africa faces a ticking bomb is africa faces a ticking bomb is africa does not change the way of doing things. so, what this book is about... we are nearly out of time. tell me in brief kahlon has africa got? how long does a nation like nigeria have two reform and restructure and deliver better governance before it is too late? we have to start and we have started. we have to start, and we have started. when i came in, there was no efcc to fight corruption, no icpc to fight corruption. those are what africa is using to fight corruption. you can see that we have started to reform. we have to end it there, but 0lusegun 0basanjo, thank you for being on hardtalk. stephen, it was a pleasure to be here with you. hello. as irma continues north across the state of florida, we here in the british isles have experienced quite an unsettled weekend. and that theme continues on into the forthcoming week. for a time, we will see cool and windy weather. heavy downpours to boot. the concern starts as early as monday morning, especially so across wales and the south—west, where some of the wind could

they try to envision a futuristic version of africa they look at post colonial africa and the they seem to forget sometimes the police come after a while fascinating is still has is a most part of me different influences. as a result of post-colonialism is quite fascinating what they've done by mixing those influences but if you truly want to have something that's one hundred percent african if you go to the source of africa take those these preclude the civilizations of the golden age of africa you know the been in empire the oil in part of the mandate kingdoms and and new and you have to understand what makes them tick aesthetically you know we. had to break down what makes these cultures tick and to break down what sense of that inspires your work today with the we're living in this modern age people of course still have interesting that you know you mentioned and paul mentioned the main characters of your creations and they're good guys so i want to talk about the villains because that is really everyone's favorite character that they love to hate let's talk about villains how do yo

well i know it's a he went to africa when they came to africa in cairo us keep in mind i wanted him when he came back so when they came i sort of made a note to his i went to his audience was that it and i mean i'm going to have one and that us that's good for me as if we don't get a young guy to get his revolution out of famine in this country because it's going . but no of close time does have to move on so even though i do and then it would mean i was called. in that you have him do in the room. with and then after and have been as and i was talking and looked at me and says. i have a say in this i'm going to institute we're going to be fine have done that evolution who said this is one that is there to and then he said today you have something that says bit of. that have it didn't go for the foot of the day you had to plan ok but but i do want your analysis of what do you think happened here i mean you know this country you watched it from the position of being in many ways condemned as an antagonist what do you think happened. my friend jennifer had to be i'm but this is the no

the chinese activities in africa. in fact, they were often more concerned about what the chinese were doing in africa than they were about what the soviets were doing in africa. i thought this was interesting. maybe i will write an article about some day. i filed it in the back of my mind. then, i came across another even more important set of primary sources. in 2006 to 2007, i was invited to china for a number of conferences. when i went for these conferences, i do what all cold war historians do when they visit foreign countries. i look in the archives. this is me in front of the foreign ministry archive beginning in about 2004 -- the chinese foreign ministry started to declassify a growing number of materials on cold war foreign policy. thye declassify them in several batches. the first was from 1949-1954, then there were subsequent batches that covered 1955-59, then 1960 to 1965. this is me in front of the archive. i know the shorts and shirt do not match very well, but, when you live out of your suitcase, doing

is on the other side of africa and see how you doing. to get i would bring exciting environmental stories from all over africa and your solutions to save our climate good ideas environment and tips and tricks to keep nature safe like this animal rescue garden we are taking the lead in but here's what we have lined up on the show today. we visit one of my g.p.s. the mobility pony as who tries to push along a cleaner and greener city of lagos. with the help of german scientists are reporting reveals the secret plans. and we visit biologist steve boyce who runs a project to see the key part of the mystic south africa. now driving in lagos nigeria is commercial capital is tasking they fact of fumes of thousands of vehicles on the road hasn't described as a major cause of pollution and that is not likely to change that about twenty million people in lagos who need to move family. trying to change the status quo they have invested in green electric two and three wheelers that are being assembled in the us. the road to a cleaner and greener nig

i lived in south africa for five years, and i'm very familiar with south africa. i've witnessed, actually, a building collapse in mosum beak that was built by chinese, so it's one of those things that it's very complicated. involved with corruption. involved with just basically you scratch my back i scratch yours. >> but you know what, kelly, it doesn't say much about who they're serving. they're certainly not serving the will of the people. they're serving what probably is their financial masters, but in the end they will be defeated and people's lives will be in ruin, and the promise of a better infrastructure, a better way of life is just a pipe dream. it's interesting that you start out speaking about kenya because kenya is the third-largest recipient of chinese loans at a little over $5 billion, and these loans come with -- >> stipulations. >> stipulations, so in other words they want the natural resources. they definitely want -- and let's not just get it twisted. a lot of people think it's only the natural resource, but a good deal with that $5 billion is c

eco and africa next d.w. . much of it. surely to newsgroup africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions for more news and visit and while website deputed come so much for joining us on facebook at w africa. hello there and a woman welcome to this edition of eco africa you favorite eco szell my name is joy during vera and in their own way we are coming to you from the mum of village which is quite an eco place as you can see from my background my colleague n.t. is on the other side of africa and see how you doing. so again i would bring exciting environmental stories from all over africa and your solutions to save our climate good ideas environment and tips and tricks to keep nature safe like this animal rescue garden we are taking the lead in so here's what we have lined up on the show today. we visit one of nigeria's pony as who tries to push along a cleaner and greener city of lagos. with the help of german scientists i would pose a reveals the secret of the plant. and we visit biologist steve bo

then to africa. pres. trump: africa has tremendous businesess potenntia. i have so many friends going to your countriries, trying to gett rich. i congratulate you. they are spending a lot of money. amy: as president trump brags about his friends going to africa to get rich, he praises the fictional country of nambia. he meant to say mibia. we will speak with a leading journalist from namibia who was jailed and had her office firebombed. plus, we will speak to tarja halonen, the first female president of finland. alall that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from paris, france. in puerto rico, hospitals report they're at capacity and struggling to maintain operations, part of a growing humanitarian catastrophe more than a week after hurricane maria devasteded theslanand. the pentagonays the jority of pueo riric's s hospitals do not have enough fuel p power electr g generors,s, athe island's enrere elericacal id has collapse at s j jorgehildldr'ss spital in san juan

in much of africa that is a big ask. in poor countries like niger it seems the economy won't come close to keeping up with population growth. in rich ones like nigeria it comes down to good thoughts and good actions. even if the speed and scale of urban growth offers its own set of challenges. this african population explosion is coming and its impact will be felt across the globe for good orfor bad. hi there. we've got some decent weather coming up to start the weekend. with high pressure in charge, we'll have some sunshine to start the day on saturday. mind you, some of you might have been woken in the night by the odd rumble of thunder. a few storms from lincolnshire, down through cambridgeshire, hertfordshire and essex, as well, all clearing out of away, and starting off then on saturday with relatively cool air in place. temperatures 10—12 degrees in the towns and cities, but cooler than that out in the countryside, so certainly a chill in the air. will be fine start to the day, though, on saturday. i mentioned th

in much of africa that is a big ask. in poor countries like niger it seems the economy won't come close to keeping up with population growth. in rich ones like nigeria it comes down to good thoughts and good actions. even if the speed and scale of urban growth offers its own set of challenges. this african population explosion is coming and its impact will be felt across the globe for good orfor bad. we have a weekend of two halves essentially. we have wetter weather arriving from the west overnight and this is where the thickest weather is. very little rain today, make the most of the sunshine. it will be turning a bit more hazy across northern ireland with high cloud spilling ahead of the rain to come. good sunshine across scotland. temperatures 17 or 18. the touch warmerfor england temperatures 17 or 18. the touch warmer for england and wales. fairweather cloud bubbling up inland. 0ne fairweather cloud bubbling up inland. one or fairweather cloud bubbling up inland. 0ne ortwo fairweather cloud bubbling up inland. one

would it be good for south africa? for as long as it is associated with corruption and failure, people will vote it out. would it be good for south africa if it were voted out? it would be good for the anc itself. and for the people of your country? let me tell you why. those elements who are in it for the largesse will quit, will desert it. and only then would the possibility arise for, you know, salvaging whatever is left of it. you seem to be telling me that if there were any election in south africa tomorrow you wouldn't vote for the anc. -- an election. well, i ama for the anc. -- an election. well, i am a member of the anc. would you vote for them? the vote is a secret. i don't think you are making it much ofa i don't think you are making it much of a secret. i am wondering why you are not happy saying it to me, what is the only rational explanation for what you have just said, which is the only rational explanation for what you havejust said, which is that it would be good for the anc to lose an election. surely

while why like when a lot of money are coming from china to africa why south africa is not as a major point and not is a major partner of chinese money over chinese park nerves of chinese economical development in that kind of region so i think if we're talking about brics we need to understand common points to understand how we need to develop this business together and we need to understand what kind of regulatory affairs and regulatory issues we need to create on the platform of breaks in the beginning and after that we need to move to the political choice to the security ok when you run it was time to know that apologies for that you running out of time but i think it really brings back to what we've all been saying about the fact that we need to tell our own stories we cannot. it gives a complete. different view of exactly what talk montresor a positive we can start with that as media practitioners to begin with i think we're really on the correct foot play and i think it's a very good question what exactly is brakes but sometimes does it really matter i mean can we just do it as

well i know it's a he went to africa when they came to africa entire us keep in mind i wanted him when he came back so when they came i see made no to his i win to his ideas with us they did and i mean i'm going to have them and that us that's good for me as if we don't get it done to get his revolution out of them and in this country does something bad now of cause time does have to move on some even us i'll do one thing even me i was called on the view of him do in the room in the wood and sweets and then after. they've been as and i was told and looked at me and says. i have a say in this and one of us that instead we're going to be fine have done it and evolution who said this is one that is said to them and they said today you have something that says bit oprah so i said that tabulated into a freedom fighter the day i did the planning ok but but i do want your analysis of what do you think happened here i mean you know this country you watched it from the position of being in many ways condemned as an antagonist what do you think happened. my friend you're not fair to the i'm the

south africa cities are growing rapidly. architects are looking for ways to provide millions of new residents with affordable shelter like here in the joe slovo township near cape town. kevin kim well it is developing eco friendly buildings that are within the means of the people who live here both affordable and sustainable. in support for sixty seventy percent of the people who live in this environment and they want to for their. solar panels so it needs a different approach to the community members themselves have to tick. him well is building facilities that are needed here such as a youth center and a community hall. right now his team is busy constructing workshops for local businesses for. kim well it keeps costs low by avoiding expensive technology and by conserving resources. recycled materials make up eighty percent of his buildings. king well as favorite old shipping pallets. so pilots are very accessible and the idea is to use a material that is a radio access. to the community and use that to show design a bette

now on bbc news... we take a look at how a baby boom is affecting africa in a special programme — africa's population explosion. the population of africa is set to double by the year 2050. to 2.5 billion people. the young are moving from the countryside to the towns. unfortunately for us, in the last two, three years it's been a deluge. but many end up in slums and cities are struggling to cope. an industrial revolution could transform african countries and lift millions out of poverty. every year it grows, 20 millionjobs per year over the coming decades. but idle youth could mean millions more migrants and drive many into the hands of islamist extremists. and that is everyone‘s problem. there is nowhere in the world where women have more children. half the girls here are married by 15. so it isn't surprising that children have children. this is zinder, on the fringe of the sahara desert, not far from nigeria's northern border. niger is one of the world's poorest countries. it is mostly agricultural. the average number of children born a woman is 7.6. and zinder it is even higher than th

we scene that particularly in west africa but increasingly in east africa but increasingly in east africa where it is local civil society and their observation groups that are most powerful and effective. the british security company gas has suspended nine workers at an immigration removal centre for allegedly abusing detainees. it follows a bbc investigation claiming officers mocked and assaulted people. it is alleged there is widespread self harm and attempted suicide at the centre which houses migrant is about to be expelled. alison holt has more. brook house immigration removal centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway at gatwick airport. it's run by the global security firm gas. here foreign national prisoners facing deportation at the end of their sentence are detained alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants and those who have overstayed their visas. covert filming by the bbc‘s panorama programme shows a chaotic place awash with drugs. with self harm commonplace among the men held there. there are officers doing their best, but the undercover investigation alleges

, to north africa, to the sahara. you cannot deter the people when they do not see any prospective in the regions where there is oppression, when there is famine, when there is a huge amount of unemployment. the majority of people from africa are not refugees in the classical sense.e. migrants.ty are you have solved the problem how to distinguish between a migrant and refugee in the very early stage. younnen: the problem is cannot deter b by violating humn rights. that's the major issue we have. countries like libya commonly violate human rights. melinda: let me bring antje your in on this because opening statement made it clear you do not think these caps are a workable deterrent. antje: no, because it is against human rights. it is cynical to say we have to do this to achieve that other thing. this is not an easy topic. maybe there are other ways to prevent people to come to europe in the first place than in order to be brought back. can takethink europe il those who come because think also there is a war of images

we head to south africa's hippest hubs to meet young, female tech-whizzes. in india, we pay a visit to the khasi, where women run the show. and in saudi arabia, we meet women for whom working means nothing less than freedom. freedom is an alien concept for women here. they're not allowed to drive. they need male consent to travel, or even just to own a passport. but for several years, women in saudi arabia have been campaigning for equal rights, filming themselves behind the wheel, and training for football matches. they've even ventured into satire on youtube. and it's having an effect. saudi universities now have more female than male students. and over the next few years the number of women in the workforce is set to rise from 22% to 30%. in the saudi city of jeddah, the nesma embroidery and tailoring center is breaking new ground. it employs more than 60 saudi women. that's unusual in this extreremy consnservative islamic kingdo. its managing director isisana zuzumai. herself a mother of three, she pays her staffff well and provis them with a minibus ser

ethiopia is flying high in africa. it has the fastest—growing economy, albeit from a low base, and it has become the darling of international investors. the industrial park is a phenomenal project... the architect of this industrial revolution is meeting executives from some of the world's biggest textile companies. he built it and they came. ethiopian workers already have jobs making the fabric, putting the garments together. she says the pay isn't great but it isn't just about money, but about building a better future for her and the country. the big solution to the population explosion in ethiopian is putting its young people to work. they are building these vast industrial parks across the country, putting in infrastructure, training up a workforce, and attracting foreign companies to make their shirts, skirts, suits, and socks here rather than in asia. as in much of africa, china has a hand in the expansion and sees echoes of its own dramatic growth. translation: why did we choose ethiopia 7 it has a stable poli

thornton: no one really even knows how many elephants are left in africa. some p people think k it may bes few as 300,000 animals, so we might bebe losing 1/6 of t the contininental populatition of africa's elelephants every year. peters: in many countries in africaca, the elephant i is alry ecologically extinctct. unshots, elephantrumpets narrator: every 20 minutes, an elephant is killeded for its tusks. the reason: greed. the price of ivory has skyrocketed. raw ivory sells for as much as $3,000 per pound on the black market, but the cost for humanity is unfathomable. elephants may be gone in 10 years. ruggiero: the problem begins very simply wiwith demand. narrator: and china drives the demand for ivory. knights: china now is estimated to be 70% of the world's ivory market. there is a tradition of ivory carving, but also, of course, the massive growth of the chinese economy. narrator: around 300 million people make up china's middle class today. that's more than the population of the united states, and they are looking to spend their money on luxury goods

in much of africa that is a big ask. in poor countries like niger it seems the economy won't come close to keeping up with population growth. in rich ones like nigeria it comes down to good thoughts and good actions. even if the speed and scale of urban growth offers its own set of challenges. this african population explosion is coming and its impact will be felt across the globe for good or for bad. as we step into the first weekend of september it is going to be a weekend of two pass. a fine start of the weekend with high—pressure sitting up towards the south and east. but things will change later in the weekend with the arrival of this system from the atlantic. saturday will shape up to be a fine day for most with lots of dry, sunny weather, and light winds. just a few isolated showers scattered here and there over parts of eastern england and southern wales. most places avoiding the showers. up to 21 degrees in the south—east feeling pleasant. high teens further north. things change saturday night. this area of

start guarding the borders of africa. next it's going to be africa. they are coming to africa. these guys, you can defeat them one place, they will go somewhere else. it always happens, like in mali. the world has not learnt its lesson. so we are fighting this terrible thing right now. what comes next? have you had anybody, united nations, america, britain, anyone, talking about what they are planning for syria afterwards? isis, as you said correctly, or al-qaeda for that matter, came about because of what happened. you overthrow saddam hussein. everybody who used to be in the army of saddam hussein must not be in the army and must be persecuted in the civil service. those are the people who went to join al-qaeda. those are the people who have been setting up 70%, or 80% of isis right now in iraq. so are we addressing any of those issues? or are we just at the moment saying we are fighting them? we will worry about that tomorrow, yes. they are already in somalia, north africa, and so on. i agree with you in one respect. the american funding, for example, for the anti—isis cam

voice of sort of closed and census you know but but having lived through such as a boy here in south africa. there's a very curious aspect as to section's when you're sort of in the middle of the of the hurricane as it were and that is that some people get very very rich very quickly others get very very poor very quickly and it's very certainly with the apartheid regime was very unclear whether sanctions actually fell the regime itself. i would argue that sanctions which kicked off in ninety six and of ninety ninety one at the end of apartheid in nineteen at the end of ninety nine beginning of ninety ninety were coincidental i don't think sanctions had as much as much impact on the south african economy as as many academics even. and i think that narrative as well as big as been turned around a lot since recent data has come to light. yeah ok so sara sorry richard erase some important points that i mean you reckon that there needs to be the the political will the political framework but also how do you prevent people from circum navigating these sanctions they are many ways on things i mea

then we head for south africa, where unemployment is a big problem. we meet women who take the initiative to become self-sufficient. but, first, we look at mexico, a dangerous place for journalists who report on politicians and the drug mafia. at least 57 journalists were murdered worldwide in 2016. they were assassinated or killed while on assignment. in the last decade, the number of journalists who have been killed for doing their job numbers at least 695. it has been especially dangerous for members of the media working in syria, afghanistan, iraq, and yemen. with its convoluted relationship between politics and organized crime, the most dangerous country outside a war zone is mexico. >> the power of the pen. in his work, political cartoonist rafael pineda exposes the dangers that journalists face in mexico. rafael: mexico's not a good place for freedom of expression. we're attacked, tortured, kidnapped, murdered. >> rafael pineda's work makes him a thorn in the side of mexico's drug kingpins and corrupt politicians. that puts his life in danger.

you go to africa. they're like donald trump says nothing about africa, but we're talking about donald trump. everywhere you go, it ties back to -- so what's fun is finding how people relate to donald trump, you know what i mean? everyone has a different connection to him and everyone has a different idea of him. so you get to a country, and you're like, "what's your view of donald trump?" and then they tell you. and you're like, "oh, this is a new way to see the same person." you know what i mean. it's like, "how do you see godzilla? from the front or the back?" [ laughter ] >> seth: right. >> when the head is just coming out? 'cause if you just see godzilla with the head, you'll be like, "aww, it's cute." [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> you don't know. it's a different perspective on the same thing. that's really what it is. [ applause ] >> seth: and i guess we're just right underneath, right? >> yeah, yeah. we're here. >> seth: we're here. >> ahhhh! >> seth: thanks so much for being here. have a great

at the time of discovery, or european discovery of africa. and so when we had the portuguese arriving on the west coast of africa in 1450 or so, and beginning trade relations was africans who were already organized in their own societies, own governments, own trading system, and so the first thing they were traded were not slaves for the most part. very few slaves. and so what they were looking for mostly were riches and thing that were exotic. so, ivory, gold, spices. those were the kind of things that initially were traded between europe and africa. but as europe also at the same moment began to quote-unquote discover the americas and to decide that the wealth in those americas to a certain extent lay in agricultural pursuits and the desire or the need for labor was very keen, and so at the same time that you europeans were trading for ivory and gold they began to also trade for people who could now be used in these colonial sites, where the agrarian economy was being developed and very laneyear intensive crops such as sugar, coffee, later

a part of a forest here in africa where i've never been to before. the bats were here but excitment is also the number of falcons which are gathering as well. jurgen: the fruit bats play an important role in the ecosystem here. they're food for many predators and they also spread seeds with their droppings. a bat can can fly up to 100 kilometers a night in kasanka park. with the forest here now protected, dion scott says the flying mammals can live here undisturbed. >> i think there is a great future for them as long as we can continue to protect the habitat that they come to roost in and that they come to feed on. we're doing our absolute best to try and protect them and as long as we can keep doing it they have a great future here at kasanka. jurgen: there's no real quiet here until the end of the year when the bats take off again. but next year, millions of them will be back in this little corner of protected forest in northeastern zambia. >> people display swarming behaviours too. particularly in cities. it's called gentrification. a slightly run

and achieved its independence from apartheid south africa in one thousand nine hundred is struggling not to repeat the mistakes of the african national congress and chart a path that brings with it economic development and justice it is a delicate and difficult dance one that poor countries around the world know intimately and one. illustrates the almost on a saleable and destructive power of global corporatism. president hogg is the president of now maybe he was the country's first prime minister wanted to achieve independence in one thousand nine hundred from south africa he served again as prime minister from two thousand and twelve to two thousand and fifteen he was a member of the central committee and the polish bureau of the liberation movement swapo that led the armed resistance struggle against the apartheid regime in south africa mr president thank you i want to begin by and i know it's something that concerns you how a country with a population of two point four million how you to achieve control over your own economy in an age of global capital and we should be clear. in

what would africa do? all these countries have to do fiscal consolidation and they have to save ever so slowly. what if there is another commodity? that is the big trouble we are looking at. we have seen a country like africa going south into recession. it is definitely a dramatic statement. >> nigeria and algeria, notable admissions, ev opa and rwanda have climbed three and four places respectively. what are they doing right? >> they are growing above 7%. that is helping them stay in the top team. it is ethiopia, still a tricky environment. >> coming up next, our interview ,ith the ceo of gulf capital one of the largest asset managers in the middle east. >> let's talk about gulf capital. one of the largest asset managers in the middle east. we caught up with the ceo to find out what the investment strategy is shaping up to be at the moment. >> gulf capital is one of the major players when it comes to private equity in the gulf region. while we have seen a lot of companies invest it is unusual comparativel