Focus on Africa

Focus on Africa

Two essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the big topics and news from Africa, the people behind them, plus an African perspective on global stories. Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna. Five days a week, ready by late afternoon, Monday to Friday.

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Guinea-Bissau: General sworn in after coup

Guinea-Bissau: General sworn in after coup

A military general has been sworn in as Guinea-Bissau's transitional president following the 15th coup in the country. Why is the country prone to coups?BBC speaks to families of missing students in N...

27 Nov 202532min

Mali settles gold mine dispute

Mali settles gold mine dispute

The Malian government and Canadian mining firm Barrick have ended their two year tax dispute and have agreed a multi-million dollar settlement. So what does the agreement involve?Why did a volcano in ...

26 Nov 202531min

Guinea- Bissau: Rivals claim victory over election

Guinea- Bissau: Rivals claim victory over election

In Guinea-Bissau, rivals Embalo and Dias claim victory in a tense presidential election as official results remain pending.In Nigeria, separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has been sentenced to four life ter...

25 Nov 202527min

Selling body parts for 'rituals' in Sierra Leone

Selling body parts for 'rituals' in Sierra Leone

A BBC Africa Eye documentary has exposed the practice of selling body parts for magic rituals in Sierra Leone. We speak to the reporter who went back to the town where an 11-year-old boy was murdered...

24 Nov 202536min

Gender-based violence declared a national crisis in South Africa

Gender-based violence declared a national crisis in South Africa

South Africa's president declares gender-based violence and femicide a national crisis after planned protests   A campaign to encourage us to donate our bodies to medical science   And Audrey Brown bi...

21 Nov 202529min

Amhara conflict: Thousands of reports of rape and assault

Amhara conflict: Thousands of reports of rape and assault

A special BBC investigation has collated data which shows there have been thousands of reports of rape between July 2023 and May 2025, in the conflict between militias and Ethiopian government forces ...

20 Nov 202532min

Did Kenyan authorities use technology to silence Gen Z protestors?

Did Kenyan authorities use technology to silence Gen Z protestors?

Amnesty International alleges that the Kenyan government used digital tools to suppress Gen Z organised demonstrations   Has the rift between Senegalese President Faye and Prime Minister Sonko widened...

19 Nov 202527min

Search continues for schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria's Kebbi State

Search continues for schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria's Kebbi State

At least 20 schoolgirls are still missing in Nigeria's north-western Kebbi State after they were kidnapped at dawn from their dormitories at a secondary school. How can mass abductions in Nigeria be s...

18 Nov 202528min

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