Denis Sassou Nguesso brings forward the date of the next Congolese election. In Senegal an opposition MP is charged with slander after accusing Lamine Diack of corruption. The former president of the IAAF is accused of, among other things, having sought to finance Macky Sall's presidential bid. Dnd the long term effects of Boko Haram's insurgency : more than 1 million children have been forced out of education, not only in Nigeria, but also in Chad, Cameroon and Niger...