Brutal atrocities, like slitting civilians' throats, have been reported, Human Rights Watch says.

Climate change is bringing droughts and floods around the world, but in fragile states like Somalia, it is also acting as a kind of 'chaos multiplier', making existing conflicts even more acute. So how is the country rising to the challenge?

Despite facing a catastrophic combination of challenges, there is optimism in the African country.

The electoral commission says that any problems that have been highlighted have been corrected.

The authorities say the situation is now under control after gunshots were heard in Bamako.

Infrastructure damaged by Sudan's war has been repaired but it is not clear if the RSF will co-operate.

Police believe they were accidentally trapped while playing but an investigation is under way.

People remain trapped under the rubble of a seven-storey building in the capital Freetown.

The head of the UN health agency says the world's attention to Sudan is "really low" and race is a factor.

Brentford forward Yoane Wissa will be out for a "couple of months" after sustaining an ankle injury against Manchester City, says head coach Thomas Frank.

A bus transporting people to an Eid-el-Maulud celebration collided with a lorry in Kaduna state.

Mpox vaccines will be offered to thousands of people in the UK to boost protection against the virus.

The number of female football referees in Africa and worldwide has grown but women like Gbemisola Yusuf remain underrepresented.

The state governor says that jihadist fighters may be among those who have fled.

The three states will have new travel documents under their breakaway alliance "in the coming days".

BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state.

The species is critically endangered and the calf has been born due to a successful breeding programme.

Survivors recount what happened in Wad al-Nourah in June when at least 100 people died.

BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt travels to Somalia to investigate the links between global warming and the decades-long conflict there. He hears how Somalis are responding by launching businesses and their own renewables industry.

Presenter: Justin Rowlatt Producer in Somalia: Stuart Phillips Producers in London: Miho Tanaka, Sara Hegarty Sound Mix: Tom Brignell and David Crackles Editor: Simon Watts

Africa is home to around one-third of the world's languages, but only a smattering of them are available online and in translation software. So when young Beninese computer scientist Bonaventure Dossou, who was fluent in French, experienced difficulties communicating with his mother, who spoke the local language Fon, he came up with an idea.

Bonaventure and a friend developed a French to Fon translation app, with speech recognition functionality, using an old missionary bible and volunteer questionnaires as the source data. Although rudimentary, they put the code online as open-source to be used by others. Bonaventure has since joined with other young African computer scientists and language activists called Masakane to use this code and share knowledge to increase digital accessibility for African and other lower-resourced languages. They want to be able to communicate across the African continent using translation software, with the ultimate goal being an "African Babel Fish", a simultaneous speech-to-speech translation for African languages.

James Jackson explores what role their ground-breaking software could play for societies in Africa disrupted by language barriers.

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