
Zimbabwe's President formally inaugurated
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
After the Constitutional Courts affirmed his election victory on Friday, Emmerson Mnangagwa is formally inaugurated as president of Zimbabwe + South Sudan starts pumping out valuable export - oil - once again, we speak to Petroleum Minister + Migrants are disembarked in Italy after a week standoff between the Italian government and the European Commission. What's next for asylum seekers? + Free school education to be made available to 1.5 million school children in Sierra Leone - but what's in the bag for their teachers?
(Photo: Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa inspects the guard of honour. Credit: JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Sun 26 Aug 201819:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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