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all happening coach of british. tour linked to news from africa and the world. your link to it simpson stories and discussions here one will come to do such a clean program tonight from born in germany from the news of easy to our website d w to construct a free copy join us on facebook d w africa. the inflation rate in nigeria yes a one year low the cost of food remains high in africa's biggest oil producing country we talk to all correspondents there to find out why. also coming up the waiting for power in kenya fishing villages on the lake to a comma still waits to be electrified just. woke up to do business africa want to
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get and well and good to have you with us i was starting with a fresh data from nigeria where the annual inflation rate is slowing in july it edged down to just above 11 percent now that's the lowest since july 28th but considering that nigeria is africa's biggest oil producer people still have to carve out a lot of money to get food on the table. nigerian farmers cannot produce enough food for the people of the country yet president mohamed do bihari announced he'll put a stop to agricultural imports the money that the country makes from its oil exports should not be wasted on expensive groceries from abroad the measure is as rigid as it is haphazard in 2015 there was a similar import ban no more rice from abroad. but nigerian farmers could not meet the demand and prices in the country skyrocketed. in 2017 the ban was eased
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almost half the population $90000000.00 nigerians live on less than $2.00 a day if the government puts the new import ban and place prices for meat dairy foods fruits and vegetables will go up again and of peace we lost our corresponded will try and get tim and move on with some of the other business stories making news tax cuts and increased government spending has pushed the u.s. deficit pos the one trillion dollar mock the u.s. treasury department says the country's deficit widened to $1067.00 trillion dollars in the 1st 11 months of this fiscally gear the lashes it's been in 7 leaves germany's finance minister has called for drastic steps to count a climate change all of scholtes has been meeting with you officials in helsinki to discussed energy taxation he says an international approaches needed to help reach
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climate ta gates the independent south african brewer distill is complaining that the joint a grand a.b. in beth as aid be mila was unfairly using its market dominance to get retailers to remove advertising of rival b.s. south africa's competition tribe know is investigating the allegations and just to correct that number when i said $1067.00 of course it's $1.00 trillion dollars u.s. deficit the has tack sandton shutdown was trending in south africa today as protesters marched on johannesburg's business district to demand that scope or it firms do water fide violence against women the demonstrators gathered outside the johanna's big stock exchange and san 10 they say corporate businesses in south africa of long exploited women and black people a need to do more to address the problems crime figures released on thursday show did sexual offences including break address him by for the point 6
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to kenya now where wind turbines are providing plenty of power for the national grid to lake turkana but the electricity doesn't reach everyone distribution is a matter of the state and local fishing villages are easily overlooked. lake turkana has plenty of fish but with this primitive raft tarla politics just catches a single fish that will earn a $0.90 at most his wife and 6 children are waiting at home the money will not be enough for a good meal in the evening. the fisherman can only dream of a boat like this the fishing village is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city and also lacks the blessings of the modern world there is no electricity for miles around. fresh
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fish sell well in the nearby town but only catch needs to be chilled to keep it fresh this is difficult without electricity and dried fish however bring less money . and awful you know we don't go ice is only delivered here once a week to cool the fish and about that so if we have electricity we could sell more fish and we would have more money to educate the children or look after them when they're sick whether. the solution is not far away wind turbines international investors have installed many modern wind turbines for 600000000 euros they produce more than 300 megawatts of electricity so there would be plenty of power the people here fill their land with hope but these hopes are yet to be fulfilled the cables are laid the current is flowing the wind farm supplies about 15 percent of all kenya's power supply so what's the
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problem. the laws in kenya and the regulations in kenya for the provision of electricity later cannot cannot provide power to the communities lake turkana must only sell to kenya power and lighting company which is the offtake and the only licensed and regulated off ticket to be able to take power the wind farm operators are only responsible for the electricity production every single wind turbine is strictly controlled distribution as a matter of state the kenyan ministry of energy says there are plans to connect the communities on the lake to the grid but it didn't tell us when that would happen. the wait could be a long one for the fisherman so all he can do is head out to the big lake and hope of a good catch. and i'll back to nigeria and the annual inflation rate there which is slowing we haf now standing by our correspondent in why so good to have you with us and why so prices just slowed in july including for food do you
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think that is that will help those $90000000.00 nigerians currently living on $2.00 a day. but this is not going to have. any impact. on the nigerians at not giving up well you know dollars because it is a boat and my crew of economy all this week when you said batteries dropped in good condition you don't see them i don't see it anywhere because the prices of goods and saddens us to the same in nigeria the way you buy rides do we buy too much do we go i want to. thank you it will seem to be a little bit different because. i want to how likely do you think it is that the government will bad agriculture in pause that ban of course with
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a boost food prices yet again i have but it doesn't at least not to because the government knows what time was function would go good and you get the sense from. what he's going to put i can state tonight you saw the poll to see how it's going this time because in the general public polling that gets to them see no rise which procedure will be i just. want to go ahead please. you cannot be good and i think we can that you. the people there aren't happy about several other government measures including them wanting to increase the 80 from 5 to 7.2 percent snarly more pressure on consumers right. because people
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on the. dole look consuming and would. let. me be the cream and he would be in the room with me they should have been used. to me. whether it was their reporting from a business street in a butcher thank you so much. the reserve bank of zimbabwe hiked its overnight lending rate to 70 percent up from 50 percent to curb rising inflation and support the local currency the bank also said it was introducing dollar denominated savings bonds to try to stimulate greatest savings zimbabwe's government banned the use of foreign currencies earlier this year as the country faces its worst crisis in a decade. airlines are battling a growing backlash against the impact of the industry on the environment climate
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change protesters took their fight for the planet to the skies today they've been deploying drones to shut down europe's busiest travel hop heathrow airport in london hugh could call it fighting fire with fire valerie and linder a part of a climate activist group that planned to use their own flying machines to tackle what they see as the scourge of air travel earlier this week they set out their plan to guide their drones into the exclusion zone of europe's busiest airport just before is opened we tell the authorities an hour before we take the action and then once we have flown the train we then call the place we've got a hotline we call the place we wait for to be case fully arrested basically with this footage posted online and the arrests of 2 men close to heathrow early friday morning suggest campaigners attempted to go through with the threat. heathrow has been a particular target of activists iowa because of plans to expand the airport supporters
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say a 3rd runway will prevent businesses being stifled by a lack of capacity and increased tourism the climate campaign is claiming to produce as much harmful carbon dioxide as the island of cyprus in terms of c o 2 that travel is the least environmentally friendly of the mainstream forms of transport the train carrying the average load of 150 passengers emits 14 grams of carbon per person per kilometer. that compares with 42 grams per person for a car carrying 4 people or 68 grams per passenger for the average bus but the average plane to watch them all emitting 285 grams of carbon per person per kilometer. valerie and linda that leaves us with a clear choice we are to stop emitting carbon in the over than we have to accept that we have to make huge sacrifices but when you have control of some control over
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your future. british police say they won't tolerate so unlawful activity aimed at disrupting our lines and passengers including illegal drone flights but activists say with the world as stake they have to take a stand. and just enough time for this british airways is gearing up for more industrial action the carrier has cancelled all its scheduled to k. flights will see 10 but the 27th one pilots will again strike in a long running roué over pay on monday and tuesday this week be a face to the 1st strike by pilots its 100 year history. and that's it for me and the business africa team here in berlin from all of us thanks for keeping us company.
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you want to know their story the muslims are fighting and reliable information for migrants literature invites us to see people in particular. i like to see some as the kids find the strength grownup. might object to what. he does or you go on you to. think that. this is news africa coming up on the program fighting violence against women puts us that's in sapa caught way out of the streets on friday calling for action that countries what a woman is killed every 3 hours women are seeing enough is enough also coming up. it will be a lot of the i visit their blood meal but about the.
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