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Simi Music stars 2Baba, Simi, Pasuma, Falz, Timi Dakolo, Waje, Illbliss, Mr P, Slim Case and Classiq have joined voices on a song, No Shishi 4 Bribe, which urges Nigerians not to sell their votes in the 2019 elections.

Abudu Nigerian television executive and entrepreneur, Mo Abudu, has been appointed a director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the organization responsible for staging the world famous International Emmy Awards.

Carolina Cerqueira, Minister of Culture of Angola, and Firmin Edouard Matoko, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Priority Africa and External Relation, have signed an agreement for the creation of the Biennale of Luanda – Pan-African Forum for the Culture of Peace, which’s first edition will take place in September 2019.

With widening violence, large scale displacement, poor harvests and endemic poverty nearly doubling the number of acutely food insecure people in DRC this year to 13.1 million, the World Food Programme (WFP) significantly expanded its operations, reaching a record 5 million, a twofold increase from 2017.

Kenya has implemented the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS) by publishing critical data through the National Summary Data Page (NSDP).

The International Rescue Committee has said that the continuous postponement of elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have become worrying and potentially dangerous for the Congolese people and for aid agencies working to address the massive humanitarian need in the country, including the second largest Ebola outbreak in history.

Theresa May, UK Prime Minister Hundreds of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa will get access to electricity for the first time thanks to an extra £100m of funding from the UK government announced at COP24 in Poland.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and NGO partners, are seeking $2.7bn to address the life-saving humanitarian needs of South Sudanese refugees in 2019 and 2020.

Cyril Ramaphosa, President, South Africa The South African mission in Shanghai has informed the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu that the seven South African nationals in Jiangsu Province have completed their detention period and will be released and deported back to South Africa.

Ghana’s Environmental Sanitation and Health Directorate under the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, UNICEF and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands have launched an innovative and affordable loan scheme for people living in urban areas to build their own household toilet.