Reviewing a turbulent week in Somalia

Professor Abdi Samatar says Somali President Farmajo’s decision to extend his term by two years was an “illegal attempt to hijack the constitutional process”. President Farmajo revised that decision last week, and there has been heavy fighting in the country in recent days.

Plus, it’s World Press Freedom Day, with this year’s theme being "information as a public good". We look at the state of media freedom in several African countries.

And in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the authorities have declared the end of the most recent Ebola outbreak, which affected North Kivu province.

(Photo: Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo; Credit: Getty Images)