the africa mr childcare you've said south africa's have a crisis is a manmade crisis what do you mean by that. yes that's correct there is a way. men meet is because a lot of mistakes including what you call a must have made history in my life you said corruption at their reach actually which is you know being rather than just calling them technical problems all right mr child hey you have had you spent a lot of time working in government so you can speak from from from both positions essentially but in africa our governments 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 say ten allow the play is in to be honest with you it did predict blackouts reach out taking police right now in south africa as you can hear from the person the media does its teachers for good this has been ongoing for the week it is a good lesson actually to african governments to say that what bud ever needs to be done by the private sec

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

wellcome 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

deja vu africa. 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 the story through a network to help people access new opportunities to go their career so that can be shipped on how to actually design a cd 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 if you 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 so the incredible journey for us to that whole share it's all about sharing it creating a community encourages other young women to go out there and achieve their dream right

from south africa to west africa. young people looking at their phones maybe a common sight on the streets of. but only one third of the canadian population is online mobile access to the network it's often unstable even in the capital. that's a headache for small companies like stimulus technologies. define who and his seven employees offer network marketing services. applications you always have to think about. and it's. so easy how fast. 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 bega has been importing cosmetics mean united states for the past three years much of her business takes place online in the o t t tax is a big issue for her right now he's. just a you just like the points

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

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 their families the mourning community what exactly is the plan well at the moment the transport minister has said that he's well first the first thing that needed to happen was a. what sent which was set up at the main international airports in kenya the telecast 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 will get more information as the days go by the investigations are still going on i thank you very much for your time. u.n. environmental talks of opened in kenya under the shadow of the plate crash at least twenty two u.n. staff died adding to the event which looks at ways to slash pollution ability green global economy one of the issues being discussed there is illegal mining in kenya the practice of cours

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

this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the movement of people in africa a french survey tracking migration passions on the continent has just been published by afro barometer we've prepared a summary of the key findings for you. and makes me proud to have established the first pizzeria in the refugee camp. and that's not done it alone as a woman using my resume says. a refugee from western sahara making dreams come true with every pizza delivery in the algerian desert. i'm christine wonderwall come africa i'm glad you're cheered in one in every four humans will be an african by the year twenty fifty so full africa be able to provide the livelihood opportunities its people demand and need the research network after a barometer has surveyed current trends on by gratian and here are some of the key findings a quarter of all africans say one of their family members has lived in another country about the same number say they depend on money sent back from relatives abroad. most africans who leave the continent do so to look for work which will be about forty four perce

story opt out of those inductees are big business of africa with monica jones it's just a moment for all the world headlines of the top off because of the few. i know nothing out of the wild because sometimes i am but most often with me but i don't think deep into the german culture. you to rethink those grammar they owe to you because it's all about who they know i'm rachel join me for me to get a bunch of course. what's the connection between bread flour ambiguity and you. know guild motto e.w. correspondent and rabbit baker crab. tone. and more to go about recipes for success and the strategies that make a difference. baking bread. d.w. . those who have money can afford water to those who don't. that's the bottom line of the latest u.n. water development report warning already today more than two million people are without access to clean water. also on the show. around a thousand people die in kenya each. from snakebites the world health organization blames profit to greet for the lack of ante venetians. and south africa's durban poison gets ready to claim a stake in the global c

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.

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.

this is business africa as in berlin as. east africa's busiest. day. the personnel went on a twelve hour strike to protest plans takeover of the airport by a loss making national. police to quell the war we'll go to our correspondent in their o.b. for the latest in a moment but first this with. clouds of tear gas drove strikers away but also passengers many which were already stranded include us about their next flight the result was injuries among both groups and outrage among airport staffers are already convinced that the new owner kenya airways is bad news the company came close to collapsing in two thousand and seventeen needing a bailout stay aloft. you can't allow a collapsing company like kenya airways to take over kenya airports authority kenya airports authority makes around eleven billion per year kenya airways loses seven billion per year how can a company losing seven billion oversea another that is making between ten and eleven billion per year. simply put employees here for your job losses and so they paralyze the airport a major hub for

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

it's business africa. as in berlin welcome. zimbabwe is about to scrap rules that prevent the control of local platinum mines by foreign mining companies the government said to the plans were part of its new campaign zimbabwe is open for business the country is the second largest platinum reserves in the world currently foreign companies may hold no more than a forty nine percent share diamond and platinum mine operations under the black empowerment law introduced under robert mugabe's rule. africa's largest ach area ethiopian airlines operated a flight with an all female flight crew for international women's day today the plane landed in the norwegian capital all slow this afternoon where it was welcomed by diplomats and the ethiopian community the airline says the flight was also operated by an all female crew when it took off from it is a baby if you hope in africa's most profitable airline with flights to more than fifty cities across the continent. now can you imagine life without a mobile phone that applies to all genders

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

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

i'm christine one while come to africa. it's been two weeks encyclopedia dies smashed into walls and beaks coast and leashing hurricane force wind and rain that flooded swain's of the country before battering east and killing more than seven hundred people now an outbreak of waterborne diseases thracians to aggravate 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 side 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 mozambique to sho

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

this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes africa's. gone his audience has a new bill that will make it easier to hold a horse news accountable information minister said the old burnish the country's credentials as a democracy. and other laws that are. deepening the rights of citizens without become participate in the democracy that there's two parts which are the democrats who thrives on the kind of information that. that's is gone is repudiation azubuike and also chris freedom in jeopardy will a policy and needs to be championed. and disputed election result of one of the world's poorest and i'm stable states position cries fall off the commerce president. landslide reelection. i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm glad your chin didn't know make is in gonna have pasta bill that will allow more transparency and accountability in public if it is the right information bill has been welcomed by journalists in the country who say the role will make their work easier is specially when it comes to accessing government data but

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

news africa you can catch all our stories on our website on facebook. my colleague kristie in the form to our joint to tomorrow always be a force goodbye. what secrets why behind the small. find out in an immersive experience and explore fascinating worlds cultural heritage sites. w world heritage three sixty. takes a person with wonderful people and stories that makes it so special are you waiting . for. him to do. d. w. . hello and welcome to news from arts and culture i'm karen homestead and behind me you can see the work of any not so easy is one of africa's most decorated artists perhaps most famous for his hanging bottlecap installations more on him in just a moment after a look at what else is in the pipeline. photographer martin parr is the foremost visual chronicler of his fellow britons and as the u.k. prepares to leave the european union. a new exhibition trains his satirical lens on a nation in search of its modern identity. and the continual search for sustainable materials one switchback manufacturer has come up with a way to accessorize w

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. would be felt is not ten out of my dad would these two do that don't now finding that. i do quickly 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 is biggest donors yet it now spends less on each refugee here than i

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 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 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

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.

hello and a very warm welcome from johannesburg south africa i'm felicia n.s.p. with the latest edition of africa for you today we're off on another journey across the continent as well as making a side trip to germany and my colleague to eglin joins us from nigeria hello there felicia indeed an exciting shows ahead of us but first of all i like to greet of us all over the world and said a big thank you for all your responses to our program now here's what we have lined up today. how to build houses with discarded plastic bottles and signed. our community cares for recompose and dad ecosystem in ghana. and how the bison i'm becoming popular i mean. today's journey starts in west africa as we head to senegal in the same health bill age of. women's cooperative has managed to cultivate one i would lines even though what is a challenge in the cell phone the secret of success was restoring on old well and installing a solar powered pump to run it with many doubt judgeable a job becoming autonomous and something rarely seeming rule communities in west africa they manag

this is student news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the islamist insurgency in west africa that's showing no signs of abating attacks are intensifying in book unify songs and the new government is calling for help we'll learn just how bad things have become. then we meet the ugandan boy who's saying he dances but not for fact. and the film on the walls in the democratic republic of congo wins best movie awards in the african oscars in while the duke. i'm christine want to welcome to news africa i'm glad you're cheated in we begin with west africa's growing islamized insurgency which is seeing attacks intensify under-rated to the new targets burkina faso the number of violent incidents in which enough of these are incidents against two local affiliates of al qaeda and the so-called islamic state rose by one hundred twelve between two thousand and seventeen and two thousand and eighteen these numbers come from the report by the africa center for strategic studies now the threat initially came from the northern side held region that is along the border with mali as you can see

then its tells 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 offices to 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 telling to just how bad the situation is this you to 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 power comes from can really 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 ben one of our reporters just got back from there and said she was talking. that's 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 all of your next stop market in amsterdam i find this quite interesting naspers would be one of the largest internet listings on the exch