Textile industry in africa was pretty stable. Or at least until the liberalization of the market opened the door for cheaper competition from asia. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost, mostly in south africa, nigeria, kenya and in ghana. There, nine out of 10 textile workers lost their jobs, leaving only 3,000 today. Product piracy is adding to the woes of ghanas fabric producers. They are proud of their unique designs and traditional techniques. But just as for the big fashion brands like adidas or chanel while consumers like their style, they increasingly shy away from the cost. Reporter makola market in the ghanaian capital accra is a paradise if you love color. There are gaudy fabrics with new patterns, but traditional wax prints with ageold designs are the most popular. Here cloth is bought the way readymade clothes are in europe. Customer when i am going for a special occasion or some occasions that i need to wear something with a name, i come to buy the ones with names. And
With you today. One of them was who is your personal hero . Mine was jim brady. One was a personal connection. Anyone with any objective research would find that we were the last of the press secretaries who shared the hollywood good looks and fashion sense that very often you see in the movies. He is a hero not because of what happened to him. People faced tragedy in the lives. He is a hero because of what he did with it. We live in a very partisan and difficult town right now. It is hard to believe that we can find Common Ground on issues that arent that hard. Jim and sarah got things done. We should not forget that. What was your favorite data white house . Another easy one. When we renamed the press Briefing Room after jim brady. It was my favorite day. It honor jim and i think it brought great joy to jim, sarah, and the family. Probably just as important for me, it honor his legacy forever. Whoever the president is or the press secretary is, where ever they stand on issues, when t
Middle east peace process. Ut oh what a film that name on the evening commute that i doubt if it meant a great deal. The ending left my scrap until by the deputy Prime Minister shinzo have a complete stop and think eight or eight hours. Aging youre watching cctv new zine one among the Ukraine Parliament is now meeting at this hour after the opposition said it will cost three vote of no confidence in the government the opposition is trying to oust the cabinet of Prime Minister. Nikolas eyes of god and one thrilling president ial elections. It was unclear whether the opposition will get the required two hundred and twenty six most in the four hundred and fifty seat parliament. The opposition controls about one hundred and fifty cc and independents hold thirty five the governing party of regions has been losing support of its own members protests have been held daily in kyiv since president baked again until that backed away from an agreement that would have established fleet race and dee
Media. She spoke in an event at the university of georgia in athens, georgia. [applause] thank you. When you say i do all those things now i know why i am tired. [laughter] when you become a feminist activist i havent had a chance to wash my hair in 30 years. [laughter] im just giving you fair warning. Im so glad to be here and im stunned and delighted and humbled by the enormity of the attendance and its very special particularly to hear that you do throughout the year and clearly the womens studies presence. Theres enough energy in this room to light a city block. Clearly throughout the year that you dont just settle for womens History Month which i had my moments of ambivalence about because there is black History Month and theres womens History Month and then the other 10 months are pellmell months . [laughter] so we need to have a little available room and spread. We are going to cover a lot of ground so im going to leap right in. I thought that for some of the fresh lemon and wom
Lot of homes struck by lightning set on fire and wind damage, the focus of Severe Weather is well down to the south, in parts of southern virginia, in the carolinas, what is happening High Pressure is building in, this brings us beautiful weather tomorrow and this front sneaks back to the north and haunts us over the weekend and ill talk more about what areas will see showers and when coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. The rain did nothing to keep people away from Dover International speedway for the firefly Music Festival. Lets go live to action News Reporter, chad pradelli, this has become one bigtime event. Bigtime event jim. 80,000 people daily and the gates opened earlier, look at all of these people, thousands making their way into firefly, they go through the scaffolding and go into the festival and then seven stages are erected and listen to the many bands, jack johnson, imagine dragons, beck and outkast. Thousands streamed in to the firefly festival