Guinea-Bissau elects Umaro Sissoco Embaló as new president

Guinea-Bissau has a new president. Former prime minister Umaro Sissoco Embaló has been declared the winner of the elections held on Sunday. So can the country now hope for the political stability it craves following a decade marred with coups? We speak to Head of the African Union Election Observation Mission in Guinea-Bissau, Joaquim Raphael Branco.

We interview a group of Nairobi DJs who's been recording the indigenous sounds of the Samburu people of Northern Kenya and turning them into addictive electronic music tracks.

Ghana is the latest west African country saying it wants to adopt a new currency called Eco, but what is the Eco and why the recent interest in it? Our correspondent Thomas Naadi has been speaking to Dr Said Aboakye of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

(Photo: Supporters of newly elected President Umaro Sissoco Embalo celebrate on January 1, 2020 in Bissau after the anouncement of the election results. Credit: SEYLLOU/AFP via Getty Images)