{"podcast":{"title":"Eye on Africa","slug":"eye-on-africa-3737193","podcast_index_feed_id":3737193,"rss_url":"https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-africa/podcast","website_url":"https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-africa/","image_url":"https://s.france24.com/media/display/bfad3f3c-7beb-11ef-b7c3-005056a90284/w:1400/p:1x1/EN-LE%20JOURNAL%20DE%20L%27AFRIQUE_1-1-1.jpg","author":"FRANCE 24 English","episode_count":24,"summary":"Join Georja Calvin-Smith for news, voices and stories from across Africa and the Maghreb, with FRANCE 24’s correspondents and our guests on set. From Monday to Friday at 9:45pm Paris time.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T08:17:49.683030+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-africa-3737193"},"episode":{"title":"Love, deception and the real lives of Nigeria's romance fraudsters","slug":"love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigeria-s-romance-fraudsters","published_at":"2026-07-06T20:28:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-africa-3737193/love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigeria-s-romance-fraudsters","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-africa-3737193","url":"https://www.france24.com/en/love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigeria-s-romance-fraudsters?GJlXzGgqHj","audio_url":"https://audio.audiomeans.fr/pfx/b035a7c4-de15-11ef-9e7b-cfc4fb0c91f4/vod-france24.akamaized.net/en/vod/2026/07/06/ANGL260706-2141-Live_8000.mp4?guid=2c1ec6ce-7977-11f1-bea6-afbb4e7f52ba&source=GJlXzGgqHj","summary":"In this edition: France pulls all its diplomats out of Burkina Faso in a tit-for-tat move after Ougadougou cut ties with Paris last month. Also, in Tanzania, young people are planning on taking to the streets for an anti-government protest on Tuesday. And Lagos's Yahoo Boys are behind a lucrative but heartbreaking industry of online love scams. After his mother was sucked in, journalist Carlos Barragan uncovered a complex and uncomfortable web of loneliness, deceit and betrayal.","meta_description":"In this edition: France pulls all its diplomats out of Burkina Faso in a tit-for-tat move after Ougadougou cut ties with Paris last month. Also, in Tanzan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":916,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/eye-on-africa-3737193/episodes/love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigeria-s-romance-fraudsters/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-africa-3737193/love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigeria-s-romance-fraudsters.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}