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Russia to host its first ever Africa summit in Sochi

The Kremlin seeks to rebuild relations and find new allies.

The Russia- Africa summit will be co-chaired by President Putin and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and attended by more than forty African leaders.

The people of Botswana go to the polls today in a general election seen as the most closely fought since the country gained independence in 1966.

A new study says that Lake Chad is stable and expanding contradicting the narrative that it has been shrinking because of water over-extraction.

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