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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Ghana awaits elections results

    Ghana’s electoral body said results would be announced 24 hours after polls closed

  2. Photographer Aida Muluneh on her new food and war photo series

    Aida Muluneh has created photo series on food and war for the Nobel Peace Prize

  3. Liberians vote on how long a president should serve

    President Weah wants to reduce terms from six to five years

  4. Ghana Election: Voting continues beyond the scheduled closure to accommodate late voters

    The electoral commission hopes to declare a winner within 24 hours of polls closure

  5. DR Congo President Tshisekedi decides to end coalition with Kabila

    Mr Tshisekedi said he would appoint an official to build a new coalition majority

  6. Ghana elections: polls open for 17 million voters

    Ghanaians cast their votes amidst challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic

  7. Ghana prepares to vote amidst COVID-19 pandemic

    As Ghanaians get ready to vote a new president, what are the main issues on their mind?

  8. Ethiopia TPLF Party says 'we are not going to sit idling'

    TPLF Party's Spokesperson Getachew Reda says fighting is still ongoing in Tigray

  9. African Court agrees to decriminalise 'vagrancy laws'

    Begging, loitering and homelessness are part of so-called "vagrancy laws"

  10. Alieu Kosiah: Liberian ex-commander faces war crimes trial

    It is the first time war crimes charges have been heard by a Swiss civilian court

  11. UN says aid deal on Tigray agreed with Ethiopia

    Food and medicines are said to be running out

  12. Alieu Kosiah: Liberian ex-commander faces war crimes trial

    It is the first time war crimes charges have been heard by a Swiss civilian court

  13. The Kenyan yoga coach who won a global sport award

    Kenyan yoga coach Dickens Omondi Odhiambo won the 2020 Beyond Sport Global Awards

  14. Bobi Wine back on the campaign trail

    Uganda will hold its election in January 2021

  15. Top TPLF official 'surrenders'

    Keria Ibrahim is one of the TPLF’s nine executive committee members

  16. UN on HIV/Aids treatment disruption during Covid-19

    UNICEF says 320,000 children and adolescents were newly infected with HIV in 2019.

  17. Boko Haram claims responsibility for the death of Nigerian farmers.

    Boko Haram claims responsibility for the death of farmers in northern-east Nigeria.

  18. Uncertainty hangs over Ethiopia's Tigray region

    There's uncertainty over the state of conflict in Tigray due to a lack of information.

  19. Tigray forces’still fighting’ despite army push

    Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray region, is a city of about 500,000 people

  20. Cameroon: Lawyers boycott all courts

    They are protesting against what they have described as police brutality

  21. Nigeria: Dozens of farm workers killed in an attack in the north-east

    The attack took place near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state

  22. The Resident Presidents on artists getting into politics

    What do the Resident Presidents make of MP Bobi Wine’s campaign challenges?

  23. Anxious relatives watch Zimbabwe mine rescue operation

    It is thought that six people have emerged alive

  24. Ethiopia PM meets AU envoys but bars them from Tigray

    Refugees escaping the fighting in Tigray have settled near the Sudanese border

  25. Sudan: Sadiq al-Mahdi’s legacy

    The country’s last democratically-elected prime minister has died

  26. Zimbabwe: Rescue underway to saved trapped miners

    Illegal mining has risen due to high unemployment and Covid-19 lockdown

  27. Ethiopian army begins operations to take control of Mekelle

    UN has asked the government to make sure civilians are protected

  28. Tributes paid to Diego Maradona

    The Argentine football legend has died at the age of 60

  29. 16 days of activism against gender-based violence

    Professor Joy Ada Onyesoh says Covid-19 lockdowns led to increased domestic violence

  30. Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed rejects foreign ‘interference’ in Tigray

    Focus on Africa speaks to Ethiopia's Minister for Democratisation Zadig Abraha

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