african union generalship. i was presenting an african dream. i represent off going to childless. terry me deals with my greeting and losing a home and losing loved ones a fate suffered by many africans. then and then he. thought to herself left mali as a young woman to escape an arranged marriage the movie molly blues follows her judie back it's a touching documentary showing how music can lend a voice to freedom. in her home village to broke a taboo by singing about female genital mutilation. to . i'm trying to to to fight the for the positive side to change the montel u.-t. of my generation because every single generation needs to somebody to the song to take a part of the things we have to to be able to talk about i was touring. mali is wracked by social tensions corruption and terrorism but that often obscures it's deep rooted cultural traditions. people don't know i forgot who knows africa is a woman who went to africa once a nice life then you can see i have seen them have such and people haven't been eating their food the smell of. the two bridges well some consonants she'

the president of the enter american development bank luis are there tomorrow and the african union special envoy on women peace and security into d.r. thank you so much to all of you for joining us here today ladies and gentlemen please let's give our panel in a very warm welcome thank you now before we can talk about possible solutions i just like to get all of your assessments of the current situation because the united nations says the following about violent conflict it says that the number of global conflicts that reach the threshold of war that's more than one thousand people per year dying because of battle battle deaths has more than tripled in the past decade and chris alina i'd like to turn to you now because we know that the world bank that your mission is really to to lift people out of extreme poverty those people are increasingly living in conflict prone areas. what worries you the most about the state of security in development right now i would add to this treaty the very significant concerns one is that in the world we can celebrate. the decline of extreme poverty over the

well let's hope so nationwide protests by south african trade unions have brought major towns and cities to a standstill the unions are pushing back against the proposed national minimum wage of twenty rand an hour that's just over one half dollars they say that's just too low and will only entrench south african families in poverty. the strikes pose a test for a new president cyril ramaphosa he sees the minimum wage as an important part of labor reform in tackling wage inequality there were reports of blocked roads stone throwing and looting in certain parts of the country unions feel threatened and the mood is not geared towards compromise london's reagan was. destroyed. simply because government imposes amendments and many changes on the labor laws and we cannot allow that situation now with south africa . wednesday's protests are the second major public show of discontent in south africa within a week from opposer last week cut short a visit to a commonwealth summit in britain a day early to travel to the northwest province where crowds have been protesting against poor public servic

workers are as of yet organized in unions . now asia correspondent linda holmes joins us from singapore the how much is this a case of exploitation or just badly organized unions. well ben you know most african nations are just at the start of the economic development and jobs already usually quite difficult to come by let alone for us to fight forcing wages as well as good working conditions and even union usually it's a form off of the engagement in which western doing us all with and businesses you have seen walking to participate or let unions take off and china be part of a show well it doesn't even have to pay the labor unions in the country so this means that chinese bumps on really used to dealing with labor union labor rights and relations and this is perhaps why chinese firms operating in africa are often accused of buying the international neighbor laws as well as the national laws in the country then so we're going to start seeing the chinese pull out of africa if the unions get their act together. well in africa it

workers are as of yet organized in unions . well i want to bring in our correspondent from the africa desk daniel pence now daniel you spoke to a leader of the workers' union in tenure which took on a chinese construction company and successfully negotiated better conditions what was his experience how hard was it well joe much area of the union leader that i talked to said negotiating such a deal with a chinese company was the hardest thing he had ever done in his law if and i think it speaks for itself when you have an experienced union leader talking that way he said it was clear from the beginning that the managers off the chinese company didn't have any experience negotiating with the unions and first kind of had to understand why the shirts that said down and negotiate with union leaders about such issues as payment holidays so the hardest thing he's ever done in his life these can be clearly david and goliath battles unions against large multinationals do you think the success in kenya has emboldened the unions to stand

argentina may have further to fall protests against the government are growing and the nation's biggest union c g.t. says it has strikes planned two. for more let's bring in our markets man that is in frankfurt is argentina all the next venezuela. monica it's funny you ask i have the same question and so i did bring it to a emerging markets specialist his answer definite no venezuela is beyond repair everyone who is invested there is just hoping for a gene change so they can get maybe part of their money back but we're not there in argentina even though the situation isn't looking very great and of course the comparison is there with inflation then the currency drop but the problem in argentina is a fear that the government which has a large large debt can't refinance that debt however it doesn't need to until the middle of twenty nineteen so the argentinian government asking the i.m.f. to step up a little faster than they were supposed to and bring that money and that could help however argentinians don't like the i.m.f. because they remember the two thousand and one collapse of the economy

it's now more lucrative to pump cash there and that's not just affecting argentina the ruble the south african rand the turkish lira and the brazilian ryall are all plummeting political conflicts are making things worse argentina may have further to fall protests against the government are growing and the nation's biggest unions the g.t. says it has strikes planned to. bring in a senior market analyst at foreign exchange in london good to have you with us how worrying is argentina's decline for investors. it is worrying i mean naturally when you see the currency plummet in the way that the peso hospital last couple of days but even going but beyond that is obviously not truly a concern it seems this crisis is not a hand on the government is clearly now relying on the i.m.f. to call me in and provide some much needed stability in order to prevent the crisis worsening because ultimately this is going to lead to extremely difficult times for people in the country something that unfortunately how become a cold caused them to follow in the crisis back in two thousand and one which is why they're no

argentina may have further to fall protests against the government are growing and the nation's biggest union c g.t. says it has strikes planned to. what has been a year of droughts across the globe and australia is no exception right now but landau nanda is suffering from the worst drawing spell in living memory fade crops a withering forcing farm most by feed from elsewhere and with water supplies drawing up some farmers have had to resort to calling the. australian farmer richard ogilvy is using he donated by relatives to feed his cattle during australia's worst drought in living memory ogilvy expects to lose over one hundred twenty five thousand euros this year after as he runs out in six weeks he doesn't know what will happen next we've gone from twelve hundred calles and they aren't. six hundred we've put in pumping systems to to get trough water so that when the dame's got to draw the cattle of got alternative sources of water and ollie's things that we've done. to what old coal saif got us who have to get it straight out hasn't has helped us but in the long run we will not sustain thi

since he was appointed head of the african national congress in december the country's currency is served by ten percent. during the time oh boy . when that ends. in a window which it wasn't about. that's a good sign that investors are banking on a change in south africa's fortune. that's off of business you're in. touch with. the to move move move. move move to such a. move. the to cut. what unites. to finally. come up with. what binds the continent to counter the for answers and stories of plunging the. spotlight on people earning. comments to me on the c.w. . ensuring the conflict zone with me should sleep on it from the treatment of migrants to freedom of expression to enter terra low cost stand outs of human rights across you're all slipping my guest in ghana is michael kludgy director of the u.n. agency book on demand for the rights does he believe you up. doing it to protect human rights live in sixty minutes from t.w. . three one might even make. you challenge the alice fourteen. days tournaments that. colleagues would challenge about think you should check it out yourself when yo

become a wealthy businessman since he was appointed head of the ruling african national congress in december the country's currency has surged by ten percent against the dollar. you. who are. that's a good sign that investors are banking on a change in fact africa's fortune. annual profits and european aviation giant air bus have jumped by about two billion euros but there are clouds on the horizon it recently announced a management shakeup after corruption allegations and there's trouble with some models starting with the ailing a three eighty super jumbo it was almost cancelled due to lack of demand but was given a lifeline last month when you buy based carrier emirates ordered thirty six of them in there is the a four hundred military transport which was commissioned in two thousand and three it's been plagued by technical problems still demand for the a three twenty series remains robust the narrow body jets are of special interest to asian airlines and airbus has just tested a long range transatlantic version well let's rob you know we balance our financial correspondent in fra

the country's hope is resting on the newly elected president still ram opposers a former union leader who's become a wealthy businessman since he was appointed head of the ruling african national congress in december the country's currency has surged by ten percent against the dollar remember during the. conference. that's a good sign that investors are banking on a change in south africa's fortune. france's unemployment rate dropped below nine percent for the first time since two thousand and nine i added weight to efforts by president to manually mark or to liberalize a rigid and even market now the rate fell to eight point nine percent in the fourth quarter of last year down from nine point six percent in the previous three months and that is the steepest drop since the two thousand and eight financial crisis the latest fall points to a major shift away from average and employment levels of ten percent or more over recent years the figures can be seen as a boost for president manuel mccall whose first move as president was to allow firms increased flexibility to hire and fire staff

now the african union says it stepping up the fight against corruption which it says is an urgent problem across the continent a new un study shows that billions of dollars a plundered every year lining the pockets of the powerful widening the gap between the rich and the poor as well as damaging growth. nepotism money laundering and endemic corruption is a scourge for development in africa this is especially true in countries rich in rule materials the revenues often end up lining the pockets of corrupt civil servants and various elites such crime intensifies inequality hurting the poor especially. according to experts at the united nations africa loses one hundred fifty billion us dollars to corruption annually what's especially problematic that stolen revenue doesn't flow back into local economies. rather it's spent or parked outside the continent. that translates into a twenty five percent drop in africa's economic growth all the while exacerbating poverty migration and terror. on saturday cost of earmarks ten years since it declared independence from serbia now the economy is per pro

livestock over the last week african swine fever spread into the european union pharmaceutical companies have been trying to develop a vaccine so far without success the latest outbreak appears to have begun in russia and authorities in neighboring belarus banned some imports of russian pork now meanwhile the disease is making its way into the heart of europe it already has crossed into the baltic states and poland where in total thousands of cases have been reported and this is why the european commission is the backing a cole of wild boars it's also warning people to be careful with food waste that could contain the highly contagious disease it was first recorded in africa a century ago and since then it's spread around the world and while it doesn't affect humans it's almost always deadly to paix and that is worrying news for the pig farm sector and some of its representatives are in berlin this week where the international green week is kicking off my colleague stephen be asleep is at the fair for us and he's joining us now stephen if you can hear me here you are what do people there

infecting livestock over the last week african swine fever has spread into the european union among wild boar pharmaceutical companies developing a vaccine but so far without success the outbreak appears to have begun in russia authorities in neighboring better boost bad some imports of russian pork the disease now making its way into the heart of europe it's already crossed into the baltic states and poland where thousands of cases have been reported the european commission is supporting a color of wild boar it's warning people to also be careful with food waste that could contain the highly contagious disease it was first recorded in africa a century ago since then it's spread around the world well it doesn't affect humans it's almost always deadly to pigs now that's a wiring concern for pig farm as representatives of the sector in berlin. here for the international green week in our reporter stephen beardsley is there old what are people telling you there about the virus possibly reaching germany. will then i think that there's been resignation to the fact that this disease has b

the european union pharmaceutical companies and developing a vaccine so far without success the outbreak appears to have begun in russia authorities in neighboring by the roots band some imports of russian pork the disease is now making its way into the heart of europe it's already crossed into the baltic states and poland where thousands of cases have been reported the european commission is supporting a color of wild boar it's morning people to be careful with food waste as well that could contain the highly contagious disease it was first recorded in africa a century ago since then it's spread around the world well that doesn't affect humans it's almost always deadly to pigs but it's a big talking point of buildings international green week i reporter steven beardsley is there i asked him what people there say about the threat of the virus reaching the e.u.'s biggest pork producing nation germany. well then i think that there's been resignation to the fact that this disease has been out there for awhile that it's been slowly making its way across and that like many things with farming

approach for what would benefit from a bit expertize movies visit is backed by the african union to promote trade between africa and india which is currently valued at ninety billion dollars annually africans hope this can be improved as times with delhi deepen. seven years into germany's green energy revolution which entails phasing out nuclear in for motoring when you of all energy thousands of wind turbines us fight across the country but they only have a life span of ten years and the spacing of old wind turbines is a big problem not only are they deeply rooted in the ground but getting rid of them is dangerous business and anything but green. these are sections of decommissioned turbines as a wind park in northern germany. and a group of local environmentalists aren't satisfied too much of the base is still in the ground they want the whole thing to be removed. the concrete bases can be crushed and used in road construction. but the rotor blades contain glass and carbon fiber is nice to burning them isn't a viable option. d. humvee paul bremer just bombed for thank you both just on tox

your link to inception stories and discussions here no one will come student news african encroach grammy night from born in germany from the news of easy to our i would say d. debit it comes to africa join us on facebook and d w africa. can the european union win a trade war with a us naval side blinks following tit for tat tariffs analysts say it will be no winners at that if the e.u. once just stand a chance it needs reform. a temporary reprieve washington lets the chinese take east on doing business with the us again but only for a mouth and russian reform economists made like that all the russians may not yet ready to work a little longer. i've been fizzling let's do business german leader under medical says it's time for germany to try to avert a trade war with the united states this stuff the tariff hikes from washington meant by e.u. levies of its own the next in the firing line is germany's treasured. is the chancellor. get it right now we're witnessing something felt which we've always considered a constant namely the role of multilateral organizations we now have tariffs on a l

corruption is also on the agenda as leaders of the african union member states meet in mauritania this weekend but that's not the only big issue as countries around the world scrap it out over free trade africa is wondering if it will be caught in the middle. more trade is urgently needed in africa fifty five nations only conduct about sixteen percent of their business with each other the smallest amount of interest regional trade compared to latin america asia or europe but changes coming. year may. forty african states have signed the agreement to create a continental free trade area but we expect this to have a positive impact on africa as it will contribute to the strengthening of trade and the free movement of people and goods for the benefit of african citizens. it took two years to negotiate the african continental free trade area but it left a few countries out including economic heavyweights south africa and nigeria once they signed on the agreement will cover one point two billion people with a cumulative g.d.p. of two trillion euros it will be a boost for the entire continen

union one day but starting with up to forty four states until the end of this year now if the free trade zone actually comes into being it would create a single market with attractive numbers up to one point two billion people a gross domestic product of two point five trillion u.s. dollars combined and even if the countries would lose money from tariffs they would still generate about sixteen billion dollars in long term world's fair it sounds like a great idea as usual but as often happens it's easier said than done africa is a potentially gigantic market of up to one point two billion people many of them desperately poor the new agreement is a major step towards improving their lot. their promise of a free trade and free movement is prosperity for or for exams because we are proud of ties in the production of goods and sciences that. med enough. by boosting intra african trade the forty four participating countries hope to reduce their dependence on raw materials exports right now africa's countries only do about sixteen percent of the total trade with each other the new agreement is

in some african countries and kenya compliance with the law is tightly controlled disobedience comes with very unpleasant elsie's. now you keep macquarie watts is an environmental inspector every day on the streets of nairobi it's had job to make sure nobody is using plastic bags out there protect what is happening. even though we can circumstances almost at it by fence but they've locked it down if we are merely giving ourselves maybe about three hours. the last. two months ago she found a pile of plastic bags in this meat market ten bitches rested as a result they came you know on time when they chose those that we would. know what to do they are good friends of ours now we are friends and we don't in the other than these compounds who's going. to fall back on even the trees which choked up with plastic bags cows were digesting the waste and dying. the shepherd lost almost fifty of. the situation improved their view the plastic bags of the future to be covered by plastic bags and now it is a lot to go you know. shops like these used to hand their customers over one hundred million

african union force in somalia. these infrastructure projects are they a one way street what are the benefits for commissions. well it's interesting that you mention that because one of the issues that the united nations secretary general antonio guitarist did bring out with sustainable fiscal policies going forward now that china has pledged another sixty billion looking down on the ground you do see some kind of laxity when it comes to labor policies only by relations between china and african countries you're not seeing a lot of absorption of local work because in some of these projects but then also in trade that needs to be some sort of balance for example kenya imports goods from china worth three hundred ninety billion dollars and kenya only exports to china goods worth nine point nine billion dollars so people are saying that there must be some sort of balance in the trade. from nairobi thank you very much. that's it for me and the business team here in berlin thank you very much for watching give up your bu

definitely not these are not sentiments that echoed by african leaders in fact the african union chairman and president of the rwanda paul kagame is said that to china is a friend and you have cyril ramaphosa is the president of south africa's alluding to the fact that africa and china share the same vision but during this first day of the summit there was emphasis on transparency especially by the african union commission chairman with a fuck you saying that there needs to be transparency with trade between the two parties and also we had a statement by the united nations secretary general antonio terrorists who said that there has to be sustainable physical policies in order for africans or in order for both parties africa and china to see the benefits of this particular relationship you're speaking about sustainable policy here there is growing criticism the chinese infrastructure projects are pushing african nations into debt how big a problem is this where you are in kenya for example. it was interesting to see that study gauge real wing suit as one of the success stories during this