[News24Wire] President Jacob Zuma on Friday spoke out on the recalling of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister, saying his name had been put forward to head the African Regional Centre of the New Development Bank/BRICS Bank.
[Deutsche Welle] The Central African Republic is about to vote in a referendum on a new constitution. The aim is to prepare the way for parliamentary and presidential elections later this month which would lead the country out of chaos.
[Daily Trust] Advancing troops of the Nigerian Army on Wednesday night rescued 210 hostages from Boko Haram insurgents in some Borno State villages. Acting Director, Army Public Relations Colonel Sani Usman disclosed this in a statement on Thursday night.
[IRIN] Geneva -States gathered at a major conference to debate the rules of war have failed to back a proposal aimed at boosting compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
[Nation] A United States senator engaged in an unusual public display of anger and frustration at a session on Thursday focused on the continued fighting in South Sudan.
[Al Jazeera] Heavily armed assailants have stormed two army posts in Burundi's capital Bujumbura in coordinated attacks. The attacks in the early hours of Friday sparked clashes with troops that left at least 12 fighters dead, an army spokesman said.
[Al Jazeera] Yola, Nigeria -- Thirty-four people died in a November 17 bomb blast. It was one of many to target the Nigerian city. As we tally the number of dead from such attacks in Nigeria, we rarely get to hear the individual stories of the victims. Al Jazeera looked up the family, friends and colleagues of one of them - 27-year-old Aliyu Mohammed Hassan.
[UN News] More than 50,000 people forced to flee in the wake of attacks on islands of Lake Chad are living in "precarious conditions" in need of food, drinking water, shelter, health care and other services in a situation exacerbated by chronic drought, the top United Nations relief official in Chad says.
