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BP agreed to pay around $10bn (£8bn) to a businessman involved in a suspicious energy deal.
The energy giant bought Frank Timis' 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 was also projected to pay his company between $9bn and $12bn in royalties.
Both BP and Mr Timis deny any wrongdoing. Read the full statement from Mr Timis here: https://bbc.in/2NOQP4j
Update 9 July 2019: BP did not dispute the $10 billion figure prior to publication, but has subsequently said it is wholly inaccurate and exaggerated.
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In 2017 this troupe of Ghanaian pallbearers went viral following BBC Africa's coverage of their flamboyant coffin-carrying dances, garnering millions of views.
Three years later and the group has experienced a second round of internet fame, with social media users adopting the troupe as a dark-humoured symbol of death in the time of Covid-19.
BBC Africa's Sulley Lansah met up with the leader of the troupe to get his reaction to his new-found fame, and to see how he's coping during the pandemic.
Edited by Faith Ilevbare and Marko Zoric
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![Kings and Emirs - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vCyQgTJ6WgA/maxresdefault.jpg)
In this episode Zeinab Badawi focuses on the fall of the kingdom of Aksum and how the Christian kings who followed in the wake of its demise left powerful legacies especially that of King Lalibela who ruled in the 12/13th century. He is credited with building a complex of rock hewn churches which represent amazing feats of engineering at that time.
Zeinab also charts the arrival of Islam in this part of Africa and how the Christian kings and Muslim emirs co-existed. And she visits Harar, the most holy of Ethiopia’s cities for Muslims, where she observes the bizarre long-standing tradition of the ‘hyena men’ of Harar who feed these wild animals by hand.
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Former Senegal midfielder had to spend 10 days sleeping rough under a stadium while awaiting his trial with his first club.
The ex-Liverpool and Stoke player now runs his own academy which trains Senegalese children in football, but only if they stay in school.He's been talking to BBC Africa as part of the Where Are They Now? series, looking at ex-Premier League players from Africa.
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Naomi Campbell says she was rejected from a recent campaign because of her "skin colour".
The British supermodel was speaking in Lagos, Nigeria, where she is attending the Arise Fashion week, an event that showcases diversity and the best fashion designers from across Africa.
She told the BBC's Mayeni Jones that she was baffled when her picture wasn't used, given her family 'genes'.
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Zambia's Mizinga Melu, CEO of Barclays Africa Regional Management in Johannesburg, shares her five lessons for life.
Part of the BBC's new series Power Women, profiling some of Africa's top female CEOs and managing directors.
Watch the full interview: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37951029
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The coronavirus is not only a public health emergency. It also poses a major threat to the world’s economy. It’s already caused global stock markets to crash, raising fears of a recession.
BBC Money Daily's Maya Hayakawa explains how the virus might affect African countries' economies.
Produced by Anthony Irungu and Hugo Williams. Illustrations by Millicent Wachira.
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Sierra Leone was one of the hardest hit countries when the Ebola epidemic struck West Africa in 2014. Now it is battling the coronavirus. The first case was confirmed on the 31 of March and since then the numbers have been climbing steadily.
Tyson Conteh is a filmmaker in Makeni, a city in northern Sierra Leone. He covered the Ebola outbreak for BBC Africa Eye in the documentary Standing Among The Living and now he is making a series of video diaries for BBC Africa showing how his city is dealing with the coronavirus. In the first episode he looks at how this pandemic is again changing the way Sierra Leoneans behave and interact with one another.
Directed by Tyson Conteh and Video by Chernor Mustapha Thoronka (Justice), Future View Media Centre in Makeni.
Produced and edited by Jerry Rothwell and Sam Liebmann, Metfilm Production.
Music produced by Purple Field Productions PFP.
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Warning: contains scenes of drug use.
A heroin-based drug cocktail called nyaope is destroying young lives in South Africa’s townships.
Our reporter Golden Mtika finds an old family friend, Jesus, addicted to the drug and scavenging in an open sewer.
While Jesus goes into rehab, Golden goes in search of the dealers who bribe the police and push the drug. But will Jesus get clean?
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![Kingdom of Kush - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 4]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CwaP1kyAqqo/maxresdefault.jpg)
In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to the country of her birth and the very region of her forefathers and mothers: northern Sudan where she sheds light on this little-known aspect of ancient African history, the great Kingdom of Kush.
Its kings ruled for many hundreds of years and indeed in the eighth century BC they conquered and governed Egypt for the best part of 100 years. Furthermore, Kush was an African superpower. Its influence extended to the modern day Middle East.
Zeinab visits the best preserved of Sudan’s one thousand pyramids and shows how some of the ancient customs of Kush have endured to this day.
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Six months into her pregnancy, Linda Nderitu experienced blood loss caused by perinatal depression. Now she’s speaking out about the mental illness, with the hope of helping other women who are facing the same struggle.
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An underworld of quack doctors and conmen have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic and making money selling fake coronavirus cures. Investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas goes undercover in Ghana, exposing a Covid-19 scam said to be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
WHO estimates 100,000 people die as a consequence of fake clinical and herbal medicines every year in Africa. Posing as the brother of a man infected with the deadly coronavirus, Anas sets out to find so-called cures, to expose the men who sell them, and to test the liquids for potentially dangerous and toxic ingredients.
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What does strongman Iron Biby eat for breakfast? What's his advice on getting more ripped? He shares his tips with BBC Sport Africa.
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We met up with Arsenal and Nigeria footballer Alex Iwobi when he returned to Lagos to visit a football academy. He met up with some of the young players who look up to him as an inspiration.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
The BBC's Africa Editor Fergal Keane looks at what went wrong.
Producers: Charlotte Pamment and Piers Scholfield
Graphics: Ian Paul Joyce
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Uganda's pop star MP Bobi Wine speaks exclusively to BBC Swahili's Zuhura Yunus in the US, where he has been receiving medical treatment.
The military denies his allegation that he was assaulted in their custody.
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On 15 January, 21 people were killed in an attack on a luxury hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
The Riverside attack lasted 19 hours. But what exactly happened during that time?
Using 3D reconstructions, as well as new accounts from survivors, BBC Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo presents the most detailed picture yet of how the events of that day unfolded, from the start of the attack, to the swift and coordinated security response that saved hundreds of lives.
Video produced by George Wafula, Anthony Irungu, Ben Allen, Anthony Makokha, Hugo Williams, Millicent Wachira, Njoroge Muigai, Gloria Achieng, Ashley Lime and Muthoni Muchiri.
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Pallbearers are lifting the mood at funerals in Ghana with flamboyant coffin-carrying dances. Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones off in style.
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Africa Eye investigates the impact of the deadly coronavirus in Mathare, one of Kenya's poorest settlements.
As the pandemic looms, heavy-handed policing leads to violence and a series of tragic deaths.
Reporting from Mathare’s coronavirus frontline, local journalist Elijah Kanyi asks: is the cure deadlier than the virus?
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Kukuwa Fitness dance instructors share a special workout created for BBC Africa, which you can follow along from home.
Video and music courtesy of @Kukuwa Fitness.
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![Mother Africa - History of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ETnIsBnNRr0/maxresdefault.jpg)
In this first episode, Zeinab Badawi travels across the continent examining the origins of humankind; how and why we evolved in Africa - Africa is the greatest exporter of all time: every human being originated in Africa.
During her journey Zeinab is granted rare access to the actual bones of one of the most iconic discoveries in the field of palaeontology, ‘Lucy' in Ethiopia, or as she is known in Amharic, ‘Dinkenesh’, which means ‘you are marvellous’.
Zeinab also spends time in Tanzania with a tribe that is unique in the world because they live in the way our ancestors did, as hunters of big animals and gatherers. This community who have rarely been filmed provide a fascinating insight into how we have lived for most of our history.
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Domestic workers play a key role in many households across the continent.
They are often invisible yet indispensable. Lynette is a Zimbabwean mother of three, she gave the BBC's Focus on Africa radio a rare insight into the inner life of a domestic worker.
Illustrations: George Wafula
Producers: Kim Chakanetsa and Gloria Achieng
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There have been numerous attacks in Mali in recent months, some ethnically driven, some carried out by jihadist groups.
Clashes between Dogon hunters and semi-nomadic Fulani herders are frequent.
This week, the UN and aid groups said there are five times more Malians displaced in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period last year.
But how did this conflict come about, and what is being done to resolve it?
The BBC's West Africa Correspondent Louise Dewast explains.
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