the arab league. this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes they returns to africa russia has its a focus on the continent and the 1st is about russia africa's summit is underway find out why so many african leaders hakim often a ship was lost. and needs to cindy and wall to cameroonian couple making it's been good they say they're living the russian dream.

to have coffee ballots in the country's titus election at 50 is people day it will tell us what their expectations are. and it's back to the ocean penguins but they're facing extinction. hello i'm christine window welcome to news africa it's good to have you along doesn't that look like a bromance well here's a question for you how do you get 43 african leaders to leave the continent for 2 days well that's one russia's right in recruited can't answer because that's exactly what he's done the 1st of a russia africa summit is underway in the russian resort town of sochi and the attendance is remarkable in this picture and you see the president's off malawi egypt. south africa now the russians also have to be looking for money and friends

also known as trade and allies and in this have pointed to an apparent vacuum with the u.s. and donald trump having been treated from the continent. for more on the summit i'm joined by dr colby mensa he is an african political strategist based at the university of gun and he joins me now from across welcome to talk to men so the attendance to this summit has been remarkable what do you make of that. thank you and thanks for having me well i think that the increasingly the african leaders actually feeling some kind of threat from the youth bulge of course most of the issues that confront the continent hadn't been solved despite the coming in of the chinese and so that actually present a threat to most of these leaders and that's a result they're looking for solutions they realise that the chinese model is actually no work in especially for the most confronted issues which is unemployment

so they're looking for solutions and therefore perhaps the feeling that maybe russia could actually offer them other alternative from the chinese a lot of documents you have mentioned the chinese the what we often hear from african leaders is they feel as though the chinese treat them as equal partners in comparison to the west what do you know about how the relationship is with russia. right i think 1st of all i don't i'm not sure that the chinese you know you know the promise of equal partnership has actually worked i mean you hear a lot of sentiment from the people of africa you know complaining about the relationship that we have hard with china not subtly in the russia has also committed promise an equal partnership but we know certainly that is going to be a different game because usually what the external partners actually calm they come with the equal partnership narrative but that we know that they end up with a different narrative entirely so i'm not sure that the russian relationship is

going to be any different from what we have actually experienced with the chinese and of course suddenly with the with the rest of the west let's say let's talk about the pan-african this on the continent those who are advocating for more in for african trade what they see of this summit as a positive that's russia africa summit i don't think i think is a total destruction obviously we just. if c.f.d. which is the african continent or free trade agreement and immediately we move to this idea we now have a russia african summit i think is a total destruction and there any pan-african is going to see it that way don't forget we had breaks obviously not just under past and now we haven't actually russia in africa summit i think the most of these are destructions to african development and i think that most of the african leaders should start looking in what we should start looking at how we can actually as africa's start our

development you know i don't think that you know any output africanized will see this as a positive development no it's a completely negative one and i'm not sure why our leaders are not learning from the previous models that i've actually failed a continent all right that's dr kobi main site in opera thank you thank you for having me. when good start flowing across the border is often people do too so if trade between russia and african countries grows we can expect to see more russians on the continent and more africans in russia so what would life in russia be like well if it's anything like the life cindy and walt of all cameron are living it wouldn't be bad at all. i like star wear black stuff and black stock our wash just a few brands of the black star business empire here in russia at the center of it cindy and walter just sent from cameroon walter the son of the diplomat has been

living in russia for 25 years he and his wife also works in the company see russia as a land of opportunity is this a common bond and the. answer to where in a country where business practices are still developing and not like in western countries which have had capitalism for 100 years the listener to. be up to that is another sometimes. 37 year old started his business empire with the black star music label it is then repertoire expanded the cameroonian loves russia he's become a russian citizen despite the racist attacks that have been plaguing the country for years. in our company i'm the only black person but i've never experienced racism the new russian generation travels i understand many things they're progressing to know the songs is a different look to see if there was racism i wouldn't be here for

a long. day at burger chain with its trademark black gloves is booming and the chest sems hope that this success will inspire other young africans to dream big outside of their own pulled us. now polls have closed. one is general elections the vote is expected to be the closest in the country's history making the results highly anticipated our current president. caused his vote his party of the has seen and i'm broken series of election victories since those want to gain independence from the british in 1966 bucks off to former president income a defected from the beattie paid to support the opposition this election could go down the line now whichever party wins will have to move swiftly to transform the economy built one is one of africa's wealthiest countries but now wrists coming

unstuck because of over reliance on a single commodity diamonds. that's the. candidate that 2 we will have will be able to improve to come up with polices that to improve our lives and their polices that to take notes on how to ensure a better future is present that. doesn't is able to manage and eradicate corruption so that election results is expected within a day or so with both want to seen as a bastion of stability whether it's the ruling p.d.p. who wins all one of the opposition parties protests of viewed as something unlikely something that's for sure is proud off the bottom of the glass or peaceful you know this is just like soaps whichever way this is goes just accept. it's not like in other countries whereby there would be no people fighting and killing each other stuff like that in the year is so peaceful.

now africa's penguins are in a downward spiral a 100 years ago it's thought there were more than 2000000 penguins living along the southern coastline often in india and south africa correspondent a.j. increase visited an organization in cape town that's trying to put a stop to the alarming decline off these penguin colonies. one last chance to relax together before things starts to get uncomfortable. an appointment with dr roberts is not something these penguins seem to be looking forward to so at the moment putting is we just checking on the penguins and making sure that they are all ready for release so we each one has his own can cause this is a medical record this one he had was full so he was 70 percent oil and he was emaciated he was really underweight the conservationists take in sea birds in peril and try

to prepare them to be released back into the wilds thousands of injured animals come here every year some will stay here forever as they would not so wife in their nature will have the temps. but these birds might not be here in the long term. they are in danger of extinction it's quite possible that anyone can go extinct in the future and we've had dramatic declines in train with numbers even between the concert last year and this year the numbers of dropped by about 2000 reading as so we have less than 20000 reading because that's scary you know. at least being green's 1st have to spend time in a small box but only briefly until they have fully recovered and are ready to return to the wild. in simon's town one of the few remaining colonies they are released. oh.

it went really well. so quickly they didn't get confused the crowd was very polite and not too noisy so that didn't scare the penguins and they were they went straight up in the direction the should've gone. already we can see them i think there's one head sticking out over there so now the threats that they face of the same as all the other wild penguins people need to think about the impacts of what they're doing and how they can affect. all of the sea life and other wildlife that is in danger of human interaction but still the message seems to have got through to the hundreds of people in the crowd over here we have a lot of folk musicians who are trying to save the oceans and. the pingers were being rehabilitated and put back in but there's a lot more we can do is you must do more to protect them because you see what is happening and see this is not only used to be the last problem however the biggest

threats to the african pingree is the fish there not enough. in the oceans due to overfishing. in the worst case scenario of the last african penguin colony will die out in 20 or 30 years but people here definitely want to prevent that from happening. and that is the. africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we're always interested to know what you think about the stories we have it here on news africa and the stories that you think we should be covering now today we need a chance to paint. so next time i buy.

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making his way through the impressive repertoire of the e.u. 28 my colleague shows us the ingenuity behind the hunger arion potato project. a maze seconds 2900 marked 500 years since the death of leonardo da vinci and the italian renaissance master who spent the last 3 years of his life in the french war valley as 1st painter engineer and architect to the french king well this is why the louvre holds almost a 3rd of the paintings attributed to him including of course the famous mona lisa and it's pulled out all the stops to get as many more on site as possible for this exhibition a task almost as monumental as da vinci's genius. the mona lisa is still the star of. the 500th anniversary of the old masters there if she is getting

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