this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes. nelson richie co-features all world boxing champions from ghana will take you to the guy named town that's a breeding ground for africa's fighting champions and he meets the next generation hoping to make it big. and german president frank died by a visit to theo with the promise of rewarding reform with investment we are asking is that the relationship africans want with europe. i'm christine window welcome to africa i'm glad you're cheating did well taking off in gone it's a day a small town called book or known for its tough streets so what makes it special while this town in the capital accra has produced some of africa's gracious boxes guys like richie cole me. like. and joshua these are just three of the five world boxing champions that hail from tangled anyways and it's no surprise that most of dawn is national champions off from their so my colleague forester cora visited where she met an aspiring boxer well while champion dreams. the more new routine of a champion. gets ready

this is business africa. d.w.i.m. gallup has welcomed a global crisis of democracy due to a collective failure to control corruption that's the damning conclusion of the latest corruption perceptions index from transparency international the anti-corruption watchdog annually ranks countries according to how international business executives evaluate corruption in the country in question not that this ranking goes by the perception of corruption not by documented evidence of it for africa there were few improvements this year sub-saharan africa is the lowest scoring region on the index again somalia came in last place for the seventh year in a row followed by south sudan as despite african leaders declaring twenty eight in the african year of anti corruption but top performers in the region includes the shells followed by botswana and cape verde both countries scores were raised for having functioning democratic and governance systems both ivory coast and senegal improved significantly for the second year in a row main

africa raises awareness and tries to protect the marine life. of zanzibar island everyone is hoping to get up close to the dolphins they regularly show up on the bar and then a major tourist attraction. but as the number of tourists increase the dolphin population is going down. lisa and her team of volunteers from african impact zones about sitting out to monitor the marine mom or so the problem is it's not regulated by the government so you can have anywhere at twenty or thirty but i'm going out at one time chasing a pod of maybe three or four dolphins and of course are going to have to step up to them so our goal is here they say and race that the impact of the dolphin tourism has on the dolphin population. african impact is unwilling to resume organisation enabling visitors from abroad to volunteer and participate in activities that benefit local communities this time lisa is with andrew from england and nico from slovenia it's the first time they've seen dolphins. i believe never seen anything like it. so so many dolphins and they were so c

because no one's africa to be a session allies we don't want on as such analysis on the out of africa so whatever whatever reason and i would require who are somewhat our european countries some song we know so events in germany in the us in asia should be the same reason that they invest in africa i don't like the chinese model because the chinese model sort of enables the. so ship where the country knows that whatever he or she. is in our thoughts or whatever he does that turn are different things. like that i don't think that's good enough ok. or not are because they're not good because they are. already country you've got your interests with the kids. ok all right j.j. everywhere in the world all right we appreciate your views j.j. nigerian blogger thank you very much coming to us from lagos. ok so here's what i want to get in before we wrap up today have a listen to an appeal the newly crowned miss cynical made for young people to stay in africa and shape the future rather than seek their fortunes elsley. we young africans have to believe in africa because it's our continent it's

by channels television in nigeria d w in germany and south africa's quickly t.v. my names and they'll be in our craw ghana and i'm glad to present this week's edition together with my charming colleague for leisha enders me in south africa hello felicia hi there n.t. and hello from jehovah today we'll be highlighting environmental projects from across the continent paying special attention to what's going on in oceans and other bodies of water here's a round up of today's stories. we meet a solo entrepreneur in nigeria's capital and. then we take a look at how germany is trying to protect one of the oldest fish species in the world. i'm out of the minds of some of the dolphins on the beaches of the indian ocean in tanzania. dolphins are both a blessing and a curse to the people of cars and causing hordes of tourists to visit the village on the island of zanzibar to swim and small pool with them but the increase in tourism is also a threat to the wild dolphins that sometimes thirty or even forty boats pursuing and beleaguer ing them the old guys ation impacts at. r

she's africa and she's africa i'm greentech you know. everyone knows germans bill gates machines and we africans we have the sun. so the two of us on repairing those two good things together. yeah. thorsten first got to know and love africa and visits to mali with aida the couple have three children and enjoy travelling. in two thousand and fourteen they were invited to visit mali's largest diesel power plant it helped supply electricity to the capital bamako the sixty year old plant is inefficient and produces high levels of pollution. for thorsten schreiber it was a life changing experience. and a lot of angles of it he was so proud of the power generator which had maybe a ten percent efficiency rate it used one hundred seventy thousand liters of bees in the day just imagine that's how our project. thorsten and aida's idea has become an award winning startup with thirty five employees. it's the first time the company has ventured into niger which is one of the world's poorest countries. the village of is to be their local pilot project

we've been all over africa western africa and southern africa and the rhino is the one thing that we've not seen so anyway with been looking for the big five we see that the rhino has just defeated us so this looked like the one opportunity to be able to see them. the rhinos are only safe in the sanctuary because so many rangers work here ramit o.p.o. explains that strategy. and i think we have brought a successful up to date because of the when you get around and walk and when you get around and for this kind of project and if past people in your community and that includes the farmers in the area. they're allowed to graze that cattle in the sanctuary up to forty animals each per day. to get. this out try to. help us to raise. if they have enough rest which was to. have music and the children in the area can now also attend school it's financed by the rhino fund. the rangers regularly come to talk to the kids about the rhinos and explain why they're so important. you know you know what to do not to eat. right and wrong is hot on their head. how many whole and. spends a lot of time out

south africa actually are. what is known is that the rhine matal subsidiary was involved in the construction of a factory in the united arab emirates and the one in saudi arabia. a group of syrian hackers released confidential documents including a secret document on a bid for a filling plant each shift was to produce hundreds of shells and mortars as well as bombs of the types m.k. eighty two m k eighty four and warheads for launch missiles. the document appears real with a trove of technical details and plans for a turnkey factory. it's incredibly dangerous because if a german company is not controlling production how do they know what being it hit in this production process they were affectively sold the production process. they are effectively saying especially if it's into a region like the middle east they're effectively saying do what you want. virus sardinia and south africa germany's run matal is arming the military coalition in yemen with bombs from the mediterranean and entire factories from capetown

africa countries those people leave the place for african people is africa and not at the bottom. it always interior minister. to go after the french later on tuesday and the video that appeared on his facebook page he strongly criticized position on migrants. argument is not against the population the citizens of the workers but it is against micro who is all words and no action he lectures us about generosity goodness hospitality solidarity and then he rejects thousands of migrants at the italian border i hope the french will soon be able to get rid of a very bad president they have a chance to do that on the may twenty sixth when they can take the future back to their destiny and their pride which are not well represented by a character like now. fourteen countries in west africa still use a colonial era currency called the c.f.a. and this is part of the reason why some say these countries still pay a colonial tax see if they was first pegged to the french frank and now it's pegged to the euro to provide stability that's according to france which means face fourteen countries d

fourteen countries in west africa still use a colonial era currency called the c.f.a. and this is part of the reason why some say these countries still pay a colonial tax see if they was first pegged to the french frank and now it's pegged to the euro to provide stability that's according to france which means they fourteen countries deposit their currency reserves at the french central bank and paris and have access to only fifteen percent of it the remaining eighty five percent of the reserves can be borrowed at market rates these countries which use the system are then became a faso any ivory coast and then share senegal togo cameroon central african republic chad congo equitorial guinea and cobol. let's bring in our guests now in paris adama guy journalist author and africa analyst in some a low france joining us on skype jokela head of european research at the global policy institute and in milan villar research fellow with european by gratian programs at the italian institute for international political studies thank you all for joining us so we just laid out the

welcome to africa business africa on. in morocco the biggest solar power plant in the world just keeps getting bigger since twenty sixteen more and more panels have been added to the system on wednesday the latest chunk of it went online it's a solar success story no one was i was up to two hundred fifty kilometers outside marquez is getting sunshine nearly three hundred sixty five days a year making it one of the sunniest places on earth. the sun is morocco's black gold and it's even being kept with these meter high panels in the world's biggest solar power plant the energy system was built in phases and has been gradually fed into the grid. now it generates five hundred eighty two megawatts of power that's roughly half as much as a nuclear plant this solar plant can provide two million moroccans with electricity . and if. any dishing to morocco's wind and hydroelectric strategy we seek to reach forty two percent of self-sufficiency in the horizon of twenty twenty years with the current results i am almost certain that w

platform for africa charge. i'm scared that by war that's hard and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with clients of. what's your story. on what numbers of women especially of victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are trying in all ways to understand this new culture. another visitor another guest you want to become citizens. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. this is deja news coming to you live from but in trying to bridge the brig's a deadlock the british prime minister to is a make the best of presenting planning for leaving the european union but will it be enough to satisfy a deeply divided on him and also coming up on the shelf it was one of the world's most depressive countries now must be.

what is the current debate about restitution say about the way europe perceives africa today of africa is interesting lee we are now hearing arguments which reveal a deep seated cum dissension towards africa that there are no museums there or that africans are incapable of taking care of their own works of art or cultural heritage will not everyone is saying it out loud but many people are convinced that the objects would be much safer in europe and it would even be for the good of africa if they were kept in europe. it means we have a lot of work ahead to decolonized the european perception of africa. the poor virginians provenance research has only really just got going yet the humble foreign member lin is about to open in twenty nineteen how can that work that's giving him as what this thing was in my recommendation would be that the museums publish their inventor a nice. this would basically mean that we see museums in the same way as libraries a library without a catalog is just a pile of books about look under museum without an inventor e which is available to the public is simpl

this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes opposition leaders behind bars protests a breakthrough take a look at the deepening political crisis in cameroon. and and ebola miracle a healthy baby is born to a mother being treated for the virus that's the first. i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're choosing then we're putting a focus on cameroon today because the government's heavy handed response to a wave of protests has provoked international condemnation and calls for restraint demonstrations in the streets at the weekend in cities across the country to protest against the government's police put down the watches with rubber bullets and number of injuries the price has come amid growing discontent with the country's eighty five year old president he's been in power for more than thirty is yet you heard right he's even secured a seven time in office that was last october with a contested landslide victory. among those arrested this week is the leader off the opposition cameroon renascence movement maurice come to he won just fourteen percent of the version l

back to africa from the fish in the water to the sun. the sky women it's nontrivial are from nigeria's capital of georgia. it's a get that for noble energy makes business sense you know right felicia we're talking about salim and you see a self described and i g entrepreneur developing what he calls off the grid homes he was involved in one of my dearest most impressive green housing projects these innovative eco friendly architecture is attracting a growing followership among some middle class that this is green house an apartment complex in the heart of. everything here operates on renewable energy how not danielle's and his family have lived here for three years now the architect cares about the environment and says the green apartment president made his life more comfortable and it had to and it brought out the team whatsoever so i have my two kids they've never experienced in their life. so it's a very good movies t.v. . according to the world bank as many as half of all nigerians live without access to electricity the demand for da

poaching in africa southern tanzania and a place known as the try them. when you're saying hotspots you mean hot spots of poaching activity hotspots of seizure activity what are you referring to a hot spot is a place where you are able to provide multiple tons of ivory repeatedly over multiple years then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on take those out and perhaps choke the source of the ivory from entering the network and unravel it so that's the big plan. a techno crew member is on vacation in thailand when he comes across this all too common display he's told of their ivory pieces offered up for sale for a price the sale of ivory to foreigners is illegal in thailand yet as our camera reveals it goes on as this old newsreel footage shows ivory was once very popular. croft but soon to his own but all that changed in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the international trade in ivory was made illegal. d.n.a. analysis is one tool that could ultimately help government's crackdown on where ivory is coming from but it can't tell investigators

this is business africa. today all eyes are on the fed again to see if the u.s. central bank raises its g interest rates the financial crisis the u.s. federal reserve have cut interest rates to virtually zero cheap money stimulates the economy but that made investors go looking for higher returns elsewhere but they found opportunities in emerging markets like south africa and nigeria now the u.s. federal reserve has said it will raise interest rates again over this year and that will draw money back to the u.s. with consequences across the african continent the south african rand has lost more than twelve percent against the dollar within a year imports have become more expensive and people are feeling the pinch groceries electronics cars missed everything is costing more many companies are suffering too plenty of them are indebted in u.s. dollars their mountain of debt is growing and the same goes for governments as well . today emerging markets with a volume of three point seven trillion dollars more than twice as many dollar loans outstanding as a decade ago i

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tests on crops can help farmers in east africa. learn about a modern way salmon mining precious metals in germany. and hear about efforts to save the last white rhinos in uganda. she's only nineteen but she's already established her own small startup rafael where one produces natural soap encounter in skeptical yellowing day she uses a recipe handed down from her grandmother but her business model. is definitely contemporary she's also got a product online and is already looking into ways to expand her markets. every morning rafael in go one goes out to collect leaves from the very known. well beatle if blunt commonly known as unduly care in cameroon. believes are a basic ingredient in her one hundred percent natural cosmetic products received over a file's business idea was planted by her grandmother the dollar is widely used in cameroon in kook him but the elder generation also uses it to make so. everything began with my maternal grandmother who passed almost. everything she plans to my mother who was then pasta don't. in additi

hello and a very warm welcome to a brand new episode of eco africa stay tuned to find out why erosion isn't just a problem in africa but is also affecting europe and how entire alpine landscapes are changing because of climate change. my name is felice industry and i'm presenting the show from target in south africa i'm joined from nigeria by my wonderful colleague hi auntie hi felicia and hello everyone my name is nailed. greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about half an hour of a show full of a mental story that a very exciting well here's a lineup that we have for you today. so you can use we need to make shoe polish. and how solar taxes are changing public transport in cote d'ivoire. and then our project in south africa is teaching stories of valuable knowledge of indigenous people. would you take a ride by the sun in the coastal town of juggling called deval solar taxes are beginning to be please the conventional bush ones three wheels and a panel it's a pretty simple concept and with zero emissions it's good for the environmentalists but now let's go take a ride and see

or of those on africa why is the. well again it might be tending to say there is an african syndrome here but i would not advocate that i think each one of these countries is facing challenges central african republic essentially strife conflict and the falling apart of many of the structures that actually would sustain development in a country such as chad we have first of all the challenge that it is a vast country to this day central government services in education in health don't even reach a significant part of the population so we are essentially dealing with countries that either are still a very early stage or putting the basic infrastructure human but also into the services access to electricity health education in place and then you have countries that are really falling apart again over civil strife conflict or wars and unfortunately. a significant number of those countries still are falling on the african continent joseph is going to be playing a part in it because there are those countries that were have

hello and welcome to fresh edition of africa brought to you by title t.v. rights arena and i'm felicia enders be here in south africa and i'm joined by my colleague in nigeria hello there everybody if you are interested in the environment and its issues from africa and europe and sit back and enjoy the next trying to six minutes or thereabouts here's what we have coming up on the show today. went to zimbabwe where farmers are using macros that strip us of nutrients from the song. in germany schoolchildren are putting what they've learned from the questions about the mental protection into practice. and in kenya where does it start so that makes eco friendly pencils and pens from recycled newspaper. first we had to zimbabwe after the land reforms many farmers there were unsure how to best work. many still practiced traditional methods such as slash and burn which as we know has a devastating effect on the environment one man with a lot of experience set up a foundation for farming to teach the rule farmers how to work according to environmentally friendly me

honeymoon couple from south africa taking photographs on the beach. front that. people were struggling to get out of the seats and you know tugging onto others and you know all that was a bit scary because i was under water and of course you have to hold your breath all this time is that a shock yeah but finally i did get out and when i got out i looked up and that's i saw the sky. and i said ok this must be the other side must have crossed over and then when i leveled out and looked at the ocean i saw these both looked like tourists said ok it must still be our hunter. and. the camorra is in the holidaymakers bring the passengers assured alive dead and halfway between. of dad there is no sign. of one hundred seventy five passengers from thirty six countries one hundred twenty three perished including the hijackers but dad there were still no news only an ominous silence. i went to wilson airport nairobi with my friend duncan willetts we chartered an aircraft to fly us to moroni the capital of the come or is where a makeshift morgue set up. so we drove to this me

of south africa. the new president promised to end the corruption of the previous regime and restore confidence and bring back foreign investments. guy johnson asked him what hit she would be making to attract investors? to makee need to do sure that we do reach higher levels of growth is increase investment in our economy, and that is why i have decided that i would like us to raise 100 billion dollars over the next five years, and i have appointed four investment in boys who go around the world -- and voice to go around the world. this will culminate in an investment conference i intend to hold at the end of the year, september or so, where i will advise committed investors to come and invest. so i am doing a book build of toestments, and leading up that conference. already we have received good indications from a number of investors. aat should be able to lift number of votes, and to generate growth, some of the reforms we -- move back back on, we have already started the process. increasingon of i

it was an epicjourney, the eastern coast of africa. it was an epic journey, and the eastern coast of africa. it was an epicjourney, and opened up the interior of africa to exploitation. the belgian king was looking for his own colony. the men met and the congo free state was born. boma was its capital. this was once the governor general‘s residence but it is not a time in history that was remembered fondly. the powerful rapids that had been the obstacle for so long remained impassable today. but they have also provided great opportunity for hydroelectric power. there are few places on the planet where rivers run as fast and as hard as the congo does here as it approaches the sea. hydroelectric station built here could provide electricity for the whole of africa. it would produce twice as much power as any other hydro plant on earth. that is how rich the congo could be if the resources we re rich the congo could be if the resources were put to good use. they built two small power stations decades ago here, but there has within a much