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Alongside the vast gold fields of Ghana are thousands of illegal mines or galamsey, where unskilled miners dream of hitting the big time. These mines rely mainly on children who abandon an education in an attempt to support their families.
Galamsey is a dangerous game – can anyone get rich quick? BBC Africa Eye investigates.
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These are images Sudan’s government does not want you to see: teams of masked, plainclothes agents chasing down protesters, beating them, and dragging them off to secret detention centres in Khartoum.
Who are these hit squads? Where are these detention centres? And what happens inside their walls?
BBC Africa Eye has analysed dozens of dramatic videos filmed during the recent uprising, and spoken with witnesses who have survived torture at the hands of the Bashir regime. Some of these protesters tell us about a secret and widely feared holding facility – The Fridge – where the cold is used an instrument of torture.
Investigation led by:
Benjamin Strick
Abdulmoniem Suleiman
Klaas Van Dijken
Aliaume Leroy
Produced and Edited by:
Suzanne Vanhooymissen
Tom Flannery
Daniel Adamson
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Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas - yet about half of the country’s population has no access to electricity, and those that do face daily power cuts that can last for hours on end.
Meet the men and women on the front line of Nigeria’s energy crisis as they battle public anger and a decaying infrastructure in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil hub.
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Through a tradition called "money marriage", some young girls are used as currency in a type of modern slavery among the Becheve people in southern Nigeria. Children are sold to men as old as 90 to settle debts or as a form of payment. BBC Africa hears from the girls themselves, an elderly husband and the man fighting against the custom.
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When Tosin Oshinowo left for the UK, she had one goal in mind - to become one of Nigeria's most successful architects, in a profession historically dominated by men.
Today, she's not only smashed that glass ceiling, she's made her name for works which celebrate African beauty. Let's Check Her Out!
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Growing up, Wendy Okolo always dreamed of being an engineer, and she worked HARD to make that dream a reality.
Today she is an aerospace engineer at the at the Intelligent Systems Division, NASA. Yes, that NASA.
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As the number of coronavirus cases in Kenya rise, citizens have been advised to stay at home in isolation.
The country began a 19:00 to 05:00 curfew on Friday.
Informal employment contributes 83% of all jobs in Kenya, with those workers particularly vulnerable, living from pay cheque to pay cheque.
BBC Africa spoke to Esther, a domestic worker in the capital Nairobi.
Video producers: Anne Okumu, Njoroge Muigai and Priscilla Ng’ethe.
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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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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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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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Silas Adekunle’s quest to make robotics more exciting made him create the world's first intelligent gaming robot.
He is also on a mission to ensure the inclusion of robotics in primary and secondary school curricula in Africa.
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