Afenifere, Yoruba socio-political group, has called on the federal government to stop the planned May 3 population census. In a communique released on Thursday by Sola Ebiseni, the group’s secretary general, Afenifere described the timing of the exercise as “inauspicious” and “impossible in credible implementation”. Ebiseni said the “citizens are still incensed and distraught by the trauma of violence and brigandage of the elections”. “There is no compelling reason why the census must be held by the expiring Buhari administration and calls for all steps and preparations in that regards to be stopped forthwith. Afenifere decries the most insensitive deployment…

Sudan's factions say they agree to extend truce but fighting goes on Sudan's two warring factions said on Thursday they would prolong a ceasefire agreement by 72 hours, but violence again rocked the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur as the U.S. said ceasefire violations were worrying. Hundreds have died and tens of thousands of people have fled for their lives in two weeks of conflict between the army and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Together, they toppled a civilian government in an October 2021 coup but are now locked in a power struggle that…