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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Uganda restores internet after President Museveni declared election winner

    Social media platforms remain blocked after the president won an unprecedented sixth term

  2. Nigerian artists use art to promote peace

    Nigerian artists are putting together Africa’s “biggest” painting to promote peace.

  3. Thousands flee fighting in Central African Republic

    The number of people fleeing the war in Central African Republic has doubled in a week.

  4. Uganda Elections: Robert Kyagulanyi alleges fraud in vote counting

    Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alleges electoral fraud.

  5. African Union procure Covid-19 vaccines for member countries

    African Union organise 270 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for its members.

  6. Covid-19: Malawi appeals for help

    President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera is asking for help to deal with Covid-19 crisis.

  7. Polls draw to a close in Uganda’s tense election

    Ugandans have been voting in presidential and parliamentary elections.

  8. Ethiopia says former foreign minister killed by army

    Seyoum Mesfin served as Ethiopia's foreign minister from 1991 until 2010

  9. CAR: Rebels launch attacks near capital

    The UN say rebels carried out two attacks near the capital, Bangui.

  10. Uganda: Voters get ready to head to the polls

    US observers will not be present at the polls after accreditation requests were denied

  11. Uganda shuts down access to Facebook ahead of elections

    President Museveni says it is in response to Facebook closing government-linked accounts

  12. What's slowing down the development of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa?

    Promising clinical trials are taking place in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria

  13. The trail of violence along Uganda's electoral campaign

    UN says the campaign has been marred by arbitrary arrests, torture and killings

  14. The initiative getting girls into swimming in Kenya

    Girls Swimming for Change is a 2020 Beyond Sport Global Award winner

  15. French-Israeli billionaire faces trial over Guinea mining contracts

    Beny Steinmetz denies bribing public officials to win iron ore concessions

  16. Seychelles president gets Covid-19 vaccine live on TV

    Wavel Ramkalawan received the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine

  17. DRC: 24 people accused of Laurent Kabila assassination pardoned

    They had been in jail for almost 20 years after being convicted by a military court

  18. Previewing Uganda’s presidential election

    The BBC’s Patience Atuhaire says, “the campaign has been very violent”

  19. Cameroon: Boko Haram kills 14 in overnight attack

    The atrocity took place in Mozogo in the Far North Region

  20. Concerns grow for people stranded at the South Africa-Zimbabwe border

    Thousands of Zimbabweans have been trying to return to South Africa

  21. Africa reacts to mayhem at the US Capitol

    Kenyan satirist Patrick Gathara gives his thoughts on the chaos

  22. South Africa: New Covid strain believed to be driving infections

    The country recorded its highest single-day death count on Wednesday

  23. At least twenty people killed in DRC attack

    At least 20 people have been killed in a massacre near Beni in the eastern DRC.

  24. France rejects reports of airstrike on Mali wedding

    France denies reports its airstrike killed wedding party guests in a Mali's Mopti town.

  25. Uproar over attacks on journalists in Somalia

    There’s been an uproar over continued attacks on journalists in Somalia.

  26. Ethiopia government pledge to restore historic Tigray mosque

    Ethiopia has promised to restore a historic mosque destroyed during fighting in Tigray.

  27. Nigeria launches public works programme to create jobs

    The programme aims to create 774 000 jobs.

  28. CAR’s Touadéra re-elected president.

    Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera re-elected for a new term.

  29. Egypt: Prosecutors probe hospital Covid-19 deaths

    Officials have denied claims patients died due to a lack of oxygen

  30. Niger: More than 100 killed by suspected jihadists

    President Issoufou called the atrocities cowardly and barbaric

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