Focus on Africa - Ethiopian forces capture Shire in northern Tigray
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In Ethopia there are grave concerns for people in the town of Shire in the northern Tigray region after days of intense fighting.. Government forces have taken it from the Tigray People's Liberation Front and two other towns.
Also in today's podcast, President Emmerson Mnanagagwa of Zimabwe has said he's launching a commission to heal wounds by talking of operation Gukurahundi where more than 20,000 were massacred in Matabeleland.. We hear from a representative of survivors.
And we hear about the power of Oba Obirin - so called Female Kings not Queens in ancient Yorubaland.
Those stories and more in this podcast with Bola Mosuro.
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2022.
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