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[State Department] The United States is gravely concerned by the rise in violence against civilians in northern and eastern Burkina Faso in late February.

[CPJ] Senegalese reporter Ndèye Maty Niang, also known as Maty Sarr Niang, would have likely jumped at the chance to report on the political crisis gripping her country since the president postponed elections in early February. But Niang can't cover the news - she's in a women's prison awaiting trial.

[Vanguard] Gov. Alex Otti of Abia State, has debunked media reports claiming that he sued President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Federal Government.

[SAnews.gov.za] The governments of South Africa and the Netherlands have undertaken to explore more cooperation opportunities in the water and sanitation sector in order to strength the existing relations between the two States.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed highlighted the importance of utilizing the key values of Adwa victory for nation-building in his message on the 128th Adwa Victory Day.

[Foroyaa] Foroyaa has emphasised when the issue of investment to manage the Senegambia Bridge arose, that The Gambia Ferry Services Limited should have been commissioned to establish a management service for the bridges since they were in charge of the ferries which facilitated crossings between the two banks of the river. It was strongly recommended for the government to exploit the strategic position of the Gambia Ferry Services Limited to position it to be in charge of income generating sovereign assets that

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government needs about 100 million dollars to implement the pilot rail electrification project, from Maputo city to the border with South Africa at Ressano Garcia, over a length of 88 kilometres.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has claimed that, despite the terrorism that has been plaguing some districts of the northern province of Cabo Delgado since 2017, the country is relatively stable.

[Vanguard] Jose Peseiro has confirmed he is no longer the coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A resolution for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court for Liberia is expected to be put on the floor of the lower house of the National Legislature next week, in the wake of the visit of Beth Van Schaack, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice to Liberia, FrontPageAfrica has reliably learnt.

[New Zimbabwe] A BOMB scare at Victoria Falls International Airport has forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Falcon 7X aircraft to be turned back to Harare.

[Vanguard] The Federal Government yesterday acknowledged that the abysmal level of power supply in the country is denying citizens the opportunity to live a good life.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has formalised the planned deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti by signing an agreement.

[Dabanga] Addis Ababa -- Five prominent Sudanese organisations agreed to establish an anti-corruption alliance at the end of the Sudan Business for Peace conference in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa yesterday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Tigray Education Bureau has issued a stark warning, indicating more than a quarter of a million students are at risk of discontinuing their education due to the imminent threat of starvation resulting from the ongoing drought crisis.

[RFI] Senegal's President Macky Sall has again insisted he will leave power on 2 April, the day his mandate ends, despite postponing the election that would have picked his successor. The opposition has demanded that the vote be held before Sall's term is up, but so far the president has only committed to calling an election before the end of July.

[DW] Thirty years since its first post-apartheid election, many South African voters are fed up. The ruling ANC could lose its majority for the first time.

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its latest report on the state of terrorism around the world. The 2023 report, dubbed the Global Terrorism Index, shows a dramatic rise in the number of terrorism-related deaths while revealing that the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed more deaths from terrorism than the much-publicized Middle East.

[HRW] Many adolescent girls and women in Mozambique, who are pregnant or parenting, drop out of school because they face huge barriers and get inadequate support from schools at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Even though Mozambique's government revoked discriminatory measures against pregnant students and adolescent mothers over five years ago, many teachers and education and school officials lack clear instructions on protecting their

[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- The former president of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is expected to return to the country on Friday.