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Somalia's MPs get ready for presidential vote
Somalia’s members of parliament, and not citizens, will elect the country's next president on 15 May.
Somalia will hold its long-awaited presidential election this Sunday, 15 May, almost 15 months after they were initially scheduled to take place.
Religious and political leaders in Nigeria call for calm following the killing of Christian student accused of blasphemy against Islam.
And the Resident Presidents take inspiration from our ancestors to come up with a solution for the recent power outages in some countries.
Photo: Campaign billboards on a street in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Credit:EPA.
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