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Kobby Spiky explores the challenges for gamers and developers in Africa
With trust in police falling, volunteer groups have begun patrolling the streets
A family of Twilight fans blunder into a dreadful, real-life horror
A medical scandal has world-shattering consequences
Why can the process of pregnancy and childbirth still be so dangerous for women?
Why being a twin in Nigeria could mean life or death
Why is Sweden home to so many dollar billionaires?
The bizarre origins of a world-altering act of violence
Our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?
Can teaching a child to raise, call and bluff help them learn lessons about life?
What would it take for you to give up meat?
Dr Zoe Williams examines historical inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of women
Can Salvadoran children adopted during the country’s civil war find their birth families?
Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach
Children separated from their parents by civil war now want to find their birth families
The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses
Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide
Three million people died in the Bengal Famine - but why are they not better remembered?
How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?
The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility.
The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude
Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?
Famine grips Bengal but publicly no-one is calling it a famine
Meet the young scuba divers of colour who are searching for sunken slave ships
The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions.
The story of the 1943 Bengal Famine which led to the death of at least 3 million people
The farmers and industry leaders working to secure the identity and future of Nepali tea
The Global News Podcast and Ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions
Oleg Boldyrev on how ordinary Russians are dealing with life in a country at war.