Meaza Ashenafi says she is building an objective court that will effectively deal with these crimes.

Kenya's flower exporters are switching to sea freight as new tech helps keep flowers fresh at sea.

After rape in Senegal was finally made a serious crime, a pop star dared to tell her own story.

Three African women explain how they have boosted their income by going digital since Covid.

Shareholders failed to get Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna to share vaccine knowledge.

Human rights groups criticise a court that convicted the two stars of "violating family values".

Could audio files be the new digital drugs? New research shows that binaural beats - illusionary tones created by the brain when the brain hears two different tones in each ear – can change someone’s emotional state. The work, published in Drug and Alcohol Review, shows for the first time that people use binaural beats to relax, fall asleep and even to try to get a psychedelic drug high. BBC’s R&D Audio team have created a binaural beat soundscape especially for Digital Planet and we speak to Dr Alexia Maddox, a tech sociologist, one of the researchers behind the study.

Publishing via What’s App – getting female authors recognised in Zimbabwe Getting a book deal may seem like an impossible dream for many budding authors, but in Zimbabwe, for many female writers, this is a reality. Linda Mujuru, a senior reporter for Global Press Journal, tells us how most publishers are struggling in Zimbabwe due to the dire economic situation over the last twenty years and why so many authors have turned to social media as their only way of telling their stories. Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure set up her own publishing house in the UK as she could not get her work printed. She reads one of her poems in Shona, a native Zimbabwean language, and explains how she now looks for fellow female authors online and publishes their work too.

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Angelica Mari.

Studio Manager: Giles Aspen Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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Hassana Adamu speaks to the BBC about feeling neglected on the eighth anniversary of the kidnappings.

Zeinab Badawi is in Nairobi to talk to one of Kenya’s most ground-breaking cultural figures, Dr Njoki Ngumi. She abandoned a promising career in medicine to help set up an arts collective, and believes that creative endeavours can help transform societies. One of the collective’s films exploring homosexuality was banned in Kenya, where gay sex is a crime. So how far is Njoki Ngumi shifting opinions?

Claire Graham talks to the former BBC News Africa Bureaux Chief, Milton Nkosi, to get a better understanding of why the post-apartheid dream of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ has still not materialised.

The Explanation is a snackable audio guide giving you the backstory behind the headlines. Unpacking complex chains of events, The Explanation will make the stories in question much easier to understand.

Increasingly sophisticated tech tells us more than ever about our food's journey from farm to fork.

The World Trade Organisation says ongoing pandemic-related supply chain problems are also hurting growth.

Ghana has moved a step closer to a treaty with Jersey to boost investment links, says Jersey's government.

Many countries do not record femicide - the most extreme form of gender-based violence - so activists are doing it themselves.

Under former President John Magufuli, young mothers-to-be were forced to drop out.

Aya Yousef was sacked and divorced after she was filmed moving to music at a work social event.

Kenyans called for a KFC boycott after it was discovered that its fries were imported from Egypt.