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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. UK asylum seekers to be flown to Rwanda

    The UK High court has allowed a flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda

  2. Violent clash between Maasai community and police in Tanzania

    In Loliondo, northern Tanzania, Maasai community clashes with police over ancestral land

  3. Maasai clash with police in Tanzania

    Police in Tanzania have clashed with the Maasai community over evictions

  4. Somalia’s newly elected president is inaugurated

    Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took office after a ceremony in Mogadishu

  5. Ethiopia: MSF warns of a growing food crisis

    Medical charity MSF says thousands in Ethiopia face starvation

  6. MSF warns of dire crisis in northern Ethiopia

    The medical charity MSF says thousands in Ethiopia’s Afar state are struggling to survive

  7. King Philippe of Belgium laments racism of colonial past in the DRC

    The Belgium monarch is on a week-long visit to the former colony

  8. Global Mercy's maiden voyage to Africa

    World’s largest civilian hospital ship docks in Senegal to train local health workers

  9. Bola Tinubu wins Nigerian presidential primary

    The Lagos "godfather" secured more than half of the votes at the party's convention

  10. Belgium's King Philippe touched down in Kinshasa

    On the invitation of President Felix Tshisekedi, DRC welcomes the Belgian king

  11. Belgium's King Philippe arrives in Kinshasa

    It is the Belgium king’s first visit to DR Congo since ascending to the throne in 2013

  12. Wealthy Gupta brothers arrested in UAE

    Atul and Rajesh Gupta face fraud and money-laundering charges in South Africa

  13. Mali ‘disappointed’ over Ecowas continued sanctions

    The country has been under sanctions imposed by the West African regional group Ecowas

  14. South Africa: Fury over Ryanair language test

    The airline claims it is to weed out travellers on fraudulent South African passports

  15. Mass shooting at Nigeria church kills dozens

    As armed men burst through the church doors around 11:30 on Sunday and shot sporadically

  16. Lagos crushes 2,000 ‘okadas’

    .Lagos’ motorbike taxis are now illegal following a ban imposed by the government

  17. Chad declares emergency over food insecurity

    Chad is appealing for international help, as the UN warns of a food insecurity crisis

  18. Chad food emergency

    Chad's leader Mahamat Idriss Déby declares a national emergency on food security

  19. Ramaphosa dismisses 'baseless' crime allegations

    A former State Security Agent accused the South African president of various crimes

  20. Kidnapped Nigerian cleric released under ransom

    Rev. Jeremiah Shittu says he was freed after a ransom was paid following his abduction

  21. Tunisia President sacks 57 judges

    Judges are accused of malpractice, but critics frame the move as a power grab

  22. DR Congo to free detained Rwandan soldiers

    Rwandan government Spokesperson Yolande Makolo 'happy' about the release of prisoners

  23. Okoda ban kicks off in Lagos

    Lagos Commissioner of Transportation cites city plan, crime, accidents behind Okada ban

  24. Ethiopia unrest: 'Very slow but steady' progress

    AU's Olusegun Obasanjo met the leader of Ethiopia’s TPLF group Debretsion Gebremichael

  25. Somalia: President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visits drought victims

    As over 300,000 children face malnutrition and 770,000 internally displaced

  26. Cameroon's kidnapped senator freed

    Elizabeth Regina Mundi was kidnapped last month by separatist group

  27. Rwanda, DR Congo presidents hold talks amid tensions

    Kinshasa accuses Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebels in renewed fighting in eastern DRC

  28. Police search for Nigeria's Methodist Church leader

    Samuel Kanu and two other priests were abducted in the Nigeria's south-east Abia state

  29. Kidnappers seize head of Nigeria's Methodist Church

    Samuel Kanu and two other priests were abducted in the south-eastern state of Abia

  30. At least 31 killed in Nigeria church stampede

    The deadly stampede happened in Port Harcourt, where a church was distributing food

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