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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Nigeria election: Tinubu takes early lead

    Official results have been declared in seven out of 36 states

  2. Nigeria election: early results trickle in

    The results of four states have so far been announced

  3. Uganda: Muslim leaders pray against homosexuality

    It comes amid a recent surge in anti-LGBTQ sentiments in the country

  4. Uhuru Kenyatta: Nigeria able to overcome election challenges

    Kenya’s former president, Uhuru Kenyatta, is head of the AU election observers mission

  5. Nigeria prepares for tomorrow's election

    The country will go to the polls on 25 February

  6. Final day of Nigeria’s election campaign

    We look at why women hold just 7% of political positions in the country

  7. Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara reburied

    The late revolutionary leader’s widow boycotted the event

  8. Tunisian president accused of racism

    President Saied blamed a ‘criminal plot’ for an increase in immigration

  9. The Africans forced to flee Ukraine

    One year on from Russia’s invasion, we speak to people who had to leave

  10. South Africa and Russia hold naval drill

    China is also participating in ten days of exercises

  11. Cyclone Freddy hits Madagascar

    At least four people have reportedly been killed

  12. Nigeria’s presidential candidate Tinubu holds final rally

    Thousands turned out to see him in Lagos

  13. Madagascar and Mozambique prepare for Cyclone Freddy

    Strong winds and heavy rain are expected to hit parts of southern Africa

  14. Southern Africa braces for Cyclone Freddy

    Authorities say at least two million people will be affected

  15. President of Comoros takes up AU chair

    The significance for the Comoros taking over the new chair of the African Union

  16. Sexual abuse on Kenya's tea plantations

    A BBC report reveals sexual abuse on Kenya's tea plantations

  17. Nigeria readies for elections

    Millions of Nigerians gear up for presidential elections scheduled for Saturday

  18. M23 accused of mass rape in DR Congo

    The group has denied the claims made by Amnesty International

  19. South Africa holds naval drills with Russia

    China is also participating in the Indian Ocean military exercises

  20. Nigeria: Unrest over cash shortages

    Police have been deployed, with gunfire heard and roads blocked

  21. Baaba Maal: ‘Good agriculture is a response to climate change’

    Senegalese music icon Baaba Maal tells Focus on Africa about his Nann-K foundation

  22. Kenya: North Rift Valley gun amnesty ends

    President Ruto gave people three days to turn in illegal firearms

  23. Nigeria extends use of old currency

    President Buhari announced a 60-day extension

  24. Protests in Southern Nigeria amid Naira crisis

    Two banks have been set on fire in Southern Nigeria amid a currency crisis

  25. Naira protests breakout in Southern Nigeria

    Protests have broken out in several cities in Southern Nigeria over a monetary crisis

  26. Banks set on fire in Nigeria amid Naira crisis

    Protests have broken out in several cities across Southern Nigeria

  27. Ivory Coast receives influx of Burkinabe refugees

    There has been an upsurge in attacks in southern Burkina Faso

  28. Kenya announces security operation against bandits

    Armed bandits in the Rift valley region have killed dozens in the past few months

  29. Severe flooding hits parts of southern Africa

    A national disaster has been declared in South Africa

  30. Protest over Ghana pension reforms

    Pensioners staged the protest at the Ministry of Finance

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