Nkurunziza, who died on Monday aged 55, had been due to step down in August after his surprise decision not to run in an election last month won by the ruling party’s handpicked successor.
But his death has raised uncertainty and fears of a power struggle in a country that has witnessed violent political upheaval, a refugee exodus and a bloody civil war in its recent history.
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Command in Borno has arrested a suspected Boko Haram logistics supplier with a car filled with fuel and other commodities.
The state NSCDC Commandant, Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi, made the disclosure on Friday in Maiduguri while parading the suspect.
Abdullahi said that the suspect, Bakura Ibrahim, 35, was arrested on June 6, at the Muna Garage along Gamboru Ngala Road, Maiduguri.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said the funds were needed to sustain life-saving aid for the next six months
The lifeline is to aid three million people in Kano, Abuja and Lagos in addition to the Federal Government’s social protection schemes.
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The top US military officer says he was wrong to have joined President Donald Trump during his controversial walk to a damaged church near the White House.
The 1 June event created "a perception of the military involved in domestic politics", Gen Mark Milley said.
Mr Trump walked to the church and held up a Bible after a peaceful protest at the death of African American George Floyd was forcibly dispersed.
The use of troops to tackle the protests has provoked fierce US debate.
Mr Trump has regularly referred to "law and order", calling in the National Guard to the US capital, vowing to deploy the military to other cities and condemning violent protests.
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Nigerian prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a 15-year-old girl detained after killing a man who had attempted to rape her.
Police said she stabbed the man, a friend of her father's, in March when she had gone to his house to do chores.
But state prosecutors in the commercial capital, Lagos, say there is no evidence to support a murder charge.
At the time of her arrest, there was an outcry on social media by people saying she had acted in self-defence.
The teenager has been freed at a time of public protests over a wave of rapes and killing of women in Nigeria.
Thousands have recently signed a petition calling for an end to sexual violence.
Many Nigerians say the country's legal system makes it hard to convict suspected rapists and blames women when they are victims of sexual assault.
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More must be done to tackle racial discrimination in the UK's armed forces, the most senior military officer has said.
General Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, called on all personnel to see the potential in every recruit and "refuse to allow intolerance".
The message comes after a meeting of the heads of the services on Wednesday.
There had been "soul searching" about events highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, a defence source said.
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Stormzy has pledged £10 million to UK organisations, charities and movements tackling racial inequality, justice reform and black empowerment.
The grime star said he will make his donation over the next 10 years.
"We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born," he said.
He has also funded black British students at Cambridge University.
Stormzy said he was making his £10m donation to fight racial inequality because "the uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit, is that black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life - simply due to the colour of our skin.
"I'm lucky enough to be in the position I'm in and I've heard people often dismiss the idea of racism existing in Britain by saying 'If the country's so racist how have you become a success?!' and I reject that with this: I am not the UK's shining example of what supposedly happens when a black person works hard.
"There are millions of us. We are not far and few. We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born.
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