you're watching news from berlin coming up next we have a documentary film for you on ghana it's the world's 2nd biggest cocoa producer yet many canadians have yet to taste chocolate. we'll have that and much for for you throughout the day thanks for watching. it's all happening no job of conflict during link to news from africa to the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions can you unwelcome to see their views suffocating program life from funny to me from the news of easy to our i would say deputy comes to africa join us on facebook at w africa. on west africa's atlantic coast the former british colony of ghana became infamous for its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and also for its abundant reserves of gold which is why the english called it the gold coast. the country is rich in role materials such as oil which was recently discovered in the region and above all coca. ghana is the world's 2nd biggest producer of coca despite the plentiful resources they rarely benefit god names themselves. results fullness has become a necessity for some people white g

but it's in ghana where my husband can earn more there than in ghana another city. he sends money every month. for me and our 2 children meanwhile. you haven't earned your money now isn't. free trade is the principal that opens the african market to exports after independence african countries introduced customs duties in order to protect domestic farmers and emerging industries but now these restrictions are being lifted despite the fact that most african nations still struggle to compete on the international market garner came under international pressure want to try to increase import tariffs on tomato products to 40 percent of that now at 10 percent and containers full of cut price tomatoes continue to arrive in the country. and. now that the factories are closed farmers such as benedikt to have to sell that produce to the market queen's to sell it on in the cities. there's a surplus of produce during the harvest season so the farmers have to sell it rock bottom prices. is the amazon naturally $320.00 c.d.'s they offered $270.00 and said others are giving even l

but it's just not as good as in ghana where you got. it from here in the cocoa to go to our. government and once there i will have to europe but i don't know what its final destination with me now this and i thought you. were right. oh. around 15 families from the cocoa trees in a small forest but in the past few years production levels have dropped. the single crop funding of coca has sucked all the nutrients out of the soil the trees growing old and there's no money to replace them nowadays every penny counts . the family situated close to the border with togo geoff sells his cocoa beans to whichever country bids highest. and to. that is the border with toll roads around a kilometer from there it's. december togo is bringing one euro $0.37 a kilo maybe gone and i was paying one euro 16 friend but at the end of the month togo that price had dropped to $1.00 euro $22.00 and gone as prices rose so it was the government. not. thought. i'm going to load this onto a motorbike i'll take a shot i mean i thought my god why are you putting it on a motorbike for your fun because there

but it's just not as good as in ghana where you go not just from here the cocoa will go to. iraq i mean i want to there all had to europe measurable enough but i don't know what its final destination will be now this enough to walk. or bike. or walk. around 15 families from the cocoa trees in their small forest but in the past few years production levels have dropped. the single crop of coca has sucked all the nutrients out of the soil the trees growing old and there's no money to replace them nowadays every penny counts. the farm is situated close to the border with togo geoff sells his cocoa beans to whichever country bids highest. and to. that there is the border with toll roads around a kilometer from there it's the worst this year though some december togo is bringing one euro $0.37 a kilo gun owners paying one euro 16 friend but at the end of the month togo's price had dropped to $1.00 euro $22.00 and gone as promised growth so was the sell to go. on this is a little done up before. i'm going to load it onto a motorbike i'll take a minute oh my god why you putting it o

ghana grows tons of tomatoes but also imports them on a growing scale global trade doesn't always make sense. in today's world goods and services are traded between countries and continents on an unprecedented scale as globalization is credited with boosting economic growth free trade is a big honor for the corporations and benefits millions of people around the world but the price for that prosperity say critics is paid by the poor and nowhere is that goal more visible than in africa. 54 percent of the continent's workforce relies on the agricultural sector but cheap and often subsidized goods brought in from asia and europe are swamping domestic markets causing prices to plummet. over 120000 tons of tomato products enter ghana annually that's a $95.00 fold increase since imports began in 1996 and that boom is taking its toll on local producers. tomatoes they could be goners red to gold the soil is ideal and they've been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghana's tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. there are many reasons unstable powerg

benedicta everything is a tomato farmer into badon and ghana central farming region. she grows tomatoes on about i think there of land but even though the harvests are good she's barely getting by. will they be asked we've had to buy water every day for about one and a half months that'll continue until the rainy season starts we have lots of problems that's why it's so hard to survive in ghana at the moment. because all of the domestic tomato processing plants have stopped production then india and other farmers are only able to sell to the so-called market queens dealers who resell the tomatoes in other cities there's an oversupply in the high season and so the prices drop to almost nothing must have finished next 2 weeks ago we sold these crates for twice as much. if there's no demand like today and we farm a smaller less just give the crates away. we sell them at any price. i might be honest we got. into the clinic financial difficulties led benedict as husband to go to europe where he works as a farm laborer in italy he's able to send money home every month to pr

on west africa's atlantic coast the former british colony of ghana became infamous for its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and also for its abundant reserves of gold which is why the english called it the gold coast. the country is rich in role materials such as oil which was recently discovered in the region and above all. gone it is the world's 2nd biggest producer of coto despite the plentiful resources they rarely benefits gone names themselves. resourcefulness has become a necessity for some people white gold has replaced yellow and all taming to get rich and many trying to survive. garnered names warrior king a fitting name that reflects the strength and resilience of its people. i want to buy a whole bunch. they face a new battle every day. at dawn on lake volta the launches start to fish a reservoir in the wild water taxis pulled up to the banks. 3 times a week a transport isolated villages to the big market in the town of tom pocket. this particular county seems to sense the getting on the boat isn't going to be an easy tox. like and i'm going to sell my car at th

as i see it do gins parents immigrated to canada from ghana before she was born. both cultures are part of her she says. but when she visited donna 13 years ago she was surprised by how foreign she felt. feel like you have a strong sense of what it means to be a canadian and what ghana is like you know because you've been eating in food and listening to languages but when i went to ghana it was a familiarity to a lot of things the details obviously because i i had been so immersed in the culture was but little by little there were things that came up and sort of brought home to me just how canadian i really. otherness' identity these are themes that are preoccupied esi e'sdugyan throughout her career as a writer beginning with her debut novel the 2nd life of samuel time it follows the fortunes of a canadian immigrant in 1906 canada. the protagonist of her 2nd novel half blood blues is her on a must for a trumpet player in a jazz band in nazi germany who has a german mother and an african father. the idea for half blood blues came to the writer when she was living

for more, we are joined by the finance minister of ghana. welcome to the show. you for joining us. >> it is good to be here again. nejra: this offer, the eurobond often was five times over subscribed. does this mean you will test demand an issue longer-term securities? the last you were here, we talked about a sanctuary bond. >> last year, we tried a 31 which was successful. we moved 10 years more to 41 and yesterday was successful. $3 billion, 14 and 41. we had a 15 billion book to work so clearly the markets have rallied in support of ghana. that is good indications of the future for us. manus: minister, good to have you with us. what is the complexion of were most of the demand came from in that $15 billion book? had under seven-year, we 3.5 billion, on the 14 year, we had about 5.6 billion and on the 41 year, also beyond 5 billion. really good showing on the long end of the bond. nejra: this comes at a time when the premium investors have asked to hold risky assets is rising because of the follow from the coronavirus. do you foresee if we get any more concer

on today's world cancer day we take you to ghana activists are trying to raise awareness of the d.s. zs especially in children and also to raise funds for treatment medical coverage is limited in the west african country and because many seek help late survival rates for child cancer patients is disturbing the. franklin was diagnosed with bone cancer had the age of 13 now 3 years later the disease has resulted in doctors amputated his rights leg frontally is now recovering but his mother says at 1st the family could not stand the news when my son was diagnosed doctors told me he could be treated but it requires money. the most difficult aspect for me in the family was when doctors said his leg will have to be amputated to save his life and their son or. lose it would be frontin isn't able to live a normal life as a child he has to be asked is that to do many things and all can be. such what. do almost all someone else shows and see things we've. got his teaching hospital is one of 2 facilities that provides comprehensive pediatric cancer treatment in the country out of 5000 p.c.'s on

to look out and you called lifeline for childhood cancer ghana is no hoping to raise funds to support farm. everywhere else in the world the success rate is between 70 to 80 percent. 70 percent have a chance of surviving. x.x. this rate is 20 percent sol think about it 1000 children get cancer only 200 will live 800 will die. more has a 2nd chance in life forms to this jewel hopefully many more children with cancer would get similar support. and that's it for now from day to every news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page that same believe with images off kenya's former president daniel arap moi it was tied at the age of 95 to next time i'd like. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word i learned from the coax in germany. why not come with. us in simple mind on your mobile and free. w z learning course nikos me german made easy. what secrets lie behind those walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage site. w world heritage 360. welcome to news from the world of culture we've been s

that nigeria needs to diversify to depend less on oil is ghana in the same position . as the oil production is taking place there's not much benefit for the ordinary. for the economy even though it's part of a significant portion of the country's g.d.p. but the country needs to divest defy if it really wants to ensure that the environment for business is that of the best and it's like nigeria to diversify so that everyone can benefit not to depend solely on. the forest in a cross thank you very much. well energy costs in god are a $1.00 of the highest in the whole region but now an ngo is showing young entrepreneurs how to turn solar power ideas into businesses to make them less reliant on the dominant power companies. in accra many enterprises like these often experience power outages for these things. you see you see what i've told you all for doing. whole. really really i think they've. reduced was cute people just looked at this and walked. with it's more than $2000000.00 inhabitants began in capital demands a huge amount of it. for the last a kid on a has been exp

switch to solar energy this is forecast a boom in the sector in ghana. i've been pursuing let's do business migration between africa and europe remains a hot topic emotions boiling over today in the greek islands the conservative government has hardened its asylum policy with increased repatriations plans for a sea barrier and even bigger new detention centers but try convincing locals about that last one. parts of the greek island of less force of burning the results of fire bombs thrown injuring 2 days of angry demonstrations islanders have long complained that the presence of thousands of migrants here threatens their safety plans for a new camp for up to 7000 people and more than they're willing to take. one off we will resist for as long as it takes so if nothing is constructed on our island it. away from the fury of the protests. things could scarcely be more different wednesday's general strike on less boss and the islands of kiosks and some us has made already tranquil towns even quieter here among tama dos there's more opposition to the proposed

also this hour people in the african nation of ghana are dying of cancer and other rethink diseases as the west uses it as a dumping ground for electronic waste. and after an anonymous reviewer posts negative comments about an australian businessman in court orders google to transfer all data about the incident to the victim we debate the issues raised online freedom of speech. it's given people a mask to hide behind at their not taking responsibility for what's being hosed if you start trying to regulate all of this regulation and all of those wars are only going one direction but the power of these companies anymore they have so much power. welcome to the program and i'm very happy monday to all of you this is our to international bring you your live news update. transatlantic allies appear in disarray at top level munich security conference and some are now even posing questions on nato's vision and very existence with all the details here spewed all over. one of the takeaways from this year's munich security conference was the crisis of identity that seems to be going on with weste

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clearly, the market was looking for a ghana confident in the future.e comfortable that for the continent this is the paper to hold. manus: if we look at the imf, they warned against debt to gdp at 63% at the end of 2019 against 59% a year earlier. will that get worse given the commodity outlook we are facing at the moment? can we expect this debt to gdp ratio to rise rather than fall this year? ken: actually, what we have with the imf is that we have two specific issues, which is the financial sector restructuring, which we have to pay for, and the energy sector restructuring. if unit that out, we are around 58% debt to gdp. a key to all of this is the export boost we are expecting, and this will be outside of commodities. if you look at non-oil contributions, that is 5.4% growth compared to the oil growth. we have a much more diversified economy than most and we expect to do that. the continental free trade act headquarters is going to be in ghana, which means we will be the pass-through for investment and trading to the future and we are banking on g

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and the real cost of devices the electronic waste sent mostly from western nations the people of ghana and. we're taking you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days welcome to the program we're going to start with an update on syria with tensions running high in the war torn italy province the leaders of turkey russia france and germany will discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month that announcement comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between the syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. which support so-called moderate armed groups has recently flooded the region with troops and equipment in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region the russian and turkish president spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to uphold previously agreed deescalation deals meanwhile the un's want all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns more bloody. a flash point to the syria conflict also seeing lawmakers in the united states push for a diplomatic response against syria and russia with an e

real cost of devices the electronic waste mostly from western nations lighting the people of ghana illness and toxic. undersea to the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi bourne's europe it risks undermining it security by further working with the telecoms giant while a does china pose the biggest spying threat to the continent that we like it states itself is the new york city. probably us anybody having. their welcome to the weekly or not international with me kevin rudd the big stories as reported by us to you over the last 7 days thanks taking the target check in this weekend 1st the president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out of a phase of the quarantine passengers might spread the potentially deadly coronavirus even though none the tested positive test a set of roadblocks clashed with police and pelted buses carrying the patients to hospital. said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages as he put it the clashes left. 9 police officers and one civilian injured. i. 0 was. ac

and in ghana we'll meet a man who calls himself a forest saver. the heart of the tom hasa nomics it is a small scale affordable housing project in south african ownerships and its main mission is to replace informal bucket shots we do about structures and what's even more important recycled construction west is used to build the homes made the founder and director was already won a number of awards for his innovative business idea and also see how it works. the. least so the greater john is back is home to around 8000000 people many of them live in densely populated informal settlements alternatives like so we're told just southwest of the city. he lives in you know. we have a lot of people who are. coming to old ones burke going to look for work opportunities so most of them to prefer to live in a township because it's cheaper to live there when you're ready and the critical window for you to there from where i used to go to work so they've created opportunity for homeowners to try to create a coalition for those people where they're venting stru

people in the african nation of ghana dying of cancer another horrific disease is the west uses the country as a dumping ground for electronic waste. other thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. a russian shock artist who was welcomed as a hero and granted asylum in france is now at the center of a political scandal that french lawmakers are demanding. they sent back to russia that's after he was arrested for posting footage that brought down president matter on scandal that the mayor of paris with details his r.t. charlotte. problem is a political refugee here in france but it seems even he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of my own party and are calling for him to be sent back to russia if you get this guy out he's a political refugee he behaves like a the 1st thing to do would be to put him on a plane streets of russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty skee this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin a key ally of presi

so people in the african nation of ghana are dying of cancer another horrific disease is the west uses it as a dumping ground for electronic waste. an anonymous review a post negative comments about the strain in businessmen a court orders google to transfer all data about the incident to the victim and debate the issue of online freedom of speech. it's given people a mask to hide behind and they're not taking responsibility for what's being said if you start trying to regulate all of this regulation and all of this forcing only goes in one direction but the power of these companies anymore they have so much power. good afternoon great to have you with us this is r.t. internet. the united states is actively creating the conditions to deploy short and medium range missiles in europe and asia that is according to russia's foreign minister in his music briefing at the munich security conference so good i did that washington is not even hiding its preparations after abandoning a key arms control treaty with moscow let's go live now to our correspondent. in munich just take us there what el

plus people in the african nation of ghana are dying of cancer and other diseases as the west uses it as a dumping ground for electronic waste. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow thanks for joining us this hour. transatlantic allies appear in disarray at the top level munich security conference and some are now even posing questions on the vision and very existence with all the details here is peter harper one of the takeaways from this year's munich security conference was the crisis of identity that seems to be going on with western nations i ask the people here on the streets of munich what they thought about transatlantic friction in the alliance the ideas of how to manage so well it. different. europe doesn't like confrontation so it likes to avoid confrontation the us has a little bit more tendency to go for confrontation we are europe we are not america so so we must look only for europe 1st and so we can get a bit of america stinky despite the divide was always there the us always fought for its own interests but i think that since cha

dumping devices the electronic waste sent mostly from western nations that's blighting the people of ghana with illness food. hello there i will welcome to the weekly or not international with me kevin owen it's a round of the big stories as reported by us to you over the last 7 days things are taking the time to check us out this weekend 1st the stories in from ukraine one of the big ones the way the president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out over fears that the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protests to set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted buses carrying those patients to hospital lenski said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left 9 police officers one civilian injured. but. you. actually. you know we always say that ukraine is yours to be honest at some moments like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we will human beings. well that flight from the chinese to do what tens of thousands of people have been infe