in west africa lies in the sahara desert and huge june creeping closer and closer to the capital niamey but an ngo called a young volunteers for the environment all pushing back leading the fight children and teens the organization believes that the young people all the key to changing environmental policies and practices and once they're on board they in turn convince other members of the a families to join the cause. and environmental protection in action. xenia is learning from master blacksmith even human mana how to build an oven that works without wood all parts must fit together perfectly so that the oven closes tightly and no heat can escape. ybor him a mana is building a series he just received an order for 50 ovens from the ngo volunteer no porn on feel. through. this oven is a tool in the fight against desertification is because it's not filled with wood but with rice husks the husks can't be used for anything else not even animals a ton of i know my butt out. every day tons of rice husks accumulate in the state rice factory it's waste with no nutritional value everyone who h

down booboos of the festive go to live with it west african muslim and the tailors in the capital niamey can use up to 9 meters of material for this kind of traditional clothes were. dumped on to good we measure the neck exactly it has to see will because that's where the embroidery goes if a nick line is too wide and doesn't sit right the entire government is ruined it doesn't matter how well you have so in the wrist it's a waste it all depends on the nick pm i did do i don't hold the fabric for booze comes. far afield even from the small german town of oh in saxony where the company has been supplying african countries with textiles for booze since the 1960 s. known as to mask the fabric for them is woven from $2200.00 spools companies huge machines we've the myriad of threads into the final parts and product. its managing director says the material is very special. to realize that while our status symbol here is the car in west africa. the outer clothing layer has to look great and fashionable look at this. plus this is so in a typical finish for african goods. you can see the reflect

niamey that there are numerous changes personally i experienced breathing problems when going outside without wearing i must say i thought that. i was out and i guess i am set aside in the sea but this is a personally i get very short of breath. i'm also concerned about the long term health effects is that when you're on the bottom of the very best if there's no action taken to reduce the air pollution it will certainly. get in the bottom of that i mean without. action is being taken now by environment activists who are fed up with the filthy air in the city and the threat that it poses. for you under the much ark up. today the representatives of all people who care about their health and the environment and also the health rights for humans and jakarta citizens took the initiative to file a lawsuit against the government or say any. one of the high profile defendants named in the suit president vetoed oh so far he's made no comment in the case. but this group hopes the historic little suit will attract attention to the plight of the 10000000 people stuck. in a cloud of poison. and jo

member states time to prepare for us as more from the african union summit and as harris capital niamey stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent. from north to south east to west and in the hurt of africa to government struggling to contain communal clashes and violent extremism. african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that are going to correct criminals take advantage of this free movement you know to. one country to another and that is can just his or to perpetrate their yeah and if i missed opportunities so definitely looking for the for the to.

and a quarter 1000000000 people of nature as has more from the african union summit in the capital niamey. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent. from north to south east to west and in the hurt of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal clashes and violent extremism. african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized crime criminals could take advantage of this free movement you know to flow from one country to another and that is can just is or to perpetrate their nefarious activities so definitely there will be looking for the for the chink in the are you looking for the weak link in the countries do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk safe heaven for you know or terrorist or criminal organized criminals the government say they're working to stop that from

people the agreements being finalized and a new summit our correspondent address is in the capital niamey on the face of it this sounds like an absolutely huge daunting very ambitious project. agrarian business probably greater and it's basically part of 12 point i joined of african leaders came to an opening and of course integrating the continent they have ambitious plans from cropping border borders as well as lifting terraces along 884000 kilometers of borders. on the african continent setting up a wall rail networks road networks huge infrastructure they talking about m b shoes projects to put these things together and of course the expectation is that when this agreement takes off next year by 202020 there will be able to raise in traffic and trade from the master sent it is now to over 60 percent in the next 3 or 4 years however most all leaders here and economist and other observers of the believe that there are a lot of challenges i had before this gets off the ground in particular the issue of security. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing conce

get member states time to prepare recess more from the african union summit and as harris capital niamey. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east west and in the hurt of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal clashes and violent extremism. african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized crime criminals take advantage of this free movement you know to flow from one country to another and that is can just as or to perpetrate their nefarious activities so definitely looking for the for the chink in the are you looking for the weak link if the companies do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk said heaven for you know terrorist or criminal organized criminals the government say they're working to stop that from happening. we have decided

so ahmed idris brings us the latest now from capital niamey. they're trying to imitate the leader of the union. to form a free trade agreement was this is part of the world's largest trade free trade bloc if it goes if it takes all hostile because they want to what to do in 2020 so basically all the protocols are in place for the heads of state and government who are meeting in this building right behind me tomorrow to ratify already their ministers of trade ministers according to present security that all of us have been discussing the various protocols and various aspects of the negotiations but what we probably will see this all these agreements to itself in 2020 will be something countries are asking for concessions before they fully join in nigeria was dragging it treats its seat until last week when the president announced that yes they're going to sign 2 more countries to the absent from the agreement building and eritrea of seizures of the african union commission are telling us that everything had been in has indicated its intention to

member states time to prepare managers has more now from the african union summit in nice as capital niamey. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east to west and in the hurt of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal clashes and violent extremism african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps shield the fighting. experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized criminals could take advantage of this free movement you know to flow from one country to another and it is killed just these or to perpetrate their nefarious activities so definitely do looking for the for the chink in the armor you looking for the weak link if the countries do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk becoming safe heaven for you know terrorist or criminal or organized criminals governments say they're working to stop that from hap