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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Liberia Run-Off Vote To Go Ahead

    Liberia will hold presidential run-off vote on December 26, electoral officials have said

  2. Ugandan Army Strikes Rebel Camps in DR Congo

    The Ugandan army says it attacked rebel camps in eastern DR Congo

  3. Zimbabwean President Woos Investors In South Africa

    Emmerson Mnangagwa is on his first foreign visit - what can he hope to achieve?

  4. US Threatens To Cut Funding To Countries That Oppose Recognising Jerusalem As Israel's Capital

    At the UN, members receive a warning that the US would 'take names' of those against

  5. President Mnangagwa's First Foreign Visit

    Mnangagwa goes to South Africa, one of Zimbabwe's most important trading partners

  6. Nigerian Police Crackdown On Fake Drugs

    Police in Nigeria raid a market in Lagos in the hunt for fake prescription drugs

  7. Uganda Age-Limit Bill Passes First Hurdle

    Uganda's parliament approves second reading of bill to remove the presidential age limit

  8. Kenyan Police Detain Children in Islamic School Raid

    Kenyan police raid an Islamic school, arresting preachers and holding several children

  9. 19/12/2017 GMT

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

  10. Plans for a Memorial for Mogadishu Bomb Victims

    Somali architect Omar Degan wants to help remember those who died on 14 October and after

  11. South Africa Looks to the ANC's New Leader

    South Africa begins to assess the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead

  12. Narrow Victory for Cyril Ramaphosa in the ANC Leadership Race

    The South African vice president beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma by fewer than 200 votes

  13. Cyril Ramaphosa Declared the New Leader of South Africa’s ANC

    The current deputy vice president of the ruling ANC beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

  14. ANC Leadership Contest Too Close to Call

    Votes are being counted in the election for a new leader of the African National Congress

  15. 17/12/2017 GMT

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

  16. 16/12/2017 GMT

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

  17. Mnangagwa Endorsed as Zanu-PF Candidate

    Zimbabwe's ruling party confirms President Mnangagwa as its candidate for the elections

  18. South Sudan: Four Years of Civil War

    Thousands killed and millions displaced since South Sudan plunged into civil war in 2013

  19. Zimababwe's New Leader Chairs First High-Profile Party Congress

    Emmerson Mnangagwa chairs first high-profile Zanu-PF gathering since becoming president

  20. A warning from the British to the DRC on postponing elections.

    Kenyan police and soldiers accused of raping women and girls during this year's election

  21. UK minister for Africa warns DRC not to postpone presidential polls

    Serious international reaction threatened if elections are postponed again

  22. People suffering the aftermath of conflict in Kasai talk to the BBC

    The UK warns of serious international reaction if elections are postponed again in DRC

  23. Members of a Congo Militia Given Life For Child Murder

    A court in the DRC finds a group of militia men guilty of child rape and murder

  24. Mozambique’s President Sacks Four Key Ministers

    Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi sacks his energy and foreign ministers and two others

  25. DR Congo: The Humanitarian Crisis Unfolding in Kasai

    The situation in the DRC is at the highest level of emergency, says the UN

  26. Uncovering the Shipwrecks of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Marine archaeologists in Senegal undertake diving expeditions to find slave shipwrecks

  27. Nearly Half a Million Under-fives in DRC Severely Malnourished - UNICEF

    UNICEF says the children are severely malnourished and are at risk of dying

  28. Amnesty Accuses Europe of 'Complicity' in Libya's Migrant Abuse

    Amnesty says the EU is actively supporting a system of abuse and exploitation of refugees

  29. Mohamed Salah named BBC African Footballer of the Year

    Egyptian Mohamed Salah wins public vote to become 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year

  30. Ivory Coast pays mutineers to quit

    Ivory Coast offers $26,000 buyouts to reduce the size of its army

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