Podcast
Focus on Africa
Episodes — page 21
- Will DR Congo ceasefire calls be heeded ?
After a recent summit, leaders from east and southern Africa called for an immediate ceasefire to end the fighting in eastern DR Congo. Willing the warring parties listen? After a…
- South Africa's response to US threats
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved to defuse a row with the new US administration over a new land law by speaking to Elon Musk. However, President Ramaphosa has sai…
- Major data breach in Kenya
Kenya's Business Registration Service (BRS) reveals a major data breach has exposed sensitive information of numerous private companies Will the killing of several key jihadist mil…
- Gabon's election: A fresh start?
This episode has been edited to correct an editorial error Gabon's military government recently announced that the presidential elections will be held on the 12th of April. It's a…
- Uganda: Military courts ruled 'unconstitutional'
Uganda’s Supreme Court recently ruled that trying civilians in military courts is unconstitutional. Human rights groups welcomed the decision as a major step in protecting the righ…
- Trump threatens South Africa funding cut
President Donald Trump has said he will cut all future funding to South Africa over allegations that it was confiscating land. South Africa's President Ramaphosa says that is not t…
- Why has a Libyan suspect got Italy's PM investigated?
Who is Osama Najim, the Libyan suspect wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes? What is the reason behind the high-level diplomatic spat between Rwanda and South Africa over the f…
- What's Africa's reponse to Deepseek?
A Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) model called DeepSeek is stunning investors and sinking some tech stocks. It's also quickly impressing AI experts and has the attention…
- US aid cut hits African healthcare
There are concerns that an international US foreign aid cut will reverse gains, especially in the fight against HIV Who are the M23 - the group operating in eastern DR Congo? And h…
- Rare criticism for Zimbabwe's President
A group of prominent Zimbabwean war veterans, including a senior figure from the ruling Zanu PF party, have issued a rare rebuke against the country's president Emerson Mnangagwa.…
- DR Congo crisis: rebels claim Goma takeover
Rwandan-backed rebels have taken over most of the city of Goma in eastern DR Congo. There are reports of Congolese and Rwandan troops exchanging fire across the border. Calls for E…
- Sudanese women suffer sexual violence in Libya
The UN refugee agency says more than 200,000 Sudanese have arrived in Libya since the start of the war. Women are amongst those hoping to find a better life there. Instead, the wom…
- Mobile tariff hike approved in Nigeria.
Nigeria's telecoms regulator has approved a tariff hike by operators-customers are groaning. A year after ground-breaking malaria vaccination campaigns were launched in Africa-we a…
- Can Mozambique’s political leaders unite the country?
Can Mozambique’s newly sworn in President Daniel Chapo and the main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane, put their differences aside for the benefit of the country’s future? The U…
- Nigeria approves Shell's exit from Niger Delta
Nigeria approves Shell's watershed exit from oil-rich Niger Delta-but activists are not pleased. Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan receives an early nomination for being the ruling pa…
- The tragic story of Samantha Pendo
Why has the case against the Kenyan police officers allegedly involved in the death of six-month old Samantha Pendo been delayed yet again? Seven years on, her parents are still se…
- Why Mali seized gold from a mining giant.
Canadian mining giant Barrick halted its operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks worth $245 million. What's the story behind the Nigerian words added to the Oxfo…
- What next for Mozambique?
Mozambique’s new president, Daniel Chapo, has been sworn in, after winning a violently disputed election held in October last year. Many people have been killed in clashes with the…
- Bodies retrieved from South African mine
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from an abandoned South African gold mine How Russia is expanding its partnership in Africa's nuclear sector And ice hockey gains popularity in…
- Kenyan court rules suicide criminalisation unconstitutional
Kenya's high court has struck down a law that criminalised the act of attempting suicide. We hear from one of the petitioners who brought the challenge, on why the judge's ruling i…
