Place. The big. Christmas card double. Leg. Darkness prevails as Energy Provider as struggles to keep the lights on across south Africa Business loses patience with rolling power cuts at the countrys struggling Energy Supplier but president proposes says it will all be sorted out by march. And ghana relies on imports to feed the countrys vast appetite for rice but now it wants to satisfy all domestic demand itself in only 3 years with a little help from some friends. This is business africa on the wu update on african and Global Business news and we start in south africa where the worst blackouts for decades are continuing to hamper companies and households several large generators are struggling power utility eskom remain down following a week of heavy rains president Cyril Ramaphosa says the government will work with the company to stabilize the power grid by the end of march. In johannesburg these days business is increasingly done by candlelight or otherwise with the help of noisy
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Of justice over the crackdown on muslim arrangers aljazeera sheds new light on some of the alleged crime and current pressure in the pacific we travel to the tiny island nation of allow to find out exactly whats at risk. So in hong kong the polls are open for local elections and in just the past hour chief executive kerry cast her vote this poll is seen as a test for her probation government following months of demonstrations this is amazing a record 4100000 people have registered to vote 7000000 people in all of hong kong which would make it the biggest turnout since the territory was returned to china from britain in 1907 speaking to the media caroline was appealing for a peaceful vote. We are facing an extremely challenging situation in organizing this years elections but im pleased to say that with the concerted efforts of all parties including of course over 30000 Civil Servants in many departments working today we should have a relatively peaceful and vironment to conduct these e
A missing activist is identified in argentina well tell you how that it could affect the outcome of an upcoming election. Hello there for the southeastern parts of china the weather is quite quiet at the moment for most of us there should be clear skies as we head through sunday and monday you can see the winds though theyre feeding down from the north and that means for some of us its going to get cooler over the next few days so shanghai on sunday getting to around twenty two but on monday a little bit lower probably no higher than twenty towards the west where theres more in the way of unsettled weather here some very heavy rain has been working its way across bangladesh now is edging its way towards the northeast it is gradually easing though so less heavy showers as we head through into monday and force in bangladesh the weather is clearing but certainly this is tim has brought us some very very heavy downpours in fact some parts of bangladesh have reported over one hundred forty
Standing their ground thousands turn out to protest spains attempt to take control of the region. Down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up polls are open in japan where Prime Minister shinzo seeks to become the countrys longest serving leader since World War Two. Your sect of state Rex Tillerson is in saudi arabia for another bid to end the blockade on qatar plus. A close. Call. Five former u. S. President s on stage together at a Hurricane Relief concert in texas. Hello we begin in spain where catalonia as president is accuse. The Spanish Government of attacking its democracy by moving to take political control of the region. Said it was the worse path since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco hundreds of thousands came out on saturday in barcelona to support a countenance a session as the constitutional crisis comes to a head is under simmons. Street protest again in barcelona and i may just scale shock instead of indignation now but defiance in the air was few e