Uganda to close schools early over Ebola fears
There has also been 23 confirmed cases among schoolchildren.
Education Minister and first lady, Janet Museveni, has said schools across Uganda will shorten their term by two weeks in a bid to curb rising Ebola cases.
Climate finance continues to top the agenda at COP27 in Egypt. We speak to Igiraneza Ghimbare Claret, who is the spokesperson for the Association for Friends of Nature in Burundi about funding for loss and damage.
Âé¶¹Éç correspondent, Omar Wally, travels to Gunjur, in Gambia, to investigate the disappearance of 200 migrants one year on.
And we hear from author, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, about her new book profiling some of the most prominent Black thinkers of this generation, including Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka and Michelle Obama.
(Photo: Red Cross workers in Uganda don PPE. Credit: Luke Dray/Getty Images).
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