14 February 2021
Sudan: Former vice-president Hassabo Mohamed Abdel Rahman and other senior members of Bashir's administration have been arrested for fomenting weeks of protests against rising food prices. During these protests against months of bread, fuel and power shortages, around 300 people had been arrested across the country. States of emergency have been declared in four provinces.
BBC Africa Latest Updates 14 February 2021. 12:20
Guinea/Ebola: According to health officials, at least three people have died of Ebola in Guinea and five others have tested positive for the virus. In the south-eastern region of Nzérékoré health workers are working to trace and isolate cases.
These are the first Ebola deaths in the country since 2016. More than 11,000 died in the West Africa Ebola epidemic between 2013 and 2016, epidemic which began in Guinea and spread mainly to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56060728
Update BBC 17h22: Guinea has officially declared an Ebola epidemic.
Nigeria: Yoruba-Hausa clashes have killed at least 10 and wounded more than 100 in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. Dozens of shops and homes were also burnt down. The trouble started after a Hausa wheelbarrow pusher allegedly killed a Yoruba man during an altercation The governor of Oyo State has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
BBC Latest Updates 14 February 2021. 18:35
Congo-Kinshasa: 6 insurgents, 4 soldiers and 1 civilian have died during an attack on two military camps in Lubumbashi in the very south-east of the country. The Bakata-Katanga militia, which wants the southern Katanga province to secede, was trying to loot weapons.
BBC Latest Updates 14 February 2021. 14:55
13 February 2021
Kenya: A 27km highway, some of it elevated, expected to cost $550m, is being built in Nairobi. It will connect Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the east to the Nairobi-Nakuru highway in the west. The construction of the four- and six-lane dual carriageway is presently worsening traffic jams in the city, though it is meant to alleviate them when finished. But not everyone will be able to afford to use it, far from it – it will cost between $2 and $3. So the expressway “could divide Nairobi in more ways than one”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55995229
Garbage in everyday discourse: “Rubbish is the most public of all objects. Media narratives can invite us to respond to it with hope or it can lead us towards being paralysed by dismay. Media discourses and communicative forms have the potential to contribute positively to new shared ideas (and perhaps behaviours) about rubbish.”
https://theconversation.com/dissecting-stories-about-garbage-in-popular-culture-why-they-matter-151683