Ghanaian MPs reintroduce controversial anti-LGBT billpublished at 00:09 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March
The bill prescribes a three-year jail term for people who identify as gay and five to 10 years for promoters and advocates.
Read MoreThe bill prescribes a three-year jail term for people who identify as gay and five to 10 years for promoters and advocates.
Read MoreHalf of the Kenyan population use TikTok everyday. But when the sun sets, darker content appears on the platform. Girls as young as fifteen are advertising their bodies through livestreams and avoiding being caught by using coded messages. It’s a way for them to make money - but TikTok is also profiting, despite their strict rules on underage and sexual content.
BBC Africa Eye reporter Debula Kemoli has been to Kenya to investigate. She tells us what she uncovered, and shares insights from content moderators and the women and teens participating in the livestreams.
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Globally, energy production and use is responsible for around 75% of the world’s carbon emissions, with around a third of that on electricity and heat alone. To tackle climate change, we need to get more energy from renewable sources, so this week we’re taking a look at some of the more surprising ways people have come up with to harness clean energy from the world around us.
In the United States, we see what happened when a group of concerned mothers forged a surprising alliance with a gas company, and worked together to get clean energy from the ground beneath their feet.
In Madagascar, we meet the grandmothers bringing solar light to their remote villages, plus we visit Wales, where an innovative new technology is harnessing power from the tides – by flying “kites” underwater.
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the BBC's Emma Barnett about her experience of writer's block.
Read MoreFormer South Africa striker Benni McCarthy has signed a two-year deal as the new head coach of Kenya.
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Read MoreA total of 25 people are arrested for either not fasting or selling food during the fasting month.
Read MoreHenry Maina is a software engineer originally from Kenya, now living in Gloucester.
Read MoreJoshlin Smith has been missing for over a year after she disappeared outside her home in Saldanha Bay
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Read MoreDR Congo's prime minister tells the BBC her government will not sit down with the militants.
Read MoreThey say the move violates the ceasefire deal - Israel says it acted because Hamas was stealing aid supplies.
Read MoreYoung women in Kenya tell the BBC they have used TikTok to sell sexual content since they were teenagers.
Read MoreRwanda-backed rebels said they captured fighters from a group that took part in the 1994 genocide.
Read MoreThe Conservative leader says she remains opposed to a deal, despite US President Donald Trump signalling support.
Read MoreScandal surrounds King Misuzulu's attempts to take a third wife - and to divorce his first one.
Read MoreThousands turn out to say farewell to Sam Nujoma who led the struggle against apartheid South Africa.
Read MoreOfficials say they are concerned that they will spread the contagious disease to the wider community.
Read MoreThe tropical cyclone left more than 180,000 homes without power and 170,000 without running water.
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