Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,17 Feb 2026,49 mins

Nigeria warns against enlisting to fight in Ukraine

Newsday

Available for 28 days

As talks start in Geneva on Ukraine, some African countries warn their citizens against enlisting to fight abroad. Investigations and security reports indicate that some Nigerian nationals were enticed with promises of well-paid employment, security work, educational opportunities or migration incentives, only to find themselves thrust into active war zones. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said his country will neither repatriate nor provide assistance to a group of Australians in Syria associated with the Islamic State group - we'll speak to an Australian security analyst. And we have an interview with Hillary Clinton in which the former US Secretary of State tells the BBC that she believes there's been a "cover-up" by the Trump administration in relation to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Photo: Russian prisoners of war (POWs) and foreign nationals captured while fighting for Russia; Credit: Maria Senovilla/EPA/Shutterstock)

Programme Website
More episodes