this is a business africa. africa's largest telecom company m.t.n. says it plans to raise one billion dollars from asset sales over the next three years following a massive jump in profit for twenty eighteen south africa based firm is set to float its nigerian unit later this year as part of a compromise with authorities for failing to cut off unregistered sim card users m.t.n. is also currently involved in a battle over two billion dollars in back taxes in nigeria which accounts for a third of its revenue the south africa based firm is considered one of the country's corporates success stories. signs of china's involvement have long become commonplace key infrastructure construction sites all across africa beijing has funded several projects across the continent with huge loans china has handed out some one hundred forty three billion dollars in loans to regional government governments between two thousand and twenty seventeen roads ports rail tracks or airports which in turn are being built by chinese companies and it's not just china doing busines

africa missed a child hey you've said south africa's have a crisis is a man made crisis what do you mean by that. yes that's correct there is a way that men meet is because a lot of mistakes including what you call a mother i mean it's that issue in my life you said corruption. reach actually. being better than calling them technical problems all right miss a child a year have had you spent a lot of time working in government so you can speak from from from both positions essentially but in africa out of men's are obsessed with with controlling sexes like energy supply but we see them in a case like this mismanagement should they still be able to have that much power all is the solution in the case of south africa to privatized the sect and allow the play is in rio and as we see it did predict blackouts reach out taking police right now in south africa as you can hear from the person to me that it's teachers for. this has been ongoing for the week it is a good lesson to african governments to say that well but ever needs to be done by the private sector really needs to start to open that

this business africa and. this is what we have so huge that western credit rating agencies are getting poor marks from african countries more and more governments across the continent are trying to cut out the power of the likes of fiction to help fight poverty and crushing debt. china brags that trump those three words are seriously souring the mood of the car industry ceo's europe's car show a first your son. of the year is about to kick off in geneva. and why a rugged electric car designed and made for african markets is suddenly becoming a hit in europe to. that story a bit later in the show because we start in europe where the first big motor show of the year gets on the way tomorrow gallery in geneva switzerland today as an industry be set by problems legacy comical struggle to make progress on electric cars and self driving cars chased by newcomers like tesla or google while echoes of the diesel gates scandal still reverberates just trumps trade policies china slowdown and brags it to the mix so really

i'm christine one while come to news africa. it's been two weeks and sights loney dies smashed into mozambique's coast and the showing hurricane force wind and rain that flooded swain's of the country before battering east and killing more than seven hundred people now and the outbreak of waterborne diseases thracians to aggravates the already daya conditions facing the millions who survived. thousands of people in the mozambican province of minicon were left homeless due to cycling. they'd be forced to live at the site of the road. all the houses of collapsed everything we had is gone we have no way to live with our children so we decided to come pare the emergency shelters are overflowing. and forty thousand people need help in the province of money alone the second worst hit area of mozambique. and those who have fled their homes face hunger unless they can pay inflated prices authorities have condemned anyone trying to turn the tragedy into a business opportunity and called on people to help each other. we call on all mozamb

from south africa to west africa. young people looking at their phones may be a common sight on the streets of. but only one third of the canadian population is online mobile access to the network is often unstable even in the capital. that's a headache for small companies like stimulus technologies. defined who at his seven employees offer network marketing services. applications always have to think. and it's. so easy how fast speed we have. and people in east africa have their own share of problems take uganda if you're looking to send a message or post a photo on instagram you have to be prepared to pay up since july of last year the government's been cashing in on every click in the three months following the introduction of the so-called tax the number of social media users fell by three million. clearly bagan has been importing cosmetics me united states for the past three years much of her business takes place online the o t t tax is a big issue for her right now he's. just a us like. they used to and yes that

this is d w news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the ada says. making its way to the victims of psycho need food water and other emergency supplies are being distributed to areas that can be reached and on the ground up change on the relief operation in mozambique. and the policy does that have left south africans in the dock with the country grappling a serious energy crisis we asked should our governments in africa have sole control of key six's when they missed me.

the africa if. so she needs africa is about empowering women in business just how are you doing that. well hello everyone and thank you so much for this opportunity one thing we know for sure is that young african women are smart they're talented they are passionate but the issue really comes with the gap to opportunity so we wanted to create africa to create a platform to share information in it by these four through a network to help people access new opportunities to go their career so that can be shipped on how to actually design a t.v. or a resume to help you get that interview if you're going to on what a pitch deck looks like and what investors are looking to see it can just be showcasing other smart young women who are out there doing that doing it to inspire encourage people wherever they are all across the continent and those been an incredible journey for us to that whole share it's all about sharing it creating a community here encouraging other young women to go out there and achieve th

this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the movement of people in africa a fresh survey tracking migration passions on the continent has just been published by at least that they had a summary of the key findings for you. it makes me proud to have a stoppage the first pizzeria in the refugee camps and that's not just alone as a woman using my resume she's. a refugee from wastin so hard making dreams come true with him.

to east africa and east africa to the north and hemisphere extremely busy lots of kenyans and obviously other people from other parts of the world using that route definitely not a kenyan government has come out to say is going to take care of the fund the least the morning what exactly is the plan well at the moment the transport minister has said that he will first the first thing that made it to happen was a. which was set up at the main international airports in kenya the telekinetic international airport so now families and relatives can go and find out what's happening to their loved ones a team of government officials has also been sent from kenya and hopefully we'll get more information as the days go by if the investigations are still going on thank you very much for the time thank you. un environment's talks of opened in kenya under the shadow of the g.o.p. unplayed crash at least twenty two u.n. staff died heading to the event which looks at ways to slash pollution and ability green global economy one of the issues being discussed there is legal sound miami in kenya the pract

in africa differently so. they. exchange and empowerment instead of import and adjustment video games are fun but also a powerful instrument to put african culture on the map. now these coffee beans behind me might have a look off minimalistic chic about them but there is no automatic the coffee bean is a national treasure in ivory coast the country is one of the leading girl is off the commodity and the cup of coffee has inspired the work of one ivorian artist take a look at what he's brewed up. you could make this politic with mikko water and just drink it but not. the every an artist has developed a unique painting technique he creates his portrays a famous african leaders such as the late president thomas aka wealth a special mix of coffee and cocoa powder his courage seem to be experimental and that took him back to his fruits. my mother and father are farmers and when i was growing up my mother drank a lot of coffee my father also drank a lot of coffee. but he was a bit more refined with it because he would mi

it comes to africa to join us on facebook d w africa. is going to. manage. you know the banks. and who was the language of a bank money. speaking the truth google news that matters j w for martin's. view. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the women fighting back will meet the grannies packing punches in kenya for their safety. and the women who mean business to the creators of she needs africa the platform to help young african women achieve their professional dreams. i'm christine one while come to the news africa i'm glad you're. all around the world today people are celebrating what women have achieved in honor off international women's day we began our program in kenya's capital nairobi where some brave women are taking their safety into their own heads east africa correspondent melanie could have a ball a group of grannies you really don't want to miss with. just a few years ago this place was known as nairobi's most dangerous slum presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear especially elderly women like the sixty five year old gary. he woul

it will pause and africa so what initiative will be of till now video games designed in africa make up only one percent of the global market but this may be about to change while. the one video game is a video game a some us have fun or learn something by growing up and for a few years now because i've had the idea of a to video game bearing in african culture that density could be an export hit. letting the europeans and western a seat in africa differently so. they. exchange and empowerment instead of import and adjustment video games are fun but also a powerful instrument to put african culture on the map. now these coffee beings behind me might have a look off minimalistic chic about them but there are no automatic the coffee bean is a national treasure in ivory coast the country is one of the leading girl is off the commodity and the cup of coffee has inspired the work of one ivorian artist take a look at what he's brewed up. you could mix this politic with milk or water and just drink it but not be there every an artist has developed a unique painting technique he created portray

now africa many countries in africa and the african union as far as i understand is looking at restricting the influence of crude rating agencies how will they do that well it's still pretty early days and there are no measures on the table yet but there's a discussion that is going on in africa one issue of course is transparency some economics say we need to tackle this at as an a level and simply set up some come up with some guidelines force the rating agencies to come up with a methodology they're using to find out how they're actually coming up with these ratings there is a secret though isn't it well of course it's not particularly clear in africa there are no laws in place at the moment i think south africa does have one but the other countries that are being rated don't have any laws to require the rating agencies to actually come up with and open up with as far as their methodology is concerned the u.s. tried this what they they they've tried to be less dependent on credit rating ratings how did they fare well there was this big ambitious plan to come up with a european rating ag

this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the movement of people in africa a fresh survey tracking migration passions on the continent has just been published by a program is how we've prepared a summary of the key findings for you. it makes me proud to have a stoppage the first pizzeria in the refugee camps and the job done it alone as a woman using my own resume says. a refugee from western sahara making dreams come true with every pizza delivery in the algerian does it. i'm christine one. news africa i'm glad you're cheated in one in every four humans will be an african by the year twenty fifty so will africa be able to provide the livelihood opportunities its people demand and need the research network after a barometer has surveyed current trends on migration and here are some of the key findings a quarter of all africans say one of their family members has lives in another country about the same number say they depend on money back from british serves abroad most africans who leave the continent do so to look for work we're talking about forty four perce

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i'm christine window well come to the news africa i'm glad you're today and we begin in south east africa where the death toll is rising off to a tropical storm tore into the region packing flash floods and ferocious winds officially more than two hundred people are confirmed dead between malawi mozambique and zimbabwe but mozambique's government is now warning that the death toll could be more than one thousand in mozambique alone psyco need die made landfall in mozambique on thursday if they moved westward into zimbabwe which brought torrential rain across the eastern and southern parts of the country money money districts in money and was the hardest hit. i also pounded on neighboring malawi forcing people day to three flooded areas now in mozambique a picture of the extent of the destruction is starting to emerge and it's devastating the red cross says ninety percent of the port city of berra has been destroyed. they were a city almost completely flattened by the cyclon some pipe hundred thousand people call the port city home and with communications down and roads count the numbers o

s new africa policy has had here. the need for foreign aid here in uganda is great but the money it receives doesn't amount to much. one point four million refugees live in the country. the north is home to the biggest refugee camps in africa. uganda depends on international aid and u.n. agencies in particular to provide these people with basic necessities but there are problems. you know would you sell these no ten now of my dad would these two do that don't now finding that comes in and that's the reason as to why oftentimes they're able to bring in what they have. and that even though uganda's refugee policy is considered exemplary these are not camps in which refugees sit around idly these are settlements. refugees building materials are donations they can move freely around the country they're allowed and encouraged to find work. but the situation is deteriorating there is a shortage of everything food schools teachers doctors the e.u. is one of uganda as biggest donors yet it now spends less on each refugee here

space publications to forget that africa consists of many countries but the a.p. should know better i'm curious as to why someone thought egypt was worth a mention but not kenya patrick i'm going to give this to you but before i do i do want to share in the interests of fairness here to the a.p. they spoke to the news you can see this here on my screen this is why we didn't mention kenya and ethiopia in our tweet on the crash and laura easton the director of media relations says that it was because that tweet was only providing additional information about the nationalities of people onboard and that they had already reported that kenyans in the o.p.'s had died although nairobi new says they found no tweets all the time life support that assertion patrick. this is just one example why did you think of the coverage of this tragedy. well. i thought it was pretty bad. i think the a.p. tweets that sort of a tone. we've all been missing after the last event just questions about the competence of africa and the well they feel benevolent. an awful track record sister str

a welcome to do business africa and monica jones in berlin and more than two billion people in the world to do not have regular access to clean drinking water that's according to a new u.n. report almost half of those who are dependent on unsafe water sources live in sub-saharan africa people in rural areas are the most likely to have in adequate access the and reports lack of clean water and it saved delivery a key components of the vicious cycle of persistent poverty in africa. well earlier i had the chance to talk to the deputy secretary general at the un conference on trade and development is a bed too far to learn more about the organizations work in africa and i started by asking her why tact puts so much focus on empowering women it's important because it's a how through are in all the countries first of all second the second thing is it's very crazy that a country could make one part on one so big part of the working force in the country and turkey one woman involved in the economy and able to interpret to be an entrepreneur they are doing a lot of sex not only creating jobs but

whoops i do don't do comb smash africa join us on facebook w africa. earth the hope for saving google and do is tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions for global warming due to it's been by a series of global three goals and on d. w. and online. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes two weeks inside killed it dies smashed into southern africa at the launch talks of affected areas of mozambique all still subjects in a brings about which and many people have lost everything snoop you've. been tough or. instead to find homes. for a cop in the run now we will get an update on the situation there not correspondent in zimbabwe who's just returned from the areas was touched by the storm. and the are just paying homage to africa's greatest need is with ivory coast's top commodities. i'm christine one welcome to news africa i'm glad you're today and it's been two weeks encyclopedia dies smashed into walls and beaks coast and hurricane force w

it's all happening to children in africa. during link time news from africa around the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions continue and welcome to their views african program night from funny to me from a busy town i would say debbie that comes next africa joyner something's good at telling africa. her first in school in the jungle. her first cleaning lesson and then doris grand moment arrives join the arena taking on her journey to freedom you know we're an interactive documentary dora entering into returns home.

us that this latest shooting as we call it in south africa. has been the worst we've seen in the country since we started having these problems and the fact that there were no on the questions that people were asking the fact that you had ministers very elaborately explaining what the problem is but couldn't tell you much about the solution was tending to just how bad the situation is this you tube is here for years was warned to invest in the infrastructure it's all starting to crumble something like a cyclon in mozambique where some of the public comes from kenric. put pressure on the grid so this electricity problem is going to be around for a very long time and it's going to be intense then one of our reporters just got back from there and then said she was talking about eight hours a day no electricity eight hours a day and this news comes as well as south africa's most valuable public company wants to list on the euro next stop market in amsterdam i find this quite interesting naspers would be one of the largest internet listings on the

joined us on facebook t w africa. are not over out and they will not succeed in defining a sort o. not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters. made for minds to the fact that. this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the islamised insurgency in west africa that's showing no signs of abating attacks are intensifying in book you know fossil and the new government is calling for help pull the just how bad things have become. then we meet the ugandan boy who saves a dunn says but not for facts. and the film on the walls in the democratic republic of congo wins best movie awards in the african oscars and while that. i'm christine one double come to the news africa i'm glad you're choosing did we begin with west africa's growing islamist insurgency which is seeing attacks intensify under-rated to the new targets burkina faso the number of violent incidents in which enough ah so these are incidents links to loca

the first one to this assumption that africa is one country and thereby. getting i mean you know to . be attributed to the whole of africa despite the fact that it may be an individual or. two. country nationals who would do something. it is. only coups and not to be to curse so when the president does something. there you go and african president. relates to what important which is very this is an image of. and even in measuring disconsolately ports what some of these journalists are doing is basically feeding into this ng narrative and frame of mind and people's perspective about africa those ideas that i think mentioned earlier on the third point that i would like to add their lives to the weird incidents in africa report in such a way that. human. isn't of people who does it is completely put aside and often it is a kind of the courting the base going to tends to shawl either the team plenty of others. or something done tends to shorten what others think of these incidents ok completely there by ignoring and magellanic. you know what you what's up with

help feed south africa's booming city. africa want to get jones good to have you with us and was starting with a fall out from the powerful cycling that hit mozambique killing hundreds of people and leaving a trail of destruction across ways of south east africa the damage to mozambique and infrastructure including pylons that carry power to neighboring countries may take weeks this has exacerbated rolling power outages in south africa where state owned utility eskom is struggling to bring faulty generating units back online. cold beer sorry you're out of luck there's been no electricity for hours. thankfully the kitchen has gas burners and there's still some daylight. for this small johannesburg restaurant it's a matter of life and death some days there are numerous power cuts they've already thrown away five hundred euros worth of meat and bags of ice can only function so long as a stopgap measure oh. please. insert . this for years south africa's power stations have been neglected as a consequence of mismanagement and c

the movement production level within africa is very low you don't have countries. producing that much but that doesn't mean that it does african countries do not have the capacity to the possibility to to to conduct three d. within the you find the country is. in need of a product that is being produced in ghana but it's far more cheaper say earlier to import this product from say germany in europe to get it from guyana does that it difficult to say these are the places that they need to find solutions to if solutions are found when do you reckon africa could get a pan african free trade deal. i don't think that's going to happen anytime soon because. the hurdles are really really too much that is very very low infrastructure that is in. you know within this because it's not going to happen and it's absolutely. a pessimist but also a realist i thank you very much for joining us thank you. now africa is the only region in the world where women number likely to be entrepreneurs than men but that businesses and not as profitable have lower sales and fewer employees re

making good on its promise to expand production in africa a comic or expects to build a record number of vehicles this year in south africa over one hundred sixty thousand drop in the bucket compared to its global production figures but v.w. is keen to get a proper foothold in africa it's opened assembly lines in kenya and nigeria so how do you sell in a market where most people can't afford. secondhand imports roger. could be an answer b. w. is trying out its very own app based ride sharing service in rwanda v.w. move if successful the company could roll out the system across the continent so what's behind this joining me in the studio is our correspondent. and it's difficult when you're away on holidays six weeks is it just. tell me a little bit about the dough you want its ambitions in africa just how ambitious it is and if it's actually doing enough to get where it wants to get well obviously with that strategy in rwanda which you just spoke about that is something that clearly recognizes the need for different types of solutions is not trying to sell more cars in africa recently

platforms africa charge. hello and welcome to news from arts and culture i'm karen homestead and today will focus our lands on the fact that not all that glitters is gold. the golden pharaoh took on common also known as king tut's comes to paris a major immersive exhibition of his treasures includes over one hundred fifty original items from two to uncommon sixty of which have left egypt for the first time. and rebecca horn is germany's gone dumb of performance and installation art is famous for her explorations of body extensions and machines and turns seventy five on sunday and take a look back at her career. an exhibition that looks at the influence of late pop star michael jackson on art and on other artists has opened in bonn and the underscores tyler that's hosting it is having to justify the decision to go ahead with it and the show opens just weeks after the h.b.o. documentary leaving neverland made new allegations of jackson's alleged sexual abuse of children forcing us to consider the king of pop in

largest carrier and has ambitions for becoming africa's the international gateway to africa i mean last year ethiopian airlines was expected to carry over ten million passengers internationally and compared to all the others this state owned airlines company is widely considered to be the best in africa in terms of safety and the capabilities of its fully just reading through the latest lines in this very chilling similarities with the indian easy inner. liner was in that same type of plane chilling the seems to be everybody on board dead as well what we kind of know about the similarities there right absolutely you're absolutely right actually both planes were boeing seven thirty seven max airplanes and there's a new type right right absolutely boeing seven thirty seven is an older model but boeing seven thirty seven max was a newer adaptation the crash was very similar actually it was another short distance flight that hit the ground only minutes after takeoff with over one hundred eighty passengers killed in indonesia now boeing airplanes responded to this on twitter they said they'r

and that is it funny that begins africa well today the next time. enter the conflict zone fronting the powerful. my guest this week here in brussels is the belgian m.e.p. philippe lama who sits on the european parliament's rex's steering committee has the e.u. negotiated in good faith and is non-famous a unity of the twenty seven beginning to crack europe doesn't look like. conflicts of all. details. in two years this will be the european capital of culture but the ancient city of l.f. siena has lost its luster. it's currently home to a huge ship graveyard. burgeoning bureaucracy and a lack of funding for stifling cleanup operations. so when will the left ciena sparkle again. in sixty minutes following g.w. . players. take. the state. patrol game in a poker game of power and money the competition is fierce for the most most important natural resource bluffing betting checking how long will they be able to play and who will win this thing we believe that renewal energy move played an important role in the future. of. the geopolitical stage starting m

africa. go to college. keep learning merged realises wait a second we want the whole picture out facts instead of make ideas shift deliver us . from a commercial reality to cryptocurrency your topics for live in an ever changing digital world let's talk a bit to devise a sure fire shift. on d w. a report shows a huge number of africans want to leave their countries could this be the next wave of mass migration. zambia finds itself in a death trap how's it going to get out. and more bad news for boeing reports the end he still system was on when that ethiopian airlines flight crashed . i've been fizzling let's do business four out of ten africans a considering emigration that's according to the pan african research institute afro barometer it conducted a survey of forty six thousand people across thirty four countries and these are the results twenty nine percent of those who said they wanted to leave said they'd choose another country in the region they're already living in twenty seven percent are consider

this is business africa. as welcome economic opportunity increases access to energy that's an equation so self-evident that here in europe which if a rugged places like kenya most people have no access to electricity is special in rural areas only a third of the population in kenya is connected to the grid but that percentage has been rising fast thanks to the last mile connectivity project four years ago it started to supply schools in the countryside with electricity then homes and now businesses and farms are following losing runs a small shop she used to have a sort of panel on the roof but the yield was not great and. once she was connected to the grid she could expand her business. electricity. so efficient. it. was a costly. since she added new services business has really taken. up to twenty four and she has a staff of six losing the sun was lucky she was one of the faster customers to be connected to the power grid and at no charge. the aim is universal access by twenty twenty two and a full seventy