The stranded mega-container ship is delaying $400m (£292m) an hour in goods that can't be moved east or west.

Japanese firm Shoei Kisen Kaisha says dislodging the Ever Given is proving "extremely difficult".

Nawal El Saadawi, who has died at 89, drew outrage and admiration in her conservative home country.

Tanya Muzinda has taken on the male-dominated world of motocross - becoming her country's off-road circuits champion.

Loise Nyagol shares her experience after she suffered miscarriages due to a condition known as a blighted ovum.

A Unicef report shows ten million more underage girls may be forced to marry due to the pandemic.

In 2011 Egyptians took to the streets calling for the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, whose regime had been in power for nearly 30 years. Their uprising was part of a wave of pro-democracy protests in the Arab world aimed at ending autocratic rule. Women were at the forefront of protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, many taking part in political demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Student activist Hend Nafea tells Farhana Haider she was campaigning not only for freedom, dignity and social justice, but also for her rights as a woman. Photo: Hend Nafea protesting in Tahrir Square in January 2011. (Copyright Hend Nafea)

These three artists turn complex research into easy to digest information to help fight coronavirus.

Africa Eye investigates the disappearance of a sex worker and uncovers abuse, trafficking and murder

Women in parts of Nigeria are being left out of their parents' inheritance, despite a law banning discrimination.

Captain Joyce Beckwith married into a ballooning family and has since become Kenya's first female pilot.

This is the story of Chido Govera aka The Mushroom Woman. It is a story about her home, Zimbabwe. And it is also a story about mushrooms. It never should have happened. Chido, an orphan, became the provider in her family aged seven. At 10 she was destined to marry a man 30 years older than her. But a chance encounter led her to discover the almost magical science of mushroom cultivation at a local university, and set her life on a very different course.

Afua Hirsch examines the principle of self-determination, which Franklin Roosevelt insisted on including in the Atlantic Charter. It was a powerful force behind the liberation struggles which peaked in the 1950s and '60s as a wave of decolonisation swept the world and countries such as Tunisia, Jamaica, Nigeria and Guyana achieved independence. But it is not the same as a right to separate and form your own country, as the Catalans have recently been reminded. And it has a forgotten dark side as a justification for population transfer, going back to 1923 when Greece and Turkey agreed to uproot two million people in a forced population exchange.

Presenter: Afua Hirsch Producer: Lucy Bailey

(Photo: Illustration of a knitted ball resembling Earth unravelling. Credit: Nadia Akingbule)

Nearly all Egyptian woman say they have faced harassment and abuse. Inspired by #MeToo, some are speaking out.

The luxury hotels in the beach resorts of Tunisia which were once packed with tourists now lie nearly empty. The slaughter on the beach at Sousse on June 26th has added Tunisia to a growing list of no-go areas for Western tourists. Tunisia is 99% Muslim but was considered an oasis of secularism in the Arab World. Its revolution in 2011 marked the beginning of The Arab Spring, bringing democratic government in place of a dictatorship. But all those hopes now appear to have turned to dust. Tunisia sends more fighters to Syria than any other Arab country, perhaps as many as 3000. Tunisia is now ruled by a coalition that includes an overtly Islamist party, called Ennahda. So what does the future hold for the country? Is it going down a radical route?

Ernie Rea is joined by Zoe Petkanas, working on a Ph.D on Gender, Law and Social Change in North Africa at Cambridge University; Dr Radwan Masmoudi, President of the Centre of the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington D.C.; and Berny Sebe, Senior Lecturer in colonial and post colonial studies at Birmingham University.

Produced by Nija Dalal-Small.

The Harlem Shake is an internet dance craze which has been performed around the world. But in Tunisia, dancers have been attacked by religious conservatives known as Salafists. As Neal Razzell reports, it’s the latest example of growing polarisation in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. He meets young conservative women who complain that students are being allowed to dance half naked at school, while they’re banned from attending class in the veil, or niqab.

Meanwhile, liberal protesters see reaction against the dance is further evidence of the slow Islamisation of society. This debate is happening against a backdrop of political crisis following the assassination of a secular opposition leader and general fears about rising levels of violence.

(Image of Tunisian students performing the Internet craze, the 'Harlem Shake' outside their school. Credit: FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)

Every year thousands of young men and women make the treacherous journey from Eritrea to Egypt via Sudan in search of a better life. Along the route many fall victim to unscrupulous people traffickers who kidnap them and demand ransom money from their families. Some are able to pay and their loved ones are released. Others are not so lucky. Mike Thomson talks to the people caught up in this brutal trade and travels to Sinai to meet those who are trying to help them.

Escape from Sinai was produced by Nina Manwaring.

(Image: An Eritrean hostage recently released in Sinai. Credit: BBC )

The last time Kenya held a general election, voters from different ethnic groups turned on one another over a contested result. More than a thousand people were killed.

Five years on, the competition to succeed President Mwai Kibaki still centres around a number of highly contentious, unresolved issues: ethnicity, the division of resources, and access to land.

These tensions are particularly acute on Kenya’s coast. Decades of anger about land grabbing by people from other parts of Kenya has led to the rise of a separatist movement that says only independence can help coastal achieve their rights.

For Assignment, Gabriel Gatehouse asks how much of a threat the separatists will pose to the government that will take power after the elections. Are land and ethnicity the real fault-lines, or are there other factors at play?

(Image of Mealii Ali who was evicted from her home when the land was claimed by someone else. BBC Copyright)

For Assignment Justin Marozzi travels to Libya to report on whether the fractured country can come together again after its revolution in 2011.

The city of Misrata arguably suffered the most during the Libyan conflict as missiles rained down on it for months on end. By the end of the revolution though, fighters from Misrata had exacted their revenge on neighbouring towns and had been responsible for the capture of Colonel Gaddafi, as well as Gaddafi strongholds. More recently Misratan fighters have been in action against the city of Bani Walid. Many residents of Bani Walid, accused of being Gaddafi supporters, have been expelled from their homes. Misrata has, effectively, set itself up as a city state, outside the control of Libya's new government.

Writer and journalist Justin Marozzi, who has been visiting Libya over the last twenty years, including during the revolution, asks if reconciliation is possible while different armed groups continue to fight each other? The programme contains strong language and allegations of atrocities which some listeners may find disturbing.

Produced by John Murphy.

(Image of building in Libya - BBC Copyright)

Tim Judah is in Senegal to meet the Mourides, a powerful Senegalese Muslim brotherhood that stresses the importance of work.