earth. for saving global warming to do is tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions but i don't want to do those being born series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. this is g.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes adding value to africa's resources most of gone is cocoa is exported rule we need the women making bombs as from the beat. receiving counseling you think donna do you think grupo you think girl chocolate never comes to mind fifty seven chocolate is changing that refreezing the good gonna became the free nation the makers want to revive the can do spirit of that independence year. and two years off to kenya and the world's

toughest ban on single use plastic bags the alternative that was introduced is now also being told our correspondent in nairobi has that story. i'm christine one double come to africa i'm glad you're. gonna is a giant when it comes to cocoa production the west african country exports off the being a second only to neighboring ivory coast in fact gonna its faults cocoa beans with about two billion u.s. dollars to get but it is a net importer of chocolates ending up to eight million dollars a year on the sweet stuff now that's according to what rather that starting to change as going to seize a new generation of autism chocolate produces bringing up they're taking

a resource that gonna has in abundance and adding value to the roll material. i think is an expert when it comes to cocoa farming but he's not that fond of chocolate he travel have a plate of fries to eat these really wild preferred food rewards one knew it did it will work. through one yes. well for a dog that is. through i was food in the capital accra the start up companies trying to change that view they are hoping to inspire guy names was exotic creations like a biscuit chocolate. this moment in that very helpful brad pitt pyramid and that's how we end up developing a lot of our play really get back to that pot that and then we have the. people who pay for our i pad by that by the head my chocolate produce she is small for luxury

product that was so mainly in the capital go straight to export to systems set up the company about three years ago and then they faced many challenges ranging from constant power outages to corrupt officials who made life difficult for the small company. but they're determined to keep on with alexy chocolate and not just leave the field to the big multinational food companies. it takes a lot of endorsements to definitely run a chocolate business karen and just represent using our resources at home to actually produce the finished good care. so fifty seven chocolate is really putting the gloss on ghana school now that's just a commons gunness cocoa from us to become chocoholics. and i'm happy to welcome to news africa kimberly addison you saw in the report she is the co-founder of fifty seven chocolates and she's coming to us from accra in ghana hi kimberly's so as we

saw in our report there we have a cocoa farmer who's not so keen on chocolates very gonna and so i wanted what market is more important to you would it be the export market or the don't mistake market. well it is actually both i would say both are equally important because the truth is we have to start locally in order. globally so right now absentees don't actually tackling book market so we're tackling our iraqi piece here in terms of regional create more awareness and create a greater desire for consumption of chocolate here in ghana and equally target is a global. consumer of consumable and so we're definitely also tackling the global market as well because it's a huge market out there and in the in europe and in the. in age we have clients all

over the world so it's definitely local and global. local and global but how did you come to the idea of making art is no chocolates in guyana what was the inspiration. well the inspiration actually came to us when he fourteen my sister and i and one thing is we were actually living in geneva switzerland at the time and we all know that's what jill is very much known for its chocolate and ghana known for its cocoa and you happen to be visiting one of the film's largest factory. and it was for the first time that most of ghana's cocoa is actually to switzerland and processed there and we actually found out for the latter part of last year that these that interest that ironically of ghana scoble actually gets sent to switzerland and so we couldn't comprehend why ghana had the resources it was not making a finished product out of it and so that's what inspired us we wanted to add value

to a local resource right here at home because the truth is there is that you in cocoa but there's more value in adding. in making it into chocolate and making it into a finished goods so that's what we're trying to do here the name of your company fifty seven chocolate references that you have a gun a became an independent nation what were you trying to evoke. so i was trying to hugo best spirit behind independence so it's named nine hundred fifty seven chocolate after independence nine hundred fifty seven however it's more so now about being freed from colonial power but it's about this very palace behind in the pendant and that's one of many clock showing was one of creating what a lot of people don't know was shortly after independence the right had a lot of thriving industries that are no longer in existence today we have major problems being in factories we had ten industries the actually has a thriving dairy industry which is no longer in existence today and somewhere

between one nine hundred fifty s. that is and now the leaderships of the two thing and consuming made in ghana goods to heavily importing things and so now we import tomatoes we import chocolate we import right the import and lot of seeing and so we want to and then we are talking seven who want to imply reawaken people the fact that if we want to go down and develop as a nation we have to manufacture we have to create and can believe in god like a direct threat came right out colleagues on the africa team was kind enough to bring back a box off your chocolate we have. dropped chocolate with c. salt and i wonder what your favorite is so i love i love the diet talk and see you thought so it's not him depends on my mood that i got to talk with you thought it was actually one of my favorites and then i would say the next my next neighbor would actually be. known for the almonds and feast off the call in the nominating

insult that i think felt. a little shock and really bring that interesting player if the as and the boxes empty i will tell you that can be at the same co-founder of fifty seven chocolates from a crowd gonna. in twenty seventeen kenya announced the world's toughest ban on single use plastic bags for bidding their imports manufacture and useful commercial and private purposes since then non woven bags have been a popular alternative for most businesses but now even these have been outlawed kenya's national environment management a lawyer he says they are just as bad as ordinary plastic bags this is nairobi river a symbol of kenya's struggle to fight pollution in two thousand and seventeen the government banned single use plastic bags to reduce the amount of plastics in the environment they were replaced with non woven poly proposal and bags which are supposed to be reusable the from the looks of this riverbank it seems these bags do

more harm than good there was a vacuum and the nine eleven box came into the market but when they came into the market the one that tensile strength was too high and they were. they had this that i think needs and they were large enough and they were costing. i don't entirety and fifty initiatives so they were using. and at the time we were not worried. the national environmental management authority says that since the ban the market has been flooded with outstanding non woven poly proponent bags they can only be used once and people have often thrown them away improperly the environment authority felt forced to act the national environmental management authority has banned the importation and manufacture of these non woven bags and are now looking for alternatives that don't pose a threat to the environment. many kenyans support the latest bad

enough the new bats are just like other plastic bags they pollute the environment therefore. some environmentalists feel that the government should not just past regulations but also improve waste management from where i sit i think that parts you could do a little better in terms of planning and what we need to think about is the long term management of this kind of material and how they are going to be disposed of. in the event that they're not useful anymore. to the economy. kenya still lags behind in waste management with recycling aid the done by private companies or informally by people who work at dump sites. but still no alternative to the non woven bags perhaps this latest ban will force kenyans to be more aware

of the impact they have on the environment south sudan has been enduring a wave of fighting with millions of people displaced from their homes now a so-called peace tournament sponsored by the un mission in the south of the country has inspired hope among the population it's yet another example of football bridging differences and bringing people together. when the whistle blows people in the town of ye can put their troubles to one side football players here taking part in the peace tournament a two week long competition sponsored by the united nations mission in south sudan . organizers hope the people who have come together here on and off the pitch will take inspiration from the event when in this. day yes oh off their brains out. big updates people make. it

gorgeous and us big hit us. hard must let us in our own journey why don't you go pro there is no reason for peace. yeah a river state has been the scene of violence between government and rebel groups in recent years in the light of such suffering football seems trivial but players at the yea peace tournament say it can be a symbol of hope. its meaning that we have peace in among all of us in the playoffs and the people. that people employ as they did the soldiers also among ups of this yeah. it's the second tournament of its kind the u.n. mission has organized in south sudan in their bid to demonstrate the unifying power of sports. and we'll leave it there for city that is it for now from africa you can catch up on all stories on our website and facebook page now staying on soccer and

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