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South Africa's municipality of Tshwane - which includes the capital Pretoria - has been dissolved after months of political squabbles.

Tshwane, in the economic hub of Gauteng, currently has no mayor and no city council as rival parties vie for control.

The provincial government said the municipality was being mismanaged and money was being wasted

A coalition led by the opposition Democratic Alliance won highly contested municipal elections there in 2016.

Since then, it has struggled to run Tshwane, partly because of disruption by the African National Congress and other parties.

Gauteng Premier David Makhura said fresh elections would be held in 90 days, reports Reuters news agency.

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The families of dozens of people who were jailed for the killing of Laurent Kabila, the former leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have petitioned the authorities for their release.

They're hoping the new Congolese government might be more receptive to their demands.

Mr Kabila was shot dead by a bodyguard in 2001. Almost 100 people were convicted for the killing by a military court, with no right to appeal.

Twenty-four people were sentenced to death; the others jailed.

Ten people have since died in custody. An African human rights court has already found the convictions to be unfair.

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The oldest Egyptian pyramid has officially reopened after many years of restoration work.

The Djoser step pyramid in Saqqara dates back 4,700 years.

It was built during the Third Dynasty of the Pharoahs.

Work on its restoration began nearly 15 years ago.

It was interrupted for several years during the unrest that followed the uprising against ex-President Hosni Mubarak.

The design of the pyramid set the style for the great pyramids of Giza.

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For now, South Africa is portraying its detection of the country's first coronavirus patient as a sign of success - as proof that the public health systems of the continent's most developed and sophisticated economy are working as planned.

"This is not… a failure. Our health systems [are] able to detect and rapidly identify cases," the National Institute for Communicable Diseases tweeted within hours of the announcement of the infection in KwaZulu-Natal.

The continent as a whole has clearly benefited from the remarkably slow arrival of the virus in Africa - a window of several weeks that has enabled the World Health Organization (WHO), national governments and other groups to build up testing and treatment capabilities.

But in South Africa, there are particular concerns related to the country's long-running HIV epidemic - the worst in the world.

More than seven million people here are living with a virus that seriously weakens immune systems, leaving many people potentially more vulnerable to coronavirus.

Elsewhere in Africa, some people have taken comfort from the fact that many governments have recently been forced to confront the dangers of successive Ebola outbreaks - an experience that has strengthened the capacity of many health systems to detect and respond to a far deadlier virus.

But there are also deep concerns that - on a continent still wrestling with entrenched poverty, plagued by conflicts, and poorly served by over-stretched health services - a serious outbreak of this new coronavirus could quickly overwhelm some countries.

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Three major conferences in Africa have been cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus that has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide.

One of them is the high-level ministerial conference organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, (UN-ECA) which was scheduled to be held from 18 to 24 March in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

The Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development was part of the 53rd session of the Economic Commission for Africa.

The ECA said that it will also "postpone all public meetings" due to fears arising from the spread of coronavirus.

"Following global health concerns pertaining to the COVID-19 coronavirus and the need for added vigilance, upon consultation with partners, the ECA will postpone all public meetings until further notice," read the ECA statement.

The Next Einstein Forum that was slated to take place next week in Kenya's capital Nairobi has also been postponed to a later date.

The forum, typically attended by more than 2,000 people from more than 79 countries was scheduled for 9 to 13 March.

The Africa CEO forum which was scheduled to be held between 9 to 10 March in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, has also been postponed to a later date.

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Liberia is relatively well equipped to deal with the coronavirus because of their experience with the Ebola, a doctor who fought the 2014 outbreak has told the BBC.

Infectious-disease expert Dr Mosoka Fallah led Liberia's efforts to contain Ebola in the outbreak.

He told the BBC's Bola Mosuro that a key aspect that would help was the ability to carry out tests in Liberia to see if people had the virus.

That is because testing facilities were set up during the Ebola crisis.

At first, they had to send their tests to Guinea, which could take a week to get the results.

Listen to his interview:

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Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has said he will not run in October's election, ending months of speculation over whether he would stand for a third term.

He said he believed power should be passed to the younger generation.

Mr Ouattara - who is 78 - had hinted previously that he could run again if his traditional rivals put themselves forward as candidates.

About 3,000 people were killed during post-election violence 10 years ago, when the former President Laurent Gbagbo refused to step down after losing to Mr Ouattara.

Nigerian reality TV stars Tope Adenibuya, who is popularly known as Teddy A, and Bamike Olawunmi AKA Bam Bam, have welcomed their baby daughter to the world.

The two started dating while in the Big Brother Naija show and got married in in 2019.

Teddy A and Bam Bam have remained celebrities in Nigeria after they left the Big Brother house, partly because of their fashion sense.

The new father announced the birth of his daughter Thursday early morning by tweeting her full name Zendaya Folakemi Adenibuyan: