{"podcast":{"title":"Focus on Africa","slug":"focus-on-africa-160336","podcast_index_feed_id":160336,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p00gbjvb.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gbjvb","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0fsb9dq.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":1042,"summary":"Two essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the news from Africa. Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T06:24:22.317976+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336"},"episode":{"title":"Pirate attacks on Somalia's shipping lanes","slug":"pirate-attacks-on-somalia-s-shipping-lanes","published_at":"2026-08-25T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336/pirate-attacks-on-somalia-s-shipping-lanes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8n7k","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0p66yj6.mp3","summary":"Somali piracy is rising again. The buccaneers capitalize on security gaps, targeting cargo ships and demanding multi-million dollar ransoms. On Sunday, nine people were reportedly killed in a drone strike on a small boat off the coast of Somalia, in a series of attacks linked to the hijacking of a Cameroon-flagged vessel. And in Mozambique, a simple paper appointment book is helping tackle long clinic queues hoping to bring healthcare services closer to pregnant women Presenter: Nkechi Ogbonna Producers: Keikantse Shumba, Carolyne Kiambo and Blessing Aderogba Senior Producer: Charles Gitonga Technical Producer: David Nzau Editors: Daniel Dadzie and Maryam Abdalla","meta_description":"Somali piracy is rising again. The buccaneers capitalize on security gaps, targeting cargo ships and demanding multi-million dollar ransoms. On Sunday, ni…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1379,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/focus-on-africa-160336/episodes/pirate-attacks-on-somalia-s-shipping-lanes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336/pirate-attacks-on-somalia-s-shipping-lanes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}