doing more to protect against flood disasters. africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes bringing investment about still can resentment the growing numbers of chinese in zambia look at the influence on business and politics also coming out i'm a believer that. my country. where a lot of people make it from over the weekend. to make. their young gandhi and media entrepreneur who's determined to prove to his peers that building a future in your own home country is best. i'm

eddie michael jr thanks for joining us we begin with the story of a bag larry and a zombie on a copper mining town of kits with nothing unusual about that this was a chinese owned store and the looting of the grew in chinese sentimental crosses china's financial influence is growing on the african continent china is biggest foreign investor and chinese companies are buying up significant chunks of key government assets now while beijing is rapidly increasing there's been some level of economic growth in zambia but china's presence is also triggering resentment. against them did abuse joggle on the one found out this report. memories of a recent book larry still haunts. the chinese business woman based in the. capital . shortly after yan had set up this store riots broke out in key to i guess the

chinese. they told me to run you see this door. this kind of door is hard to knock. the more nervous i got the harder it became to lock the door and then they broke my window and. all. the loot in the store is a reflection of growing anti china sentiment. and bring funding for any project be to roll the stadium wall street all schools or houses they bring their money they develop and i think they also smarter as they do those such as the development i think they are addressing their population problem we have all works of those present are not going back accusations that china is actively redistributing its population in zambia are rife and much of feet is spread by politicians i think i would not be surprised that in the next seven years we'll have

a chinese government there are too many we have taken away the business that local people are doing so i wouldn't be surprised that if we are not very careful if we are to continue with this government. in the next three four years we'll have chinese ministers chinese state controlled farms accused of winning almost every government contract funded not going to be gene one of these deals was the two hundred and seventy three million dollar digital migration project zambia's transformation from analog to digital broadcasting. the process was carried out by top stop a joint venture between the chinese media conglomerate star times and the best national broadcaster that n.b.c. . a controversial part of the deal is house thought times by passed local laws to make top star a competitor in the business it already controls your. point. if

you. are grouped with your. charge. to do you should be paid. but became both accountants obvious provider and distributor and the deal was approved without the board we thought parliament shy i'm not. good investors neither do they mean well for africa most people to me are not invested. the chinese are benefiting way more than zambians have led to several attacks on chinese shops so far have broken out on the police of recorded fighting. is just one of the victims of the growing resentment against

china aggressive expansion in zambia joining me now is my colleague. who was on the ground in zambia working on different reports. thanks for joining us now from the reports it seems. happy when the chinese and that country is that reality on the ground. pretty much this is a rhetoric that's been pushed by politicians who argued that you have a huge influx of so-called chinese investors who are coming into the country and eventually into small scale jobs some of them do come on major project major investment projects then of this project they do stay in the country and then enter into the private sector so you actually see chinese making shoes on this on the roadside or selling corn as one of the. someone put it in the report there so there is this anger that the chinese are taking over the i jumps and. there are also

people who do believe the else is i'm going to do i give the presence of the child of china india and they're contributing investment opportunities for them so clearly it's not an all negative situation about what is really causing this growing chinese sentiment in that country. terms of response well for it a lot of feed has to do with rivalry we thin small small communities especially where you have a huge presence of the chinese in the mine in the mine in food that's in it in the cup of bad area you do have. all this frack up between the chinese resident most people day is up and say they believe that these chinese will respect they don't have the respect label laws and so they they blame them for a lot of things that they will want them to pay them less and they they use also

the model invective language is on them and so that leads to also some issues but time the main thing is that the argument that you have huge amounts of a huge influx of chinese in the country and venture into the private sector now we talk about this blame game here is it easy to point the finger as to who is to be blamed as the chinese always that that governments that actually strike these deals but it's i mean. it's definitely you can put the blame on the two sides will say ok let's not put the blame on those who are coming in imagine. a local politician you meet someone in the hotel room and they pose in this display in the hundreds of thousands of the last of you in the bed and say or you need to do is just signed this contract and we get this contract you get this money so people do take it so and there is this accusation that from from our investigations we understood that the chinese believe thrive on corruption and when it was when a system is corrupt that the chinese do benefit from it and so you actually see

that just in zambia but across africa in most cases when the systems that are extremely corrupt that's where you see the chinese have a high are. if it is i will work odds are low deed of you can lead thanks very much for the time. now the ground is the smallest country on mainland africa its operation is barely more than two million and yet its youth unemployment problem is pushing many of its young people to leave in the hope of better which it is a broad twenty five year old cycle by is one young guy who's chosen to stay and he's encouraging other gambians to do the same news reports now. it's known for its beautiful coastline and the sex tourism that it attracts but for some young man prostitution is the only opportunity they have to make any kind of

living one in two people live in poverty here young people dream of a better future. i thought about leaving gambia but i don't have any money if i had the money i would go to. youth unemployment is high roughly forty percent in the past people mainly wanted to leave the gambia because of its former president rules and suppression until twenty seventy now there is a new government in placing a new freedoms. and that is what keeps pushing young people away. is different he has no intention of leaving two years ago at the age of twenty three he launched an online newspaper called the stone circle its aim to give the youth of voice the morning everyone it's coming to be. a very tedious read. some stories are doing morning conference the team of

five for free they all juggle second jobs they want to make sure the paper can keep calling they focus mainly on unemployment and irregular migration an estimated three and a half thousand migrants have returned to the gambia in. since yes and say kuhn is interviewing one of them today. so this is your home for my. stuff returned last year the twenty six year old says he endured beatings for months in a prison in libya but for my kids. it's not like many years. after his return to set up an association to advise other migrants about the

benefits of staying at home sekou is all too familiar with the stories he's stalled and writes about all his brothers left the country but only to return one never made it back to life from libya who tells me why did you stay. i'm a believer that. my country and where a lot of people in america are coming from likud and supreme to make my way over my country he's proud that mood has seventy five thousand people read his website per month but when does he think it will be true success then really able to reach out to every young person in the country when we. are going to give employment reduced to a walk of course and really able to influence the government and more sekou says he intends to keep pushing young people in his country to stay while also holding the government accountable for helping the next generation. not

some good motivation that that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website facebook page we leave you now with visuals of the gandhi and american wrestler can stand the new world wrestling champion but it's this fast of a world champion. in over a decade is the fast africa well champion in the. history spawn soccer team and i well born in kumasi got off and we are both called. see you next time i find out.

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