A deliberate “campaign” to prevent farming is unfolding in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, a top regional official has said, warning that the result will be “starvation.” Also, with Islamist extremism beginning to expand south beyond the Sahel, we visit an anti-terror academy which has been built in Ivory Coast. And finally, women in the fishing industry have been hit hard by the pandemic: we bring you a report from Senegal.