Podcast Episodes

Focus on Africa: Militants' blockade paralyses Mali-Senegal trade corridor

Mali's military government is reportedly engaged in talks with the militant group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) amid an ongoing blockade which has paralysed a key trade route for fuel, f…

Published on 13 hours ago

Focus on Africa: Can Botswana continue to depend on its diamond industry?

In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Waihiga Mwaura, Botswana's President Duma Boko, outlines his plan to reduce his country's reliance on the diamond industry amid falling global demand, and how…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Focus on Africa: Who is Uganda's Joseph Kony?

The International Criminal Court concludes hearings into war crime charges against the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and will decide whether he should face trial. But who is Joseph Kony and what a…

Published on 1 month ago

Focus on Africa: Ethiopia opens huge dam despite outside opposition

Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river deepening a rift with Egypt and Sudan.

Authorities in the US have arrested two suspected leaders of the Cameroon separatists' m…

Published on 1 month ago

Focus on Africa: Is the jailing of a former Zambian minister a watershed moment?

Zambia's former Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour after being convicted, along with a co-accused of corruption. President Hakainde Hichilema …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Focus on Africa: Sudan landslide: Race to find survivors

A landslide that followed days of heavy rain, has killed hundreds of people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, and many survivors may still be trapped in deep valleys. How do aid agencie…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Focus on Africa: South Africa building fire: What happened to survivors?

Two years on from the devastating fire at an abandoned building in Johannesburg that was occupied by squatters, how much has changed? We revisit the scene of one of South Africa's worst tragedies, in…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Focus on Africa: Mauritania accused of widespread abuses against migrants

A new Human Rights Watch report says the EU's and Spain’s outsourcing of migration control to Mauritania has worsened abuses against asylum seekers and migrants heading for Europe, but the Mauritania…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Focus on Africa: Kenya's starvation cult: New bodies found

There are fears that the mass starvation cult in Kenya is still active after the discovery of new bodies in fresh graves near the site of the Shakahola forest massacre. So far, eleven people have bee…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Focus on Africa: Exploring Africa-Japan trade ties

Japan has pledged to work more closely with African countries at global summit on economic development. How can Africa benefit from stronger ties with Japan?

The former prime minister of Chad is facin…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago