BBC World Service – Focus on Africa – Kenyan court finds criminalization of suicide unconstitutional

Kenyan judge finds criminalization of attempted suicide unconstitutional; The problem of waste management in Kampala; And a shop owner who lost everything in a market fire in Ghana.

Kenya’s Supreme Court has struck down a law criminalizing attempted suicide. We hear from one of the petitioners who filed the complaint why the judge’s ruling is important.

Also in the podcast, we revisit a landfill in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, which collapsed last August, killing over 30 people. How does the city deal with the garbage problem?

A shop owner tells us about the devastating effects of a fire at one of Ghana’s largest open-air markets and the efforts to rebuild the area.

Presenter: Audrey Brown
Producers: Yvette Twagiramariya, Bella Hassan and Sunita Nahar in London. Frenny Jowi was in Nairobi
Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne
Technical Producer: Gabriel O’Regan
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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