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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service Kenya is bringing in a ban on people using plastic bags to dispose of their organic waste, burnishing the country's status as a global leader in the fight against plastic pollution.
There are reports from Mali that at least 100 civilians are being held by suspected jihadists after being kidnapped last week. It comes seven years after the East African nation banned single-use plastic bags.
Local residents told the AFP news agency that they were travelling in three buses when the attackers forced them to drive in the direction of a forest between Bandiagara and Bankass. The country's environmental agency says residents and local authorities now have three months to prepare for the changes before they will be enforced.
Six days on, there has been no sign of the dozens of hostages. News of the changes were widely circulated to the public on Monday but, according to the statement sent out, they had first been issued on 8 April.
This area of Mali's Mopti region has seen frequent attacks by Islamist fighters.
Following several recent attacks in the area, people are getting increasingly frustrated.
Civil society organisations in Bandiagara have been staging protests denouncing the fact that many people have been displaced and calling for a military camp to be set up to protect the local communities.
Following a coup in 2021, Mali's military rulers ordered thousands of international troops to pull out leaving the country even more fragile.
Jihadist attacks began in northern Mali more than a decade ago and have spread to the centre of the country as well as neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
This prompted military coups in all three nations.
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