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Guinea Bissau has lived through four successful military coups as well as 16 attempted, plotted or alleged coups

The opposition has contested the accuracy of the electoral roll for Sunday’s polls

A few days after its inauguration, the giant statue of Captain Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou is covered with a veil, following the controversy over the lack of similarity of the work with the father of the Burkinabe revolution.

Sankara is immortalized along with the busts of 12 of his comrades who were also murdered in the 1987 coup

A total of 323 offenders have so far been arrested for various electoral offences

His company was prosecuted for allegations of abuse of office and money laundering.

The sum involved is 150 million euros ($169 million)

Abubakar, a day after the declaration, rejected official election results citing several malpractices

Senegal was a democratic island in the region, but that democratic standing has been “brought to the ground

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has made strengthening ties with Africa a foreign policy priority.