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a student and i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became elish kind of song. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for mines. which countries are considered the most corrupt in the world will look at the new ranking from transparency international where the african country again tops the list. also in the show we'll introduce you to a young activist at davos with a plan to beat climate change and it's not. business business africa europe has on africa the global business news on d.w.i. welcome. corruption is

a part of life in many countries around the globe lots it need not be according to transparency international the berlin based organization has now released its annual corruption perceptions index and again african country tops the list africans target of being told they live in the most corrupt continent on the planet year after year we want to discuss that with our correspondent in a moment but 1st this from. people around the world are showing their rage at corrupt officials and political systems they're protesting on the streets in haiti in lebanon in israel and romania corruption is a problem worldwide say experts no nation is completely free of it the berlin based ngo transparency international ranks countries in its corruption perceptions index on a scale of 0 to 100. the less corrupt a country is seen to be the higher it score the new index published today has denmark with 87 points in 1st place followed by new zealand and finland as in the

past several years at the bottom of the scale are syria south sudan and in last place somalia with just 9 points. and unfortunately those countries are injury moral and violence or which is a tree and corruption and it is. another problem according to the ngo is the often cozy connection between politics and capital. is it by big money it is here live action campaigns beijing is data is in the carriage it is day to day to capture the range and action that some countries have found ways of combat in corruption angola for instance began to take judicial steps against cronyism and embezzlement of the highest levels in 2017 and has now moved up 7 points in the index. as brianna joy during vera from nairobi george corruption is often

cited as the main reason for the lack of foreign investment in africa but are africans tired of constantly being told you're all corrupt that's why the condo business with absolutely africans are tired because if you look at these statistics from transparency international it also shows that over $50000000000.00 worth of stolen assets leaves the african continent every year and this is money that could have created jobs or even provided social services for citizens living in different nations on the african continent and of cause some of these services some africans have to access before they get abscesses services they have to pay bribes full free services and this is encouraging more and more corruption on the african continent a lot of people in the west and also in africa that say stop the free flow of

foreign aid money it all ends up in the wrong hands and keeps corrupt regimes alive is that a widely held view you would say it is a $5050.00 situation they are simply african governments that are planning to cut on humanitarian aid countries like iran and the president in rhonda says the country plans to in the near future cut down on humanitarian aid and do our development aid but then again they are some critics who say this would not be a good move considering that there is only what $22500000000.00 worth of foreign aid that comes on into the continent and this is basically to tackle poverty on the african continent that is very dire and so you know upholding foreign aid or cutting out of a tally would not work in favor of africa. we've heard in the report about on goal

of being praised for steps that it's taken against corruption what are effective strategy is to really root out corruption one of the solutions would be too old to meet most of the public service delivery systems because what we have seen is that most of the corruption cases do happen and of the table and so it's very had to trace them if these not automated system in place also increase transparency and accountability would go a long way in tackling corruption and in prosecution of those accused old embezzling public fans would lose weight but then days these usually lack of evidence when dealing with cases of bribery and embezzling of public funds george environ i robey thank you very much for this insight. as one

piece of good news coming from the world economic forum in the swiss town of davos a number of global leaders arriving by private jet has dropped if only a bit about time for an event that carries sustainability on top of the agenda of private jets aside there are also some honest efforts to solve serious problems. has the world economic forum gone green not quite during the meeting the roads in davos are jammed with gasoline and diesel burning cars. maybe young climate activists can breathe some new life into the annual get together a number of them have come to devils not just grated tune back felix think byner for example is here to convince the world to plant a trillion trees if we managed to plant these trillion trees they would capture about a quarter of all human made carbon emissions so they could be incredibly powerful in a century giving us a little more time to reduce our global carbon emissions because if we continue on

our current track we heading towards a climate catastrophe the forum has put the climate campaigners plan on its agenda this year and there seems to be just one topic entrepreneurs and policymakers alike are talking about sustainability but is that enough outside in the cold scientists and environmentalists are camping at the arctic base camp they're calling for every decision by political and business leaders to take climate change impact into account they say everyone at the forum is familiar with the facts by now. i think the real question for world leaders is will they work work and apt fast enough and will they be able to to do what needs to be done and that's a radical transformation felix finkbeiner hopes to realize his dream of a trillion new trees and as little as 10 years even the u.s. president has voiced support for the initiative the 22 year old activist is fine with that as long as the trees are planted soon. promoting

schemes to reduce the future impact of climate change pharmacies and last africa are dealing climate issues right now my colleague spoke to our guest. from the alliance for green africa for some insights. climate change is top of the agenda here in davos how is it affecting farmers in africa so climate change is causing more people to be hungry so the proportion of people that have gone hungry in the last 3 years has gone up by about 260000000 that's huge on the farm level the billeted. because most of depends on which has completely failed because either ends are too late too few who don't come on top or floods the last thing i'd like to see is we are beginning to see the need for new crop varieties because the crop varieties we have time to deal with these things the jolt and the floods what

about efficiency how do you turn small scale farming into thriving business. turning small scale farmers into businesses would have to mean that farmers have access to markets that farmers are producing enough when they have wood where it is from us a definitely able to produce enough we. grow we sure that from us have access to this and we see them increasing use from 2 tons to 5 tons a farmer that produces 5 tons can definitely be a business when they have a good market financing there the financing is did the biggest challenge we have because as foremost grow they need financing to be able to grow their businesses and to do commercial funding to agriculture is still 5 percent of our funding to greek culture and the biggest challenge today is we need to address how farmers but also its unease in the culture sector can access funding so that the 6 are kind of spy and i guess a lot of these topics will be tackled at the food crisis summit next year that the u.n. secretary general has called for what can you expect can can farmers do farmers have

something to look forward to so i'm glad you're calling the food crisis summit it is a. summit but it's because of the crisis that is going on that the summit will be there so that the some into it or just the environmental issues the impact of. culture on the environment there's a lot of a because it's happening in the north it's that is impacting the environment and that has to use it to look at nutrition the fact that we're coaches contributing to a big city but to also look at the fact that a good coach is not productive enough in the south especially in countries like africa where 0 harvesting a problem so from was definitely would would be looking from the part of the world that they come from farmers would be looking forward to what is going to come out with regards to 0 hunger my my passion is that and my hope is that we can start reducing the number of people that are hungry by a 100000000. about it thank you very much thank you. fencers wooden reporting that

now let's have a look at some of the other business stories making headlines today. you know ribeiro dick uliano there head of private banking portuguese lender you're a big was found dead at his home in lisbon prosecutes is there a meeting with counterparts from angola because it's been linked to a major gold and corruption scandal centered on isabel dos santos the billionaire daughter of gold us former leader. zimbabwe has only $100000.00 tonnes of grain left in its strategic reserves according to the edward culture minister stocks will only last just over a month's more than half the country's population faces food shortages after maize hopeless hol ved last year the country has received little rain since the planting season started in november. swarms of desert low costs that continue to pour into kenya from ethiopia and somalia threaten to ravage the entire east

africa's supper region recent weather in the region has created conditions that favor rapid breeding of the crop devouring insects left unchecked the numbers could grow 500 times by june according to the un's food and agriculture organization. and that's it from me on the business team. more business news features i'm back cross forest check out the w dot com slash business and follow us on social media well states use news africa with any michael. frost on right off of his foot of global markets.

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the wonderful people to make the games so special. for all true for. the become more than football on mine. this is news africa coming up on the program the stock warning from one of the most violent places on earth in new paltz struggle in the democratic republic of congo is threatening to destabilize the region and provoking a fresh security crisis drawing in several countries also coming out. a golden opportunity in all green green this is from the media by john hospital but is it something to be celebrated by the african countries health industry.