Mozambique's 'Ghost' Airport

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Empty carousels, blank flight boards, echoing halls - Nacala International Airport in Mozambique cost millions and was meant to help the economies of both Mozambique and Brazil. Instead, it has proved an expensive white elephant. Amanda Rossi of BBC Brasil went to Nacala to find out more. Snow Cricket BBC Afghan journalist Merwais Miakhail is a big cricket fan. So he was very excited on a recent trip to Finland to be invited to take part in a match - in the snow.. It was so enjoyable that he wonders if 'snow cricket' deserves a future as a winter sport! Morocco's Rif protests Silya is a well-known singer in Morocco and a key activist from the Rif region. Her latest song is dedicated to the many people who've been detained since protests began just over a year ago, following the death of a fish vendor. BBC Monitoring's Amira Fathalla tells us more. Bag it! Rwanda banned plastic bags nine years ago. There have been reports of bag smuggling, and apparently, a mayor was sacked when the President saw a bag blowing down a street in his town. Prudent Nsengiyumva of BBC Great Lakes has just returned from Rwanda, so how clean are the streets? Raving in Tehran As part of our youth culture series, BBC Persian's Feranak Amidi remembers her party days in the late 90s, when Tehran discovered rave music. Russians in Chechnya Twenty years ago a quarter of the population of Chechnya were Russians. Now they comprise less than two percent. BBC Russian's Nina Nazarova travelled to Chechnya to find out what two Chechen wars have done to the republic, and particularly its Russian population. Image: Mozambique's "ghost" airport Credit: BBC