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Senior Business Reporter @BBCAfrica | Multimedia {TV, Radio, Online} | Formerly of @CNBCAfrica @KTNKenya

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The 3rd episode of FOCUS ON AFRICA: The Conversation is out! Also happens to be my debut in this visual format. It’s all about visa free travel in Africa - and my guest is driving across 39 countries calling for free movement: youtu.be/2xLJPgGmHsM?si…

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LAUNCH ALERT‼️ A team of incredibly talented journalists and I spent the last few months finding ways to refresh @BBCAfrica’s Focus on Africa podcast and radio show. Our first episode is out today presented by @nkechinna and featuring @WaihigaMwaura bbc.com/audio/play/p0m…


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Focus on Africa is coming home!⁣ ⁣ Meet our brand-new hosts of the Focus on Africa podcast, broadcasting straight from the heart of the continent.⁣ ⁣ 🎧 Five fresh audio episodes every week⁣ 🎥 Plus one visual episode every Saturday⁣


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BREAKING: Cadillac have officially confirmed Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas as their two drivers for debut 2026 season! 🚨🏁

SkySportsF1's tweet image. BREAKING: Cadillac have officially confirmed Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas as their two drivers for debut 2026 season! 🚨🏁
SkySportsF1's tweet image. BREAKING: Cadillac have officially confirmed Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas as their two drivers for debut 2026 season! 🚨🏁

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Five things Trump should know about Liberia and why they speak 'good English' bbc.in/4lPo5Hh


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Christian Horner sacked as team principal of F1 team Red Bull with immediate effect bbc.in/4kqdtNF


It was great to have you. Thanks for sharing your insights with our audience @AWFCEO

Last week I had the privilege to join the @bbcworldservice Focus on Africa's @CharlieGitonga to explore one of the most overlooked pillars of our economies—Africa’s natural capital. Our forests, rivers, wetlands, soils, wildlife, and ecosystems provide the foundation for…



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Spot check: Only police spotted in the CBD. An officer just said to me “no news today.” @BBCAfrica A deserted Kenyatta Avenue.

Ian_Wafula's tweet image. Spot check: Only police spotted in the CBD. An officer just said to me “no news today.” @BBCAfrica 

A deserted Kenyatta Avenue.
Ian_Wafula's tweet image. Spot check: Only police spotted in the CBD. An officer just said to me “no news today.” @BBCAfrica 

A deserted Kenyatta Avenue.
Ian_Wafula's tweet image. Spot check: Only police spotted in the CBD. An officer just said to me “no news today.” @BBCAfrica 

A deserted Kenyatta Avenue.
Ian_Wafula's tweet image. Spot check: Only police spotted in the CBD. An officer just said to me “no news today.” @BBCAfrica 

A deserted Kenyatta Avenue.

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Catch our exclusive interview with philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates on #FocusOnAfrica TV and podcast today and other BBC platforms throughout the week. @BBCAfrica @BBCWorld @brianmala1 #AddisAbaba

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KIMI ANTONELLI TAKES #F1SPRINT POLE!! 🥇 The Mercedes driver lines up alongside Oscar Piastri on tomorrow's front row in Miami 👊 #F1 #MiamiGP

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The Mercedes driver lines up alongside Oscar Piastri on tomorrow's front row in Miami 👊

#F1 #MiamiGP

CURIOUS about why Ivory Coast has blocked Tidjane Thiam's presidential bid? Or why South Africa has opened an inquiry regarding apartheid crimes? And what about money laundering (wash wash) in Kenya? Spoke about it all on today's Focus on Africa podcast bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

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Focus on Africa - Ivory Coast: Why opposition leader removed from electoral list? - BBC Sounds

Why Ivory Coast's main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam is removed from electoral list


ON Focus on Africa Podcast today 🎧🎧🎧we explore the resurgence of Boko Haram and ISWAP in Nigeria. And the plan by Kenya to make its refugee camps self sufficient as effects of global aid cuts begin to bite. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l…


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Pressure mounts to probe Kenya police and army after BBC exposé bbc.in/3GHEjCK


On the Focus on Africa podcast today >>>> A BBC investigation exposes who shot protestors in Kenya last year. Listen here >>> bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…


In a stark warning, the head of the UN's food aid agency in Ethiopia says millions in the country are "one shock away from falling into a catastrophe". How did Ethiopia get here? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…


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