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1. Sudan: Three Years of War in Sudan Have Shattered Water and Health Services: UN

   [allAfrica] Geneva -- Three years of war in Sudan have shattered essential services like water and health, and plunged the country into the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, the country's World Health Organisation (WHO) representative says.

2. Africa: A Failed U.S. Attempt to Opt Out of Democracy Talk

   [CFR] When Washington chooses not to comment on democracy, authoritarians and their backers fill in the silence.

3. Nigeria: 61 Bodies Recovered After Niger Attack

   [Premium Times] Residents said the corpses were retrieved from surrounding bushes days after the abduction of the victims

4. Africa: Kenya Approves Defence Pact With France, As Paris Shifts Focus From West Africa

   [RFI] Kenya's National Assembly has ratified a bilateral defence agreement with France, underlining Paris's strategic shift away from its traditional West African sphere of influence towards anglophone Africa.

5. Uganda: I'm a Single Mother of Seven - Nandutu Seeks Leniency, Apologises to Karamoja

   [Nile Post] Former Minister for Karamoja, Agnes Nandutu, has asked for pardon from the people of Karamoja, the President, and her constituents in an emotional address before court ahead of her sentencing.