Ethiopia 'breaks' tree-planting record

Ethiopia's Prime Minister has led a project aimed towards countering the effects of deforestation and climate change by planting more than 200 million trees in a day.

The Nigerian government says it has banned a Shia Islamic group, following a series of deadly clashes with authorities and after a court injunction gave permission to declare them a terrorist organisation.

A former Boeing engineer has told the BBC's Panorama programme that work on the production line of the plane model which crashed in Ethiopia in March, killing everybody on board, was not adequately funded.

(Image: Ethiopia's forest coverage declined from 35% to 4%. Credit: BBC)