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The Freetown office worker who farms on the weekend
Mohamed Gibril Kamara grows crops including plantain and cashew nuts.
As concerns over food security as Covid19 and climate change are converging, we speak to a Sierra Leonean civil servant planting food to help feed the nation.
We hear a first hand experience of yesterday's explosion in Lebanon in which at least a hundred and thirty five people were killed.
As part of our series on Africa's greatest Olympians, we hear from Blessing Okagbare, the teenager who became the second Nigerian woman to win an Olympic medal for long jump.
(Photo: Mohamed Gibril Kamara working the land with his wife and son. Credit: Mohamed Gibril Kamara)
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