and photographs with new works by contemporary artists the democratic republic of congo in west central africa is famous for its vibrant art scene and now a new exhibition in 0 rick aims to get beyond that one sided western view of traditional african art by focusing on the congolese artists perspective. these power figures called monk garko were created to protect a village communities in 1903 congo. the metal pieces were hammered in to seal agreements between tribe members. nearby a contemporary power figure it's decorated with don't like trying to scrap symbolizing the destructive mining of coal town a mineral used in manufacturing smartphones it's a reference to the new imperialist role of china in congo. fun fun these what's interesting about this juxtaposition is that it updates the historical art and demonstrates that it still has relevance for the present day. curator me shiloh obama who far invited contemporary artists from the democratic republic of the congo to take part in the exhibition they created works that responds to the historical objects and photographs from the museum barr

. -- eastern and central africa. >> when you think about your customer, help us understand who are they in all types of businesses? as you look down the list, what are the fastest growing areas you see? james: we are a very inclusive bank. people graduate up. they become small, they become medium. the same with individuals. --y start is location individuals continue to grow. the biggest growing segment is the medium enterprise. skill. where you find -- they now become the face of african entrepreneurship. >> what i love about this, and i remember talking about microloans, what you can do with a small amount of money, the impact you can have on a family. i think about what you are doing that allows people to have a financial identity, create a means for themselves and their family, and kind of work up the value chain. it impacts the country they are in as well. james: that is true. african entrepreneurship, capitalism in africa is at the individual level, the entrepreneur level. that individual has an immediate family and an extended family. when they start with a small enterpri

unifying african armies into one army called the unit unified african army and the central africa bank for which gaddafi was raising funds discussing with other african leaders to turn tell me about the gold will libya libya itself is a small country 6000000 people but we had 100 then 80 tons of gold which is quite a great amount for a small country but to achieve african indie band economic independence gadhafi was hoping for 4000 tons of gold to be accumulated for the gold reserve of africa and upon that he wanted to build the african central bank to replace the french central bank controlling african economies and to build up the african unified currency gold base to play with to replace the dollar and to build the internal organic. african economy and he wasn't just dreaming these things up he was hard working on them and who got the agreement of many would african leaders and he was in the process of actually achieving these goals like for example the 1st african satellite was launched in 2008 and the 1st stages of the african central bank were initiated the african union itself w

in terms of its role in the region can yes straddles east and central africa as well as the horn. the hardware is eastern central africa is a natural economic zone for kenya the horn has been one of a security concern in kenya i think has a role to play. at the end of this week there is going to be a summit the regional organization and it's very possible that at that summit ethiopia will hand over the chairman ship to kenya. that is an assumption that people make, we from the european side would welcome it and i'm told the canyons that if they do that we will be very happy. it means real engagement on kenya's power to facilitate not only in somalia where it is pretty heavily invested in different ways but helping with ethiopia. helping with south sudan in the lake. so if it takes on this roll formally it would be biting off a big chunk that it's going to have to chew on and we are going to have to be very helpful to, them as a say we would welcome it. >> thank you, we will let my ask a question. >> mike u.s. department of state, first i want to thank you for your comments today a

and western africa in a stage of the african central bank which would have the refugees and the african nations you have the french central bank and a state of the gold based economy you have the sub or the nation of african economies to the global capitalist machine it's all part of the same story. even the internal problems that existed in libya beforehand they were exploited because this what impact does tragic irony that in death. be in destabilizing european union countries because of immigration in the rows of the far right people have said that duffy was also not just a plan after africanist he was an internationalist he really did want peace and tranquility and development and called core cooperation that's why he hosted and he was the head of the european african summit in 2009 and libya he wanted to build up africa but he wanted good relations with europe he wanted to create a new world order of justice of peace of collaboration but this was so hard for the imperialist capitalist system to digest a lot of has been written about the racism involved in the nato mission in libya

while a sports is the largest in central africa and also supplies neighboring countries like china. there was born here into inspired by the city's entrepreneurial culture she started up her own business. as well thank you i know it's a very lively city a city that moves a lot of the young people here have a strong interest in europe in fighting spirit you can see young people everywhere setting up businesses and shops dualla is coming runs commercial home mainly foreigners come here to buy goods and sell them abroad it's a very fascinating. if you step out on to do a list. it's the city feels like one big market at every corner there are people selling includes shoes you name it. and i was one of africa's major football nations do i don't course has a market score not dedicated to come rooms national team. i don't want to make i go i'll look forward you must remember that people here into a lot of very passionate about sports especially football that's why this market where we are right now mainly has football geniuses from the national team many of the national players also come f

administration worked with me on african bureau but he was president clinton's special envoy in central africa. a political appointee but one with tremendous knowledge and experience and in the book the year into the job the magic gourd that you will know as the chinese restaurant near the state department. [laughter] he sat me down in the said look you are smart to get that vision. you have the support of the secretary and the president but you are about to fail because you are too hardcharging. you are not taking enough of the input and experience in the knowledge of those on this team and i want to see you succeed but this is what you are going to have to do. that was an extraordinary gift. it was tough love in the purest form. he didn't have to take me out. he didn't have to share what he thought. he could have let me fail but he'd didn't. i've learned from those experiencess so to reflect on my personal and professional development. particularly the latter for when i was at the state department with the incredible learning experiences. >> he on the obama administration there were a number

the african bureau but he was president clinton's special envoy for the great lakes region of central africa. hello political appointee but one with and more miss knowledge and experience and he hasn't read in the book took me out to lunch about a year into the job, the magic gore the you all want to know as a really shiny -- grab the chinese restaurant and he sat me down and he said look, you are smarter and, you have vision you have the support of the secretary and the president but you're about to fail because you to impeach and. you are too hard charging and you're not taking enough of the input and the experience in the knowledge of those on this team and i want to see you succeed but this is what you will have to do and that was an extraordinary gift, it was tough love in the purest form he didn't have to take me out, he didn't have to share what he thought, he could've let me fail but he did end and others did end and i learned from those experiences so as i went back to reflect on my personal professional development that time are you wrote particularly the latter four were really in

actual violence that broke out last week one of the 1st in 2008 in the united nations mission in central africa attempted to stop extortion. by the time it operations is over more than 40 people i mean killed . the united nations mission here is struggling to keep the peace more troops are patrolling the area but they may not be able to deal with a major attack the main issue is that there's no real cause for us as police and military then we are also applies to sent. list but not the russian army base in the area our forces are conducting battles around the cafe but then we don't have enough force there with the need to increase. families on both sides are left to mourn their dead and fear more attacks the central african republic a good civil war that started in 2013 and killed thousands of people since then more than a 1000000 of the $5000000.00 population have been forced from their homes many couplet abroad for now there isn't an easy calm on the streets of benghazi but as everyone here knows it will only take a spark to ignite another wave of killings in a country while warlords control m

deploying to this market by the way a short while ago we saw patrols of united nations mission in central africa going round the market to ensure that the new declination is maintained and supported at all cost. muslim women who were detained in north west china's detention camps have accused of abusing and forcing them to have abortions al-jazeera spoken to some and in part 2 of our special series a summit but a summit been reports on the plight of ethnic kazakhs who say they feel is nothing they can do to bring their abusers to justice. on this wall in the in kazakhstan are the faces of people who were held in china relative say they are being held in internment camps with beijing called reeducation camps to counter what it calls extremism. was held in such a camp she didn't talk about her experience until after she'd been awarded citizenship in kazakhstan she says abuse she suffered has scarred her for life and she frequently suffers headaches. when i was crossing the border they saw i am using what's up i was detained and sent furthur a medical test they found i am pregnant and forced me to

in the africa bureau but he was president clinton's special envoy to the great lakes region of central africa . and a fellow political appointee but one with in norma's knowledge and experience and he as i write in the book took me out to lunch about a year into the job and the magic board which you will all know as a crappy chinese restaurant near the state department . and he sat me down and he said look, you're smart. you've got vision. you've got the support of the secretary and the president but you're about to fail because you're too impatient, you're too hard charging. you're not taking enough of the input and experience and knowledge of those on the team. and i want to see you succeed . but this is what you're going to have to do area and that was an extraordinarygift . it was tough love in the purest form. he didn't haveto take me out . he didn't have to share what he thought he could have let me fail but he didn't and others didn't and i learned from those experiences so as i went and got to reflect on my personal and professional development, time over eight years but particularly

well the hell with forests of the vast area covering western and central africa the military is a 5 countries in that region mauritania mali. and chad make up the sahara 5 joined force it aims to maintain regional control against the. clock with idris is in mali's capital bamako he says on groups are not represented at the summit. where basically officially the talks are under way after the been declared open by president because. the puppets of peace was to bring. all functions. together to talk about peace rather than fighting each other and that organizers of the summit believe will pave the way for a united front to take to what some of the shows described as external aggression remember the north of the country is still volatile and that is violence in the center of the country due to ethnic violence now the tory rebellion in the north east still simmering as we speak now some of the armed groups. causing trouble in mali are actually not represented at the opening ceremony but the organizers hope that the message or the resolutions of the conference will reach them so that they can lay d

well the sahara fast to the vast area covering western and central africa the military is a 5 countries in that region that mauritania long became a faster in asia aaron chad they make up the sahara g 5 joint force it aims to maintain regional control against the fight is well correspondent ahmed actresses and mali is capital of bamako and he says on groups and represented at that summit . well basically officially the talks are underway after the been declared open by president to bring because kate the puppets of peace was to bring a may be all factions in mali together to talk about peace rather than fighting each other and that organizers of this summit believe will pave the way for a united front to tycho what some of the shows described as external aggression remember the north of the country is still volatile and that has violence in the center of the country due to ethnic violence now the tories an out of it rebellion in the northeast still simmering as we speak now some of the armed groups that have been causing trouble in mali actually not represented at the opening ceremony b

that the university owed me a job, i have to find my own work and if i can find a hero find in central africa it's a real problem that the customer aspect and for the money is in fact in the fact that you learn a great deal going to another country and being small but people are so concerned about getting a job and i were gonna buy house and will we do and when will we have children. you have one life, if you have children send them away. [laughter] tell them to go make a living somewhere else, go to india, vietnam, brazil, go away join the peace corps, be a teacher, just go do something. the process of individuation is finding out you in the process, become who you are. go away find a way from your community and your village and family and by no fewer than what your life should be. and i suppose of becoming, it's amazing how the individual -- somehow the imperative of living a life is so important to people that they forget there's a big world out there and they think maybe i'll go there on a honeymoon period . . . the mexicans and people and communities all over mexico bring those canadians

the total population from central africa to southern africa is about 5,000 animals. they trans located 17 to malawi, and they have invested over 30 million pounds to try to protect the species. but these are dark days for conserve vague. especial especially the black rhino when you put impact that poaching has. the price of one black rhino horn sells for around $100,000. so that desire to put life and limb in jeopardy to get that sort of cash in hand for people that are disenfranchised is too great. but they are in a lot of trouble. >> and good news but headwinds ahead especially when you consider climate change. jeff corwin, thank you so much for your expertise. >>> and from the most talked about new user on instagram to the amazing u.s. women's soccer team victory and their fight for equal pay, to the teenager who became the face of a worldwide movement, next, a look at the biggest trending stories of 2019. the wait is over. t-mobile is lighting up 5g nationwide. while some 5g signals go only blocks, t-mobile 5g goes miles... beyond the big cities to the small town

actual violence that broke out last week one of the 1st in 2018 the united nations mission in central africa attempted to stop extortion. by the time it operations is over more than 40 people i mean. the united nations mission here is struggling to keep the peace more troops are patrolling the area but they may not be able to deal with a major attack the main issue is that there is no lookout for police and military then we are also applies to sense. list but not the russian army base in the area our fosters are conducting battles. but then we don't have enough force there with the need to increase. families on both sides are left to mourn their dead and fear more attacks. the central african republic a good civil war that started in 2013 and killed thousands of people. since then more than a 1000000 of the 5000000 population have been forced from their homes many couplet abroad for now there isn't an easy calm on the streets of benghazi but as everyone here knows it will only take a spark to ignite another wave of killings in a country while warlords control more territory than the governme

deploying to this market by the way i should while ago we saw patrols of united nations mission in central africa going around the market to ensure that the new declaration is maintained and supported at all cost. the gambian president adama baro has created a new political party which could allow him to run in future elections barrow has formally registered the national people's party naming himself as its leader his relationship with his previous policy had been deteriorating amid widespread protests calling on him to step down his 3 year mandate as interim president ends next month. and i'm going in court has frozen the assets of africa's richest woman as part of a corruption investigation isabel dos santos is the daughter of the former president at watoto santos assets owned by her husband and a business associate have also been frozen the golden government has accused them of course in state losses of around $1000000000.00 dos santos as the freeze is politically motivated. the french president emanuel has called for calm across the country in his new year's address there has been widespread

deploying to this market by the way a short while ago we saw patrols of united nations mission in central africa going round the market to ensure that the new declination is maintained and supported at all cost we haven't seen government forces yet but we were told that they too would be joining patrols with the united nations to ensure that everything is quiet in this market no on board a spent team not only in the market but also in the surrounding area became fight which has been up all the time at the most volatile area in the capital or even across the country thank you i think interests in central african republic. the former chairman of nissan has fled to lebanon from japan where he faces a trial over allegations of financial misconduct carlos ghosn has a lebanese passport arrested in tokyo in 2018 but was released under strict bail conditions he said he didn't flee justice but in fact escaped injustice and political persecution his lawyer said his legal team helped 3 of guns passports and called his behavior inexcusable go in is one of the world's most high profile company bosses now fac

zones one is in west africa including senegal ivory coast and bikini faster and the other is in central africa made up of 6 countries that entered into bonn and chad now the currency is pegged to the euro and has the financial backing of the french treasury and return france holds 50 percent of the foreign exchange reserves of member countries critics say the currency is a remnant of french colonialism and restricts gross while the president of ivory coast announced that west african countries will stop using the c.f.a. starting sometime next year the currency will be renamed but alice on the torah says it will still be pegged to the euro. i'm happy to announce that in agreement with the other heads of state of the west african economic and monetary union we've decided to reform the c.f.a. frank with the 3 following major changes 1st renaming the currency from the c.f.a. to the echo 2nd the end of centralization of half of all reserves with the french treasury and the closing of its operated account and 3rd the withdrawal of france from all management of the currency union. a roman catholic re

in terms of its role in the region, kenya straddles east and central africa as well as the horn. it's the natural economic zone for kenya. the horn has been one of security concern. and kenya has a role to play. at the end of this week, there's going to be a -- a summit of egad, the regional -- the regional organization. and it's very possible that at that summit, ethiopia will hand over the chairmanship to kenya. that's an assumption that people ake. we would welcome it and we would be happy to be a support. it's going o be a real engagement to facilitate not only in somalia where it's pretty heavily invested. but helping with ethiopia. helping with south sudan and the like. if it takes on this role formerly it -- it will be biting off a big chunk that it's going to have to then chew on and we're going to have to be very, very help to feel them. we will let mike ask a question. u.s. department of state and currently -- to wilson center. i wanted to thank you for your comments today and also thank you for your tremendous work in your role over the last eight years in a region of

. >>> a new vaccine for ebola could start saving lives in central africa.ce the vaccine. they're now distributing it in rwanda, supplying the country with 200,000 doses. the hope is to stop the deadly disease. rwanda borders the democratic republic of congo, where so far 2,000 people have died from ebola. >> the new initiative will offer the vaccine to people who cross the border with dnc on a regular basis. as part of work, as part of school, as part of commitments they have. >> the world health organization calls the ebola outbreak in the congo a public health emergency of international concern. >>> flu season is off to a fast start and it's all because of an unexpected virus that's floating around. that's according to the cdc. it's the earliest start of the flu season in more than 15 years. the viruses don't usually hit until spring. but right now the south is seeing a quick and widespread of the sickness. children's hospital new orleans has already seen more flu cases this fall than it saw all of last winter. >>> the emergency alert system in san franci

deploying to this market by the way a short while ago we saw patrols of united nations mission in central africa going round the market to ensure that the new declination is maintained and supported at all cost. the main opposition party in bangladesh is demanding a rerun of last year's election that held a rally in dhaka on monday at least a dozen people were injured during protests when police stopped demonstrators from marching towards the prime minister's office of a child who was at today's rally to find out why opposition supporters are refusing to give up their demands for a new election. this is the product protest by the united opposition alliance and the leftist pot is in bangladesh across the country their main protest is about 11 parliamentary elections that took place on december 2018 months. every day people are facing face cards of problems and the government is unable to soviets this government is an elected and in the just cements they should let go of the power and hold an election a democratic process on the same by the leftist party united tried to brought out a procession he

alysa hell refers to the vast area covering the west and central africa the military is of 5 countries in that region mauritania mali became a fossil michele and chad make up the sahara g 5 joint force it aims to maintain regional control against the fight this block with addresses in mali's capital bamako he says armed groups are not represented at the summit. or basically officially the talks are underway after the been declared open by president to bring because kate the puppets of peace was to bring maybe all factions in mali together to talk about peace rather than fighting the charter and that organizers of this summit believe will pave the way for a united front to tycho what some of the shows described as external aggression remember the north of the country is still volatile and that has violence in the center of the country due to ethnic violence now the tories and out of it the rebellion in the northeast still simmering as we speak now some of the armed groups that have been causing trouble in mali actually not represented at the opening ceremony but the organizers hope that

militaries to try to counter the attacks the so hell refers to that vast area covering west and central africa the military is a 5 countries in that region mauritania mali burkina faso and chad make up the sahara g 5 joint force it aims to maintain regional control against the fighters well for more on this let's go live to ahmed it rescues in mali is capital bamako for us about how those talks going there and what are they actually hoping to achieve. well basically officially the talks are underway after the been declared open by the president to bring because kater the populace of peace was to bring maybe all functions in mali together to talk about peace rather than fighting the charter and that organizers of this summit believe will pave the way for a united front to try to what some of the shows described as external aggression remember the north of the country if to follow tile and that is violence in the center of the country due to ethnic violence now the torrent and approve it rebellion in the northeast still simmering and then the presence of international extremist groups the al qai

operation with regional militaries to counter those feiss while the cell is a region in western and central africa the military is a 5 countries in that region that's malim are 10 and begin a fast so in chad they all make up the sahara g 5 joint force and that aims to maintain regional control against those fighters well let's go live to on that address who is in mali is capital bamako for us on the talk us through the how the talks are going over there and what are they actually hoping to achieve. well basically the talks just got underway with the arrival of the president and members of his cabinet basically what they want to do is to bring order instructions remember it's not only. the price. or the metallics in the north of mali but malise problem there are also issues such as a need for violence that has killed hundreds of people over the past years especially the most recent of course is the violence between the dawn and the polis the dialogue aims to bring all these groups together and remember also that there are there are rebellion so there is rebellion in the north of the country the tor

well the sahara to the vast area covering western and central africa the military is a 5 countries in that region mauritania. cher and chad make up the sahara g 5 joint force to maintain regional control against the situs. capital of fun the call for us hi there ahmed what are these talks deciding to achieve. what she pleases busy. lisa lisa mullins spike. lee from this is like to. be ruling party as well as the opposition happy with the conduct of. these. feel that the ones here have been able to organize these. demonized by others and don't eat lunch to tackle externalization people instantly vision is of course the invasion of that tendency by extremists like this i'm sorry for years the studied state posts about this region that have been terrorizing parts of the sale charred body. and some of our. family czech republic and the other countries so. we're going to be something. not just to get at. some of that is to take a look at challenges in order to stop fighters from outside tickets on the picture . doesn't exist there joining me live. a french aid group is says 4 workers have

central asia. to take. up for a year of tension with the united states. russia and china joined the anti terror drills in the gulf of. sub-saharan africa suffer from chronic shortage of prescription painkillers. the situation around. international friday december the 27th grade with real world news this hour i'm sorry to say starting with tragedy in central asia in kazakhstan where a passenger plane has crashed killing at least 14 people the aircraft lost altitude soon after takeoff clipped a barrier and true story building 95 passengers and 5 crew were on board flight. $135.00 others are injured including 9 children the area around the crash site has been evacuated as the plane was flying from the country's largest city to the capital. the craft for 100 manufactured in the netherlands in the 1980 s. and all types of that plane is now been grounded in cassocks down pending an inquiry president has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims he's also one of the prime minister to lead a special commission to investigate the tragedy. let's talk now to see for a riff and who's director of aviator e. into nature thanks for joi

control is a substance of growing concern particularly in north central and west africa closer regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies cry proces worldwide and not the recent rises jew almost entirely. trafficking. the numbers are pretty stark the international narcotics control board says the majority of all morphine used is consumed by just 17 percent of the world's population who live in western parts of the world at the same time african and asian countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical needs political analyst alessandro bruno says at the end of the day it all comes down to money karma suitable companies or business is big businesses with many salaries to pay they need and a lot of them are listed in the stock market in other words they have shareholders they have to take care of because these western companies focused on the expensive medicines they've reduced the bill of the elderly and demand for the natural he wants that's why the subject of morphine again is such a not just controversial it's unusual it's something that people don't talk