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491 episodes

Richard Dowden on Professor Ali Mazrui

Madagascar's former leader arrested on return after 5 years

A bookshop in South Sudan

AUDIO: Africa News Roundup

Omawumi tells us what led her to tackle a very disturbing subject in her song, "If You Ask Me".

Ghanaian artisist Owusu-Ankomah talks about his new work "Microcron Begins"

AUDIO: Kenya court victory for transgender activist Audrey Mbugua

AUDIO: Africa News Roundup

Kenya's Attorney General, Mr Githu Muigai, denies government failed to cooperate with ICC

AUDIO: Africa News Roundup

Head of the UN special mission for Ebola, Anthony Banbury visit countries hardest hit by virus.

The Sierra Leone Hajj ban

Malakal camp in South Sudan (James Copnall)

Said Ferjani of Ennahda on Tunisia ahead of the parliamentary election

Resident Presidents - Migrant boats

Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, questions raised over the role of the country's current President, Paul Kagame

Artbeat Africa

AUDIO: Africa News Roundup

Financial transactions using mobile phones on the rise in Zimbabwe

Lesotho rivals agree election

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