Nigeria bans SARS stop and search operations
Nigeria: Controversial police unit SARS to halt stop and search operations with "immediate effect".
The Inspector-General of Nigeria Police, Muhammed Adamu, said the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, must halt stop and search operations with immediate effect. In recent years there has been growing anger at routine harassment, extortion, and assaults committed by SARS officers.
From Kenya, the 麻豆社's Ian Wafula tells us how local leaders have organised the initiation ceremony of ten thousand Masaai warriors during a pandemic.
Senegal is taken as a positive example for the way it is managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ugandan author, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, on her latest short stories book titled 'Manchester Happened'
(Photo: SARS men for Lagos. Credit: 麻豆社 Pidgin)
Podcast
-
Focus on Africa
Two essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the news from Africa