Mali accuses France of spying while the French allege mercenaries from Russia tried to cover up a massacre +++ A wave of anti-immigrant protests in South Africa creates fear among migrants +++ In the Central African Republic, a nurse devotes her life to helping ensure care and safe births for pregnant women +++ Stars walk the carpet at Cameroon's International Film Festival, CAMIFF.
Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi visits The 77 Percent to talk free speech and women's rights. In Kenya, young poet Hope Wambui is determined to change Kibera for the better. Ivorian artist Laetitia Ky stuns with her taboo-tackling hair sculptures. And we discover the quirky classic car scene in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
Is democracy dying in the Sahel? DW News Africa looks at two coups in the Continent's arc of instability: Burkina Faso and Sudan. Plus: Ghislain lives in CAR's biggest internally displaced people’s camp - and is determined to become an ambassador, despite his disability. And: How old manuscripts have tourists spellbound in Mauritania.
What is driving the coups in West Africa? Plus South Africans are hopeful about life returning to normal after omicron COVID-19 infections fall. The people trying to change Tanzania's grim record on women dying in childbirth, a female boda boda motorbike taxi driver in Kenya breaks down barriers and a look forward at the knockout stage in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.