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But his main rival Bobi Wine claims vote-rigging and vows to produce evidence.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a decisive re-election victory on Saturday, elections officials said, but his main rival Bobi Wine alleged widespread fraud and said citizens should reject the result.

A third of the population of Madagascar will suffer from food insecurity due to ongoing droughts and a recession.

An increasing number of civilians are becoming victims of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.

We speak to reporters in six global regions about hopes and expectations for the new US administration.

Joyce, 17, explores progress towards the goal of clean water for all in her country, Rwanda.

The conflict threatens the stability of the entire region, the EU’s top diplomat says.

The family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi had launched the posthumous bid to overturn his conviction.

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in presidential elections, rejecting as a “complete sham” early results that gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead.

There are concerns that the Covid-19 pandemic has created the environment for a rise in FGM cases in Kenya.

French motorcyclist Pierre Cherpin has died from his injuries after a fall during the Dakar Rally, becoming the notoriously perilous race’s first fatality this year, organisers said on Friday.

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond.

In tonight’s edition: Ugandans turn out for a landmark election amidst an internet blackout. Former pop star Bobi Wine takes on President Yoweri Museveni’s 35-year rule following a bloody campaign in which the longtime leader’s opponents were regularly targeted. Also, this Thursday marks 10 years since Tunisia’s revolution, which saw the toppling of then leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali following a wave of protests. A decade on, the country is held up as a rare example of democratic progress, but frustrations continue.

On the eve of Caf making Issa Hayatou its ‘honorary president’, a former official says it has taken too long to recognise African football’s longest ruler.

January 14, 2011 was a historic day for Tunisia. After 29 days of an unprecedented uprising, and in the first of the Arab Spring revolutions, dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled by his own people. A decade on, how is Tunisia’s young democracy faring? Free elections have been held, but politics are often tumultuous. Some 13 different governments have run the country in the decade since the revolution, amid an ongoing economic crisis. Our correspondents spoke to ordinary Tunisians, as well as politicians and activists, to get their point of view on their country’s democracy.

Uganda has restricted internet access ahead of elections, but it’s not the only African country to have done this.

The BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga speaks to voters as they wait to cast their ballots.

This week marks ten years since deposed strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia, the first to fall as the 2011 Arab Spring took hold across North Africa and the Middle East. Although democratic advances have been made, many Tunisians feel that the revolution’s promise of a better life never really materialised, particularly in the country’s poorer south and interior. FRANCE 24 brings you the fourth and final instalment of a series of reports from Tunisia, a decade after the dawn of the Arab Spring.

Ugandans began voting in a tense election Thursday under heavy security and an internet blackout as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni pursues a sixth term against challenger Bobi Wine, a former pop star half his age.

In tonight’s edition: Uganda braces for tense presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday. It is doing so without internet, as a blackout descends on the eve of the vote and security is beefed up in the capital Kampala. We bring you a special edition of the show.

More than 80 civilians died in the latest attack in an area of western Ethiopia that has seen recurring grisly violence in recent months, the national human rights commission said Wednesday.

This week marks ten years since deposed strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia, the first to fall as the 2011 Arab Spring took hold across North Africa and the Middle East. Although democratic advances have been made, many Tunisians feel that the revolution’s promise of a better life never really materialised. That’s especially the case in the country’s poorer interior, where much of the anger first boiled over. FRANCE 24 brings you the third instalment in a series of four reports this week from Tunisia, a decade after the dawn of the Arab Spring.

Novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani criticises coverage of the kidnapping of schoolchildren.

Malawi imposes a state of emergency over Covid-19, after two cabinet ministers died of the disease. But first, tensions mount ahead of Thursday’s vote in Uganda. Security is beefed up in the capital after a violent campaign. Also, France condemns the killing of more than half a dozen people in a village in Cameroon. The army has denied accusations from some locals who say soldiers were responsible for the massacre. And a fall in global demand for cocoa beans has led to a pile-up of unsold stock in the ports of Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer.

It has been billed as a generational battle. Africa’s gaze is turning to Uganda and the tense homestretch to Thursday’s presidential election. 38-year-old pop star-cum-opposition leader Bobi Wine is among nine candidates taking on 76-year-old Yoweri Museveni, the former military leader whose National Resistance Movement took the capital way back in 1986.

Uganda banned social media and messaging apps on Tuesday, two days ahead of a presidential election pitting Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa’slongest-serving leaders, against opposition frontrunner Bobi Wine, a popular singer.

Uganda votes on Thursday in presidential and parliamentary elections marred by political repression as singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine challenges President Yoweri Museveni’s 34-year rule.

Five things you need to know about Uganda’s divisive election.

This week marks ten years since deposed strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia, the first to fall as the 2011 Arab Spring took hold across North Africa and the Middle East. But since 2017, the number of those arriving in Italy from Tunisia illegally has risen sharply. Fed up of waiting for the revolution to benefit them financially at home, some risk it all to try to reach Europe. FRANCE 24 brings you the second instalment in a series of four reports this week from Tunisia, a decade after the dawn of the Arab Spring.

The pangolin is said to be the world’s most trafficked mammal. The BBC reports on a rescue operation.

Chemistry student Innocent Havyarimana started a thriving business in a Kenyan refugee camp.

Five things you should know about the upcoming elections in Uganda.

The amazing life of Johnny Smythe – RAF officer, prisoner of war and a father of the Windrush generation.

Five steps Nigerian start-up Paystack took to build and strike a $200m deal with Stripe.