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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Monday, 31st October 2016

    Resistance to a new plan to solve Zimbabwe's economic crisis.

  2. Monday, 31st August 2015

    Rare hurricane hits Cape Verde

  3. Monday, 30th November 2015

    Pope Francis concludes his maiden tour of Africa.

  4. Monday, 30th May 2016

    An AU-backed court finds Chad's ex-President guilty of crimes against humanity.

  5. Monday, 2nd November 2015

    The mobile giant MTN faces punishing fine in Nigeria

  6. Monday, 2nd May 2016

    Hopes fade for survivors of a building collapse in Kenya. Congo's Papa Wemba remembered.

  7. Monday, 29th June 2015

    Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria, forced to join Boko Haram, the BBC has been told

  8. Monday, 29th February 2016

    Clashes in the migrant camp in Calais. Nigeria's Emir of Kano condemns child marriage.

  9. Monday, 29th August 2016

    EU observers say that the voting process in Gabon last Saturday lacked transparency.

  10. Monday, 28th November 2016

    Ugandan police say they have taken control of the palace of King Charles Wesley Mumbere

  11. Monday, 28th March 2016

    Seventeen Angolan activists are found guilty and sentenced for rebellion

  12. Monday, 28th December 2015

    Attacks by suicide bombers in north-eastern Nigeria have left more than 50 people dead.

  13. Monday, 27th June 2016

    African Union troops in Somalia say they have not been paid in six months.

  14. Monday, 27th July 2015

    President Barack Obama has urged Ethiopia to improve its record on human rights.

  15. Monday, 27th April 2015

    Welcome to the Africa Today podcast, recorded at 1800 GMT.

  16. Monday, 26th September 2016

    As Somalia misses a key election deadline, we ask how its clan-based voting works.

  17. Monday, 25th May 2015

    Nigerian deal to end fuel crisis. Why exhume Thomas Sankara's grave?

  18. Monday, 25th July 2016

    South Sudan's president Salva Kiir appoints a replacement for Riek Machar.

  19. Monday, 25th January 2016

    Five years after popular protests toppled Mubarak have the revolutionary ideals been met?

  20. Monday, 25th April 2016

    Children caught in the cross fire as another military man is assassinated in Burundi

  21. Monday, 24th October 2016

    Tension builds in the sprawling migrant camp in Calais a day before scheduled demolition

  22. Monday, 24 August 2015

    Kenya teachers win a pay rise of up to sixty percent.

  23. Monday, 23rd May 2016

    Zambia enters election season.

  24. Monday, 23rd May 2015

    Karim Wade, son of Senegal's former president, is jailed for six years.

  25. Monday, 23 November 2015

    Three days of mourning begin in Mali following a fatal attack on a hotel in Bamako

  26. Monday, 22nd June 2015

    Angry clashes between Ghanaian police and slum dwellers

  27. Monday, 22nd February 2016

    Uganda's newly re-elected president says he doesn't accept the logic of term limits.

  28. Monday, 22nd August 2016

    Malian Islamist militant pleads guilty at the ICC to destroying Timbuktu's ancient tombs.

  29. Monday, 22nd August 2016

    Malian Islamist militant pleads guilty at the ICC to destroying Timbuktu's ancient tombs

  30. Monday, 22nd August 2016

    Malian Islamist pleads guilty at the ICC to destroying Timbuktu's ancient tombs.

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