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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Laurent Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast

    Crowds of his supporters turned out at the airport to welcome him

  2. Tributes pour in for Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda

    The country’s first president passed away at the age of 97

  3. Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda dies

    KK led Zambia after independence from Britain in 1964 until 1991

  4. Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo returning home

    Where does his return leave the reconciliation process?

  5. Uganda fights fresh Covid-19 wave

    Daily case figures are the highest since the pandemic began

  6. Ethiopia’s last day of election campaigning

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first general election whilst in office takes place on Monday

  7. ICC Chief Prosecutor reflects on her last day in office

    Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda looks back at her nine years at the helm of the ICC

  8. WHO reports on 'tsunami of e-waste'

    Disposed electronic devices expose children and women to harmful chemicals

  9. Somali military training base targeted by bomber

    A suicide bomber targeted a queue of new recruits waiting outside the base.

  10. The youngest African woman to climb Mount Everest

    Rawan Dakik is the first Tanzanian woman to scale the world’s highest peak

  11. Zambia: Political violence ahead of August’s elections

    There are concerns of rising political violence ahead of Zambia’s upcoming elections.

  12. Uganda’s Health Secretary on rising Covid-19 cases

    Dr Diana Atwine speaks to Focus on Africa on Uganda’s rising Covid cases

  13. UK cut foreign aid at the worst time possible

    The UK is criticised for cutting its overseas aid budget during a global pandemic

  14. Rich nations promise more Covid-19 vaccines for poorer countries

    Ayoade Alkija of the AU Vaccine Delivery Alliance says G7 pledge does not go far enough

  15. AU adviser: Covid-19 vaccine sharing scheme 'is failing'

    Dr Ayoade Alkija of the AU Vaccine Delivery Alliance says Covax is limited

  16. UN aid chief says there is famine in Ethiopia

    More than 350,000 people are living in "severe crisis" after months of conflict in Tigray

  17. Central African Republic PM resigns

    It is still unclear why PM Firmin Ngrebada stepped down from his role

  18. Guinea upholds prison sentence for president's critic

    Opposition leader Oumar Sylla gets 3 years in jail for calling the president 'dictator'

  19. Morocco legalises medicinal cannabis

    Parliament voted in favour, but recreational use is still banned

  20. DRC: Hospital looted and civilians killed in Ituri

    MONUSCO’s spokesperson says 55 people were also killed in May in the same area

  21. UN ambassador on South Sudan’s challenges

    The country will mark 10 years since independence in July

  22. UN concerned about negative sentiment in Mali's Kidal region

    MINUSMA is worried about negative sentiments against its work in Mali’s Kidal region

  23. More people likely to die of other diseases than Covid-19

    Mo Ibrahim predicts more Africans likely to die of other diseases than Covid-19

  24. Ethiopia’s Tigray region is weeks away from famine

    Ethiopia's Tigray region is weeks away from famine as many experience starvation

  25. Zambia opposition leader claims shooting was 'ordered from above'

    The Zambian police deny firing on a convoy carrying opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema

  26. Somaliland elections deemed 'free and fair'

    The opposition party wins the parliamentary election with all-male representation.

  27. Nigeria Twitter ban: civic society seeks to reverse decision

    SERAP asks the Commonwealth to condemn Nigeria's decision to suspend Twitter.

  28. Mali: M5-RFP movement mark anniversary of first coup

    A rally is held in Bamako to mark ousting of President Ibrahima Boubacar Keita

  29. Kenya's president blocks appointment of six judges

    President Uhuru Kenyatta's action has been described as "unconstitutional”

  30. Kenya's president under fire for rejecting judges

    President Uhuru Kenyatta has been criticised for blocking the appointment of six judges

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