trade with african countries is growing rapidly our arms sales are as well we asked what is most crouse game plan. also on the show how a ugandan cyclist turned entrepreneur could trigger a global bamboos by google. three days after the huge free trade pact between japan and the european union took effect berlin and tokyo explored deeper corp. welcome to d w business africa i want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us and the race is on who's going to be the biggest investor in africa now china has certainly increased its market share over the past seven years with beijing channeling billions of dollars into expanding its trade relations with the african continent but another major power is also showing growing interest and that is russia in twenty seven thousand russian trade with african countries shot up by twenty six percent reaching seventeen point four billion u s dollars and the list of russian companies operating in africa is long rosneft russia's largest oil company is developing oil and gas fields in egypt muslim big.