The youngest African woman to climb Mount Everest

Focus on Africa meets 20-year-old Rawan Dakik, the youngest African woman to climb Mount Everest. She is also the first woman from Tanzania to scale the world’s highest peak, and says she wants to be an inspiration to others.

Plus, Uganda’s Permanent Secretary in the Minsitry of Health Dr Diana Atwine discusses the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country.

And Cameroonian artist TZ Panchak talks to DJ Edu about how his personal experience of the conflict in his country’s Anglophone regions.

(Photo: Rawan Dakik; Credit: Rawan Dakik)