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To hear the full interview with Timaya, listen to This is Africa on BBC World Service radio and partner stations across Africa, and online here. By Ferdinand Omondi in Nairobi & Alex Binley in LondonBBC NewsMuhammad Jallow has been appointed vice-president of The Gambia, the fifth person to hold that title under President Adama Barrow. He replaces Alieu Badara Joof, 65, who died in India where he had been seeking medical treatment. Vice-President Jallow is an experienced civil servant who has worked across various ministries, rising to the position of secretary general and head of the civil service until his statutory retirement in 2020. Mr Jallow also worked at the Senegalo-Gambia Secretariat as deputy executive secretary representing The Gambia. He takes up his new post with immediate effect.
Africa News - BBC NewsBy Nduka OrjinmoBBC News, AbujaBy Hannah Ajala and the Love Janessa teamBBC World ServiceBy Cecilia MacaulayBBC NewsVideo contentVideo caption: Nigeria elections 2023: 'We are ready' says INEC's chairmanThe Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] chairman Mahmood Yakubu says the commission is ready for 25 February polls.
Video contentVideo caption: Ukraine War: What happened to African students who escaped? A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, what has happened to the thousands of African students, who fled the war. Will RossAfrica editor, BBC World ServiceCopyright: BBCSuspected Islamist militants have killed at least 12 people in central Mali's Mopti region. Officials said gunmen burst into a village in Cercle de Bankass, shot at people, burnt homes and then chased those trying to flee into nearby forests.
He said Dem Mama was based on real life and the destruction of his community by soldiers, including his grandmother’s bakery: “I just had to use my voice. That's my way of contributing. The fact that it was a true story got the people's attention. "He said he mostly writes about painful life experiences: “You know I was born into a family of 15. It was hard there. I didn't see that kind of love growing up as a child so there was no love to preach about. ”In 2017 he won an Afrima award for Dancehall Act of the Year.
It has been restrengthening in the Mozambique Channel with winds up to 128km/h (80mph). After landfall, the storm system will be slow-moving in southern Mozambique producing up to 400mm of rain over the next few days. This is likely to lead to major flooding across the region which may well shift into Zimbabwe and north-east South Africa into next week. Copyright: BBCKalkidan YibeltalBBC News, Addis AbabaCopyright: AFPImage caption: The Horn of Africa region is suffering from what the UN has called “the most severe drought in two generations"At least seven people have died from starvation in Borena area in southern Ethiopia following severe drought, local authorities and residents have told the BBC.
In a split decision the majority of judges ruled that Kenya's NGO board should have allowed the registration of an LGBTQ group - called National Gays and Lesbians Human Rights Commission - which it had blocked in 2013. The judges said the constitution guaranteed the right to association and that the NGO board should not deny the registration of an association purely based on the sexual orientation of the applicants, or because it has the word "gay" or "lesbian" in it. In its ruling, however, the Supreme Court stressed that gay sex remained illegal in Kenya. By Oluwashina Okeleji and Ian WilliamsBBC Sport AfricaBy Chiagozie NwonwuBBC News, LagosSarah Keith-LucasBBC Weather presenterTropical Cyclone Freddy has made landfall in Mozambique.
One official said as many as 19 bodies had been found and the search for more victims was continuing. Last June an attack in the same area left more than 130 people dead. The region sees frequent raids by jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. Last year Mali's military government ordered French troops to leave and turned to Russia for support, hiring soldiers from the Wagner group. Though it denies this. More on this topic:Have Wagner mercenaries helped Mali's fight against jihadists? UK withdraws troops from Mali early blaming political instabilityThe coups that promised - and failed - to bring safetyRussia and the West fight for Africa's heartBy Sarah McDermottBBC NewsFerdinand OmondiBBC News, NairobiCopyright: Getty ImagesImage caption: A National Gays and Lesbians Human Rights Commission was blocked 10 years agoKenya's Supreme Court has ruled that it was wrong for the authorities to ban the gay community from registering a rights organisation.
Dhenge Wario, a district administrator in the zone in Oromia region close to the country’s border with neighbouring Kenya, said among those dead were a two-month-old baby and elderly people. “People are not eating food for many days. Their cattle are all dead, ” he told the BBC. Guyo Turu, a resident of the district which is mostly populated by pastoralist communities, said his 16-year-old son had died. “He got sick because of hunger; we had nothing. When we took him to the hospital they told us [his illness] was related to shortage of food. He died shortly after that, ” he said.
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