My responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors its not just about being premier for parents or being neutral its about being truthful. When he was going to go and i would give you know. This is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes adding value to africas resources most of goddess cocoa is exported role weve meet the women making dollars from the beat. Conflicts you do conflict you think donna and you think cool you think girl but chocolate never comes to mind fifty seven chocolate is changing that refreshing to get donna became a free nation the makers want to revive the can do spirit of that independence year. And two years off to kenya announced the Worlds Toughest and one single use
plastic bags the alternative that was introduced is now also being told our correspondent in nairobi has that story. Im christine one double come to africa im glad youre. Gonna is a giant when it comes To Cocoa Production the West African Country exports off the being a second only to neighboring ivory coast in fact gonna exports cocoa beans with about two billion u. S. Dollars as a gift but it is and now its important off Chocolate Spending up to eight Million Dollars a year on the sweet stuff now thats according to what rather that starting to change as going to see as a new generation of Autism Chocolate produces bringing up theyre taking
a resource that donna has in abundance and adding value to the role material. Think is an expert when it comes To Cocoa Farming but hes not that fond of chocolate hes rather have a plate of fries to eat these really wild preferred food rewards one knew it did it will work. One yes. Well for dog that is a. Through our way as food in the Capital Accra the start up companies trying to change that view they hope to inspire gun ins with exotic creations like it disclosed chocolate. If only find that very helpful for us to share in that and thats how we end up developing a lot of byplay very hard to do this pot that and then we have. People who pay for our i pad product but i had my Chocolate Produce she is small for luxury product
that was so mainly in the capital ill go straight to export to assist us set up the company about three years ago and then they faced many challenges ranging from constant Power Outages to corrupt officials who made life difficult for the small company. But theyre determined to keep on with their lexus chocolate and not just leave the field to the big multinational food companies. It takes a lot of it and do instead definitely run a chocolate business karen. And just to represent using our resources at home to actually produce the finished good care. So fifty seven chocolate is really putting the Gloss On Ghana School now thats just a common skin us cocoa from us to become chocoholics. And im happy to welcome to deeds every nice Africa Kimberley edison you saw in the report she is the cofounder of fifty seven chocolates and shes coming to us from accra in ghana hi
kimberly so as we saw in our report there we have a cocoa farmer whos not so keen on Chocolates Variant Gonna and so i wonder what market is more important to you would it be the Export Market or the domestic market. Well its actually both i would say both are equally important because the truth is we have to start locally in order. Globally so right now as we do so were actually tackling book market so were tackling our im going to peace here in terms of ritual create more awareness and create greater desire for consumption of chocolate here in donna and equally so it is a global. Consumer of consumable and so were definitely also tackling the Global Market as well because its a huge market out there and in the in europe and in the. In age we have clients all
over the world so its definitely local and global. Local and global but how did you come to the idea of making artists know chocolates and got to know what was the inspiration. Well the inspiration actually came to as in when he fourteen My Sister And I and one thing is we were actually living in Geneva Switzerland at the time and we all know that switzerland is very much known for its topless and ghana known for its cocoa and you happen to be visiting one of the childrens largest factories. And for the first time that most of ghanas cocoa is actually brought to switzerland and processed there and we actually found out for the latter part of last year that that increase that ironically of ghana scoble actually gets sent to switzerland and so we couldnt comprehend why ghana had the resources it was not making a finished product out of it and so thats what inspired us we wanted to add value
to a local resource right here at home because the truth is there is value in cocoa but theres more value in adding. In making it into chocolate and making it into a finished goods so thats what were trying to do here the name of your company fifty seven chocolate references they get that gonna became an independent nation what were you trying to evoke. So i was trying to blow the best spirit behind in the pendants so its named Nine Hundred Fifty Seven Chocolate after Independence DayNine Hundred Fifty Seven however its more thought not about being freed from colonial power but its about this very palace behind in the pendant and thats why not many clashing was one of creating what a lot of People Dont Know was shortly after independence gone had a lot of Thriving Industries that are no longer in existence today we have major problems being in factories we had Ten Industries the actually has a thriving Dairy Industry which is no longer in existence today and somewhere
between one Nine Hundred Fifty Seven and now the leaderships of producing and consuming made in ghana go to heavily importing things and so now we import tomatoes we import chocolate we import rise the important lot of seeing and so we want to and then we are complicated seven who want to really imply reawaken people the fact that if we want to go down and develop as a nation we have to manufacture we have to create and can fill me in to only pray for a red came right out colleagues on the africa team was kind enough to bring back a box off your chocolate we have the dark chocolate with c. Salt and i wonder what your favorite is so i love i love the diet talk going seesaw so its sort of depends on my mood that i. Talk with you feel is actually one of my favorites and then i would say to my next neighbor it would actually be. For the almonds and feast off the column the nominator insult i think felt. A little shock
and really brings up an interesting player if the as and the box is empty i will tell you that can be at the same cofounder of fifty seven chocolates coming to us from a crowd gonna. Change. In twenty seventeen kenya announced the Worlds Toughest ban on single use plastic bags for bidding their imports manufacture and useful commercial and private purposes since then non woven bag stephan a popular alternative for most businesses but now even these have been outlawed Kenyas NationalEnvironment Management or boise ses they are just as bad as ordinary plastic bags this is nairobi river a symbol of kenyas struggle to fight pollution in Two Thousand And Seventeen the government banned single use plastic bags to reduce the amount of plastics in the environment they were replaced with non woven poly proposed in bags which are supposed to be reusable but from the looks of this riverbank it seems these bags do
more harm than good there was a vacuum and the nine eleven box came into the market but when they came into the market the wire that Tensile Strength was too high and they were they had this but i think next and they were large enough and they were costing. I dont entirety and Safety Conditions so they were usable. And at the time we were not watered. The National EnvironmentalManagement Authority says that since the bad the market has been flooded with help standard non woven poly proposed in bags that can only be used once. And people have often thrown them away improperly the Environment Authority felt forced to act the National EnvironmentalManagement Authority has banned the importation and manufacture of these non woven bags and are now looking for alternatives that dont pose a threat to the environment. Many kenyans support the latest bad
enough the new bats are just like other plastic bags they pollute the environment to. Some environmentalists feel that the government should not just pass regulations but also improve Waste Management from where i sit i think that part you could do a little better in terms of planning and what we need to think about is long term management of this kind of material and how they are going to be disposed of. In the event that theyre not useful anymore. To the economy. Kenya still lags behind in Waste Management with recycling aid the done by private companies or informally by people who work at dump sites. But still no alternative to the non woven bags perhaps this latest ban will force ten years to be more aware
of the impact they have on the Environment South Sudan has been enduring a wave of fighting with millions of people displaced from their homes now a socalled Peace Tournament sponsored by the un mission in the south of the country has inspired hope among the population its yet another example of Football Bridging Differences and bringing people together. When the whistle blows people in the town of ye can put their troubles to one side Football Players here taking part in the Peace Tournament a two week long competition sponsored by the United Nations mission in south sudan. Organizers hope the people who have come together here on and off the pitch will take inspiration from the event when your honey is going all the way. Out of your breath. Its up to. The board chairs
and us to speak to us oh you. Must let us you know well. Why dont you go home today in those early fortys. Yeah a river state has been the scene of violence between government and rebel groups in recent years in the light of such suffering football seems trivial but players at the yea Peace Tournament say it can be a symbol of hope. Its meaning that we have peace and among of us of the playoffs and the people. The people im present. Disordered is also among ups of p s yeah. Its the second tournament of its kind the u. N. Mission has organized in south sudan in their bid to demonstrate the unifying power of sports. And will need that they facade a that is it for now from the new south africa you can catch one all stories on our
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