from egypt abdel fattah el-sisi be a you commission chair opened the meeting with this mission statement. we hope that based on the principle of african solutions to african problems we can avoid external interference and other more dangerous agendas for africa and we're joined now from the summit by the journalist and that's what is good to see so the message there is loud and clear african solutions to african problems with no external help what exactly is the message african leaders are trying to send. well good afternoon christina from what we understand you know that many african countries maintain ties with their so-called colonial masters and so relations between african countries even less than they have with other countries outside of the continent and that will do a lot of influence in terms of whether it's trade or even peace and security on the continent but with the introduction of the africa continent of area what a you is now saying is that it needs to see more trade within the continent itself and that should eventually lend itself to peace and security on the continent a

much of that doesn't dever may in today's egypt which is currently ruled by a military leader abdel fattah el-sisi that is correct i mean there are many who say that sisi is simply finishing what started it we see in minutest how i get into the security services to the police force and you know by all accounts you human rights observers this is the most brutal military dictatorship that egypt has ever know even the mubarak and so that is a player you do see some people looking back through our time in power with the kind of missed out correspondent michael sam joining us from cairo on this news as we mentioned we have has new mubarak dead at the age of 91 thank you so much for your insight. to other news now the world health organization has warned that more must be done to prepare for a potential corona virus pandemic more than 80000 people have now been infected worldwide most of them in china south korea has the 2nd highest number of cases at close to 1000 president. says that the situation there is very grave several countries have imposed travel restrictions in a bid to contain the virus the

democratically elected president was overthrown in a coup by former army chief and today's president, abdel fattah el-sisi. mubarak outlived the revolution that overthrew him, but was only seen in court. and while he was humbled, to the end he was defiant. he rose to power in the air force and became vice president to anwar sadat, taking over after sadat's 1981 assassination. he was initially considered a charismatic reformer, and fashioned himself the only guarantor of egypt's and the middle east's stability, as he told newshour host charlayne hunter-gault in 1993. >> the stability of this part of the world cannot bmaintained without egypt. i don't think that it will be in the interest of the west or the united states that egypte unstable. >> schifrin: but mubarak's stability was autocracy. he jailed political opponents without trial, and his police committed widespread torture. poverty increased, and the availability of bread plummeted. and when that deprivation combined with corruption to spark the 2011 protests, his security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators. in 2012, mubarak defended himself fr