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BBC plans on scrapping African genre TV programming in English including Business, Sport, Health, Children's, She Word, The Breakdown and Kenya Connects. [Photo/ BBC]
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Kenyan Journalists Affected as BBC Cuts 400 Jobs

The BBC World Service will continue to operate in all the languages and countries where it is currently present, including the new languages...

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BBC Planned 1,000 Staff Layoff Stirs Anxiety At Nairobi Bureau

In the current restructuring, regional TV news programmes in Oxford and Cambridge are also among the services being scrapped merging with the BBC’s...

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BBC Nairobi Bureau to Fire Staff, Including Presenters

The regional bureau in Nairobi has been in operation since 1995. It was expanded in 2018, backed with a hiring spree.

FEATURED STORY

BBC World Service captures its language diversity in art

The media house has commissioned an art installation in Nairobi to support its 'Make More of Your World' campaign.

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BBC set to hire more than 100 journalists

Currently, broadcaster employs more than 300 natives in the region compared to more than 200 in West Africa