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[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce the date for the 2024 national elections within 15 days of the State of the Nation Address, which is to be delivered tomorrow evening.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe's cabinet has approved the abolition of death sentences.

[Premium Times] "The government is very concerned about what Nigerians are going through, especially what happened in Minna yesterday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Caucus of Opposition Parties (CoP), an umbrella of eleven opposition groups in Ethiopia, expressed their opposition to the extension of the state of emergency in the Amhara region for four months last week.

[Shabelle] Bosaso, Somalia -- Somali soldiers trained in Eritrea today closed the roads around the main airport in Bosaso city, complaining of lack of salary.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has suspended the government's directive requiring parents to pay school fees for children in government-owned schools through the e-Citizen online platform.

[Reporter] MPs are expected to approve an executive reshuffle tomorrow that will see the appointment of a successor to Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen.

[Vanguard] Hosts Cote D'Ivoire will be looking at continuing their rollercoaster run in the AFCON when they take on DR Congo in the second semi-final fixture billed for Wednesday.

[The New Humanitarian] Dongola -- 'I only realised their value when my money and belongings were stolen right in front of my eyes.'

[The Conversation Africa] The memorandum of understanding between Ethiopia and Somaliland announced on 1 January 2024 set off diplomatic rows in the Horn of Africa - and beyond.

[The Conversation Africa] On 27 January 2024, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their plan to withdraw from membership of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), despite repeated efforts at reconciliation.

[The Conversation Africa] Senegal's President Macky Sall announced in early February that presidential elections, originally scheduled for 25 February, would be postponed indefinitely. The announcement has raised fears of popular protests, violent repression, a once democratic president transforming into an authoritarian ruler - and possibly even another coup d'état in west Africa.

[allAfrica] The tenth Conference of Parties (COP 10) of the World Health Organization's (WHO) meeting on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is currently underway in Panama until February 10th, 2024.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The Western Cape High Court upheld the ban placed on some opposition party leaders from attending President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address (SONA) tomorrow - Thursday, February 8, 2024.

[New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and Finance Ministry will soon be implementing a 'raft' of new policies to save the country's heavily battered dollar and deal with galloping inflation.

The internet outage comes on top of a 10-month civil war which has forced nine million from their homes.

[Ghanaian Times] At least seven people died on the spot and four others suffered injuries when a fuel tanker crashed into a Toyota Hiace mini-bus around China Mall at Sapeiman on the Accra-Nsawam road in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.

[Premium Times] The deputy vice-chancellor was abducted on 26 January from a petrol station where he drove in to refuel his car.

[GroundUp] The station was completed at the end of December after a 10-year wait

[RFI] Senegal's opposition Tuesday denounced a "constitutional coup" after parliament voted to delay the presidential election by 10 months, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades.