The Ethiopian government has accepted to enter peace talks with Tigray brokered by the African Union; Also in the pod: the Liberian administration is in trouble deep following a protracted shortage of rice in the country; Our correspondent travels to central Somalia to report on the famine that's hit hundreds of thousands of people there; the South African parliament discusses new restrictions on smoking and vaping in the country; We take a look at what's at stake in Burkina Faso following a second coup there this year.