Just noticed this little blog post on Guardian. Here's the key part:

Monkey is told "Lilli" – as it is known in Bush... sorry, Broadcasting House – is only taking temporary leave for the duration of the London Olympics and Paralympics, after which normal (world) service will be resumed. World, you ...

Despite the schedule on BBC's website saying The World Today Weekend will be on as usual, that show has also been axed... sort of. Actually, only the name has changed - it's now called "Weekend". The intro music is the same and the format with two guests for the entire hour remains. The shorter ...

Am working one of my strange shifts, so I was able to hear much of the show. :)

It was mostly a somewhat somber atmosphere, every half hour they were mentioning it's the last show, they read some Facebook comments and played a montage of biggest news events covered by TWT over the years. Max ...

It does seem a bit strange. On the other hand, TWT Weekend has a completely different format than the weekday edition so maybe their reasoning is to keep the name, format and the rotating presenters and leave the African news tsunami to Newsday on working days.

Hello,

just wanted to let you know some information I got from the BBC WS about the upcoming changes. I emailed them with a couple of questions and this is what I got back:

You are correct the BBC World Service is launching the new programme after 'working' on it for more than a year. Also, it ...