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At 17:30 GMT Focus on Africa on BBC World News with Sophie Ikenye and Lukwesa Burak | BBC News Africa

At 17:30 GMT Focus on Africa on BBC World News with Sophie Ikenye and Lukwesa Burak | BBC News Africa

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From our podcast to your TV screens - Africa’s stories just got even closer 🌍💛 Join us Monday to Friday for Focus on Africa, bringing you the latest from across the continent. Live at 8.30pm EAT / 6.30pm WAT / 5.30pm GMT. Catch us on the BBC News channel or partner stations across Africa. | BBC News Africa

From our podcast to your TV screens - Africa’s stories just got even closer 🌍💛 Join us Monday to Friday for Focus on Africa, bringing you the latest from across the continent. Live at 8.30pm EAT / 6.30pm WAT / 5.30pm GMT. Catch us on the BBC News channel or partner stations across Africa. | BBC News Africa

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🚀 We’ve moved! Focus on Africa is now broadcasting from Nairobi. We’ve brought the show closer to the people who inspire it - sharing African stories through African voices. 🎧 Catch our daily audio episodes on your favourite podcast apps. 📺 And don’t miss our weekly visual edition on YouTube! | BBC News Africa

🚀 We’ve moved! Focus on Africa is now broadcasting from Nairobi. We’ve brought the show closer to the people who inspire it - sharing African stories through African voices. 🎧 Catch our daily audio episodes on your favourite podcast apps. 📺 And don’t miss our weekly visual edition on YouTube! | BBC News Africa

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Focus on Africa is coming home! Meet our brand-new hosts of the Focus on Africa podcast, broadcasting straight from the heart of the continent. 🎧 Five fresh audio episodes every week 🎥 Plus one visual episode every Saturday Real voices. Real stories. Africa, told by Africa. | BBC News Africa

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Bill Gates talks to BBC Focus On Africa about the strategies being implemented on the continent to fight coronavirus. | BBC News Africa

Bill Gates talks to BBC Focus On Africa about the strategies being implemented on the continent to fight coronavirus. | BBC News Africa

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What's behind the recent coups in Africa? Several Central and West African countries have recently seen a rise in the number of military takeovers - could there be a connection? Here’s the BBC's Mayeni Jones with a look at some of the reasons. | BBC News Africa

What's behind the recent coups in Africa? Several Central and West African countries have recently seen a rise in the number of military takeovers - could there be a connection? Here’s the BBC's Mayeni Jones with a look at some of the reasons. | BBC News Africa

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Coming up on BBC Focus on Africa TV tonight at 1730gmt with Peter Okwoche | BBC News Africa

Coming up on BBC Focus on Africa TV tonight at 1730gmt with Peter Okwoche | BBC News Africa

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🥳🎉🎊Focus on Africa is 60 and to celebrate this momentous birthday we will be dipping into the archives all this week in the run up to the big day. We hear from the presenters, reporters and news makers from the past to the present. What does Focus mean to you? We’d love to hear from you. Join us weekdays from 15:00 GMT 📻 | BBC News Africa

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One of Nigeria's presidential candidates, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, spoke to Focus On Africa about: 👉🏾 Why Nigerians should vote for him in the upcoming elections. 👉🏾 What his main priorities are. 👉🏾 The source of his wealth. | BBC News Africa

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Zanzibar may be part of Tanzania, but politically, it plays by its own rules. The semi-autonomous island is gearing up for the Tanzania General Election on Wednesday, 29th October. Voters will choose between Hussein Mwinyi of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and Othman Masoud of the opposition ACT Wazalendo. Elizabeth Kazibure traveled to the islands to see how history, identity, and power shape its unique role in the Union ahead of this election. | BBC News Africa

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Explore stories from across the continent with original video content and documentaries from BBC News Africa | BBC News Africa

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Explore stories from across the continent with original video content and documentaries from BBC News Africa | BBC News Africa

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Focus on Africa Peter Okwoche’s extended interview with Ghanaian President John Dranani Mahama who’s taking part in an anti-corruption summit in London, UK. | BBC News Africa

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Major world powers including the US, China and Russia are jostling for military, political and economic influence in Africa. What does this all mean for the continent and its people? Anne Soy has been finding out. | BBC News Africa

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Atiku Abubakar, one of Nigeria’s leading opposition candidates, talks to the BBC's Azeezat Olaoluwa about key issues ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. | BBC News Africa

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Godwin Asidiba Joins BBC Focus Africa Team

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An interview with BBC Africa aired on June 22, 2025, exposes the devastating impact of U.S. funding cuts to the World Food Programme in Kenya’s refugee camps. Rooted in the “America First” policy, the cuts have slashed food rations to just 30% of the minimum daily requirement. Among those affected is Mukuniwa Bililo Mami, a mother of two from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who now survives on just 3kg of rice, 1kg of lentils, and some cooking oil, barely enough to last her family a week. Maln

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What does it take to make it big as a content creator in Africa?⁣ Today, content creators have become as influential as athletes and musicians. ⁣ ⁣ But even though Africa’s content creator ecosystem is growing rapidly, more than half of the continent’s creators earn less than $70 a month.⁣ ⁣ On Focus on Africa: The Conversation, host Charles Gitonga @charliegitonga had a chat with @chefabbys, a Ghanaian TikToker and Nigerian content creator @ _𝓘𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓮 to find out what it takes to succeed

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South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is due to meet Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday in an attempt to reset relations between the two countries. Tensions have been growing since Trump claimed the South African government was doing ‘terrible things’, saying its land reform policy discriminates against white Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited. Mr Trump has also been angered by South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Criminal Court. Trump

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Blood Parliament - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

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