Main content

Nile River: Ethiopia to start filling Renaissance dam by July
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
Ethiopia has said it will start filling the Renaissance dam in July, after most of the works will have been completed.
Has one of Malawi's Electoral commissioners finally bowed to intense public pressure against the body and stepped down?
We hear from Somalia where people are finding inventive and even artistic ways through poetry and song to share how to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
(Picture: Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopioa. Credit: AFP/ Getty Images)
Last on
Tue 12 May 202015:06GMT
BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
Broadcast
- Tue 12 May 202015:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
Podcast
![]()
Focus on Africa
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.


