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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Kenyan wins Africa Prize for Engineering

    Norah Magero won the Royal Academy of Engineering Prize for her portable vaccine fridge

  2. Tanzania’s Maasai evictions continue

    Tanzania says moving Maasai from ancestral lands is necessary to protect wildlife

  3. Tanzania’s Maasai evicted from ancestral lands

    The Tanzanian government says the relocation of Maasai communities is voluntary

  4. Rwanda asylum plan: Flight due to depart for Kigali

    The UK government insists plane will take off after four individual legal challenges fail

  5. Rwanda defends UK asylum scheme

    Rwanda’s government spokesperson says there is nothing "immoral" about the plan

  6. Rwanda ‘ready to receive' deported asylum seekers from the UK

    The UK insists first flight to Kigali will go ahead, despite individual legal challenges

  7. 13/06/2022 GMT

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

  8. 13/06/2022 GMT

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

  9. 13/06/2022 GMT

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

  10. UK asylum seekers to be flown to Rwanda

    The UK High court has allowed a flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda

  11. Violent clash between Maasai community and police in Tanzania

    In Loliondo, northern Tanzania, Maasai community clashes with police over ancestral land

  12. Maasai clash with police in Tanzania

    Police in Tanzania have clashed with the Maasai community over evictions

  13. Somalia’s newly elected president is inaugurated

    Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took office after a ceremony in Mogadishu

  14. Ethiopia: MSF warns of a growing food crisis

    Medical charity MSF says thousands in Ethiopia face starvation

  15. MSF warns of dire crisis in northern Ethiopia

    The medical charity MSF says thousands in Ethiopia’s Afar state are struggling to survive

  16. King Philippe of Belgium laments racism of colonial past in the DRC

    The Belgium monarch is on a week-long visit to the former colony

  17. Global Mercy's maiden voyage to Africa

    World’s largest civilian hospital ship docks in Senegal to train local health workers

  18. Bola Tinubu wins Nigerian presidential primary

    The Lagos "godfather" secured more than half of the votes at the party's convention

  19. Belgium's King Philippe touched down in Kinshasa

    On the invitation of President Felix Tshisekedi, DRC welcomes the Belgian king

  20. Belgium's King Philippe arrives in Kinshasa

    It is the Belgium king’s first visit to DR Congo since ascending to the throne in 2013

  21. Wealthy Gupta brothers arrested in UAE

    Atul and Rajesh Gupta face fraud and money-laundering charges in South Africa

  22. Mali ‘disappointed’ over Ecowas continued sanctions

    The country has been under sanctions imposed by the West African regional group Ecowas

  23. South Africa: Fury over Ryanair language test

    The airline claims it is to weed out travellers on fraudulent South African passports

  24. Mass shooting at Nigeria church kills dozens

    As armed men burst through the church doors around 11:30 on Sunday and shot sporadically

  25. Lagos crushes 2,000 ‘okadas’

    .Lagos’ motorbike taxis are now illegal following a ban imposed by the government

  26. Chad declares emergency over food insecurity

    Chad is appealing for international help, as the UN warns of a food insecurity crisis

  27. Chad food emergency

    Chad's leader Mahamat Idriss Déby declares a national emergency on food security

  28. Ramaphosa dismisses 'baseless' crime allegations

    A former State Security Agent accused the South African president of various crimes

  29. Kidnapped Nigerian cleric released under ransom

    Rev. Jeremiah Shittu says he was freed after a ransom was paid following his abduction

  30. Tunisia President sacks 57 judges

    Judges are accused of malpractice, but critics frame the move as a power grab

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