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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Nigeria grapples with school abductions

    The country is marking 7 years since the abduction of 276 girls from a school in Chibok

  2. Trapped children die in Niger school blaze

    The fire in Niamey engulfed classrooms and those in the nursery could not escape

  3. 'Adama Loves Akara': Decolonising the English alphabet

    Vickie Remoe's efforts at decolonising the alphabet in a children's book

  4. Ex-Burkinabe president to face trial for predecessor's murder

    Former president Compaoré to stand trial for Thomas Sankara's assassination

  5. Blaise Compaoré to stand trial for Sankara assassination

    Ex-Burkinabe president Compaoré to be tried for assassination of Thomas Sankara

  6. Tanzania and Uganda agree huge pipeline deal

    The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline will bring Ugandan oil to ports in Tanzania

  7. Somalia: President Farmajo’s term extended by two years

    Mogadishu’s police chief was sacked after trying to suspend parliament

  8. Somalia: Millions facing severe food shortages

    The NGO Save the Children says locust swarms and low rainfall are factors

  9. Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died

    Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99

  10. Ivory Coast: What next for the victims of post-electoral violence?

    The Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara says former President Gbagbo is welcome to return

  11. Mozambique: Regional leaders offer ‘technical assistance’

    Southern African leaders are holding urgent talks to discuss a response to the insurgency

  12. Southern African leaders hold talks on Mozambique insurgency

    Six regional leaders met in Maputo to discuss the deadly attacks in northern Mozambique

  13. Kenyans take to Twitter to express anger at IMF loans

    #StopLoaningKenya posts, criticising the government and IMF, are abuzz on the social site

  14. Ethiopia accused of ‘intransigence’ over Nile dam

    The latest round of talks on the dam between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan end in deadlock

  15. Sudan and Ethiopia 'trade accusations over Nile dam'

    Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia fail to agree over the Nile dam after days of talks

  16. Tanzania’s President charts a new course

    Reviews of Covid-19 response and foreign policy are announced, and media bans lifted

  17. Rwandan weddings shutdown over Covid-19

    At least three weddings were found to have breached coronavirus rules

  18. Sudan: West Darfur state of emergency declared

    The region has seen increased violence and killings since UN peacekeepers left

  19. Namibia: Meet one of Africa’s youngest MPs

    Less than a quarter of Africa’s 12,000 parliamentarians are women

  20. Nigeria: Gunmen attack prison, allowing inmates to escape

    Armed men attacked a prison in the city of Owerri, Imo State

  21. Mozambique: Army retakes Palma from militants

    Insurgents had overrun the town for several days

  22. Niger inaugurates new president after failed coup

    Mohamed Bazoum is sworn in as new president.

  23. Niger has peaceful transfer of power

    Mohamed Bazoum becomes the first elected leader to follow another since independence.

  24. Niger: Mohamed Bazoum sworn in as president.

    Niger has had its first democratic transfer of power as Mohamed Bazoum is sworn in

  25. Derek Chauvin trial brings racism back into focus

    Larry Madowo has been speaking to activists in Minneapolis in the United States

  26. Doctors in Nigeria begin indefinite strike

    The doctors' union wants outstanding salaries paid

  27. Liberia: President Weah imposes curfew in Maryland after riots

    Days of violent protests culminated in a 90-inmate prison break

  28. Former Ivorian president acquitted by the ICC

    Laurent Gbagbo acquitted by the ICC in The Hague

  29. The ICC upholds the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo

    Laurent Gbagbo has been acquitted by the ICC in The Hague

  30. Laurent Gbagbo acquitted again

    Laurent Gbagbo has been acquitted by the ICC

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