Atiku leads street protest against Nigerian poll body
Nigeria鈥檚 runner-up presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, leads protest march to Electoral commission offices.
The leader of Nigeria's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar who came second in the presidential election, leads a march to the Electoral Commission headquarters in the capital, Abuja, to protest against the conduct of the just-concluded elections.
A 麻豆社 investigation exposes a major heroin trade in the Seychelles, and the scale of the dependency problem where around 10% of the local population is addicted to the drug.
And Burkinab猫 director Apolline Traor茅, whose feature Sira picked up the second-place award in the fiction category at Fespaco, tells us about the challenges of making a film about the scourge of jihadism in her country.
Photo: Nigeria's Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar (C) leads supporters to protest at Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja. Credit: AFP/Getty.
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