This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.


Former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, after he was found guilty of plotting a military coup by a panel of five Supreme Court justices.
The BBC's South America correspondent Ione Wells explains everything you need to know about the case.


Africana55 Radio