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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. A Kenyan MP demands the removal of the chief justice

    A Kenyan MP demands the removal of the chief justice and musicians fight for their money.

  2. A Jihadi group in Mali claims responsibility for Friday's attack in Burkina Faso

    A Jihadi group in Mali claims responsibility for attack in Burkina Faso

  3. A former warlord associated with crimes against humanity in Liberia arrested in Paris

    Kunti K is said to have commanded a militia fighting Charles Taylor's insurgency

  4. A Dutch timber trader is convicted of complicity in Liberian war crimes

    Guus Kouwenhoven is jailed for 19 years over illegal weapon deals in Liberia.

  5. A damning report on Tunisia's police response during attack

    A damning verdict on the response by Tunisia's police to the attack that killed 38

  6. A court in Angola orders the seizure of assets and bank accounts belonging to Isabel Dos Santos

    She's the daughter of the ex-president and often described as Africa's richest woman

  7. A conversation with AfDB president, Akinwumi Adesina

    The outgoing president of the African Development Bank reflects on his decade in office

  8. A cocktail of long jail terms for Tunisian opposition leaders

    A Tunisian court recently gave some opposition leaders very long prison sentences

  9. 55 African airlines banned from Europe

    55 African airlines have been deemed too unsafe to fly in Europe's airspace

  10. 50,000 civilians to help Burkina Faso fight Islamist militants

    Burkina Faso embarks on a massive recruitment of civilians in the fight against militants

  11. 49 people killed in deadly attack on two mosques in New Zealand

    At least twenty were wounded in the shootings in Christchurch.

  12. 400 people stranded off Malta

    Fears grow over the fate of hundreds of migrants stranded on a vessel destined for Europe

  13. 3rd anniversary of Chibok abductions

    Calls to help Chibok schoolgirls now facing stigmatisation despite escaping Boko Haram

  14. 30 years since Liberia's civil war

    Over a quarter of a million people lost their lives

  15. 22 Kenyans rescued from trafficking in Laos

    Kenya says it has rescued its citizens and two others from human traffickers in Laos

  16. 21 Boys dead following circumcision ritual

    In South Africa, 21 teenage boys lost their lives after a ritual circumcision

  17. 2020 Review: How has Africa handled the big challenges?

    African specialists look back at the past year and express their hopes for 2021

  18. 14 rebel groups from the Central African Republic have signed a peace deal with the government

    The CAR descended into civil war following a coup in March 2013

  19. 12 killed in Nigeria's Plateau state

    As unknown assailants open fire on unsuspecting locals

  20. 100 dead in Nigeria's worst flood

    Over 100 dead and thousands displaced in Nigeria's worst flood in a decade.

  21. "No to Torture" - Museveni

    Uganda's President Museveni warns his security forces against using torture.

  22. 鈥楾errorist explosion鈥� rocks Tunisia capital

    A woman detonated an explosive belt in a central area of the Tunisian capital

  23. 鈥楽ex for grades鈥�: Undercover report expose sexual harassment

    Following a year long investigation of two of the top universities in Nigeria and Ghana

  24. 鈥楽enior IS figure鈥� killed in US Somalia raid

    The US military says it killed Bilal al-Sudani and 10 associates

  25. 鈥楶lease see our humanity鈥� A transwoman on her fight for safety and dignity

    Marking International Transgender Day: We hear from a transwoman who fled Nigeria

  26. 鈥極goni Nine鈥� widows lose case against oil giant Shell

    A Dutch court found that Shell was not complicit in the deaths of Nigerian activists

  27. 鈥業 saw the Ukrainian military convoy鈥�

    A Ghanaian student in Ukraine shares his experience of the day of the Russian invasion

  28. 'Western approach to Covid-19, not applicable here'

    Tanzanian Speaker of Parliament

  29. 'stowaway' body falls off a plane

    The body of an individual is believed to have fallen from the landing gear of a plane

  30. 'Queen Of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies

    The legendary singer announced last year she was retiring from music.

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