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culture. you are not in it or not the guests you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. comes to. shop till you drop the well black friday is upon us the thesis for the retail sector that spread like wildfire from the u.s. across the globe and bargain hunters out in droves to get a jump on black friday deals. than 1000000000 euros for women in european investment bankers unlocking transformative investment supporting gender equality young female entrepreneurs and. also on the show from our deserts to los forests the. spans many different parts of africa but. all areas in the region

because. this is business africa update on africa the global business of fast. welcome and we start in the u.s. after yesterday's thanksgiving holiday today is black friday the 1st shopping day in this year's christmas shopping season bargain hunters cross america are flocking to the local shopping malls to kick off the season which this year is 6 days shorter because black friday takes place so late. here in europe less festive atmosphere there were protests and an amazon warehouse in france was blockaded activists drew attention to the environmental cost of unbridled consumption. now let's go to. new york how important is black friday for retailers. i would see that it is still relevant from

a traditional standpoint it is the official start of the most crucial season for retailers but it's true that it's no longer biggest shopping day of the year in day u.s. cyber monday eclipsed black friday a couple of years ago and also last saturday before christmas also known as super tuesday is an important shopping day and the same time the rise of the corners has reduced the urgency of the usa consumer to getting into a store during the holiday period and we should not forget dame vention of new were shopping holidays such as amazon prime day or black friday in july for example by maisie's or best buy has blurred the lines between holiday and on a holiday shopping that say the christmas holiday season as a whole is still the most crucial time of the year and estimates see a total of 730000000000 dollars in sales this year and it's a lot of money that's just for america but in america it is an american invention

like halloween how has it gone global. i guess that consumers who are white can pass a good sales and shop in. as big or traditional and online retailers such as amazon have gone global it is the perfect skews for them not to depend exclusively on the u.s. consumer to increase their revenues on achieve their bottom line objectively in the last stretch of the year and meanwhile local retailers in other countries have realized. black friday is the perfect skews are to expand the holiday shopping season farther giving them more significant scope to increase their top line and reduce the mentors. in new york for us thank you. no the global entrepreneurship monitor says women are still founding fewer businesses than men that reports that a man is 4 times more likely to set up a business than a woman the highest number of female entrepreneurs can be found actually in

sub-saharan africa augusta and golan the split is roughly $5050.00 between men and women in morocco and egypt are gaping gender gaps when it comes to setting up in business now the european investment bank wants to assist african women in getting a startup off the ground to do so it is 1000000000 euros earlier i spoke to catherine kolob representative for the european investment bank in nairobi i asked her why the young sees the need to support women on such a large scale good afternoon i think when one lives in africa and having lived in africa myself and being here i think one thing that is clearly obvious is that the women are the backbone of the economy so if one wants really to create a change a transformative change in africa one has to support women and this 1000000000

initiative she invest that was launched a couple of weeks ago by the a.b.a. is really the prolongation of a process that was started a couple of years in the bank where we 1st developed a dentist tried to geve which were then after that was followed by a kind of a building block phase is where we said the basie's by training stuff raising awareness across stuff so that in the end we would come with a business model which has a gender lens on everything that we do and now we have reached this point where we've announced that we would help mobilize this 1000000000 investments to support women empowerment across the continent. who is going to be eligible to receive these funds. these funds 1st of all they will be received partly from i.b.m. but since we always have this catalytic rule where we crowd in others to fund we will deploy them through either financial institution and we will help them develop

their capacity to end identify clients and borrowers that are when women and open are or businesses that are supporting women and to printer shape and women in parliament but it will also possibly be deployed through traditional infrastructure lending where we will see that these infrastructure have a specific benefit for women it can be through access to water that will help them you know not spending their day catching water or going to get some water but doing something else that is more product if and can generate an income from the family or getting reliable and affordable energy you have these small sorer lantern for instance that help women in these little in the rural area and even in the urban area work longer because they can stay a bit longer with a bit of life in all these stores or infrastructure that will help them for

instance get access to sustainable transport that protects them as well because we know that this is one area where there is a lot of abuse and attack again women and if we can provide them safe transport it can be transformative for them as well catherine callao from nairobi thank you very much. and out to some of the other global business stories making headlines today german comic a dime of us says it will slash at least 10000 jobs worldwide in a major cost cutting drive to help finance the transition to electric cars c.e.o. calais news previously announced the layoffs as the company is restructuring to adapt to changing comma cards said to be completed by 2022. the number of unemployed people in germany has fallen to its lowest level since 1990 and november fewer than 2200000 people were without a job consumers in the germany are spending more to stay in the economy and the job

. troubled hong kong airlines says it was unable to pay almost half of its staff turnover salaries on time the low cost carriers that business has been severely affected by political unrest in the city in the 6 months of pro-democracy protests have left the tourist sector battered with only how the usual number of visitors travelling to the country. spans the african continent separating the arid sahara in the north from the green alliance to the south but increasingly climate change threatens the whole region global warming coupled with population growth of almost 3 percent means millions living that face an urgent threat to their livelihoods. modesta try over a fish's leg when you're in mali like his father and grandfather before him his provided his family with food for generations but now thanks to climate change he says that tradition is under threat by one. the lake is shrinking and the water

doesn't stay long anymore sometimes it's completely dry makes is very worried by. researches say a 5th of lake where near has evaporated in just 2 years podesta that of course means less lake to fish and fewer fish to catch. a lake when your is a source of food water and income 412000 people including him a test his village he himself has a family with 14 children to feed children he had hoped would one day take over from him. things go on like this i don't think our children can become fisherman personally i don't believe it anymore but we are working on ways to ensure the water from the lake was not completely disappear we don't know if we will manage it will keep trying. there's only so much

communities like modeste as can do when faced with global climate change but what they can do is end damaging farming practices a key problem is the de vry left behind by farmers who work the land when the waters recede then leave once the dry season is over. i listen. fairly high and straw which stays in the water and decomposes building up silt at the bottom of the lake. so if you add climate change and insufficient rainfall to the behavior of the communities if they don't change in 5 years the lake could disappear. when there is leading the. rescue efforts say there can be a brighter future for the lake and the communities that rely on it the modester is less confident he thinks he'll be the last in his family to make the regular trips out on to the water. the m.w.

group and china's great wall motors announced plans to build a plant and to produce electric versions of b.m.w. as many electric mini as part of b.m.w. same to all electric vehicles account for at least 15 percent of global sales in the next 5 years many started producing an electric model it's planted oxford in england this year the chinese factories scheduled to go online in 2020 to produce 160000 electric minis a year. and many have thought it might never happen but now the developers off a major new airport near berlin known as b. are have set a new date for its opening the end of next year the project will be 9 years overdue and a staggering $5000000000.00 euros over budget the opening has been postponed multiple times for reasons including builders going bust planners dropping out and fire

safety standards not being met now in 11 months well in a stroke finally see the 1st flight leave the tarmac although many will only believe it when i actually see it. and that includes me and that's it from me and the business team here in the berlin stay tuned for any mica and deducted news africa that's next right after this quick check of global markets at this thank you very much for watching the business.

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