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By Wedaeli Chibelushi BBC News A student has cycled 4,000km (2,500 miles) across West Africa, enduring arrests and blazing heat, for a spot at his dream university. Mamadou Safayou Barry set off from Guinea for Egypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar in May, hoping he would be accepted. The 25-year-old cycled for four months through countries wracked by Islamist militants and coups. He ...

Image caption, Nicholas Dominici was due to turn two in November By Max Matza BBC News The fentanyl that killed a one-year-old child at a nursery in New York City was hidden in the nap room under a mat as he slept, police say. Nicholas Dominici, who had been at the nursery for just a week, died of a suspected drug ...

By Mariko Oi Major Japanese brands are cutting ties with the country’s biggest talent agency after it was engulfed by a sexual abuse scandal. Firms including Nissan, Asahi and Suntory say they will not renew any contracts with Johnny and Associates. Toyota, which previously had a contract with one of its top stars, told the BBC it had no plans ...

By Ayanda Charlie in Johannesburg & Tamasin Ford in London BBC Africa Eye South African anti-migrant group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country’s most-prominent anti-migrant street movement. In a school kitchen in Kwa Thema, a township east ...

By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Fourteen people have been killed in a plane crash during bad weather in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday. The small propeller plane was nearing the end of its 400km (248 mile) trip between Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, and the remote jungle town of Barcelos when it went down. Officials said all those on ...

Image caption, Nigeria’s erratic power grid forces households and businesses to use diesel and petrol generators A “total system collapse” caused widespread power cuts across Nigeria on Thursday. Early in the morning, levels of power generated in Africa’s most populous country fell to zero megawatts. Connections were gradually restored throughout the day. Grid power supplies are often erratic in Nigeria, located ...

Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66795168 France has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation. On Tuesday, the French watchdog which governs radio frequencies also told the tech giant to fix existing phones. The ANFR has advised Apple that if it cannot resolve the issue via a software update, it must recall every iPhone 12 ever sold in ...

It is estimated that 25% of Derna has been wiped out By Lucy Fleming BBC News The death toll from floods in Libya in one city alone stands at more than 1,000, a senior official who visited the eastern port of Derna has said. “Bodies are lying everywhere,” the minister from the eastern-based government told Reuters news agency. Much of ...

By Alice Cuddy, in the Atlas Mountains BBC News Tayeb ait Ighenbaz was forced to choose whether to save his 11-year-old son or his parents when they became trapped under rubble after Morocco’s earthquake struck. The goat herder from a tiny community in the Atlas Mountains says he is haunted by the decision he had to make. Tayeb was with ...

Watch: Piles of rubble are left in the street in Marrakesh after the disaster By Laurence Peter & Alex Kleiderman BBC News A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck central Morocco, killing at least 632 people, the country’s interior ministry says. The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of ...