Focus on Africa
DRC children fathered by UN peacekeepers
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2 July 2025
30 minutes
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Mothers in the DRC struggling to raise children fathered and abandoned by UN peacekeepers amid fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Also in the programme: we ask South Africa's minister of police whether he's lost control of the spiralling gang violence in Cape Town.
And the rising wave of South Korean culture sweeping across Africa.
Presenter: Richard Kagoe
Producers: Blessing Aderogba, Nyasha Michelle,
Bella Hassan Yvette Twagiramariya, Amie Liebowitz
Technical Producer: Philip Bull
Senior Journalist: Sunita Nahar
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
