Spotlight on Africa

Elections, coups and human rights progress across Africa

Issued on: 22/12/2015 - 14:36

RFI’s Nancy Fleming takes a look back at some of 2015’s biggest stories on the African continent.

Migrants lay in a navy base, after a boat sank off the coast in Tripoli on 21 December, 2015. Reuters/Hani Amara

By: Nancy Fleming

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