Low turnout as Algerians vote in parliamentary election - a podcast by BBC World Service

Algeria voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election, but it seems many heeded boycott calls as turnout is expected to be the lowest in twenty years.

Plus South Africa's President Ramaphosa on how the pandemic is devastating his nation and why he and other African leaders can welcome the vaccines pledges by G7 leaders.

And we hear from Rawan Dakik, the youngest African and first Tanzanian to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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