IN FOCUS: CAPE VERDE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. Cape Verde once relied on oil to supply its electricity. Now, it's turning to its natural resources and wants to power the entire country with alternative energy by 2020. The government launched a project to use the sun and wind as a source of energy. FACE TIME: MASAYUKI SARUMARU, PRESIDENT, YKK. YKK is a manufacturer of an everyday item: zippers. It operates globally in 114 affiliated companies and in 1976, it established a plant in Southern Africa. CNN's Will Ripley talks to the president of YKK, Masayuki Sarumaru, about why the company is looking more and more to the African continent for manufacturing and how they're expanding their market share despite competition
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