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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. 19/12/2017 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  2. Plans for a Memorial for Mogadishu Bomb Victims

    Somali architect Omar Degan wants to help remember those who died on 14 October and after

  3. South Africa Looks to the ANC's New Leader

    South Africa begins to assess the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead

  4. Narrow Victory for Cyril Ramaphosa in the ANC Leadership Race

    The South African vice president beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma by fewer than 200 votes

  5. Cyril Ramaphosa Declared the New Leader of South Africa’s ANC

    The current deputy vice president of the ruling ANC beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

  6. ANC Leadership Contest Too Close to Call

    Votes are being counted in the election for a new leader of the African National Congress

  7. 17/12/2017 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  8. 16/12/2017 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  9. Mnangagwa Endorsed as Zanu-PF Candidate

    Zimbabwe's ruling party confirms President Mnangagwa as its candidate for the elections

  10. South Sudan: Four Years of Civil War

    Thousands killed and millions displaced since South Sudan plunged into civil war in 2013

  11. Zimababwe's New Leader Chairs First High-Profile Party Congress

    Emmerson Mnangagwa chairs first high-profile Zanu-PF gathering since becoming president

  12. A warning from the British to the DRC on postponing elections.

    Kenyan police and soldiers accused of raping women and girls during this year's election

  13. UK minister for Africa warns DRC not to postpone presidential polls

    Serious international reaction threatened if elections are postponed again

  14. People suffering the aftermath of conflict in Kasai talk to the BBC

    The UK warns of serious international reaction if elections are postponed again in DRC

  15. Members of a Congo Militia Given Life For Child Murder

    A court in the DRC finds a group of militia men guilty of child rape and murder

  16. Mozambique’s President Sacks Four Key Ministers

    Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi sacks his energy and foreign ministers and two others

  17. DR Congo: The Humanitarian Crisis Unfolding in Kasai

    The situation in the DRC is at the highest level of emergency, says the UN

  18. Uncovering the Shipwrecks of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Marine archaeologists in Senegal undertake diving expeditions to find slave shipwrecks

  19. Nearly Half a Million Under-fives in DRC Severely Malnourished - UNICEF

    UNICEF says the children are severely malnourished and are at risk of dying

  20. Amnesty Accuses Europe of 'Complicity' in Libya's Migrant Abuse

    Amnesty says the EU is actively supporting a system of abuse and exploitation of refugees

  21. Mohamed Salah named BBC African Footballer of the Year

    Egyptian Mohamed Salah wins public vote to become 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year

  22. Ivory Coast pays mutineers to quit

    Ivory Coast offers $26,000 buyouts to reduce the size of its army

  23. African Union raises alarm about ISIS returnees

    The AU warns up to 6,000 Africans who fought for ISIS in Iraq and Syria could return home

  24. Kenya's opposition party reschedules swearing in ceremony

    Tactical move or a U-turn to avoid charges of treason?

  25. Liberia Election Date Doubts

    Liberian voters are still waiting for an election date.

  26. UN Guterres says attack on troops in DRC 'worst in recent history'

    Suspected rebels kill at least 14 UN Tanzanian peacekeepers and wound more than 50

  27. Military crackdown in Cameroon continues

    Reports of heavy gunfire in Mamfe, a town close to the Nigeria border

  28. Fourteen Tanzanian UN peacekeepers killed in the DRC

    With another 40 injured, the UN Secretary General calls it a war crime

  29. Zimbabwe's finance minister pledges economic reforms

    Patrick Chinamasa pledged to ease indigenisation laws in his first post Mugabe budget

  30. Liberia awaits court decision on presidential poll

    Will Liberia's supreme court rule to scrap the first round of the presidential election?

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