South Africa: new rules for funerals to stop Covid-19

We get an update from South Africa, where tighter restrictions on funerals have been introduced as part of an effort to restrict the spread of Covid-19. Ceremonies will have to be shorter, and fewer people will be permitted to attend.

Plus, an update from Nigeria, where some of the girls kidnapped from the Chibok boarding school by Boko Haram in 2014 have reportedly escaped their captors.

And our Resident Presidents discuss Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president.

(Photo: A funeral for a Covid-19 victim in Johannesburg, July 2020; Credit: MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)