most of it comes from outside ghana. >> computers. >> the european union has strictly prohibited theort of e.u. waste. 350 thousand tons, equivalent to 2.5 billion leaves europehat every year. ♪ >> to retrace the journey taken by the waist, we had to the port 40 kilometers from the capital. 200,000 tons of electronic equipment arrives again each year -- and ghana each year. three quarters of that is used equipment. there is no import ban on used electronics. assure us they take e.u. waste seriously. belongings ofnal some of our citizens who have gone outside the country and are coming back home. they have loaded these items into a container andnd today is the day we e are going to inspe. >> they differentiate between waste and used goods. it is in this gray zone where traffickers operatate. these shipments came in from outdatede around 15 televisions, radio sets, a whole range of electronic appliances. it has been flagged d by the customom authority's detection system is possibly suspicious. >> it is hard for the inspection ofofficer to m make that disisin that t this is waste or a u

chinese 7th largest trading partner in africa guineans depend on chinese products and experts say ghana and other african countries don't have an easy way out of the crisis. everybody looks at and even if you decided to go to your cost of inputs will be much higher in europe and not yourself how many businesspeople would be competitively be west sourcing yet import from europe for now all that open can do is hope for the virus to be contained in the coming weeks to keep his business healthy. almost 5 years ago paris was hit hard by a terror attack 90 concert goers were killed in the bottle. cut clean survived the massacre and has found an unconventional way to deal with the trauma. returning to the battle is an act of for assistance for cutting the toll it was inside that she survived one of france's worst terror attacks the massacre at the batter clan was part of a series of assaults across paris in which 131 people died. through a. put a little boat for liberty but i still get knots in my stomach when i come here but i didn't want to develop a phobia so quite soon as. afterwards i sta

ghana is just one country that is welcoming thousands of african diaspora visit has looking to learn about their heritage and these are some of the hash tags driving the conversation from african heritage go back to africa about that in just a moment but helms the return year of return 2019 that months 400 years since the 1st enslaved africans arrived in the new world one member of our my community says heritage tourism to africa helps inspire new ideas and could spur long term investment in africa and we also got a video comment about the importance of birth white tourism to the continent and have a look birthrate journeys to africa are critical to the continent we'll do that for the descendants done properly the great journey to see a better understanding of the past and after that it was a sense of belonging and purpose. those in india were given an opportunity to do present day africa as prior to the future leaders there come to see united with the police you better an incredible treat for more on this we're joined from new york by awhile al-shaykh she is co-founder and c.e.o. of

i'm stuck here in ghana the show must go on so we decided to put use the show on location right here on the streets of a crowd which is currently in lockdown so here's what's coming up if it can manage to finish it off nairobi to see how the house. we also meet again and fashion designer who is producing stylish face mask. and it's a rather young filmmaker lungs are not mine sorry and that's true. for most of us live for us drastically changed over the past few weeks most countries around the world are in a lockdown to prevent the federal spread of the corner virus and africa is no exception on march 26th south africa implemented one of the toughest. photograph abrahams on the tour who as shockingly quiet. rollerskating through a crowded johannesburg is nothing more than a distant memory for earl abrahams now the. city is wrapped in an eerie silence no one is allowed outside except for grocery shopping while buying medicine. the kind of cereal. thing because i've never experienced something like this before basically having to stay on lockdown without being able to leave the space so

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i'm stuck here in ghana the show must go on so we decided to produce the show on location right here on the streets of a crowd which is currently in lockdown so here's what's coming up if it can manage the exodus of nairobi to see how. we also meet a king in fashion designer we would use in stylish the smiles. and. filmmaker i'm sorry they've suffered in this group. for most of us live for us drastically change a lot of past few weeks most countries around the world are in a lockdown to prevent the further spread of the corner virus and africa is no exception on march 26th south africa implemented one of the toughest. photograph abrahams took us on a tour through a shockingly quiet. rollerskating through a crowded johannesburg is nothing more than a distant memory for abrahams now the city. he is wrapped in an eerie silence no one is allowed outside except for grocery shopping or buying medicine. it's kind of surreal. interesting because i've never experienced something like this before basically having to stay on lockdown without being able to leave the space so this is very differe

to meet audience from ghana africa europe and america. possible. to a team set up by. to protect. and to protect. so there are some countries across. all these things. 60000 face mots hospital gowns and medical produce at this factory all made from breaks. spent. at the factory makes the job stressful but it's gratifying since the country an extra income during this crisis. and then all. the people you can live. on the phone that doesn't look we're going to. look at some of the family here. who don't have self employed who claim to have that because they're in the facility in the polls. get his vice president. is visiting banamex factory the government is one of the company's clients procuring thousands of the items produced here to be given to frontline health webcasts the vice president wants this company and 3 are this contracted to produce p.p. . to continue with this even after the pandemic from this day on i think that one's production capacity ramps up to should be. come fully we will not have any need to import these items. this is the part of the pool school that you take

spilled on or so i'm aware that because we do know countries and in the same ghana is very active and down very proactive in fact. in the. countries now have and their leaders and heads of the the president taking challenge of this fight so. did not aspect of our health system which as you know was led the public it aspect is not business jump in my other countries i think this is a new development and we also have. partners friends that are there to work with those even though ok i'm most of the countries that look into this will also have been. programs ok to be even human in london staying with that idea of polio we also this time yesterday we're talking about yellow fever what's what's the chances here that the corona virus will morph from being a pandemic to being endemic in certain countries so in a year or 5 years we'll have a conversation saying someone say oh you're going to country x. remember the coronavirus issue that it's still there that's a real issue but it wouldn't be just endemic in one country if this is a virus it's destined to become endemic it would be come in de

heris mint as health workers step up testing for important factions the african union nigeria and ghana calling on the chinese government to address those concerns. priests in the philippines have bypassed the lockdown by holding virtual church services on easter sunday other ways to connect with the congregations are being flown to germany reports from manila. everest in leaders is now homeless he was a construction worker until the government imposed a lockdown to slow the spread of crude a virus a few weeks ago his family had already left the city and he found himself stranded and alone. he was surprised when we told him it was easter sunday he said the day all seem the same to him. i prayed last night i recited the hail mary i hope things get better soon i will just wait here till they leave so i can go back to work easter is usually one of the most festive celebrations here but this is how it looks like now churches have largely remained closed and empty almost unimaginable in the philippines the last bastion of catholicism in asia the so-called enhanced community quarantined in th

forgiven they would have the ability to give 20 dollars a month to the $16000000.00 kids who are in ghana and when you think that 10 percent of the going and population that is on about $60.00 a month that may be the difference between name getting one meal a day or not eating at all so that's the 1st thing let's get debt payments cancelled but this year 2nd we need to create some kind of international reserve what the i.m.f. call special drawing rights giving countries the right to draw down resources from the i.m.f. the pending on their contributions in the past for the g.o.p. that would mean if we get a trillion dollars in special drawing rights it would mean for 630 $1000000.00 that would be a $45.00. 45 percent bump for their. health care expenditures and then finally we need more 8 we need to scale up our thinking and our imagination and the numbers of our a we think it's going to be at least half a trillion dollars in a $500000000000.00 in aid we think just $160000000.00 of that which by the way is less than the wealth of the 2 richest americans $160000000000.00 and they could doub

in $28000.00 alone trade volumes between ghana in china it's $7300000000.00 imports from china alone accounted for $4800000000.00 that makes gun a chinese 7th largest trading partner in africa getting insta pend on chinese products and experts say gonna and other african countries don't have an easy way out of the crisis. everybody looks at china and even if you decided to go to your cost of imports would be much higher in europe and that's how many businesspeople would be competitive. imports from europe for now all that obeying can do is hope for the virus to be contained in the coming weeks to keep his business healthy. almost 5 years ago paris was hit hard by a terror attack 90 concert goers were killed in the. clean bathroom survived the massacre and has found an unconventional way to deal with the trauma. returning to the battle is an act of for assistance for cutting the toward it. was inside that she survived one of france's worst terror attacks the massacre at the batter clan was part of a series of assaults across paris in which $131.00 people died. sit through a. wall for

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protective gowns 2 pairs of gloves and a special mask it takes had physician ghana marks a long time to get ready before he can enter the intensive care unit at a concert university hospital is neither huge but we know in spain and italy as minister 15 percent of medical personel going to affect it and many died and he's very strong with. patients with covais 1000 are currently being treated here that means they're on artificial respiration sometimes for weeks and as doctors here stress they're not exclusively people from high risk groups. yes by one cent we have patients here who are not 18 years old some are only in their sixty's. and they didn't all have preexisting health conditions some were pair fairly healthy before con woman. is one such patient the 52 year old thinks he was infected in austria he's been treated for kobe 1000 at a hospital in bavaria for nearly 3 weeks he was on a respirator fighting for his life. this was it was like a bad dream and one point i remember hearing someone say to me you have to fight you have to survive. this hospital has become a center for cop

doctors are teaming up with pollsters to analyze a group of 1000 people in the small community of ghana had following carnival celebrations in february the town saw a sudden surge of corona virus infections those responsible hope the mistakes made back then may now produce some good for others in the end we might end up not just being those who were in the spotlight for being the region where things were particularly bad maybe we will also be seen as those who handled the situation well . it's hope taking samples from all aspects of daily life will shed some light on how fast and in which ways the virus spread it was probably innocent of the problem is that we are currently relying too much on mathematical models and if only one factor turns out to be wrong the whole calculation collapses. the team of scientists hopes to be able to present the 1st concrete results on actual infection ratios by the beginning of next week. is your smartphone helping the government trace every step of the german government is hoping to launch a smartphone within weeks that would alert people that they come

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it is a very lovely beach here i mean a coastline in ghana here it's marvelous is beautiful. but it's sudden still hard to realize that most of the ships that are coming into the port made it would contain is the poles that helped so much in that when it was . we'll be environmental protection agency you know that it's the responsibility of educating for no more innocent somebody the moment the problems. so when you say the countries of origin of the little has been shipped to god when it is a country survey of the can. we realize that about 60 percent of it comes from here and then the new used equipment not the qualified as we just. so for me the whole thing is being is for economic reasons and it is all organized like cooking business is organised so that makes a criminal there's a cascading effect we big money for the brokers who are mostly europeans then how do the middle group being africans who are involved in. bringing them here we also get a certain proportion and then when it comes to look at market then do it was all in a statue that was on selling and other things

drugs, unmanned drones are doing the delivery, flying units of blood and protective gear to rwanda and ghana. u.w they want to do it in the green light operations, bring,s the sai has s. uh-uh datedromned with drones r into each other and hurting someone on the ground. >> the demand for tech gadgets is surging, shortage, and price increasing on line. hot items, as people transform their dining room tables into desks. >> an east bay company is mobilizing to get food and money for people in need. the center has triple the number of people that usually line up for food. they decided to do something. the couple collected an suv full of food and $3,000 in cash to help. ovpl of or a bottle of jam. i say to people, find something you can do. take care of your neighbors, find an organization you can help. lots of them are in need. >> the couple plan to to have all the food at the crisis center tomorrow morning. >> cleaning the air, what they are saying about one of the most polluted parts of california. ♪ baby yoir a fireworks. >> you are invited to a day time dance party. one local art group is get

in the economic crisis hit ghana in the 1950's, is this moved to togo, and thesese very knowledgdgeableemen took ovr the industry and made it extraordinary. it h helped the cicity a lot. they were very appreciated. that is what made them successful. reporter: the coordinination d d not last. by the end of the 1990's, the west african currency was devalued by 50%. customomers turned to low-cost alternatives and new competitors entered the market. , chineselater counterfeit products have flooded shops. one person has been a fashion designer in the capital for four years. he s says he has become accustod to buying counterfeit products on the market. >> heree is the fabric for address. it is a dress that was ordered by one of my clients. the chinese fabric hasas become a hit in togo. one e of its greatest assets -- unbeatable prices. >> onene full piecece o of vlilo fabric can cost 60,000. but for that price you can purchase 10 pieces of fabric here. that way, you can feel your whole wardrobe. reporter: the fabric is 10 times cheaper, and the designs and colors look the e same as thee authe

say they're being kicked out of their homes and they're facing public harris meant nigeria kenya and ghana are among the countries demanding china address those concerns one jew says it treats foreigners and chinese nationals equally when interest is standing by for us in a puja to bring us the reaction from africa 1st let's go to sarah clarke in hong kong for the latest on this story sara what's the central accusation here. well the reports over been saying on a number of social media platforms for members of the african community in one joe and there's the platforms of of weibo we chat and twitter at the complaints of mistreatment our rests. and africans being denied entry to restaurants and hotels we've had some students claiming they've been thrown out on the streets and been denied access to food and we've also seen a cartoon it shows an ex-pat african in front of trash cans and that's depicting foreigners as breaking rules and experts being labeled as trash that needs to be sorted and all of this is escalated over the last week or so after we had a number of cases about 114 cases of

into muddy already has 6000 paying members and now the government of ghana has also expressed interest in this health insurance scheme. health care security a social network as many as 4000000000 people worldwide have no access to such basic protection those with the lowest levels of education a most at risk in brazil casual trash pickers and now being given the chance to train as official waste saltus instead. this patch of land 20 kilometers outside the capital brasilia used to be the biggest landfill site in latin america last year the dump was closed and the 60 meter high mountain of garbage was covered with. construction waste is still being dumped there although that's illegal the national waste policy ends to eradicate landfills and promote recycling with residual waste either incinerated or going to sanitary landfills that protect the environment but there are a still 2 and a half 1000 open landfill sites across the country. fernandes worked here as a waste picker for 20 years mainly at night she supported her 4 children by selling . anything of value she found they used to liv

ghana is also a very good place to invest. cote d'ivoire. you know, can you.w, kenya is also a very good place to invest. david: i first met you and number of years ago when i was raising my firm's african investment fund, and you invested in it. today, the boom seems to be off the rose in african private investing. it was more attractive 5, 6 years ago. today, it seems to be less attractive. is that because economies in africa have gone down a bit? or what would you say is the reason? aliko: i think most of that reason has to do with lack of understanding of where to invest. look at the investments that were made. you are seeing 90% of whatever we invested, they are doing very well. so i think it is where you should invest. even myself as an african, i cannot invest in every single sector, so i have to be very choosy of where i invest. there is a lot of wrong perception. you know, people read stories from newspapers, and they believe what they are reading. but i think, you know, as we go along, you know, there are quite a lot of changes in most african countr

slang for cyber crime is an increasingly common practice not just in ghana but also in nigeria and many other west african countries. youth activist abdul razak as well aware of the problems facing young people. in his neighborhood many teenagers and young adults involved in cyber crime out of necessity. know there are no hard core criminals this guy just. young vulnerable and disadvantaged men who will need to who i believe is the need to succeed in life not necessarily succeeding in building houses buying cars but to mix and meet. one of the most popular scams is called reminds young men pretend to be women on dating sites to trick lonely hearts into sending them money and gifts most of the victims are white men from europe and america a good romance comma can make up to $400.00 euros a month. come a weapon who also wants to remain anonymous explains why many gun ians have no sympathy for these naive men. the youth here think they're white man has taken a lot of things our way from the game they are using this means. to. attack their pride from mine for living in the 4 or 5 days so oa

i'm currentlty in accra, ghana. i flew on the fifth of march hoping to return on the 31st.ational address and said no flights would be going in or out of the country for about two weeks to control the coronavirus pandemic. they tell you to go and rebook the flight but you can't because they're not taking into account the borders are actually closed, so we're stuck and we don't know what to do. we've had to flights cancelled in the last week or so, and basically we've had to rent an apartment in auckland. it's very expensive. my partner has just retired from the nhs, and is desperate to get back to help there in the uk. we're basically stranded and marooned, and we could be here a long time. we're literally trapped here in sydney, we have no idea what to do anymore. no place tuesday and no money because no flights have been refunded to us. we're at our wits' end and all we want to do is come home. please, someone, help us. we feel like we've been forgotten, so saying we should fly back if we can, they need to take into account some countries have borders closed and they need

i'm currentlty in accra, ghana. i flew on the fifth of march hoping to return on the 31st.dress and said no flights would be going in or out of the country for about two weeks to control the coronavirus pandemic. they tell you to go and rebook the flight but you can't because they're not taking into account the borders are actually closed, so we're stuck and we don't know what to do. we've had to flights cancelled in the last week or so, and basically we've had to rent an apartment in auckland. it's very expensive. my partner has just retired from the nhs, and is desperate to get back to help there in the uk. we're basically stranded and marooned, and we could be here a long time. we're literally trapped here in sydney, we have no idea what to do anymore. no place tuesday and no money because no flights have been refunded to us. we're at our wits' end and all we want to do is come home. please, someone, help us. we feel like we've been forgotten, so saying we should fly back if we can, they need to take into account some countries have borders closed and they need to do mor

and african demand on banks african union so there was a much much a creusa accordion issue in derry ghana disses so one thing which i can tell you that we are missing at this time and. combating corner of my us all climate change we must. tread on in partnership a key factor apparent beads of korea's success this time around with coronavirus is that it made big mistakes over the moon outbreak do you think that's one reason why south korea has been so successful there's not even a lockdown in south korea now this time i believe that my country in a pub or of korea has done remarkably well. the because. she purred and government i think we had no walking very very closely. people had. trust and confidence in what government has been doing in the 1st time or. a message testing. for any potential. keeper divorcing south korean government give when you know what they had forced the cases and we ask the many industries to manufacture. testing kits testing kits i think is that they are now currently acing at least around a 100000 testing kits even when you may remember that to present to the uni

a west african country of ghana has recorded nearly 200 cases of 19 and 5 deaths the government has imposed a lockdown to contain the spread of the disease this is led pastas in particular to look for creative ways of reaching their congregations. reports some church leaders finding it hard to adjust to the new reality. mon li. is a young community leader in my deena. he also runs a christian fellowship organization for young people. to pandemic has teamed normality on its hate given the ban on so sharp that the reins is on able to meet his friends for weekly meetings but he has suggested today crises by uses social media to reach his community through life broadcasts he talks about who. and encourage. just men best to stay at home on dope safe social distancing young people to technology so we reach out to our people through feeds through our food. to disseminate information through the power of technology to look down it's now in place in cities such as accra and the southern city of massey to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. for the next 2 weeks streets like these remain empty peop

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