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In tonight's edition: A Nigerian court has dismissed a major opposition petition to overturn President Bola Tinubu's victory in February's election. The first ever Africa climate change conference wraps up with a declaration from African leaders calling for new global taxes to help find the continent's adaptation to the ravages of the climate emergency. And in Benin, students in Cotonou are preparing for the mid-September back-to-school season.
Zimbabwe's constitutional court holds its country's future in its hands. It hears an opposition challenge to the results of the July election that gave victory to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. In the second assault on the border in a month, over 100 African migrants forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Wednesday after storming a barbed wire fence.And Rwanda is wooing high end luxury tourism but poorer communities are being displaced.
Zimbabwe's opposition argues in the country's top court that the presidential election results must be thrown out. IMAGES of court proceedings
Journalists and opposition gather outside Zimbabwe's top court as an appeal seeking to overturn the presidential election result begins. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has accused the ruling ZANU-PF party and the election commission of rigging the July 30 vote, Zimbabwe's first poll since the ousting of Robert Mugabe last year. IMAGES
Opposition MDC spokesman Morgan Komichi denounces Zimbabwe election results showing President Emmerson Mnangagwa on track to victory, saying they "totally reject the results". SOUNDBITE
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