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Officials in Libya have issued arrest warrants for over 200 Libyans and foreigners believed to have been involved in a smuggling syndicate abusing African migrants trying to get to Europe.

Heavy rains on Thursday morning in Kenya caused havoc as parts of the capital city, Nairobi were flooded disrupting the activities of many city dwellers headed to work.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday defended his administration’s response and handling of the abduction of over 100 students from Dapchi in Yobe state.

Africa’s only serving female president so far the Mauritius’ President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has refused to resign after it was announced last week that she would do so once the country marks its 50th independence anniversary celebrations on 12 March.

The people of Sierra Leone will go to the polls again on March 27 to elect a new president in a run-off vote.

Over thirty people are reported to have died after the bus they were travelling in plunged off a cliff in northern Ethiopia.

The presidency of Nigeria has announced that it will be negotiating for the release of 110 girls abducted from a school in the northeastern town of Dapchi in the Yobe state.

The former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has accused his successor of being a “hypocrite” and has refused to endorse him ahead of the general elections later this year.

Soldiers in Ethiopia have killed nine civilians after mistaking them for militants close to its border with Kenya. The incident which occurred on Sunday also led to 12 people sustaining injuries.

Hundreds of women took to the streets in the Tunisian capital on Saturday to demand equal inheritance rights as men, a subject often seen as taboo in the Arab world.