Africa's top football sides discover their opponents in the qualifying draw for the 2025 Nations Cup with Nigeria handed a tricky group.

Twenty-five soldiers are sentenced for fleeing battles against the notorious M23 rebel group.

Amina Noor, from Harrow, loses a Court of Appeal bid to reduce her seven-year sentence.

Ebenezer Smith showed off a certificate but Guinness World Records say it's nothing to do with them.

The rise of Gayton McKenzie from a former bank robber to a politician in the new unity government.

How endangered species are smuggled out of Africa and what is being done to prevent it.

2024 is the year of elections and already hundreds of millions of people around the world have been to the polls. A few months ago The Briefing Room looked ahead to elections in South Africa and India. Both have since delivered shocks to their ruling parties which failed to win parliamentary majorities. So why did the main parties in both countries do worse than expected? And what does this mean for the governments they’ve formed and the immediate future of both South Africa and India?

Guests:

David Everatt, Professor at the Wits School of Governance in Johannesburg

Dr Ayesha Omar, British Academy international fellow at SOAS.

Rohan Venkat, editor of the “India Inside Out” newsletter

Louise Tillin, Professor of Politics in the India Institute at King's College London.

Produced by: Kirsteen Knight and Caroline Bayley Edited by: Richard Vadon Sound engineer: Rod Farquhar Production co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman

Protesters last week forced William Ruto to scrap planned tax rises, saying public money was being wasted.

Homosexual acts are outlawed in the county and carry punishments of up to five years in jail.

It is estimated a third of girls are married off before they turn 18 in the West Africa nation.

The deal for Somaliland to lease some coastline to Ethiopia triggered a storm - now Turkey is mediating.

A primary school in Chad is providing an opportunity for thousands of Sudanese refugees to resume learning.

Following the conclusion of the T20 World Cup, three cricketers with roots around the world explain why they decided to pursue their career in the USA.

Biniam Girmay says he wants to 'open the door' after becoming the first black African to ever win a stage of the Tour de France

Since protests began two weeks ago 39 people have been killed, a state-funded rights group says.

Toby Wells and his son Jack will be making their way to the summit while the UK heads to the polls.

Some inhalers in Nigeria have doubled or tripled in price since last year, leaving many struggling.

In a special programme, Myra Anubi is in Nairobi, Kenya at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation which rewards the best new innovators on the continent. Their exciting solutions deal with access to healthcare, plastic recycling, waste disposal and pest detection. She meets the finalists and finds out which one of them has walked away with the £50,000 prize.

Presenter: Myra Anubi Producer: Richard Kenny Editor: Jon Bithrey Sound Mix: Annie Gardiner

(Image: Finalists in the 2024 Africa Prize, Royal Academy of Engineering)

A wedding, the funeral of those killed there as well as a hospital were targeted in a series of attacks.

Lucius Banda, who has died aged 53, became known as the "soldier" for the voiceless.