MAYOR ON THE FRONT LINE: Democracy in Crisis — #BBCAfricaEye #IWD2024 #Shorts

🎥 Watch the doc­u­men­tary “May­or on the Front Line: Democ­ra­cy in Cri­sis” from #BBCAfrica­Eye here: https://youtu.be/8_fwvmKNCNo Sub­scribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetoafrica Web­site: https://www.bbc.com/africa Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsafrica/ Twit­ter: https://www.twitter.com/bbcafrica/ Insta­gram: https://www.instagram.com/bbcafrica/

Francis Ngannou is ‘like a king’ in Cameroon — BBC Africa

The much-antic­i­­pat­ed box­ing match between MMA super­star Fran­cis Ngan­nou and for­mer world heavy­weight cham­pi­on Antho­ny Joshua, already attract­ing a surge in online search traf­fic. Ahead of the clash, we vis­it­ed Ngannou’s home­town of Batié in Cameroon to find out more about this “cham­pi­on of cham­pi­ons”, dis­cov­er­ing that he used to be a sand min­er and…

The president who vowed not to overstay — BBC Africa

“The pres­i­dent can­not extend his term of office, not even by one day”. These were the words of Sene­gal’s pres­i­dent, Macky Sall before his elec­tion in 2012, but has he gone back on his word?  Sene­gal is in polit­i­cal tur­moil since its leader post­poned the Feb­ru­ary 2024 elec­tions, with crit­ics say­ing the move is just anoth­er way…

Haiti crisis: Will Kenya overcome the ghosts of Brazil’s mission? BBC Africa

Kenya is deploy­ing a force of 1,000 police offi­cers to Haiti to fight crim­i­nal gangs that have tak­en con­trol of Haiti’s cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince. How­ev­er, Kenya is not the first for­eign inter­ven­tion in Haiti; Brazil led a mis­sion from 2004 to 2016, with a mixed out­come. But can Kenya suc­ceed where oth­ers have failed? And what…

African students loved living in Sudan but war forced them to flee — BBC Africa

African stu­dents in Sudan share the real­i­ties of find­ing them­selves in a war zone, after mov­ing to the coun­try for a new chap­ter and edu­ca­tion. “Just imag­ine wak­ing up the morn­ing with bomb blasts.” “Very, very, very scary,” says Fauziya Idris Safiyo. #sudan #sudan­war #bbcafrica Sub­scribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetoafrica Web­site: https://www.bbc.com/africa Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsafrica/ Twit­ter: https://www.twitter.com/bbcafrica/ Insta­gram: https://www.instagram.com/bbcafrica/

What does South Africa get out of Brics? BBC Africa

The five Brics coun­tries of Brazil, Rus­sia, India, Chi­na and South Africa are hold­ing their 15th annu­al sum­mit in Johan­nes­burg. How­ev­er one of the nations lead­ers, Vladimir Putin, will not be there.  The G7 nations have been very crit­i­cal of Rus­si­a’s inva­sion of Ukraine, but the Brics nations, includ­ing South Africa, less so.  The BBC’s Kim Chakanetsa…

Sickle Cell: The Enemy Within — BBC Africa Eye documentary

At just six months of age, Lea Kilen­ga Bey was diag­nosed with sick­le cell. Her par­ents were told by doc­tors that she wouldn’t reach her teenage years.  Instead, Lea has become a bea­con of hope for sick­le cell suf­fer­ers across Africa, bat­tling both the stig­mas sur­round­ing the dis­ease and the author­i­ties who fail to provide…

How do UK visa changes affect foreign students? — BBC Africa

In May 2023, the UK gov­ern­ment has announced plans to scrap depen­dent visas for many for­eign stu­dents.  The new rule comes as migra­tion to the UK hit a record high of 606,000 last year.  BBC Africa explains why is Nige­ria one of the main tar­gets of the clam­p­down.  Pre­sent­ed by Ani­ta Nkonge Pro­duced by Mau­reen Nyukuri …

What are Russian mercenaries doing in West Africa? — BBC Africa

The Wag­n­er Group is an organ­i­sa­tion of Russ­ian mer­ce­nar­ies. Thou­sands of their sol­diers have been fight­ing on the Russ­ian side in the war in Ukraine. But they have also been active on the African con­ti­nent in sev­er­al coun­tries — includ­ing the Cen­tral African Repub­lic, Mali and now, alleged­ly, Burk­i­na Faso. These Wag­n­er sol­diers are fight­ing in…

What happened to the African students who fled Ukraine? BBC Africa

British-Zim­bab­wean Kor­rine Sky was study­ing med­i­cine in the Ukrain­ian city of Dnipro. Now back in the UK with her fam­i­ly she has faced obsta­cles in try­ing to resume her stud­ies. Kor­rine reached out and spoke to three med­ical stu­dents, who like her, have had their dreams and edu­ca­tion­al aspi­ra­tions impact­ed by the war. Exec­u­tive Pro­duc­er: Léone…