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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Tinubu is Nigeria's president-elect after disputed election

    Nigeria's ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu, wins the presidential election

  2. Tigray: Why have fears of war emerged?

    What's behind the heightened tensions in the Horn of Africa?

  3. Tigray: UN warns of ‘perfect storm’ of deprivation

    The World Health Organisation is calling for urgent humanitarian access

  4. Tigray rebels refuse to leave Unesco world heritage town

    Rebels from Ethiopia's Tigray region have rejected calls to leave Lalibela

  5. Tigray fighting continues as AU calls for ceasefire

    The UN’s head of humanitarian relief says he’s worried and horrified

  6. Tigray crisis: Tensions escalate in northern Ethiopia

    Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sends more troops to the region

  7. Thursday,17th December 2015

    High level calls for intervention in Burundi to stop a civil war starting.

  8. Thursday,15th October 2015

    The BBC reveals Uganda has purchased surveillance technology for use on the opposition

  9. Thursday, 9th July 2015

    The two men challenging Yoweri Museveni for Uganda's presidency arrested.

  10. Thursday, 8th October 2015

    The head of African football Issa Hayatou is now president of Fifa.

  11. Thursday, 8th December 2016.

    Ghana: the anxious wait for presidential and parliamentary election results

  12. Thursday, 7th May 2015

    More clashes in Burundi as the African Union boss says conditions are not conducive...

  13. Thursday, 7th July 2016

    Israel promises to let more Ethiopian Jews into the country

  14. Thursday, 7th January 2016

    A truck bomb at a police training base kills scores of recruits in Libya

  15. Thursday, 7th April 2016.

    Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir tells the BBC he will step down in four years time.

  16. Thursday, 6th of October 2016

    Somali militant group Al-Shabab attack the Kenyan border town of Mandera .

  17. Thursday, 6th August 2015

    Uganda's Supreme Court backs "bride price" and bans men from requesting refunds.

  18. Thursday, 5th November 2015

    Egypt urges caution over suggestions that the Russian airline crash was caused by a bomb

  19. Thursday, 5th May 2016

    Uganda bans live media coverage ahead of planned opposition protests

  20. Thursday, 4th June 2015

    Ghana floods, Fifa corruption allegations and the opening of France's Nollywood festival.

  21. Thursday, 4th February 2016

    A leaked UN report claims Rwanda is training Burundian rebels

  22. Thursday, 4th August 2016

    Crucial local elections in South Africa and a Tanzanian woman who uses her tongue to type

  23. Thursday, 3rd of September 2015

    Europe moves to tackle migrants' crisis

  24. Thursday, 3rd November 2016

    Over 200 people thought to be Africans die in a migrant tragedy off the coast of Libya.

  25. Thursday, 3rd December 2015

    Oscar Pistorius court verdict changed to murder

  26. Thursday, 31st March 2016

    Constitutional court judges lay down the law for Jacob Zuma in South Africa.

  27. Thursday, 31st December 2015

    Nigeria's president Buhari offers talks with Boko Haram over Chibok girls

  28. Thursday, 30th June 2016

    Hundreds of media jobs axed in East Africa after Nation Media changes its strategy

  29. Thursday, 30th July 2015

    One of Africa's largest airlines Kenya Airways records the biggest loss in its history

  30. Thursday, 30th April 2015

    The US weighs in on the protests in Burundi and France responds to allegations

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