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voters in botswana have cost the ballots in the country's tightest election in $50.00 kids. people day will tell us what their expectations are. handed back to the ocean will be as penguins bab's they're facing the exchange. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along doesn't that look like romance well here's a question for you how do you get 43 african leaders to leave the continent for 2 days well that's one russia's right in recruited can answer because that's exactly what he's done the 1st ever russia africa summit is underway in the russian resort town of sochi and the attendance is remarkable in this picture of the you see the

president's off malawi egypt and saw the africa now the russians are said to be looking for money and friends also known as trade and allies and in this have pointed to an apparent vacuum with the u.s. and donald trump hasn't been treated from the continent. for more on the summit i'm joined by dr colby mensah he is an african political strategist based at the university of ghana and he joins me now from across welcome to you dr ments of the attendance to this summit has been remarkable what do you make of that. thank you and thanks for having me well i think that the increasingly the african leaders are actually you know feeling some kind of threat from the youth bulge of course most of the issues that confront the continent hadn't been solved despite the common in of the chinese and so that actually present a threat to most of these leaders and as a result they're looking for solutions they realize that the chinese model is

actually no work in especially for all the most confronted issues which is unemployment so they're looking for solutions and therefore perhaps they're feeling that maybe russia could actually offer them other alternative from the chinese model document that you have mentioned the chinese but what we often hear from african leaders is they feel as though the chinese treat them as equal partners in comparison to the west what do you know about how the relationship is with russia right i think 1st of all i don't i'm not sure that the chinese you know you know the promise of equal partnership has actually worked i mean you hear a lot of sentiment from the people of africa you know complaining about the relationship that we have hard where china subtly in the rushes us a comment and promise an equal partnership but we know subtly that is going to be a different game because usually what the external partners actually calm they conway the equal partnership narrative but we know that they end up with

a different narrative entirely so i'm not sure that the russian relationship is going to be any different from what we have actually experienced with the chinese and of course suddenly with the with the rest of the west it's just so let's talk about the pan-african this on the continent those who are advocating for more in for african trade what they see this summit as a positive this russia africa summit. i don't think so i think it's a total destruction obviously we just. if c.f.d. which is the african continent of free trade agreement and immediately we move to this idea we now have a russia african summit i think is a total destruction and the any plan african is going to see it that way don't forget we have breaks obviously not. just under past and now we haven't actually russia in africa summit i think that most of these are destructions to african development and i think that most of the african leaders should start looking in

what we should start looking at how we can actually as africa's chart our development you know part i don't think that you know any output africanist we see this as a as a positive development no it's a completely negative one and i'm not sure why our leaders are not learning from the previous models that i've actually failed a continent all right that's dr kobi main site in opera thank you thank you for having me. when good start flowing across the border is often people do too so if trade between russia and african countries grows we can expect to see more russians on the continent and more africans in russia so what would life in russia be like well if it's anything like the life cindy and walt of all cameron are living it wouldn't be bad at all. i like star wear black star and black sack our wash just a few brands of the black star business empire here in russia at the center of it

cindy and walter just sent from cameroon walter the son of a diplomat has been living in russia for 25 years he and his wife also works in the company seen in russia as a land of opportunity as he saw the gunman down simply. on city where in a country where business practices are still developing and not like in western countries which have had capitalism for 100 years the listener. be up to the listen up front about 37 year old started his business empire with the black star music label that is then repartee expanded the cameroonian loves russia he's become a russian citizen despite the racist attacks that have been plaguing the country for years. told in the company i'm the only black person but i've never experienced racism the new russian generation travels i understand many

themes they're progressing. is a big bone to see if there was racism i wouldn't be here the following. day at burger chain with its trademark black gloves is booming and the chest sems hope that their success will inspire other young africans to dream big outside of their own pulled us. now polls have closed. as general elections the vote is expected to be the closest in the country's history making the results highly anticipated our current president. caused his vote his party of the has seen and i'm broken series of election victories since was won again independence from the british in 1966 bucks off to former president income a defected from the bt p. to support the opposition this election could go down the line now whichever party

wins will have to move swiftly to transform the economy built one is one of africa's wealthiest countries but now wrists coming unstuck because of over reliance on a single commodity diamonds. that's the. candidate that 2 we would have will be able to improve to come up with police is that to improve our lives and their police is that to take which i have to make sure it better through this person. does and is able to manage and eradicate corruption so that election result is expected within a day or so with both want to see him as a bastion of stability whether it's the ruling be the people who wins or one of the opposition parties protests of viewed as something unlikely something this photo is proud off the bottom of the glass or peaceful you know this is just like soaps whichever way this is goes there's just accept. it's not like in other countries

whereby there would be no people fighting and killing each other stuff like that in the year so peaceful. now africa's penguins are in a downward spiral a 100 years ago it's the us there were more than $2000000.00 living along the southern coastline off namibia and south africa correspondent age increase visited an organization in cape town that's trying to put a stop to the time off these penguin colonies. one last chance to relax together before things starts to get uncomfortable. an appointment with dr roberts is not something these penguins seem to be looking forwards to so at the moment pretty doing is we just checking on the penguins and making sure that they're all ready for release so we each one has his own can cause this is medical records this one he had was full so he was 70 percent oil and he

was emaciated he was really underweight the conservationists take in sea birds in peril and try to prepare them to be released back into the wilds thousands of injured animals come here every year some will stay here forever as they would not so wife and their nature will have details. but these birds might not be here in the long term. they are in danger of extinction it's quite possible that one can go extinct in the future and we've had a dramatic declines in train with numbers even between the concert last year and this year the numbers of dropped by about 2000 breeding as so we have less than 20000 marines has that scared of. at least penguins 1st have to spend time in a small box but only briefly until they have fully recovered and are ready to return to the wild. in simon's town one of the few

remaining colonies they are released. oh oh. it went really well. so quickly they didn't get confused the crowd was very polite and not too noisy so that didn't scare the penguins and they were they went straight up in the direction they should've gone. already we can see them i think there's one head sticking out over there so now the threats that they face of the same as all the other wild penguins people need to think about the impacts of what they're doing how they can affect. all other sea life and other wildlife that song is in danger of human interaction. still the message seems to have got through to the hundreds of people in the crowd over here we have a lot of folk musicians who are trying to save the oceans and then obviously the pingers are being rehabilitated and put back in but there's a lot more we can do is you must do more to protect them because you see what is

happening at sea this is not only used to be the last problem however the biggest threats to the african penguin is the fish there are not enough. in the oceans due to overfishing. in the worst case scenario the last african penguin colony will die out in 20 or 30 years but people here definitely want to prevent that from happening. and that is that for now from data everything is africa and you can catch all our stories on our website page we're always interested to know what you think about the stories we cover here on t.v. news africa and the stories that you think we should be covering now today we leave you with a chance of fame. from south africa at the next time i buy. into

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