Focus on Africa
South Africa to roll out mobile covid-19 testing
The mobile units are expected to reach remote areas as well as urban centres
- 23 mins
- 03 Apr 2020
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Focus on Africa
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
Episodes (109 Available)
Focus on AfricaCoronavirus: how important is contact tracing?
We hear about lessons learned during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
- 23 mins
- 03 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaSouth Africa rolls out mobile testing units and drive-through testing centres
In a ruthless but efficient fight against coronavirus
- 23 mins
- 03 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaMorocco praised for response to the Coronavirus
Despite having the worst outbreak of COVID19 on the continent
- 23 mins
- 02 Apr 2020
Focus on Africa'African governments need to pressure G7 and G20 for debt relief': Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
So that money meant to service these debts can be used for supplies
- 23 mins
- 02 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaRwanda extends coronavirus lockdown by two weeks
Police have been deployed to enforce the restrictions
- 23 mins
- 02 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaUsing nutrition to stay healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr. Adelaide Onyango of the World Health Organisation shares her expertise
- 23 mins
- 01 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaSouth Sudan: ICRC working to sensitise prison inmates about Covid-19
The country currently has no reported cases of the novel coronavirus
- 23 mins
- 01 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaTanzanian Speaker of Parliament: 'Western approaches to Covid-19 not applicable here'
Job Ndugai says that strategies applied in the West may not be suitable for Africa.
- 23 mins
- 01 Apr 2020
Focus on AfricaEthiopia postpones election over coronavirus
A new schedule is expected to be announced once the pandemic is over
- 23 mins
- 31 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaUganda's President Museveni impose nationwide lockdown
As the country confirms 33 cases of coronavirus
- 23 mins
- 31 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaNigeria: Lagos lockdown over Covid-19
But keeping everyone indoors could pose a different problem
- 23 mins
- 31 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaCoronavirus lessons from president who led Ebola fight
Liberia's ex-leader says the world must conquer its fear to deal with Covid-19
- 23 mins
- 30 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaCoronavirus: WHO expert answers your questions
Dr Michel Yao is the Emergency Response Programme Officer at the WHO
- 23 mins
- 30 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaZimbabweans begin life under virus lockdown
Many healthcare workers are refusing to work due to a shortage of protective equipment
- 23 mins
- 30 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaHome-schooling children via radio and television in the age of Covid-19
Tips from a Kenyan doctor who has successfully home-schooled her daughter
- 23 mins
- 27 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaCoronavirus: Ghana’s president grants amnesty to over 800 prisoners
The move aims to decongest Ghana’s prisons during the coronavirus outbreak
- 23 mins
- 27 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaTunisian factory chooses lockdown to produce protective gear against Covid-19
150 workers secluded themselves in the factory as a ‘patriotic gesture’
- 23 mins
- 27 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaMajor African lending bank offers $3 billion to struggling governments
The bank is offering the package to governments feeling the economic pinch of coronavirus
- 23 mins
- 26 Mar 2020
Focus on AfricaCameroon rebels declare coronavirus ceasefire
A separatist militia in Cameroon is to down its weapons for a fortnight
- 23 mins
- 26 Mar 2020