South Africa to host Brics summit from Tuesday - a podcast by BBC World Service

South Africa to host Brics summit but Russia’s President Putin will only join by video link. On the agenda global economic and security matters and the creation of new financial institutions.

More than 1,400 people starve to death in Ethiopia's northern Tigray since food aid was suspended because of theft

And Ghanaian immunologist Yaw Bediako on how to expand research and keep African scientists on the continent.

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