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Dec 2022
28m 39s

DRC mourns flood victims

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Three days of national mourning in the DRC following floods in which more than 120 people died.

Also, the company that owns Facebook is in court in Kenya for spreading hate and violence during Ethiopia's civil war.

And how the failure of the cryptocurrency FTX is affecting African investors.

Those stories and more in this podcast with Audrey Brown.

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