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1. Ivory Coast: Cocoa industry in limbo as prices fall

   In Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, the industry is facing limbo as prices on the global market plummet, leaving workers struggling to make a living.

2. DRC: Artists call for peace at Tumaini festival

   Poets, musicians and painters flocked to the the city of Beni for the fourth edition of the Tumaini festival. In a city scarred by violence, they are calling for peace across the whole country.

3. Sudan’s energy crisis deepens amid ongoing conflict

   After more than two years of conflict, Sudan is facing a deepening energy crisis as the country’s oil production and refining capacity collapse. Fighting has forced the shutdown of major oil fields and refineries, leaving production severely disrupted and crippling the nation’s energy supply.

4. Sudan: Business steadily returns to Khartoum market

   After the Sudanese army pushed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces out of Khartoum, business is slowly returning to the city's central market. In other parts of the country, the conflict rages on.

5. 13 schoolchildren killed in tragic road crash south of Johannesburg

   A tragic road crash south of Johannesburg has claimed the lives of thirteen schoolchildren. Police say a minibus transporting pupils to school collided with a truck near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark, about sixty kilometers from Johannesburg.