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1. Nigeria: Matchmaking websites increasingly popular in Kano

   Matchmaking websites are in their hayday in Kano, a conservative hub in northern Nigeria. It's not uncommon for women in the predominantly Muslim city to marry at 18.

2. Liberia: Supreme Court rules ex-minister Tweah not immune to prosecution

   Liberia's supreme court has reaffirmed that Tweah and several ex officials are not protected from prosecution under claims of national security council immunity.

3. Zimbabwe’s inventive Valentine’s: Cash bouquets and scrap metal hearts

   Romance in Zimbabwe is taking strikingly inventive forms, reflecting life in an economy where cash reigns supreme and sustainability gains new social value.

4. Malawi launches polio vaccine programme

   Malawi has started a vaccination programme across the commercial city of Blantyre after derived poliovirus was found in sewage samples.

5. DR Congo offers frontline freeze in step towards truce

   The Democratic Republic of Congo said Friday it had "accepted the principle of a ceasefire" involving a "strict and immediate" freeze of positions in the conflict in the east of the country