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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Children cautiously return to school in English-speaking Cameroon

    Parents have concerns after years of disruption to education due to a separatist conflict

  2. Back to school challenges in English-speaking Cameroon

    Schools have been threatened and targeted by separatists in recent years

  3. Deadly landslides hit western Uganda

    At least 15 people have been killed in the disasters caused by heavy rains

  4. Whereabouts of Ethiopian former UN peacekeepers unknown

    Dozens of peacekeepers, mostly of Tigrayan ethnicity, went missing after civil war began

  5. Somalia faces looming humanitarian crisis

    More than seven million in Somalia are in urgent need of food and shelter, agency warns

  6. Millions in Somalia are on the brink of famine

    More than seven million in Somalia urgently need food and shelter, says aid agency

  7. Kenya's President-elect: Opponents will not be victimised

    William Ruto, in a televised address, pledges to be a president for all Kenyans

  8. William Ruto is Kenya’s President-elect

    Kenya’s Supreme Court has upheld William Ruto’s win in the presidential election

  9. Kenya’s top court rejects election challenge

    Kenya’s Supreme Court has upheld William Ruto’s win in the presidential election

  10. Chad opposition leader ‘trapped’ in Party’s office

    Chad opposition leader Succes Masra says police units have encircled the Party’s building

  11. At least 50 civilians killed in Oromia attack

    Residents in a town in Oromia, western Ethiopia, say they were attacked by an armed group

  12. Africa Climate Week wraps up in Gabon

    The meetings in Libreville explored priorities for climate change resilience in Africa

  13. Angola: UNITA challenges election result

    UNITA finished second in August’s election

  14. Africa’s oldest dinosaur found in Zimbabwe

    The Mbiresaurus raathi lived 230 million years ago

  15. IMF approves $1.3bn loan to Zambia

    The full conditions of the loan are still not public

  16. The hunger crisis unfolding in remote northeastern Nigeria

    Thousands of children are suffering acute hunger in remote parts of northeastern Nigeria

  17. Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: fighting intensifies in the north

    Tigrayans say regional capital, Mekelle, has come under aerial bombardment

  18. Ethiopia accused of aerial attacks on Tigray’s regional capital

    A hospital in the Tigray region's capital, Mekelle, was bombed, according to reports

  19. Ukraine grain ship reaches Djibouti

    The shipment is the first to reach Africa since the Ukraine war began

  20. South Sudan: First unified security service graduates

    Recruits have been drafted into the new force from the military and police

  21. Highlighting forced disappearances in Zimbabwe

    Tuesday is International Day in Support of Victims of Enforced Disappearances

  22. Libya: Violent clashes in Tripoli

    At least 32 people were killed in clashes between rival militias

  23. Ethiopia: Renewed fighting in Tigray

    Eritrean forces are reportedly massing on the Ethiopian border

  24. MPLA wins Angola’s election

    The vote was the closest since independence

  25. Angola: Ruling MPLA ahead in vote count

    Angola’s election tally is nearly complete, with governing MPLA in the lead

  26. Ethiopia: War rages amidst worsening humanitarian crises

    Ethiopia's Tigray conflict escalates amid worsening humanitarian crises

  27. Resurgence of clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray war

    Fighting continues in northern Ethiopia despite UN calls for a ceasefire

  28. Ethiopia: UN calls for immediate ceasefire

    The UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia as fresh fighting erupts in the north

  29. TPLF – ‘Abiy risks absolute disintegration of the Ethiopian state’

    Fierce fighting breaks out between Ethiopian and Tigrayan forces, after five-month truce

  30. Truce shattered in Ethiopia’s Tigray war

    Fresh fighting in northern Ethiopia between the government and Tigrayan forces

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