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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Conflict stakeholders discuss Libya’s fate

    Delegates from the US, Russia, Turkey and France are present in Berlin

  2. Tigray: ‘Dozens killed’ in market air strike

    The air strike hit a market in the town of Togoga

  3. Tanzania scheme gives pregnant girls educational opportunity

    The scheme allows pregnant girls and young mothers to continue their studies

  4. Vote counting underway following Ethiopian elections

    Votes are being counted in Ethiopia’s parliamentary elections

  5. African countries face third Covid-19 wave

    The World Health Organisation has warned of a third Covid-19 wave on the continent

  6. Polls close in Ethiopia's elections

    The twice-delayed poll is PM Abiy Ahmed's first electoral test since coming to power

  7. Ethiopians vote in twice-delayed elections

    The Ethiopia election board extends voting hours after long queues in some areas

  8. Ethiopia votes in first electoral test for PM Abiy Ahmed

    The twice-delayed poll is PM Abiy Ahmed's first electoral test since coming to power

  9. Ethiopia holds election against backdrop of ethnic violence

    A special report from Ataye, which has been the scene of inter-ethnic fighting

  10. Cameroon: Plantation workers jailed for insulting President Biya

    Three workers have been imprisoned for a year for insulting the president

  11. Liberian rebel leader Kosiah convicted of war crimes

    Alieu Kosiah has been sentenced to 20 years by a Swiss court

  12. Laurent Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast

    Crowds of his supporters turned out at the airport to welcome him

  13. Tributes pour in for Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda

    The country’s first president passed away at the age of 97

  14. Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda dies

    KK led Zambia after independence from Britain in 1964 until 1991

  15. Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo returning home

    Where does his return leave the reconciliation process?

  16. Uganda fights fresh Covid-19 wave

    Daily case figures are the highest since the pandemic began

  17. Ethiopia’s last day of election campaigning

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first general election whilst in office takes place on Monday

  18. ICC Chief Prosecutor reflects on her last day in office

    Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda looks back at her nine years at the helm of the ICC

  19. WHO reports on 'tsunami of e-waste'

    Disposed electronic devices expose children and women to harmful chemicals

  20. Somali military training base targeted by bomber

    A suicide bomber targeted a queue of new recruits waiting outside the base.

  21. The youngest African woman to climb Mount Everest

    Rawan Dakik is the first Tanzanian woman to scale the world’s highest peak

  22. Zambia: Political violence ahead of August’s elections

    There are concerns of rising political violence ahead of Zambia’s upcoming elections.

  23. Uganda’s Health Secretary on rising Covid-19 cases

    Dr Diana Atwine speaks to Focus on Africa on Uganda’s rising Covid cases

  24. UK cut foreign aid at the worst time possible

    The UK is criticised for cutting its overseas aid budget during a global pandemic

  25. Rich nations promise more Covid-19 vaccines for poorer countries

    Ayoade Alkija of the AU Vaccine Delivery Alliance says G7 pledge does not go far enough

  26. AU adviser: Covid-19 vaccine sharing scheme 'is failing'

    Dr Ayoade Alkija of the AU Vaccine Delivery Alliance says Covax is limited

  27. UN aid chief says there is famine in Ethiopia

    More than 350,000 people are living in "severe crisis" after months of conflict in Tigray

  28. Central African Republic PM resigns

    It is still unclear why PM Firmin Ngrebada stepped down from his role

  29. Guinea upholds prison sentence for president's critic

    Opposition leader Oumar Sylla gets 3 years in jail for calling the president 'dictator'

  30. Morocco legalises medicinal cannabis

    Parliament voted in favour, but recreational use is still banned

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