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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. At least 50 civilians killed in Oromia attack

    Residents in a town in Oromia, western Ethiopia, say they were attacked by an armed group

  2. Africa Climate Week wraps up in Gabon

    The meetings in Libreville explored priorities for climate change resilience in Africa

  3. Angola: UNITA challenges election result

    UNITA finished second in August’s election

  4. Africa’s oldest dinosaur found in Zimbabwe

    The Mbiresaurus raathi lived 230 million years ago

  5. IMF approves $1.3bn loan to Zambia

    The full conditions of the loan are still not public

  6. The hunger crisis unfolding in remote northeastern Nigeria

    Thousands of children are suffering acute hunger in remote parts of northeastern Nigeria

  7. Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: fighting intensifies in the north

    Tigrayans say regional capital, Mekelle, has come under aerial bombardment

  8. Ethiopia accused of aerial attacks on Tigray’s regional capital

    A hospital in the Tigray region's capital, Mekelle, was bombed, according to reports

  9. Ukraine grain ship reaches Djibouti

    The shipment is the first to reach Africa since the Ukraine war began

  10. South Sudan: First unified security service graduates

    Recruits have been drafted into the new force from the military and police

  11. Highlighting forced disappearances in Zimbabwe

    Tuesday is International Day in Support of Victims of Enforced Disappearances

  12. Libya: Violent clashes in Tripoli

    At least 32 people were killed in clashes between rival militias

  13. Ethiopia: Renewed fighting in Tigray

    Eritrean forces are reportedly massing on the Ethiopian border

  14. MPLA wins Angola’s election

    The vote was the closest since independence

  15. Angola: Ruling MPLA ahead in vote count

    Angola’s election tally is nearly complete, with governing MPLA in the lead

  16. Ethiopia: War rages amidst worsening humanitarian crises

    Ethiopia's Tigray conflict escalates amid worsening humanitarian crises

  17. Resurgence of clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray war

    Fighting continues in northern Ethiopia despite UN calls for a ceasefire

  18. Ethiopia: UN calls for immediate ceasefire

    The UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia as fresh fighting erupts in the north

  19. TPLF – ‘Abiy risks absolute disintegration of the Ethiopian state’

    Fierce fighting breaks out between Ethiopian and Tigrayan forces, after five-month truce

  20. Truce shattered in Ethiopia’s Tigray war

    Fresh fighting in northern Ethiopia between the government and Tigrayan forces

  21. Angolans vote in the most competitive elections for decades

    Angolans have finished voting in the closely fought presidential elections

  22. South Africa’s unions strike over the high cost of living

    Protestors in South Africa call for urgent action against the cost of living crisis

  23. South Africans protest over the high cost of living

    South African protestors demand action to address the cost of living crisis

  24. China waives debt for 17 African countries

    China says it will cancel 23 interest free loans to 17 African countries due in 2021

  25. Kenyan residents sue UK for colonial theft

    Kenyans sue the former British colonial power for driving them off their land

  26. China to forgive loans to African countries

    China announces it will forgive 23 interest free loans to 17 countries in Africa

  27. Electoral campaign closes in Angola

    Angolans will vote for a new president and new MPs

  28. Mogadishu's nightlife: 'I used to be afraid' says young woman

    Life carries on in Somalia's capital, despite a deadly hotel attack that killed 21 people

  29. Raila Odinga's lawyer outlines the case for contesting elections

    Lawyer Paul Mwangi alleges malpractice in the communication of the vote results

  30. Al-Shabab attack Somalia’s Hayat Hotel

    casualties have been reported at the hotel that is frequented by government officials

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