Ankur Desai
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And are we getting any indication about the early exit polls and telling us about who's likely to win?
There are plenty of candidates to choose from, after all.
Peru's had nine presidents over the last 10 years.
Why have there been so many changes in leadership?
I mean, earlier we were talking in the program about Hungary.
Someone was ruling there for 16 years.
So why has it been so different in a country like Peru, for example?
BBC Monitoring's Luis Fajardo.
Mothers in sub-Saharan Africa are around 150 times more likely to die from maternal sepsis than those in Europe or North America.
That's according to the charity WaterAid.
Many of the causes for these deaths are linked to a lack of proper sanitation in healthcare facilities.
Zambia has one of the highest number of births without basic sanitation in the world, which affects both mothers and newborns, as the BBC's Anita Nkonge has been finding out.
Anita Ngonge reporting from Zambia.
The 20th century Nobel Prize winning French writer and philosopher Albert Camus was known for books described as existentialist.
They explored what meaning there might be in human existence in a world without guiding religious or political principles.
His 1942 novel L'Etranger, often translated as The Outsider or The Stranger, was no exception.
The book centres on an emotionally detached man named Merceau, a French settler in Algeria, who kills a man who Camus simply calls the Arab.
Merceau then goes on trial for the murder, with the book following this legal process and dissecting Merceau's thoughts throughout his detention.
Julian Warwicker asked the film's director, François Orzon, why he felt the need to make a new film version of the book.
French film director François Ozon.