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BBC Hausa was the first African-language service operated by the BBC and is one of the five African languages it broadcasts. The service was launched on 13 March 1957 at 09:30 GMT with a 15-minute programme by the BBC World Service presented by Aminu Abdullahi Malumfashi: a translated version was later read by Abubakar Tunau in the programme West Africa in the News.
Two years after establishing BBC Abuja office in 2004, Tangaza was deployed to Nigeria and appointed the BBC's Abuja editor, tasked with planning and co-ordinating BBC's coverage from Nigeria. [4] She became acting Head of BBC Hausa responsible for overseeing the Service's daily output as well as coordinating activities both in London and Abuja ...
On 24 July 2013, it was added to the Roku streaming player. Sky News International is available on news.sky.com to viewers around the world. On 30 September 2014, Sky News began live streaming the channel on YouTube. [37] The free streaming service Pluto TV also offers a live feed of Sky News to American users on channel 135.
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces a bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa , Swahili and French.
BBC Arabic can also be seen via bbc.co.uk/Arabic/. The website includes a 16:9 live stream of the channel. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, showing live news programmes mixed with current affairs programmes, documentaries and occasional light entertainment. Newshour, an hour-long news bulletin is broadcast every evening at 18:00 GMT.
Focus on Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel, and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [1] The programme was presented by Komla Dumor each weekday from its inception until his sudden death, aged 41, in January 2014. [2]
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. It is one of the most popular news websites, [ 3 ] with 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021, [ 4 ] as well as being used by 60% of the UK's internet users for news.
Note: BBC NI and UTV are based in Northern Ireland, RTÉ and Virgin Media Television in the Republic of Ireland. However all four are available to most viewers throughout the island of Ireland, with UTV now accepting advertising from the Republic and targeting some of its programmes specifically at viewers in the Republic.