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The people of rural Kenya have spoken of the night runners for generations. They’re said to be villagers possessed by a demonic spirit which compels them to scare and terrorise their neighbours at night. But no-one really knows who the night runners are or what motivates them. For BBC Africa Eye, reporter Tom Odula investigates […]

Hundreds of thousands of different species of animals and plants are facing extinction because of human activity, according to the United Nations. The full report from the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) will be released later today and is expected to say this biodiversity crisis is on a par with – and

Eight years after the fall of its former ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains plagued by instability. Last month the self-styled Libyan National Army led by strongman General Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on the capital, Tripoli. BBC Arabic’s Feras Killani has spent time embedded with fighters allied to the country’s internationally recognised Government of National

Militants in Gaza have fired a barrage of rockets into southern Israel, hitting several homes. The Israeli military says it has been hitting back with air strikes and tank fire at Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. The militant group Islamic Jihad said it had launched the rocket attacks in response to violence at the

As self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó continues his attempt to unseat Nicolás Maduro, some of the biggest global powers have a lot at stake in who succeeds in winning Venezuela’s presidential battle. The US, Russia, China and Cuba are all taking sides over who should lead Venezuela. BBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams looks at why

A fifteen-year-old Nigerian boy is wowing people with his engineering talent. Hope Emmanuel Frank, from Akwa Ibom in southern Nigeria, uses wood and condemned laptop batteries to construct a moving excavator and a dump truck. In this BBC Africa One Minute Story, Hope says dreams of becoming one of world’s great inventors. Video produced by

Deforestation caused by palm oil cultivation is pushing orangutans into the path of farmers who shoot the animals with air rifles to get rid of them. This is a series about the animals of Indonesia’s Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them. Leuser is one of the most biodiverse places on earth. Part

A powerful cyclone has slammed into India’s eastern coastline, bringing torrential rains and winds of up to 200 km/h (125mph). Cyclone Fani, one of the most severe storms to hit the region in recent years, made landfall at 08:00 local time (02:30 GMT) on Friday. More than one million people have been evacuated from the

A group of local journalists has been trying to offer independent news to the public in Venezuela, by getting on buses and staging TV news bulletins. The initiative, carried out by volunteers, is called “The Bus TV”. Venezuela’s press freedom standards have slipped further according to the 2019 Reporter Without Borders press freedom index. In

There’s evidence that antiquities are still being smuggled from Iraq and Syria into Turkey, despite a police clampdown and the retreat of the Islamic State group. Tighter restrictions on the borders have stemmed the flow but despite that and military defeats by the Islamic State group, objects are still being offered for sale. The BBC’s