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on hate speech color of prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to mindanao. 100000000 year old villain francine 30000000 euro fine and 3 years in prison french court. ruling against tear drain the son of the leader of. the case shows there is progress in the fight against corruption that is so rampant in some parts of africa as workers in china trickled back to their job sites on monday president xi jinping you shows them there won't be any mass layoffs in the wake of the corona crisis many companies and factories remain closed. and high tech to the

rescue in rwanda drones are tested to deliver imagine. to remote locations. this is business africa update on africa global business news on the us welcome when we start with the story of a dictator son whose lovers lifestyle has caught up with them. is the son of the leader of equitorial guinea he also happens to be the country's vice president in 2017 accord and france where his 4th of board property with misappropriated state funds handed him a 3 years suspended sentence and a fine of 30000000 euros for embezzlement today as he lost the appeal against the

verdict under the quarter also remove the suspension this case has cast a renewed spotlight on corruption in africa over the past few years many of the continent's leaders have vowed to tackle the issue but critics say the results have been on the well meaning claims of bribery and areas like the issuing of passport and licenses or access to education and even water remain widespread the. corruption perceptions index that came out last month presents a pretty bleak picture of the situation in sub-saharan africa in particular if authorial guinea south sudan and somalia have shown the least progress in the fight against corruption and now i'm joined in the studio by mcafee qubit regional coordinator for southern africa at transparency international the organization that publishes this corruption and this is this ruling that we've heard of today in france is that a good sign for me it definitely is a good sign for the one hand it shows that western enablers will no longer be

complicit in the fight against corruption they will no longer allow their territories to be used to harbor the proceeds of crime i think it's also a sweet victory for the people of equitorial guinea many of whom live in abject part poverty as an immediate result of corruption. in the last couple weeks have been some high profile cases there was just some tears there was no o.b. and yes it is sign that things are slowly going in the right direction and subsonic i believe things that definitely moving in the right direction we have a trend of leadership that has taken a strong stance in the fight against corruption is no longer simply a rhetorical to win elections i think we've been seeing increasingly progress following electoral processes which haven't been the case previously. corruption is still one of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to foreign investment in africa we have that over and over again from from western companies why is it so

hard to tackle it across the country continent i mean their range of reasons you know it's the lack of enabling the legal architecture we have weak institutions we have shrinking civic spaces that people are not able to speak out against corruption and then the other is the fact that you know a lot of african states such as ethiopia and god that are really the fastest growing economies in the world which means they're pretty much havens full multinational corporations that want to benefit from from them as much as possible so you find in those countries increasing rates of bribery to facilitate business transactions and that's a question the have been covering this story now for 4 or 5 years i've been i've been looking at it again and again and again. africans tired maybe of westerners telling them you will corrupt we don't we can't invest in your country i think i think the rhetorical has been tiring because you've kind of had the story of you

know africa being very corrupt but you haven't had the other side of the story which is the story of the west enablers and how they facilitate corruption you haven't heard about the a 10 is or the real estate agents who are very much party to these chance actions being brought to book but i feel that things are changing the tide is definitely changing and turning. thank you very much. monday marks the end of self-imposed closures for business and industry across china cities continue to grapple with a deadly corona virus outbreak beijing has some industries like aviation to resume operations yet many large employers will remain closed the death toll from the virus rose to more the 900 over the weekend tourist hotspots. around the world have become reliant on siamese visitors and recent years now it was destinations are feeling that absence for. more than 2000000 chinese tourists visit

france every year they're becoming a significant factor for the french economy but chinese group tours and travel packages have now been suspended following the coronavirus outbreak for the time being this is the last group the tour guide generally will be taking around the french city of nice i think at 2 to. 10000 the euro we don't have a job or 2 months that's a big. reason for their famous. the hotel industry is also feeling the pinch as chinese groups cancel like in this hotel in the old town we just have a cancellation for a group that reserved for carnival they booked 10 rooms for 4 nights that means a loss of about 5000 euros for us so you know. this hotel near the swiss border has been asked to reimburse down payments for chinese tour groups to prevent

further spread of the virus says this letter from a chinese tourism association groups won't be coming for now but what attacks leave will have to react will put the reserved rooms back on the market and we'll get in touch with groups of other nationalities that we've turned down. any day accumulating snow in paris signs targeting chinese tourists offer tax free shopping . chinese visitors to the french capital spend more than a 1000 euros each on average more than most tourists from other countries. that's probably why shares in luxury brands have declined sharply on the paris stock exchange. but. the worst case would be what we experience with sars in 20033 or 4 months without any tourists that would be the worst ok at least . the ongoing strike in france against proposed pension reforms has already hit the

tourism industry hard now the corona virus is aggravating an already bad situation . many africans do not live within 100 miles of a tarmac road that makes it extremely difficult to reach them in case of emergencies or urgent need of medical help this is where drones could fill the gap in rwanda drawn competition has been held today to provide delivery on mapping services to island residents on a key vote w.'s zala strolls reports from the event. so on now i believe we can actually show you with the correct report. of the 10

teams 3 challenges one competition international drone operators have travelled to the beautiful lake kivu in rwanda to demonstrate how drones can help meets the emergency demands of the future in each case is a request that comes to the team and then the team has to know the car will make sure it's a package according to many standards and in this way we're trying to simulate as best as possible there we have a real real scenario us. responding to a simulated emergency call the drone teams are asked to deliver urgent medical supplies to an island 20 kilometers away from the mainland the drone can fly there in just 15 minutes a boat to take much longer than a car would struggle to get there at all. but. let's assume it has landed over though we can reduce the payload going to know by pressing the button over here or from our ground station. 2 challenges are built around delivery and

pick up tasks in the 3rd exercise the drones fly out to collect data from the island the field becoming crucial for africa. only 3 percent of african land has been surveyed to a local level land is our biggest asset and we need to be able to numerate and know where it is so 1st and foremost i see drones are pivotal for land survey as yet there are no african companies competing in the drone challenge however for participants come from germany among them when copter which is already flying emergency deliveries in malawi we don't want to be a company coming from germany popping up 10000 just to the german operation we want to make africa part of our operations and power people to do it themselves as well . for now the drone expertise still comes mostly from outside of africa but the continent is working to close the gap who wonder is that the forefront of that

and already delivers blood with flying robots it's ministry of innovation wants to build up domestic skills our next step of wind is to create a drug center and it will have a number of aspects from the ability to design and manufacture is. to create a testing center for the different you know better than entrepreneur and of course there is. the training. which is very important for us. the drone flying competition continues until the end of the week the winner will sign a contract to provide delivery in mapping services around lake kivu. and to south africa another setback for the cash strapped power utility eskom its bid for electricity price increases of over 16 percent was rejected by the potoroo high court on monday eskom said the increases were needed to compensate for what it called a calculation error by regulators state owned eskom supplies more than 90 percent

of south africa's electricity but it is struggling with high debts and power station in need of urgent with clinton. and that's it for me and the business team here and we apologize for the technical difficulties and all show business news on our web site dot com slash business also do follow us on facebook and switches to the whole it is now stay tuned for news on calls as up right next after all quick update on global markets up is up thanks for watching.

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