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Business Matters: Northern Ireland to restart devolved government

Northern Ireland to restart devolved government

11/01/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Northern Ireland to restart devolved government

Sinn Féin and the DUP have said they will re-enter devolved government at Stormont.

A power-sharing coalition, led by the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, collapsed in January 2017 over a green energy row. But earlier on Friday, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald told a Stormont press conference that her party will support a return to 'genuine power sharing'. Deidre Heenan is Professor of Social Policy from the University of Ulster tells us why public services and the economy had been so severely effected by the three year stalemate.

Also in this edition, an update from Australia where gale force winds have fanned two massive bushfires into a feared 'mega blaze'; the latest on the twists and turns of the royal saga now known as Megxit and as the US imposes further sanctions on Iran; we ask how much more pressure can be put on its economy. Plus - will the next digital revolution be driven by African entrepreneurs? We hear from four African countries about the opportunities and the challenges. And are some barber shops breaking the law by turning away women as customers?

Susannah Streeter is joined by Elizabeth Gwynn, co-anchor and journalist for Prime7 News in Canberra.

(Photo: Locks on the closed gates outside Parliament Buildings, on the Stormont Estate in Belfast. Credit: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images)

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