In Africa this week, French officers hand over the keys to a military base in the Malian city of Timbuktu, after a nearly nine-year deployment; Ugandan troops will spend no more time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helping to fight rebels than "strictly necessary", President Felix Tshisekedi pledges in an annual address on the state of the nation, as the two neighbours launch an offensive against the deadliest militia in the east of the DRC; South Africa tops its previous record of daily new coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with 26,976 Covid infections; Former international Samuel Eto'o is elected president of the Cameroon Football Federation; and Congolese rumba is officially part UNESCO's of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

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