Kenya prisoners attain Law degree
Prisoners at a maximum security prison in Kenya have successfully completed a law degree
Seventeen people are celebrating their graduation from one of the most demanding law schools in the world - the University of London. The people who graduated were mostly inmates or former inmates at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi. They were part of the African Prisons Project, which operates in more than fifteen African countries, to help inmates understand the law better. We hear the first-hand experience of one of the graduands.
Cameroon President Paul Biya has expressed his condolences and offered money to bereaved families who lost their relatives in a landslide that killed at least forty people on Monday. Our reporter travels to Bafoussam in the west of the country where search efforts are still ongoing.
To mark 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were taken to the US, the President of Ghana declared 2019 'Year Of The Return'. Some African Americans have taken up the initiative and moved to the continent to start a new life in the home of their ancestors. We listen to their experience.
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