burst into action again streams of lava spewed out of the volcano pretty close to a lot of those high floods from one up old in the area out and stopped to lead just a ruptured since the mountain stream back to lodge in your and that's it from me and the news team here in the berlin thank you very much for. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if your newspapers when official information has attorneys you have work off the streets of many cat interests and their problems are always the same forward to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption weak on the 4th just a science when it comes to the fans of the human seem right to fools who have

decided to put their trust in us. my name is jimmy carter is part of the. india steps up its vaccination drive is covered 19 cases surge delhi is now aiming to immunize everyone over the age of $45.00 meanwhile india's ban on major vaccine exports has health officials in africa worried. it could be the ticket to success 16 projects have been nominated for this year's africa prize for engineering innovation well look at some of the visionaries who've made the shortlist. this is due to the business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program

with corona virus cases surging india is stepping up its vaccination program the number of people testing positive for coverage 19 that is at its highest level since october delhi has been making moves to ensure there are enough vaccine doses for all indians over 45 that's causing concern elsewhere in the world. on thursday india reported more than $72000.00 new covered cases the highest spike in 6 months with a total of $12000000.00 active cases india is the 3rd highest in the world experts say the country must accelerate its vaccination program and stringently follows social distancing absolutely important for us become unique into people that this is not a shuttle affair and in place for the next 4 to 6 months we have to live very strongly. it was the simple. people but also

the political decision makers and administrators. we sure let's think of political will probably discipline the way this gets an opportunity until now india has administered around 65000000 vaccine doses to its own citizens and exported a similar quantity to 76 other countries but political pressure on the serum institute of india the world's largest maker of vaccines to reserve more for domestic use has resulted in delays for up to 90000000 doses which were destined for developing countries under the un backed kovacs program. for a difference of. crude out and west. from astra zeneca for media from the. country.

she said. because then because the structure the african union had planned to vaccinate 30 to 35 percent of the continent's population by the end of the year any delay is likely to make that target impossible. now it can provide the all important boosts to african vision or is the africa prize for engineering innovation awards ambition and sowing local challenges with scalable solutions this year's shortlist is out and among the 16 nominees is a group of software developers in ghana isaac collette see reports. in this small room in ghana's capital accra this young tech savvy interpreter is busy developing software that team is led by a ram a major he co-founded the company with 2 other colleagues in 2018 since then he a company germany technologies has been delayed in software solutions that provides

a platform for small and medium enterprises in ghana to bits i'd leave that yes services to clangs. our platforms our markets please visit that houses all the stakeholders which means we have the delivery companies we have the right as we have the customers all on one platform so we much demand which is some people . services to the supply which is fuel up or services provided so we offer this platform us services. sila on the more is a writer who runs his private service delivery business he's signed up to one of the platforms developed by jimminy this year from his mobile phone supported by an app he's able to link up with custom is access delivery estimates for the day and use the apps navigation system to deliver that's means more efficiency and productivity in running his business. the fight that i have

an order to do or have a duty to do so this open up. to have the receivers number. call it often and if you. look at the police or just up an area out and. other software platform is also hoping this team of west management service providers to collect waste from homes in ghana via us as the web. residents are able to or let's do a company to come in for the a waste on time make payments a month at this the service provider is sufficient and productive. you have. more people so you can be able to talk your the customers you're picking you can be able to you know you've collected pick ups you've made you can also check the model money you've collected. the amount of debt. solutions

developed by a major and his colleagues has been shuttle estate among 16 other tech solutions for the 2021 africa price for engineering innovation the company wants to scale up solutions beyond. definitely we have expansion you know and we envision that within the next 3 to 5 years. into different countries. that dream should become a reality as business is across africa leave reach. to group. well as a cleansing process that report and he joins us on the line from across now. we just saw in the report the importance of software development in ghana but how important is it to the broader development of sub-saharan africa in ghana.

the economies in africa i'm now beginning to show it up with the how. technology. is really happening and so having software is like your progeny and the report says that. these. activities on a fishing. economy have more business and also become effective and productive. and there are challenges facing africa as innovators obviously want to. innovate like of her. just to hold them to the idea of how wonderful idea is but they don't have the capacity to do this.

to scale up and once that is provided i'm sure that. africa will be the one to benefit. is there enough government support and incentives like the africa prize for engineering innovation to drive technological development. does the challenge that is really existing in africa we don't have in. africa just briefly the idea is the how much. and once that happens in your house like you have in the africa. you're going to have a lot of africa coming up with ideas and. the economy on that front. thanks for joining us on this. now for a look at some of the other global business stories making the news south africa's

tax revenues for last year fell to $85000000000.00 that's 12 percent short of pretorius target the economy shrank by 7 percent during 20 twentieth's the coronavirus hit on employment soared alcohol and tobacco during lockdowns that also cost the treasury almost a $1000000000.00 in. iraqi spending over a $1000000000.00 to boost development so than giant light crude oil fields over 3 years it plans to raise up 245-0000 barrels per day from 130000 now 20 of the required 40 oil wells have already been completed. and thailand is. facing a severe drought as it enters its hottest season threatening the country's farmers and the population in general the thai government has launched major groundwater operations deploying drilling machines and solar operated pumps nationwide to

extract water aware of a possible. now wolves have been the menace of european fairy tales for centuries despite being extinct here in germany for example for over 150 years but since the turn of the millennium they have made a comeback germany now has ever 1000 wolves mostly in the north and east however that return has not been universally welcomed particularly by farmers who fear for their livestock and for their livelihoods. these great ernie's dogs are a special breed trained to defend flocks of sheep and ward off wolf attacks 10 such dogs all working at got young kids sheep farm in germany's luna book heath region the shepherd is out with the team every evening he watches over his flock with a night vision devices despite the dogs the patrol and the gadgets are needed because local wolves are hungry using cameras and his colleagues have documented

numerous wolf attacks. the thing about wolves is that they don't kill an animal and eat it we could live with that but they attack as long as they see something flaying they run after it into kill it or injured so badly that we have to put it down the next day. get young kill last 102 out of his 700 sheep to wolf attacks last year that's a loss of 15000 euros which gets reimbursed by the state of lower saxony despite the help the extra effort to protect the flock is enormous his 3 employees must put up ever higher electric fences to deter the wolves the sheep have to be guarded $24.00 seventh's and extra expense in manpower said no one is reimbursing

additionally there's the upkeep for the 10 guard dogs and despite all of this effort the wolves attack the flock again and again. as i watched it was pregnant with triplets the unborn lambs when he was out of the belly these are images that are really difficult in the long run here. just 10 kilometers away a wolf pack has struck overnight 3 sheep from a hobby breeder who are torn apart in an area very close to the houses there are an estimated 1000 wolves in germany they are protected by law and cannot be hunted. environmental activists like klaus bulla yon campaign for the preservation of wolves in germany he says damaged by a wolves or an unfortunate reality he assumes the wolf population will increase considerably in this at the end of the day from a conservation point of view we do want the wolf to reestablish himself here.

but shepherd got young kid doesn't want to accept any more wolves. he wants stricter regulation of wolf packs he says if nothing changes he will soon have to give up his sheep farm. and that's all from me in the business team aaron burr lending check out our website to do a dot com slash business until next time good bye and take a. peek at africa. 2 young visionaries. with a dream. joan joan graduates of uganda's social innovation that got any talent to come here to learn how to turn their ideas into successful businesses i never knew that's what i'm doing in turn this big i am now. in my country to come for. 60 minutes on w. w's crime fighters are back with africa's most successful radio

drama series continues only because those are available on my page of course you can share and discuss song w. africa's facebook page and of other social media platforms crime fighters to me no . this is directly news africa on the program today covered 19 and castle wrestling in uganda villages in the shadow mojo reach and save the pandemic is feeling it resurgence of casual reading and that the violence has left hundreds of women widowed and without means. and bracing for the 3rd wave in south africa people are making the most stop the loosening of call that 900 lock down restrictions as infection rates stabilize but as the end of summer a.