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The Fifth Floor: The Mystery of Tanzania's Kidnapped Rappers

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Tanzania Roma (credit BBC/Sammy Awami)

14/04/2017 GMT

The Mystery of Tanzania's Kidnapped Rappers

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, The Mystery of Tanzania's Kidnapped Rappers

Three musicians went missing in unexplained circumstances - why were they targeted?

Tanzanian rappers, Kathmandu's car-honking ban, Turkish denouncers, Indonesia's motherless villages and Senegalese seductresses. With Zuhura Yunus.

Tanzanians have been mystified by the recent kidnapping and reappearance of two rappers. Who was behind the abductions? Why are musicians being singled out?  Sammy Awami has been following the story for BBC Swahili.

Kathmandu bans horn-honking
Horn-honking reaches deafening proportions on Nepali New Year, 14th April.  So will a new honking ban for drivers in Kathmandu return the city to a quieter, more bucolic soundscape?  BBC Nepali's Surendra Phuyal considers the question.

Turkish online surveillance 
Social media is being used by Turkish citizens to spy on and denounce people suspected of anti-government sentiments.  Tweets and Facebook posts are enough to lose someone their job or land them in court. Pinar Sevinclidr of BBC Monitoring talks us through some recent cases.

Indonesia's 'motherless' generation  
BBC Indonesian's Rohmatin Bonasir has been finding out what happens to children left behind by migrant worker mothers.  Millions of Indonesian women work abroad, and mothers and children pay a high price.

Senegalese seductresses 
BBC Afrique's Leone Ouedraogo, who's from Burkino Faso, is spending time in Dakar in Senegal.  Which seemed an excellent opportunity to find out if Senegalese women really are the best wives and expert seductresses everyone at home had always told her they were.

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Image: Rapper Roma giving a press conference after being released by kidnappers
Credit: BBC/Sammy Awami

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