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Kenya's 'boda-bodas' taxis are ordered to re-register

Kenya's 'boda-bodas' taxis are ordered to re-register

Kenya's president orders crackdown on motorbike taxis after a woman was attacked

Focus on Africa · BBC World Service

March 8, 202238m 55s

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Show Notes

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the authorities to re-register all motorbike taxi operators - locally known as boda-bodas - following public outrage over an attack on a woman in her car in the capital, Nairobi.

Plus, Nigerian women push members of parliament to reconsider gender laws.

In Ukraine, we hear from a Cameroonian student who is one of many still stranded in the besieged city of Kherson is in the south west.

And we meet the Kenyan teenager who is rising tennis star.

Presented by Aisha Afrah. Producer: Patricia Whitehorne.