A year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

A year after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have said they're trying to find a solution to the issue of girls being barred from secondary school.

The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, has declared a thirty-day state of emergency in the country's most populous city, Guayaquil. It follows a bomb attack which killed at least five people and injured around twenty others.

And five days after Kenya's election, it is still uncertain who the next president will be.