
Church Says DR Congo Polls Produced A 'Clear Winner'
Catholic bishops have announced that there was a clear winner among the 21 presidential candidates.
The influential Catholic Church in the DRC has said that - based on results it has seen from Sunday's elections - there was a clear winner among the 21 presidential candidates, but have not named the presumed victor.
Plus Somalia's foreign minister defends his government's decision to expel UN envoy Nicholas Haysom accusing him of "violating country's sovereignty".
And we hear from a new theatre project in Nigeria, that's rekindling interest in a 12th century Yoruba Queen of Ife Kingdom.
(Image: Catholic bishops at a news conference in the DRC capital, Kinshasa. Credit: BBC)
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