Africanalysis

This week JJ Cornish joins the team to give us the latest African news that includes climate change proving to be more deadly for the endangered African Savannah elephant in Kenya than poachers, the coups in Mali and Burkina Faso not reducing the number of jihadi killings, and the oil exploration happening in parts of the rainforest that will release carbon undisturbed for centuries in Congo.

JJ Cornish gives us an update about the latest African news, that includes Airlink being allowed to fly to Madagascar after some delays. And the Kenyan presidential candidate offers to legalise dagga, and the sale of snake poison and hyena testicles - to address the country's balance of payments problem.

This week JJ Cornish gives the team the latest African news that includes scores of Nigerians rescued from a church while waiting for the second coming of Christ, Sierra Leone drafting a law decriminalising abortion, and the United Nations condemning the storming and torching of the Libyan parliamentary building in Tobruk.

JJ Cornish joins the show to give us the latest African news that includes Patrice Lumumba’s ‘remains’ being returned to his family, human rights bodies urging the Commonwealth to hold Rwanda’s feet to the fire at their summit in Kigali, and Kenyan farmers wanting to resume the multi-million dollar daily export of the narcotic khat to Somalia and Somaliland.

JJ Cornish joins the team and shares the latest African news that includes a shooting at a Catholic church that killed at least 50 in one of Nigeria’s safest provinces, the new row between DRC and Rwanda over support for M23 rebels in Eastern Congo, and Covid hitting Africa the lightest of all.

JJ Cornish brings us the latest African news that includes Hassan Sheikh Mohamud coming back after five years to lead Somalia, and Mali quitting the G5 group in the Sahel - just as it was about to assume the leadership of the group fighting jihadis.

JJ Cornish shares what is happening around the African continent, including the UN boss making an appeal for Africa hurt by Ukrainian food shortage and the pandemic lockdown, Tunisian President Kais Saied will be putting a new constitution to a referendum in July, and Malawi tobacco farmers turn to dagga because of declining demand for their crop.

JJ Cornish gives us the latest African news that includes the Seychelles' longest trial coming to an end, British Home Secretary Priti Patel faces a mutiny of her public servants opposed to the agreement she’s signed handing illegal migrants to Rwanda, and Russia is expanding its military clout in Africa - using the shady Wagner mercenary group.

JJ Cornish joins us to share the latest African news that includes former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré being jailed for life for the killing of Africa’s Che Guevara, ‘Hotel Rwanda man’ Paul Rusesabagina’s jail sentence for terrorism, and West Africa faces its worst food shortage in a decade.

JJ Cornish speaks on the oil bonanza for African producers of the black stuff, Algeria banning exports of foodstuffs, fear of shortages following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Uhuru Kenyatta ending the crackdown on motorcycle taxis following a shocking video.