
Sudan boat capsizes killing children
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
In Sudan a boat carrying schoolchildren capsized this morning. Twenty four people are known to have drowned most of them children between the ages of 7 and 16. We hear from the headmaster of one of the schools the pupils attended + Pools close in by elections in the north western Uganda town of Arua after a campaign marred by violence + 80% of world's rhinos population is in South Africa, where they are killed by the hundreds each year. But poachers aren't the only ones involved in the onslaught. We listen to the first of a two-parts BBC special report.
(Photo: A Sudanese man looks at the river Gash that burst its banks flooding the village of Makli on August 14, 2016 Credit: ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Wed 15 Aug 201815:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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