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Unprotected: How a US charity failed Liberia’s most vulnerable girls – BBC News

Liberia’s government has launched an investigation into an American charity set up to help vulnerable girls, following a report into how the organisation dealt with allegations a staff member had raped pupils in its care. The first More Than Me Academy was established in 2013 in the Liberian capital Monrovia by American, Katie Meyler. A […]

10 Billion Dollar Energy Scandal in Senegal (BP)

BP has agreed to pay around ten billion dollars to a businessman involved in a suspicious energy deal. The energy giant bought Frank Timis’s stake in a gas field off the coast of Senegal for $250 million in 2017. But documents obtained by BBC Panorama and Africa Eye reveal that BP will also pay his […]

Mali attack: ‘100 killed’ in ethnic Dogon village

According to BBC: Nearly 100 people have been killed in an attack in a village in central Mali inhabited by the Dogon ethnic group, officials say. The attack happened in Sobame Da, near Sanga town in the Mopti region. The search for bodies is ongoing, but officials say 95 people have been found dead, with […]

Sweet sweet codeine: What happened next? – BBC Africa

In Nigeria, thousands of young people are addicted to codeine cough syrup – a medicine that’s become a street drug. The Nigerian senate estimates that 3 million bottles of codeine syrup are drunk every day in just two states – Kano and Jigawa. BBC Africa Eye went undercover to investigate the people behind Nigeria’s cough […]