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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Mozambique agrees on 'technical deployment' from SADC to fight insurgency

    Southern African countries agree on shared efforts to curb violence in Capo Delgado

  2. Mortar attack in Somalia as regional leaders visit

    East African heads of state visited Mogadishu to discuss the fight against al-Shabab

  3. Morocco's Gen Z protests rise and spread

    Two killed and hundreds arrested in Morocco's nationwide youth protests

  4. Morocco elections: big win for liberals

    The ruling Islamic PJD party suffers a crushing defeat at regional and national polls

  5. More than half a million people enter South Sudan to escape Sudan war

    Humanitarian agencies raise concern as Sudan war displaces over 500,000 to South Sudan

  6. More than 80 people feared drowned after a boat capsized off Tunisia

    Some remaining survivors are receiving assistance in a southeastern town

  7. More than 40 Somali refugees killed after boat hit by missile off Yemen

    The International Organisation for Migration: "The boat was fired at from a helicopter"

  8. More than 100 dead in Congo floods

    Over 100 people dead after flooding in area near Lake Tanganyika in eastern DR Congo

  9. More than 100 camels shot by police in Kenya

    Farming and nomadic communities regularly clash over water and land in the area.

  10. More tensions between the DRC and Rwanda

    The DRC and Rwanda trade accusations over support for rebel groups

  11. More questions over Gambia's 'coup plot'

    Questions about what exactly happened in Tuesday night's 'coup plot' in The Gambia

  12. More fires on Mount Kilimanjaro

    Emergency workers have been battling to contain the blaze

  13. More confusion over Kenya's presidential election

    Raila Odinga who lost Kenya's presidential election says there was foul play in the polls

  14. More bodies pulled in aftermath of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi

    Death toll continues to rise with recovery of more bodies after Cyclone Freddy struck

  15. Monday,14th December 2015

    News and analysis from the BBC's Focus on Africa published Monday to Friday

  16. Monday, 9th November 2015

    World athletics is rocked by IAAF findings

  17. Monday, 9th May 2016

    Calls for a South African judge to be fired for making controversial statements.

  18. Monday, 8th June 2015

    What's behind the exodus of people from Eritrea?

  19. Monday, 8th June 2015

    What's behind the exodus of people from Eritrea?

  20. Monday, 8th February 2016

    More questions arise over last week's plane bomb in Somalia, as new CCTV footage emerges.

  21. Monday, 8th August 2016

    Zambia election special from Lusaka as voters prepare to go to the polls on Thursday.

  22. Monday, 7th September 2015

    Hissene Habre trial resumes in Senegal and an interview with Nigeria's president Buhari

  23. Monday, 7th November 2016

    Disqualified presidential hopefuls in Ghana get last minute lifeline after court ruling.

  24. Monday, 7th March 2016

    Tunisian militants killed. Kenya 'sex party' cancelled. Ali Farka Touré remembered.

  25. Monday, 7th December

    Reactions to reports of a mystery grave found in Kenya's north-eastern region

  26. Monday, 6th June 2016

    Kenya's opposition continue protests against the country's electoral body.

  27. Monday, 6th July 2015

    48 Killed in two deadly explosions in Nigeria's city of Jos Burundi told postpone polls

  28. Monday, 5th September 2016

    Zambia's highest court throws out the opposition challenge to re-election results

  29. Monday, 5th October 2015

    Ibrahim Index of African Governance: 33 of Africa's 54 countries better in past 4 years

  30. Monday, 5th December 2016

    An Appeals court in the Gambia frees opposition leader, Ousainou Darboe, and 18 others

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