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Nigeria鈥檚 power marriage draws criticism
Buhari鈥檚 son marries the heiress of a powerful royal family from Kano.
President Muhammadu Buhari comes under criticism following the lavish display of wealth at the wedding of his son, Yusuf, to Zahra Nasir Bayero, an influential royal from Kano state; 19 accused in Mozambique's biggest corruption scandal begin trial from one of the country's maximum-security prisons; Chad follows France in cutting back the number of soldiers deployed to fighting Islamist insurgency across the Sahel; The controversy of Amazon setting up its headquarters on indigenous land in South Africa.
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