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Focus on Africa Episodes

  1. Monday, 21st September 2015

    Burkina Faso after last week's coup and the Nigerian author on the Man Booker shortlist

  2. Monday, 20th July 2015

    Former Chadian Leader Habre tried for war crimes and Kenya prepares for Obama visit

  3. Monday, 20th April 2015

    European Union chiefs to hold an extraordinary meeting on the Mediterranean crisis.

  4. Monday, 1st February 2016

    Nigeria's government responds to deadly attacks in Dalori.

  5. Monday, 1st August 2016

    Calls for Nigerian soldiers to be prosecuted for the killing of civilians in 2015

  6. Monday, 19th September 2016

    At least 17 killed during protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  7. Monday, 19th October 2015

    More trouble at South African universities and we look ahead to the Ivory Coast elections

  8. Monday, 18th May 2015

    The EU has announced a maritime plan to stop people trafficking from Libya into Europe.

  9. Monday, 18th July 2016

    HIV infections still the leading killer of African children aged 10 to 19.

  10. Monday, 18th January 2016

    14 million people face hunger as severe droughts affect southern Africa

  11. Monday, 18th April 2016

    A security company recruits former child soldiers from Sierra Leone to work in Iraq.

  12. Monday, 17th October 2016

    Ethiopia makes huge arrests near its capital over suspected violence

  13. Monday, 17th August 2015.

    A peace deal is signed in Addis Ababa between some of South Sudan's opposing sides.

  14. Monday, 16th May 2016

    Syrian refugees in Ghana and a Cameroonian musician living in the Canary Islands

  15. Monday, 16th March 2015

    The wife of a prominent Burundian opposition politician is shot and wounded.

  16. Monday, 15th June 2015

    Sudanese President Al-Bashir arrives home after defying a legal ruling in South Africa.

  17. Monday, 15th August 2016

    In Zambia President Edgar Lungu declared winner of the presidential race

  18. Monday, 14th March 2016

    Ivory Coast's deadly attacks. Egypt's Justice Minister sacked. Hip life star Sarkodie.

  19. Monday, 14th February 2016

    Uganda votes in two days; Kenyan women on sexual attacks; and Al Shabab/Boko Haram links

  20. Monday, 14 November 2016

    COP 22 Climate talks in Morocco as experts say 2016 set to be the warmest year on record.

  21. Monday, 13th June 2016

    The Ethiopian government denies attacking Eritrea on Sunday.

  22. Monday, 13th July 2015

    Nigeria's President Buhari, sacks the heads of the army, navy and air force.

  23. Monday, 13th April 2015

    In Sudan less than 10% of voters cast ballots as the opposition call for a boycott.

  24. Monday, 12th September 2016.

    South Sudan's leaders accused of profiteering from the civil war.

  25. Monday, 12th October 2015

    Uganda to start withdrawing troops from South Sudan

  26. Monday, 12th December 2016

    What next for The Gambia?

  27. Monday, 11th May 2015

    "Mediterranean Migrant issue is a security crisis": EU's foreign policy chief tells UN.

  28. Monday, 11th July 2016

    President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has declared a cessation of hostilities.

  29. Monday, 11th January 2016

    In our Africa Today podcast: Anglican bishops meet to work out divisions over gay rights

  30. Monday, 11th April 2016

    Sudan's troubled Darfur region holds a referendum.

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