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By Will Grant,BBC News, Cap-Haitien, Haiti “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street – the victims of the latest ...

By Florence Phiri in Lilongwe & Tamasin Ford in London,BBC Africa Eye BBC Africa Eye investigates how a WhatsApp group helped save more than 50 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions. Warning: Some people may find details in this story distressing. A 32-year-old woman breaks down in tears as she relives the abuse she experienced when, ...

Lawyers for the Boeing employee-turned-whistleblower found dead by apparent suicide have hailed him as “a brave, honest man of the highest integrity”. Authorities are currently investigating the death of John Barnett, from what appeared to be a self-inflicted wound. Mr Barnett retired after working more than 30 years at Boeing in 2017. He was giving evidence in a lawsuit against ...

By Chris Ewokor BBC News, Kuriga Musa Garba,17, had to slither on the ground like a snake to avoid being detected by his kidnappers as he made his escape through the bush of northern Nigeria. Earlier, camouflaged by his school uniform, the teenager had managed to hide in a heap of cut grass as the group of schoolchildren he was ...

By Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Delhi The alleged gang rape of a tourist with Brazilian-Spanish dual nationality in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has led to outrage. The 28-year-old woman and her husband, who were on a motorbike tour, had stopped for the night in Dumki district when the alleged attack took place. Police say that they have arrested ...

https://bbc.com/africalive Nigerian authorities have heightened security at government food stores around the country amid a crisis. With people struggling to afford food, recently there have been increased cases of attacks on warehouses to steal food items. On Sunday, the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said it was increasing security “to forestall any breaches” at its offices and warehouses nationwide. It ...

By Natasha Booty BBC News Some 170 people including women and children have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help find those who attacked Komsilga, Nordin and Soro. Separately, the army warned of the increased risk of attacks by Islamists, “including attacks on urban ...

Source: https://bbc.com/africalive The United States has said it is “deeply troubled” by the passing in Ghana of a stringent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, which it says threatens constitutional freedoms. “The bill would also undermine Ghana’s valuable public health, media and civic spaces, and economy,” the US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. It has called for the “review of ...

Makuochi Okafor BBC News At least 17 schoolchildren across five schools in Nigeria’s north-eastern Yobe state have died after an outbreak of meningitis, authorities have confirmed. Among the deceased are students in primary schools and others in boarding secondary schools, the state commissioner for education, Mohammed Sani-Idris, told the BBC. A total of 473 suspected cases have been recorded so ...

By Kelly Ng  BBC News, Singapore A deadly stampede outside a passport office that took two lives and unending lines outside embassies – these are just some examples of what has been happening in Myanmar since the announcement of mandatory conscription into the military.  Myanmar’s military government is facing increasingly effective opposition to its rule and has lost large areas ...