Setting up this high profile interview with Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos wasn’t easy. Isabel Dos Santos was once dubbed “Africa’s richest woman”. Now, she claims that the embezzlement and corruption accusations against her are due to a “political persecution”.

Isabel Dos Santos, once dubbed “Africa’s richest woman”, has hit out at the UK for imposing sanctions on her, telling the BBC the move came as a surprise as she had not been found guilty of “any corruption in any court in any country”.
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In this BBC World Service podcast, we interviewed the Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr Dennis Mukwege who, for the last 25 years, has worked with the women who have been injured through violent sexual assault and rape in the east of the DR Congo.

Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

In my first ever podcast for the BBC World Service, I produced an episode on the Congo Basin and why some climate activists have been calling for its urgent need of protection from deforestation.

Listen to my episode here:

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