Focus on Africa

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Three essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the big topics and news from Africa, the people behind them, plus an African perspective on global stories. Hosted by Audrey Brown. Five days a week, ready by late afternoon, Monday to Friday.


Episode Date
The Gambia: Personal testimonies on female genital mutilation
Mar 28, 2024
What's the issue between Binance and the Nigerian government?
Mar 27, 2024
Senegal's next President: Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Mar 26, 2024
Why has Uganda's President promoted his son to head the military?
Mar 25, 2024
Why has former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo agreed to run in next year's election?
Mar 22, 2024
Women in Sudan: Targets of ongoing sexual violence
Mar 21, 2024
Senegal: President Macky Sall refuses to apologise
Mar 20, 2024
Kidnapped in Nigeria: A personal testimony
Mar 19, 2024
Why were Malawian women abused in Oman?
Mar 18, 2024
Will the Rwandan elections be free and fair?
Mar 15, 2024
Health workers in Kenya go on strike
Mar 14, 2024
Why are Congolese refugees protesting in Rwanda?
Mar 13, 2024
How the recruitment of a Ugandan national to Myanmar turned into a nightmare.
Mar 12, 2024
Why do child abductions keep happening in Nigeria?
Mar 11, 2024
Can African women's pay gap be bridged?
Mar 08, 2024
Will sanctions against Zimbabwe's leader work?
Mar 07, 2024
Will Kenyan police be deployed to Haiti?
Mar 06, 2024
Why has Kenya become part of the trafficking route to South Africa?
Mar 05, 2024
Calls for a war crimes court in Liberia
Mar 04, 2024
Chad: What's going on and what next?
Mar 01, 2024
Ghana passes controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill
Feb 29, 2024
A landmark deal for Libya. How will it work?
Feb 28, 2024
Why are Malawi's Catholic Bishops critical of the government?
Feb 27, 2024
Why are migrants using Mauritania to get to Europe?
Feb 26, 2024
Are child-beggars on Uganda's streets 'sold'?
Feb 23, 2024
South Africa's youth struggling to find jobs
Feb 22, 2024
Will a deal with Russia help or hinder Niger?
Feb 21, 2024
As inflation rises in Nigeria, how expensive is food?
Feb 20, 2024
How relevant is the African Union?
Feb 19, 2024
Why does Nigeria’s electricity supply keep collapsing?
Feb 16, 2024
Racheal Kundananji: What does the Zambia footballer’s transfer record fee mean?
Feb 15, 2024
What will it take to stop Senegal’s election protests?
Feb 14, 2024
What is behind the latest resurgence of fighting in Eastern DR Congo?
Feb 13, 2024
Afcon 2023: Was it the best ever?
Feb 12, 2024
Why are Ugandan nationals still trapped in Myanmar?
Feb 09, 2024
Why African countries are saying no to the death penalty
Feb 08, 2024
Indaba: Is Africa benefitting from its mineral wealth?
Feb 07, 2024
Why are Senegal’s delayed elections controversial?
Feb 06, 2024
Nairobi County Governor vows to act following gas fire
Feb 05, 2024
Is Facebook losing its appeal in Africa?
Feb 02, 2024
What is Tagadum and can it end war in Sudan ?
Feb 01, 2024
Why Italy is interested in Africa
Jan 31, 2024
More than half a million people enter South Sudan to escape Sudan war
Jan 30, 2024
Military led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have quit Ecowas, what effect will it have?
Jan 29, 2024
Bobi Wine on what the nomination of a documentary about his life for an Oscar means
Jan 26, 2024
Why the Somali armed group Al Shabaab is still a threat
Jan 25, 2024
Why is the youngest continent led by old leaders?
Jan 24, 2024
What does the United States want from Africa?
Jan 23, 2024
Joseph Boakai sworn in as Liberia's oldest-ever president
Jan 22, 2024
Why is violent crime soaring in South Africa?
Jan 19, 2024
Sierra Leone allows ex-president Koroma to leave country despite facing treason charges
Jan 18, 2024
Ethiopia hunger: More than 200 starve to death in Tigray
Jan 17, 2024
Can Zambia's cholera crisis be contained?
Jan 16, 2024
Why has Burundi closed its border with Rwanda?
Jan 15, 2024
WHO declares Cape Verde malaria-free
Jan 12, 2024
Comoros’ president bids for a fourth term in forthcoming election
Jan 11, 2024
Why is South Africa taking Israel to the International Court of Justice?
Jan 10, 2024
Confusion over Kenya’s new visa-free policy for visitors
Jan 09, 2024
The late TB Joshua accused of widespread abuse and torture
Jan 08, 2024
Will troops from Southern Africa be effective in DRC?
Jan 05, 2024
Why was Sierra Leone's ex-president charged with treason ?
Jan 04, 2024
Somalia condemns Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal
Jan 03, 2024
Can nuclear energy solve South Africa's power crisis?
Jan 02, 2024
South Africa, Rwanda and Afrobeats in 2024
Jan 01, 2024
Sudan conflict: A year in review
Dec 29, 2023
The legacy of Mbongeni Ngema
Dec 28, 2023
Nigerians react to free train rides and reduced bus fares
Dec 27, 2023
What's behind the latest deadly attack in northern Nigeria?
Dec 26, 2023
Is it a good Christmas for Ghana's cocoa farmers?
Dec 25, 2023
What does the fall of Wad Madani mean for the Sudan conflict?
Dec 22, 2023
How are Houthi attacks in the Red Sea affecting Africa?
Dec 21, 2023
Why is changing Chad's constitution controversial?
Dec 20, 2023
Guinea oil terminal blast kills at least 8
Dec 19, 2023
DR Congo elections: What's at stake?
Dec 18, 2023
Have 22 Ugandans been trafficked to Myanmar?
Dec 15, 2023
Is peace ever possible in DR Congo?
Dec 14, 2023
COP 28 : A new deal agreed at the UN Climate summit
Dec 13, 2023
A personal objection to the Rwanda asylum plan
Dec 12, 2023
Why does Egypt's President Sisi need a third term?
Dec 11, 2023
Why has Somalia's 30 year arms Embargo been lifted?
Dec 08, 2023
Why is the South African port of Durban in chaos?
Dec 07, 2023
Behind the "accidental" drone attack in Nigeria
Dec 06, 2023
Why has the US recognised Niger's military-led government ?
Dec 05, 2023
A sex trafficking ring in Sierra Leone
Dec 04, 2023
World AIDS day: What is it like to live with the condition for 30 years?
Dec 01, 2023
Why COP28 matters to Africa
Nov 30, 2023
Thousands of children reportedly trapped in historic city of Timbuktu
Nov 29, 2023
How safe are South Africa's mines?
Nov 28, 2023
Was there an attempted coup in Sierra Leone?
Nov 27, 2023
Why is Abyei contested by Sudan and South Sudan?
Nov 24, 2023
Why did Ethiopia rebel talks end in deadlock?
Nov 23, 2023
What is President Weah's legacy in Liberia?
Nov 22, 2023
Why no plastic pollution deal was reached
Nov 21, 2023
Can African- led negotiations achieve peace for Sudan?
Nov 20, 2023
What reparations does Africa want?
Nov 17, 2023
Is Zimbabwe's political opposition in disarray?
Nov 16, 2023
Madagascar braces for controversial election
Nov 15, 2023
Why are Nigeria's labour unions striking again?
Nov 14, 2023
Why is East Africa being devastated by floods?
Nov 13, 2023
Liberia's runoff election: What to expect?
Nov 10, 2023
Sudan: What is happening in West Dafur?
Nov 09, 2023
Amhara: What's going on?
Nov 08, 2023
Is Africa contributing to AI development
Nov 07, 2023
Somalia: Thousands trapped in severe flooding
Nov 06, 2023
Global concern over the spread of dengue fever
Nov 03, 2023
DR Congo conflict: How children are impacted
Nov 02, 2023
Facebook accused of stoking Ethiopia's conflict
Nov 01, 2023
Kenya's plan for universal healthcare
Oct 31, 2023
South Africa win Rugby World Cup
Oct 30, 2023
Victory for Nigeria's president at supreme court
Oct 27, 2023
Is Niger being treated unfairly?
Oct 26, 2023
Zimbabwe faces another major cholera outbreak
Oct 25, 2023
UAE firm to manage Tanzania’s main port
Oct 24, 2023
Sierra Leone opposition ends parliament boycott
Oct 23, 2023
Has Africa gained from China's infrastructure plans?
Oct 20, 2023
Why did Mozambique's opposition call for protests?
Oct 19, 2023
Dam water floods in Ghana
Oct 18, 2023
What are UN's concerns for Madagascar’s polls?
Oct 17, 2023
Burkina Faso's nuclear power plant deal with Russia
Oct 16, 2023
Is Morocco hosting the IMF meeting only symbolic?
Oct 13, 2023
Liberians await presidential election results
Oct 12, 2023
Israel-Hamas War: Egypt's reaction and relationship
Oct 11, 2023
UN: South Sudan ‘curbing democratic freedoms’
Oct 10, 2023
The Arab-Israeli conflict: Africa's reaction
Oct 09, 2023
Why Morocco wants the World Cup
Oct 06, 2023
Egypt: A Testimony of alleged torture
Oct 05, 2023
Seychelles opposition leader denies witchcraft charges
Oct 04, 2023
Inside Sierra Leone's justice system
Oct 03, 2023
One year since Burkina Faso’s latest coup
Oct 02, 2023
Youth displacement by the Sudan conflict
Sep 29, 2023
The silent killer: hypertension in Africa
Sep 28, 2023
Kenya ready to face Haiti gangs
Sep 27, 2023
Who is fighting in Ethiopia’s Amhara region?
Sep 26, 2023
French troops pulling out of Niger: What does it mean?
Sep 25, 2023
Why is rapper Mohbad’s death controversial?
Sep 22, 2023
Kenya: Westgate attack ten years on
Sep 21, 2023
Is Ivory Coast at risk from extremist groups?
Sep 20, 2023
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger sign defence pact
Sep 18, 2023
Mali: Tuareg ex-separatists resume hostilities
Sep 14, 2023
Libya floods: What you need to know
Sep 13, 2023
Why Morocco is selective over earthquake aid
Sep 12, 2023
What caused Morocco's earthquake?
Sep 11, 2023
Gabon coup latest
Sep 08, 2023
Nigeria: Are election petitions relevant?
Sep 07, 2023
Taiwan's president visits last African ally Eswatini
Sep 06, 2023
DR Congo: What's behind the instability?
Sep 05, 2023
First ever African Climate Summit begins
Sep 04, 2023
South Africa fire: What are Johannesburg's hijacked buildings?
Sep 01, 2023
Climate change: 15 truck drivers die on Egypt-Sudan border
Aug 31, 2023
What led to the Gabon coup?
Aug 30, 2023
Sierra Leone considers health emergency over illegal drug Kush
Aug 29, 2023
Zimbabwe election dispute analysis: The role of electoral observers
Aug 28, 2023
Why are Ethiopia and Egypt joining BRICS?
Aug 25, 2023
Prigozhin’s presumed death: Impact for Wagner in Africa
Aug 24, 2023
Can Kenya's police force solve Haiti's gang violence?
Aug 23, 2023
Saudi forces accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants
Aug 22, 2023
South Africa to host Brics summit from Tuesday
Aug 21, 2023
Zimbabwe’s election campaign nears the end
Aug 18, 2023
Libya: deadly clashes in Tripoli
Aug 17, 2023
The impact of Niger’s closed airspace
Aug 16, 2023
Sudan conflict causing food insecurity
Aug 15, 2023
Kenya content moderators seek protections
Aug 14, 2023
Niger: ECOWAS force on standby
Aug 11, 2023
Is there a baguette shortage in Tunisia?
Aug 10, 2023
ECOWAS leaders consider Niger intervention
Aug 09, 2023
Niger coup: Wagner taking advantage of instability - Antony Blinken
Aug 08, 2023
Kenya care home abuse revealed
Aug 07, 2023
Kenya care home abuse revealed
Aug 07, 2023
Reaction to Senegal's TikTok ban
Aug 04, 2023
Kenya: Privacy concerns over eyeball scanning
Aug 03, 2023
How Niger’s coup affects the Sahel
Aug 02, 2023
Mauritius makes progress against smoking
Aug 01, 2023
ECOWAS threatens action over Niger coup
Jul 31, 2023
Why Nigerian doctors are on strike
Jul 28, 2023
Niger the latest coup in West Africa
Jul 27, 2023
Devastating wildfires in Algeria and Tunisia
Jul 26, 2023
Tax evasion costing African countries billions
Jul 25, 2023
Situation in Sudan 100 days since fight started
Jul 24, 2023
Football: FIFA Women's World Cup underway
Jul 21, 2023
Gender: A long journey to equality
Jul 20, 2023
Schools in Kenya close over cost-of-living demonstrations
Jul 19, 2023
Twitter’s Ghanaian staff without severance pay
Jul 18, 2023
Call for investigation into Darfur atrocities
Jul 17, 2023
Opposition boycotts new Sierra Leone parliament
Jul 14, 2023
Is banning protests in Kenya unconstitutional?
Jul 13, 2023
Iran's president begins Africa tour
Jul 12, 2023
Senegal: What's driving migrants to leave?
Jul 11, 2023
AU troops to leave Somalia by December
Jul 10, 2023
The Russian schools ready to teach Swahili
Jul 07, 2023
South Sudan unveils first-ever election plans
Jul 06, 2023
Kenya lifts ban on tree cutting
Jul 05, 2023
Senegal’s president won't seek third term
Jul 04, 2023
Kenya widens access to sex offenders registry
Jul 03, 2023
Mali: UN peacekeeping mandate to expire
Jun 30, 2023
Huge inflation ahead of Zimbabwe’s election
Jun 29, 2023
Championing African feminism
Jun 28, 2023
Who leads Wagner in Africa now?
Jun 27, 2023
How Sudan's clans endanger Sahel security
Jun 26, 2023
The gangs terrorising Mogadishu
Jun 23, 2023
Remembering Berlusconi's love for the Kenyan coast
Jun 22, 2023
Sierra Leone gears up for general elections
Jun 21, 2023
Low turnout for Mali's referendum
Jun 20, 2023
Greece boat disaster: Nine men charged
Jun 19, 2023
Can Africa forge a peace path for Ukraine?
Jun 16, 2023
Interest free loans for Nigerian students
Jun 15, 2023
How Nigeria's fuel subsidy cut hit Benin
Jun 14, 2023
Kenya content creators reject tax proposal amidst cost of living crisis
Jun 13, 2023
Should Tunisia and Libya be Europe's migrant gatekeepers?
Jun 12, 2023
The story behind Angola's deadly fuel protests
Jun 09, 2023
Why are cyber attacks in Africa increasing?
Jun 08, 2023
Why is it difficult to kick racism out of football?
Jun 07, 2023
How Senegal's capital turned into a 'battlefield'
Jun 06, 2023
How will UK immigration rules affect African students?
Jun 05, 2023
What next for Sudan?
Jun 03, 2023
Verdict announced in Sonko case
Jun 01, 2023
Fighting in Sudan continues into second week
Apr 24, 2023
Despair as Sudan ceasefire is broken
Apr 18, 2023
Fighting rocks Khartoum
Apr 17, 2023
400 people stranded off Malta
Apr 10, 2023
Convicted rapist escapes from South African prison
Apr 05, 2023
Monday demonstrations in Kenya
Mar 27, 2023
South Africa's opposition EFF call for a shutdown of the economy
Mar 20, 2023
More bodies pulled in aftermath of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi
Mar 17, 2023
Efforts to help survivors of Cyclone Freddy continue
Mar 16, 2023
Millions affected by floods in Malawi
Mar 15, 2023
Africa unites to fight Cholera
Mar 10, 2023
Protests in Nigeria continue
Mar 07, 2023
Nigeria awaits election results
Feb 27, 2023
Is Nigeria ready for presidential elections?
Feb 24, 2023
Cyclone Freddy makes landfall in Madagascar
Feb 22, 2023
Chaos over currency in Nigeria continues
Feb 17, 2023
Eritrea's president says US backed the TPLF
Feb 13, 2023
Tundu Lissu returns to Tanzania
Jan 25, 2023
Somalia says Al Shabab attacked military base
Jan 20, 2023
Charges brought against Senegalese opposition candidate
Jan 19, 2023
Ambazonian leader killed in Cameroon
Dec 27, 2022
Hopes for real peace in Tigray
Dec 26, 2022
More questions over Gambia's 'coup plot'
Dec 22, 2022
Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as ANC leader
Dec 19, 2022
Pledges of financial and business support for Africa from Washington
Dec 15, 2022
DRC mourns flood victims
Dec 14, 2022
William Ruto unveils his 'Hustler Fund' for Kenyans
Dec 12, 2022
Malawi's anti-corruption chief is arrested
Dec 07, 2022
Is the political end nigh for Cyril Ramaphosa?
Dec 05, 2022
South Africa awaits Ramaphosa future
Dec 05, 2022
Embezzlement charges for ex-president's son in Mozambique
Nov 30, 2022
Ceasefire agreed in the DRC
Nov 24, 2022
Why are Nigerians swapping their high-value banknotes?
Nov 23, 2022
How did a well-known Pakistani journalist die in Kenya?
Nov 11, 2022
Activists: Lobbyists threaten success of COP27 summit
Nov 10, 2022
France ends operations in the Sahel
Nov 09, 2022
Ethiopia special: After warring sides agree truce, what next?
Nov 03, 2022
More tensions between the DRC and Rwanda
Nov 01, 2022
Scores dead in Somalia after attacks
Nov 01, 2022
Various security alerts issued for Nigeria and South Africa
Oct 27, 2022
50,000 civilians to help Burkina Faso fight Islamist militants
Oct 27, 2022
Protesters clash with police in Chad
Oct 23, 2022
UN calls for action on South Sudan
Oct 19, 2022
Ethiopian forces capture Shire in northern Tigray
Oct 19, 2022
Africa and the global financial crisis
Oct 17, 2022
Both sides in Ethiopia conflict accused of crimes on civilians
Oct 12, 2022
Global alert over cough syrups
Oct 06, 2022
President Museveni's son's tweets raise eyebrows
Oct 04, 2022
Local forces join the Somali army against Al Shabab
Sep 28, 2022
Uganda's Medical Association issues guidance
Sep 27, 2022
Seleka leader stands trial at the ICC
Sep 26, 2022
Regional concerns in the spotlight at UN General Assembly
Sep 21, 2022
UN says both sides in Tigray conflict are guilty of atrocities
Sep 20, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II is laid to rest after a service in London attended by over 500 heads of state and government
Sep 19, 2022
Eritrea amasses reservists on border with Ethiopia
Sep 16, 2022
School reopening suspended in Sudan
Sep 14, 2022
Ethiopia's TPLF says it's willing to stop fighting
Sep 12, 2022
Landslide kills several in Uganda
Sep 07, 2022
UN: Millions at risk of famine in the Horn of Africa
Sep 06, 2022
Court affirms Ruto victory in Kenya
Sep 05, 2022
Zambia’s billion dollar bailout sparks economic hope
Sep 01, 2022
Fighting intensifies in Tigray
Aug 31, 2022
Results from Angola's elections are in
Aug 29, 2022
Accusations and counter-accusations in Ethiopia over latest fighting
Aug 25, 2022
Mutual recriminations over fighting in Ethiopia
Aug 24, 2022
Debt forgiveness from China for 17 African countries
Aug 23, 2022
Kenya's post-election wrangling continues in the courts
Aug 22, 2022
Arrests made in Nigeria over mummified bodies
Aug 19, 2022
Forest fires in Algeria: At least 38 dead
Aug 18, 2022
More confusion over Kenya's presidential election
Aug 16, 2022
Deaths in protests in Somaliland
Aug 13, 2022
Polls close in Kenya's general elections
Aug 09, 2022
Chaos in Kenya ahead of polls
Aug 08, 2022
Has Senegal finally resolved the Casamance question?
Aug 05, 2022
Outrage in South Africa over gang rapes of women
Aug 04, 2022
DRC reviews MONUSCO peacekeepers' presence
Aug 02, 2022
North Kivu governor on attacks on UN peacekeepers
Jul 29, 2022
Allegations agains UN peacekeepers in DRC
Jul 28, 2022
Protests against the UN continue apace in the DRC
Jul 27, 2022
Deaths in the DRC after anti-MONUSCO protests
Jul 26, 2022
Russia on a charm offensive to Africa amid war with Ukraine
Jul 25, 2022
Bakers go on strike in Nigeria
Jul 21, 2022
Marburg virus confirmed in Ghana
Jul 18, 2022
Tunisia gets a new draft constitution
Jul 01, 2022
Tensions rise between Ethiopia and Sudan
Jun 28, 2022