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One question. One story from Africa for Africa. Alan Kasujja takes a deep dive into the news shaping the continent.

As Tanzania gears up for elections on 29 October, we hear from two young people about the issues that matter to them and whether youth conce...

A BBC investigation uncovers dozens of social accounts using stolen identities of Somali and Muslim influencers and posting political propag...

The last ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province. Can the country...

An elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar from President Andry Rajoelina following weeks of youth-led protests. Where di...

Mali's military government is reportedly engaged in talks with the militant group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) amid an ongoing...

In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Waihiga Mwaura, Botswana's President Duma Boko, outlines his plan to reduce his country's reliance...

The International Criminal Court concludes hearings into war crime charges against the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and will decide whet...

Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river deepening a rift with Egypt and Sudan. Authorities in the US have a...

Zambia's former Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour after being convicted, along wit...

A landslide that followed days of heavy rain, has killed hundreds of people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, and many survivo...

Two years on from the devastating fire at an abandoned building in Johannesburg that was occupied by squatters, how much has changed? We rev...

A new Human Rights Watch report says the EU's and Spain’s outsourcing of migration control to Mauritania has worsened abuses against asylum...

There are fears that the mass starvation cult in Kenya is still active after the discovery of new bodies in fresh graves near the site of th...

Japan has pledged to work more closely with African countries at global summit on economic development. How can Africa benefit from stronger...

Two prominent journalists in Ethiopia, Abdulsemed Mohammed and Yonas Amare, have been missing for more than a week after being abducted by w...

The US government has approved a $346m arms deal with Nigeria which would include munitions, precision bombs and precision rockets. What is...

Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs have raised concerns about anti-migrant groups preventing non-South Africans from accessing healthcar...

What began as a three-day strike by taxi drivers against rising petrol prices in Angola, has escalated into one of the most widespread and d...

This week the International Criminal Court sentenced two commanders of a civilian militia in the Central African Republic to a total of 27 y...

The city of Goma in the conflict-hit east of the Democratic Republic of Congo was seized by the M23 armed group earlier this year after inte...

Burkina Faso's military rulers have disbanded the country's electoral commission calling it a waste of money. The government says the interi...

Cameroon's Paul Biya has the distinction of being 'the world's oldest sitting president' and yet at age 92, he is seeking to run for an eigh...

Ghanaian authorities have rescued more than 70 young men from a trafficking ring in Nigeria. The men thought they were heading for football...

Angola was certified as polio-free in 2015, but is now combating a new outbreak of the disease after several cases were reported in a Wester...

Russia says the paramilitary group Wagner has accomplished its mission and has left Mali, although a Russian presence remains in the West Af...

A South African woman, Racquel "Kelly" Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn have been given life sentence...

US embassies globally have halted student visa appointments, as social media vetting expands. How is Africa affected? Why is Zimbabwe's cont...

Russia's 13th International Security Summit in Moscow attracts over forty African leaders. How significant is it and what does it mean for t...

Uganda cuts military ties with Germany following diplomatic rift. Somalia's government moves to control clan militias fighting al-Shabab - a...

The big stories from across the continent and the African perspective on major global stories. Africa Daily has now closed. You will get Foc...

“My responsibilities as a captain became more… A player would receive a call telling him he’d lost a brother or a relative or a dear one.” A...

Today, Africa Daily’s Mpho Lakaje sits down with Johannesburg mother Mankepe Matsoakeletse. Her daughter, seven-year-old Agnes, went missing...

12 year old Mary has spent most of her life in an Internally Displaced People’s camp in north-east Nigeria. Her family were driven out of th...

Anyone who has spent time in hospital will know just how vital nurses are. They’re often the people we have the most contact with as they lo...

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains references to violence against children, which some listeners may find distressing. Three young girls...

It’s more than six years since Joseph Kabila stepped down as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo…handing over power to Felix Tshis...

This week the first group of Afrikaners arrived in the United States, as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to resettle them in his...

“Even the patients, their relatives had to carry them on make-shift stretchers trying to escape. We had 38 cholera patients and they all fle...

The number of African countries now allowing Elon Musk’s company Starlink to provide internet services has been growing rapidly - six have g...

“90% of Somali people don’t know the value of art. That is the problem.” Maslah Abdi Dahir has been threatened by the Islamist insurgent gro...

The government of Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with compensating white citizens who lost their farms due to the country’s land reform programm...

“Immediately you say I am menopausal or I’m approaching 40 years, in our culture they will brand you as an old person.” Do you know what the...

Cardinals from around the world are meeting at the Vatican to elect the next head of the catholic church in a secret conclave. There are tho...

‘’When the bush is on fire, the chameleon must abandon the walking styles of its ancestors.’’ Save the Children Fund says international aid...

Aano Qabiil - or Clan Vengeance - is a short film which explores the vendettas between clans which have led to many senseless deaths in Soma...

“This was on another level, but a typical Nigerian wedding is usually big, bold, and rich in tradition and culture - it's a show of our heri...

In January 2024, protests erupted across Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa as Kenyans demanded justice for women killed in a wave of femicides. Th...

”It has been a week and a half since we heard that Joseph Kabila was leaving South Africa for DRC. Since then, however, we haven’t heard muc...

“I can see that president Trump is trying to play some kind of a chess [game] to put the other nations in the context of a prisoner’s dilemm...

“This generation of storytellers are ageing. Our elders are ageing. I am the one who needs to start this preservation process — at least in...