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With Tanzanian guests unable to join, host Semantics King Jr. took Hour 1 alone, walking through the vote, the dead, the Lissu trial and Zanzibar. Hour 2 featured the Oromo Community of Minnesota.
On The Africa Desk Live, Chief Svosve Dzvokora, former North America chairperson of the Citizens Coalition for Change, said the amendment ends one person, one vote. The government was offered a right of reply.
On The Africa Desk Live, Congolese rights defender Julienne Lusenge said the war is driven by minerals, and Minnesota's Kilo Kisongo described building a school in South Kivu with money he earned driving for Uber.
Fifteen conversations into its 54-country series, MORE's weekly program has built an audience of nearly 10,000 followers without spending a dollar on ads.
The Africa Desk Live wrote to Burkina Faso's Minister of Communication about the treatment of journalists and offered to read any reply in full. None came.
The Africa Desk Live examined Ethiopia's June election, renewed fighting in the north and five journalists held for nearly three years without a concluded trial.
With three Malian editors jailed or on trial under a cybercrime law, MORE's program declined to ask Malian voices to take the risk and reported the record instead.
The world's largest cocoa producer set a record farm gate price before its election, then cut it by about 57 percent mid-season as global prices collapsed.
Mma Amara Ekeruche and Professor Bongo Adi say growth and reserves are up while private spending stalls, and Dr. Gilles Yabi weighs what it means for West Africa.
Afrobarometer data show 77 percent of Gambians say the country is heading in the wrong direction, up from 29 percent in 2018, as a December election nears under the old constitution.