The President of Madagascar took to Facebook on Friday to make an address to the nation, in an effort to quell nine days of rolling anti-corruption protests. Andry Rajoelina claimed the Gen Z movement, which is demanding his resignation, has been exploited to provoke a coup. He alleged outside influences have paid for the movement to oust him.
Also in the programme, some Nigerian Anglican bishops and missionaries have voiced concern after the Church of England named its first-ever female Archbishop of Canterbury. Sarah Mullally now leads 85 million Anglicans worldwide. Her historic appointment is being hailed as a breakthrough, but it also lays bare divisions between conservatives and more liberal members of the Church.
And we visit the mountains of Morocco's Azilal region, where locals are fighting to preserve an ancestral whistling-based language that echoes through the valleys. People, they say, learn it "like they learn to walk or to talk". The principle of the language is simple: the words are said in whistles and the key to understanding it is practice.
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