The BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet has recently returned from Sudan. It's her second visit to the country since April 2023, when the war broke out between the government army and the paramilitary group, the RSF. Lyse says, the humanitarian sitaution in the country is far worse now than it's ever been. She met and spoke to people displaced by the conflict, including women and children and entreprenuers and bankers too.
Also, Zimbabwe's High court rules against a law that denies abortion to children and women raped in marriage or in cases of incest
And a journey into the Congo Basin where more than 700 new species have been discovered!
00:01 Intro
00:51 Zimbabwe's abortion law
08:08 Why are people protesting over a gang rape in country which doesn't recognise rape as a crime?
14:20 700 new species discovered
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