Focus on Africa Episodes Episode guide
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Thursday, 18th June 2015
Boko Haram kills dozens in Niger as Chad strikes militants from the air.
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Thursday, 18th February 2016
Vote counting after Uganda election. Many dead in Ghana bus crash.
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Thursday, 18th August 2016
Thousands of South Sudanese flee to Uganda's new refugee camp
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Thursday, 17th September 2015
Burkina Faso coup sparks deadly street protests
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Thursday, 17th November 2016
A new Prime Minister for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bensouda: ICC not in crisis.
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Thursday, 17th March 2016
President Zuma denies allegations of political influence by the Gupta family.
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Thursday, 16th June 2016
South Africa marks the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising.
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Thursday, 16 JULY 2015
South Africa intervenes after a group of foreigners are arrested in China
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Thursday, 15th September 2016
Are Somali refugees at Dadaab camp in Kenya being forced to go home?
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Thursday, 14th May 2015
Fighting erupts in Burundi's capital as elements of the military vie for control.
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Thursday, 14th July 2016
South Sudanese speak of their fear and frustration over the continued conflict.
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Thursday, 14th January 2016
Liberia goes forty two days without a new Ebola case, but the WHO urges caution.
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Thursday, 14th April 2016
On the second anniversary of the kidnapping of the Chibok girls, a new video emerges.
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Thursday, 13th of August 2015
Guinea Bissau's President fires the government after weeks of tension
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Thursday, 13th October 2016
Militants release twenty one Chibok school girls in Nigeria in a swap for fighters.
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Thursday, 12th May 2016
Ghanaian and Nigerian presidents talk from the global anti-corruption summit in London
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Thursday, 12th March 2015
Today: South Africa's struggling power company Eskom suspends four senior executives.
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Thursday, 11th June 2015
West African leaders meet to formulate a joint response to the Boko Haram insurgency.
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Thursday, 11th February 2016
What's being done to protect camps for those made homeless by Boko Haram?
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Thursday, 11th August 2016
Polling stations officially close in Zambia's general elections
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Thursday, 10th March 2016
A South African woman is found guilty of kidnapping a baby nearly nineteen years ago.
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Thursday, 10th December 2015
Key Rwandan genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa arrested in DRC
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Thursday, 08 September 2016
Nigeria's campaign to foster a change in behaviour. Sierra Leone FA officials detained
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Thursday Sudan truce agreed
Fighting is continuing in various parts of Sudan as a ceasefire is agreed for Thursday.
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Thursday 9th June
Ethiopia denies al Shabaab claims the militants killed at least 60 AU troops in an attack
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Thursday 3rd March 2016
Somali journalist sentenced to death over killings. Pistorius can't appeal murder verdict
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Thursday 22nd October 2015
1000's of S.African students call on ANC to stop a proposed increase in tuition fees
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Thursday 12 November 2015
An E-U -Africa deal to help African nations stem the flow of migrants into Europe.
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Thursday 10th September
More than thirty judges in Ghana respond to allegations of bribery
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Three US citizens killed in Kenya base
Islamist militant group Al-Shabab is said to be responsible
