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What’s behind South Africa’s power cuts?
Eskom has warned of longer power cuts this winter.
A new BBC investigation has looked into what’s behind the power cuts in South Africa, as they look to worsen over winter.
Thousands of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have taken to the streets to demand the return of those displaced during the two-year conflict and the withdrawal of foreign troops.
We hear from a South Sudanese family who fled Khartoum over a month ago, but remain stuck at the Egypt-Sudan border.
And we speak to Dr Gladys Kalema about her work protecting gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
(Credit: Maria Giulia Trombini/AFP via Getty Images).
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