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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. African Court agrees to decriminalise 'vagrancy laws'

    Begging, loitering and homelessness are part of so-called "vagrancy laws"

  2. Alieu Kosiah: Liberian ex-commander faces war crimes trial

    It is the first time war crimes charges have been heard by a Swiss civilian court

  3. UN says aid deal on Tigray agreed with Ethiopia

    Food and medicines are said to be running out

  4. Alieu Kosiah: Liberian ex-commander faces war crimes trial

    It is the first time war crimes charges have been heard by a Swiss civilian court

  5. The Kenyan yoga coach who won a global sport award

    Kenyan yoga coach Dickens Omondi Odhiambo won the 2020 Beyond Sport Global Awards

  6. Bobi Wine back on the campaign trail

    Uganda will hold its election in January 2021

  7. Top TPLF official 'surrenders'

    Keria Ibrahim is one of the TPLF’s nine executive committee members

  8. UN on HIV/Aids treatment disruption during Covid-19

    UNICEF says 320,000 children and adolescents were newly infected with HIV in 2019.

  9. Boko Haram claims responsibility for the death of Nigerian farmers.

    Boko Haram claims responsibility for the death of farmers in northern-east Nigeria.

  10. Uncertainty hangs over Ethiopia's Tigray region

    There's uncertainty over the state of conflict in Tigray due to a lack of information.

  11. Tigray forces’still fighting’ despite army push

    Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray region, is a city of about 500,000 people

  12. Cameroon: Lawyers boycott all courts

    They are protesting against what they have described as police brutality

  13. Nigeria: Dozens of farm workers killed in an attack in the north-east

    The attack took place near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state

  14. The Resident Presidents on artists getting into politics

    What do the Resident Presidents make of MP Bobi Wine’s campaign challenges?

  15. Anxious relatives watch Zimbabwe mine rescue operation

    It is thought that six people have emerged alive

  16. Ethiopia PM meets AU envoys but bars them from Tigray

    Refugees escaping the fighting in Tigray have settled near the Sudanese border

  17. Sudan: Sadiq al-Mahdi’s legacy

    The country’s last democratically-elected prime minister has died

  18. Zimbabwe: Rescue underway to saved trapped miners

    Illegal mining has risen due to high unemployment and Covid-19 lockdown

  19. Ethiopian army begins operations to take control of Mekelle

    UN has asked the government to make sure civilians are protected

  20. Tributes paid to Diego Maradona

    The Argentine football legend has died at the age of 60

  21. 16 days of activism against gender-based violence

    Professor Joy Ada Onyesoh says Covid-19 lockdowns led to increased domestic violence

  22. Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed rejects foreign ‘interference’ in Tigray

    Focus on Africa speaks to Ethiopia's Minister for Democratisation Zadig Abraha

  23. 24/11/2020 GMT

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

  24. Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: UN urges protection of civilians

    The conflict has so far killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands

  25. Moroccan Ambassador on Western Sahara conflict

    There has been tension in the former demilitarised zone of Guerguerat

  26. How Ethiopians view the Tigray conflict

    The UN says it’s concerned for half a million people trapped in Mekelle

  27. New Covid-19 vaccine is “highly effective”

    The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca announce positive trial results

  28. Ethiopia: Thousands flee fighting in Tigray

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF 72 hours to surrender

  29. Western Sahara: ‘Morocco should sit with us to achieve a peaceful solution to this conflict’

    The Polisario Front says Morocco has broken a 29-year ceasefire, sparking a return to war

  30. Uganda minister: Police have a right to kill you

    Police in Uganda have a record of brutality

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