Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congopublished at 18:40 Greenwich Mean Time 5 February
There is a good chance that inside your device is some metal dug up in a mine controlled by rebels.
Read MoreThere is a good chance that inside your device is some metal dug up in a mine controlled by rebels.
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Read MoreAs M23 rebels entered Goma and the city was plunged into chaos, female prisoners were attacked, the UN says.
Read MoreThe fire is said to have broken out in a nearby house and spread to the school while the children were asleep.
Read MoreThe hopping game of langa, played for generations in parts of West Africa, demands endurance in seeking to find a place on the global stage.
Read MoreThe insurance magnate was a close friend of Nelson Mandela, who he housed after the statesman's divorce in 1992.
Read MoreThe Mauritian prime minister had said the renegotiated deal linked payments to inflation.
Read MoreThe centrepiece will be the winning sculpture in an Oxford Zimbabwe Arts Partnership competition.
Read MoreThe African nation exports its cashews in raw form, but processing them would be more lucrative.
Read MoreThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is under fire. It is the world’s biggest donor and spends billions of dollars a year, funding programmes around the world, like fighting malaria in Bangladesh, clearing unexploded landmines in Cambodia and Laos and providing medical supplies in Sudan.
But President Trump says it is run by “radical lunatics” and he and billionaire Elon Musk, who’s got the job of trying to slash American government spending, want to shut it down. They have paused almost all international spending for 90 days and issued “stop work” orders to their staff. BBC journalist Nathalia Jimenez tells us what USAID does - and why the Trump administration wants to close it.
A large proportion of USAID funding goes towards healthcare and HIV medication in sub-Saharan Africa. Makuochi Okafor, the BBC’s Africa Health correspondent tells us what impact closing USAID could have in this region.
Anselm Gibbs, a BBC reporter based in Trinidad and Tobago, tells us about programmes USAID funds in the Caribbean. And Hilde Deman from Search for Common Ground, an international NGO that uses USAID funding in countries affected by violent conflict, talks about the impact to their work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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John Smyth moved to South Africa from Zimbabwe where he abused young people at Christian camps he ran.
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Read MoreFyfe Robertson reported from Libya on a British woman who looked after the royal Cyrenaican bees for the King.
Read MoreThere is currently no approved vaccine for the highly contagious and deadly Sudan strain of Ebola.
Read MoreSudanese refugees based in Birmingham tell the BBC how they are supporting each other.
Read MoreThe rebels say they will not seize any further territory but will protect their positions.
Read MoreSouth Africa last month passed a law allowing the seizure of land under certain circumstances.
Read MoreTems is the first Nigerian to win two Grammys after taking the Best Africa Music Performance prize.
Read MoreThe next round of league matches have been suspended while the authorities investigate the death.
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