Reporting of Africa

This week we are speaking to BBC correspondents, reflecting on the biggest stories they have covered in 2021 and the people they have encountered. Today the BBC’s Africa correspondent Catherine Byaruhanga talks about her interviews and stories from the continent she has covered this year.

We’ll find out about a study suggesting that hurricanes could be moving out of the tropics into northern latitudes.

We'll answer your questions about the coronavirus pandemic with Dr Pedro Hallal, an epidemiologist from Brazil, who is currently at the University of California in San Diego.

One of the last pro-democracy media organisations in Hong Kong, Stand News, is shutting down after it was raided by police and senior staff were arrested. We’ll play some of the messages from people reacting to the news.

(Photo: A woman stands in line to receive food donations, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 15, 2021. Credit: Baz Ratner/File Photo/Reuters)