PwC estimates the amount of dead capital in residential real estate and agricultural land alone could be between $300 to $900 billion. Andrew Nevin, Partner and Chief Economist at PwC Nigeria joins CNBC Africa to explore ways to unlocking Nigeria’s dead capital.

Nigeria's ministry of budget and National planning has made public the much anticipated economic recovery and growth plan. Kayode Akindele, Partner, TIA Capital joins CNBC Africa to for more.

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Somalia's new president, has been sworn in under tight security at a ceremony in the capital, Mogadishu.

Turkey is stepping up its involvement in Syria's war. As Turkish-backed forces secure control of Al-Bab, the president has said for the first time that he intends to press on towards ISIL's self-declared capital in Syria, Raqqa.

More than two dozen Nobel Peace prize winners, from Lech Walesa to Rigoberta Manchu, are in Colombia’s capital Bogota for the 16th annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

Tanzania’s government has started relocating its capital from the port city of Dar es Salaam to Dodoma.