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and volatility in nairobi improves. that is certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the electric bikes a walk in the rain to maybe the idea will catch on in other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well we've come to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas and insights you can use wherever you live i am sunda tree no you're saying bye here in kampala the capital over uganda so long for now sandra and goodbye to you dear viewers out that see you again next week until then you can stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest developments on our social media channels for now i'm no time we signing up from the fashion park in lagos nigeria. it's got. to. kick off. from the refugee camp in ghana to morning to top football me in the world alphonso davis. fine in munich the 19 year old's undeniable talent has made him a shooting star. it's the stuff of fairy tales to live in for his story yet to be a

council now nairobi's authorities unless the city's west bank is largely unregulated. now the city has 2 challenges to solve the environmental problem the coronavirus crisis. many of you will never have seen. hardly surprising as it is a very rare form of on to the cookie is what the called locally in eat in 1000 ethiopia in english it is known as swans to be used in the 1990 s. the subspecies when nearly hunted to extinction but the local roma community banded together to ensure its survival in part by following age old plan traditions now the quirky population is bouncing back. this wanes hartebeest spends just a brief moments resting in the shade before seeking the safety of the herd swings on to be a star found only in ethiopia the largest population lives in the singular sanctuary in the south of the country an estimated $850.00 how to be slaves here. almost 40 rangers tends to the antelope safety and well being chief warden testable so and his team want to keep the animals from going extinct. because mama you know i was young. so they need. to be pondered by. the

and politics in nairobi improves. and that is certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the electric bikes a walk in the right to maybe the idea will cost you in other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well welcome to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas and insights you can use wherever you live i am sunda train of you saying bye here in kampala the capital overview gunda so long for now it's goodbye to you dear viewers out there see you again next week until then you can stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest development on our social media channels but now i'm no time we signing up from the fashion park in lagos nigeria. in the. center of the conflict zone in these extraordinary times we decided to take the opportunity to focus on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on human rights around the world there are reports of invasive surveillance authoritarian power grabs

but 1st we go to the keep it or district of nairobi where the cologne a virus crisis is causing many to go hungry. leiria tuberculosis hiv these often fatal diseases are still widespread in africa. and now they've been joined by coded 19 the worst is yet to come on the continent that is home to 1300000000 people warns the world health organization. africa has the worst health care in the world with one doctor for 3300 people on average. by comparison o.e.c.d. countries have one doctor per 300 people. the coronavirus is exacerbating poverty and hunger even in countries like kenya long considered east africa's economic powerhouse more than 2 thirds of kenyans work in the informal sector as artisans vendors cleaners most of these jobs have been wiped out by the pandemic. now many people can only afford one meal a day and residents of nairobi's biggest slum are desperately worried about their livelihoods and their children's future. it's a tense evening in nairobi's keep it a district and ambulances brought a weak elderly man back to the village who are supposedly tested negative for the

this district of kenya's capital nairobi is suffering especially badly. many here now depend on food donations one woman is close to tears she doesn't have a mask with her the volunteers simply give her a warning as they hand her the food parcels. these are typical scenes and in amongst it all the children schools have been closed because of the coronavirus a potentially devastating blow to the future of the younger generation here mothers like sophia she one too can't home school their children the family has no laptop tablet or computer and the power is often out anyway. but i can't check their answers i didn't go to school so instead they go to the neighbors who do that for me. sophie is 14 year old daughter sheila gets up at 6 in the morning to do her homework. she waits eagerly for school lessons to begin on the screen at her neighbor's house. so don't say just news group. because. we don't have any teeth we. don't have the. moon but his 3rd movement. i need to. learn but. there's still a. tentative deal really. i won't hear a negro i want to be devo

in the middle of a nairobi residential area amidst a coronavirus lockdown this waste dump is just one of many in and around kenya's capital. every day hundreds of tons of unsorted rubbish end up here some of it highly toxic. people like richard tin young to earn their living collecting and sorting the waste but they live in fear of the coronavirus. so now what with me i thought what the people. there are 300 way speakers here. if they touch contaminated waste they won't wash their hands they'll do it in the evening at home by then their love already contracted the disease so now your. volume of trash hasn't lessened despite the coronavirus lockdown nairobi's roads are less crowded right now so the municipal waste or 30 can deliver more ways to the dumps than before the crisis some $3000.00 times a day. for the collectors aren't in any more danger than before according to waste management official here pretty much. because of the lockdown they might be required to leave when all these. people have to be king and the will to become governor very blogs and the people. for the lockdown me

media and politics in nairobi improves. and that's he's certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the. electric bikes a walk in the rain to maybe the idea will culture and other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well welcome to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas on your sites you can use wherever you live i am sunder to know if you are saying by here in kampala the capital over uganda so long for now and sandra and goodbye to you dear viewers out there see you again next week until then you can stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest developments on our social media channels for now i'm no time we signing up from the fascist party in lagos nigeria. my flock of. high culture. high hair. superman. super. stylish long long gone don't let a. lifestyle you're a hero. 30 minutes. america has become. a fire going billy. 15 feet. our midst. mum police and some other celebrity slum slums that cons

and be quality and nairobi improves. and that's he's certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the. bikes a walk in the rain too maybe the idea will culture in other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well welcome to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas and insights you can use wherever you live i am sunder to know you're saying bye here in kampala the capital over uganda so long for now sandra and goodbye to you dear viewers out there so you again next week until then you can stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest development on our social media channels for now a military way signing up from the fashion park in lagos nigeria. india . top of the line products and bottom of the barrel pocket absolutely india's apple farmers in the himalayan mountains are used to. they decided to band together and invest in new business model and innovative technique because only together. can't even stan

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media and quality and nairobi improves. and that's he's certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the. a walk in the rain to maybe the idea will cause other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well welcome to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas and insights you can use wherever you live i am sunda tree no saying bye here in kampala the capital over uganda so long for now and sandra and goodbye to you dear viewers out there see you again next week until then you can stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest development on our social media channels for now i'm no time we signing up from the fascist party in lagos nigeria. it's smelly business feeding the world's ever growing population. agricultural multinationals are appeasing global hunger with cheap meat. impoverished small farmers decimated ecological systems and an economy dominated by monopolies are the devastating consequences of industri

politics in nairobi in theory. that is certainly an interesting approach and it is good to know that the electric bikes a walk in the right to maybe the idea will cost you in other african countries as well maybe here in uganda as well we've come to the end of this week's equal africa we've glad you could join us and of course we hope you've been able to pick up a few ideas and insights you can use wherever you live i am sandra tree no you're saying bye here in kampala the capital over uganda so long for now sandra and goodbye to you dear viewers out there see you again next week until the end you can stay in touch with us and keep up with the latest developments on our social media channels but now i'm no time we signing up from the fashion park in lagos nigeria. the protests have been silenced there is now fear and uncertainty on the streets. china's new security law has shut down freedom of expression. teachers are threatened with dismissal. activists are being arrested for fleeing the country global 3000. and 3

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it's a tense evening in nairobi's keep it a district and ambulance has brought a week elderly man back to the village who are supposedly tested negative for the corona virus. but many here suspect that he's still sick it's not entirely clear what his status is but people over worried enough to force the ambulance to take him back to the hospital. officially there have been around $11000.00 cases in kenya so far which is relatively low but there is widespread fear of a major outbreak schools have been closed because of the coronavirus a potentially devastating blow to the future of the younger generation here mothers like sophia she one do can homeschool their children the family has no laptop tablet or computer and the power is often out anyway. but i can't check their answers i didn't go to school so instead they go to the neighbors who do that for me. sophie is 14 year old daughter sheila gets up at 6 in the morning to do her homework. she waits eagerly for school lessons to begin on the screen at her neighbor's house. don't say just musical. because. you don't have the n.e.p. . don'

there are many like sophia house on trying to help others they're the backbone of nairobi's keep it a quarter people who won't give up no matter how long the crisis lasts. and let's bring in the chairwoman of save the children germany. so that the children were labelled super spreaders when this crisis hit ways that put kids now . when it comes to children the symptoms of cold are usually mild right and in the beginning everybody thought well this is not something that will affect children very much but all those children are not particularly affected by the virus they are heavily impacted by the secondary and social effects school closings for example lockdowns put families under pressure and these changes are quite dramatic and life changing for children everywhere right now even the u.s. in germany beat in south africa or europe and what we also see everywhere it's the most poor and the most vulnerable that are particularly hit and hit the most and we will see an increased inequality and an increase poverty in months and years to come what about the extreme examples is there eviden

in the government in nairobi was filled with political intrigue and frustration and with four days or five days of interviews in kenya my mind is spinning with all the intrigue with one story after another with the manipulation and death threats and people losing their jobs because of tribalism and barack obama unavoidably was caught up on that. >> another term that comes up is alcoholic. >> barack obama senior definitely had a drinking problem. many called him an outright alcoholic some just said he he drank a lot there were a lot of occasions many people said he loved his double whiskey and double scotch and drink any hour of the day. and the do affect his life and they attribute that the frustrations that he had over the years because of his job and employment and ups and downs that exaggerated it. >>host: womanizer? >> that says two things about senior. one about a dancer and that he loved women. and looking at kenya the same way in the united states. and the polygamist culture. and his grandfather from what we have been told perhaps had many as 15 wives the barack senior had for

a radio news anchor in nairobi kenya i capital f.m. and i'm also an entrepreneur. was born and raised in the u.s. i always literally felt like i think because of that one fact when i go to school. you know the american lifestyle and scene of the and to the house everything from his mother your maternal cooking now you and me the kind who are the kenyan mindset of everything from apprentice matches you know i was american and i don't ever forget where you come from. my journey back to kenya was very unplanned so i spent some time in kenya one religion flying and right before i was going home someone asked me have you ever thought about doing radio and i was like radio. you know sometimes you don't see something in yourself that someone else might seem and so i came in and i got hired i got a job offer on the spot. my time as a music of learned so much about my country. the politics the people and why things are the way they are gives me a better understanding of your every day kenyan and their struggles and their triumphs. one of the coolest things about being on th

as bring in our panel into the show now we have joining us from nairobi max lawson he's the head of inequality policy at. in new delhi we have international development economist and professor to go she and in london alexander dean he's the former chief of staff to david cameron when he was the shadow secretary of state for education welcome to the show if i can start with j.i.t. how do you see the secretary general's call for a new global deal is it an overdue appeal for some commonsense or a idealistic vision that will never become reality well i absolutely think it's open to you and i am very glad that it actually come out to it because the idea that it's your job ian it could never get translated it's really a reflection of our lack of political will in imagination. and he said we're really at the brink cannot point to. the extremes of inequality just threatening our societies our economies yet i'm able to cope with the pandemic that we shouldn't been able to do. if we had the proper structures this year and it would cope with the existential threat of climate change and we have to basical

when we arrive at my show girls see posts in nairobi. games and laughter. and the playful soundtrack can be had been in every corner of this 3 bedroom family house it's not much space but founders florence care and yvonne when she could have managed to squeeze in 29 people. to be. one of them survivors of sexual violence. it was just like it's just in the house you have 4 children 5 children that's what we need me in the shop so you. and i think it's it's even a limited space because we are denying gus entry here which also cuts it's even more. kenya has only one government run safe house which makes such privately run shelters essential for survivors. survivors like 16 year old maria not her real name she came here after she was raped at gunpoint by a soldier who had hired has a maid. after he raped me i got off the bed and found a metal thing to loosen the 2 shirt he had used to tie me. i removed the mouthguard and then continued going to work because my mom asked for than mine and he also threatened to kill my wife and i only have one part and. maria's d

but 1st we go to the key district of nairobi where the.

mark webber is live for us from nairobi in kenya malcolm just tell us more about these protests and also why the church believes that the dissolution of parliament is the solution. with a key message today is there the protesters are calling for electoral reforms and they're objecting to the proposed appointment of a new president of the electoral commission by parliament and this chapter of congolese politics begins about one and a half years ago when elections were held that were long overdue the outgoing president joseph kabila wasn't eligible to run for another term he'd been ruling for 18 years the election results according to leaked documents were rigged the opposition say that they won but the people of joseph kabila in the electoral commission rigged the result to favor felix to security who took over power now the electoral commission denied rigging felix's again he took over with a fragile coalition between could be party and his own party and was widely seen to be an arrangement intended to keep could be in control of many parts of the state now that coalition was relatively

closer to the colonial seat of power in nairobi was the mau mau movement.nialism and to get land back. many were rounded up, detained and tortured. the official death toll is disputed. some historians estimate that more than 20,000 died. at midnight the unionjack was lowered for the last time and kenya ceased to be a colony and became independent. 1963, statues of colonial leaders were removed and later replaced with kenyan faces. good luck to kenya in her new role as an independent nation. and decades later, as statues of leaders of colonialism and slavery are brought down across the world, some kenyans are now questioning how deep the change here really went. we just changed the face of the monuments. we were conned at independence. we were handed over to the people who were subservient to the colonial authorities. the biggest beneficiaries of independence, they say, were those who worked for the colonial administration and fought against their opponents. controversial views in kenya today. what have i done? they landed activist mutemi wa kiama in trouble

last monday london a refugee from somalia has been living in the kenyan capital nairobi for the past 17 the is. just more access to employment the father of 9 children has always depended on money sent by friends and relatives to feed his family and pay other expenses he says he hasn't received any money for the past 3 months we are refugees on a lot of different meaning we have some relative youth. who are already in the u.s. canada. u.k. so they used it to send out. the. his situation is similar for many other families whose breadwinners walk in other parts of africa giulia of the a mother of 2 is visiting a money transfer office for the 1st time in 3 months. my husband is a trader in south sudan and was forced to close his business he hasn't been able to send us any money since march we've been forced to live off our meagre savings before the outbreak of the koran of violence bungle holes like this will be full of customers waiting to collect funds sent by the letters of broad now they're few and far between lockdown measures adopted in many countries have led to job losses for mi

nairobi kenya. this year's 1st atlantic hurricane hanna has made landfall on the southern coast of texas strong winds and rains have been lashing the coast with a category one system arriving on saturday just south of corpus christi the state governor has issued a disaster declaration for 32 counties saying the coronavirus outbreak will complicate rescue and recovery efforts. in the pacific hurricane douglas is heading for hawaii where people are boarding up windows and stocking up on supplies the storm is expected to reach the islands on sunday social distancing rules will be enforced in storm shelters. still to come on this half hour around to see or news for you 6 months on from the 1st cold with 19 infection of the city residents are now facing a new threat. also ahead for the love of the game we'll tell you why it's kicking off in mexico despite coronavirus fears. same something of an increase in the shower activity across southeast asia recently lost the showers there into the southern philipp

weighing that that's how it was decided to leave this assist the station of movement in and out of nairobi and. the coastal town of mumbai you also said that charges and mosques can reopen conditions not more than 100 people can go to service those who are over 58 years old and with underlying medical conditions they can't go to a child or a mosque he also said that some. should be kept out of a maximum of one hour and he said that the government is going to be morning's hearing this for the next $21.00 days and eve you think things it is sees things worse in the vendor lock down is going to be imposed. well speaking of reopening one of the world's most visited museums is opening its doors again after the pandemic forced its closure the louvre in paris home to the mona lisa with lost open back in mid march directors say the 16 week because a has cost the museum about $45000000.00 and lost ticket sales now usually during peak tourist season the museum draws up to $50000.00 visitors a day but managers expects those numbers to drop drastically with tourism still at a standstill on the british

nairobi kenya. america special envoy for iran says the blockade of cats are has gone on too long brian hooks says the gulf dispute is damaging stability prosperity and security as well as harming shared regional interests saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt cut ties with cats are 3 years ago accusing it of supporting armed groups qatar's leaders deny their allegations president and secretary pump aoe continue to stress the importance of unity among the g.c.c. members the dispute has continued for too long and it ultimately harms our shared regional interests in stability prosperity and security the united states will continue to stress the benefits of cooperation with all g.c.c. members and support steps to rebuild trust and unity. olivia didn't have a lie and who is considered the last surviving actress from the golden age of hollywood has died at the age of 104 she was best known for her role in the 1900 $39.00 film gone with the wind her acting career included 2 academy awards and a v