this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the meeting off the giants nigeria's mamadou bari is visiting his south african contrapositive rolled up applause for recent attacks on foreign nationals is high on the agenda. grange burning in mali wives and relatives of soldiers killed in jihad this attack take to the streets to vent their anger and grief. anger on the pitch cameron i had a big clash with them go left at the africa cup of nations m.p.c. football but to fight with the mission to win the mission is called a make their country proud this dream institutional going to reform and. hello i'm christine wonderwall come to the news africa i'm glad you're tuned in nigeria's president mohamed hari is in south africa for a state visit but the recent violence in south africa targeting foreigners including nigerians has been a dominant issue the visit was planned before mobs descended on foreign owned properties in and around johanna spoken in the september nigeria reacted strongly its record its ambassador publicly condemned the attack. had criticised the south african governme

this week as africa opens its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the european union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion. despite a slowing economy continues with its infrastructure spending ahead of the fifa world cup talked to qatar airways c.e.o. about airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. plus can't count out build on the success of homegrown giants al-jazeera and b. in sport by attracting more media companies to set up shop here. in a world where nations are grouping together to form trading blocks replicate the best of the best the european union it's somewhat strange that one nation is leaving but this week's show isn't about briggs it this is about africa's decision to create an economic bloc that could become the next european union in may of this year a new economic bloc was born $24.00 nations came together to form the africa continental free trade area now the aim of the block is to increase trade between nations by tearing down trade barriers if all $54.00 nations join the combined spending and investment are estimated

countries to avoid paying nigeria's for ports but it's led to people in nigeria paying more for food especially rice al-jazeera as ahmed addressed reports now from that i gerri have been mean borda have been stuck here at the nigeria binny border for 2 months. court by a sudden change in government policy they're not allowed to go forward and can't go back. has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says he's never seen anything like this here come wipe out government should hand over to us goods that we've already paid import duty for we have more than $500.00 trucks on the bin the republic side of the border many of the goods are damaged some businessmen say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of august when the government ordered the borders to be closed imports. this is one of the reasons the government says it's shut because it's illegally imported rice. officials say the flow of contraband into nigeria is killing its economy and production and opening the door to criminals and weapons. we feel lost in this that. there are. plenty of big b

bring countries to avoid paying duties in nigeria's 4 ports but it's led to people in nigeria paying more for food especially rice al-jazeera as ahmed addressed reports now from that i'd been mean borda have been stuck here at the nigeria binny border for 2 months. court by a sudden change in government policy they're not allowed to go forward and can't go back. has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says he's never seen anything like this here come wipe out government should hand over to us goods that we've already paid import duty for we have more than $500.00 trucks on the bin the republic side of the border many of the goods are damaged some businessmen say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of august when the government ordered the borders to be closed imports. this is one of the reasons the government says it's shut because it's illegally imported rice. officials say the flow of contraband into nigeria is killing its economy and production and opening the door to criminals and weapons. we feel lost in this that. there are. plenty of

but you know be correspondent in lagos nigeria thank you for your time . now in malawi there were location of hundreds of elephants that was meant to be a sign of hope and when you will knock on effect on you know by residents falling ill because of the tiny parasites carried by bites and sets of flies insects sequence companions of the elephants. the offending destructive beast in this story is this big as far as local farmers and jockeys concerned the chuch of fly is massive because it's by carries a potentially deadly punch that spreads parasites that in turn cause something called sleeping sickness. i started having bad headaches and constant pain in the legs the pain in the leg started rising up the waist and the forced me to get help at the hospital. the problem is the company the church of fly keeps these elephants about 600 of them were successfully relocated to the inn kotoko to reserve to save them from poachers a wildlife success story it's a bit ironic because it's. negative some of this exists by piecing animal numbers one of the unfortunate c

along the nigeria i've been in border. now the european union has agreed to britain's request for another bracks set extension that didn't set a new departure date this will give britain's divided parliament more time to decide on prime minister bias jonathan's call for a snap election on december 12th johnson hopes to win a majority and pass the divorce. leaders last week for a challenge has more from brussels. over 2 meetings in brussels this week ambassadors from $27.00 different e.u. countries the $28.00 the u.k. not of course being included in these discussions have gathered together to try to work out whether there's going to bree abraxane extension and if so for how long now they are most of the way there but the final hurdle gyration still to be cleared as they broke up on friday they said that there was full agreement on the need for an extension that was for agreement reached a unanimous consent the u. 27 decision and there was full agreement that this should be done by written procedure and that there was no rea

how long the nigeria i've been in border now the u.s. has imposed sanctions on zimbabwe's state security minister accusing him of involvement in gross human rights violations secretary of state like washington is troubled by the government's use of violence against protesters and opposition leaders it's likely to further anger supporters of the ruling zanu p.f. has been demanding an end to long running international sanctions. 8 people have been killed and 2 injured after a russian soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen it happened at a military base near the eastern city of sita the suspect who said to be suffering a nervous breakdown is in custody the european union has agreed to britain's request for another extension but didn't set a new departure date this will give britain's divided parliament more time to decide on prime minister barak's johnson's call for a snap election on december 12th johnson hopes to win a majority and to pass the divorce deal he reached with the leaders last week lawrence lee has the latest from london

the government says the measures will grow nigeria's economy in the long term.officials say in the 1st 2 weeks of the border closures revenues from import duty went to by more than 5 percent but that left many nigerians concerned about rising cost of food stuff. we don't get regular supplies of food stuff here in same no food is getting in across the border and no food reaches us here from legal us we are in a fix the government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a bigger threat to the country and its economy and all keep the borders closed for now it is always good to invite back to counting the cost peter. peter is head of capital markets research at south africa based intel it x. joins us now via skype from london peter so nigeria joined the africa continental free trade area late and then it closed its borders not a great start or are these just teething problems do you think. well great feedback i think the key message from this base is a very long road until this huge potential and we're going continental pretoria didn't really realize

along the nigeria have been in border. the united nations has months of floods and sell for down have affected almost a 1000000 people entire communities have been submerged since july forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes crops have been washed away in this is in the country with 60 percent of the population don't have enough food to eat. more than a 1000 firefighters are battling wildfires in california with several communities across the u.s. state forced to evacuate officials say high temperatures and strong winds have helped the blaze and so no mccown to spread meanwhile roads and schools have been closed as fires continue in santa clarita near los angeles the state's largest energy companies as power could be shot after millions of homes to stop further fires. still ahead on the news hour and sports there is hamilton swaps a 2 wheeled ball as he chases a. tight election a practice of the mexico free cutting out. all the work to stay with most my wife rest internment and mass indoctrination children are now i

she left the company to bring back our girls she's fighting corruption on force to be president of nigeria as aggressively joins me in the studio. i'm eddie michael jr you're welcome to the program france's asking its ruffian hotness to send more so just to mali and other nations and the region has seen an increase in attacks by jihadist militants only last week 40000000 so just died in clashes with militants francaise the needs reinforcements from a spot in this involved in training the mali an army so that its own soldiers can focus on the fight against insurgents yes a senior french diplomat speaking at a security conference in senegal on monday. we are committed to working alongside all friends in the sahara. working alongside mahi. mahi is not alone in facing the situation. france is particularly committed to the anti insurgent operation in the sahara. jihadists seized last parts of northern mali into into 12 before being repulsed milledge means avenging by friends the current violence shoes the issue is far from resolved our correspondents funny 5 minutes before my jihadi fight in th

along the nigeria have been in border. egypt's president. has extended a nationwide state of emergency by 3 months this is the 10th time the state of emergency has been renewed at krantz a president sweeping powers including restricting freedom of assembly movement and the right to monitor messages of any kind it was 1st imposed back in 2017 after 2 church bombings killed 45 people. that of course in hong kong are protesting against what they say is police brutality months of anti-government protests have often ended and bloodshed police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets are protesters with medics sometimes caught in the middle to pick up pollen has the latest from the protests in the city's financial center among these crowds are doctors nurses paramedics and other medical professionals they say they have several concerns one of them is that they're not being honest to disclose to the police which of their patients were involved in the protest movement the other main concern is what they're calling the excessive use of force by the pol

in germany china stephen nigeria and n.t.v. uganda i am fond of coming to you from kampala here in uganda i'm now it's a me here in lagos we are really and i adamant today we had to do any and we visited a school garden in uganda but that's not all. find out how sure but germany are contributing to biodiversity and here how i manage you nigeria instead he's getting his life to wildlife conservation. in ingle fishing is common in west africa's coastal waters there i'm number of reasons for that either there are no regulations all fishel is turn a blind eye in some places gigantic to all this when you've opened china i've depleting the fish stocks one country in the region is taking steps to control illegal fishing and its waters namely like baby we are company the activists on the nile in conservation and geo sea shepherd on patrol. this is robots part comes to town in the area nearly everyone here leaves from fishing but in the past few decades larger traumas have decimated fish stocks. local fishermen were getting desperate an

along the nigeria i've been in border. sprains central government is cracking down on a digital platform that's being used to mobilize mass protests it calls itself tsunami democratic and was behind pro independence rallies at the barcelona airport which saw dozens of flights canceled so you go has a story they vowed to return to the streets following the sentencing of 9 catalan politicians and activists for sedition 2 weeks ago that tsunami democratic a leaderless anonymous organization called of protesters to blockade barcelona's airport one of the most defiant acts among days of protests that occurred throughout catalonia riots that came after which caused damage and disruption the likes of which had not been seen in decades. catalonia as usual peaceful protest movement became drawn into a controversy over the tactics used to encourage civil disobedience and the question was raised who or what is tsunami democratic today in the spanish of the supreme court ruling was unowned which is and derek affront to the human right

along the nigeria have been in border. yes our alliance will be banned from flying to all cuban airports except to vanish starting in december it's the latest step by the white house to undo the obama era easing restrictions sector a state might pump a 0 requests to the move that will bar flights to 9 cuban airports as department of transportation says it's a consequence of cuba's ongoing repression of its people yemen's internationally recognized government in southern separatists have reached an initial agreement to stop fighting and minister of information will mariani tweeted that a deal will be signed within 2 days the separatist seize control of the port city of aden in august study led negotiations in jeddah have am to re-unite the coalition fighting hit the rebels since 2015 coalition member u.a.e. has been supporting the separatists. anger over growing corruption and failing living standards that's also quick to yemen purchasers gather in ties the country's 2nd largest city demanding the government fire all offici

to fly 600 citizens home south african businesses in nigeria were targeted in the tele ation to the attacks in johannesburg i mean similar is in pretoria where the 2 the truce are meeting while much of the focus in meetings between the south african president salaam a porsche and his counterpart nigerian president mamadou baria focused on business and political ties between the 2 countries a significant amount of attention has been paid to the recent incidents of xenophobic file and in cities like johannesburg in south africa where lash nals from other african countries were targeted some of them nigerians are of course has condemned the violence and once again he's expressed what he says is deep regret for the public violence saying that both countries a doing whatever they can to ensure it doesn't happen again we have expressed deep regret. of the past few weeks that many persons themselves who are kirk. directed a foreign national. condemnation or or. violence remains very very. we here. who are. great measures. of. the future and this is an important relationship that south afri

talks to help defuse tensions nigeria's president is in south africa after a wave of xenophobic attacks plus. the next well go on board the greenpeace campaign ship as brands are reporting on a unique scientific expedition off the coast of south america. hello sporadic gunfire has been heard in the iraqi capital where anti-government protesters are defying a curfew. but this video shows people inside doing district apparently running to avoid a live fire from security forces that came into force in the early hours of this morning at least 20 iraqis have been killed in 3 days of the. i'm a stray she is against corruption lack of jobs and poor public services most of them died in southern iraq legislative imran khan joins us on the phone now from baghdad so him and tell us what you're seeing and hearing there right now. what's going on is that the protesters here in central baghdad are trying to regroup and move on to talk or a square which is the focal point for the protest movement what's being happening that they haven't been able to regroup in large numbers and they've been. beaten ba

in nigeria last year maybe farm. over $100.00 babies where we called it from richard so it's not common to write stories about baby factories in nigeria ok if you've made us understand why why some women would would take part in having babies and selling them but who would be the people buying the babies. the people most of the. baby factories would be those. guests have children so people who are looking. well because of the very complex and very demanding nature of the negro process allowed option emain many people sue baby factories because they believe the quick and the babies out always available only like. in one theory where people have to wait sometimes for months and for years so most of this baby factories factories sell to prospective adoptive parents who are interested in actually abducting children ok to fascist just. how how did this particular factory. well what we know about how the police learns about this. people i around the area are notice that there were pregnant women coming in and out of the ar

hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along police in nigeria all searching for a woman believed to be the main suspects in the so-called baby factory case 19 pregnant women and girls were freed from a house of lagos they are believed to have been abducted and raped captives could sell their babies now police have received 2 women and are looking for a 3rd who has only been identified as. now stories of human trafficking and the views are not uncommon in the area last week hundreds of men and boys were found chained at a reported islamic school once a 5 accorded a torture house in a moment we'll get mall the 1st here's a report on the neko street. women impregnated by their captors now freed to tell their stories they were subjected to serious abuse remounting woman gave me a drug suddenly labor started although i was only 7 months pregnant. i was in labor for 3 days and i did not deliver until police came to free us. the. victims say they were tricked into coming to lagos by the promise of jobs us to mastic staff poverty drove them to seek work far

as nigeria instigate spiral controls all on board is an attempt to crack down on inflation shoots up and neighbors like nina are asking is choking off trade like that really the only way to combat smuggling. and more women are getting the real top jobs around the world but for africa that's been quite normal for some time and still africa's female entrepreneurs still struggle to get fun. also the flying taxi it's fun live that german startup volatile call to demonstrate its prototype. this is business africa. free trade requires open borders spot the nigerian government effectively sealed its border with been in 2 months ago when it's introduced painstaking customs controls in an attempt to crack down on smuggling it last week it went a step further and made those controls mandatory on all of its borders with imports down to a trickle result has been a rapid rise in inflation on next report brings us to one of its neighbors new businesses relying on trade between the 2 countries are furious about the closure of the border. it used to be a seamless journey but the last week has change

she left the company to bring back our girls she's fighting corruption and force to be president of nigeria as aggressively joins me in the studio. i'm eddie michael jr you're welcome to the program france is asking its ruffian partners to send more so just to mali and other nations in the silo the region has seen an increase in attacks by jihadist militants only last week 40000000 so just died in clashes with militants france says it needs reinforcements from its fatness involved in training the mali an army so that its own soldiers can focus on the fight against insurgents yes a senior french diplomat speaking at a security conference in senegal on monday. we are committed to working alongside all friends in this a help working alongside mali. mali is not alone in facing this situation says france is particularly committed to the anti insurgent operations in the sahara whose. jihadists seized large parts of northern mali into into devolved before being repulsed milledge means avenging by friends the current of slinging violence shews the issue is far from resolved our correspondents funny

a lot of these vessels maybe flags to somewhere like a variant somewhere in the caribbean or nigeria somewhere like that and the beneficial light is actually in europe. even though some coastal areas that is netted for subsistence fishing big international tollers catch there illegally liberia's government does not have the. for initial means to enforce the regulations that results in overfishing which is a huge problem for the coastal communities and the terms of thousands of fishermen who live in them the main courses are controversial quality standards and you subsidies that distort the market so he's brought feared the consequences of subsidise fishing is that fishing vessels will fish until the last fish is taken out of the water the care of your pain subsidised plate this fish in 2 and a half percent times dried up this is stable. the likelihood of sharks turtles and other large marine mammal surviving in the nets is extremely slim resisted net closes up as no more over and fish or turtles shots will suffocate $100000000.00 sharks every year mostly court is by catch all for the

find out how sheperd to germany are contributing to biodiversity and here how i manage here nigeria is to educating his life to wildlife conservation. enable fishing is common in west africa's coastal waters there are a number of reasons for that either there are no regulations all fishel stern a blind eye in some places gigantic troilus on europe and china i depleting the fish stocks one country in the region is taking steps to control illegal fishing and its waters namely live baby we are company the activists on the night when conservation and geo sea shepherd on patrol. this is robots part comes to town in the area nearly everyone here lives from fishing but in the past few decades larger trailers have decimated fish stocks. local fishermen were getting desperate and to the national coast guard started patrolling together with ocean conservation and geo sea shepherd before the start of the operation few vessels had been arrested since january 27th in 14 fishing vessels have been reported for you now fish populations asked slowly returning to the area i used tons for illegal unrepor

nigeria's president visit south africa just weeks after a wave of xenophobic attacks that caused tension between the 2 countries. concerns about a transatlantic trade war the u.s. plans new cherubs on european goods in response to either subsidies. hundreds of protesters have defied a curfew and central bank dead following 2 days of violent demonstrations against the government security forces opened fire on crowds in some areas of the capital in other parts of the country at least 13 people were killed during demonstrations on wednesday movement of private cars and people in baghdad is now restricted some cities in the south are also under curfew. imran khan joins us on the phone now from the iraqi capital so imran what's happening there now. well what we're hearing is that there were clashes in the morning between protesters and security forces in areas surrounding to where square which has been the focal point for the protest of what happened on wednesday is that the security forces through around a ring of around tahrir square to try and stop the protesters going in that had a knock

along the nigeria i've been in border. still to come on the news hour calls for then to sanctions zimbabwe touring the mccarthy era. also facebook c.e.o. unveils a new weapon to fight misinformation that will be enough and in school european champions liverpool win the battle to change their kids' manufacture to nike in a deal that earns them less money. hello they're pensive castrate me and across much of central and southern china there's some rain coming in with this as well and is generally in the same areas the central provinces have seen rain over the last several days as more as you go through saturday but not much the way of sunshine more of that rain nichols across into northern areas of it now and across heinen as well as quite a strong on shore flow and then what we might see by sunday is clearing skies and across into shanghai 21 celsius your high temperature and warmer to the south 28 in hong kong but feeling fairly humid with that onshore flow plenty of rain across into borneo as well sulawesi it is a wet cou

does he know coming from kampala here in uganda and a big hello to my fellow presenter auntie in nigeria hello everyone and hello sandra you are so right about our waters in fact you could go so far as to say about the future of our planet maybe depend on the conditions of our oceans lakes and rivers we'll have more on that in the coming reports but 1st a brief look at what's lined up today in our program. specials has a rescue plan it's called still a way as well take a look at how that works. bain's the government's all part on climate change has just presented its report on the condition of our oceans we'll see what he said and in germany and other parts of europe you can go kayaking for free as long as you collect trash along the way. first to the seychelles where environmentalists are working to protect coral reefs. these fragile ecosystems are among the most specially rich bio tubes on earth and the island nation relies on them for its very survival and emissions of launching 2014 aims to support a healthy ocean and implement climate change strategies and to promote the stable blue

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mental health is one of the biggest challenges facing nigeria the country's 1st report on depression last year says one in 3 of the population is at risk of depression the country has also not updated its mental health laws since independence really 60 years ago they don't use. mental one woman with a novel idea to help people with mental health issues that involves writing love letters. this one say's your way more than enough. and you're doing an amazing job polite and fun and took spends most of her free time filling up what she calls pick me up jobs with love letters like this yeah handwritten personalized notes designed to help people through tough times a job contains around 200 notes with encouraging words yet my main target basically are people who are dealing with depression anxiety worry stress and we are all stressed in this country right so those are the kind of people i reach out to and this is the gift that keeps giving according to the world health organization nigeria has one of the highest rates of suicide in the wall most of these cases of suicide are caused by depr

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is really it is the one was because of the torrid up $53.00 having nigeria those practices. we're about 50 so if. we find one form says she's doing her bit however to bring help to people through how know i want people to feel love. i want people to feel hopeful to know that. gets better. and only get better so regardless of the storms that they are facing about moments i want them to really know about there's hope there is a silver lining light at the end of the tunnel inform hopes to reach as many people as she current p.q. them up one job at a time. and a vast it's beautiful but also. the stories on our website on facebook page will leave you in the care of a great weekend i for not. i'm not proud of them they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of just dictatorship. taking a stand global news that matters. happening. sure linked to news from africa and the world. your link to a section of stories and discussions continue and will come to do something program tonight from born in germany from the news

left nigeria. aged 19 to study in the us where she felt discriminated against because of her skin color for the 1st time she captured that feeling in her 2013 breakthrough novel americanah which has been translated into 37 languages and is told from the perspective of a nigerian woman in the u.s. from where the author said america seems to have changed since 2013 i grew up thinking that certain things that happened in nigeria that would never happen in america i grew up something if the government did something i would think to myself but of course never america know what's happening in america and there's a sense in which america has become ordinary. and a morning i mean grief. but the writer doesn't confined herself to books in 2012 she took aim at the patriarchy in a ted talk in her charming but direct manner the video went viral. the person more likely is not the physically stronger person it is the more creative person. we have evolved but it seems to me that ideas have not evolved thanks some

it melissa i don't know we'll make around 21 euros on the job there are 130 are designs in kenya nigeria and rwanda working for a change lab the average commission is worth around $100.00 euros urban change lab takes a 10 percent fee to lose $20.00 actually is plants but is the solution here is transparency you basically have to make it transparent not only to those involved but to everyone that one can see it all on the website what has the artisan got for what they've made what did we earn what taxes what are the customs duties what's the shipping process to fund this. works a day job as a p.r. . consultant and says the business is still too small to be profitable he hopes that will change soon when called normal we have to grow to basically get our logistics and unit costs lower in order to be profitable at the moment we subsidize logistics costs. back in kenya melissa also has local customers but she's happy to get one or 2 additional orders from germany each month via urban change lab. i think what appreciated rene do we're just looking for. somewhere you know it's a very good quest

the government says the measures will grow nigeria's economy in the long. officials say in the 1st 2 weeks of the border closures revenues from import duty went to by more than 5 percent but that left many nigerians concerned about rising cost of food stuff. we don't get regular supplies of food stuff here in same way no food is getting in across the border and no food reaches us here from lagos we are in a fix the government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a bigger threat to the country and its economy and will keep the borders closed for now. my degrees. along the nigeria have been in border. 5 years of war in yemen has seen many men killed in fighting so women have increasingly become the sole breadwinner and forced into a traditionally male dominated jobs sara horowitz explains. it's a story we see often during times of war women forced to work long hours in grueling manual jobs with husbands fathers or brothers killed by fighting. many of these yemeni women of different ages are now the main source of income for their families. b