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Focus on Africa: What led to the downfall of Madagascar's president
An elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar from President Andry Rajoelina following weeks of youth-led protests. Where did it all g...
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...
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 dia...
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 sho...
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 arres...
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-acc...
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 sti...
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 s...
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 an...
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 Shakahol...
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...
Focus on Africa: Increased concerns over missing Ethiopia journalists
Two prominent journalists in Ethiopia, Abdulsemed Mohammed and Yonas Amare, have been missing for more than a week after being abducted by what report...
Focus on Africa: Nigeria negotiates $346m arms deal with US
The US government has approved a $346m arms deal with Nigeria which would include munitions, precision bombs and precision rockets. What is behind the...
Focus on Africa: Activists block foreigners from South African hospitals
Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs have raised concerns about anti-migrant groups preventing non-South Africans from accessing healthcare services...
Focus on Africa: What is fuelling Angola's fuel protests?
What began as a three-day strike by taxi drivers against rising petrol prices in Angola, has escalated into one of the most widespread and disruptive...
Focus on Africa: Who are the CAR commanders jailed for war crimes?
This week the International Criminal Court sentenced two commanders of a civilian militia in the Central African Republic to a total of 27 years in pr...
How has Goma changed under M23 fighters?
The city of Goma in the conflict-hit east of the Democratic Republic of Congo was seized by the M23 armed group earlier this year after intense fighti...
Focus on Africa: Why Burkina Faso discarded its Electoral Commission
Burkina Faso's military rulers have disbanded the country's electoral commission calling it a waste of money. The government says the interior ministr...
Focus on Africa: Cameroon's president seeks re-election at age 92
Cameroon's Paul Biya has the distinction of being 'the world's oldest sitting president' and yet at age 92, he is seeking to run for an eighth term, t...
Focus on Africa: Ghanaians lured into football job scam
Ghanaian authorities have rescued more than 70 young men from a trafficking ring in Nigeria. The men thought they were heading for football contracts...
Focus on Africa: Why has polio re-emerged in Angola?
Angola was certified as polio-free in 2015, but is now combating a new outbreak of the disease after several cases were reported in a Western province...
Focus on Africa: Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali
Russia says the paramilitary group Wagner has accomplished its mission and has left Mali, although a Russian presence remains in the West African coun...
Focus on Africa: South Africa's human trafficking problem
A South African woman, Racquel "Kelly" Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn have been given life sentences after be...
Focus on Africa: US halts international student visa applications
US embassies globally have halted student visa appointments, as social media vetting expands. How is Africa affected?
Why is Zimbabwe's controve...
Focus on Africa: African leaders attend Russia's Security Summit
Russia's 13th International Security Summit in Moscow attracts over forty African leaders. How significant is it and what does it mean for the contin...
Focus on Africa: Uganda suspends German military co-operation
Uganda cuts military ties with Germany following diplomatic rift.
Somalia's government moves to control clan militias fighting al-Shabab - after...
Introducing: Focus on Africa
The big stories from across the continent and the African perspective on major global stories. Africa Daily has now closed. You will get Focus on Afri...
Sudan’s displaced footballers’ winning streak in Mauritania
“My responsibilities as a captain became more… A player would receive a call telling him he’d lost a brother or a relative or a dear one.”
After...
Why do so many children go missing in South Africa?
Today, Africa Daily’s Mpho Lakaje sits down with Johannesburg mother Mankepe Matsoakeletse.
Her daughter, seven-year-old Agnes, went mis...
Can chess help children displaced by conflict to rebuild their lives?
12 year old Mary has spent most of her life in an Internally Displaced People’s camp in north-east Nigeria.
Her family were driven out o...
What’s the future of nursing in Africa?
Anyone who has spent time in hospital will know just how vital nurses are. They’re often the people we have the most contact with as they look after o...
What do the deaths of three young girls reveal about gender based violence in Namibia?
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains references to violence against children, which some listeners may find distressing.
Three young girls - I...
Is Joseph Kabila about to lose his immunity from prosecution?
It’s more than six years since Joseph Kabila stepped down as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo…handing over power to Felix Tshisekedi.
Are white Afrikaner minorities really being targeted in South Africa?
This week the first group of Afrikaners arrived in the United States, as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to resettle them in his country.<...
Why are hospitals under attack in South Sudan?
“Even the patients, their relatives had to carry them on make-shift stretchers trying to escape. We had 38 cholera patients and they all fled. Which...
Why are so many countries saying yes to Starlink?
The number of African countries now allowing Elon Musk’s company Starlink to provide internet services has been growing rapidly - six have granted pe...
Can you make a living as an artist in Somalia?
“90% of Somali people don’t know the value of art. That is the problem.”
Maslah Abdi Dahir has been threatened by the Islamist insurgent group A...
Why is Zimbabwe’s government determined to compensate white farmers?
The government of Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with compensating white citizens who lost their farms due to the country’s land reform programme.
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Does Africa need to talk more about the Menopause?
“Immediately you say I am menopausal or I’m approaching 40 years, in our culture they will brand you as an old person.”
Do you know what the me...
Could the next pope come from Africa?
Cardinals from around the world are meeting at the Vatican to elect the next head of the catholic church in a secret conclave. There are thought to ha...