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The Democratic Republic of Congo faces many challenges, not least the Ebola outbreak in the east, and a government struggling to assert itself after delayed elections. Meanwhile, on the margins of society, almost ignored, have come regular reports of prisoners dying in jails. In the town of Mbanza Ngungu in Kongo Central Province, at least […]

Huge crowds of demonstrators dressed in white filled the streets of Hong Kong, marching against a proposed extradition law. They fear it could allow the Chinese authorities to target political opponents in the territory. The controversial extradition bill would allow suspected criminals to be sent to mainland China for trial. The government says the bill

Art has long been used as a way to protest against the Russian government over issues such as human rights, corruption and controversial laws. But things are changing. Recent years have seen the Russian authorities becoming less accepting of all forms of opposition, including protest art. Over the past few years many artists have left

Viktoria Modesta, who chose to have her own leg amputated aged 20, takes to the stage this weekend at the Crazy Horse in Paris. The artist, who spent most of her childhood in Latvia, had felt hampered by the leg after 15 surgeries and decided to make the drastic decision. Since then she has performed

In the small Japanese town of Otsuchi, 2,000 residents were lost in the tsunami in 2011. One resident, who had already been grieving his cousin before the tsunami hit, had the idea of placing an old phone booth at the bottom of his garden with a disconnected rotary phone. He would ring his cousin’s number

Not many people get to study in the same class as their parents, but a Somali mother and her youngest daughter did just that. Mother Falhad Ahmed Mohamud and her daughter Amina Mohamed recently graduated from a university in Virginia together with Masters degrees in IT. The family came to the US as refugees in

The US has increased its military presence in the middle east as a result of, what it says is, “credible intelligence” pointing to a potential attack on US interests. There have been rising tensions between Washington and Tehran, ever since the Trump Administration pulled out of an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme and imposed

A government official has admitted to 46 people being killed by paramilitaries during pro-democracy protests in the capital Khartoum. However, doctors and hospital workers have told the BBC they believe the figure is over 100, including a child thought to be as young as six. The violence intensified on Monday when security forces stormed a

Nigerians who have their hair natural styled in dreadlocks sometimes find themselves viewed in a negative light. The police are accused of profiling young Nigerians who’ve had their hair styled this way, suspecting them of being in gangs. Ehiz ‘Dada Boy Ehiz’ Okoeguale, a TV presenter and Ade Balogun, a ‘loctician’ don’t believe they need

A clean-up expedition to Mount Everest has removed 11 tonnes of rubbish and four dead bodies from the world’s highest mountain. Cleaners spent weeks collecting food wrappings, cans, bottles and empty toxic cylinders, according to the Nepal Tourism Department. The four bodies were exposed by melting snow and were carried to base camp and then