they have been reforms that have changed the accounting system in nigeria we've got. institutions that have been put in place to fight corruption. strong presidential advisory committee on corruption that keeps on continues to churn out policies that have proven to be very effective for instance we have a whistle blower policy where was the brewers actually get a reward when they report on corrupt franks's so there's so much going on you know apart from the new technology advances going on and if you look at our banking system we have bob's one of the most effective online and mobile platform banking systems so payment systems are very effective. very efficient all that said why then doesn't nigeria have a growth rate similar to some of its neighbors ethiopia say or guyana which is full custody by close to nine percent this year nigeria seems to be doing a lot if it really is tackling corruption and changing around its fortunes when it comes to the oil industry why then isn't it hitting those higher growth rates like other workers i think you know comparing us to ghan

and 6 work in nigeria is not explicitly illegal but those who do it and those who look like they do it say they get abused by police we'll talk to activist campaigning full day right. i'm christine one bill welcome to news africa i'm glad you're today and in sudan the struggle for democracy continues in april president omar al bashir was overthrown off to months of protests demonstrations continued to against the military that deposed him now those on the religious have announced an agreement with opposition groups for a 3 year transition to a civilian government but those who have been standing up for change and so done have paid a high price. for as long as you can remember i met hamdan has been on the front lines of sudan struggle for democracy 1st protesting against the government in 2013 now spending months on the streets a spart of believed to stay upright. against former president ahmed bashir but hamdan has paid a high price one night in january on his way home from a demonstration he was followed by security forces. you know some people came from behind me and started beating

and there's plenty of will in nigeria.iyinoluwa aboyeji and run in nigeria by seni sulyman, 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

al-jazeera ogun state nigeria. now india is home to the 3rd highest number of billionaires in the world including asia's richest person but while its economy expands many people are asking if it is only the wealthy who are benefiting 1st jamir reports now from new delhi. this sprawling upmarket estate tucked away in new delhi is home for rival coastline this family a startup investor who's also runs his own digital consulting and marketing firm he says the government's policies in the past few years have been good for business just in terms of how we deal with the government with the governance it brings just simplicity information's lot easier for us to. understand our clients and other businesses have grown they have they've needed more services from us so with a service as a growing our business is growing and that's been a. positive effect. and is not the only one who seems business thrive official figures show exports are up 11 percent hitting a new high and you construction projects are underway in all the ma

in nigeria the constitution guarantees freedom of the press but especially in conflict ridden areas like the north east which is the stronghold of boko haram reporting its difficult my colleague funny for a shot travelled to borno state where she met two dedicated generalist working on the constraints. heavy military presence in many parts of my degree the capital of borno state in nigeria often its new terror attacks that dominates people's daily lives. today it's positive excitement. president bihari is about to arrive blessing to know we'll cover it she's a television correspondent here and her office is this car on in the mall the kind of. the military in a deal like this when you have the president's visit and i mean you can get through with almost anything now she's rushing to a school that hard wants to commission the president's convoy is passing by a billboard picturing malala yousafzai a symbol of education for girls exactly what islamist terror group wants to fight. was her only the risk was blessings reports usually reborn around the militant jihad ists and the military'

would you go to nigeria today? i will wait and see.literati, i would go. i will deflect this to you, we are experiencing the most exciting and the most dangerous time in recent history of this continent. right? i want to be here for it. and the risks to everybody, boko haram, growth, huge buildings, in the opening up of the territory, are risks that are going to happen. will i be all flappy about it and say no? no. i was at the airport in nairobi and for the first time really was a bit nervous. i thought someone may have seen me on tv. i signed four autographs with airport security staff and had a long chat with one of the policeman there. it's not to say that there's no homophobia, but you do not do these things unless you know what your environment is ready for. and so far, the response for me has been incredible. yeah. you talk about the extremes and the pressures that come from groups like boko haram and others, but the point is that it is not the extremes that are pursuing an anti—gay agenda. if one looks at countries like uganda

ogun state nigeria. now india is home to the 3rd highest number of billionaires in the world including asia's richest person but while its economy expands many people are asking if it is only the wealthy who are benefiting from his demeanor reports now from new delhi this sprawling upmarket estate tucked away in new delhi is home for rival coastline this family a startup investor who's also runs his own digital consulting and marketing firm he says the government's policies in the past few years have been good for business just in terms of how we deal with the government with the governance it brings to simplicity informations lot easier for us to. understand our clients and other businesses have grown they've they've needed more services from us so with our services are growing our business is growing and that's been of her.

this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes nigeria's lama du bois he has begun the new term as president of africa's most populous nation to 76 year old was sworn in abortion today but with this also show after his 1st term what does he 2nd have to offer the loss of that to one of the subordinates. and another you know gratian this one in malawi but as the somewhat arika was taking the oath of office on tuesday the knees by its tear gas into they had orders off the opposition will be talking to an added list in the language. and then the sound of protests demonstrations are still camped outside the military's head courses in sudan's capital khartoum we hear how they feel keeping the moral high but. i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm glad you're cheating did nigeria's mamadou bihari has begun his 2nd term as president of africa's biggest economy the 76 year old took the oath of office one small volunteers have full crippling security threats and corruption he was reelected in a type untested election in favor of this should be his last term nigeria's pros

in nigeria have also come up. as well as in the course of niger and other parts of nigeria as well a lot of people will be waiting to see how we quickly address this make a comment on security issues in nigeria and one of the best indicators as to which direction the country is headed is when he appoints his economic team and i looked at nigeria's but it would take longer than it did in 2015 that speaks spent peyton has an independent strategic consultant and political analyst specializing in sub-saharan africa he joins us live from london good to have you with us ben is it just me or to the list of challenges facing. the 2nd read exactly the same as he faced when he began his 1st term. with his 1st. well his 1st could hardly be considered a success in reality the economy was doing very poorly throughout almost his his entire although he did achieve some progress against boko haram in the northeast of nigeria it's certainly still the case that the country suffering from chronic insecurity 3 through various differe

well nigeria. first of all the most populous country on the continent and also that means it's the single largest economy in africa and so it's trying as much as possible to make the most out of it the president has previously said that the reason why the taking time is to allow public participation in the country for nigerians to be able to understand what's going to change after they ratify or become signatories to the trade agrement but this is taken longer than expected you know they also said that you know they were seeking specific technical assistance and also. against external shocks should there be any where the countries are not how an izing in terms of border controls as well as other trade abdomens or i just very briefly joy how big an impact does this delay of nigeria joining have. not much of an impact if you're going to look at the bigger population on the african continent $1200000000.00 people on the continent that's about $2.00 and us dollars whether g.d.p. saw in nigeria at delay

nigeria's national power supply is notoriously unreliable. there are frequent outages so many people depend on generators. engineers at the university of nigeria looking for solutions. they've constructed a system that converts organic waste into gas. materials such as corn husks or wood chips of lead into the reactor what we. call. a chemical process produces gas which in turn powers a generator that produces electricity. we've never. seen. one that we've been able to deny. that we've been there would have been lying through which we know of their environment. this power plant cost about $25000.00 euros to build. because as the energy needs for the department of engineering but researchers are working on a larger version. it would take 12 of those larger versions to supply energy for the whole campus that would save the university a lot of money and put waste to good use to the people and the environment. and how about you. if you're also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your beat. we share

as that mount everest and finding its next also on the program a world press freedom day we had to nigeria where journalists and some men who say their work is threatened by terrorists. germany's best are going to shut down the second largest criminal trading platform on the dock that under arrest three of a suspected mastermind. north korea is running out of food the united nations says ten million people will go hungry without international aid after the worst harvest for a decade. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. it's psycho thought he has hit in years eastern coastline with winds gusting at more than two hundred kilometers an hour one of the biggest storms to hit the region in decades it's claimed at least three lives cyclons also set to batter neighboring bangladesh where more than two million people are expected to be moved to safety. they knew it was coming. india's coastal state of addition was braced for the worst. more than a million people were evacuated ahead of the storm but the coastal resort of poori still suffered extensive damage. the storm brought down trees and powe

heavy military presence in many parts of my degree city the capital of borno state in nigeria often it's news about terror attacks that dominates people's daily lives today it's positive excitement. president bihari is about to arrive blessing to know we'll cover it she's a television correspondent here and her office is this car on a normal the kind of begin to feel the military alone in a deal like this when you have the president and i mean you can get through with almost anything now she's rushing to school the hard ones to commission the president's convoy is passing by a billboard picturing malala yousafzai a symbol of education for girls exactly what islam is terra group wants to fight. was very very. very lessons reports usually reboard around the militant jihad it's in the military operations to fight them at home blessing the mother of a one year old is relieved today she doesn't have to comp through footage of yet another explosion she must only added haris visit but just how far can she push the envelope with the government this is so special and the all the how all these req

also we meet a woman in the north east of nigeria open for the endo call her on the insurgency she dreams of starting a business to provide for her children. and what do markets and i schemes of in common if you love the sweet stuff stay tuned to find out. welcome to the program before twenty seven million south africans head to the polls and the general election is trending on social media but as a nation gears up for the political contest many young south africans have chosen to set out the electoral commission says the youth demographic has had a notoriously low voter registration than any other demographic data views christine finds out why. in an alley in downtown johannesburg i meet rico he's twenty seven doesn't have a job and sells drugs to earn a living i can enjoy his book ok i was looking for a job any job so i was like ok what can i do because my i need to pay for my bills my ran my shoes my clothes food everything so what can i do and came out on prom fun to observe the place try to learn the place try to learn what everyone is doing around the place then i decide i better ok

decision makers 84 percent of nigeria said cloud computing has a high impact on innovation compared to 77 percent of those asked in kenya and 43 percent in south africa fell to ponder jim bader who has been following this story for us 1st of all explain to me why these data centers. say it already set up in south africa soley south africa in terms of african economies of africa is of course one of the 2 biggest markets the other being one geria and in terms of ease of doing business obviously south africa trumps nigeria so that's probably one of the reasons they chose south africa it's more stable and more attractive but what does it mean for other african countries because at the moment you've got these data centers set up so far away but i mean south africa is so far away from many african nations it is and of course in terms of data centers they are others being built by chinese you know telecoms companies including china telecom and while way in other parts of africa what is interesting of course we're talking about west and major tech firms here and in that south africa is sort of

this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes nigeria's lama dubois he has begun the new term as president of africa's most populous nation the 76 year old was sworn in in a boardroom today but with the missile to show off to use 1st term what does he 2nd have to offer the last that one of his subordinates. and another you know curation this one in malawi but as the somewhat erica was taking deal with office on tuesday police fired tear gas into they have cordoned off the opposition will be talking to an added list in the long. term and then the sound off protests demonstrations are still camped outside the military's headquarters in sudan's capital hard truths that we hear how they've been keeping them were all hi. i'm christine linda while come to news africa i'm glad you're cheating did nigeria's mamadou bihari has begun his 2nd term as president of africa's biggest economy the 76 year old took the oath of office one small volunteers have full crippling security threats and roofs off corruption he was reelected in a tightly contested election in february this should be his

al-jazeera ogun state nigeria. india is home to the 3rd highest number of billionaires in the world including asia's richest person but while its economy expands many people are asking if it is only the wealthy who are benefiting 1st jamir reports now from new delhi. this sprawling upmarket estate tucked away in new delhi is home for rubble and this family a startup investor who's also runs his own digital consulting and marketing firm he says the government's policies in the past few years have been good for business just in terms of how we deal with the government with the governance it brings to simplicity information's lot easier for us to. understand our clients and other businesses have grown they have they've needed more services from us so with all the services are growing our business is growing and that's been a. positive effect. and is not the only one who's seen his business thrive official figures show exports are up 11 percent hitting a new high and you construction projects are underway in all the ma

the violence here in the north east of nigeria has altered the lives of hundreds of thousands and the attacks have also spread to neighboring countries like chad and cameroon millions of people at this point need aid to survive. life beyond the camp a return to normality that is enough. she joins a workshop outside the camp it teaches women ho to run a business acquire the skills that you need to run your business and that's basically what the solution is that is my solution for you that is why you are here today. zain up wants to make money by selling fish her mentor has bigger plans for her when it comes to her is to ensure that not only is she understanding her business model but also has a revenue model that can sustain the business beyond the company because if she needs to come then what happens nobody knows cif borno state is the government's slogan but so far their efforts have failed to provide stability while communities are falling apart women are looking to fill the gap to be prepared once peace returns. if you've seen a radical change since from. last year the press has b

today is world press freedom day and we are heading now to nigeria where the constitution guarantees freedom of the press but in practice that freedom is hard to protect some parts of the countries are in conflict zones such as the area in the north east which is dominated by the muslim extremist group boko are wrong reporting from that region can be deadly our correspondent funny for char traveled to borno state in nigeria and spoke with journalists working in challenging conditions there. heavy military presence in many parts of my degree city the capital of borno state in nigeria often it's news about terror attacks that dominates people's daily lives today it's positive excitement. president bihari is about to arrive blessing to know we'll cover it she's a television correspondent here and her office is this car on a normal the you can do is raise your camera and begin to feel very alone in a day like this when you have the president and i mean you can get through with almost anything now she's rushing to school to hard wants to commission the president's convoy is passing by a b

i bring you greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about how from the. i will show all of a mental stories that are very exciting well here's a lineup that we have for you today. how you can use when to make sure you polish. them how solar taxes are changing public transforming could evolve. and then our project in south africa is changing as well received the valuable knowledge of indigenous people. would you take over right by the sun in the coastal. town of job building called the solar talkers are beginning to replace the conventional bush won three wheels on apollo it's a pretty simple concept i with there were missions it's good for the environment but now let's go take a ride and see what all the hype is about. for people like sophie gigi from really the republic of korea for it's hard to get from a to b. public transportation is virtually nonexistent. when you go to the market and have finished your shopping and start looking for a taxi it can be had to find one available. all it takes time and you have to wait . it's a real problem all the shit

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program nigeria's president muhammadu buhari has been an angry. for a 2nd and final term the 76 year old was sworn in at an open air ceremony in the capital but he did not give an inaugural address a number of regional leaders attended the low key event in africa's most populist nation. of the char who is reporting from eagle square in a budget where president hu hari's inauguration just took place funny we are hearing of a low key ceremony walk us through what you're seeing. well 1st of all let me just share this situation that happened just moments after the president has left the square and the red carpet is just being rolled up by now a crowd basically stormed the square and it tried to get what ever they could get their hands on anything connected to the inauguration but also water bottles things that they could tell outside of the square which definitely shows you a part of the state of the country that is about desperation after all a nigerian this country has this very sad record of being the number one country when it comes to poverty wor

the un says almost 900 children have been released by a pro—government militia in nigeria — fightingcountry. i. i, nelson mandela... i do hereby say that the faithful in the republic of south africa... after six years of construction delays, the channel tunnel has been formally opened by the queen and president. the tunnel is still not yet ready for passengers and freight services to begin. for centuries, christianity and islam struggled for supremacy. now the pope visits symbolizes their willingness to coexist. roger bannister became the first male to run a mile in under four minutes. memories of victory as the celebration reached their climax. this night is dedicated to everyone who believes in a future for peace and freedom. this is bbc world news today. i'm tanya beckett. the latest headlines: the us treasury secretary has described negotiations with china to try to resolve the two countries' trade war as constructive. the un says almost 900 children have been released by a pro—government militia — fighting boko haram rebels in northern nigeria. scientists at the university of ca