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00:02:29World after. Africa matters
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00:02:38of you,
00:02:43in
00:02:56welcome to African matters, I'm Grace Kir.
00:03:00global leaders take the podium at the UN general assembly in New
00:03:04York from September 22nd, it comes just weeks after
00:03:08African countries secured the adoption of new
00:03:12map showing the continent's true size and recognition
00:03:16of the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against
00:03:19humanity earlier this year, so what's next on their
00:03:28of of agenda? security. council
00:03:31that
00:03:32of today does not represent geographically the
00:03:39of of realities of the world, we have three european permanent members, one north american and one
00:03:42asian, no latin america, no
00:03:46of africans, is obviously security council
00:03:49that has a
00:03:50of problem of legitimacy, and that brings with it a
00:03:54problem of effectiveness, and that's why African
00:03:57nations are pushing for two. permanent sits at the UN
00:04:01security council with veto powers and five
00:04:05non-permanent sits. According to the UN office
00:04:08of the Special Advisor in Africa, they also want to tackle debt
00:04:12crisis by reinforcing their collective bargaining position in
00:04:16debt repayment negotiations and reduce borrowing costs
00:04:20by promoting their own home grown
00:04:22of credit rating
00:04:23of alternative. Despite low emissions of just about 4%
00:04:27globally, according to the international energy. agency,
00:04:30Africa faces severe climate impact, leaders are
00:04:34demanding more financial
00:04:36of support for adaptation, delivery on loss and
00:04:39of damage pledges and increased climate finance by the major
00:04:43pollutors. now the continent wants more refining of
00:04:47minerals at source so that it can create jobs, boost
00:04:50energy security and ensure greater returns from
00:04:54natural resources and with conflicts in Sudan, the
00:04:58DRC, the Sahal and horn of Africa, its leaders are
00:05:02calling for stronger backing of African led peace and
00:05:06security initiatives. Most of our of our crisis
00:05:10on the continent are fueled from
00:05:12abroad, financial
00:05:16resources, ammunitions, sometimes even fighters come
00:05:20to fight another war from other continent,
00:05:24and it is indeed very, very tough
00:05:27challenge, either in the sahel or here in the
00:05:31Sudan, in the horn of Africa or even on other crisis in
00:05:35Eastern DC, and you have watched it yourself through
00:05:39television that there are foreign fighters even fighting. in
00:05:43those areas, so it's very important that our
00:05:45position, is coordinating on on those issues
00:05:49and we will continue to advocate
00:05:53for a non-interference in those crises and in particular to
00:05:57let the African continent put the right diagnosis and the
00:06:01right solution for the African problems. right, and one such
00:06:04solution came in March when the United Nations adopted
00:06:08resolution recognizing the enslavement and trafficking of Africa.
00:06:13during the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime
00:06:16against humanity, descendants of enslaved Africans and
00:06:20many across the continent, now hope it will help push through the long
00:06:24running campaign to write the historic wrongs the
00:06:28slave trade and its enduring legacies, as Isaac Kalaji
00:06:32reports. Thomas Abanqua is a
00:06:35historian and guide at Gane's Cape Coast
00:06:39Castle. He helps preserve the memory.
00:06:43of one of his nation's darkest
00:06:45chapters, thousands of Africans
00:06:48passed through these dungeons before being shipped
00:06:52across the Atlantic. They were part of at
00:06:56least 12.5 million Africans taken
00:07:00and sold between the 15th and 19th
00:07:03centuries. More than 200 years
00:07:06after the transatlantic slave trade ended, its
00:07:10impact remains deeply emotional. "I would say
00:07:14most often we talk about the inslavement of
00:07:17Africans
00:07:18and as well we also talk about the impact
00:07:21and things that are actually happened in here over the years that th actually
00:07:25have taken place. Halima Baghdadi is an
00:07:29African-American tourist who believes her
00:07:32ancestors came from here. A human being would do
00:07:36something to another human being. You would even cheat an animal that
00:07:39way. For me is very emotional. you can
00:07:42see
00:07:47my answers had to do, had to go through all of this.
00:07:51in March, the UN general assembly declared the
00:07:54transatlantic slave trade the gravous crime against
00:07:58humanity. Gana let that effort and has
00:08:02since pushed for a unified African position on
00:08:06reparative justice. Along with Caribbean
00:08:09nations, they are seeking former apologies.
00:08:16of stolen cultural heritage from countries that profitted from slavery
00:08:22and the and return colonialism. for many, justice and
00:08:25reparations are essential to addressing this painful
00:08:28legacy, but despite the growing calls for accountability,
00:08:32it's still unclear how reparative justice will
00:08:36ultimately take shape. some former
00:08:39colonial powers oppose reparations. arguing that
00:08:43today's generation should not be held accountable
00:08:47for the actions the past, but abanqa
00:08:50disagrees, reparation don't just come in form of
00:08:54let's say money, where when talk about reparation, people are looking
00:08:58at restitutions are there, they took a lot of artifacts and as
00:09:02well traditional stuff from us. Ghana plans to
00:09:05highlight the actions taken since the resolution was
00:09:09passed as world leaders meet at this years. UN general
00:09:13assembly, they also hope that with international backing
00:09:17for justice and restitution, the push for
00:09:20reparation will soon become a reality.
00:09:24Isaac Kalaji, africa matters, Accra.
00:09:28So Antonio Guteres's time as UN Secretary general
00:09:32ends on December 31st this year, so there
00:09:36are eight candidates who are in the race to succeed
00:09:39him, including two from Africa. You see them right
00:09:43there, the former Senegalese President Marquisal who is arguing
00:09:47a major overhaul the UN Security Council while also
00:09:51calling for stronger support ease the debt buttons weighing
00:09:55on developing countries. We also have Ugandan
00:09:58diplomat and former UN under secretary general
00:10:01Olara Otunu who is vowing to press ahead with
00:10:05institutional reforms and place priority on
00:10:08resolving major international conflicts.
00:10:13Right, let's hear more from Dubai sino. He is the managing partner and
00:10:16chief executive of next year SPD that security
00:10:20peace and development, an international consulting firm working
00:10:24in. Nigeria and across Africa, he joins me from
00:10:28Abuja in Nigeria, thank you very much as always for making the
00:10:32time for this conversation, so African countries
00:10:35have collectively lobbied and pushed through two very
00:10:39important UN resolutions this year. The question is,
00:10:43can they do the same to finally get a permanent
00:10:47seat at the UN Security Council table? Thank
00:10:51you for inviting me, I think they can.
00:10:55why i may not give all the credit to the African
00:10:59states and government, i may maybe give them a bit of it, but i
00:11:03want to give this credit more to the African Civil
00:11:05society, the most these push you're seeing
00:11:09are coming from African civil society,
00:11:13incidentally or luckily enough we equally have civil
00:11:16society from the west helping and
00:11:20that's what the result you are seeing and more importantly you could
00:11:24see the quality. of products from Africa, I mean
00:11:28human products across most these
00:11:31international development organizations, you will see
00:11:35the quality of Africans who are there from the world bank, the UN and
00:11:39so on, it means that Africa is making a statement with the
00:11:43quality of people is producing, and this quality of people is
00:11:47rubbing on on the nature the civil society that we have in
00:11:50Africa, and this civil society are putting
00:11:54pressure. on the African states and government who are in
00:11:57turn giving the lead to what we are witnessing, so
00:12:01I still believe vividly that Africa may because the
00:12:05pressure from African Civil society as well as civil
00:12:09society across most the western state, especially the three
00:12:13permanent the five permanent seat members where you have
00:12:16their members asking them to allow a seat for Africa or
00:12:20so and that's the result we are saying. let's wait and see
00:12:24now we have some key issues here, climate, finance, debt
00:12:28relief and fairer global financial rules, what
00:12:32substantial results can African nations actually get this
00:12:36time round at this years Ungar? I mean, these
00:12:40these are issue of diplomacy, um, why I may
00:12:44not be so certain about how much we can get,
00:12:47but if you know that to to most African states
00:12:51this almost like ritual, is like jambury, so... I don't know how
00:12:55well prepared a lot them are, but if I may
00:12:59say with the civil society, um, you could see
00:13:03that most them take a lot out of what happens of
00:13:06hunger, and when they come back the next year, they
00:13:10are well prepared, I mean for Africa to get lot from
00:13:13Hunga, it could be um, the kind of
00:13:17leadership the AU, the African Union may have
00:13:20given, that I doubt, I doubt that from what we
00:13:24see. maybe the war going on in Congo, the war going on
00:13:28in Somalia, how the African Union have intervened and
00:13:31and has helped in leading that, if we cannot
00:13:35be solving our own local problem, how can we
00:13:39influence such a big issues in in in
00:13:43in the global stage, especially with the UN, I may not assure
00:13:47you of everything, but like they say um the the
00:13:50the
00:13:51the test the puding is in the eating, I believe that stating our
00:13:55case continuous pressure may, it may not be this
00:13:58year,
00:13:59but um, it may get us to where we want to be, especially with the
00:14:03rise the middle powers like Turkey, Brazil,
00:14:07helping in championing our case, uh, it might be,
00:14:11maybe not today, but maybe tomorrow, you mentioned the civil
00:14:15society organization lot, which makes me curious about our African
00:14:18leaders, are you in other words saying the let us down, at least or
00:14:22they've left the continent down, is thus far?
00:14:26mean, they they've not, they've not um done as much as we
00:14:30expected, they are no, they are no is or bts
00:14:34about that, the African state haven't tried as much as we
00:14:38expected, but that's why you could see the the civil
00:14:41society from the churches to the
00:14:44traditional to the NGOs, championing most
00:14:48the courts um the state could be doing, mean it's no
00:14:52against saying that the informal governance in Africa. is doing lot
00:14:56than the former governance, so and um, I
00:15:00believe that the pressure from the civil societies could could help um
00:15:03unlock some the things the state is unable to
00:15:07do. All right, so let's talk about another key issue,
00:15:11which is the transatlantic slave trade reparations that was brought
00:15:15by Gana in March this year, quite historic, I would
00:15:18say, what does
00:15:19that reveal about global justice and how likely it is or is
00:15:23it to translate into? concrete policy commitments, global
00:15:27diplomacy is not almost um, has never been
00:15:31a te party right, so is one
00:15:34where um things... dog eat
00:15:38dogs, let's be honest about that, I'm not sure what we're going to
00:15:42get, but for the fact that we take we've taken it to
00:15:45that height of um advocacy and
00:15:48diplomacy um is the way to go,
00:15:52probably with if we
00:15:53are able to get one of us elected as the secretary general the the
00:15:57UN, maybe that might be another pathway towards what we can
00:16:01get. I know you mentioned it, but I want to talk about it, the
00:16:04UN sector and position gutieres is... time ends on December
00:16:0831st, we have two contenders from Africa, former Senegalese president
00:16:12Makisal, Ugandan diplomat in former UN under secretary general
00:16:16or Lara Otun, what are their chances, because there's also been
00:16:20talk about getting woman to lead the global body,
00:16:24but what are the chances these two Africans? yeah, I i had wish
00:16:28that um two the Amazons that we have in two them are from
00:16:32Nigeria, um, if either them had um thrown her
00:16:36cup, you into the field, but I wish
00:16:40Africa could equally scale down to one between the
00:16:43two, I mean two them coming out to contest with my
00:16:47speed a kind of speed the vote into two,
00:16:51I'm not sure what their chances are, considering
00:16:55that we recently had two other Africans
00:16:58um who held on who who were appointed as
00:17:01secretary general, not not not more than 20 years ago,
00:17:05so I'm not a british but... and
00:17:09Kofian nan, so I'm not sure how this will play, but I
00:17:13wish we could present only one candidate, but that's that
00:17:16shows, that shows the strength the African Union, it
00:17:20shows the African Union is almost like paper tiger,
00:17:24because if he's as strong as it is, he could have find a way to for
00:17:28Africa to present just one candidate, do we see their
00:17:31managing partner and chief executive of next year
00:17:35SPD, thank you very much sir for your time. and valuable
00:17:39contribution
00:17:46to Nigeria now, where Africa's biggest refinery has
00:17:49opened its doors to investors, billionaire Alico Dangotte
00:17:53is seeking to raise 1.6 billion US dollars in the
00:17:57continent's biggest initial public offering or IPO and
00:18:01it's already drawing huge interest. Kubra akorch has
00:18:05the story. chance to own a piece
00:18:09of one of Africa's biggest businesses, shares in
00:18:12Aliko Dangode's giant oil refinery
00:18:16recently went on sale, giving Nigerians a
00:18:19stake a business that has already transformed the country's fuel
00:18:23market. Now we are owning back our Nigerian
00:18:27oil, so I believe the group, investing in that group is the
00:18:30lifetime opportunity, being imagine being a part
00:18:34owner of something that is Nigerian that will grow. The
00:18:38$1.6 billion share sale is the
00:18:41largest initial public offering in the African
00:18:44continent and in the history of Nigeria. It's also
00:18:48country's first fully digital IPO aimed at retail
00:18:52investors. Several investment apps crashed
00:18:56as people tried to buy a minimum of 10 shares
00:19:00costing around $40. By the end of day one we
00:19:04had cleared around 70% the backlog and by the start of. business on
00:19:08day two, we had cleared 100% the backlog and
00:19:11now we, are good to go, we've increased our
00:19:15capacity just by you massive orders of
00:19:18magnitude. Africa's richest man says the aim is to make
00:19:22ownership accessible to ordinary Nigerians. Now we
00:19:26are looking at what do we create, what do you want to really create? what
00:19:30you want to create is the likes of Amazon, the likes of
00:19:34Microsoft, why people bought these shares for next to? nothing
00:19:38and now those shares have become something big, the
00:19:42refinery has shaped Nigeria's fuel market since it
00:19:46began operation in 2024, helping the country that
00:19:49once relied heavily on imports to produce more of its
00:19:53own. It can process 700 thousand barrels of oil a
00:19:57day with Dangode planning to more than double that to
00:20:011.4 million barrels a day by 2029. The
00:20:05company also plans to launch a massive... refinery plant of
00:20:08Kenya's coast, linking it to the East African
00:20:12market, but despite the excitement, investing is
00:20:16still out of reach for many Nigerians, we are trying to
00:20:19survive, it's a good development, but it's
00:20:23not for for the poor, for poor people like
00:20:26us, but if you have money you can invest in it, but for
00:20:30we we are trying to survive, keep it
00:20:33going, the IPO values the refinery at around.
00:20:50can deliver on his company's share
00:20:52value. Africa
00:20:55matters. Across africa, informal
00:20:58businesses like market stoles and hairdresses provide
00:21:02work and affordable services for millions of people.
00:21:06But governments want to bring more these businesses under formal
00:21:09regulation, but how can they do that without harming the
00:21:13livelihoods they support? Elias Abgi finds
00:21:16out. Pavements, residential street.
00:21:20public spaces: in almost all cities in Africa,
00:21:24informal businesses find room wherever they can,
00:21:27clothes, stalls and food sellers often bring affordable goods
00:21:31onto streets and neighborhoods, providing a job and
00:21:34income. it's a survival economy. young
00:21:38person who has finished training but cannot find a job in the formal sector takes
00:21:42refuge in the informal sector to survive, hoping something will happen in the
00:21:46future. the international labor organization estimates
00:21:50nearly 83% of employment in Africa is
00:21:54informal. It includes street trading and employees
00:21:57working without contracts or social protection. Earning
00:22:01living doesn't necessarily generate enough money to build
00:22:04registered business. We do not
00:22:08yet have opportunities to formalize our businesses, and at the same
00:22:12time we lack the means to do so. The little we earn during the
00:22:16day goes toward feeding our families and meeting our needs.
00:22:20Consequently, we cannot save enough to hope to break out the
00:22:23situation and move to the next stage, but working
00:22:27without licenses often brings traders into conflict with
00:22:31the authorities. Governments have used all sorts of measures
00:22:35ranging from demolutions and seizures to training and
00:22:38support, but clearing public space leaves another
00:22:42question unresolved. Where should the businesses
00:22:45go? We want the state to find our shops or space.
00:22:50is where
00:22:50we can work normally since it doesn't want us to sell our goods in the
00:22:54streets. governments want more small businesses to
00:22:58pay tax, even though not all informal work flies
00:23:02under the radar. if i'm paying tax now, i'm just paying because is
00:23:06um something that is is right for me to do, but
00:23:09benefit no, we don't even have people
00:23:13coming around doing what gover supposed to do, we
00:23:17do it on our own. economists. that easier
00:23:21registration must come with access to finance and safe
00:23:24places where small businesses can operate, that would
00:23:28give traders support to grow and boost their fortunes as well
00:23:32as the formal economy, africa
00:23:36matters. to South Africa now, where closed
00:23:40mines in Johannesburg are often plended for what little gold
00:23:43remains, and as Bahar Ur reports, the damage cost
00:23:47is far more than a hole in the ground.
00:23:51These man-made piles of earth across Johannesburg are known
00:23:55locally as mine dumps. They are historical reminders
00:23:59of this mining city once known as the city of
00:24:03gold. The mines have long been abandoned after the
00:24:07last official mine in the city closed in May
00:24:101997. Since then illegal miners
00:24:14have moved in. I make over
00:24:17$600 a month and I will send some of it. to support my
00:24:20children, but their digging is making it
00:24:24unsafe for residencia and they're also accused of
00:24:28damaging electricity cables, water pipes and
00:24:31roads. today people are living in fears,
00:24:35some the people are left without anything, they don't have houses
00:24:39anymore, some the people left the area, they don't have life
00:24:43anymore, they don't know where to work to start to rebuild their
00:24:47houses because their houses have been taken over by this
00:24:50illegal mining, but the damage caused by these
00:24:54illegal mines is not limited to land and
00:24:57infrastructure, it often comes with violent
00:25:01crime. the families or residents are always in
00:25:04fear, terrorized, um, there's been rape
00:25:08cases, there's a lot of um kidnapping for ransom that is
00:25:12done by these guys and it's their activities are not only limited
00:25:16to mining, they also um target uh
00:25:20electricity cables, as you saw, they dig these trenches on the
00:25:23roads. In 2024, South Africa lost over
00:25:273 billion dollars to illegal mining, according to government
00:25:31data. A study done in May this year shows that
00:25:35nearly 6,100 mining sites have been
00:25:38abandoned, many are still unsafe and
00:25:42easily accessible. Between 5% and 30% of
00:25:46South Africa's total gold output is estimated to be.
00:25:50and traded illegally, more than 200
00:25:54soldiers have been deployed to assist police in fighting
00:25:57crime, gang violence and illegal mining until
00:26:01march next year. but for those living in the shadow these
00:26:05abandoned minds, winning the battle against criminal
00:26:08networks, can't come soon enough. Bahar Uighur,
00:26:12Africa matters. Meanwhile, more than
00:26:152,500 delegates from 44 African
00:26:18countries and Turkish business leaders gathered in Istanbul,
00:26:22build, trade and investment ties. It comes as Turkey's
00:26:26exports to Africa jumped 12% to 11
00:26:29billion dollars in the first half of 2026. with total trade
00:26:33now around $40 billion dollars. Brenda Zedda Radido has
00:26:37more from the Forum Venue. The gathering comes as
00:26:41TK and African nations seek to
00:26:44expand trade, investment and long-term business
00:26:48partnerships for African businesses. Turkey offers
00:26:52manufacturing, logistics and investment connections. This type of
00:26:56meeting are very important because it gives the opportunity to the two side to
00:26:59meet, to our business people to meet with Turkish. business operators
00:27:03in order to see how to make joint ventures together
00:27:06to build factories, industries in our African
00:27:10countries, because we have huge potentials. for Turkish companies,
00:27:14Africa represents a growing market for exports, investment
00:27:18and industrial cooperation. there are many areas that the
00:27:22turkish know-how and technology that needs to go in,
00:27:26one them would definitely be technology, so that's an
00:27:30area that needs to be supported and it's an area that everybody
00:27:33should keep focus on, I would also say
00:27:37there are areas that are in production needs to
00:27:41be brought to Africa, the Turkish expertise in car
00:27:45production for example, metallic works. Turkey's
00:27:49economic engagement with the African continent has expanded
00:27:52sharply over the past two decades. Turkey has signed
00:27:5650 trade agreements with African nations, including the free trade
00:28:00agreements with Egypt, Tunese. Morocco and
00:28:03Mauritius, while negotiations on free trade agreements continue
00:28:07with Ghana, Cameroon, Libya and the Democratic Republic the
00:28:11Congo. The total value of projects undertaken by Turkish
00:28:15contracting companies in Africa has reached nearly 100
00:28:18billion dollars. This projects spanning across the continent have
00:28:22made significant contributions to Africa's development.
00:28:26From Istanbul, the message at FX 2026 is
00:28:30clear. The future. Relations between
00:28:33Africa and Turkey will not only depend on trade, but it will
00:28:37require long-term investments and partnerships. Brenda
00:28:41Zadaradido for Africa Marters, Istanbul,
00:28:44tokia. That's our show this week on
00:28:48African matters, what can the African continent achieve
00:28:51at this year's UN general assembly? You can leave your comments on our
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00:28:59goodbye from me, Grace, Korea.
00:30:10Iran's security chief says the US has been given seven
00:30:14conditions for restarting talks as Donald Trump
00:30:17considers his next move in
00:30:19the standoff, or he is due to meet golf leaders in New
00:30:23York on the sidelines the UN general assembly a shipping disruption
00:30:27goes on in the straight of Hamos. Hello and
00:30:31welcome to TRT World. Live from Istanbul, you're with me Katie Pilbu,
00:30:35also ahead on the program for you. A refinery near Moscow is
00:30:39a blaze after hundreds of Ukrainian drones launched at the
00:30:42Russian capital on the final day of parliament elections
00:30:46there. And weeks after a far right party scored its first
00:30:50regional election victory since World War Two. German voters are
00:30:54going to the polls in
00:30:55Berlin.