Across Africa

Join Georja Calvin-Smith for a round up of the week's cultural and current affairs stories from across the African continent: exclusive reports and analysis. Every Thursday at 5:45pm Paris time.

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Georja Calvin-Smith
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African voices amplified by continental podcast explosion

Podcasts are on the rise in Africa. The huge sector has been dominated by voices from outside the continent, but more African producers are now turning to the mic to tell their stories. Also the European Court of Human Rights finds that South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya was discriminated against by World Athletics with rules requiring her to artificially lower her testosterone levels. Finally, one of the world's top choirs – Ghana's Harmonious Chorale – pops in whilst on tour.  
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The private backers of the Great Green Wall

South African minister Naledi Pandor on African peace mission for Ukraine

Uganda's charcoal crackdown

Measures of Men: German film spotlights country's dark colonial past

Sudanese trapped in Khartoum still heading to work as fighting rages

Hate speech spikes in Kenya after LGBT rights group given green light

Malaria kills an African child every 60 seconds

Ghosts of the genocide in Rwanda

Autism awareness in Ivory Coast

UN Security Council delegates meet victims of violence in eastern DR Congo

Togolese literary voices call for the turning of a page

Nigeria tests new voting system

Guinean acrobatic troupe Amoukana fly high

Poisoned and hyperaggressive seals attack Cape Town tourists

Guinea's Hakime rocks TikTok

DR Congo's displaced phone home

‘Farmgate’ catches up to Cyril Ramaphosa

COP27 summit: What's at stake for the African continent?

Hague trial of alleged moneyman of Rwandan 1994 genocide

Senegal's GMO greenlight proves controversial
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