The lack of electricity is pervasive in rural Nigeria, where 90 million people live entirely off the grid. DW's Zaharaddeen Umar asked people in one village in far northern Katsina State how they get by in the dark.

More than one billion people worldwide still have no access to electricity. This lack of power continues to slams the breaks on development, particularly across Africa. In Burkina Faso, though, solar lamps are offering an all-important ray of light at the end of the tunnel.

Federal Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has rejected the planned electricity tariff increase based on inaccurate consumption data.

Lagos government seeks approval for 3,00MW Of electricity generation.

South Africa has seen an explosion of anger in recent weeks -- with township residents burning tyres and attacking police over a lack of employment, shortages of electricity and water, as well as sub-standard education and healthcare.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo joined the CNBC Africa's Buiding Africa debate, themed; Industrialisation key to Africa's economic transformation.

The head of Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service has said it may take another three months to retake Mosul from ISIL in an offensive that began last October.