The World Bank has warned that Nigeria’s poverty levels are rising fast and will likely get worse in the coming years. A high cost of living and poor wages have eroded earnings and plunged millions into poverty. And the situation isn't helped by the government's decision to end decades of petrol subsidies.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Dan Tawaya, northwest Nigeria.

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In Nigeria, thousands of young people are addicted to codeine cough syrup – a medicine that’s become a street drug.

The Nigerian senate estimates that 3 million bottles of codeine syrup are drunk every day in just two states – Kano and Jigawa.

But who makes this syrup? And who sells it to Nigeria’s students?

BBC Africa Eye went undercover to investigate.

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We start a new series exploring the Maroon presence in Latin America. Today we examine Maroons in Panama and Colombia. A new bill granting Afro-Mexicans legal recognition in the Mexican constitution is being debated. What are the implications of this bill for Afro­Mexicans? The Global African host Bill Fletcher looks at these issues with Dr. Sheila Walker, Executive Director at AfroDiaspora Inc, Dr. Msomi Moor, Professor at University of the District of Columbia, and Walter Thompson­Hernandez, researcher at the Center for Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.ne....t/v/the-global-afric

Of all of West Africa, Senegal is probably the country that has been affected the most my environmental chances that are impacting the oceans. Subject to the wrath of Mother Nature, the seafaring people have a dilemma to face, should they take to the open seas, or stay put?
Elsewhere, wedged between the vast wildernesses of the Atlantic and the Sahara, Mauritania was born of sand and wind. In order to survive there, people became nomads. A tough way of life, this forged the identity of their nation, however this is now disappearing.

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Written by Yeza
Produced by RoryStoneLove for Black Dub Music
Distributed by Zincbeats LLC

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LYRICS

Intro

Walk out all the thick gyal them
Slimmas and the fatty cause pure problem
Show your sexy body cause it a done them
Anytime you touch the road a pure excitement

Verse 1
Big up every natural body gyal ina the place
Never make a doctor put no tool ina your waist
Eat your vegetable drink your drink water daily, exercise b’cause a so you keep your body ina shape
Big up every queen you never worship vanity
Money nago done pon cosmetic surgery
Rebel pon the scene you mussi never heard of me, naturally never ordinary

Chorus
Mi organic body dynamic
Never cut a thing pon me nice clean body
Me still got it
still a block traffic
Natural body Queen roll in you a knock it
Mi organic body volcanic nuff a them a pre cause them know say we have it
Naturally them can’t manage
Confidence a peak never pay down pon it

Verse 2
Body just a bounce a lightning and thunder
Natural body Queen them have the real bumpa
See them man a pre a we them a come fa
Cause them know say that we body have the real comfort
Nuff a then nuh have them own priorities straight
Money a come in but it a go the wrong place
Me nuh understand you miss the school fee date but you spend a couple million pon a doctor fi your shape

Chorus
Organic body dynamic
Never cut a thing pon me nice clean body
Me still got it
still a block traffic
Natural body Queen roll in you a knock it
Mi organic body volcanic nuff a them a pre cause them know say we have it
Naturally them can’t manage
Confidence a peak never pay down pon it

Verse 3
And me say rude Gyal a gwaan with a bag a things
Tell them talk up to your melanin
You know say that the food it a your medicine
No make nobody trick you anuh them a win
Bout Barbie
Bet you them nuh really want me start it
So me big up every real queen pon the scene
You no plastic
Love myself and proud a me anatomy plus me mother say no follow nobody

Chorus
Mi organic body dynamic
Never cut a thing pon me nice clean body
Me still got it
still a block traffic
Natural body Queen roll in you a knock it
Mi organic body volcanic nuff a them a pre cause them know say we have it
Naturally them can’t manage
Confidence a peak never pay down pon it

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Kundo Goumon is a little village right under the Cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment in eastern Mali. It is home to the Dogon people, who for some 700 years have lived at this Escarpment. Extending for over 170 kilometers up on the plateau, in the rock caves, and down below, where there's easier access to water and their fields. Follow along to earn more about their unique way of life and traditions.

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