With less than 24 hours to go until Nigeria's rescheduled presidential election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has said that everything is in place for the poll to take place this time round.

The vote was supposed to happen last Saturday, but with less than five hours to go until polls were meant to open, Inec postponed the election.

It said that there were logistical problems.

But on Friday morning Inec commissioner Festus Okoye said everything was in place.

He told the BBC's Newsday programme:

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President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed the nation, praising people's patience during the week-long delay and urging them to vote:

Mr Buhari, first elected in 2015, is running for a second term. He's facing 72 other candidates but Atiku Abubakar is his main challenger.

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A key suspect in the abduction of a 14-year-old boy with albinism has died in police custody in Malawi.

Luka Buleya was reported dead this morning after a brief court appearance in the capital Lilongwe yesterday.

Mr Buleya's nephew, Samson Bulaki, said the family were suspicious about his death and showed the BBC pictures of his body with multiple burns.

Police said they were waiting for the post-mortem before they discussed the cause of death.

Mr Buleya had been accused of ordering two people to kidnap the boy last week in the central region district of Dedza, some 100km south of Lilongwe.

The Association of Persons with Albinism head, Overstone Kondowe, said he hoped Mr Buleya’s death would not deny the nation an opportunity to unmask a syndicate and provide leads to a market for body parts.

Killings and abductions of persons with albinism have become a huge problem in Malawi.

Persons with albinism are hunted and killed or have limbs chopped off by people who use them for making charms they believe can make people rich or bring them good luck.

The 14-year-old boy's whereabouts remain unknown.

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The imprisoned opposition leader in Cameroon, Maurice Kamto, has challenged the legality of his trial before a military court on charges of insurrection - a crime punishable with the death penalty.

Mr Kamto disputed the outcome of last year's election, which was won by President Paul Biya.

He has called several protests and the authorities accuse him of being behind recent attacks on Cameroonian embassies in Europe.

Mr Kamto says that, as a civilian, he and dozens of his supporters should not be on trial at a military court.

The hearing was postponed until next week to allow a decision to be made on the legality of the trial.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

African Leadership University (ALU) is ranked in the world’s 50 most innovative companies of 2019, according to business magazine Fast Company.

ALU is ranked the most innovative company in Africa and it is the only university in the world on the list.

It ranked 39 on Fast Company's annual list, which ranks companies that it judges are making "the most profound impact on both industry and culture".

ALU was founded by Ghanaian Fred Swaniker in September 2015. Its first campus, known as the African Leadership College, is in Mauritius. In 2017 it opened a second campus in Rwanda’s capital Kigali.

Mr Swaniker told the Fast Company magazine that 80% of his academy graduates were leaving Africa to go to college.

"As an African trying to develop African leaders, that didn’t sit well with me. I realised that we need to have our own world-class universities," he said.

He added: "We don’t have the time, money, and resources of the rest of the world. So we have to design a new educational model for Africa’s large, untapped talent pool."

People have been posting their congratulations on Twitter.

Ashley Lime
BBC News, Nairobi

Thousands of Kenyan university students can sigh a breath of relief after the education commission went back on its decision to declare their courses invaild.

A report by the Commission for University Education (CUE) had earlier revealed that degree programmes at more than 25 universities, estimated to be about 133 courses, had not been officially approved since they did not provide the relevant documentation on time.

More than 10,000 students pursuing bachelors of arts and sciences would have been affected countrywide and as a result earn worthless degrees at the end of their studies.

The move had sparked outrage from students across the country, with protests reported.

In a statement, CUE boss Mwenda Ntarangwi said the agency is now allowing universities to admit students to the courses it had questioned and would work with the institutions to strengthen their academic programmes.

“The commission has worked with the relevant agencies to ensure that the compliance issues raised against the majority of the programmes have been addressed.

Earlier this week, the Kenyan press reported on the possible problem:

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Tanzania’s government is trying to find buyers for the hoard of cashew nuts it bought from farmers in November.

Last year farmers complained that buyers' offers for their crops were too low and refused to sell.

The government then brought in an official price but the buyers refused to purchase the nuts at that price.

So the government bought the crops and sent military trucks to pick them up.

Three months later, Trade and Industry and Minister Joseph Kakunda now says that the government has realised that it doesn't have the capacity to process all the nuts in Tanzania so wants to sell off 200,000 tonnes of cashews.

He has not specified a price for the nuts.

Before the last harvest, around 90% of the nuts produced in Tanzania were exported with the shell and processed in India and Vietnam before being re-exported to the US and Europe.

Mr Kakunda said that the government intends to use the money it gets from selling the nuts to invest in processing for next season.

He also denied accusations that the government had not paid for the nuts - saying that it had paid almost all the farmers and was in the process of paying the rest.

Senegal is heading to the polls on 24 February to vote for the country's president.

The average age in the country is 19 so young people could have a significant impact on the outcome of the vote.

Young voters tell us what whey look for in a leader:

On death row in Malawi, Byson Kaula was nearly executed three times - but on each occasion the hangman stopped work before hanging all the prisoners on his list. So he survived… until the country stopped executing people altogether.

At the time he was on death row, there was just one executioner - a South African who travelled between several countries in the region, carrying out hangings. When he arrived in Malawi, Byson remembers being told that his name was on the list of 21 people to be hanged within hours.

On that occasion, they continued until 1500, when the executioner stopped work. But he had not reached the end of the list. Three people, including Byson, would have to wait until he returned.

Then, in 2007, roughly a quarter of a century after Byson was jailed, all mandatory death sentences had to be reviewed.

When lawyers said that they wanted to take Byson back to court he initially resisted, as he had been so terrified by his first experience. But he gave in, and when the judge told him he was free to leave immediately, he was stunned.

Read Byson's full story on the BBC News website.

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Liverpool forward Sadio Mane's house was burgled while he was playing in the Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich on Tuesday.

Items including watches, mobile phones and car keys were stolen.

The incident happened at Mane's house in Allerton, south Liverpool between 18:00 and 23:45 GMT - while the 26-year-old was at Anfield. No-one was in the property at the time.

Forensic examinations are under way and a police investigation is ongoing.

Read more on the BBC Sport website.

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Human Rights Watch has accused the security forces in Mozambique of intimidating, detaining and prosecuting journalists who are attempting to report on the jihadist conflict in the north of the country.

The rights group says by silencing the media the government is preventing any scrutiny of the military operations and alleged abuses.

Last month the military detained a journalist for nearly two weeks for interviewing people displaced by the conflict in Cabo Delgado Province - he was then charged in a civilian court with breaching a law on state secrets.

Since 2017 jihadist fighters have been attacking villages in the gas-rich region, killing more than 150 people and displacing thousands.

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Employees of major telecom companies in Sudan are holding protests as calls for the resignation of President Omar el-Bashir continue.

The staff of MTN and Zain walked out of their offices and held up placards denouncing the Sudanese government.

Since December the phone companies have restricted access to social media as the Sudanese authorities attempt to prevent the protests from escalating.

The authorities say more than 2,000 people who had been detained during the weeks of protest have been released.

However, rights groups dispute this and say the majority, including activists, remain in detention where they are at risk of torture.

A man has stolen the wig off the head of a passing motorist in South Africa.

A video shows the car in Durban traffic with the window rolled down. A man runs up to the car, reaches inside the and snatches the wig from the motorist's head before running off.

The motorist, Nombeko Madiba, is quoted in IOL, external as saying that she was on her way home from work and had stopped at a traffic light.

She told IOL that her head hurts and she worries about the security at that particular stop.

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There is growing international concern about fighting between rival armed groups in South Sudan.

Thousands of people have fled over the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days to escape the violence.

Norway, the UK and the US - known as the Troika - say they are particularly disturbed by the situation around Yei.

They have called on the government of South Sudan, the forces loyal to the former Vice-President Riek Machar and another rebel group, the National Salvation Front, to end the violence immediately and to respect last year's peace agreement.

The Troika also called on regional leaders to respect the UN arms embargo.

Read more about Yei from 2017: 'Soldiers will kill you for no reason in Yei'

One of the complaints that's been heard about the week-long postponement of Nigeria's presidential election is that many will have to make the expensive journey to where they're registered to vote for a second time.

One Nigerian activist, who's aligned to the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), has been trying to deal with this by organising a free bus service.

But it hasn't been as successful as hoped.

Using the hashtag #busesfordemocracy Reno Omokri set up routes from the commercial hub Lagos and the capital city, Abuja, to Kano in the north and Enugu in the south-east.

Several people have said that Mr Omokri was only interested in moving PDP voters around the country, but he has denied this.

The BBC's Bola Mosuro was at the place in Abuja where the buses were supposed to be leaving and has said that only one bus, going to Enugu, had been confirmed and that it had about a dozen passengers on board when it left.

One of the organisers, Elijah Aleje, told the BBC that he was disappointed with the take up. One of the problems was that the pick up point was hard to reach by public transport.

The newsletter Africa Confidential says it has evidence of an international attempt to persuade Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to quit.

Africa Confidential's editor Patrick Smith told BBC Newsday that diplomatic sources said to him that there is talk of offering to suspend the UN security council's indictments against Mr Bashir in order to persuade him to resign.

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The mounting pressure on Mr Bashir to resign comes after more then two months of anti-government protests.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila has made all the leaders of his political coalition pledge their allegiance to him.

Joseph Kabila called the 18 leaders who make up his FCC coalition to his farm outside the Congolese capital, Kinshasa.

One by one they sat before Mr Kabila and signed a document in which they reaffirmed their loyalty to him.

The coalition was created ahead of the election and won most parliamentary seats.

Nearly a month ago he officially handed over power to Felix Tshisekedi, who won the disputed presidential election.

The party leaders have now agreed to turn the coalition into a government.

This raises questions about how much power the new president, Felix Tshisekedi, actually wields.

It is also further evidence that the former president Joseph Kabila is determined to keep a firm grip on power despite stepping down after the controversial, disputed election.

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