of its belt road initiatives. will strategists from both sides of the atlantic a meeting in berlin to talk about doing business in africa and challenges a big so is the interest of global foreign direct investment fell last year by nearly 20 percent africa but that trend the united nations says foreign investors injected $14000000000.00 into ventures across the continent at $2000000000.00 more than the previous year but investment was concentrated in just a few well qana makes egypt being the biggest recipient followed closely by south africa ghana was the biggest beneficiary in west africa ethiopia in east africa and the vast majority of investment actually goes to oil and gas exploration as well as mining and that's something i'd like to pick up on with the former u.s. assistant secretary of state for african affairs linda thomas green field you were here in berlin for the covers and lucky enough to join us that we're lucky enough to have you join us here this year thank you very much happy to be here tell me