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[RFI] Senegal votes on Sunday in a presidential election that is expected to be the most tightly contested in years. Before polls opened, a team of a thousand observers drawn from civil society was preparing to monitor the long-awaited vote.

[Premium Times] The police in Senegal say it is deploying 10,000 personnel across 6,341 polling stations for Sunday's election

[Premium Times] The army said the troops have continued to maintain momentum in the ongoing Operations Desert Sanity III to rid the North-east of terrorists and insurgents.

The election was due last month but the outgoing president postponed it, triggering deadly protests.

[RFI] Prominent Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera, released from prison this week after spending six months behind bars, has accused the government of seeking to intimidate journalists looking into the death of an opposition politician.

[VOA] The bodies of at least 65 migrants have been discovered in a mass grave in Libya, the International Organization for Migration said Friday, adding that it is "profoundly shocked and alarmed."

Record levels of crime are driving more and more people to buy firearms to protect themselves.

Record levels of crime are driving more and more people to buy firearms to protect themselves.

Record levels of crime are driving more and more people to buy firearms to protect themselves.

[State Department] London -- MODERATOR: Greetings to everyone from the U.S. Department of State's London International Media Hub. I would like to welcome our participants dialing in from around the world for this on-the-record briefing with U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello. Special Envoy Perriello will discuss urgent U.S. efforts for peace and an immediate end to the war and humanitarian crisis in Sudan. We are pleased to offer this briefing with simultaneous translation into Arabic. We

Their rivalry underpins a big divide in the nation, regarded as a beacon of West African democracy.

Their rivalry underpins a big divide in the nation, regarded as a beacon of West African democracy.

Those who died were believed to be being smuggled through the desert to reach the Mediterranean coast.

Those who died were believed to be being smuggled through the desert to reach the Mediterranean coast.

Markus Jooste dies one day after being ordered to pay a $25m fine for accounting fraud in South Africa.

President Museveni has denied speculation that he is grooming his son as his successor.

[Premium Times] PZ Cussons (Holdings) UK set out on 4 September 2023 to purchase other stockholders' shares numbering 1.06 billion at N21 per unit.

[Ayin English] The South Sudan National Army, also known as the South Sudan People's Defense Force, (SSPDF) has distanced itself from any links or connection to the 14 South Sudanese mercenaries captured by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), allegedly fighting alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week during the recapture of the Radio and Television Corporation headquarters, a location the RSF controlled since the onset of the war.

Nathan Doualla is cleared to play in Cameroon's Elite League play-offs without revealing how the international midfielder proved his identity amid age cheating allegations.

[Premium Times] Kano State according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) tops the diphtheria disease charts in the country.