JNIM insurgents claim responsibility for a dawn raid in Bamako that targeted a military training school and airport. It is still unclear if there were any casualties. Meanwhile, DR Congo has inaugurated its first-ever data centre. The banks of servers will store government and commercial data. Finally, in a bid to spotlight the beauty and value of traditional and diverse African aesthetics, a “decolonising beauty” campaign has been launched by the pan-African company Zikora Productions. We speak to its founder, Chika Oduah.
