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when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on d w. it's a bad day all global financial markets fee impact of the coronavirus is becoming clear $1.00 of the world's most valuable company example warns profits will fall short of full cost global trade faces headwinds watch out africa. by poverty how to get god's name businesses up and running when the funding is out of breach for so many. and stop chopping down trees that are mentalists ironically hope tesla's plans to build clean cars in germany as it means clearing a forest for the factory. that does all of this new business i know it's just

a virus no worse than the flu but covert 19 has spread around the globe at lightning speed infecting operations at all sorts of companies in this new connected world africa is not being spared the confidence had its 1st confirmed case of the disease huge joint african chinese infrastructure projects face disruptions. many airlines have cut flights to and from china and now the international monetary fund is cutting its growth forecast for one of africa's top economies by jerry from 2 and a half to just 2 percent the reason plunging oil prices standing from the outbreak it highlights the challenges the biggest africa group producer has in diversifying its economy and why breaching effects a little bars that. well on top of the 1st growth cuts corporations are issuing profit warnings or supply shortages a new type of virus has hit the world's 2nd biggest economy and gone global

networks take behave with apple is one of the 1st firms to clarify the extent of the college shopping malls and stores closed across the country city streets empty as millions remain confined to their homes. factories shows are reopening at a snail's pace none of this is good news for apple the world's most valuable tech company makes i phones of various sites across china and also sells millions of them at stores around the country the profit warning underlines just how serious the corona virus outbreak is for a business like apple which is heavily reliant on its supply chains in china as well as its strong customer base there apple had already been facing challenges in china before the outbreak in 2019 the company made sales of $44000000000.00 in the country a fall of 12 percent from 2018 and the relative value of the chinese market for

apple has been declining in recent years in 2015 the country accounted for 25 percent of apple's total revenue that has fallen steadily last year's figure accounted for just 17 percent. if it is not contained the corona virus outbreak could dramatically increase apple's difficulties the company has already said that worldwide i phone supply will be temporarily constrained due to their brick for business owners and would be entrepreneurs in ghana have completely different worries better access to funding to get operations rolling in the 1st place but it's a catch 22 when you don't have any spare cash or collateral especially in a country where the poverty rate of 50 percent. as an entrepreneur who runs her own chain of restaurants and. her livelihood depends on how much food she sells but she has

a major problem she doesn't have enough customers. they're hard to come by. you open your shop and you're hoping to have so number of people coming to buy from you and that they are the de you have just like about 20 per cent buying from you then the rest goes to a look at me i mean the food industry so what happens is that we stick to it that way without a steady stream of customers won't be able to grow her business she hasn't been able to take out business loans either not that she really wants to the interest rate there is so high that if you when you take the funds you won't be able to pay in taxes if they give it to you if you meet and they give that to you but i can bet you to take a loan. in this country it's more like neil. poverty levels remain high and gonna shop owners like clement boa tearing struggle

to stay afloat because customers simply can't afford their products. by the way because you. because you call him the price he would like to buy by the purchasing power is not there in 2015 gonna turn to the i.m.f. for a bailout but its currency the city continues to lose value inflation however it did fall to 7.9 percent at the end of last year still analysts say a lack of liquidity in the economy means ordinary citizens are really feeling the benefit for an economy to be viable to create liquidity you know it's true that banks less activity is to says you know make sure that they have the liquidity that it needs but we don't wait for. we. entrepreneurs want the economy to start bringing in trade sooner rather than later. he joins us now from

accra. is there will do you sense any sort of change is there more of a willingness for banks to lend to people with ideas to set up businesses. for now it doesn't look like. because they're really. businesses that have the capacity to pay back loans we have seen some restructuring. since last year by this current government which means that banks will have to be very careful. and credits too so for now it's. small businesses to access and i don't think anything will change. anytime soon and if god doesn't build up its small businesses i mean we heard earlier from the i.m.f. that nigeria needs to diversify to depend less on oil is ghana in the same position . as the

oil production is taking place there's not much benefit for the ordinary. for the economy even though it's part of a significant portion of the country's g.d.p. but the country needs to divest defy if it really wants to ensure that the environment for business is that of the best and it's like nigeria to diversify so that everyone can benefit not to depend solely on. the forest in a cross thank you very much. well energy costs in god are a $1.00 of the highest in the whole region but now an ngo is showing young entrepreneurs how to turn solar power ideas into businesses to make them less reliant on the dominant power companies. in accra many enterprises like these often experience power outages for these things.

you see you see what i've told you all for doing. whole. really really i think they've. reduced was cute people just looked at this and walked. with it's more than $2000000.00 inhabitants began in capital demands a huge amount of it. for the last a kid on a has been experiencing i made it easy to crisis that has damaged the country's economy a major contributing factor has been the arab and overloaded probably a problem it was a rapidly growing population. ana is an important the midst of the car for international investors including germany so it's not surprising that energy experts flock to the west african teen energy and environmental fill in the

suspension washup still offer technical training in various aspects of solar energy to participants who walk in the sectors such as 28 year old engine the. us. been walking for 3 has forgotten cool off farm from them and it's mainly build solar panels systems for large companies in guyana. designing a system for. an office complex and a massive. and it is a great time system so i'm preparing to be out on the. roof mounted system or i don't. both the top potentially in the country and private individuals often contraflow to buy so no policy stands more in moby's this is want them to make the a production less dependent on the unstable paul agreed we almost we feel that we are just at the beginning of the renewable energy markets in west africa and we are

currently preparing ourselves our employees and our methodology for that we expect in about 2 to 3 years time robots feel certain and his call up was a city known to strolling down to his company has trouble finding skills tough in kano robot hopes that more young people before those exam call and seek walk. in their new book. he sees it as a job would be much. jemma bureaucracy is legendary the germans are very thorough but that's not the only hurdle for teslas ambitious plans to frantically build its 1st european factory in the next year and a half environmental activists are out in force at a mosque wants to do something good for the planet by constructing electric cars it means chopping down trees. the german press has started calling it the tesla for a stand the machines felling trees here have stopped a court order has brought them grinding to

a halt the environmental organization league says the company shouldn't be allowed to continue clear cutting before it has all the appropriate permits to jesus he said just starting activities right now sets a precedent these are things that cannot be reversed after all you can't just put the trees back in the ground after you cut them down because of the. cutting has to be suspended during the bird nesting season which begins in march if tesla hasn't cleared the site by then it could delay the opening of the factory slated for next year. it's taste if it doesn't work out with tesla and i hope it does. sent a fatal signal to german companies but also to international investors it say that when it comes to global competition your money has grown on able to assert itself as the right place to do business. but on social media users in other parts of the world are scratching their heads at the german delay to a major investment that would bring $3000.00 jobs tesla has already cleared 60 of

the 90 had tears planned for the site the carmaker has promised to replant 3 times as many trees nearby the dispute has some people worried that tesla could withdraw from the deal the matter is being taken up by a state administrative court it'll decide on wednesday where the cutting can continue. story and all the other business news from around the world i'm. with the.

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