Africa Calling

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you a number of feature reports from our correspondents on the African continent. From Cameroon, we'll take a look at the trend to return to natural hair in Douala. In Somalia, our correspondent looks at the business of taking back the country's aircraft registration. And in Sudan, we'll find out how people feel about the changes made (or not) in the country since the fall of repressive strongman Omar al-Bashir, two years ago this month.

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you feature reports from our correspondents on the African continent. From Benin, we'll take a look at stock photos with an African accent. In Mali, our correspondent examines the new Covid-19 vaccine rollout. And at the Ecowas regional court in Abuja, we'll hear about how rights groups are challenging Mali's lack of action over female genital mutilation.

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you feature reports from our correspondents in the Sahel, west and southern Africa. From central Mali, we'll hear how rural villagers are finally getting solar electricity, part of an ambitious new project. In Malawi, we’ll take a look at how farmers are bouncing back after Banana Bunchy Top disease ravaged their crops. And in The Gambia, football fever takes over as the Scorpions make Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers for the first time.

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you feature reports from our correspondents in West, East, and southern Africa. From eastern Kenya, we'll hear how farmers are giving insects a helping hand, literally, by pollinating their crops by hand. In Ghana, we’ll take a look at how Covid-19 has been tackled, or not, by the government. And in Malawi, a prison takes innovative way to use prisoner’s poop as energy, avoiding the use of wood for cooking.

This week, Africa Calling podcast showcases women's stories from the continent, in honor of Women's Day 2021, bringing you feature reports from African female journalists. From the Democratic Republic of Congo, we'll hear about the first female coach of Tout Puissant Mazembe's women's football team, the challenge of reducing maternal deaths in Gambia, trying to break into politics as a Muslim woman in Ghana, and a group of women in Cameroon who were tired of abuse on the job, and decided to create their own safe space and TV production company.

Hello Africa Calling podcast listeners-- we're changing the frequency of the podcast to every other week. Our format will change too, with less news and more features from the field! Africa voices, African correspondents. We'll be kicking off our new format next Friday with a themed special for International Women's Day -- five stories from female African correspondents from around the continent. Please tune in to our upcoming podcast, next Friday, 5 March.

The Africa Calling podcast looks at some of the week's top stories from the continent: the latest on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, fear as Tanzania's Zanzibari Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad dies in a suspected case of Covid-19, a new investigation in the Democratic Republic of Congo uncovers responsibility for the murder of renowned Congolese rights activist Floribert Chebeya, and a walk down a musical memory lane in Douala, Cameroon, as we peek into vinyl record stores.

Africa Calling podcast looks at some of the week's top stories from the continent: the latest on what’s happening in Mozambique’s restive Cabo Delgado region; mixed emotions in Monrovia about a war crimes trial temporarily moving to Liberia; expert analysis on the outcome of the African Union summit; panic over Nigeria’s SIM card registration drive; and examining the Covid-19 vaccine supply situation for the African continent.

The Africa Calling podcast looks at some of the week's top stories from the continent: reaction to the landmark verdict for a Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army commander; expert analysis on al-Qaeda's expansion beyond the Sahel; villagers in Chad poisoned by a toxic oil spill; Covid-19 in Tanzania; the visit of a top Vatican official to Cameroon and the Anglophone regions; a legal challenge to Uganda’s presidential election results; Zimbabwe’s opposition being thrown in jail again; and news about the upcoming Africa Podcast Festival.

The Africa Calling podcast looks at some of the week's top stories from the continent, including reports from the field. We talk about the ugly legacy left behind in Darfur by Sudan’s deposed President Omar al-Bashir. We examine Liberia’s State of the Nation address, and hear from the Hausa service in Lagos on the promotion of northerners as security chiefs. We also take a look at the latest fight in Bangui, Central African Republic, hear a report on groundnut farming in The Gambia, and find out about the disbanding of a committee that overthrew Mali’s president.