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Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema is released from prison and the treason charges against him dropped shortly before his trial was to begin in Lusaka. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITE
South Africa marks five years since the Marikana massacre when police shot dead 34 striking mineworkers, with commemorations focused on the lack of prosecutions over the killings. IMAGES
Released Saturday after more than three years of captivity by the jihadist group Boko Haram, the 82 Nigerian high school girls from Chibok meet with the Minister of Health in Abuja. IMAGES
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox outbreak, receives its first vaccines -- almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its spread. IMAGES
Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over the opening ceremony of the triennial Forum on China–Africa Cooperation. The summit is Beijing's biggest in years, with promises of cooperation in infrastructure, energy and education. IMAGES