why their culture. only a promise to one less or no to the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle. the result reversed culture. prize winning documentary from the forest start first on w. . this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes adding value to africa's resources most are gone as cocoa is exported rule we need the women making dollars from the beat. receiving counseling you think you think cool you think girl of chocolate never comes to mind fifty seven chocolate is changing that britain saying the good gonna became a free nation the makers want to revive the can do spirit of that independence year

. and two years off to kenya announced the world's toughest ban on single use plastic bags the alternative that was introduced is now also being a correspondent in nairobi has that story. i'm christine window well 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 sports cocoa beans with about two billion u.s. dollars for a gift but it is a net importer of chocolate spending 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 see as

a new generation of autism chocolate produces bringing up they're taking every schools that got to has in abundance and adding value to the raw material. for three kwesi a wood 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 strong well for a drug that is. to our west food in the capital accra to start a company is trying to change that view they are hoping to inspire gun ins with exotic creations like it disclose chocolate. if none of that very helpful for us has been met and that's how we end up developing a lot of our play really at first go to this pot that and then we have the. people

who pay for our i pad that brother has made chocolate produce she is small for luxury product that was so mainly in the capital goes straight to export to sister set up the company about three years ago since 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 indoor instead definitely run a chocolate business karen and death to 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 ghana's cocoa from us to become chocoholics. and i'm happy to welcome to deeds apneas 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 so as we saw in our report fair 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 domestic 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 as we do so and rashly tackling both markets so we're tackling our iraqi police here in terms of ritual create more awareness and create greater desire for consumption of chocolate here in ghana and then equally target is a global. consumer of consumable and so we 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 asia 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 artists know chocolates and ghana 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 switzerland is very much known for its topless and ghana known for its cocoa and we happen to be visiting went to switzerland largest factory. and it was for the first time that most of ghana's cocoa is actually brought to switzerland and processed there and we actually found out towards the latter part of last year that percent ironically of ghana's cocoa 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 value in cocoa but there is 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 go best spirit behind independence so it's named nine hundred fifty seven chocolate after independence day nine hundred fifty seven however it's more so not about being freed from colonial power but it's about this very policy hind in the pendant and that's one of many clashing was one of creating what a lot of people don't know was shortly after independence the i 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 as rising dairy

industry which is no longer in existence today and somewhere between one nine hundred fifty and now the leaderships of reducing and consuming made in ghana going to have the least importing things and so now we import tomatoes we import chocolate we import rise the important lot of seeing and so we want to and then we are complicated seven who want to imply reawaken people the fact that if we want to go down and felt as a nation we have to manufacture we have to create and can still live and die 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. dr c. salt and i wonder what your favorite is so i love i love the diet talk and see you thought so let's let him depends on my mood 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. with all names and few thought the calling the nominated insult i think felt to establish a little chuckle and really bring the interesting. if the as and the boxes empty i will tell you that can be at the same cofounder of fifty seven chocolates from 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 will say is 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 wolfgang pauli proposed in bags which are

supposed to be reusable but from the looks of this riverbank it seems these bags do more harm than good there was a vacuum and the nonmoving box came into the market but when they came into the market the wound that tensile strength was too high and they were you had this that i think nets and they were large enough and they were costing. i don't entirety on fifty initiatives so they were usable. and at the time we were not worried. the national environmental management authority says that since the bad the market has been flooded with top standard not woven poly proposed in bags that can only be used once. and people have often thrown them away improperly the environment authorities 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 if they're not the new bats are just like other plastic bags they pollute the environment they're poor. some environmentalists feel that the government should not just past regulations but also improve waste management from where i sit i think that you could do a little better in terms of planning and what we need to think about these long term management of this kind of material and how they're 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 a the done by private companies or informally by people who work at dump sites. but still no alternative to the nonmoving bags perhaps this latest battle forced

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 you have a misguided all day yesterday oh oh. it's up to.

me that they get good chairs and us to speak to us oh of course don't do for us let us in our community why don't you go home to their benefit 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. it's a meaning that we have this in among of us of the players and the people. that devote implies the good disorders also have among ups of this yeah. it's the second tournament of its kind the u.n. mission has organized in south sudan in a 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 one all stories on our website and facebook page now staying on soccer and because we now know who's qualified for the africa cup of nations zimbabwe being among them we leave you today with pictures of people embracing the beautiful game until next time i'm back. to. stay up to date don't miss our highlights. program on w dot com highlights. african. economy president of. kind of the london patriotic front. the rebel army and to the one nine hundred ninety four genocide wasn't. oh in

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