Nigeria’s senate wants ransom payers to go to jail

A Nigerian senator acknowledges that kidnappings by armed groups have increased, but he supports the Bill to deter ransom payments and says it will disrupt the cash flow to the bandits.

Plus, we visit a Nairobi restaurant that is introducing Kenyans to dishes made with alternatives to wheat and maize flour.

And we meet the Ghanaian conservationist whose efforts to save the endangered slender-snouted crocodile have won him a prize worth nearly $50,000.

Photo: Shoes of schoolchildren seized by kidnappers in Nigeria's Kaduna state, lie on the ground outside of their school. Credit: AFP.