that something that, when you went out into the forest, you were actively looking for? well, i wasn't looking for it, but that's the — he sent me because he believed, as everybody does now, but he w

minibuses says coronavirus hotspots in south africa. monkey writes in thailand. but we start off in italy when the coronavirus epidemic began in europe many people died in the region of lombardy hardly a single family remained untouched the northern italian city is now coming to grips with what happened which travelled to bad. a city that is still in mourning 1st stop the old town usually a tourist hot spot here we meet. a community worker things have calmed down now unlike at the start of the crisis. but you know the ga me after a few days some of us started breaking down emotionally they were sobbing like babies but it was partly the pressure but also because we were dealing with people who had seen 2 or 3 of their family members die one after the other with. during our pilot was among the founders of superbad and initiative to help those who couldn't help themselves 200 volunteers joined him they delivered food and medicines to cover 1000 patients relief for suffering city. at berga most men cemetery visit the graves of people who died of 19 father better mall

adrian krishna reporting from south africa will from south africa to south america with over 320000 confirmed corona virus infections peru is 2nd only to brazil and confirmed cases in south america as well as placing a huge burden on peru's health care system the pandemic is making it hard for the poorest to earn a living. we have this report now from the capital. arturo is afraid of infection but he has no choice he was laid off from his job in retail and now he sells plastic face shields his commission is $0.50 per sealed and i have 3 kids i have to go out and earn money to feed my family. corona has hit hard 70 percent of peruvians live day to day working as street sellers or in construction block that measures here were initially strict and almost impossible to follow some rules have been relaxed and then the rules hit the poor hardest in some areas outside the capital lima neighbors have set up soup kitchens. there are lots of children and old people in need most of the people here live hand to mouth. intensive care beds are a luxury here the whole country has just over 1000 beds for 320

hello and welcome to a new edition of africa. in lagos nigeria on today's show we'll be putting the focus on farming including a look at how high tech is changing i would call to a practices i'm joined by my colleague in uganda hi there sandra. and a big hello from kampala uganda to all of you as to what did you know that one father of the global population walks in the agricultural sector here in africa it is over half the population that is why we decided to make a special edition that he's all about. we'll find out home in south africa should farming next fall. and how food is grown with hydroponics in nigeria. and finally why farming doesn't have to mean deforestation. we start the show in south africa anyone who's ever been there will have noticed the thousands of kilometers of fencing but caught of course the island usually designed to contain the cuttle fences have a devastating effect on the environment they are not only a deadly trial for the wildlife they also prevent the lifestyle from moving around pretty which leaves

we'll find out how in south africa should farming next for healthy soil. and how food is grown we've hydroponics in nigeria. and finally why farming doesn't have to mean deforestation. we start the show in south africa anyone who's ever been there will have noticed the thousands of kilometers of fencing that caught of course the land usually designed to contain the cutoff fences have a devastating effect on the environment they are not only a deadly trial for the wildlife they also prevent lifestyle from moving around pretty which leaves all the grazing and non-degree addiction some hadas on the tree bossing this trend and they are spearheading an ecological revolution. when herders leave their livestock on to the great plains of the car route in central south africa the animals on allowed to linger. to protect the vegetation from overgrazing they have to be kept on the move as a result they can only eat the tips of the plants. head chef addicts nothing cooper has years of experience and of seeing how the landscape has changed since he's been grazing his a

is africa's health infrastructure coping with this surge in infections. i would say very different depending on the provinces and region see in the western cape it seems they are quite prepared a lot of field hospitals were set up we have seen that in the report but in other regions it looks more problematic in a college saying in the eastern cape for example 2 of the other a.p. centers off the pandemic in south africa they still have not to be done you have a big gap in hospital beds in intensive care units so a lot of work needs to be done there but you also have to remember that the south african public health care system has been overstretched for years i talked to an official in the health ministry last week and he told me that's been the reality for us remember south africa has been facing massive health challenges high rates of hiv aids patients diabetes patients tuberculosis for example and this of course was covered now puts additional pressure on the health system on the other hand so you have officials saying well it might be also. because we e