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As well come its a premier aimed at making a big impact hosted by russian president Vladimir PutinAfrican Leaders have gathered in the russian resort town of sochi today for the 1st ever russia africa something its russias attempt to jumpstart relations with the continent 3 decades after the fall of the soviet union which then was a major player in africa. Russia does not want to stand aside while other powers like the e. U. China and india strategically increase their influence and investment on the continent putin has big plans in africa especially with regards to the continents rich Mineral Resources and arms deals lets have a look at selected activities of Russian Companies in africa there is energy multinational lukoil that is involved in a Natural Gas Development project in the republic of congo in sudan and the Central African republic a close ally of president putin has secured licenses for mining gold in guinea russian element in producer roussel is digging up bauxite and in zimbabwe russia plans once to dig for platinum until now russias trade with africa was quite muted last year exports to and imports from the entire continent well valued at only 20000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in comparison chinas trade volume was 10 times as much africas largest largest trading partner though during that time was the e. U. With nearly 340000000000. 00 of total trade russian officials have said that in the medium term they want to triple trade with african countries might be helpful that russia is still seen as a partner without heavy colonial baggage. Our reporter went to the Central African republic on the poorest countries in the world to find out more about russias new activities on the continent. Russias colors were on display at this new sporting event in the Central African republic i like kids from the capital gang he seemed to be enjoying themselves a good sign for the figures and sunglasses and the background russia has set out to win hearts and africa. This woman says she loves russia for organizing the event not the. Russian money was also spent on a beauty contest that crowned miss Central Africa the official sponsor at events like these is a Radio Station that promotes russian african ties ratty old language song. So whats it like at a broadcaster that advertises for moscow. We dont get an answer to that question at its headquarters in a suburb of bondi but we do get to view an animated clip aimed at showing russians friendly feelings in the words of the countrys children it was paid for by law by invest a company with ties to russian president Vladimir Putin a firm that was named for a region known for its diamonds the Central African republic government has granted low by invest a lot of mining rights here in the country wants to look for the precious stones more efficiently whether with russia or other partners. Because all of you could literally move president has said that we are open to anyone who wants to cooperate in Public Private partnerships with to exploit these valuable resources really the people. This is the minister at the Russian Embassy hes with valid hes not of a security advisor to the african countries president and like all of us seen as a man with power behind the scenes whos helped train its arming. Russians canel view that army on state television. 6 thought you get only a fraction of the trainers or officers from the russian army most of the rest reportedly work for a private Russian Security firm for the opposition here thats unacceptable you dont have to work with us corp were working with mercenaries in our constitution it is forbidden thats why we are against kind of for asian so whats behind russias new solidarity with Central Africa how much is about mercenary services or weapons paid for with diamonds observers say russia is simply using private business interests to help secure National Interests on the continent but its still early days in the political struggle for africa. Im now joined in the studio here on that should be our colleague who has looked a little deeper into that story and from harare zimbabwe correspondent privilege was been here he joins us as well lets start with you should want to kemah russia actually compete with china as a champion africa African Business and doesnt even want to compete well it probably cannot compete with china because it just doesnt have the deep pockets to do so its far behind when we look at china were talking about the belt and rolled initiative huge projects of infrastructure across the continent rolled well ways airports and ports build in several countries so its going to be a long stretch and of course as we speak of china would also speak of tech giants like while way and trans the on who are also doing business on the continent are and are leading providers of tech equipment or gadgets you know africans. In our report weve weve had an example from the Central African republic what is russia currently doing in zimbabwe. Russia is currently interested in mining platinum if you years ago they signed a deal with the. Government to mine platinum in what is called the great dyke which is the belt that is where most of the minerals in zimbabwe are located so theyre doing it is estimated to be more than 3000000000 so they are mostly interested in mining this block now they say and they do but it didnt come through at the time but we have seen the love rough the foreign minister coming to zimbabwe trying to revive these dues so thats what they are mostly interested at the moment. Is russia whats the feeling there is russia welcomed as it were being met with open arms or are people skeptical about their. If you look at the political level. The ruling party side is accepted because you find the. 2 months out of the Political Economic situation that zimbabwe is going through but. Inside of the accusations of. Middling into the Electoral Affairs of zimbabwe if you look at the 2018 elections so the opposition is skeptical about russias involvement in zimbabwe but. Ruling party side they want russia to come and invest in zimbabwe in kids take the credit that russia has helped them to revive the economy we see is not performing well at the moment. And zooming out a bit from the whole continent is russias strategy russia strategy oversleep realizing a kind of compete with the likes of china is to focus on sectors where it can do really well and those sectors would be Defense Energy and mining and thats why i like invested in zimbabwe the Mining Sector over there these are areas where it has realized that it can actually. Come up with long term commitments from african governments mining because it has a huge Mining Industry itself and its Nuclear Technologies can also be exported to africa hopes in the future and of course defense for which it is the largest supplier of arms to african countries. In berlin and privilege was an eery in zimbabwe thank you very much. South Africas Parliament has approved of 4000000000. 00 bailout for embattled Power Company eskom the measure comes just a week after the country was hit by another set of blackouts eskom is one of the Biggest Energy companies in the world but in recent times its been crippled by a massive debt and outdated infrastructure the government says the latest funds must be used to pay off debt and not to finance operations. Boeing is suffering from the grounding of its best seller 737 profits talk a nosedive of 50 percent to 1200000000. 00 in the last quarter the bad news keep on coming investigators in indonesia told relatives of the 186. 00 victims today that the crash of the lion at jet just over a year ago was caused by a design flaws in the boeing jet families of the victims of the lion air disaster travelled to jakarta they were among the 1st to be told why the boeing 737 monks went down last october killing all 189 people on board. Indonesian investigators told them that the aircraft type included design flaws in its m cas anti stall system and that incorrect sensor data caused the system to fly the aircraft into the ground details the victims relatives struggled to grasp. And given up by passiveness with the result is out. That what happened has happened we just accept but whether im satisfied with the report no im not satisfied. Because it feels like theyre bullying Common People like us. You dont understand. The complete report on the crash will be published on thursday its expected to reveal a further catalogue of deficiencies surrounding the new m. Cast system the u. S. Plane maker is still struggling to cope with events recently emerged that the companys chief technical pilot had long ago complained about out of control software during 737 max simulator testing boeing only forwarded his comments last thursday in another development the company on tuesday ousted the chief of its crucial commercial Airplanes Division kevin mccallister. The aircraft itself is still grounded worldwide thats causing airlines around 100000. 00 per aircraft per day in losses money they want back from boeing. The lion air crash combined with the loss of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 max which also killed everyone onboard make this the worst crisis in the companys history its effects will reverberate throughout the industry for years. 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This is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the bay of returns to africa russia has its focus on the continent and the 1st is that russia africa summit is under way find out why so many african divas are keen on often a shift was lost. And needs to cindy and wall says that cameroonian couple making it impossible they say theyre living the russian dream. To have caused a balance in the countrys time to see they shouldnt