Americans are casting their votes in the November 3 election for those who would represent them at national and local levels. The stakes are especially high for the offices of the President, Senators, and the House of Representatives. While this is taking place, I’ve been reflecting on the importance of the relations between the United…
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Since April, the BBC’s Population reporter Stephanie Hegarty has been following three people, in three different parts of the world, who lost their jobs during the pandemic. Their stories expose an emerging global crisis, as people struggle to make ends meet. Director:
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image copyrightAFP Much of the world’s chocolate is made thanks to the cocoa grown in Ivory Coast, where an election has opened up bitter wounds, writes James Copnall, a former BBC correspondent in the country.
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One week after the Nigerian armed forces shot peaceful anti-police brutality protesters in Lagos, the BBC’s Mayeni Jones spoke to Ephraim, a British-Nigerian activist at the heart of the Lagos protests. Originally from London, Ephraim, witnessed the shooting at the
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Award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga’s latest book, This Mournable Body, is on the Booker Prize shortlist. The Booker Prize is the UK’s most prestigious literary award open to any novel written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Tsitsi
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image copyrightGetty Images For critics of US President Donald Trump, escalating tensions between two long-standing American allies, Egypt and Ethiopia, over a mega dam on a tributary of the River Nile marks the biggest diplomatic
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image copyrightGetty Images Looting has continued in Nigeria as people targeted government warehouses holding Covid-19 aid in the capital, Abuja, on Monday. The raid in Gwagwalada, on the outskirts of the city, is
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image copyrightGetty Images The anti-police brutality protests in Nigeria created a powerful movement that appeared to shake those in power, but after a turbulent fortnight, BBC Hausa editor Aliyu Tanko considers where it goes from
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image copyrightAnadolu AgencyLibya’s warring factions have signed an agreement on a ceasefire, after five days of talks in Geneva.The deal between military leaders from Libya’s government, and those from opposition forces
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Nigeria has seen weeks of protests against police brutality, as protesters called for the end of a special police unit known as SARS, accused of unlawful arrests, torture and extra-judicial killings.The unit has been disbanded by the president, but Nigerians
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