Hope is fading for trapped Burkina Faso miners
The eight miners have been trapped in the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso for over one month.
It is now more than a month since eight workers became trapped underground in a flooded mine in Burkina Faso. Rescue efforts are continuing but as time passes hope of finding them alive is diminishing.
Nigeria's accountant-general has been arrested on allegations of involvement in a $190m fraud.
And as South Africa faces a youth unemployment crisis, we hear from jobless young people in Johannesburg.
Photo: Rescue workers at the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso. Credit: Reuters.
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