Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the authorities to re-register all motorbike taxi operators - locally known as boda-bodas - following public outrage over an attack on a woman in her car in the capital, Nairobi.Plus, Nigerian women push members of parliament to reconsider gender laws. In Ukraine, we hear from a Cameroonian student who is one of many still stranded in the besieged city of Kherson is in the south west.And we meet the Kenyan teenager who is rising tennis star.Presented by Aisha Afrah.
Producer: Patricia Whitehorne.
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Folge vom 08.03.2022Kenya's 'boda-bodas' taxis are ordered to re-register
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Folge vom 07.03.2022Ukraine: Why did Eritrea vote against UN resolution?Eritrea was one of only five countries in the world to vote against a UN resolution deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supporting sanctions.Kenya's deputy president says it's up to the people of Kenya to make up their own minds on the fallout between him and President Uhuru Kenyatta.Plus singer, songwriter, and record producer Davido talks about what it takes to stay at the top of his profession for more than a decade.
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Folge vom 01.03.2022African nationals still trapped in UkraineAs the fighting continues in Ukraine, thousands continue to pour out of the country. We hear about the situation at the Polish border. A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has temporarily removed control of a huge copper and cobalt mine from its Chinese owners. Plus, we hear from an avid listener who tunes into the BBC everyday despite not speaking English.
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Folge vom 15.02.2022Trial of Kenyan lawyer begins at the ICCThe trial of Paul Gicheru, a Kenyan lawyer accused of bribing prosecution witnesses of the International Criminal Court has started in The Hague. The arrest of Nigerian "super cop" Abba Kyari on drug-trafficking charges has laid bare the "public bickering" between two of Nigeria's law enforcement bodies, an analyst told the BBC. Commander Abba Kyari is accused of trying to recruit fellow officers into a drug plot. Plus we talk to Syriacus Buguzi, a Tanzanian medical doctor turned journalist, he tells us why he started the first science and technology newspaper in Swahili language.