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In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers how international justice is affecting the continent. Africans are in a new age of revolutions, it seems. From our Arab neighbours in the north to the usual rebellious suspects in eastern Democratic Republic Congo, to the culture haters in northern Mali to the striking miners in the south - change is all around us. The growth of good news and an explosion of books by ubiquitous Africa experts also speak of a new age of confidence taking advantage of the fastest-growing economies on the planet, huge discoveries of energy and mineral resources and more billionaires and millionaires than at any other African age. But the more things change the more they seem to stay exactly where they once were. I have lost count of the number of times I've read of a rebellion in DR Congo, or how, when I first started pretending to be a journalist , I would be irked and annoyed by the same experts describing the armed battles surrounding Laurent Kabila's newly named Democratic Republic of Congo as "Africa's first world war". They somehow managed to be patronising and inept in this description, conveniently forgetting that Africans fought in both World Wars and that having five nations battling for influence over DR Congo's riches and her politics did not actually involve all 54 of the continent's governments.

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In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo looks at what could be in store for the continent in the next 12 months. President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Boko Haram has been driven into hiding and is a shadow of its former self. We are told by the Nigerian president that his army has "technically" defeated the Islamist militant group, that they have now been reduced to fighting with improvised "explosive devices and indoctrinating young guys to carry out suicide missions in churches and mosques". To those on the receiving end of such attacks, this does not seem much of a reduction of the insurgents' activities but rather examples of their usual modus operandi. And President Buhari's definition will come as scant comfort to the people of the north-east, with many thousands still displaced from their homes and the frequent suicide attacks on markets by a group that has sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State IS. The figures are concerning - a six-year insurgency is said to have killed 17, and displaced more than 1. The Islamist insurgency has also spilt over into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon - with the United Nations Children's Fund saying this has meant the closure of more than 2, schools and the disruption of over a million children's schooling. Come April , it will be two years since the Chibok girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram and the hash tag BringBackOurGirls will have long acquired the dusty feel of failure. Can Mr Buhari bring them back in the coming year? Kenya's police chief has told us that the Somali-based Islamist group has split into two factions , loyal to al-Qaeda and IS respectively. With events in a Bamako hotel earlier in the year and the global reality of random attacks, may prove to be a nervous year in which the African Union must harness what collective power it has to protect its citizens from the biggest madness of the millennium.

Iranian authorities have been known to harass and intimidate family members of the BBC Persian staff. Can Mr Buhari bring them back in the coming year? Toggle limited content width, bbc farai.

Iranian authorities have been known to harass and intimidate family members of the BBC Persian staff. The channel has been accused by Iranian state television of encouraging "illegal" rallies and manipulating the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic, a claim which the BBC denies. BBC Persian returned to a different frequency on Hot Bird 6 [15] on 26 May , after a period of test transmissions. Due to the ban on foreign reporters in Iran, the news service currently relies on a significant amount of user-generated content, often taken with mobile phones. The Iranian government has "targeted" the members and family members of BBC Persian through threats, intimidation, and arrests. It became the channel that extensively covered the events for the Iranians inside Iran. Outside of Iran, the channel was therefore recognised accordingly.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the wave of suspected poisonings of schoolgirls in recent months an "unforgivable crime". More than 1, girls at dozens of schools have been affected by unexplained illnesses since November. Incidents were reported in at least 15 cities and towns on Sunday alone. Authorities have released very little information about their investigations and announced no arrests, but they have accused Iran's "enemies" of using the suspected poisonings to undermine the clerical establishment. Some Iranians believe the girls' schools are being targeted by hard-line elements to stop them receiving an education.

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Its headquarters are in London , United Kingdom. The government reasons for prioritising this was concern that the Iranian king, Reza Shah Pahlavi , was sympathetic to Nazi Germany. Following the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August , the Foreign Office encouraged broadcasting about king's autocratic style and republican systems of Government. However the risk of the Iranian nationalisation of Anglo-Persian Oil Company created an exceptional circumstance causing the Foreign Office to issue memorandums of advice and lists of points to make to the BBC, and the amount of broadcasting more than doubled. This caused many Iranians to believe the Persian Service was not independent, and an advisor of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh said the "BBC was the voice of British imperialism and we did not trust it". In September , the World Service announced the proposed closure of its Persian and Arabic radio service as part of a cost-cutting plan, but an online service will remain. The British government used the BBC's Persian service for advancing its propaganda against democratically elected Prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh and anti-Mosaddegh material were repeatedly aired on the radio channel [3] to the extent that Iranian staff at the BBC Persian radio went on strike to protest the move. In the years before the revolution, the BBC Persian Service became highly trusted and liked by listeners, and gained mass appeal beyond intellectuals and the Iranian diaspora.

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