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The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in for a second term later today following his election victory in February. Mr. Buhari, who is seventy-six, has promised to continue his anti-corruption campaign. Mayeni Jones reports. President Buhari's team has said that today's ceremony will be a low-key affair. Instead, foreign dignitaries have been invited to attend the country's Democracy Day on the 12 of June. According to the Ministry of Information, Nigeria cannot afford to hold two major celebrations in two weeks. The president's inauguration comes as the country's facing sluggish economic growth following a global slump in the price of oil. Security was another key election issue. Although the government claims to have defeated the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, their concerns are about border security across the country.

Protest groups in Sudan have begun the second day of a general strike. They're trying to force the military to hand power to a civilian administration following the overthrow last month of President Omar al-Bashir. Tomi Oladipo is in Khartoum. It's hard to say if the strike will be enough to shake Sudan's military. You have both the military and the protest groups unwilling to concede any ground. And since the strike was announced, the military has been threatening any civil servant to take part. It's also been seeking support from international allies. So it could be on course for an about-turn on the existing agreements. The protest groups themselves are not unanimous about the strike and their resistance really has been weakened, but it was people power that got Sudan to this point, so the protesters might not be done yet.

The human rights group Amnesty International has accused the army in Myanmar of continuing to commit what it calls war crimes in Rakhine State. It says it's found evidence that soldiers have carried out extrajudicial killings, torture and indiscriminate attacks on civilians this year. The allegations follow a military operation against a group known as the Arakan Amry, which Amnesty has also accused of human rights abuses. The rebels say they are fighting for better rights for Rakhine Buddhist majority.

The pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson has defended its record at the start of a landmark case over its alleged role in the opioid epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year. The state of Oklahoma is suing the company, accusing it of greed and deliberately playing down the highly addictive nature of the drugs. Johnson and Johnson's lawyers say the federal authorities approved its products.

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