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Nigerian vote tough to call as week-long delay may hurt turnout

Ballot papers are seen at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Daura, Katsina State, Nigeria, February 22, 2019. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

By Abraham Achirga and Paul Carsten

22/02/2019

YOLA, Nigeria/ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian teacher Benjamin Shagu flew 500 km (310 miles) from the east of the country to the capital, Abuja, to vote in the presidential election - only for the vote to be delayed for a week, just five hours before polls had been due to open.

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How Sisi's backers are planning to change Egypt's constitution

Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi dance on the seventh anniversary of the uprising that ended the 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

22/02/2019

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament is debating proposed constitutional changes that could allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2034 and tighten his control over the judiciary.

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Nigeria's Buhari promises security for delayed presidential election

A cyclist drives pasts a campaign poster for President Muhammadu Buhari in a street after the postponement of the presidential election in Kano, Nigeria, February 17, 2019. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Luc Gnago

By Felix Onuah

22/02/2019

ABUJA (Reuters) - President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday urged Nigerians "to go out and vote", promising that there would be adequate security for Saturday's postponed election that pits him in a tight race with businessman Atiku Abubakar.

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Zambia to start hippo cull in May despite protests

A pair of hippos swim in the waters of St Lucia estuary, South Africa. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

22/02/2019

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia will begin a planned cull of around 2,000 hippos in May, a senior government official said on Friday, reviving a measure put on hold two years earlier amid protests from animal rights activists.

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Egyptian executions follow flawed trials, torture -UN rights office

By Stephanie Nebehay

22/02/2019

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday that trials that led to the executions of 15 people in Egypt this month may have been unfair amid allegations that torture was used to obtain confessions.

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Kenya ride-hailing firm Little has big plans for Africa expansion

Kamal Budhabhatti, CEO of Kenyan ride-hailing firm Little is seen at their offices after a Reuters interview in Nairobi, Kenya, February 21, 2019. PHOTO BY REUTERS/George Nganga

By Omar Mohammed

22/02/2019

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan ride-hailing company Little is expanding to Tanzania and Ghana by May and plans to raise about $50 million more from investors, its chief executive officer said on Friday.

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Forced to beg, Senegal's "talibes" face exploitation and abuse

Omar Wone, 8, from Futa, a Koran student, called a talibe, sits on the floor of the daara (Koranic school) where he lives and learns Koran in Saint-Louis, Senegal, February 8, 2019. Omar was complaining about chest pain. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

By Zohra Bensemra and Juliette Jabkhiro

22/02/2019

SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal (Reuters) - An eight-year-old boy fled his Koranic school in Saint-Louis, Senegal this month after he said a teacher threatened to beat him for not earning enough money begging on the street.

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Attack on Nigeria governor's convoy deadlier than government said - witnesses, security officials

Kashim Shettima, governor of Borno state, gestures during an interview with Reuters in Maiduguri, Nigeria, November 23, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

By Paul Carsten

22/02/2019

ABUJA (Reuters) - Lying in bushes by the side of a road, the security officer played dead and hoped the militants would mistake the blood pooling from a colleague's body as his own. He did not risk looking up to see what was happening, but he could hear.

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Botswana considers allowing big game hunting, culling elephants

A pair of male elephants is seen in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, April 25, 2018. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

22/02/2019

GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana, home to almost a third of Africa's elephants, is considering lifting a ban on big game hunting, to combat what the government says is growing conflict between humans and wildlife.

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Zimbabwe devalues currency as economic crisis deepens

People queue outside a bank in Harare, Zimbabwe, February 22, 2019. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

By Alfonce Mbizwo

22/02/2019

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe underwent a de facto devaluation on Friday as its central bank began trading a sharply discounted replacement currency, attempting to ease a cash crunch that has hobbled the economy and plunged millions deep into poverty.

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