Africa correspondent Debora Patta
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English - February 20, 2022 20:50 - 8 minutes - 8.12 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The drought in Horn of Africa, Debora outlines how it is affecting Somalia and Ethiopia. She also looks at instability in many parts of the continent, including coups in Sudan and Burkina Faso, and the French military has pulled out of Mali. All this is against a backdrop of 18 different extremist groups on the rise across Africa. Meanwhile the the Omicron wave is subsiding in South Africa where it was first discovered, with scientists saying this could be the country's pandemic exit wave.