and there's plenty of will in nigeria.is a rigorous training program that teaches coders and engineers with the goal of creating no less than a continent-wide ecosystem of high value software developers. >> shalom: my mom has like a mobile shop, something like what's in computer village. that's where i grew up, like, she would sell mobile phones and they'd fix it there, and she just used to run that. >> blessing: i came looking for a job, but the jobs i got, i said, "no, i don't want to be a salesperson, i don't want to be a secretary." so that's why i got into programming. >> anthony: shalom and blessing are trainees in the program, people who will someday rewrite the way africa works. >> seni: as you can see, there are a lot of issues in nigeria today. the average nigerian is struggling for just food, water, clothing, shelter. we all believe that this will change, and we all believe that we will change that. in the u.s., for every software developer that's looking for a job, there are five openings, which means there is

month's winter olympics and as more than seven hundred people less came back over her captivity in nigeria we have from one a former president of the group. at least eight iranians have been killed overnight in antigovernment protests according to state media it says twenty two people on known to have died since the demonstrations began on thursday the supreme leader calls iran's enemies for the trouble robustus and most all. gunshots in the city of persia. demonstrate. defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here i think i working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems pe

agriculture accounts for just over twenty percent of nigeria's g.d.p. . but seventy percent of the country's working population is employed in the sector one major problem farmers say is flooding. new flood issue in fact it just been. a problem because we had no change. in africa we. expected on but newt. agric. sixty one year old farmer paul on yemen cultivates mainly rice yams and kasama on his three acre farm in a bunny state in southern nigeria even with the crude method of farming he's known on his life he's able to produce forty to fifty bags of rice every year. but he says financing is a problem. he. can get. nobody you did beat me for not. only did. she get money you were rich i wanted. as well as broadcasting from the station he could go no also goes out to hear what the people think he's convinced that since he started his radio show in two thousand and seven it's had a positive influence on people's actions. in doing this was. that strength of community decision when it comes in this is that. everybody comes in by . community people really all

thanks sharon i'm now outside when lagos nigeria welcome as always we're happy to have you with us for our environmental journey through africa and europe so here's what we have coming out today. saving ram months of rains in mozambique. making use to back out of textile waste in zimbabwe. i'm sharing solar energy in germany. but we start off in south africa which is really non-food its nature reserves including the wild famous kruger national park but often the people who leave in the communities near this wildlife preserves have never set foot in them while all going to ization is hoping to change that by introducing the local youth to wildlife and conservation through photography. an idyllic sunrays of a south africa's land the province this isn't part of the country is home to dozens of nature results and national parks that draw in thousands of tourists from all over the world every year. but for the local communities that live right on the borders of these paths access is often too expensive. two years ago my conflicts found over local outreach program while shots started introdu

all of this people will need a roof over their head nigeria. eighteen many many houses have been built i mean did expensive and usually not environmentally friendly one mind believes that houses can be built in a cost effective way and still be environmentally friendly. nigerian. and his wife are proud of their new home it is one of the first houses in nigeria made almost entirely from shipping containers. this building site in lagos one of the largest cities in the country looks quite ordinary but these nearly finished houses are anything but ordinary for. it was a good opportunity to acquire a solidly constructed and comfortable home in nigeria there's a lot of application actually contain us but it's mostly for offices of shops or temporary living quarter by a construction company. so my question is we don't have a shortage of shops in nigeria. that we have is housing particularly housing for your income the containers provide the basic structure of the house each container can be outfitted with custom features depending on the owner's proje

police checkpoints in nigeria have been part of everyday life for us. but here they're not about maintaining security they're little more than pay outstations of corruption. although the chief of police outlaw them long ago his colleagues continue to stop cars and money. we are on the road from lagos the economic capital of nigeria to the neighboring country deneen and we observing what traders and travelers go through here every day although we're still more than one hour away from the border we've been passing several checkpoints of the police immigration and customs in many cases drivers for bribes. more than ten checkpoints on an eighty kilometers is how unusual. anyone who refuses to play along and fork over cash will need hours to proceed but. many people here say that nothing has changed since he was elected president of nigeria . the big issue is. the. right well we asked but. there was something very. drastic changes. during the campaign he promised to combat corruption. but a recent after a barometer study shows that more than ninety percent o

frank was born in penances he nigeria in nine hundred seventy six. twenty three years later he moved to the ukrainian capital kiev to study business management. in two thousand and one he joined his brother in berlin he took the opportunity to retrain . after that friend and young they opened a caesarean business and then a little while later his own restaurant pan african. this in this decision it seemed they would have a lot to do with identity as to africana as an african i serve my kind of film that's already one hundred percent identity. device for example we were hiring and an italian applied for a job why but i said modeling the kitchen so he can work here in the front but not in the kitchen because the kitchen the food that's my identity. by the cushion this is my identity it. is a traditional west african stew and the national dish of nigeria. it can be made with various kinds of meat with fish or individual tarion variation . ground men and seeds called it goosie let the dish its name and give it a slightly nutty flavor that. they can be bo

for a short break here not a zero when we come back hundreds of boko haram hostages are scape in nigeria we meet a former captive of the armed group. and we look at lisa says story of a tiny minority in making a major contribution to the economy more than stay with us. by the springtime flowering of a mountain lake. to the first snow fall on a winter's day. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia subzero in almaty kazakhstan but once again becky standstill russy mild air there for tashkent now as we head into sisters day we'll see a drop in temperatures for tashkent otherwise rossetti fine around the caspian sea we've got eighteen and sunshine in baghdad but more unsettled weather conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean sea so some rain likely for parts of syria extending down through into lebanon here in the arabian peninsula is fine from mecca highs of thirty two for doha we've got pretty pleasant weather here temperature gensler twenty two ish as a high and not much change expect as we head on through into thursday but

now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake chad region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept bible quote i came almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a book what i have been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president mahmoud why did when he made that announcement since that announcement was seen daring and sometimes devastating attacks by boko haram fighters in northeastern nigeria and they have taken a lot of hostages some of these attacks actually took place in two thousand and seventeen the army is continuing its operations to be against boko haram and boko haram has so far proved to be a resilient fall in northeastern nigeria boko haram is still holding many people hostage catherine so i met some of the families as well as former captives of the armed group in mother godling that's in northeastern nigeria. this mother's in mud a galley a desperate for news of their teenage daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram almost three years a

in nigeria hello and. thank you sharon and hello everyone. we're coming to you from the live fasi park in lagos nigeria welcome sit back and relax for the next half hour or thereabout i will bring you the latest on the environment topics from africa and europe this is what we have coming up today in tanzania donkeys are still being stolen and killed farmers an animal's welfare come painters. then a shipyard in germany is building guess what functional green. renewable materials and in senegal we meet women using to earn money and provide light to the happening . but first let's stop the show here in nairobi kenya has joined its neighbor rwanda in banning the sale of plastic bags and other plastic products but that doesn't mean an end to plastic waste in and around nairobi an estimated two hundred fifty tonnes of plastic generated every day it's come to recycled in different ways now just can't an entrepreneur in the kenyan capital has found a way of timing the waste into fuel. plastic litter this dump site counting. every kenyans generates fo

children who are still missing but also for everybody living in the north east off nigeria because it clearly shows that they still the willingness of negotiation the willingness of talking on both sides the women in this latest video now they are purportedly some of the remaining chibok girls but in this video they say that they don't want to go back to their families no i mean if this is true why would boko her wrong release the video now. well we've had a similar view released a few months ago where we even saw one of the legit chibok girls holding a gun saying she doesn't want to go back and it does not come as a surprise to many up service those bills have been in captivity for a very very long time and of course they were brainwashed and this is also what we get from i the girls who were released they said each and one of them had different ways of handling the situation and some of them actually accepted their fates they decided to get married to some of the fighters what other the majority of them is more resilient the question why did they release this video now is it difficu

we're coming to you from the live fasi park in lagos nigeria welcome sit back and relax for the next half hour they're about to bring you the latest on environment topics from africa and europe this is what we have coming up today in tanzania donkeys are still being stolen and killed farmers an animal's welfare come pain as our last then a shipyard in germany is building guess what believe functional green vote out of renewable materials and in senegal we meet women using a look pod to earn money and provide light to the habit. but first let's start the show here in they can have joined its neighbor rwanda in banning the sale of plastic bags and other plastic products but that doesn't mean an end to plastic waste in every round nairobi an estimated two hundred fifty tons of plastic are generated every day it can be recycled in different ways now and entrepreneurial in the kenyan capital has found a way of timing the west into fewer. plastic litters this dump site. every year canyons generates million tons of garbage. it's a modern children. collecting waste helps and income. i come h

by by from lagos nigeria. mob. moved. on. the boat. the boat. the body. the bit. odd. life in the arctic it is hard to draw the line. there were people who just wanted to leave after one week but if you can stand it eventually you could come on there are people who want to live here and know why. i moved here to experience beauty and excitement. of the trip it's a good fifteen minutes on d w. b the german spy movie and so close to inspect the muslim culture in germany the best american keep music but take a look at germany and the simplicity subdued traditions every day long lives and language can just come out of the body i'm good for the break i am. d.w. dot com meet the germans. thousands of children go missing every get in china they are sold on the black market. town jingjing is searching for her son all by herself. without any help from the artists she's courtroom coach and dispatcher for she finds for a mother's rights. song time changing such as for her son. reporter andi delhi. imagine being born as. your ally the khan prove. you want to look good no school. y

nigeria's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the armed groups have managed to escape they were found to close to the north eastern border with child the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen were being forced or being kept as forced labor. the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground on elephants of over the last few weeks in northeastern nigeria now these areas they fled from actually islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with nigeria cameroon and child some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by villagers who are mostly farmers and fisherman now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake child region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept by book came almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a book around has been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president mo

cameroon and nigeria so a lot of these fighters displaced from other parts of northeastern nigeria moved in there and held these people hostage and according to the military because of the ongoing operations there the ground and operations there some of them targeting especially their logistics and what they call command and control bases in that region they abandon their positions and also there's all these hostages was able to flee however those areas where we know that that area of northeastern nigeria it's been the old but now we and the other function belonging to loyalists of mohammad yousuf have been operating in that area on the other part of the north east it's largely the shekau and. loyalists who have been operating especially around us and the supporters of the alligator for us and others. what does this say though i had about the government's previous claims that he had defeated baka harness they were able to hold as many as seven hundred people somewhere as slaves. well while sammy says the that declaration by the nigerian president that boko haram has been defeated i looke

hundreds of workers around the hostages in nigeria more of the same. hello there take a look at the weather across the americas it's all about the really cold air which is still there across much of north america extending all the way down into the south chooses my soon temperature for dallas atlanta only just above freezing you've got to get down into the florida potential before you see what you describe as mild weather as we move on through into wednesday there's not a great deal of change for many of these eastern areas further south we're seeing the return a slightly less cold air but we've got this low pressure developing and this could really produce some very heavy snowfall on parts of the eastern seaboard had to enter into thursday and this could cause some serious trouble disruptions so you need to keep updated on this if you're traveling to that part of the world otherwise those temperatures remain way way way below freezing for the most part we got some rain coming into parts of california so the good news i suppose heading down into the ca

there's been a separate incident in nigeria's northwestern could. have kidnapped an american and a canadian and killed two police officers what do we know about they're not related to what we've seen earlier. brant a very unlikely that is related to a book incident we have seen these kind of kidnappings for ransom happening in very often do not state is rather in the center off nigeria and those incidents as i said have been occurring there many times over the past year about a year ago two germans web later on released probably a ransom was paid so most likely those are criminals who try to go for money in the current incident from what we know at the moment is that the american and the canadian well actually installing solar systems in villages this is what the police said and on their way back from kut do not state to the capital they where so no information is where they are what is happening of this negotiations ongoing or not . the embassies of canada and the u.s. of course they do not make another choice about if they want to negotiate in the

nigeria starts evacuating thousands of its citizens who've been trapped in slave like conditions in libya. or i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera. a car bomb kills at least twenty five people in adlib city the syrian government forces step up their offensive on both ends. donald trump gets an apology from steve bannon after his woman aides explosives in a new book about the president. and as the first hollywood award ceremony of the year gets underway gender equality activists a playing a leading role. nigeria started flying thousands of its citizens home from libya where they'd been trapped in slavery like conditions large numbers of nigerians a stuck in libya they'd been trying to cross to italy by sea but was stopped by local on factions and libya's coast guard and now facing di conditions and abuse and i cheering government says the flights will continue for as long as they need to what libya serves as a portal to the mediterranean and on to europe for refugees and migrants from africa and the middle east up to ninety percent of people crossing the mediterranean se

nigeria's much more than seven hundred people held hostage by the ira as managed to escape they were found them. to the north eastern border with chant the minister says many of the captives were solace and fisherman who were being kept as forced labor us has lost some of. the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground and elephants of over the last few weeks in northeastern nigeria now these areas they fled from actually islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with nigeria cameroon and child to some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by villagers who are mostly farmers and fisherman now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake child region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept the bible quote came almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a book about him has been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president moh

in the african continent has not been achieved in most very many african countries starting with nigeria there is massive destabilisation of the populace in the not is we had the boko haram consistently last page in the social life life of the people in the place between two thousand and fifteen and now does this some appreciable improvement in the security of loss of property in the not is that that has been replaced by is the climate of instability in the north central and also part of the not is i talk about this like terrible like a ben when this north central plateau and the rest so there's a climate of the security even here in nigeria and so does the stand there otherwise i think that is why has the sales on that count. well one of the reasons why you do within the air you are played some more fundamental role is that there's be muslim movement in and out of nigeria korea thousand other african countries within the sub region. in a manner that if the african you know where strong where you are active and a vision they should have been able to stop the free movement of terrorists f

. >> they come in their thousands from niger, mali, nigeria, ghana. hard to believe that these are the lucky ones rescued from warehouses like the one in which we witnessed the auction. they're sold if those warehouses become over crowded or if they run out of money to pay their smugglers. of these rescued men, so many here say they were held against their will. it doesn't take us long to find victory. >> no food. water. >> no food, no water -- nothing. >> victory was a slave. we know that some people are being sold. >> yes. >> some people are being sold. >> yes. >> is this something you've heard about? can you tell us about it? >> yes. sure. >> tell us. >> i was sold. >> what happened? >> on my way coming, i was sold. if you look at muscles, if you check our bodies, you see the mark -- they're beaten with an electric... [ speaking indistinctly ] most of them lost their lives there. and i was there. the person who came to buy me give them my money. they took me home. so the money was not even much. >> other migrants now start to come forward with thei

and i will see in daring and sometimes devastating attacks by book or on fighters in northeastern nigeria and they have taken a lot of course to use some of these attacks actually took place in two thousand and seventeen the army is continuing its operations to be against book around and book i am a software proved to be a resilient fall in northeastern nigeria a fire as a drink factory in cameron's largest city is also destroyed a nearby school and several homes witnesses say the blaze started in alcohol vats at the factory and firefighters couldn't stop the flames spreading surrounding buildings reinforcements were called in from the nearby airport. conservationists are welcoming china's decision to ban the buying and selling of ivory an effort to curb elephant poaching china is the world's largest importer of elephant tasks demands for instance two thousand and fourteen because of slow economic growth and the government crackdown on corruption around thirty thousand elephants killed by poachers in africa every year. the indonesian tourist island of bali is counting the cost of its erup

said about nigeria but when people talk about nigeria it's about boko haram it's about violence it's about security you know i think. i think it's i think it reflects very poorly on french people that you have to ask me that question thank you thank you thank you thank you because i think surely i mean it's two thousand and eighteen mean come on. all many nigerians in social media mistakenly thought that the journalist was hosking if there were libraries in the country because the french word for library actually means books all this uses says that the she must think that nigerians live in huts too when will learn about this subject matter the intentional ignorance and arrogance is extremely upsetting but this is also now raise a debate about libraries and and the education system in nigeria eleanor says that the question was indeed racists and tremendous response was brilliant the question we must ask ourselves is do we have enough libraries and the kind of libraries that we need and then another use just adds that even though they are all libraries the culture around using them in

carol: just ahead, nigeria goes old-school when it comes to cryptocurrency fraud protection.k at the cost of free speech. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." still ahead, china defines the laws of economics. in the u.s., cities and schools bearing the costs of protest and counter protests. and the private british club hoping to plant flags in new york. that is all ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with the editor-in-chief of "bloomberg businessweek," joel webber. many more must reads in the magazine. there is feature story on china talking about how they are maybe getting around the laws of economics. joel: the chinese, i think it is just a fascinating story. we can basically do a china issue every single week. i think this is a particularly interesting one because there is a lot of questionable data. carol: yeah. joel: when we were talking about this story, i said i think the thing that really resonates with me about this is that the writer basically says we don't understand why this is happening, and yet

prices are usually in the middle part of nigeria in the central parts of nigeria and these states number as high as eight more turn of the . time in the nigerian government. years and policeman to drive down however it looks like a major problem not only. in out of nigeria as well in the neighboring terrible. came on the water ports not just today there was a similar attack that killed more than eighty people in the northeastern part of a state from the look of pain things are getting worse before they get better. could be which is in venue a state in the middle part of nigeria thank you. that germany's chancellor and the opposition leaders say the major hurdles they need to clear before they can form a coalition angela merkel is hoping for progress on a deal on the final day of talks in the end it would break a political stalemate that's left germany without a government since elections in september this is merkel's christian democratic union party in the opposition social democrats are trying to find common ground before starting formal talks on forming an alliance. we've made a lot of

i grew up on the council of the university of nigeria. a small town in southeastern nigeria. the castle was spread, across onto native grounds, housed on three lines streets. rent off, well tended hedges. it was a small, slow and lovely place. >> it's decline would,, starting with military dictatorship. that stopped funding education. but my childhood in the early 1980s was the last gas of the university's sparkling age. >> as the main trends for counsel of the large east, that very few guards in uniform, completed really, many of them elderly men with gentle demeanors, and before each card, you'll see the driver stopped, opened the trunk. i've used the word trunk as an american conception. when at perhaps the age of about 11 or 12, my mother or father let me come out and open the trunk, it felt like a right of passage to adulthood, to responsibility. >> but checking cards as they drove in and out of camp was a symbol of apartments. of specialness. it served the campus. was not part of the larger town. and it was not. it was a wall wall of its own. it had a catholic church an

interview that the prices is escalating because of the movement no additional hundred from now to nigeria to this particular one we're doing that one well boy doing that interview we heard we heard from neighboring town obviously which is just one hundred and you can you tell me just when i went from here to more people have been killed in similar clashes between mamas and cattle ranchers in. the central part of nigeria and indication that the crisis is about to get worse before it gets any better. the german chancellor and the opposition leaders say there are major hurdles to clear before a new coalition government can be formed angela merkel is hoping for progress on a deal on the final day of talks in berlin it would break a political stalemate this is left germany without a full government since elections in september this is merkel's christian democratic union party and the opposition social democrats have been trying to find common ground to begin formal negotiations on an alliance david chaytor has more from berlin. this has been an unprecedented political limbo for germany so it's

carol: up next, nigeria battles bitcoin scams.lenge of getting millennials to love slot machines. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm carol massar. you can also find us online at businessweek.com. and, on our mobile app. in the technology section, bitcoin scams have become commonplace in nigeria, so a group of traders are taking matters into their own hands. here's editor jeff muska. jeff: starting in late 2015 through the end of 2016, nigerians became interested in bitcoin for mixed reasons. a lot of nigerians, about 3 million, became victims unfortunately of a 30 year global ponzi scheme with origins in russia. in the course of a year and a half or so stole about $50 million worth of money in bitcoin from them. this in a country where a per capita income is less than $3000. the push into bitcoin came as the local government started to crack down on the scheme and bar local banks from dealing with the originators. they say, no problem, if you want to buy in, just buy in in bi

but the galley northeast nigeria. uganda's president has signed a bill removing the presidential age limit from the constitution the new law allows you amos seventy to run for election again in twenty twenty one critics said the bill is his attempt to cling to power he's been in office since one thousand nine hundred six although his constitutional court has temporarily suspended the president after he refused to endorse new ministers the court says the parliamentary speaker or prime minister should take over pro russian president igor daughter on is stuck in a political stand off for the ruling coalition which once close to time is with the e.u. and the us it's the second time in three months the court has decided to suspend the president's powers in syria dozens of civilians have been killed in what activists say was a government is sold on rebel held positions near the capital damascus four hundred thousand people are been living under siege in eastern go to for the past four years in desperate need of food and med

my family came from nigeria here for a better life. and regardless of the venacular, the wording that people have been using right now, it was not a country that my family decided to stay in, they left everything behind and came here because america was the place where they were able to have the american dream. that to say as well, i think it's important that we show that those values that i have that have maybe who i am today, i'm also conservative values and i'm going to support a president that's going implement conservative policies. >> you cannot support a president that don't support people that look like you. >> okay. wendy, go ahead. >> you cannot support a president who does not support people who look like you and that is the issue. he has talked about a judge not being qualified because of his hispanic ancestry and he further went ahead and said we want people from norway. this is clearly an issue of race and there is no way to cut that. that is what this president is doing. he's trying to speak to his base but he's continui

actually islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with nigeria cameroon and chide they've been some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by villagers who are mostly farmers and fisherman now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake child region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept the bible quote came almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a bookworm has been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president mohammad y.b. when he made that announcement says that and i was with will see in a daring and sometimes devastating attacks by book or on quite is in northeast nigeria and they have taken a lot of force to use some of these attacks actually took place in two thousand and seventeen the army is continuing its operations to be a guest book or around and book i am a software proved to be resilient fall in northeastern nigeria a drinks factory in cameron's biggest city ha

and northeastern nigeria they show there are pockets around fillings launched and so i went to cali where she spoke to former captives of the group the families of those still being held hostage. this mother's in my golly a desperate for news of their teenaged daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram almost three years ago their tag of also killed men in the village in northeast nigeria. was seventeen years old woman. only god knows where she is i've been praying to him to bring her back will keep saying maybe you can help us find her several other girls from this area have returned home after fleeing the boko haram kept his which gives this mother's hope thousands of people mostly women and children have been abducted by boko haram managed to escape. they were forced to become wives signed up how was life with her . we suffered a lot my husband beat me but i made good friendships with other women who had also been abducted. and how did you manage to escape. one day my husband left in a hurry he didn't tell me where he was going then i heard nigerian soldiers were coming so i just

i can a man who has taken corruption head on in nigeria. is something that many see that he could act as some sort of. loses a lot of money through corruption on the feeling here is that one dollar lost to corruption is one dollar less for funding education and health care and all other needs of the peoples of the continent and that it's now time to not only talk about it but also go step father and deal with it whether they can do it in the short term still up in there our support for palestinian president. and the palestinian cause there are a huge given israel's extensive interests throughout the continent. israel has been getting closer to the african continent with president and yahoo traveling prime minister netanyahu traveling to africa twice just the last year but these a lot of sympathy to the palestinian cause something that's being led by south africa which is also a huge influence over the continent so yes palestinian president mahmoud abbas is here he will address the african leaders gathered here and many people. many of the c