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Tanzanian elections: What issues are young people concerned about?
33 mins; October 27, 2025
Focus on Africa: Hundreds of stolen social media identities used to spread propaganda
32 mins; October 23, 2025
Focus on Africa Can DRC be declared ebola free?
29 mins; October 21, 2025
Focus on Africa: What led to the downfall of Madagascar's president
32 mins; October 15, 2025
Focus on Africa: Militants' blockade paralyses Mali-Senegal trade corridor
38 mins; October 13, 2025
Focus on Africa: Can Botswana continue to depend on its diamond industry?
27 mins; October 03, 2025
Focus on Africa: Who is Uganda's Joseph Kony?
35 mins; September 12, 2025
Focus on Africa: Ethiopia opens huge dam despite outside opposition
31 mins; September 09, 2025
Focus on Africa: Is the jailing of a former Zambian minister a watershed moment?
32 mins; September 05, 2025
Focus on Africa: Sudan landslide: Race to find survivors
30 mins; September 03, 2025
Focus on Africa: South Africa building fire: What happened to survivors?
32 mins; September 01, 2025
Focus on Africa: Mauritania accused of widespread abuses against migrants
28 mins; August 28, 2025
Focus on Africa: Kenya's starvation cult: New bodies found
30 mins; August 26, 2025
Focus on Africa: Exploring Africa-Japan trade ties
32 mins; August 22, 2025
Focus on Africa: Increased concerns over missing Ethiopia journalists
27 mins; August 20, 2025
Focus on Africa: Nigeria negotiates $346m arms deal with US
33 mins; August 15, 2025
Focus on Africa: Activists block foreigners from South African hospitals
32 mins; August 11, 2025
Focus on Africa: What is fuelling Angola's fuel protests?
31 mins; July 31, 2025
Focus on Africa: Who are the CAR commanders jailed for war crimes?
34 mins; July 25, 2025
How has Goma changed under M23 fighters?
29 mins; July 23, 2025
Focus on Africa: Why Burkina Faso discarded its Electoral Commission
32 mins; July 21, 2025
Focus on Africa: Cameroon's president seeks re-election at age 92
33 mins; July 17, 2025
Focus on Africa: Ghanaians lured into football job scam
28 mins; July 09, 2025
Focus on Africa: Why has polio re-emerged in Angola?
33 mins; July 01, 2025
Focus on Africa: Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali
33 mins; June 10, 2025
Focus on Africa: South Africa's human trafficking problem
31 mins; May 30, 2025
Focus on Africa: US halts international student visa applications
26 mins; May 29, 2025
Focus on Africa: African leaders attend Russia's Security Summit
34 mins; May 28, 2025
Focus on Africa: Uganda suspends German military co-operation
28 mins; May 27, 2025
Introducing: Focus on Africa
38 secs; May 27, 2025
Sudan’s displaced footballers’ winning streak in Mauritania
20 mins; May 22, 2025
Why do so many children go missing in South Africa?
20 mins; May 21, 2025
Can chess help children displaced by conflict to rebuild their lives?
20 mins; May 20, 2025
What’s the future of nursing in Africa?
15 mins; May 19, 2025
What do the deaths of three young girls reveal about gender based violence in Namibia?
21 mins; May 18, 2025
Is Joseph Kabila about to lose his immunity from prosecution?
17 mins; May 15, 2025
Are white Afrikaner minorities really being targeted in South Africa?
23 mins; May 14, 2025
Why are hospitals under attack in South Sudan?
20 mins; May 13, 2025
Why are so many countries saying yes to Starlink?
18 mins; May 12, 2025
Can you make a living as an artist in Somalia?
13 mins; May 11, 2025
Why is Zimbabwe’s government determined to compensate white farmers?
21 mins; May 08, 2025
Does Africa need to talk more about the Menopause?
18 mins; May 07, 2025
Could the next pope come from Africa?
14 mins; May 06, 2025
Can Africa afford school meal programmes?
18 mins; May 05, 2025
What does the death of a Somali actor tell us about clan killings?
15 mins; May 04, 2025
Why has everyone been talking about the #JP2025 wedding?
20 mins; May 01, 2025
Is Kenya tackling its problem with femicide?
18 mins; April 30, 2025
DRC: Why are people talking about Kabila's return?
18 mins; April 29, 2025
As President Trump marks 100 days in office, what’s Africa learning from his tariff hikes?
16 mins; April 28, 2025
Can storytelling help reconnect diaspora children to their culture?
20 mins; April 27, 2025
What’s fuelling the deepening rift between Algeria and France?
15 mins; April 24, 2025
Why is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in South Africa?
20 mins; April 24, 2025
Can the Africa Union help end the war in Sudan?
14 mins; April 22, 2025
How will Pope Francis be remembered in Africa?
15 mins; April 21, 2025
Is the ‘African Heritage Diet’ more healthy for you?
14 mins; April 20, 2025
How are Africa’s innovators shaping the future of AI?
17 mins; April 17, 2025
Why are elite British boarding schools opening up in Lagos?
20 mins; April 16, 2025
Why has Ugandan politician Bobi Wine decided to stand in Uganda’s 2026 election?
22 mins; April 15, 2025
What’s the situation in Darfur two years after Sudan’s war broke out?
21 mins; April 14, 2025
Sudan: What’s changed after two years of war?
17 mins; April 13, 2025
Why aren’t there more African wildlife filmmakers?
19 mins; April 10, 2025
How is Lesotho responding to President Donald Trump's 50% tariff?
18 mins; April 09, 2025
What is stopping women in Africa from inheriting land?
19 mins; April 08, 2025
Can football help women prisoners get back on their feet?
17 mins; April 07, 2025
Is Somali piracy on the comeback?
17 mins; April 06, 2025
How much is South Africa willing to sacrifice for Palestinians?
19 mins; April 03, 2025
How is Zambia dealing with lead contamination?
21 mins; April 02, 2025
What does Africa’s urban population boom mean for its major cities?
17 mins; April 01, 2025
Why don’t we know more about Lupus and autoimmune diseases?
20 mins; March 31, 2025
Why does southern Africa experience so many devastating cyclones?
18 mins; March 30, 2025
What will Kirsty Coventry’s win mean for Africa?
18 mins; March 27, 2025
Why are street football tournaments a Ramadan tradition in Egypt?
16 mins; March 26, 2025
Is Morocco’s drought changing Eid traditions?
12 mins; March 25, 2025
How did the promise of work lead Africans into scam centres in Myanmar?
21 mins; March 24, 2025
The man bringing light to remote communities - while tackling plastic waste
17 mins; March 23, 2025
What are the challenges facing Namibia’s first female president?
19 mins; March 20, 2025
Why is SADC withdrawing its troops from the DRC?
19 mins; March 19, 2025
How's Nigeria reacted to a Senator's allegations that she's been sexually harassed?
20 mins; March 18, 2025
Western Sahara: what is life like for the Sahrawi refugees?
16 mins; March 17, 2025
Why has Mogadishu become a safe haven for many Sudanese doctors?
18 mins; March 16, 2025
Why is South Africa’s black economic empowerment policy so polarizing?
18 mins; March 13, 2025
How are US mass deportations impacting African immigrants?
21 mins; March 12, 2025
How did Niger eliminate river blindness?
16 mins; March 11, 2025
How is Zimbabwe responding to persistent drought-related hunger?
17 mins; March 10, 2025
Why is autism still misunderstood in Africa?
18 mins; March 09, 2025
Could South Sudan return to civil war?
18 mins; March 06, 2025
How is Uganda’s largest refugee camp changing lives through performing arts?
21 mins; March 05, 2025
How can schools prepare for extreme weather conditions?
17 mins; March 04, 2025
Why does the African microbiome matter?
18 mins; March 03, 2025
Can Africa build its own AI ecosystem?
14 mins; March 02, 2025
Why are some people dismissive of Afcon?
14 mins; February 27, 2025
Is Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa set for a third term?
19 mins; February 26, 2025
Can Sudan feed itself in the future?
19 mins; February 25, 2025
DRC Conflict: What happened during Goma’s prison break?
15 mins; February 24, 2025
How has the hike in data and mobile phone call prices affected Nigerians?
14 mins; February 23, 2025
How is Muhsin Hendricks’ murder affecting queer Muslim communities across Africa?
21 mins; February 20, 2025
Is it possible to run a successful business in the war-torn DRCongo?
17 mins; February 19, 2025
Should more men train to be midwives?
18 mins; February 18, 2025
Why is writer Taban Lo Liyong not ready to stop working?
15 mins; February 17, 2025
Is Africa’s trade relationship with the United States under threat?
