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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Thursday, 25th August 2016

    Kenya dissolves its Olympic committee

  2. Thursday, 24th September 2015

    Saudi Arabia investigates the stampede that killed more than 700 people today.

  3. Thursday, 24th November 2016

    Nigeria's army slams Amnesty International after it accused it of killings in Biafra.

  4. Thursday, 24th March 2016

    A Kenyan judge ruled that a court's decision to imprison two TB patients was illegal

  5. Thursday, 24 December 2015

    Nigeria's President says the army has all but won the war against Boko Haram.

  6. Thursday, 23rd June 2016

    Zambia's electoral commission threatens to call off campaigning ahead of August vote.

  7. Thursday, 23rd July 2015

    Nigeria's president slams US arms ban

  8. Thursday, 23rd April 2015

    Can the EU summit find ways of preventing more migrants dying in the Mediterranean?

  9. Thursday, 22nd September 2016.

    Election-related violence in DRC as the UN warns of a large-scale crisis.

  10. Thursday, 21st May 2015

    Al Shabaab make an unexpected appearance and lecture a congregation in a mosque in Kenya.

  11. Thursday, 21st July 2016

    Zimbabwe’s #ThisFlag pastor responds to Mugabe. Chicken odour 'helps to prevent malaria'

  12. Thursday, 21st January 2016

    Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen faces war crimes charges at the ICC.

  13. Thursday, 21st April 2016

    Zambia's president says his nation is shamed by recent xenophobic violence.

  14. Thursday, 20th October 2016

    Ethiopian authorities detain around 1500 more people in a security sweep

  15. Thursday, 20th August 2015

    Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza is sworn in for a controversial third term.

  16. Thursday, 1st September 2016

    Defiance from Gabon's opposition leader Jean Ping

  17. Thursday, 1st October 2015

    Nigeria marks its independence with a call from Pres Buhari; and Botswana's water crisis.

  18. Thursday, 1st December 2016

    Presidential election day in the Gambia, the main candidates are upbeat.

  19. Thursday, 19th November 2015

    The world's second-largest gem quality diamond discovered in Botswana.

  20. Thursday, 19th May 2016

    Wreckage from EgyptAir plane found. Freed Chibok girl meets Nigerian president.

  21. Thursday, 19th March 2015

    Islamic State claims responsibility for Wednesday's deadly attack in Tunisia.

  22. Thursday, 18th June 2015

    Boko Haram kills dozens in Niger as Chad strikes militants from the air.

  23. Thursday, 18th February 2016

    Vote counting after Uganda election. Many dead in Ghana bus crash.

  24. Thursday, 18th August 2016

    Thousands of South Sudanese flee to Uganda's new refugee camp

  25. Thursday, 17th September 2015

    Burkina Faso coup sparks deadly street protests

  26. Thursday, 17th November 2016

    A new Prime Minister for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bensouda: ICC not in crisis.

  27. Thursday, 17th March 2016

    President Zuma denies allegations of political influence by the Gupta family.

  28. Thursday, 16th June 2016

    South Africa marks the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising.

  29. Thursday, 16 JULY 2015

    South Africa intervenes after a group of foreigners are arrested in China

  30. Thursday, 15th September 2016

    Are Somali refugees at Dadaab camp in Kenya being forced to go home?

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