African perspectives on the US election

Focus gets two African perspectives on last week’s American election. How do events in the US compare with the stereotypical idea of an election in Africa? We speak to journalist and media analyst Sulaiman Aledeh in Nigeria and award-winning Nairobi-based political cartoonist Patrick Gathara.

Plus, the latest on fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, will the federal government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front heed African Union calls to end the hostilities?

And we get the latest on a potentially groundbreaking new HIV treatment, which is being developed at South Africa’s Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute.

(Photo: Joe Biden speaking as US Vice President at the US-Africa Business Forum in 2014; Credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)