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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Thursday, 21st May 2015

    Al Shabaab make an unexpected appearance and lecture a congregation in a mosque in Kenya.

  2. Thursday, 21st July 2016

    Zimbabwe’s #ThisFlag pastor responds to Mugabe. Chicken odour 'helps to prevent malaria'

  3. Thursday, 21st January 2016

    Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen faces war crimes charges at the ICC.

  4. Thursday, 21st April 2016

    Zambia's president says his nation is shamed by recent xenophobic violence.

  5. Thursday, 20th October 2016

    Ethiopian authorities detain around 1500 more people in a security sweep

  6. Thursday, 20th August 2015

    Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza is sworn in for a controversial third term.

  7. Thursday, 1st September 2016

    Defiance from Gabon's opposition leader Jean Ping

  8. Thursday, 1st October 2015

    Nigeria marks its independence with a call from Pres Buhari; and Botswana's water crisis.

  9. Thursday, 1st December 2016

    Presidential election day in the Gambia, the main candidates are upbeat.

  10. Thursday, 19th November 2015

    The world's second-largest gem quality diamond discovered in Botswana.

  11. Thursday, 19th May 2016

    Wreckage from EgyptAir plane found. Freed Chibok girl meets Nigerian president.

  12. Thursday, 19th March 2015

    Islamic State claims responsibility for Wednesday's deadly attack in Tunisia.

  13. Thursday, 18th June 2015

    Boko Haram kills dozens in Niger as Chad strikes militants from the air.

  14. Thursday, 18th February 2016

    Vote counting after Uganda election. Many dead in Ghana bus crash.

  15. Thursday, 18th August 2016

    Thousands of South Sudanese flee to Uganda's new refugee camp

  16. Thursday, 17th September 2015

    Burkina Faso coup sparks deadly street protests

  17. Thursday, 17th November 2016

    A new Prime Minister for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bensouda: ICC not in crisis.

  18. Thursday, 17th March 2016

    President Zuma denies allegations of political influence by the Gupta family.

  19. Thursday, 16th June 2016

    South Africa marks the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising.

  20. Thursday, 16 JULY 2015

    South Africa intervenes after a group of foreigners are arrested in China

  21. Thursday, 15th September 2016

    Are Somali refugees at Dadaab camp in Kenya being forced to go home?

  22. Thursday, 14th May 2015

    Fighting erupts in Burundi's capital as elements of the military vie for control.

  23. Thursday, 14th July 2016

    South Sudanese speak of their fear and frustration over the continued conflict.

  24. Thursday, 14th January 2016

    Liberia goes forty two days without a new Ebola case, but the WHO urges caution.

  25. Thursday, 14th April 2016

    On the second anniversary of the kidnapping of the Chibok girls, a new video emerges.

  26. Thursday, 13th of August 2015

    Guinea Bissau's President fires the government after weeks of tension

  27. Thursday, 13th October 2016

    Militants release twenty one Chibok school girls in Nigeria in a swap for fighters.

  28. Thursday, 12th May 2016

    Ghanaian and Nigerian presidents talk from the global anti-corruption summit in London

  29. Thursday, 12th March 2015

    Today: South Africa's struggling power company Eskom suspends four senior executives.

  30. Thursday, 11th June 2015

    West African leaders meet to formulate a joint response to the Boko Haram insurgency.

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