
Ebola clinic attacked in the DRC
A second attack in a week on Ebola clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Nigeria's incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is set to win the 2019 Presidential Elections by a comfortable margin of almost four million votes, according to official results. However, the opposition's People Democratic Party has rejected the results, with their Chairman branding the vote count as "incorrect and unacceptable". President Buhari's victory comes amidst a delayed polling date and a sharp fall in turnout figures. Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham Nic Cheeseman looks at why the voters' turn up was so low, while the BBC correspondent Ishaq Khalid speaks to market vendors in Kano State, where almost 80% of the voters chose President Buhari
+ In a worrying development taking place in the north eastern DR Congo, there has been another attack on an Ebola treatment centre, this time in Butembo in North Kivu. It follows a first attack this week in the nearby town of Katwa.
+ Why is the massive statue of a chicken causing a stir among Zambian resident in Lusaka?
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