This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Mars and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 5th of September,

these are our main stories.

Calls for action on violence against women after a Ugandan Olympic athlete was set on fire

and killed allegedly by her former partner. China promises over 50 billion dollars in loans to African nations.

Emmanuel Macron chooses Michel Barnier to be France's new Prime Minister.

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We start in East Africa. She was a good child, very polite, she had no issues at all. I just don't know. That is the simple tribute from the grieving

mother of the Ugandan athlete Rebecca Chepdegae. On Sunday Rebecca had just come home from church where she was living in northwestern Kenya,

when she was doused in petrol and set on fire, allegedly by a former boyfriend.

She suffered burns to more than 70% of her body and today she died.

The head of Uganda's Olympic Committee called her killing a cowardly and senseless act

that has led to the loss of a great athlete. Her legacy will continue to endure.

Our reporter Celestine Karoni in Nairobi told me more about her

and the wider problem of violence against women in Kenya and beyond.

Rebecca Treptegge is a Ugandan athlete who lived and trained in Kenya.

She trained in E-10, which really is known globally as producing a lot of big-name athletes,

the likes of world record holder David Rudysia trained there.

She did get attacked on Sunday night, as you've mentioned, police say the man was her estranged boyfriend.

Police in the area also say that the two had been quarrelling over a piece of land and this was

a case that was in front of the authorities and had not been resolved yet.

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