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Botswana Announces a Ground-breaking Eye-Check Scheme
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Botswana launches a ground-breaking scheme to provide free eye care every school child in the country to prevent or treat diseases.
Plus ordinary Nigerians are appalled by senators expenses payments which they say could pay for schools and hospitals.
And Kenyan author Peter Kimani explains why his new book Dance of the Jakaranda centres on race, colonialism and finding one's identity.
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