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Louisiana’s strict abortion ban threatening women’s healthcare in US state

By:NEWS WIRES Louisiana's strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women's health care in the US state, leading doctors…

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‘Only God can change this place’: Haitians see no end to spiralling violence

By Will Grant,BBC News, Cap-Haitien, Haiti "Port-au-Prince is in panic mode," a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents…

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The Malawi WhatsApp group that saved women trafficked to Oman

By Florence Phiri in Lilongwe & Tamasin Ford in London,BBC Africa Eye BBC Africa Eye investigates how a WhatsApp group…

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John Barnett: Boeing whistleblower ‘hoped to change its culture’, family says

Lawyers for the Boeing employee-turned-whistleblower found dead by apparent suicide have hailed him as "a brave, honest man of the…

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Nigeria kidnap crisis: Schoolboy recounts daring escape from bandits

By Chris Ewokor BBC News, Kuriga Musa Garba,17, had to slither on the ground like a snake to avoid being…

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Outrage over Brazilian tourist’s gang rape in India

By Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Delhi The alleged gang rape of a tourist with Brazilian-Spanish dual nationality in the eastern…

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Nigeria tightens security as food theft continues

https://bbc.com/africalive Nigerian authorities have heightened security at government food stores around the country amid a crisis. With people struggling to…

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Burkina Faso says 170 dead in village ‘executions’

By Natasha Booty BBC News Some 170 people including women and children have been "executed" in attacks on three villages…

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US ‘deeply troubled’ by Ghana’s anti-gay bill

Source: https://bbc.com/africalive The United States has said it is “deeply troubled” by the passing in Ghana of a stringent anti-LGBTQ+…

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Meningitis outbreak kills 17 students in Nigeria

Makuochi Okafor BBC News At least 17 schoolchildren across five schools in Nigeria's north-eastern Yobe state have died after an…

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