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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Monday, 7th September 2015

    Hissene Habre trial resumes in Senegal and an interview with Nigeria's president Buhari

  2. Monday, 7th November 2016

    Disqualified presidential hopefuls in Ghana get last minute lifeline after court ruling.

  3. Monday, 7th March 2016

    Tunisian militants killed. Kenya 'sex party' cancelled. Ali Farka Touré remembered.

  4. Monday, 7th December

    Reactions to reports of a mystery grave found in Kenya's north-eastern region

  5. Monday, 6th June 2016

    Kenya's opposition continue protests against the country's electoral body.

  6. Monday, 6th July 2015

    48 Killed in two deadly explosions in Nigeria's city of Jos Burundi told postpone polls

  7. Monday, 5th September 2016

    Zambia's highest court throws out the opposition challenge to re-election results

  8. Monday, 5th October 2015

    Ibrahim Index of African Governance: 33 of Africa's 54 countries better in past 4 years

  9. Monday, 5th December 2016

    An Appeals court in the Gambia frees opposition leader, Ousainou Darboe, and 18 others

  10. Monday, 4th May 2015

    Israeli soul-searching after Ethiopian Israeli soldier beaten.

  11. Monday, 4th July 2016

    Israel's Netanyahu lands in Uganda. Kenyans march to protest over 'police killings.'

  12. Monday, 4th January 2016

    In Kenya, the university where 147 people were killed by al-Shabab last year, reopens.

  13. Monday, 4th April 2016

    African figures among those named in the massive data leak dubbed the Panama Papers

  14. Monday, 3rd October 2016

    The OLF says up to 300 Oromos were killed deliberately by government forces yesterday

  15. Monday, 3rd August 2015

    IOC says it will act with "zero tolerance" if doping allegations proven.

  16. Monday, 31st October 2016

    Resistance to a new plan to solve Zimbabwe's economic crisis.

  17. Monday, 31st August 2015

    Rare hurricane hits Cape Verde

  18. Monday, 30th November 2015

    Pope Francis concludes his maiden tour of Africa.

  19. Monday, 30th May 2016

    An AU-backed court finds Chad's ex-President guilty of crimes against humanity.

  20. Monday, 2nd November 2015

    The mobile giant MTN faces punishing fine in Nigeria

  21. Monday, 2nd May 2016

    Hopes fade for survivors of a building collapse in Kenya. Congo's Papa Wemba remembered.

  22. Monday, 29th June 2015

    Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria, forced to join Boko Haram, the BBC has been told

  23. Monday, 29th February 2016

    Clashes in the migrant camp in Calais. Nigeria's Emir of Kano condemns child marriage.

  24. Monday, 29th August 2016

    EU observers say that the voting process in Gabon last Saturday lacked transparency.

  25. Monday, 28th November 2016

    Ugandan police say they have taken control of the palace of King Charles Wesley Mumbere

  26. Monday, 28th March 2016

    Seventeen Angolan activists are found guilty and sentenced for rebellion

  27. Monday, 28th December 2015

    Attacks by suicide bombers in north-eastern Nigeria have left more than 50 people dead.

  28. Monday, 27th June 2016

    African Union troops in Somalia say they have not been paid in six months.

  29. Monday, 27th July 2015

    President Barack Obama has urged Ethiopia to improve its record on human rights.

  30. Monday, 27th April 2015

    Welcome to the Africa Today podcast, recorded at 1800 GMT.

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