[Daily Trust] Lagos -President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said that there is no going back on his plan to invest heavily in rice farming in five states in order to reduce the importation of commodity into Nigeria.
[Al Jazeera] Burundi's electoral commission has announced that President Pierre Nkurunziza won a new term in office after an election marred by violence and a boycott by the opposition.
[Leadership] Nigeria's immediate director general of its Securities and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh, has been appointed as Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank.
[RFI] French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian began a two-day visit to Cairo Saturday, days after France delivered the first three of 24 Rafale fighter jets sold to Egypt in a 5.2-billion-euro deal.
[Deutsche Welle] US President Barack Obama has told a business summit in Kenya that entrepreneurship can foster growth and peace in Africa. His remarks come on the first full day of a landmark trip to the country, his father's homeland.
[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -The Court of Appeal, led by judge president, Justice Ian Kirby has reserved judgement of the case in which government was appealing two judgements issued by different judges of the Gaborone High Court.
[Guardian] Lagos and Abuja -Ahead of next week Tuesday's National Assembly resumption date, The Guardian investigation has revealed that the crisis that has bedeviled the two chambers - the Senate and House of Representatives - over the election of principal officers, remains unresolved.