nairobi. population of around 4.5 million people and is the country's largest city. it's my first—ever morning here in africa, and i'm in a completely new environment, without the help of my guide dog miss molly. nairobi is a place where many safaris begin. right, going from... ..left to right. but as i'm only staying here for a couple of days, i'm going to try and explore a bit, and my first challenge is to cross this busy road. that was so close. 0k. still hear it coming. yeah, i'm crossing. thank you so much. thank you. that's lovely of you. this is the middle section. nairobi is very overwhelming. zero out of ten accessibility when crossing the road. actually, possibly one out of ten because of the lovely people. broken pavement. a guy actually grabbed my cane, but i didn't know what was happening. and that to me kind of puts me in a panic mode because i'm like, "how can i control the situation? "what am i going to do?" i really wanted miss molly because she just tells me with her little f

v , ,, and nairobi. it's interesting you didn't no and nairobi.., ., ., , , , britain. we would have happily sta ed britain. we would have happily stayed there — britain. we would have happily stayed there but _ britain. we would have happily stayed there but we _ britain. we would have happily stayed there but we were - britain. we would have happily. stayed there but we were kicked britain. we would have happily - stayed there but we were kicked out. so when _ stayed there but we were kicked out. so when people travel across europe, you can't expect countries like italy on the edge of the mediterranean to accept the vast majority of asylum seekers just because they happen to be the nearest one. secondly, english is a much more commonly spoken language than german, french or italian and so individuals travel to where they are likely to be able to work and that's where they can speak the language. there are many relatives here. we can't say every asylum seeker has relatives here, but there are many relatives here because of that international enga

is at whiteside way those of the art community in the west, but also coming up in the program. us nairobi, investigate allegations of british trip. abuse is relatives of a young woman allegedly killed by you pays for these and, and in 2012 and 6 progress in their last struggle. since had death, we have been sick and just as but nothing has happened so far. i think the british soldiers are actually the criminal ones they haven't faced and they've just as a tool and leave enough to doing bad things the from also to the world. this is our to you. hello and welcome to then use our mid. they continued talk of military intervention by the west african regional union. echo was these euro officials have reportedly ordered the country's armed forces to be put on maximum alert. nigeria based journal, as timothy obeys, who can tell us more? it's the latest coming out of the country. i just the around 24 hours of time, of course said that he was worried about reports. you know, in the media suggested in fact, you know, it, what speech at the drums of law had plans to invade me here at the west side.

njeri mwangi, bbc news, nairobi.u can find the full film betrayed: elderly care exposed — on the bbc africa youtube channel. and a warning that there is some upsetting footage in that film. one of the world's biggest arts festivals in under way in scotland. but alongside the international acts appearing at the edinburgh fringe — are fears that the future of one of the festival's largest venue operators could be at risk. courtney bembridge is in edinburgh for us now. hello. hello, we are here at the world's the _ hello. hello, we are here at the world's the largest _ hello. hello, we are here at the world's the largest arts - hello. hello, we are here at thej world's the largest arts festival, 3500 shows, hundreds of venues, university classrooms have been turned into venues, anywhere you can fit a microphone and some chairs is currently being used as a venue in edinburgh. there are performers from all over the world, about 2 million people attend every year. this of course goes for the whole month but it has just lau

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njeri mwangi, bbc news, nairobi. exposed on the bbc africa youtube channel. it is an exclusive bbc africa eye documentary. around the world and across the uk this is bbc news. hello there, you're live with bbc news. one of the world's biggest arts festivals in under way in scotland. but alongside the international acts appearing at the edinburgh fringe — are fears that the future of one of the festival's biggest venue operators could be at risk. courtney bembridge is in edinburghfor us. hello, courtney. what more can you tell us about this? well, as you said, this is the world's largest arts festival, 3500 shows. there is music, circus, theatre, adults dressed as pigeons, everything for everyone and there are hundreds of venues, everywhere you can fit a microphone and some chairs has been turned into a venue in edinburgh but there are four major venue produces here known as the big four, one of those is assembly and we are going to speak with the artistic director now. huge festival, assemblies one of the oldest venu

so it is the station that the time of the crime, quote unquote criminals and comes off in nairobi a so he's initiated an investigation this month and advocates of abuse by british forties of the training unit, accusing them of murder, sexual assault. i haven't damaged a property near the base. we heard from the victim's family summit, jean individually. sonya, she's inside desk. we have been sick and just as but nothing has happened so far. i think the british soldiers are actually the criminal ones. they haven't faced and it just is a total even after doing bad things. we don't have a proper procedure here for the can and government to prosecute the culprits. we're not equal a tool in any way with the british. if for a close, the killers would have phase the law. we have a young child who was opened by agnes when junior was non cash for the child who always gives of skin for their mother and wondering what happened to her. now let's break down the file. on this look 21 year old canyon woman agnes. 10 was assaulted plaza. death on her naked body was filed in a septic tank. new room, bu

okay, we have a number of correspondents on this story. catherine stuart is in kenya, is capital nairobi. we have address. he is in new jazz capital in naomi? natasha. butler will have reaction to the events in the bone from paris. nicholas hack is in debt called the fuss. let's get this report from stephanie deca. as soon as you a nice us best of it was just before 6 am when good ball and woke up to this big glad that's your often new thing, irresponsible, unpredictable governance which results and it continues to, to ration of social cohesion. the risk of leading the country to close today, the 13th of august, 2023 in the name of the company's people we, the committee of the transition and the restoration of institutions have decided to offend the piece, putting an end to the regime in place of your senior military officers appearing on national television announcing the seizure of power that happened soon off to the countries election body announced that president bungle had one 3rd term in office. many people in the capital of naperville are celebrating the news, the boot your belief

you joins us from nairobi, bryan, good job, you on the program. and there's been a lot of criticism of this wild klein issue, but also the, we've seen the, the long queues. is this something people should be concerned about? in my own opinion, i think people should be concerned about it because there's so many of questions that we tried to add. so when it comes to was the claim for us the fall, we only hear about was going right now. but if you get to know, like in kenya wallack or it has to run a foot board more than a year and a half right now. so i the privacy concerns i come in and this when now was going is trying to update people on that. and it's still not clear exactly what they're trying to do with this kind of iris or the facial recognition details. the composition is saying that they want to actually have it was digital id. by the thing is we're going to use it. what are you, what are the use cases in which countries are they be good to be able to have a digital id to be used? is a government aware that'd be good to have such a digital

dw correspondent edith kamani has visited well coins. biometric exercise in nairobi, a sense of this report. when world cleaned launched activities in kenya, the response seemed incomplete. sensible. long queues formed death to death registration points. a 1000 suite to, to have the irises scanned a wait to offend, to keep the identity and enable them to use the digital currency of some confidence on some part of that is good. that seems to be some level of management from the windows on the screen. you see everyone who is being given to queen standard my chatting at the center at the same time is when they, when they much at the same time. everyone says, i'm not going to slide it into market, reducing its value. however, most of those we spoke to what he is simply for money. in kenya, the tech company was offering free digital tool can suit everyone who registered and those 2 kids could then quickly be exchanged for $49.00 at the block market. right outside the registration point. a saving grace for many will not pass. there's no money, that's the 1st thing. there's no, what people

and becoming an kenyon capital of nairobi. but to get more on this now we're gonna cross live to political strategist and commentator, ken bob, who in nairobi. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. can. what do you make of this opposition? politicians, statements about western interference and kenya is affairs well, thank you so much. like you said, my name is kim level. um they would send it on that'll be county and also the national geo, the president of a political but just from this side. and this end demands, that's what made by the former prime minister. i'm the leader of a position i think uh waiting to guide sunday. and as far as to what the us on the bus about midway to month spoil got their diversion conference. i think yesterday, the, the, the, the person was not the was not impressed by any such sentiments. anyway, any other bustle knew anybody who knows what his violation is, lady to have somebody. but i would like to say that the form of i missed or not of, uh, taking the edition as uh, as a public feedback

thank you for that. catherine story in nairobi. i've been speaking to lionel, a cmo who's a research analyst at the ask for a barometer. he says the pool living conditions in kimball and made the crew inevitable my understanding of visitors and he's got to do was to repeat that when you look at the results being gone. so like 90 percent of the people and the question where the country was going to run the issue on the phone, the ash and 90 percent of the country was going on that mission. you also think distribution. look at the question on the congress economic government economy condition into present the people say that say that the country was the got this country, the collision was very bad than most so in terms of what just well, just up. and so when think on the we've got new connections, 80 percent of the people say that they're the results and they have to be trusted in the country. so that is distressing. and i'm not in this industry the whole because people are very frustrated for us looking at the way we kind of fed sor

okay, thank you for that. catherine story following developments from nairobi in kenya. we can 10 now to our corresponding document interests, who joins us now live from naomi, which is the capital of new jazz. where last month, the ministry that also took over power of the country. so maybe what, what is the reaction from where you, why it, it seems like another crew in front of phone africa. it's, is there a past and imagining it's exactly mounted and people are just waking up to vision use and shortly we expect the reactions on the streets and i it's expected that many people here would be happy. the come on friday off all the schools in west africa and central africa that we're seeing over the past few years. uh, basically uh, it's in a mix. technician corruption, i'm insecure to indicate something about, much more like corruption. and of course, my administration here in new jersey, public people are watching events closely. they people we spoke to earlier, i watching closely events unfolding that. and we think that the opposite, west africa and central africa at th

so this is sarah nairobi. the government of india and prime minister and the rental modi has survived a new confidence vote in parliament. his party and its allies hold the majority of seats. the opposition brought the motion, accusing body of failing to end months of estimate violence in the northeastern state of money for dozens of opposition. politicians walked out during the prime minister. speech modi has promised to restore peace in money for it says the entire country stands behind the state. he didn't, the people of the country have to an immense distrust in our government again and again. i am here to thank every citizen and so my direct to, to, to the people of the country or friday is the start of what many are calling a new era and football. the savvy pro li kicks off with clubs in the gulf kingdom having spent hundreds of millions of dollars attracting players from some of europe top teams. joanna guys are oscar reports to to form a little pool. teammates reunited on new grounds. jordan henderson

live from nairobi at 1630 gmt, for our international viewers here on bbc news.ew figures from the mortgage lender halifax says uk house prices have dropped for the fourth month in a row. they were down 0.3% between june and july. the cost of a typical home is now just over 285,000 pounds. a law charity has called for any deductions for living costs taken from compensation paid to wrongly convicted people to be returned retrospectively. appeal, which last month helped quash the rape conviction of andrew malkinson, said all people who've been forced to pay should get the money back. the nhs system for seriously ill people requiring care at home is struggling to provide sufficient support. that's according to families of people with complex medical needs and it comes despite a significant increase in spending on so—called "continuing healthcare". the government says it's putting billions of pounds into extra funding. we will have more on that story in about an hour. you're live with bbc news. now, it's been more than a year since the ukrainian city of mariupol was

let's bring in our africa editor will ross in nairobi.lt comfortable or confident enough to actually leave the country? yes. comfortable or confident enough to actually leave the country?- actually leave the country? yes, as ou sa , actually leave the country? yes, as you say. a — actually leave the country? yes, as you say. a hold-up _ actually leave the country? yes, as you say, a hold-up in _ actually leave the country? yes, as you say, a hold-up in the _ actually leave the country? yes, as you say, a hold-up in the army - you say, a hold—up in the army headquarters forforeign you say, a hold—up in the army headquarters for foreign to half months while the war was raging all around him. it seems as though his rival, the general hemedti's rsf forces have been somewhat weakened in the capital and that has allowed general abdel fattah al—burhan to make this trip first to port sudan which has become a de facto capital of the country from where flights can still take off, and she has headed to egypt on what looks like a trip to rally suppor

live from nairobi at 1630 gmt, for our international viewers here on bbc news. the centre of the city has come under attack for a second time. the building was first hit on sunday — these pictures were taken from a short distance away. this was the aftermath of the second attack last night. you can see some of the damage in these pictures. emergency services have been at the scene. several other drones were reportedly shot down by air defence systems. here's some reaction from moscow. translation: after the first attack, everyone said it wouldn't hit - the same place twice, and today we all woke up and were a bit shocked. i don't know what i'm going to do, but i think i'll move from here. joining us at the bbc�*s evidence hub is our correspondent, nick beake. take us through it, the frequency is certainly increasing of these drone strikes? ., ~ , ., certainly increasing of these drone strikes? ., , , strikes? thank you, yes. run strikin: strikes? thank you, yes. run striking at — strikes? thank you, yes. run striking at the _ strikes? thank you, yes. run strikin

africa. 0ur regional africa editor, will ross, has been following developments from the kenyan capital nairobi2009. and during that time, much like during his father's time in office, it was really a patronage system. and over the last, well, five years or so, there have been some pretty shaky times for the president. there was another attempted coup, we were told. also, the president a few years ago had a stroke and then was completely missing in action for about ten months. but nevertheless, he stood again during the election at the weekend. quite a lot of foreign observers and journalists were barred from watching and scrutinising the event. the internet was shut down, always a suspicious sign that there may be things going on during the election that the authorities don't want people to find out about. but anyway, the incumbent was given, as you say, about two thirds of the votes. the opposition candidate said it was a complete sham. and then what we had early this morning was this very sudden announcement on state tv, 12 military officers saying they represented a broad spectrum of the mi

where world coin is not available, china, by accounts from users where world coin is available, say nairobit means is you do not sell your biometric data or anything like that. i think that was one of the major misunderstandings to clarify but rather you sell your login credentials, let's say your username and password. as the best analogy to normal use cases. and that is not in midterm a concern because as a user can just recover your account, you can go back to an orb and recover your account and what it means is the other party that acquired the account acquired something that will turn out to be worthless because the logging credentials will stop working. so this is not an actual medium to long-term concern. and privacy from the users is not compromised. ed: alex blania of world coin and sonali basak, thanks to you both. coming up on "bloomberg technology," we speak to the ceo of portage about the state of fundraising in silicon valley, today's vc spotlight, focused on fintech. as we go to break, watching shares of microstrategy, down around 7% in the session, the leadership of the comp

oh, and i'm really flying from nairobi. they are using the musical talents to call up the dangers to the press. over to you fellows rough. you're right to free, don't. a nuisance with team is important. see the press clear and then to good level as you put in this place because that become a bell press. yeah, that's the absolute good story unfold. press freedom is juggling. laugh done to lose the fees that operation is reading through wi fi to the address shown you've bought out of 10. you have been countries and studies factorial out of the that is 3 government control. the fed media click this is simply check what's on the other, the canyon, send me this information, propaganda reading, you know, communities in this environment. impunity range of the try to address that. getting investigative before, does it really mean to bother you clicked on that, but it didn't booking the bustle, so he read just totally becoming the no new zone in the program that can don't with the new sentence, the person getting to present to submi

nairobi., and my first challenge is to cross this busy road. that was so close. 0k. still hear it coming. yeah, i'm crossing. thank you so much. thank you. that's lovely of you. this is the middle section. nairobi is very overwhelming. zero out of ten accessibility when crossing the road. actually, possibly one out of ten because of the lovely people. broken pavement. a guy actually grabbed my cane, but i didn't know what was happening. and that, to me, kind of puts me in a panic mode because i'm like, "how can i control the situation? what am i going to do?" i really wanted miss molly because she just tells me with her little face, she, like, tilts it to the left or right where shop doors are and things. so, relying on my cane, it's, like, there'sjust so much stuff in the way. music playing it feels like i'm in a festival, actually, with all the crowd noises. a matatu is a party on wheels... ..and a very popularform of public transport here. each one is decorated with images of famous tv show

raisi from the iran innovation and technology center in nairobi also said that here you can see thatre are products that have many customers in the african continent, from sectors that have a lot to say, not only in the region but also in the world, not to mention the health field and medical equipment. in medicine of the islamic republic iran has something to say, and the iranian delegation, the first country known as the pearl of africa, met and discussed with high-ranking officials in kampala , and the parties signed four important documents and are ready to cooperate well with uganda in the experiences of the refinery and the export of technical and engineering forces. keep in mind, this trip was an opportunity for the president to visit the extraterritorial cultivation farm and open the iranian innovation and technology center in uganda . agricultural products, fertilizers and biological poisons , the ninth game of his request, the subject of the building was made of several models of advanced rebars, mr. raisi continued the trip. he met mofid of uganda in the national mosque of

okay, catherine, so a that for us in nairobi. thank you. let's get more reaction. we can speak to them a gay who is in africa. i'm let's see, joins us now from dustin dall. thank you for your time. firstly, i just wanted to get your reaction to the events of this morning. this crew that has taken place in the bone, the president of the bunker, we're learning now is on the house. the rest, as is his son that's been announced on the statement read on national television. was this something you were expecting the this was the, the does it the on the way and he just happened not even myself. i or my facebook page that the you are the full used to these over a that was clearly something that any of the stories serious about of the conformity would see it happening in the community. are the blue was normal, the hospital before produces in gone. he was not accepted by people positions that was this time we don't really to be on the mid cuz we did a bit on the apple. so then also there was the problem became audible and phones even when, when 2 days ago, the division speak

so i look forward hearing from nairobi speak now to mary raja below. she's the editor of africa international and joins is from a young day in time. a really great to have you with us. just want to bring you some news that we're getting in from the african union cooling and just meeting with burgundy. it's kind of go and kinda rude to analyze the situation in gap on the a you calling it a to attempt. what do you make of that? as well as soon as the dust is not settled yet, we are not sure that to do. it has been successful, but they are many sign. russ. i mean the african union and he's a new piece of organization. they need to, to make a statement. why don't we see in the streets what we see happening? owl by our looks like the cool use now john say, and i mean in central africa is lydia has been turning um the the, the, the view all the ice to, uh, towards south central africa. but uh, the situation nice. i would say quite different in a way that the um the, the, the main street of quoting time in west africa is in security to reason into hell and, u

the politics, noncom web reporting there from nairobi. thank you very much. a palestinian teenager rumsey ahmed has died in the hospital one week after being shot by his really soldiers. a funeral was held for the 17 year old and the village of still was nothing else by the west bank. he had been shot near the legal settlement of offering after the it's really army says that is to about a fireball. $212.00 palestinians and $28.00 is really, is had been killed so far in the most violent year. in decades. at least 12 people have been injured in an explosion that a grain storage facility and turkey. a 2 are set to be in a serious condition, rescue crews of rushed to the site of the blast east of his tumble. the cause of the blast is not yet known. sent him kosovo, has more on this from his stumble. the cause of this explosion is this massive explosion is unknown, but of course uh right now the security forces and the prosecutors off is, are trying to figure out what it is. well, as for the initial response from the governor's office, this is more of a technical

the mistreatment and neglect of vulnerable residents at the care home near the country's capital, nairobiafrican continent are increasingly seeking outside support for their asian relatives. but even with the kenyan government standards and guidelines governing care homes, there is a growing fear that in some cases the last people do receive his care. are next certain african population is projected to triple from 75 to 235. the growth will be faster than any other region in the world. what are our receiving. heard stories about this treatment at one care home. the defendant here in 2020. the manager presented an edge of a safe haven. this facility, home to 50 resident witness was set up by an women's guild. is managed independently. during our investigation, staff admitted to abuse at the home. we'll beat him and that's what comes him down. this is what happened to one resident was found wandering outside the fence. will fit to the buttocks. fiur will fit to the buttocks. our investigators _ will fit to the buttocks. our investigators found - will fit to the buttocks. 0ur investigators fo

too much neighborhood nairobi is low income area, missouri had become the scene of running vegetables into a gas which it sold for testers and nearby residential homes. both local and national human rights groups have pulled up the government for what they say is this proportion and force in response to the protest. and its no income areas like these were residents really bad. the brunt, members of the social justice center are documenting the cases and advise them to mount on his rides. they know he's one of the lucky ones we have to date will be, and then that will be with the coefficient walks and outcast. that will be, so we're leaving the outcast and it will be where we know we've not given too much opportunity to get this set of buttons. you know, when is not recorded, nothing happens. everything needs to be documented out to make up, just like we lose this amount of use in the community. so the moment that it, or we can even, we have something to, to show to this, to this it, while the numbers very write scripts, say they've recorded of associated depth and connection to the pr

i'll tell you the bottom, the us embassy in nairobi. canyons who were injured have yet to receive any financial compensation. somebody said this to kind of the football wells comp, ecstasy for england activate for nigeria lat cluster european champions to reach the for the finals are for the pedals issue talk with win over the super falcons. heads expressive, johnson the i'm good how both as welcome to the program. these as new military rulers have closed the countries space, accusing neighboring countries of planning and a tack, a deadline for new jazz new military rulers, to reinstate the elected president has passed. there are no signs to whom to is backing down. the equal last block of west african countries has announced it will hold a summit and neighboring nigeria to discuss the situation. later this week. defiant and determined new service, one to its dumpling, down on its power ground, addressing tens of thousands of supporters gathered in the capital military leaders showed no sign of relinquishing control 2 days, gathering his testimony to your commitments and to your deter

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the n t l g b t to little past and may, contradicts the banks values. katherine sort has more from nairobi. a presidential wireless 70 has issued a statement, a very heavily wooded statement about this. the suspension of was bank loans and he says that says the country will continue developing. we've always out those loans in part, the statement that you've gone to was not the cost is to abandon the our principles and sovereignty using money. and this is, this is to do with this on the good news, the reason he passed as they criminalized homosexuality. and this has been very, very controversial. the president has been talking about it and the president said that the laws do not target specific groups. a rather the low protect you, brandon's from being a re to said or cost in to homosexuality. so this is something that has gained a lot of talk so not just in uganda, but across the world as well. and the impact of the so was done to move is immense because the was gone, a gives this loan and millions of dollars to you've gone down for different projects when it comes to education and health

and central africa live now to our regional africa editor will ross, who's in the kenyan capital nairobi at home who may not know, a little bit about the background to the story. but what has happened in the last few years there, why is this happening now? president bongo has been in power since 2009. during that time, much like during his father's time in office, it was a patronage system. over the last five years or so, there have been shaky times for the president. there was another attempted coup we were told. also, the president had a stroke a few years ago, completely missing in action for about ten months. he said again during the election at the weekend, quite a lot of foreign observers and journalists were barred from watching and scrutinising the event. the internet was shut down, many suspicious of the election that the authorities don't want people to find out about. the incumbent was given about two thirds of the vote. the opposition candidate said there was a complete sham. what we had then, early this morning was an early announcement on state tv, 12 military officers sayi

too much neighborhood nairobi is low income area, missouri had become the scene of running vegetables into a gas which it flows for testers and nearby residential homes. both local and national human rights groups have pulled up the government for what they say is this proportion and force in response to the protest. and its no income areas like these were residents really bad. the brunt, members of the social justice center are documenting the cases and advise them to mount on his rights. they know he's one of the lucky ones we have to date will be, and then that will be with the coefficient locks and outcast. that will be. so we're leaving the outcast, it will be really not. we've not given too much opportunity to escape this set of buttons, you know, when is not recorded, nothing happens. everything needs to be documented out to make our trips like we lose this amount of youth in the community. so the moment to keep that equity, we can even, we have something to, to show to this, to this, that as well. the numbers very write scripts say they've recorded of associated depth and conn

to deal with this , an expert on russian influence in africa contacted me from the nairobi tent, who been following wagner for many years and knows about his business there. they appeared on the continent by offering security services for regimes such as general ugu zabolotny, who will be at your disposal, who will act without rules and procedures at all, taking the economy , natural resources, black traffic under their control, but these regimes support and protect them, because in many cases they still need their services, understanding this the state department took unprecedented steps, for example, recently blacklisted the minister of defense and two other military leaders of the republic for contacts with the wagnerites, slapped officials of the middle ranks to show the first person that you need to distance yourself from mercenaries of beauty so as not to feel restrictions on yourself, however, this can scare the business that had dealings with them , but still not the leaders of the countries, says my interlocutor, this can be a tool to limit the influence of the wagners on th

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issues. 0ur correspondent catherine byaruhanga is following developments on the ground in nigerfrom nairobi today, and that's because an influential civil society coalition called m62 has called for widespread protests in niger today. they say that they're there to support the new military leaders in the country against international and regional pressure to step down. so protests are expected to centre in the capital, niamey. now, when there were similar protests over the weekend, the french embassy was attacked, its windows were smashed, and that then led to france and other western countries, including the uk, urging its citizens to leave the country. and now what we're hearing from the uk government is that they think the security situation could get worse because today is also independence day in niger when it gained independence from france. it's expected these protests might be bigger than previous ones, and that's why the uk government is withdrawing some of its embassy staff. the united states is also making a similar move, withdrawing nonessential diplomatic staff at its embassy i

dozens of its own nationals as well as other europeans and american citizens. 0ur correspondent in nairobianga, is following all the developments. we started to get information from residents in niamey and in other parts of niger saying that they were experiencing power blackouts. this is quite rare for people there at the moment, and they were talking about having powerfor maybe an hour, then it would be blackout for four hours. and then eventually, the country's electricity company, national electricity company, said they believe that this is as a result of sanctions from neighbouring nigeria. so what nigeria has done is that, we understand, according to nigerian authorities, is that because of sanctions following the coup, they are cutting off power supplies to its neighbour there in niger. but this is obviously part of what we're seeing is a multipronged effort by neighbouring countries trying to get to grips with the situation there in niamey and in niger following the coup. they're sending mediation teams there, but they're also threatening force and now enforcing sanctions. in terms

well, out of here is malcolm web is following developments for us from nairobi. the result that was announced is as it was expected, firstly by the government. which said that changing the constitution was the will of the people, it will sit by the opposition, which it said the referendum was illegal and likely to be wrecked. to turn out was visibly low following stations in the capital bank even by thing took place last week or position and rights groups. the cold on people to boy called the poll. they say that turn out was about 10 percent. the electrical authority said so now it was about 60 percent president foss done or shows what day was being in power since 2016. the changes to the constitution could allow him to serve another 27. yeah, 10, you know, face following elections that are due in 2 years from now about hall. so central africans are in need of humanitarian aid. about half a 1000000 people living in kansas, displaced by conflict, ways of the countryside controlled by on groups. the capital, some towns and some mines, whether foss, deposits of gold

participation in gambling, and he joins us from bland, ty malawi and joining us from kenya's capital, nairobi, nelson. we re, is programs officer at the responsible gaming federation of kenya. so i suppose to get a genius nelson, welcome mistake. it's half of 3. if you can. i'm going to start with a little assignment that we sent, and i wrote the crew off to do in 10 years earlier this week. they were outside of a section shop and they spoke to a couple of gamblers. and this is what they told us. a bit thing in the beginning while respecting is removed, many of us from a life of crime. it has many advantages and one cannot sleep hungry if it is played right. we ask the government to support the batting industry. and so, you know, in 2019 i $1900.00, but since then i've lost and lost. now i have no more money but i'm hopeful i will win next time. i that how for the bread, the next but that in 2019 and $1900.00 in food down hill from the to whom do i am wondering hearing those cautionary tales and ultimately what the same time, why is sports go ahead and doing so well across the african contine

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