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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Somaliland protests over president’s term

    The leader of the self-declared republic has refused to step down

  2. Liberians frustrated with delayed census

    The process has been postponed several times already

  3. Malawian president: wealthy countries owe climate finance

    President Lazarus Chakwera said Africa needs finance for the continent’s green transition

  4. Pakistan seeks answers over journalist killed in Kenya

    Pakistani authorities claim Arshad Sharif was tortured before being shot dead

  5. Calls intensify for release of Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

    Pressure mounts on UK Prime Minister to secure the release of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

  6. COP27 climate activists accuse lobbyists of betraying nations affected by climate change

    COP 27 climate change activists decry number of lobbyists attending conference in Egypt.

  7. Climate change activists accuse lobbyists of sabotage

    Climate change activists accuse lobbyists of deliberately impeding solutions

  8. SA’s teenage Tavern deaths: Families call for more investigations

    Official reports say the 21 teenagers who died at a South African tavern were suffocated

  9. France calls time on anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane in Sahel

    President Macron says the eight-year military operation in the Sahel will officially end

  10. French president ends France’s anti-jihadist mission in Africa

    President Macron says the eight-year military operation in the Sahel will officially end

  11. Malawi overwhelmed with refugees from DRC

    Agencies say people are living under poor conditions in Malawi’s Dzaleka camp

  12. Uganda to close schools early over Ebola fears

    Eight pupils have died from the virus

  13. Namibian president: COP27 a ‘talk shop’

    The world biggest climate conference is currently underway in Egypt

  14. Kenya publishes China-funded railway details

    The details of the funding had been kept private

  15. 19 killed in Tanzania plane crash

    The aircraft came down in Lake Victoria

  16. COP27 begins in Egypt

    UN head says world on course for ‘climate hell’

  17. Kenya's wildlife decimated by drought

    Kenya’s ministry of tourism and wildlife says thousands of wild animals lost

  18. DRC President instructs army to recruit more young people

    DRC President Tshisekedi instructs the army to recruit young people for battle

  19. DRC President calls for vigilance groups

    DRC President Tshisekedi calls for vigilance as tensions rise with neighbouring Rwanda

  20. Nigeria Katsina State forces deployed to free kidnapped workers

    More than twenty workers are believed to have been kidnapped from a farm in Katsina State

  21. Ethiopia: Tigray forces agree to disarm

    TPLF has accepted to disarm as part of a ceasefire agreement signed with federal forces

  22. Red Cross 'hopeful' to restore full aid in Ethiopia

    Warring sides in Ethiopia signed a ceasefire agreement on Tuesday

  23. Ethiopia’s warring parties agree truce

    The war has caused a severe humanitarian crisis

  24. Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces agree permanent ceasefire

    Ethiopia’s warring parties have signed a ‘cessation of hostilities’ agreement

  25. Closed camps displace thousands in Nigeria

    More than 140,000 people have been removed from eight camps

  26. Zambian ranger receives global award for conservation

    Neddy Mulimo is this year’s recipient of ‘the Tusk Wildlife Ranger’ award

  27. Thousands protest growing insecurity in DRC

    M23 rebels have captured two towns in eastern DRC

  28. Tensions flare between DRC and Rwanda over M23 rebels

    Thousands joined anti-Rwanda protests in eastern Congo yesterday

  29. Ghana experiencing ‘worst ever economic crisis’

    Inflation has risen to a record 37.2%

  30. Somalia appeals for international help after bombings

    Two explosions have left 120 dead and 300 injured

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