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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Kenyan pupils get Covid-delayed results

    Secondary school exam results usually come out in December

  2. Ethiopian peacekeepers refuse to return home

    More than 100 peacekeepers have applied for asylum in Sudan

  3. South Sudan: President Kiir dissolves parliament

    It paves the way for 550 members to be appointed from different parties

  4. Calls to lift COVID-19 vaccine patents grow louder

    The United States shifts its stance on the patenting of coronavirus vaccines

  5. Ethiopia goes to the polls next month

    Parliamentary elections planned in Ethiopia

  6. School kidnappings spread to southern Nigeria

    Kidnapping of school children in Nigeria, this time in the south

  7. Malawi orders foreigners into refugee camp

    Some of those told to move to Dzaleka have spent years in Malawi

  8. Uganda: LRA commander jailed

    Dominic Ongwen was sentenced to 25 years’ jail at the ICC

  9. Will blockchain revolutionise education in Ethiopia?

    Ethiopia’s Education Minister Getahun Mekuriya talks to Focus on Africa

  10. MSF warns of hunger in Madagascar

    The medical charity have set up mobile clinics in the south of the country

  11. Tanzania’s president stuns Kenyan parliament

    President Samia Suluhu Hassan is visiting her northern neighbour

  12. South Africans pay respects to Zulu queen

    Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu's coffin was taken to the royal palace in KwaZulu-Natal

  13. DRC place violence hit provinces under military rule

    DRC president Felix Tshisekedi place violence hit Ituri and Kivu under military rule

  14. Parents of abducted Nigerian students demand rescue action

    The students were abducted from a college in Kaduna last month.

  15. Uganda passes sexual offences law

    The law criminalises sexual harassment, child prostitution and sexual exploitation

  16. Ebola: DRC declares the end of the latest outbreak

    Six people in total died during the outbreak in North Kivu province

  17. Reviewing a turbulent week in Somalia

    President Farmajo had tried to extend his term by 2 years before backing down

  18. Chad: Military council names transitional government

    Opposition figures have criticised it as a continuation of President Déby’s legacy

  19. 30/04/2021 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  20. 30/04/2021 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  21. 30/04/2021 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  22. South Africa’s president testifies on state capture

    President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared at the Zondo Commission for a second day

  23. Chad: Fresh fighting in Kanem province

    The army is still fighting rebels following the death of President Idriss Deby

  24. Ethiopia: Clashes along Amhara-Tigray border

    Local authorities have been fighting gunmen aligned to the TPLF

  25. Malawi: Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.

    Supreme Court outlaws death penalty and orders re-sentencing of convicts facing execution

  26. South Sudan: Conference examines concern over lack of oil sector transparency

    They will also look at accountability around the operations of the extractive industries.

  27. Somalia: President backs down over plans to extended his term

    President Farmaajo has backed down from his attempt to extend his tenure by two years.

  28. Identity and belonging in Uganda

    Hafsa Zayyan's debut novel has just been published

  29. African students stranded in India

    Fearful African students as India hits record COVID infections and deaths

  30. At least two dead in protests in Chad

    Live ammunition fired at demonstrators in Chad

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