South Africa’s prison authority has issued notice to terminate a contract with the multinational security firm G4S. It comes after a high-profile escape of a prisoner last year, which was only discovered last month. More here:
NewsdayTagreed Abdin thinks about leaving Sudan every day, but for now in her corner of the capital, people are trying to"return to normalcy" in small ways.
The neighbourhood is"relatively quiet", Ms Abdin tells the BBC, between periods of very heavy shelling, military planes flying overhead and anti-aircraft missiles being fired.
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