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In a press briefing in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, the prime minister’s spokeswoman Billene Seyoum confirmed that Eritrean forces have started to withdraw from Tigray. They have been engaged in a bloody conflict there since November.

There were protests in Sudan today, as a large group of people gathered to highlight the killings of demonstrators during the uprisings of 2019.

Plus the story of the first black South African to be elected to a political position, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman.

(The mountainous Tigray region. Credit: Getty Images)