South Africa’s unions strike over the high cost of living

Also in the programme, voting has ended in Angola in what has been described as the closest run presidential election, the country has seen since independence from Portugal in 1975. The incumbent, João Lourenço, of the governing MPLA is up against Adalberto Costa Júnior, who leads the rebel-turned opposition group UNITA, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been in Sudan to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the rule of the former Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir and Focus on Africa speaks to the Ethiopian who’s developed a laser technology to detect water on the moon.

(Photo: COSATU supporters striking. Credit: Reuters)