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We fact-check Coronavirus rumours

Our expert fact-checks some of the rumours surrounding the current Coronavirus outbreak

Did bat soup really pass on the coronavirus to humans? We fact-check some of the stories surrounding the current outbreak.

Ekiti State in Nigeria has started offering up to six months maternity leave for mothers working in the public sector. That's up from a previous provision of 90 days. Still - is it enough?

A Ugandan farmer tells us about the terrifying sight of swarms of crop-eating locusts.

And we hear how a Nigerian judge has taken up directing traffic in Abuja, after losing her son to a hit-and-run accident in the capital.

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