2024-09-05
31 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Series.
I'm Nick Mars.
And at 13 hours gmt on Thursday the 5 September.
These are our main stories.
Calls for action on violence against women after a ugandan Olympic athlete was set on fire and killed, allegedly by her former partner.
China promises over $50 billion in loans to african nations.
Emmanuel Macron chooses Michel Barnier to be France's new prime minister.
Also in the podcast.
And sometimes they took the pupil and then they bring some barber and then they share the birds directly on the police station, the country where the police are on the lookout for men with beards.
We start in East Africa.
She was a good child, very polite.
She had no issues at all.
I just don't know.
That is the simple tribute from the grieving mother of the ugandan athlete Rebecca Chepdage.
On Sunday.
Rebecca had just come home from church, where she was living in northwestern Kenya, when she was doused in petrol and set on fire, allegedly by a former boyfriend.
She suffered burns to more than 70% of her body, and today she died.
The head of Uganda's Olympic committee called her killing a cowardly and senseless act that has led to the loss of a great athlete.
Her legacy will continue to endure.
Our reporter Celestina Caroni in Nairobi told me more about her and the wider problem of violence against women in Kenya and beyond.