korn of africa. the us sent twenty eight thousand soldiers to somalia to help put an end to a civil war. but. the operation ended in disaster two years later after american soldiers were captured and killed images of their mutilated bodies broadcast around the while. for the us it was a humiliating loss and they decided to withdraw. after somalia a new threats in may she now africa. in one thousand nine hundred attacks against two u.s. embassies raised the alarm in washington. massive car bombs in kenya and. caused the death of over two hundred people and left thousands injured it's. a group called our kind it claimed responsibility. its leader the little known osama bin laden became public enemy number one. and the hunt to track him down the. new tack on the world trade center reconfigured the geopolitics of the world the united states launched a war in afghanistan a war that would soon spread far beyond what it was nine eleven the threat of terrorism is very real to the american public and from fro

political prisoners were released in some way in exile will tend to south africa mainly men. to an extent imposed on her and she was already a power that establish itself in our own right as a strong political leader and i think to an extent that's where the conflict of ideas and the conflict of of of my how to move the organization forward started creeping in and she was of course very critical of certain members of the since that leaders of the in c. because the in c. after it least ninety ninety four when the first democratic elections okayed in south africa many of them fell into the trap of the comforts of power and she was one of those who criticize the they criticize the president himself at the time just assume that all presidents including her own former husband mandela so she was very critical because she stood for a position and that's what she would miss for she she was not you know she should not to follow the main seas instruction to the law to even though you know some of those instructions that were given to her when she felt there were not correct she spoke a

africa command. they decided that maybe they needed to separate command headquarters that would focus exclusively on africa's and so the bush administration under donald rumsfeld was running the pentagon at the time decided to do that set up a separate command just for africa. the united states sees the only country to have divided the world into separate military sect is to monitor. these are north com. eucom cent com and now afaik. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance after calming planted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with a growing number of african countries. but was this the only reason for africa repast create god i saw me talk to the audience that is out there are america sort of course you know always had a private variables up from utah is a notorious list therefore so who should ought to assume security don't those also go to i don't they are us to preserve all the screwed up by going on just of all. the shit. beijing ha

in two thousand and nine jacob zuma came to power having sold himself to south africa as the people's president he promised to grow the economy fight poverty and create millions of jobs. nine years later and it hasn't ended well last month zuma amidst growing corruption allegations step down a south african president forced out by his own governing african national congress the liberation party voted for to party it and one of them. to the decision to resign as president of the power within the bank. his links to an influential billionaire business family the captors were revealed last year in a mess of paradise paper style data leak the cooked leaks appear to reveal how these three brothers a.j. are told and rich of friends with former president jacob zuma and in business with one of his sons set up a vast network of patronage offering monetary rewards in return for political loyalty to zuma. so hard trenched is corruption in south africa we are someone who know a businessman who pays bribes to put in government tenders he spoke to us on condition we hid his identity there's an expec

africa actually are. what is known is that the ryan metal subsidiary was involved in the construction of a factory in the united arab emirates and the one in saudi arabia. a group of syrian hackers released confidential documents including a secret document on a bid for a filling plant each ifft was to produce hundreds of shells and mortars as well as bombs of the types m.k. eighty two eighty four and warheads for launch missiles. the document appears real with a trove of technical details and plans for a turnkey factory. it's incredibly dangerous because if a german company is not controlling production how do they know what norms are being it hit in this production process they've effectively sold the production process. they effectively saying especially if it's into a region like the middle east they're effectively saying do what you want. via santini and south africa germany's run mentality is arming the military coalition in yemen with bombs from the mediterranean time factories from cape town saudi

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africa command. they decided that maybe they needed a separate command headquarters that would focus exclusively on africa's and so the bush administration under donald rumsfeld was running the pentagon at the time decided to do that set up a separate command just for africa. the united states is the only country to have divided the world into separate military sectors to monitor and patrol these are north com. south com you calm centcom and now africa. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance afrikan implanted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with a growing number of african countries. but was this the only reason for africa repast create i saw me talk to the oil is that it's not there i mean sort of court you know or is that a private area goes up from utah is a notorious list therefore so who gets it all to. security don't those also go to make sure i don't they are me arrested because all the screwed up by donald danced of all. she. h

let's talk to the africa regional editor with bbc africa. 0ne africa regional editor with bbc africa.erywhere, and it is controversial. she was controversial, but one reason why she was, while her then husband was spending 27 years in jail, winnie mandela was right at the forefront, at the coal face of the forefront, at the coal face of the anti—apartheid struggle, and therefore she had to get her hands dirty, and perhaps she got them rather dirtier than many would have hoped. for example, she endorsed a form of killing known as necklace ing, with burning tyres could erode peoples necks, she was implicated in the murder of a young lad from the townships, but she was greatly loved by, especially the poor, downtrodden people of south africa, the ones who really suffered under apartheid, she was a heroine to this day. peter hain says, she suffered so much bringing up two goals while nelson was imprisoned, beaten up, banished, harassed in prison, fearlessly divide in part of the apartheid state. remember that when correctly criticising her later life. peter hain, very close to the issue o

to all who know her, both her in south africa, in africa and across the world.ome of winnie mandela. a large crowd gathered there. as the country comes to terms with the news that the mother of the nation, winnie mandela, has died at the age of 81. the south african president, cyril ramaphosa, paid tribute to her, said she was a voice of defines against white minority rule. she was a voice in the face of exploitation and a champion of justice and equality. he said she was an abiding symbol of our people to be free. let's get reaction now from the labour peer lord hain, the former cabinet minister and anti—apartheid activist whose family fled apartheid south africa because of their support for nelson mandela. she was a controversial figure, but she was important to nelson mandela ina way she was important to nelson mandela in a way many still don't realise. she was very important. she married him 20 years his younger, bore him two children, which she had to bring up two children, which she had to bring up without him, because he was on robben island. she remained

africa is a huge huge industry if you just think of a single one like africa south africa exports something like ninety thousand parrots other countries and it's part a lot of the originate from the wall but. actually teaching people about. it sadly. is. taking. people who can. here they can live their lives in really to freedom a bit of faith and that of many of the birds held in captivity. the bob's words i saw in that report are part of our lads eco system we often hear the time buyer they've asked you when we are referring to eco systems like an all send off for us a wide variety of labs and i've been told i'm living with them the system often depend on the one about for their various of five zero but sadly all of a hundred of our planet's pieces are dying every day and that tad may be having and that vast effect on all of us. up to fourteen million species inhabit our planet animals plants fun guy and microorganisms but do we need them all. butterflies for example biologists have identified around one hundred eighty thousand different species. can be found here. and here and here to. l

africa c.e.o. forum this year's two day event held in ivory coast featured discussion and debate around the economic and industrial challenges facing the african continent it comes just one week after the leaders of forty four african countries signed a framework deal to create one of the world's largest free trade blocks but nigeria and south africa two of the continent's biggest economies have yet to sign up so into africa trade and getting rid of barriers was a hot topic at this year's c.e.o. forum where joining us now from london is reza harney chief economist for africa middle east research at standard chartered bank thanks very much for being with us so what do you what do you take as as the main theme from this year's africa c.e.o. forum. well there's certainly a lot of growth optimism at the moment and this stems from what we've seen on the global level we started twenty eighteen with expectations of growth in almost every major economy and understandably this is feeding into commodity pric

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and we as south africa over all in mourning remembering south africa's a former first lady when we look back at her legacy also. france deals with a national rail strike that's expected to cause chaos for commuters. could have you with us welcome to al-jazeera israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was suspended a deal reached with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of african migrants under saddam seekers resettled in western countries now the prime minister made the u.-turn within hours of announcing. the agreement under pressure from members of his own government to not replace the previous plan to forcibly send a sixteen thousand people to countries in africa if they did not leave voluntarily most of the migrants affected are from eritrea and sudan well stephanie decker is our correspondent in west jerusalem following this story and stephanie it's less than what twelve hours and we were talking about this a surprise turn around and one really has to question why the prime minister has changed his mind so soon after making such a public announcement. yes i thi

we as south africa are all in morning remembering south africa's former first lady we need mandela we take a look back at her legacy and friends deals with a national rail strike this expected to cause chaos for commuters. welcome to the program israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has suspended a deal reached with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of african migrants and asylum seekers resettled in western countries they had replaced a controversial plan that would deport them to a third country in africa charlotte dallas has more. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu announcing on national television a solution for the future of thousands of african asylum seekers. is a unique agreement with israel let me move sixteen thousand two hundred fifty people we moved them to developed countries like canada or germany or italy that's the commitment of the united nations high commissioner to remove them to organize it to form that expense just hours later no deal on facebook and twitter he you turned caving under pressure from members of his government and the

service it will begin shortly for south africa's anti apartheid activists we need medical delap will take place and so wetter's suburb of johannesburg when he played a crucial role in the fight for equality and was married to nelson mandela for decades he died last week at the age of eighty one facebook c.e.o. has admitted making mistakes is here period for questioning before the u.s. congress after recent data breach mark zuckerberg apologized for his company's failure to protect the private information of more than eighty seven million users japanese and south korean foreign ministers are holding talks and sold they're talking about ways to denuclearize north korea comes ahead of talks between pyongyang and seoul later this month myanmar's army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years each for their involvement in the killing of ten men to be a military crackdown on muslim or hindu in the hind state the military says the soldiers joined police of buddhist villages in the killings in the hinds northern wind or area last september the animal's army has been accused of carrying out e

south africa water crisis quite unusual has recently discovered and. they dry the waters close experts believe that this could provide a one fifty million liters or a fifth of cape town's drinking water so there's huge access that often or any of the much even land and extracting water from the well not course subroutines through. the city and in fact the national park went off water sanitation is at this very moment really into that. about just moved. us just from that area to supplement our supplies this big daisy row has left twenty ns hoovering somewhere between panic and resilience people have money to cut collective consumption by more than half hopefully inspiring other cities around the wild which are facing dry and with that. let's head to europe now so far the facts of climate change have been less severe than but extreme weather is nonetheless on the right now you have an example from germany that's right sharp germany has seen several major floods in recent years went to a solvent town of dagon doff where floods destroyed many houses five y

the africa c.e.o. forum twenty eighteen why into africa trade was a hot topic of the world's largest gathering of the continent's private sector. plus a push for better regulation of the digital economy has led to a rocky end of quarter for big tech. all this week history was made when the shanghai international energy exchange launched the first crude futures contracts priced in chinese renminbi or you won it is an attempt to turn the global oil market on its head but china the world's biggest oil importer buys around nine million barrels of oil every day and it wants to use its own currency to price the world's most traded commodity. you've heard of petro dollars but what about petro you on the u.s. dollar has been the main currency for oil futures contracts so launching a contract in its domestic currency is a sign that china wants to you want to play a bigger role in global oil trading china's also taking on the world's most used oil benchmarks brant and w.t. i crewed which are both priced in dolla

the africa just a few of the ways that waiting because a man has been to school lives over the years the south african politician the iconic anti apartheid activist died on the second at the age of eighty one and since then there has been a fierce debate about a legacy now as south africans continue to remember mama winnie i she was called we explore how our activism shaped the country's political landscape. and i mean right now you know in the street where i live on al-jazeera i don't need change something put the questions and comments and chat tossed out i stand i went to our very best to get over those comments into today show. she has been. one of the strongest women in our struggle who saw far immensely. parted the regime who was imprisoned who was banished who was treated very badly separated not only from her husband but from the children as well and people but notwithstanding all the she remained strong. she remained determined she was courageous. that was south african press and cyril rather poses speaking about the death of winnie mandela. called mandela a gigantic tree of

winnie madikizela mandela's life mirrored south africa's own turbulent journey, its mirrored south africa'siolence and heroism. in life, she was polarising. in death, many here seem inclined to forgive and to celebrate. winnie mandela, who's died at the age of 81. and andrew harding is at winnie mandela's house in soweto for us now. andrew, she was a hugely controversial figure, but what's been the reaction there to news of her death? well, as you can imagine, the crowd has gathered here all afternoon, well into the night, still singing struggle songs. they are celebrating a woman they see as a formidable politician in her own right, not in herformer husband's politician in her own right, not in her former husband's shadow. it isn't just the generation her former husband's shadow. it isn'tjust the generation that had come to mark this moment. i've been speaking to three young women, who came specially. they said, because she was a feminist icon, for them, and they like her radical politics, politics which are increasingly part of the mainstream air, as south africa begins to question some o

so this is south africa thatis country. so this is south africa that is in mourning.government, at that level we have declared that winnie mandela will have a national official funeral which will be held on the 14th of april and there will be an official memorial service on the 11th but then again there will be many other memorial functions right gci’oss many other memorial functions right across the country. nearly every province of our nation. we would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to many across the country and the world who are wishing us well, who are wishing her movement well, who are wishing her movement well, the african national congress. the movement that so loved. and as president of the anc i am saddened because i went out with her, went to the voter registration point for her to check the voting details. and after that we went to lunch together. so my last lunch with winnie mandela was the most memorable one. and i sat next to her andi memorable one. and i sat next to her and i was overjoyed when i saw her enjoying a meal, enjoying her company.

i was south africa celebrates the life of a key leader in the fight against apartheid winnie mandela has died at the age of eighty one. welcome to the program israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has cancelled a deal to work with the un to resettle african migrants and to sign them seekers netanyahu initially agreed not to deport thousands of african asylum seekers to rwanda after the un offered to assist in resettlement the un said monday that they learned he had gone back on their agreement through the media reports. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu announcing on national television a solution for the future of thousands of african asylum seekers the middle of the show. is a unique agreement with israel let me move sixteen thousand two hundred fifty people we moved them to developed countries like canada or germany or italy that's the commitment of the united nations high commissioner just hours later he suspended it much to the surprise of the un a day later cancelled it entirely caving under pressure from members of his government and the public after consulting wit

must south africa celebrates the life of a key leader in the fight against apartheid winnie mandela has died at the age of eighty one. i'm joining us roscoe with the sports including a second national championship in three years as villanova win the u.s. men's college basketball title. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has canceled a deal reached with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of african refugees resettled in western countries and the prime minister made the you tell him within hours of announcing the agreements under pressure from members of his government at a place the previous plan to forcibly send people to countries in africa if they did not leave voluntarily most of the migrants affected are from eritrea and. just a short time ago u.n. spokesman william spend addressed israel's sudden cancellation of the agreement he says the u.n. still hopes the deal can be implemented we remain in close touch with the prime minister's office and we continue to believe this is a win win agreement it benefits us row the international community and people need

hello and welcome to another edition of eco africa brought to you by channels t.v. in nigeria katie and in k. on door chevelle in germany m l t i i'm here in lagos and my calling joins us from kenya hi sharon. well hello america and hello to everybody today we are going to be focusing on extreme weather really every continent is affected in some way by powerful storms floods or drought this is largely the result of climate change which is at least in part due to human activity but that is not all that we have for you today also coming up. we show you how the people of cape town deal with the last what a long time. lessons learned five years after. how much has changed. and saying no to deforestation how it's being produced sustainably you can see that you know. when we think of extreme weather in africa right now it's hard to ignore the ongoing drought in south africa cape town in particular has been struggling with severe water shortages the dreaded daisy when the city as a reserve was one predicted to run dry has been deferred for the moment but the crisis is a fa

and can south africa's leaders sold his party's land grab problem yancey haven't committed itself to land expropriation without compensation. and been physical and let's do business it's a face off between the globe's top two economies is market tension over a trade war between the united states and china beijing's tit for tat. imports of kicked in the government says the move is to safeguard china's interests and balance losses from new american. these american avocados are destined for the chinese market but they might not sell so well anymore now that china has imposed tariffs on fruit and meat while steel pipes and scores of other imports from the usa the rates of fifteen percent on one hundred and twenty items and twenty five percent on eight others. the chinese government says the people support its move though some in china regret the ensuing rise in prices. it's definitely going to have an impact many fruits that kids love only grow in foreign countries we don't have them in china that is a direct impact. it's absolutely right to impose tariffs because i've seen the news abou

yes, many of the other people in south africa had as well.ho reviled her were the people who were the oppressors of most of the south african blacks and black means african, indians and coloured people. so those are the people who reviled her. ithink people. so those are the people who reviled her. i think the national truth and reconciliation commission brought out the horrors from that period of apartheid and over the whole the history of south africa of oppression. by europeans at that time. so really like i said, i was there in 2005 and you would walk down the street, i had a political counsellor who looked like winnie mandela and she was always being cheered by south africans. i remember in one of my last meetings with nelson mandela he spoked fondry of winnie. i think the people recognised the role she played in their liberation and the advancement of south africa's nation and its nonracial system. it is not yet there. but she played a formidable role. that was underlined in the image of nelson mandela and his wife after his release, th

the africa c e o four and twenty eighteen way into africa trade was a hot topic of the world's largest gathering of the continent's private sector. plus a push for better regulation of the digital economy has led to a rocky end of quarter for big tech. all this week history was made when the shanghai international energy exchange launched the first crude futures contracts priced in chinese renminbi or you on it is an attempt to turn the global oil market on its head but china the world's biggest oil importer buys around nine million barrels of oil every day and it wants to use its own currency to price the world's most traded commodity you've heard of petro dollars but what about petro you on the u.s. dollar has been the main currency for oil futures contracts so launching a contract in its domestic currency is a sign that china wants to you want to play a bigger role in global oil trading china's also taking on the world's most used oil benchmarks brant and w.t. i crewed which are both priced in dollars but shanghai traded oil is still far away from earning benchmark status and taking

three has fallen and this is the winnie mandela three that provided shame for the people of south africa he told the wilder that south africa has lost a giant and has sent off will suit her great legacy mandela will be given a state funeral next saturday and before that will be memorial services and across the country she has been one of the strongest women in our struggle who suffered immensely under the apartheid regime who was imprisoned who was banished who was treated very badly separated not only from her husband but from the children as well and their people but notwithstanding all the she remains strong. she remained determined she was courageous. i may not act i actually became the face and voice of nelson mandela and i come pain while he was in prison for twenty seven yes all these people say they are here to celebrate the life of winnie mandela but also a very controversial figure she's been accused of being involved in human rights abuses during the times she's also been accused of having a very militant leadership style a song say this could take her legacy. but for people h

thornton: no one really even knows how many elephants are left in africa. some people think it m may be as few as 300,000 animals, so we might be losing 1/6 6 of the cocontinentatal population o of africa's s elephahants every ye. peters: in many countries in africa, the elephant is alalreay ecolologically extinct. [gunots, eleant trumts] narrator: every 20 minutes, an elephant is killed foror its tusks. the reason: greed. the price of ivory has skyrocketed. raw ivory sells for as much as $3,000 per pound on the black market, but the cost for humanity is unfathomable. elephants may be gone in 10 years. ruggiero: the problem begins very simply wiwith dememand. narrator: and china drives the demand for ivory. knights: china now is estimated to be 70% of the world's ivory market. there is a tradition of ivory carving, but also, of course, the massive growth of the chinese economy. narrator: around 300 million people make up china's middle class today. that's more than the population of the united states, and they are looking to spend their money on luxury good

and other countries seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. today thanks for joining us this hour. as poison. recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of solsbury his niece victoria who is a russian citizen has been declined a visa to visit relatives victorious cripple says she wasn't surprised by the decision and knew she would not be granted a visa she's questioned whether the british authorities have something to hide if they're preventing a relative from visiting. franco looks into victoria's story. imagine your cousin and uncle are hospitalized and in critical condition you'd likely freak out and rush to their sides this is victoria script all surrogate screwballs nice to do just that she as a russian citizen needs a u.k. visa but she was denied we have refused the visits visa application from that tourist proposal on the grounds that her implication did not comply with the immigration rules victoria says she saw it coming just before the no from the u.k. there was this phone conversation allegedly bet

the new democrat democracy in south africa she lived. she was accused of corruption the kind of glamorous lifestyle that was very much at all those with the ascetic vision so when my devil took the chick to community to ship so she was really out of place now to try in the millions as she also was absolutely opposed to any real reconciliation something that nelson mandela obviously supported with all his considerable powers and charisma when he was a hard line to remain in the hall and was absolutely unapologetic about the audience that she had been. jason burke reporting in from johannesburg south africa women della who has died at the age of eighty one thank you. all right now to some other news the egyptian president i've referred to has sisi as one a second term in office egypt's election authority says as sisi got just over ninety seven percent of the votes in last week's ballot or turnout was lower at around forty one percent than in the previous presidential election critics also argue as sisi has just one opponent a token candida

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do you think that people will be surprised to know that africa, particularly southern africa, south africa as we know today was the first outpost of human creativity in terms of art? >> well, only if they think that everything that is creative birthplace is in europe, or maybe in asia. in which case they've been asleep for some time. but no, there shouldn't be. crucial moment is when actually -- neanderthals, we think might have been making some of these extraordinary what seemed to be decorative designs as well. that begins -- it's been found in a place. a lump of red oka. it was most certainly used for decorative design, possibly and the body or on the walls of cave. >> and this spread west and we have a lovely clip of you in the european kaye cave in spain. >> what do you think about this, your head spins because they would have had to transpose them here and when all that was done, they managed to preservemir rack c ra eulusly this. suddenly expanded human mind. >> however it was caused, the cognitive revolution sired early humanity from its creative slumber. and the images it produced