Investigative magazine show, Africa Investigates, returns to Al Jazeera for a 2nd season from Wednesday 12 November.

Africa Investigates, the investigative magazine show on Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / StarSat 257) returns for a second season to the 24-hour TV news channel from Wednesday 12 November at 22:30.

The first episode of the second season of Africa Investigates is entitled "Liberia: Living with Ebola".

Sirous Samura and Mae Azango explores the reaity of living through the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic and ask whether the Liberian government is making the Ebola crisis worse in which already 5 000 people died in eight nations.

For the piece Sirous Samura and Mae Azango filmed with a Red Cross body collection team who risk their lives travelling around Monrovia picking up the dangerously contagious corpses of the deceased.

They also spent time in an Ebola treatment unit run by Medecins Sans Frontieres and followed emergency response teams working in the Red Light slum, one of Monrovia's poorest and most densely populated areas.

"This groundbreaking series gives some of Africa's best journalists the opportunity to pursue high-level investigative targets across the continent," says Diarmuid Jeffreys, Al Jazeera English's executive producer.

BREAKING. Al Jazeera to start a brand-new, hard-hitting investigative magazine show, Africa Investigates, to cover the entire African continent.

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Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / TopTV 401) is becoming the first 24 hour global news channel to produce a brand-new weekly show as an investigate programme and devote a weekly timeslot to a hard-hitting investigative magazine show that will be specifically covering Africa and set out to uncover corruption and expose fraud and crime on the continent.

Africa Investigtes will start on Wednesday 2 November at 23:30 (South African time with several weekly repeats) on Al Jazeera as a groundbreaking new weekly show and a true world first for journalist in Africa.

Africa Investigates - with the first episode (2 November) that will talk to the various journalists who will be working on the show and who will explain the many dangers they face - will aim to uncover everything from corruption, fraud, abuse to child trafficking across the length and breadth of Africa.

The second episode of Africa Investigates on 9 November will focus on the gold fraudsters of Ghana.

Al Jazeera describes Africa Investigates as a ''hard-hitting investigative programme which gives some of Africa's best journalists the opportunity to pursue high-level targets across the continent'' and a show that will ''put wrongdoing and abuse under an international television spotlight''.