Focus on Africa

Burkina Faso has allegedly withdrawn all its diplomats from Ivory Coast, worsening ties between the neighbours. The relationship has been rocky of late and earlier this year their ministers of defenc...

9 Okt 202431min

Ethiopia's first female head of state replaced - meanwhile clashes continue in the Amhara region.How the relationship between Israel and African states has evolved a year since the Israel-Gaza war And...

8 Okt 202432min

Mozambicans will vote for a new president this week, who many hope will bring peace to a country that has faced a jihadist insurgency in the north for almost seven years. How are security challenges i...

7 Okt 202430min

Britain agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but what follows next?Why the Islamic police in Kano northern Nigeria  is cracking down on sports bettingAnd why are parents sendi...

4 Okt 202431min

Kenya's Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua, who calls himself the “truthful man”, is facing impeachment. Before he was elected as a member of parliament in 2017 little was known about the man, who wo...

3 Okt 202435min

Lebanon conflict: As Israel continues to attack, we learn the plight of foreigners stranded thereWe assess the state of security in Mali following last month's deadly attack in the capital, BamakoAnd ...

2 Okt 202427min

The newly appointed Foreign Minister of the DR Congo, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, tells Focus on Africa, the crisis faced in her country is an international not a regional one. We'll get the details fr...

1 Okt 202428min

BBC Africa Eye investigates how some sailors were tricked into smuggling cocaine to Cape Verde. We’ll also meet the rap artist and former cocaine addict who is helping addicts Why South Sudan lawyers ...

30 Sep 202431min