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As Sudan鈥檚 72-hour ceasefire deadline approaches, we hear from Deng Dau Deng, the foreign minister of neighbouring South Sudan which is leading mediation efforts. He told the 麻豆社 he hopes General Hamdan Dagalo will respond positively to an extension.

Sierra Leone鈥檚 president, Julius Maada Bio, dissolved parliament earlier this week ahead of elections in June.

Eleven female MPs in Uganda have been arrested whilst taking part in a protest march against police brutality.

And in our weekly letter journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani muses over the first national census in Nigeria in seventeen years.

(Photo: Men walk near brick houses in Khartoum as fighting continues between Sudan's army and the paramilitary forces. Credit: Getty Images).