{"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":996,"summary":"Two essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the news from Africa. Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T04:18:30.182171+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336"},"episode":{"title":"Who is in charge in Somalia?","slug":"who-is-in-charge-in-somalia","published_at":"2026-05-18T15:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336/who-is-in-charge-in-somalia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nlxqsl","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0nlxpkd.mp3","summary":"Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's four-year tenure came to an end on May 15th. However, a contentious constitutional amendment has extended it by a year. The country had failed to hold elections over controversy regarding electoral reforms. We hear how Somalia got here, and what is next for the country. Also, Zimbabwe plans to return commercial farms to white farmers more than two decades after it was seized. Presenter: Nkechi Ogbonna Producers: Keikantse Shumba, Bella Twine and Rukia Bulle Technical Producer: David Kinyanjui Senior Producer: Charles Gitonga Editors: Priya Sippy and Maryam Abdalla","meta_description":"Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's four-year tenure came to an end on May 15th. However, a contentious constitutional amendment has extended it b…","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/who-is-in-charge-in-somalia/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/who-is-in-charge-in-somalia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}