Somaliland votes in parliamentary and municipal elections

Voters in the self-declared republic of Somaliland hope that today's much-delayed parliamentary and municipal elections will boost the breakaway republic's chances of gaining international recognition as an independent state;

The Chair of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has announced the suspension of Mali's membership from the bloc. Will this persuade the military to hand back power to a civilian government?

Over a hundred students are taken and one person is shot dead at an Islamic school in Niger State, Nigeria;

Cameroon says it has recovered over 55 million US Dollars in an ongoing headcount of civil servants. It's an attempt to curb absentee workers from the State's payroll.

(Photo: Supporters dance and chant during a rally of the ruling Kulmiye Party for Somalilands elections. Credit: MUSTAFA SAEED/AFP via Getty Images)