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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. More than 40 Somali refugees killed after boat hit by missile off Yemen

    The International Organisation for Migration: "The boat was fired at from a helicopter"

  2. More than 100 dead in Congo floods

    Over 100 people dead after flooding in area near Lake Tanganyika in eastern DR Congo

  3. More than 100 camels shot by police in Kenya

    Farming and nomadic communities regularly clash over water and land in the area.

  4. More tensions between the DRC and Rwanda

    The DRC and Rwanda trade accusations over support for rebel groups

  5. More questions over Gambia's 'coup plot'

    Questions about what exactly happened in Tuesday night's 'coup plot' in The Gambia

  6. More fires on Mount Kilimanjaro

    Emergency workers have been battling to contain the blaze

  7. More confusion over Kenya's presidential election

    Raila Odinga who lost Kenya's presidential election says there was foul play in the polls

  8. More bodies pulled in aftermath of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi

    Death toll continues to rise with recovery of more bodies after Cyclone Freddy struck

  9. Monday,14th December 2015

    News and analysis from the BBC's Focus on Africa published Monday to Friday

  10. Monday, 9th November 2015

    World athletics is rocked by IAAF findings

  11. Monday, 9th May 2016

    Calls for a South African judge to be fired for making controversial statements.

  12. Monday, 8th June 2015

    What's behind the exodus of people from Eritrea?

  13. Monday, 8th June 2015

    What's behind the exodus of people from Eritrea?

  14. Monday, 8th February 2016

    More questions arise over last week's plane bomb in Somalia, as new CCTV footage emerges.

  15. Monday, 8th August 2016

    Zambia election special from Lusaka as voters prepare to go to the polls on Thursday.

  16. Monday, 7th September 2015

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

  17. Monday, 7th November 2016

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

  18. Monday, 7th March 2016

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

  19. Monday, 7th December

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

  20. Monday, 6th June 2016

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

  21. Monday, 6th July 2015

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

  22. Monday, 5th September 2016

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

  23. Monday, 5th October 2015

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

  24. Monday, 5th December 2016

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

  25. Monday, 4th May 2015

    Israeli soul-searching after Ethiopian Israeli soldier beaten.

  26. Monday, 4th July 2016

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

  27. Monday, 4th January 2016

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

  28. Monday, 4th April 2016

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

  29. Monday, 3rd October 2016

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

  30. Monday, 3rd August 2015

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

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