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make up your own. made for mines text. a rocky road to recovery the international monetary fund war in sub-saharan african country to expect hardship governments grapple with both and helped an economic crisis we'll talk to the i.m.f. the african director. also coming up keep africa greens environmentalist in kenya are furious those reports the u.s. oil industry is lobbying trade to go cheaters to accept america to its weight and.

business i'm paid for it from thanks for joining me african economies can expect to face significant hardship as they embark on a recovery from the coronavirus that the warning from the international monetary fund's latest regional report for sub-saharan africa countries in the region are expected to see a 3 percent contraction in economic activity this here the worst outcome on record other factors affecting the recovery include the resilience of health systems and the availability of funding experts warn it could take up to 4 years for african countries to return to pre levels of growth. let's talk about this report with a baby philosophy he's the director of the i.m.f. african department hi mrs leslie welcome to the show not all african countries are suffering equally because of this pandemic what countries are hurting the most and why. you know in the context of this democrat there are countries that have been

most impact that are small island tourism and travel dependent country so the likes of mauritians and seychelles are going to see contractions of the order off seventeen's percent this year but the huge huge hit and for obvious reasons because travel and was most courses going to affect that but really no country has been left spared by the standard mic and the economic crisis that has brought so large economies in the region and so i'm going to be feeling very very difficult to. get this year for example south africa will contact by 8 percent nigeria by around 4 and a half percent a very difficult time for the continent across the board now you met your report mentions that african policymakers will have to make fun difficult choices what are they. so you know one of the difficulties for the region is that even proceeding

the crisis debt levels what elevated and so once the crisis hit that has been exacerbated for many countries that has limited the policy space that countries have to cushion the effects of the crisis it's also why as in the situation we moved really aggressively this year to provide financing about 10 times what we would normally to help question they facts of the pandemic to protect lives to protect livelihoods which of course has to be the immediate the policy response. and are there any part of i flux at all could it even be an opportunity to implement some reforms. you know of course the reason region tremendous potential remains there still and the pandemic while it. will amount to a temporary setback shouldn't be a real long term recovery subject to a couple of things for some form or something that is going to be a need for transformative result good forms to promote

a resilient in the region things like revenue modernization promoting technological progress will be very very important in the digital sphere for example climate millions will be about that important area and coupled with additional concessional external financing we should see a decent recovery in the next 3 years to bring the countries back to their. strongest project. and i mean the director of the i.m.f. african department thanks so much thank you. the united states and kenya are in talks to reach a free trade agreement bus allegations that u.s. oil companies are lobbying for kenya to loosen the environmental regulations have drawn ire from environmentalists have taken to the streets to voice their anger. you know one glad it was 21 now that trisha combo is angry she in a final campaign has from friday's

a future of protesting against reported plans by u.s. companies to import plastic waste to kenya we know it is because kenya is a corrupt national that's why they found a good quote these last one was the op trashing the country but he stopped me so you didn't just say we say you've got to change it we're not going to allow corrupt deals to affect our environment. the new york times and the greenpeace platform on earth reported that major oil and chemical companies are pushing the us to export plastic ways to kenya according to the report industry lobby group american chemistry council wants kenya to quote serve as a hub for supplying u.s. made plastics to other markets in africa and it urges the u.s. and kenya to prohibit domestic limits on production or consumption of plastic environmentalists say the goal is a trade agreement that would weaken kenya strict limits on plastics. the threat is that kenya and off workers going to be a dumping ground for western nations in the problem particularly plastic waste

which they have not been able to recycle a national level last year the u.s. exported more than 450000000 kilograms of plastic waste to countries including kenya but studies show that only 9 percent of it gets recycled the rest ends up in landfills or in the environment kenya is a role model in the region because of its strict and she plastics agenda james work he'd be a is one of those responsible for this reputation and 2014 he campaigned to ban plastic bags 3 years later a strict ban on selling manufacturing or using plastic bags took effect you know when the ban on class about scamming hour or so for all of you know i felt so happy that it was my walk was not in a very. but i would feel buds in my heart toward would be wrecked if all the gangs you know i fought for. you know i made

to be nothing kenya's trade secretary denies that a proposal by the american chemistry council is being negotiated and the lobby group wrote to d.w. that a trade agreement would not override kenya's domestic approach to managing plastic waste. patricia and have friends say they don't trust these assertions that it's going to stop when fight and fight and teen classics are out of africa. where there was a plan to keep on protests. last frenzied of these correspondents owing to rain baron now she's joining us from nairobi so i want to know about the kind of lobbying that's going on behind the scenes of these negotiations well as of now according to what some of the government doesn't say there is no doing negotiations about dumping waste in kenya and yes they could be nigel's of

fashion's whether or not. this is true or not one cannot tell but when it comes to the trade talks and whether or not dumping of waste is part of the negotiations governmental says have denied this but they said that they could be separate conversations about proposals for american companies to set up shop here in kenya but that is to talk into the african continent a free trade area that is meant to take effect january 2021 and so those conversations that are going on that have nothing to do with the free trade area conversation between kenya and the united states tell me a bit more about what stage these trade talks are so much a there's no hope of a deal decide if the u.s. elections. yes right now as we speak the talks are still in technical stage and due to the current u.s.

election and of course some of the changes that could come the corded 19 pandemic in changes in trade and how trade is conducted between the 2 countries these likely not to be a deal any time soon and even if we're going to look at the deal in the house negro they have negotiated also about recognizing the environmental importance and supporting multilateral environment to agreement and also making sure that they do not compromise kenya already exists and flows that they have ratified both at the national level at the regional level in terms of the african trade level as well as the continental level and the world trade organization level so if anything the ban on plastic and can now come into effect in june of 2020 and the country as of now if we're going to go by. basically nothing is going to compromise what

has already been put in place but you know these are just the sessions we cannot tell for sure if this is true or not torturing bear and nairobi thank you so much tesla has reported its 5th quarterly profit in a row along with a record revenue of $8800000000.00 a strong performance was driven by an increase in vehicle to leverage and sales of environmental regulatory kratos to other carmakers. the great barrier reef has lost more than half its coral in the last 3 decades now the state of queensland in a strange h.s.b.c. bank say they're planning to buy so-called reef scraps the tradable units put a value on the work done to improve water quality flowing on to their feet. britain has been especially hard hit by the pandemic with more than 44000 people

having died from the disease so far in an attempt to flatten the car of greater manchester one of the u.k.'s biggest urban areas in the north of the country is to enter a new lockdown on friday it's a major blow for the region's economy which is a ready struggling with high unemployment. manchester is going back into lockdown on the orders of prime minister boris johnson and against the will of the city's mayor burnham from friday there will be strict limits on going out on pubs restaurants and most shops will close. in the goshi ations with the government we were prepared to reduce our request to 75000000. even with prepared to go even lower $65000000.00 is the bare minimum to prevent. when real hardship here is what we believe we need it to prevent all that seek to prevent hardship to prevent homelessness. the lockdown will hit the working class

city of manchester particularly hard as many monk unions live in poverty and unemployment was high even before the pandemic. other cities in the north are also affected. that's all for me thanks so much for watching and take it.

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