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Migrant boat stranded for two days, heads to Italy

A vessel carrying 400 people, that departed from Libya, ran into distress between Greece and Malta.

Maltese authorities allow a nearby merchant ship to supply fuel to a stranded boat with 400 people on board, but orders it not to conduct a rescue operation. A member of the Alarm Phone group which picked up the boat鈥檚 distress call, says some authorities are trying to avoid their responsibility to help stricken vessels.

The wife of a Pakistani journalist who was killed in a police shooting in Kenya last year, calls on the United Nations to set up an independent inquiry in her husband's death.

And hip-hop and Afrobeats artist Amzy, on why his recent track with songstress Nabalum, has got many young couples in Burkina Faso talking about relationships.

(File photo of an Italian coastguard patrol boat. Credit: Getty Images.)

51 minutes

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Mon 10 Apr 2023 17:06GMT

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