here is a concrete proposal to cut back on c o 2 used to solve a deal instead engineers at the university of lagos in nigeria figure out how to turn the group product into a less polluting. this is the the way of business i'm joined on in berlin welcome kenya's central bank has signaled it may start cutting interest rates in the coming months but for now the bank's monetary policy committee decided to keep the benchmark rate unchanged at 9 percent it's the 7th time in a row that the figure has been kept on who the bag expects inflation and kenya to remain within its target range despite concerns about a drought could cause crude shortages. for more let's cross over to our correspondent joy biro in nairobi hi joy basically the bank has signaled they're prepared to cut rates soon as the government scales back spending when is that expected to go down and how. well i don't think this is really going to be a change march from the current central bank region of a 9 percent we're likely to see this remain the same or remain unchanged and deal next year because what the central bank is trying to do is to

accounts for 8 percent of global c o 2 that's a major greenhouse gas bottle engineers at the university of lagos may have found a more sustainable world of civil engineers dr vall from schmidt and dr koehler worley a decent ola not a share a common mission finding the construction material of the future and they reckon they're on to something the peel is the root vegetable cause salva has properties they could help building sites to be more environmentally friendly cement is going to stay close to cement is the biggest villain when it comes to the environment because making it produces lots of c o 2 in seems a lot of energy. cement is a key ingredient of concrete helping to make it hard but not to all in our day has discovered that the ash burnt because some of appeal can do much the same. we have the irish and we have found that we have produced concrete with did we are produce more with it i mean this in strengths which is one of the major or are properties of concrete very very much compared with not concrete today. it's a discovery that can be useful to many parts of africa where he's grown

hope to see the 1st building made from a concrete constructed as early as next year on the university of lagos' campus. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet. during your. you know your story. and once again eco africa highlights just how much we underestimate nature's potential time and again and we can see it again in our next report even if the man that it's about has long recognized the problem will try to live more in line with nature cosmetics and made from natural ingredients becoming more popular be allowed going today from lagos is making an organic so that's found fame for father fabio nigeria and now he's shipping his naturally mates so around the world. oh. the camp would tree is native to west africa centuries people here have used it for all kinds of purposes from woodworking to making dying and health and beauty products. when ground into powder the coal beneath the bark is good for treating various skin problems. 'd day needs to wood to make is due to a certain black soup that is pounded it is ground and it's made

of the need for reform. mayenijones, bbc news in lagos. half a million schoolchildren, universityr climate strike inspired by the swedish activist, greta thunberg. the city centre was turned into a sea of demonstrators and placards. 0rganisers said it was quebec's largest ever gathering. earlier, ms thunberg had met the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau. she told him — and other world leaders — that they were not doing enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions. large—scale protests also took place in many other countries around the world. 0ur correspondent anna holligan reports from the hague in the netherlands. what do we want? crowd: climate justice! some schools here in the hague have actually cancelled classes and brought the pupils out to protest instead, building climate consciousness into the real life curriculum. too many people, there is no oxygen there. this is the only chance we have. so we need to take our chance and make the world better. of course the netherlands has a lot to be conscious of, with almost a third of the country lying below sea level. they are supe

of remembering that you're not alone the human emotions are universal the kind of the. she's also passing on this storytelling tradition to the next generation in nigeria through workshops like here in lagos she listens to the young authors and encourages them to raise their voices. young men writing about how the kind of shift in gender is confusing to them because you have young men who don't know who they want to do the right thing but they're not sure what it is anymore because things that shifted and i find young people grappling with these things and i i really find that i learn from them in his workshops. chimamanda ngozi adichie using words to find the women's rights and equality whether that be in the us in africa or anywhere in the world. germans love bread and for good reason it is fantastic believe me there's even a myth that when there are more than $100.00 germans living in a community anywhere in the world the chances are you'll find a german star bakery nearby but why am i telling you all this because our series breaking bread is back where our baker extraordinary and europe correspondent gail . matters is baking bread from every e.u. country he'll be with me after this 1s