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Nigeria’s electoral body says nearly 800 ballot boxes and over 200 voting cubicles were destroyed during an attack on one of its offices in the south-eastern state of Anambra. Elsewhere, citizens are reporting problems collecting their permanent voters’ cards.

Pope Francis has urged young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo to forge a future free of corruption and distrust. He addressed more than 65,000 youths at Martyrs stadium in Kinshasa.

And in our weekly letter, Sammy Awami looks at the state of democracy in Tanzania after President Hassan lifted a ban on opposition rallies.

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