Focus on Africa Episodes Episode guide
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Global leaders call for free coronavirus vaccine
African leaders join call for a free coronavirus vaccine
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Global concern over the spread of dengue fever
What is dengue fever and why is it spreading around the world?
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Global alert over cough syrups
The WHO issues worldwide warning about cough syrups from India linked to child deaths
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Ghanians have been voting in Presidential and Parliamentary elections
More than 17 million people are eligible to vote.
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Ghanaians lured into football job scam
Several young Ghanaians were trafficked to Nigeria under a fraudulent recruitment scheme
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Ghanaian town in mourning after teenagers drown
Several bodies have been retrieved after the tragedy at Apam town
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Ghanaian shoe seller vows to bring The Gambia's Yahya Jammeh to justice
He wants to bring The Gambia's former leader to justice over the murder of 55 migrants
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Ghana’s special clinic for cleft lip patients
A new centre to treat cleft lip condition in West Africa
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Ghana’s main opposition still challenges election results
Ghana’s NDC party chairman says the party has“not lost the elections”
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Ghana's government respond to America's visa ban
Following a row reported last week where US officials say Ghana had failed to cooperate
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Ghana's Football Chief Speaks Out
Ghana’s former football chief says he took money but not for corrupt purposes.
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Ghana's First Lady Rejects Salary Offer Amidst Criticism
Ghana's first and second ladies to renounce salary offer and pay back past allowances
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Ghana: Defeated Mahama rejects ‘fictionalised’ election result
Ghana's opposition presidential candidate John Mahama refuses to concede
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Ghana publishes sexuality education guidelines
The curriculum, aimed at 4 to 24-year-old students, has sparked controversy
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Ghana passes controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill
Ghana's parliament passes a bill that further restricts the rights of LGBTQ people.
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Ghana lifts three-week lockdown
Ghana's president Nana Akuffo Addo has lifted a three week lockdown in the country
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Ghana Imposes Ban on Tilapia Fish Imports
Why has Ghana banned tilapia imports? Ebola in the DRC; deadly fire in Nairob
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Ghana explosion: at least 13 dead after huge blast near mining town
Rescue and recovery operations continue
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Ghana experiments innovative COVID-19 testing method
Ghanaian researchers have come up with an innovative method to make COVID testing quicker
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Ghana ex-President JJ Rawlings dies aged 73
Former President Rawlings died in hospital in the capital, Accra, after a short illness
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Ghana Elections. What's at stake?
Over 18 million Ghanaians prepare to vote in their presidential election on December 7th
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Ghana elections: How Mahama made a comeback
Former president John Mahama will return to statehouse following poll victory
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Ghana deploys officers to town bordering Burkina Faso
One thousand special forces deployed to the restive town of Bawku, bordering Burkina Faso
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Ghana agrees $10 billion bauxite MOU
Ghana agrees a $10 billion MOU with China to develop bauxite mining
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Germany’s president on landmark visit to Sudan
Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived with a delegation seeking investment opportunities
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Germany apologises for colonial-era genocide in Namibia
$1.3 billion offered for development projects benefiting the descendants of the victims.
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George Weah set to win Liberia presidency
Former footballer George Weah looks set to become Liberia's president at second attempt.
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Gender: A long journey to equality
A UN report reveals the stark reality that no country has achieved full gender equality
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Gambians await the arrival of Adama Barrow as Yahya Jammeh finally leaves
In The Gambia people get ready for the arrival of President Adama Barrow
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Gambian President Refuses To Budge
President Yahya Jammeh shows little sign of bowing to pressure to step down.