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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Ghana's First Lady Rejects Salary Offer Amidst Criticism

    Ghana's first and second ladies to renounce salary offer and pay back past allowances

  2. Ghana: Why are children dying in boarding schools?

    Between May 2023 and February 2024, six students died in Ghana boarding schools

  3. Ghana: resurgence of violence in Bawku

    Soldiers deployed to Bawku, in Ghana’s Upper East Region, after attacks on two schools

  4. Ghana: Defeated Mahama rejects ‘fictionalised’ election result

    Ghana's opposition presidential candidate John Mahama refuses to concede

  5. Ghana publishes sexuality education guidelines

    The curriculum, aimed at 4 to 24-year-old students, has sparked controversy

  6. Ghana passes controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill

    Ghana's parliament passes a bill that further restricts the rights of LGBTQ people.

  7. Ghana lifts three-week lockdown

    Ghana's president Nana Akuffo Addo has lifted a three week lockdown in the country

  8. Ghana Imposes Ban on Tilapia Fish Imports

    Why has Ghana banned tilapia imports? Ebola in the DRC; deadly fire in Nairob

  9. Ghana explosion: at least 13 dead after huge blast near mining town

    Rescue and recovery operations continue

  10. Ghana experiments innovative COVID-19 testing method

    Ghanaian researchers have come up with an innovative method to make COVID testing quicker

  11. Ghana ex-President JJ Rawlings dies aged 73

    Former President Rawlings died in hospital in the capital, Accra, after a short illness

  12. Ghana Elections. What's at stake?

    Over 18 million Ghanaians prepare to vote in their presidential election on December 7th

  13. Ghana elections: How Mahama made a comeback

    Former president John Mahama will return to statehouse following  poll victory

  14. Ghana deploys officers to town bordering Burkina Faso

    One thousand special forces deployed to the restive town of Bawku, bordering Burkina Faso

  15. Ghana cocoa farmers decry delayed payments

    Nearly 1 million farmers decry late payment from state-owned Ghana Cocoa Board

  16. Ghana agrees $10 billion bauxite MOU

    Ghana agrees a $10 billion MOU with China to develop bauxite mining

  17. Germany’s president on landmark visit to Sudan

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived with a delegation seeking investment opportunities

  18. Germany apologises for colonial-era genocide in Namibia

    $1.3 billion offered for development projects benefiting the descendants of the victims.

  19. George Weah set to win Liberia presidency

    Former footballer George Weah looks set to become Liberia's president at second attempt.

  20. Gender: A long journey to equality

    A UN report reveals the stark reality that no country has achieved full gender equality

  21. Gender-based violence declared a national crisis in South Africa

    South African women’s rights groups demanded that GBV be declared a national disaster

  22. Gambians await the arrival of Adama Barrow as Yahya Jammeh finally leaves

    In The Gambia people get ready for the arrival of President Adama Barrow

  23. Gambian President Refuses To Budge

    President Yahya Jammeh shows little sign of bowing to pressure to step down.

  24. Gambian government critic released

    Momodou Sabally has spoken out against President Adama Barrow’s government

  25. Gambian army chief allies with President Yahya Jammeh

    The head of the Gambian army gives his unconditional backing to President Yahya Jammeh

  26. Gambia’s president signs Access to Information Bill into law

    Gambia’s Adama Barrow signs a new law recognising access to information as a human right

  27. Gambia's Yahya Jammeh digs in his heels as his government shrugs off high level resignations.

    Jammeh insists High Court hears his petition to annul election, before Barrow is sworn in

  28. Gambia's Yahya Jammeh asks for more time

    Jammeh asks for deadline to cede power to new president Adama Barrow to be extended.

  29. Gambia's truth commission recommends prosecutions

    Some 250 Gambians and foreign nationals died because of human rights violations

  30. Gambia's President Under Immense Pressure to Stepdown

    President Jammeh calls for local solution to post election crisis

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