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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Bobi Wine charged with 'acts to spread Covid-19'

    This comes after police said 37 people had died since Wednesday

  2. How a Sierra Leonian hospital decreased their birth mortality rate

    A hospital in Koidu city reduced birth mortality rate by half

  3. Bail-skipping Bushiris forfeit South Africa home

    Shepherd Bushiri has a huge following in South Africa

  4. Tear gas fired to disperse protesters in Uganda

    Bobi Wine’s supporters are calling for him to be released from police detention

  5. Ethiopia crisis: thousands continue to flee into Sudan

    Fighting has forced people in Tigray to flee over the border into Sudan

  6. Three die in Ugandan protests after Bobi Wine's arrest

    Protesters demonstrated against the arrest of Bobi Wine in Kampala's streets

  7. Fears of deaths after Bobi Wine’s arrest

    Ugandan Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi was arrested on his campaign trail

  8. Nigeria: Seun Kuti to revive the Movement of the People

    The political party was founded by his father Fela Kuti

  9. UN: 'Full-scale humanitarian crisis' unfolding in Ethiopia

    At least 27,000 people have crossed from Tigray into Sudan

  10. Ghana’s anti-corruption chief resigns unexpectedly

    Martin Amadu cited interference and a lack of freedom to do his job

  11. Nigeria: Fears that End SARS activists are being persecuted

    Activists have had bank accounts frozen and have been jailed

  12. Pastor Shepard Bushiri returns to Malawi

    The Pastor is currently on bail over fraud and corruption charges in South Africa

  13. Ethiopia: Concerns Tigray conflict could spread

    The TPLF says its forces attacked two airports in response to government air strikes

  14. At least 74 dead in shipwreck off Libya

    Those on board had been trying to reach Europe

  15. Polisario Front says Western Sahara truce is over

    Morocco says the ceasefire is intact, despite launching a military operation

  16. Ethiopia: arrest warrants out for TPLF members

    Fighting continues in Tigray, as thousands flee to Sudan

  17. AU mourns 'charismatic continental statesman'

    Ghana's former military ruler and president Jerry Rawlings has died

  18. Ghana's president declares seven days of mourning

    Ghana's former military ruler and president Jerry Rawlings has died

  19. Ghana's former president Jerry Rawlings dies aged 73

    He was seen as a champion of the poor

  20. Angolan police fire tear gas at illegal protest

    Demonstrators defied a ban on protests

  21. Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu explains why he left Tanzania

    Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu says he left for security reasons

  22. Ethiopian refugees cross into Sudan from Tigray conflict

    More soldiers have been deployed to the northern Tigray region

  23. African perspectives on the US election

    Comparisons with the stereotype of an election in Africa

  24. HIV “breakthrough” developed in South African lab

    Scientists at Wits University have been working on a revolutionary PrEP injection

  25. AU calls for Tigray ceasefire

    Sudan says 3,000 refugees have crossed the border

  26. Africa CDC director: What a Covid-19 vaccine could mean

    John Nkengasong speaks to Focus on Africa’s Bola Mosuro

  27. Fighting continues in Ethiopia's Tigray region

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has replaced the head of the army

  28. What would a potential coronavirus vaccine mean for Africa?

    Drug firm Pfizer says tests show its experimental vaccine is 90% effective

  29. Ivorian government to sue opposition leaders

    They are being sued for “sedition”

  30. ICC opens case over Kenyan poll violence

    Paul Gicheru appeared via video link from the court's detention centre in The Hague

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