NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger’s top court on Sunday confirmed Mohamed Bazoum’s victory in last month’s presidential run-off, allowing the ruling party candidate to be sworn into office next month.
Most mourners in Tanzania’s capital city Dodoma will pay their last respects to President John Magufuli lined up in the streets rather than at Jamhuri Stadium, due to the large number of people in attendance.
Nawal Saadawi, a renowned Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist, died of age-related health problems in Cairo on Sunday, officials said. She was 89.
The leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo was receiving oxygen at a private hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19, a family member said, casting Sunday’s election into doubt on the eve of the vote.
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