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Nigerians abroad share their thoughts ahead of presidential elections/in /by
Last week a Nigerian court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to allow Nigerians to vote outside the country. The Nigerian constitution states that only registered voters "residing in Nigeria" have the right to vote
Burkina Faso holds reburial ceremony for Thomas Sankara/in /by
The bodies of former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions, assassinated on October 15, 1987 during a coup, were Thursday reburied at the site of their murder in Ouagadougou
Nigeria longs for return to robust growth [Business Africa]/in /by
Beset by inflation, high unemployment, rising debt and falling oil production, Nigeria’s economy has featured prominently in the election campaign discourse. Growth has been underwhelming over the last decade and the country's incoming leaders must act quickly to change the course of the economy
Energy-starved S.Africa offers tax breaks to boost green power/in /by
Starting March 1, "businesses will be able to reduce their taxable income by 125 percent of the cost of an investment in renewables", said Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana as he presented his annual budget to parliament
CEO of South Africa’s public electricity company Eskom ousted/in /by
CEO Andre de Ruyter, who was undermined by scandals and unable to supply the country with electricity, was ousted on Wednesday, Eskom announced.
Severe damage by cyclone Freddy in the city of Mananjary in Madagascar/in /by

It made landfall north of Mananjary, a coastal town of 25,000 people that remains devastated by last year’s Cyclone Batsirai, which killed more than 130 people.

South Sudan’s president urges refugees to return home/in /by
President Salva Kiir has urged more than two million refugees to return home after civil war erupted almost a decade ago.
Tunisian rights group denounces President Saied’s hate speech/in /by
Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights reacted to President Kais Saied's comments accusing sub-Saharan African migrants of causing crime while posing a demographic threat
Last year was the deadliest for civilians in Somalia since 2017/in /by
An increase in attacks by the Islamist Al-Shabaab group was to blame, the UN's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated.
Mayweather vows victory in London exhibition fight/in /by
The former five-weight world champion will take on ex-reality TV star and MMA fighter Aaron Chalmers at London's O2 arena on Saturday just one day after his 46th birthday