s. africa what is your assessment off the situation in cameroon as we speak. to what you can say that the situation in relations human rights is getting worse and worse in the country. years. and nation in the area. in. their recent religion. and any kind of. region. and this is why we've seen the. huge massive wrists during the demonstrations in region last month all right so we're talking about the leader of the opposition going on on trial and it sort of point of view is that the procedure in the country that we're talking about camera is that a judge is still assessing if there is enough evidence to go to trial and that's where we're at right now. i just want to know is there a chance the mirror that this judge finds that there is not enough evidence and that there won't be a trial after all in which charges that could result in the death penalty could be hurt. the chemical and the world of people that have been arrested more than one hundred thirty have been arrested. i think what. a state of instant warrants to the list of things definitive cheating coul

s africa correspondent. is in lagos he sent us this round of today's rally. president mohamed to address his supporters for exactly three minutes his key message vote me in once again for another four years so i can fulfill the promises that i made already during the last elections four years ago and the three key promises he made was tackling corruption tackling the insecurity situation wide parts of the country and create employment but the problem is many league oceans and people in nigeria have the feeling that apart from the fight against corruption you hardly made any progress the security situation is still a big problem and huge parts of the country and unemployment is actually rising this is why most people believe it's going to be a neck and neck race between president obama and his main contend. during the elections on saturday. a u.s. envoy for north korea has expressed confidence real progress can be made at a summit later this month between donald trump and kim junk but special envoy stephen begun also cautioned there was still work to be done a

the bbc s africa editor fergal keane has more details. the past is alive. from whose lands it was taken? in the old imperial capitals art that was stolen by colonial conquerors is now the focus of a growing campaign for restitution. these are the benin bronzes at the british museum, looted by british forces in nigeria at the close of the 19th century. those pieces, that art, represents the essence of us. i need to be able to explain certain things about my being, certain things as to why i am who i am and do things the way i do and think the way i do. and that's why art is important. on one level this is a debate about priceless pieces of art and where they really belong. but it's part of a much larger movement in africa and the african diaspora, to reclaim a stolen cultural heritage. it's about the right of africans to possess their own history. perhaps nowhere is the debate so haunted by past cruelties as here at the grand museum erected outside brussels by king leopold ii of belgium. it was built on the profits of forced labour in rubber plantations. tho

s become africa second largest refugee hosting country in the gambell a region refugees number almost as many as ethiopians about four hundred thousand like this camp is home to sixty thousand traumatised truckies who fled fighting in south sudan. when the war erupted in south sudan children were set on fire and many others were abducted. the soldiers even killed blind people. people were forced to eat dead bodies and have sexual intercourse with family members the boys were forced to have sex with their mothers. this trauma will not be forgotten. in the bed room and her family feel safe in this camp it's supposed to be a temporary home but they've been here for four years already without permission to work outside the camp she fears the future looks dim. and. when my husband was in south sudan he had a job but now he doesn't this is a problem because we depend on a lack of education is also a problem and i want education for my children and for myself and only then will we have a chance here in ethiopia a good deal to do. that just one of the problems in the camp run by the un and if

many analysts are predicting they mayjoin fitch and s&p, by downgrading south africa to ‘junk status‘situation is not resolved soon. junk status means the cost of borrowing will be more expensive. however debt is not the only issue for south africa. the country is also trying to tackle a high jobless rate. last month the unemployment rate hit 27.1%, meaning 6 million potential workers were without a job. and the country's currency the rand has fallen 18% against the us dollar over the past year. this week alone it's down 6%, as international investors remain concerned over the issues at eskom. razia khan, head of economics, africa at standard chartered bank joins me now. they have few economic problems right now? at great deal resting on this urgent. usually we would be looking at revenue, spending, if revenue would be a bit data than last forecast, would spend even be less 7 last forecast, would spend even be less? but the real issue that you highlighted is what the government intends to do about eskom. it has a lot of debt. it is the state—owned utility, it generates about 95% of th

most of the artist ‘s come from across africa, and can stay in residence up to three months.os on the foundation can support up to eight artist at any time. —— on site. this artist at any time. —— on site. this artist extract superheroes from their comic book universe and inject a bit of life into them. had you find out about this place? there is a lot of talk about this place in morocco. from day one i started my art career, i used to be a banker. you used to be a banker? you have gone from a banker to an artist. that is extreme. would you say morocco is now becoming the hub, or the central place if you're an artist? i don't know, it has this nanograms that rings people all over morocco. maybe it is the geographical position between spain and africa,. it is the collision of cultures isn't it. when you have the collision of culture it becomes very interesting. over the past few yea rs, interesting. over the past few years, marrakech interesting. over the past few years, marra kech has interesting. over the past few years, marrakech has seen a considerable amount of public and

s. this is day to me news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes africa's most populous nation goes to the polls candidates have to make. their final pitch is it's now up to nigeria's eighty four million. to choose the next president we have an exclusive with one of the men vying for the top job. and the story of a young girl becoming a superhero is. one of the screenwriter. film.

s platform. this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the world has made great progress when it comes to medically managing h.i.b. apes but in africa the stigma associated with the virus is still very strong we'll be talking to a prominent activist. and then the fall house start of all he turns one hundred years old take you to a modern classic in nigeria. i'm christine want to welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in we're pushing this stigma on hiv aids in focus today because just a few days ago a south african m.p. made his status public it was ofter an ex partner thracian to expose her on facebook has an even more tyros deal will so someone is threatening to reveal my status to you all but let me save him the hassle of doing it i have nothing to hide but also some things are not necessary to share with people it doesn't affect but since i've been threatened let me do it because i don't take kindly to threats i'm hiv positive and have been now for h. is possibly a mall and she went on to say perhaps these threats are a good thing it has made me add my voice to the d

many analysts are predicting that moody's mayjoin fitch and s&p by downgrading south africa to "junksituation is not resolved soon. "junk status" means the cost of borrowing will be more expensive. however, debt is not the only issue for south africa. the country is also trying to tackle a high jobless rate. last month, the unemployment rate hit 27.1%, meaning 6 million potential workers were without a job. and the country's currency — the rand — has fallen 18% against the us dollar over the past year. this week alone it's down 6%, as international investors remain concerned over the issues at eskom. annabel bishop is chief economist at investec and joins us from johannesburg. thank you forjoining us. this is a state—run company and produces 95% of the electricity in south africa. it can't be allowed to fail, can it? it's such a huge headache for the south african government. it's a key issue because the utility eskom has 440 billion rand worth of debt guaranteed by the south african government. causing the country to be at risk of a serious credit rating downgrade. with the utility

and a call for africa made in africa how kenya's mobius motos wants to give the toyota's and the w.'s of this world a run for their money. on reliable energy supplies a ban on many businesses in africa but even companies like the. they don't have it all sorted out what can be learned from mistakes made here. this is business africa here in the. us rescue operations continue in zimbabwe where more than two dozen bodies have been recovered after a dam burst and flooded to abandon gold months last week many feared dead but eight survivors were rescued the incident which occurred west of harare throws a harsh light on the dangerous conditions workers face in the country's illegal mines. it is the fear of every family with a miner losing a loved one just because they were trying to put food on the table. but that time we struggled to get the bodies into the body bags and we had to do it because these are our relatives and work makes. twenty four bodies were retrieved from two disused gold mines by sunday eight men were put out a life but dozens remain trapped in the flooded mines. the main

front frank since france pulled out of central africa in the one nine hundred sixty s. the say five currency zone comprises six central african nations from a quarter are given to central at the central african republic and eight west african countries these include booking a fossil and senegal. in all fourteen states the current currency policy is effectively laid down in france and the safe from which was paid to the french franc now has a fixed exchange rate to the euro all members of the safe from have to deposit half of their currency reserves in france's central bank some say being back to the euro create stability in member states others believe it keeps them dependent on the old colonial occupies it's a controversial topic and not just in senegal mali pulled out of the safe our fall in one hundred sixty two but it changed its mind and rejoined the currency in one nine hundred eighty four d w spoke to mali's president ibrahim a book about kate's and asked him how he views the front today mosher not to. the measure of one's evolution i think this is the end of a f

shot up by twenty six percent reaching seventeen point four billion u s dollars and the list of russian companies operating in africa is long rosneft russia's largest oil company is developing oil and gas fields in egypt muslim big and algeria rival new coil house projects in nigeria gonna come the room russian many on group roussel is mining box side in guinea and a criminal controlled diamond miner is planning to enter sim bob way and already has assets in angola and boats wanna according to the stockholm international peace research institute arms sales also rising rapidly between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen russian arms sales to african countries almost doubled for more on russia's business interests in africa i'm joined by alex vine head africa program at chatham house in london good to have you with us so we already hear that china is a big investor compared to china or the united states for example how does russia compare when it comes to investment in africa. russia's time compared with china or even the united states all the european union it's very very small it's been very very focused on some of t

shot up by twenty six percent reaching seventeen point four billion u s dollars and the list of russian companies operating in africa is long rosneft russia's largest oil company is developing oil and gas fields in egypt muslim big.

it's actually the westernmost point of africa. t-'s only about an eighur flight from new york.ar is surrounded by desert, and it's a fascinating city. there are people on the sidewalkshi selling ever from shoes to coconuts to windshield wipers. the big market in town is called thtilene market. it's absolutely incredible. it is acres and acres and acres. you can buy anything you want, from giant barracuda to sides of beef. and, finally, we got to do some home cooking,

s strengths are. ♪ week, south africa put forward its 2019 budget.ects the widest deficit in a decade, and announced it will spend almost $5 billion over the next two years to bailout escon, the struggling power company. the re-organization has drawn opposition from labor unions. bloomberg spoke with the chairman of escon and south africa's public finance minister about the controversial proposal. ♪ >> [indiscernible] there will be more job losses if this entity is unable to deliver the energy security required by the economy. i think we are going to have intensive consultation and discussion, and begin to envision a very different future --re there are possibilities municipalities, africa and many parts of the country have a deficit in terms of -- there are other possibilities in terms of staying within the environment itself. it's all of these possibilities we need to explore. even on the financial side, as announced yesterday, it's the beginning of what the states can o, can what escon can d there other mechanisms being considered. once we have th

to and others are facing is an attempt by b s government to silence critics in the country somewhere dollywood is amnesty international's western central africa defeated regional director she joins me now from the senegalese capital dhaka hi samir good to have you with us thanks and welcome to day to be as africa what is your assessment off the situation in cameroon as we speak. to what you can say that the situation in relations human rights is getting worse and worse in the country. and nation in the area. in. their recent religion and. any kind of. region. and this is why we've seen the. hugely mass arrests during the demonstrations in region last month all right so we're talking about the leader of the opposition going on on trial on that sort of point out view is that the procedure in the country that we're talking about camera is that a judge is still assessing if there is enough evidence to go to trial and that's where we're at right now. i just want to know is there a chance as a mirror that this judge finds that there is not enough evidence and that there won't be a trial offer or in which charges that could result in the death penal

s site. the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians were armed groups control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with fourteen rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to begin end to the six year conflict. while the u.n. secretary general said to the spokesman says it's hoped the report will bring about effective change the appreciate receiving this new information from medicines on frontier any sort of information that can help us do our work better is to be lauded actually and we will be studying these findings to see whether there's any truth to what can be improved if we fix but deficiencies with any particular contingent we'll try to respond accordingly but right now we're the stage simply of studying what these new findings are. campaigning has resumed in nigeria after the election commission delayed the presidential vote by a week president wants the reasons behind the delay

the basketball africa league will be the n.b.a.'s collaboration to run a pro sports league outside of north america. >> trevor: that's right, the n.b.a. is launching a 12-team basketball leak in afternoon, which is bound to be awkward when they're trying to recruit players. hey, africa! so america's searching for the biggest, strongest people you have. there's going to be a draft, the owners are going to pick who they like best, so what do you guys say? africans will be, like, white man, we're not falling for that again, huh? not this time! ( applause ) not this time! yeah? enslave me once, shame on you. enslave me twice, shame on me, huh? ( laughter ) now, look, i think it's cool that the n.b.a. is trying to come to africa, but i also think that africa is too big forta 120e team league. all rightright in you understand your away game is going to be ten hours away. you may not realize how big africa is because to have the racist assed maps that make the u.s. look as big as africa. it's not. look how many countries fit into africa. af

for march 1 — averting an imminent escalation in tensions between the world s two largest economies. and who will run africa'sgest economy? the ballots are being counted in nigeria's closely fought general election. as ever, we keep an eye on the markets, the european markets buoyed by talks on trade tariffs. and with more of us now caring for an elderly or disabled loved one than ever before, we'll get the inside track on how best to manage something that can quickly become complicated and expensive. and as public transport network in london announces a ban on ads for unhealthy food — we want ot know, is this a good idea and will it make a difference 7 let us know — just use the hashtag bbcbizlive hello and welcome to business live. when i saw the headline for that story i did wonder if they were banning junk food altogether on the trains andi banning junk food altogether on the trains and i thought no! where will i get my burgers? in the last few hours president trump has announced he will delay raising tariffs on chinese goods. a hike from 10 to 25% was due to come into effect at the end of this week. mr t

s strengths are. >> also this week, south africa put forward its 2019 budget. the government projects the widest deficit in a decade, and announced it will spend almost $5 billion over the next two years to bailout escon, the nation's struggling power company. that reorganization plan has drawn opposition from labor unions. bloomberg spoke with the chairman of escon and south africa's public enterprises minister about the controversial proposal. >> 23 billion --it's not all we needed. there's a lot of pressure. >> if the unions block the government's plan, what approach will you take then? >> we are optimistic. everyone recognizes that this is an essential entity for the future of our economy, and secondly that we do have a serious crisis. thirdly, all of this is in the natural -- national interest because there will be more job deliveredthis is not by all that is required by our economy. i think we will have intense discussions, and we will begin to envision a different future. , and are possibilities there are deficits in terms of engineers. there are other p

that's the thing will matter in s subsaharan africa, east asia and oklahoma, how do they compete in a marketplace so making sure those innovations diffuse out is a matter of policies and market design. >> from the back door of my house on the farm in western oklahoma i can see electric windmills from one horizon to the other. doctor mjkott, you have referred to the goals set by the panel on climate change as ambitious, is there a scenario in which those ambitious goals can be reached by transitioning to 100% renewable? by the way those windmills don't always turn. they turn most of the time, they're a great source, but not all the time. is there a scenario of how we could get to 100% renewable. >> you could probably write one out on painer where it's physically possible but i don't know that's a necessary thing to do. and in particular, like me and a lot of my colleagues and folks out -- and your constituents are concerned about climate and you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, having a broad portfolio of options seems like the best choice and there's a raft of literature showi

s. right well where you say that already isn't africa. and kenya botswana and others are already late frogging and say the mobile payments and digital currency world trip across the world and that's as in the spring a great boom there in the u.s. and u.k. they haven't tranced a legacy system and they're probably last likely to go down that path too rapidly because they're protecting the old guard but the genie is out of the bottle and it is challenged a mail system twenty seventeen was a speculative mania you know is a proper old school speculative bubble but the thing about all bubbles is there's an underlying truth to them now the big question for me is was twenty seventeen because dot com two thousand moment or was it a sort of mini speculative mania you know was it dot com in one nine hundred ninety five. something and we still got the big dot com mania to come you know that's certainly going to be a big. change gears for a second the waffen n.q. gap has soared all over the world and to make any connection with their to figure out mon

reporter: nigeria is africa's most populous country, the economy.'sstminste wealth o it matters. al-jazeera. >> campaigning is drawing to a close in senegal, ahead of its sunday.tial vote on the president widely expected to win a second term, after two barredion figures were from running because of corruption allegations. here's more. reporter: this is the square of the nation. just after the election, this is where people will gather to celebrate the new president to the senegal. are supporters of the candidate, one of the main figures.n and he believes he can unseat himself isnt, who running for a second term in office. he's been traveling throughout country, through this two-week campaign, promoting his achievements during his seven-year mandate. opening one infrastructure other. after the for this last day, the focus has been in trying to convince young come out and vote and try to persuade them to vote for them. why? because in this country, the majority of the people are born after 2000. millennials. many of them have only experienced two presid

s largest economy. the first ever major offshore oil and gas discovery has been made off the coast of south africa french oil giant total estimates the field could produce at a billion barrels that's enough to supply south africa's refineries for four years as likely to lead to a rush by oil oil explorers to find further deposits off the country's coast. and that's it for me in the business team here in berlin as always you can find out more about these and other stories at com slash business i'm stephen beard zebulon thanks for following us. the first. the people of the world over information they provide the opinions they want to express t.w. on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. crimes against humanity. civilians free come witness six of. their recorded which is travel around the globe just social media. but what is propaganda fiction what is fact digital investigators comb through the flood of images they combine sources to try to reconstruct what happened and substantiate claims of christ thanks to this video recording of the soldier who shot the young man is on trial now for fo

s largest economy. the first ever major offshore oil and gas discovery has been made off the coast of south africa french oil giant total estimates the field could produce at a billion barrels that's enough to supply south africa's refineries for four years as likely to lead to a rush by oil oil explorers to find further deposits off the country's coast. and that's it for me in the business team here in berlin as always you can find out more about these and other stories at com slash business i'm stephen beard zebulon thanks for following us. enter the conflict zones confronting the powerful. the situation in venezuela could be primo company markets this week here in brussels it is some cocoa better known as way those passages of the european union put a record of the cooling human rights abuses committed. to stay in office. complex so for sixty minutes. the first. is known as. that day. you know the banks. and so was the language of the banks. speaking the truth global news that matters w made for minds. come to the new euro max now to channel. the final story. with exclusive. a must see concerning our

s site. the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians were armed groups control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with fourteen rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to revive end to the six year conflict. well the u.n. secretary general dempsey spokesman says it's hoped that the report will bring about effective change the appreciate receiving this new information from medicines on frontier any sort of information that can help us do our work better is to be lauded actually and we will be studying these findings to see whether there's any truth to what can be improved if we fix but deficiencies with any particular contingent we'll try to respond accordingly but right now we're the stage simply of studying what these new findings are. now to the northern philippines where a plan to build a dam on a river that's held sacred by a tribe as we met with fears opposition the reservoir i

s site. the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians who are obtuse control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with forty rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to begin to end the six year conflict. dizzier. town after a check of the world weather with robin roberts spring already strong in europe you might think if you look at the pictures behind me look at those temperatures and what do you think the months was april there was i thinking very much because this is just that in the last couple of days that's not really surprising down in spain to see twenty one and particularly in southwestern hundred seer it's always you know they have is going up every year but the rest you know it just doesn't look right for febrile that's correct if you compare it with the average we've got a sways for a good part of the heart of europe is about ten degrees ten degrees above the norm and surpr

s the editor in chief joining us live from bonn thank you so much. and garrett efforts will be here with business news from africa next and i want to leave you now with memories of karl lagerfeld who died today at the age of eighty five. i was here what's coming up on the display you have plenty to talk about you want to go to. the congress lisa every weekend here paul.

rio plus the elections and africa's most populous country are taking place after a one week postponement that has prompted questions about the elections credibility talk to w.'s correspondent in nigeria's commercial capital lagos also coming up. a critical day for amanda's loyal opposition leader one point zero has called on supporters to help the trucks enter the country the duros soldiers trying to stop them by force. pope francis has roman catholic cardinals that met systemic failures and calls for a new culture of accountability to stop sexual abuse by the clergy will report from the third day of the vatican's extraordinary conference on a deep seated problem. nicol for all it good to have you with us. nigerians go to the polls today to vote for a new parliament and for the next president the elections were postponed by a week with a delay causing tensions to flare in the country after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with the islam is terror group boko haram president mohammad who will hari is under pressure from challenger atiku abubakar. nigeria's president hari voting in his hometown of daraa in the northeast the country's elector

flowed from the vast petroleum reserves the launches to africa which he had nationalized when he took power. well starting in the one nine hundred ninety s. moammar gadhafi became a kind of luminary a leading voice surely one of the loudest voices for a maximum version of african integration he was seen across africa as being the successor of kwame nkrumah in terms of his vision of african unity and it wasn't just a matter of my sounding more it's gadhafi was eager to not only accelerate the process of african integration but of bankrolling the process of. the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. all the kingdom of the company inseparable they're the world's largest oil producer and you don't list in the world's largest stock exchange that definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arab coke the company and the states on al-jazeera. outside that rest and chicks fair. we're able to bring a different perspective to global events when you pan the way all of the panelists a cove a minute tree in the financial dock and you see the peop