Niger school fire kills 20 children - a podcast by BBC World Service

In Niger, twenty children - some as young as three - have lost their lives in a fire at school in the capital Niamey. Questions are being asked about the safety of the school. Journalist Ebrin Noel Brou reports on the event and on the reaction from the parents.

COVID-19 vaccines: South Africa joins the US and the European Union in halting the use of the Johnson & Johnson after six cases of blood clots have been reported. More than six million doses have been given in the US.

A kidnapping crisis is unfolding in schools in northern Nigeria. We take stock of a phenomenon that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described as "an attack on education".

Can taxing sugar really change people's sweet habits? We hear from a Diabetes specialist from Botswana, where a sugar tax has been recently introduced.

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