Ethiopia goes to the polls next month

Ethiopia's main opposition leader stresses the importance of next month's elections as the prime minister's party faces its first test since the crisis in Tigray began.

Also, School and university kidnappings common in the north of Nigeria, now rear their ugly head in the south.

And the Zulu Queen Regent is buried according to royal ritual in South Africa.

(Picture: Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed. Credit: Reuters)