Image copyright AFP Image caption AFP journalists saw charred items and smouldering ashes after the attack At least 65 people have lost their lives after suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire on a funeral in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Borno. Gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in vans at the village near the state capital, Maiduguri, […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption The radical EFF opposition party has made land expropriation without compensation a key national issue A presidential panel in South Africa has proposed expropriation of land without compensation, but in limited circumstances. Land held purely for speculative purposes or occupied by tenants should be given away, it advises. White people, […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption The government says a warplane belonging to rogue general Khalifa Hafta carried out the attack An air strike has killed five doctors in a hospital in the southern outskirts of Libya’s capital Tripoli, an official from the UN-backed government says. A warplane belonging to Khalifa Hafta, the rogue general who […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption The four constructors were taken to the Turkish embassy in Abuja after they were rescued Four Turkish nationals have been rescued a week after being kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s western state of Kwara, police say. The four, who are construction workers, were taken from a bar last week. The […]
Image copyright Katie Cashman The sight of Kenya’s all-female motorbike gang, the Inked Sisterhood, often shocks people in the socially conservative East African nation. Image copyright Katie Cashman The group recently completed a 270km (170-mile) ride from the capital, Nairobi, south to Loitokitok town. Their black leather boots, guards, jackets and helmets are the only […]
Meet Kasoma Noordin, from Kampala in Uganda, who makes high-end bicycles with a difference. Rather than using metal or carbon, he makes his frames from a naturally strong and lightweight material that he grows himself: bamboo. BBC Smart Money went to meet him. Video producers: Jason Dunford and Jewel Kiriungi Uganda’s bamboo bikes: ‘A sustainable […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption The four constructors were taken to the Turkish embassy in Abuja after they were rescued Four Turkish nationals have been rescued a week after being kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s western state of Kwara, police say. The four, who are construction workers, were taken from a bar last week. The […]
Image copyright Katie Cashman The sight of Kenya’s all-female motorbike gang, the Inked Sisterhood, often shocks people in the socially conservative East African nation. Image copyright Katie Cashman The group recently completed a 270km (170-mile) ride from the capital, Nairobi, south to Loitokitok town. Their black leather boots, guards, jackets and helmets are the only […]
Media captionWhat happened during the 3 June massacre? Eight senior military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their alleged part in the killing of protesters on 3 June. Government prosecutors announced the charges after investigating the massacre, when at least 87 people died in the capital, Khartoum. Opposition activists […]
Image caption A rights group estimates there are more than 700,000 intersex people among Kenya’s 49 million population Kenya will for the first time collect data on intersex people in its national population census, in a major victory for rights activists. The August survey will determine the number of citizens who do not identify as […]
