South Africa: Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane casts his vote

Father Victor Ntambwe is not content with just reciting psalms during mass on Sunday mornings in Congo's capital. With presidential elections just months away, he has more earthly concerns.

Thousands turn out to opposition-organised protests in South Africa to express deepening frustration over the country's power crisis. Also, in a rare trial of a former president, ex-Mauritanian leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz appears in court on corruption charges.

Police are searching for two gunmen who opened fire on guests at a birthday party in Gqeberha. There has been a growing number of mass shootings in South Africa in recent years.

Germany has decided to supply battle tanks to Ukraine. International law experts are now debating whether this makes Germany a "war party."

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Voters returned to polling booths across the German capital after a botched 2021 election was declared invalid. More voters picked the center-right CDU than any other party, but its candidate may not get to be mayor.

The United States (U.S.) Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said Nigerians have a chance to make their voices heard on Saturday during the election.

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On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, UN member states will vote on a German motion calling for "lasting peace." Though it's non-binding, organizers hope for symbolically broad support.

The three front-runners of the 2023 presidential election, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of the Labor Party, and Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (APC), have all cast their ballots at their respective polling places.

Analysts say the acute shortage of naira notes caused by the currency redesign policy that has crippled Nigeria in the run up to Saturday’s election may have reduced vote buying by political parties.

Taofeek Olakunle Uthman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP), Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Funso Doherty of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) talks about plans and party manifesto if elected governor of Lagos during a debate recently held in Lagos.