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Cameroon tables special status law on English-speaking regions+++Nigerians unhappy with fracas within President Buhari's inner circle+++Africans demand funding to address climate disasters at Madrid climate conference+++Rwanda drops tax on sanitary pads.

Nigerian Newspaper to start addressing President Buhari by his military title and call his government a regime+++More than 70 killed in attack on Niger military camp+++Gerson Liebl originary from Togo finds himself stateless after moving to Germany.

No 'dark Christmas': S African leader promises action over power cuts+++ECOWAS court throws out Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu case+++Cycling towards a green economy in Botswana

Nairobi governor denies graft charges +++ South Sudan's speaker resigns over corruption scandal +++ Nigeria intensifies fight against piracy +++ Psychiatrist condemns abuse of mental patients in Nigeria

France pledges support to Cameroon+++ Merkel makes first Auschwitz trip as chancellor +++ Three dead in building collapse in Kenyan capital.

Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission ends its first year of public hearings+++Nigeria's senate passes an increased budget for 2020+++A young Zambian entrepreneur turns a hobby into a movement that helps men keep long beards across the country.

Uganda's Museveni leads much-derided walk against graft+++Zambia's President Edgar Lungu stands by strict anti-homosexuality laws+++Kenya's struggle to stop fake medicines

Do LGBTs have a place in The Gambia?+++Enraged disabled Kenyans take on Mt Kilimanjaro+++Uganda effects ban on importation of used vehicles to protect environment

World leaders call for coordinated action on climate +++Outrage after Cameroon Airlines passenger jet shot at over Bamenda+++A terror plot foiled in S.Africa+++Sex ed goes public in S.Sudan+++The Ugandans who were evicted German coffee maker

The campaign to force Gambia's president, Adama Barrow, to step down gathers momentum +++ Sudan's old ruling party is dissolved +++ 5G technology set to come to Africa +++ South Africa's Eshowe community winning the fight against HIV/AIDS +++ Shoppers in Ghana enjoy 'Black Friday' sales

DR Congo's armed groups attacked and killed Ebola response workers +++ Benin orders EU Ambassador to leave the country +++ A Chinese refinery is identified as the cause of a very bad odor washing over parts of the Gambia +++ DW speaks to Yien Oral Lam Tut, South Sudan’s minister of higher education, science and technology on the strategies they use to develop their youngsters

WHO pulls dozens of staff from DRC amid mounting insecurity+++Cameroon’s opposition leader calls for boycott of February 2020 elections+++ High expectations as Namibia goes to the polls

Violence against women in Africa +++ Nobel laureate, Denis Mukwege speaks preventing violence against women +++Kenya's flood deaths top 40 +++ A cemetery in South Sudan now houses the homeless +++ Malawi's health facilities go years without water and electricity

Nigeria ranked 3rd most terrorized country globally in the latest global terrorism report +++ Supporters of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh led by his party APRC call for his return home from exile+++African refugees living in Rwanda call on the UN to relocate them to Europe or the US+++Ghanaian traders count losses due to Nigerian border closure

Ethiopia's ethnic Sidama hold a referendum to determine whether to form a semi-autonomous region+++Petition against Zambia's constitutional Reforms to extend President’s powers +++The Ugandan National Drug Authority recalls a million defective condoms

Germany pledges more investment for African nations pursuing reforms +++ UN warns of mounting humanitarian crisis in Africa's Sahel as jiahadist attacks surge +++ World Toilet Day: Lack of toilets in Nigeria.

Trial of seven Cameroonian soldiers for murders of two women and their children adjourned+++Ethiopia's Sidamas prepare to vote on regional independence+++President Buhari's party has won the key oil-rich state of Bayelsa.

A new draft constitution in The Gambia could disqualify incumbent president from running +++ Uganda-Rwanda tensions threatens the unity of the East African Community +++ How can South Sudan rivals build trust between themselves? +++ Nigeria's ex-education minister talks to AfricaLink on state of affairs in her country

What came out of the BRICS summit? +++ One language for all of Africa +++ Zimbabwe unveils its 2020 budget +++ Nigeria mulls death penalty for hate speech +++ Big problems for South Africa’s airline +++ Guinea tensions

Ugandan opposition trying to send President Museveni to ICC+++French President Macron calls for greater international cooperation at the Paris peace forum+++Teachers and students are still on strike in public schools and colleges in Malawi.