to residents in nairobi biggest informal settlement. hello i'm christine one. news africa it's good to have your company sales off tobacco and alcohol products have resumed in south africa as the government eases the country's restrictions cigarette sales in particular had been banned. in march the bag was controversial from the beginning supported by public health groups and criticized by the industry and the public but now that the ban has been lifted what did the government achieve. in a moment. my guest but 1st or day to day there were queues outside liquor stores in south africa drinkers and smokers were keen to stock up a reporter sent us this report a bit of the sale of cigarettes had devastating impacts on businesses in the industry likely one of her family has been selling tobacco products for 35 years now she had to close one of her shops and only remains with this one here knocked down was horrific and it is her to think you can never ever recoup your losses there's no scenes whatsoever because anything that you prohibit people will work around it as

all right choice arena beer there for us in nairobi thank you very much. well staying in africa zimbabwe is having an especially hard time right now the economy is imploding inflation is exploding and more than 700 percent the 2nd highest rate in the world and lock down has cost many people their jobs some resorting to unusual or even illegal ventures just to make ends meet. she used to work at a bank now cynthia done to us those food and other everyday items out of her car in a suburb of the capital harare and she's not the only one. they're not jumps at the moment. my daughter doesn't. inform us it wasn't until 9 and but because of people of the car number. 19 in this situation is the only way within several companies and then with the still. running even you can see it all went good in being here for hey kids when my niece. you know. most of the goods they sell here have been smuggled over from neighboring south africa where the border has been closed for months zimbabwe's economy has been in shambles food is scarce prices are rising rapidly and there's

they're the backbone of the nairobi's kibera quarter. people who won't give up, no matter how long the crisis lasts. host: in brazil, the coronavirus has been downplayed by the country's president jair bolsonaro. despite testing positive, he has pressed local governments to end lockdown measures and social distancing. the outbreak in brazil has claimed the second-highest number of deaths after the u.s. yet many brazilians are retunecessity. repeporter:avis it's a tough job wororking asa snack vendor on copacabana beach. laelson de oliveira wanders up and down in the sweltering heat for hours. he has no other choice. laelson: selling on the beach is still banned, but i just had to work again, because the government doesn't provide enough support. reporter: copacabana beach is of course an icon of rio de janeiro. it's alslso a placwherere rich meets poor. laelson travels for four hours every day just to work here. if things go well, he barely takes 100 euros home with him. laelson: i know this disease is killing a lot of people. but if we

now let's get the ball rolling in kenya's capital nairobi due to the pandemic the city's on very carefully between 9 pm and 5 am obviously this affects the cities and tie on like life for those who want to go out like clubs closed on working doing the nights like taxi drivers food seles and sex work is finding it difficult to make a living very own even the money stepped out on nights to find out what they have to say on a typical saturday night in nairobi you might find yourself in traffic and that's probably from people who are trying to get to events or maybe to a club before happy hour ends and that industry the service industry has been deeply affected since a coffee was imposed because of probate 19 so what happens to all the servicemen and women who are really low. on the activities of the light to find for their families well i want to find out which news be going club hopping today. ok some about 3 invites you into what we call a local joint the name suggests it's a neighborhood pub but all these people we're seeing here i must leave in less than an hour and i want to find out fro

willing to bare nairobi's largest informal settlement and very few people here have their own tap water much less a private child toilet. sharing a bathroom with hundreds of people is already a problem in normal times but during the pandemic it's even more of a health risk. than since corona started business has not changed because here people don't have a bathroom they don't have space for bathrooms and toilets we were very scared when one person went to the toilet the next person didn't want to go in so you've poured a lot of water and then went into the toilet. in the nobody's informal settlements providing clean water is big business anyone who has a connection sells that water an average resident told us they spend about 2 years 50 a week on water. to get out there sometimes we have no water here for people to wash their hands sometimes we have water so i put it out for them before corona you needed about 5 or 6 containers of water but now you need around 10 because you always have to wash your hands and when other people come by they have to wash their hands to. the price of water

is a key source of water for the nearby town of kikuyu as well as the kenyan capital nairobi q is growing and getting ever closer. the wetland greenhouses and fields now reach right up to the edge of the swamp which covers 3.3 square kilometers the equivalent of $450.00 football pitches families used to harvest large amounts of grass from the wetland to feed their cattle which meant birds had less room to build their nests but that is no longer the case thanks to david work ok and his colleagues who make up the friends of on t.v. wetland group when we started our walk there are so many for the harvest so our harvest in florida and advent of the year. are just after they goodbye and these bullies and this is. how the whole biodiversity destroyed the group purse $300.00 members. fail in the process of planting 8000 young trees around the wetland to help prevent soil from the fields washing into the wetland when it rains and to endure cattle from going there to graze. david kyra's farm is next to the wetland he's keen to make sure that the trees here can thrive. since the trees were planted

when we arrived at my shed girls safe house in nairobi were met with 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 one g 4 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 and 5 children that's what really you need me and which are so huge. and i think it's it's even a limited space because we are denying girls entry here which also hotspots even more. kenya has only one government run safe house which makes such privately run shelters essential for survivors of. 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 when 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 then my life he also threatened to kill my wife and i will help one part

of the top it was a day of celebration that nairobi is jomo kenyatta international airport after $130.00 days on the ground kenya airways is flying again the airline kicked off the restart of international travel with a flight from nairobi to london we are extremely excited. to start this because it's been. it's been 130 days since we we did these. airlines are supposed to fly and so we're back to business the airline is planning to serve about 30 international destinations for now the restart also means a restart of tourism in kenya a boost for the struggling economy i think it's very important for kenya to want to be able to fight for an entire country. very important especially where we live in a customer life carries a lot very great or very determined. and it's not just a boost for the tourism sector the planes will also carry flowers meat and seafood from kenya to markets abroad. it is also very important for us to support bicheno farmers who really need this particularly this started when there was sort of your capacity in addition to that also we know this is really great need in

so more let's bring in our correspondent in nairobi joy to reindeer joy good to see you what are the big issues in these negotiations. well kate over one of the biggest issues in these negotiations are the fact that kenya is looking for a predictable trade agreement with the united states considering that the current unilateral agreement ends or expires in the year 2025 so for investor confidence they are looking to a solid predictable agrement the united states so they can be able to offer that city invest right up to the year 20000 to $5.00 and also they're looking to expand the range of goods exported to the united states as well as look into offering more job opportunities for kenyans in the united states because under the current agreement and goa this has not been happening because it has been more of the united states benefiting as opposed to how much kenya is benefiting from the current agreement that they have and go on now kenya has a much bigger trading relationship with china than itself with the u.s. america trying to play catch up here yes and these conversations have b

here to me in africa only swamp is a work line in campbell county and also the head of water over nairobi river tributary the white line these are the important source of water awful farming and of ice it is. and the reason more to the new to the swamp also helps to reduce the impact of floods during the rainy season and helps improve water quality the area has suffered a major degree as a result of the illegal discharge of west and in question meant by local people that want to vetted members of the community to find a course of action project to protect the vital ecosystem. they used to be lots of great credit cranes here but not in a bowl on daily wetland was once home to all kinds of birds the duck and herring populations of also declined. c o 2 and store rainwater on daily is a key source of water for the nearby town of kikuyu as well as the kenyan capital nairobi kenya is growing and getting ever closer. the wetland greenhouses and fields now reach right up to the edge of the swamp which covers 3.3 square kilometers the equivalent of $450.00 football pitches found is used to harvest

toxins including heavy metals that serious because the wetland is the source of a tributary of the nairobi river on whose water is the capital depends. the friends of the on t.v. wetland have persuaded some farmers to give up this kind of intensive cultivation. and they're helping to undo the damage. we are blank and bumble along these wetlands there are very good. trees when it becomes too. so i've been in the metals that are coming out of the greenhouse farming. for a long time the local authorities did little to protect the swamp but that too is changing. we're walking dead through their farmlands because. part of the allowed so we're. getting them and creating awareness but. to do all the next funding because. the. banks in particular to the efforts of the friends of own dairy the wetland has started to recover. the next project is to build a trail for that watches. the bugs that are found here. be very important. to this area because one. those areas that have been marked. area would be years. land is not one of them and that is one of the things that friends of mine didn't want to ac

for more, i would like to bring who joinsrespondent us from nairobi. to isamu being with us.hat do we know about this agreement so far, and how significant is i it, wouldld you say? absolutely, this deal isis seen as a significant milestone for sudan. year, soiorititized last it has taken about a year to get it done. it is basically meant to adadess the root causes to the cononflit also things like the legislative counsnsel too be unblocked so they can move the country forward. it is also meant t to address te areas, but these areas have n not remained unoccupied, so this is something that the government will have to handle delicately. other things they will have to address i i autonomy of areas that feel marginalized. main know that two of the rebel groups have not signed, and that is the very reason we cannot really say thatat this ia historic agreement. why did they decide not to join this agreement?? why,it is not clear exactly even though one of the leaders didn't attend the talk -- did attend the talk. also the largest constituency. ththis deal, one of the things t is m

closer to the colonial seat of power in nairobi was the mau mau movement.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, you know, 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 with the aut

metz the children of nairobi were dreaming of becoming the world's best. when they grow up. it's a dance getting helps me to be strong when i am on my schedule but i feel free when i'm moving on the board especially when i'm dropping into the ball and i come out i feel so good. 16 year old. she gets the chance. to shine in my role being. 100 children but a skate park is the best part least the children think so. because i must get. the opening 24 it's not just new stuff just past. but also its largest. self confidence they've been able to express themselves they've been able to pull from them both to open up and appreciate them he says when she watches the children skate and she sees just troubled past neglect and abandonment. she sees a brighter future. as often as i dream of going to the olympics one day and introducing women. showing them they shouldn't be afraid of skating because nothing is impossible you just have to have them move around and be feeling and have enough confidence confident enough. to make a living with skateboarding one day and when she wants to build

here is rhoda odhiambo from nairobi.fected region on the continent, after southern, northern and western africa. more than 84,000 covid—19 cases have been reported here. the world health organization says one of the african countries fuelling the surges kenya. here is rhoda odhiambo from nairobi. east africa is the fourth most affected region on the continent, after southern, northern and western africa. more than 84,000 covid—19 cases have been reported here. in east africa, kenya, ethiopia and sudan have the highest numbers of covid—19 cases. this has been attributed to increased testing and reopening of the economy by various heads of state. kenya, ethiopia, rwanda and uganda have conducted more than 200,000 covid—19 tests. and like south africa, where healthcare workers are going into the community looking for symptomatic cases, governments here are conducting targeted testing, focusing on a particular population or an area that has a cluster of cases. even with this, the african cdc is concerned about the cases bein

who are struggling to survive i hope in the money we'll get to them this time cathy zoi al-jazeera nairobillo again this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines thousands are demonstrating in the lebanese capital barriers these are live pictures from there people are angry at the government blaming corruption and inertia for an explosion at the port on tuesday that killed 158 people one police officer has now been killed in clashes with protesters and the red cross says more than 100 people have been willing to. on dozens of protesters stormed lebanon's foreign ministry building chanting slogans against the government and the political establishment they have burned a portrait of president michel aoun the demonstrators also call for other ministry buildings to be occupiers and the prime minister has india has now called for early elections following that wave of public outrage in a televised address he said he would introduce a draft bill in the coming days proposing early polls. lame conclusion as. we cannot face these problems unless we have the early elections to elect a new politicia

or for themselves i can your photographer would to imitate the restrictions of movement imposed on nairobi left him with 2 choices stop working or adapt it chose the latter and has created gripping new pictures without even leaving the house. when working from home it's important to not get distracted by the background noise. photographer and father of 2 to america has perfected this and it's not the only thing he's had to adapt to since the could be endemic i used to be able to go out shoot get the motives that they needed think up ideas good just to do or have a and just then we got home and they realize now what right do i'm just home i didn't do anything for 3 weeks because i didn't want to then i found that i think it's about time that i just started shooting myself. in the place that i am but being a one man team and working in a limited space is not easy. yet this forced seclusion is what has inspired me because latest series creating isolation. you can be somewhere big but to the limited imagination you still. do walk but he's takes like 2 meters squared or you can be in a trial ju

his role was celebrated in the 2004 film hotel rwanda often when it's cost lives to mark home in nairobi marco in the the film it paints a character of paul which has begun in a very positive light and that's markedly different to the way that that of london investigation bureau is painting on what do we know about why he was arrested. in the dollywood for trade him as a hero but there on that investigation bureau says that he's been funding terrorist groups and that he's responsible for organizing attacks that happened in rwanda now it's made allegations similar to the against this is the biggest. for many years as a beginner has always denied it but what we do know is that he's had a public feud with president me for about 14 years recess a beginner wrote a book in about 2006 he was accusing his government of favoring only a small ethnic elite in a marginalizing the ethic hutu majority now this is something that contradicts what the rwandan government says it itself says that following the genocide it's become a post ethnic society now recess a beginner also criticized. president paul

gear to treat coronavirus patients police fired tear gas at more than 300 medics demonstrating in nairobi well those are the headlines rob matheson will have more news for you here on al-jazeera after earthrise stay with us. the explosion of plastic waste across the wilds threatens the very survival of life on our planet. every year up to $12000000.00 metric tons of plastic and saw oceans. from poisoning marine life littering landscapes and cloaking waterways plastic waste and the environment is set to trickle in the next decades.

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