Focus on Africa
Two essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the big topics and news from Africa, the people behind them, plus an African perspective on global stories. Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna. Five days a week, ready by late afternoon, Monday to Friday.
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Episodes (1908)
US slaps 30% tariff on South Africa
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Ghanaians lured into football job scam
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First malaria drug for infants approved
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How is Kenya marking the Saba Saba protests?
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Nigeria's new opposition alliance to challenge Tinubu
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Militant attacks increase in Mali
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DRC children fathered by UN peacekeepers
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Why has polio re-emerged in Angola?
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Deaths after anti-government protests in Togo
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A rise in child abductions in Mozambique
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Youth-led protests erupt in Kenya
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Chad: A rise in intercommunal violence
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Jihadists strike military base in Niger
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Inside Cape Town's gang wars
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How different will the Rwanda-DRC peace deal be?
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Nigeria: What's behind Benue state attacks?
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How Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis affects education
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Why did funeral plans for Zambia's ex-president Lungu cause a row?
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South Africa’s township parents 'forced' to seek former white-only schools
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Are South African troops ‘stuck’ in DRC?
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Why has Ghana’s nurse strike escalated?
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Kenyan blogger dies in police custody
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Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali
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Uganda: World Bank lifts loan ban
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How is Africa affected by the US travel ban?
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Lesotho: Why are mothers against 'bluetoothing'?
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Dozens killed in twin Mali attacks
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Africa to benefit most from Bill Gates fortune
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Nigerian flooding kills at least 200 people
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Joshlin Smith: South Africa's human trafficking problem
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US halts international student visa applications
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African leaders attend Russia's Security Summit
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Uganda suspends German military co-operation
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Can the UN bridge the political divide in Libya?
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South Africa releases crime stats
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President Trump confronts President Ramaphosa
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Djibouti launches a crackdown on migrants
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South Sudan: A country constantly in crisis
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Child sex abuse uncovered in South Africa's illegal mines
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Why is Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré 'popular'
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Mali’s junta dissolves all political parties
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Ethiopia: Why are health workers striking?
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More than 100 dead in Congo floods
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Zambia: US cuts aid over 'thefts'
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What do African youth want from Pope Leo XIV
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Women and the Catholic Church
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People smuggling between Eritrea and Kenya
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Port Sudan: Explosions in Sudan's de facto capital
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Is press freedom declining in the Seychelles?
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Ivory Coast: Why opposition leader removed from electoral list?
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