Sudanese authorities have restored the internet nearly a month since it was suspended after the military deposed the civilian-led transitional government.
All telecommunications companies had their internet services restored on Thursday.
Internet freedom monitor, Netblocks, has also confirmed the restoration of the internet.
Deadly anti-coup protests have been taking place in the capital Khartoum and other parts of Sudan since Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power on 25 October. More than 30 people have reportedly been killed in the demonstrations.
Activists and opposition groups have managed to draw attention to the protests on social media despite the restrictions.

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law two important bills passed by the National Assembly thereby making them become part of the Laws of the Federation.
The Climate Change Act owes its origin to a bill sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives, Sam Onuigbo, and provides for, among other things, the mainstreaming of climate change actions and the establishment of a National Council on Climate Change.
It also paves the way for environmental and economic accounting and a push for a net-zero emission deadline plan in the country.
It provides for the extension of the tenor of the Resolution Cost Fund and grants access to the Special Tribunal established by the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act 2020.

Legal practitioner, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has raised an alarm over what he described as vicious attacks on members of the Lagos Judicial Panel of Enquiry on Police Brutality following the group’s submission of its report. 
He says members of the Panel have become the subject of vicious attacks by those suspected to be agents of the government.
He restated that members of the panel were appointed on merit, debunking reports that they lobbied to get into the position.
Adegboruwa described a report credited to an unnamed counsel to the Lagos State Government that members of the panel took bribes as unfair, ungodly, and least expected of the government and its lawyers.

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies to study a report on how best to ensure effective policy design and implementation with a view to implementing some of its recommendations.
The Special Adviser to the President on media, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The President assured the course participants that it would be treated with the seriousness and urgency it deserves.
The President noted it was always a delight to receive their input on important issues that are of very great concern to the government and the nation.
He says no nation will progress without paying close attention to the ways policies are made and implemented, as it is often unclear how best to ensure effective policy design and implementation.

President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will allow the system to exhaust itself, and will, therefore, wait for pronouncements from state governments that set up panels to probe police brutality in the country.
The president says so many state governments are involved and have given different terms of reference to the probe panels.
He says they have to wait for the steps taken by the states, and allow the system to work without imposing ideas on them.
Buhari expressed the country’s appreciation, noting that there was freedom of worship in Nigeria, and no one is discriminated against on the basis of his or her faith.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a fresh N656.112 billion Bridge Financing Facility to the 36 States.
The vice president’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement says each state would receive N18.225 billion with a 30-year tenor, and a 2-year moratorium at an interest rate of 9%.
The presidency says this step was taken in a bid to help state governments meet financial obligations, especially the previous budget support facility due for repayment.
The Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, informed the Council that the Bridge Facility is now being processed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The finance minister had informed the Council that the deductions from State Governments would commence soon as repayment for the previous bailout from the CBN.

Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, says the 36 governors in Nigeria are helpless when it comes to tackling insecurity.
Ishaku says that the country’s security structure does not leave enough room for governors to deal decisively with criminality in their states because the powers have been vested in the Federal Government.
His comments were in response to a recent attack in Taraba by some suspected Ambazonian soldiers from the Republic of Cameroon.
Ishaku says he has complained severally to the Nigerian military, seeking help to secure the border.
The governor further stated that his pleas have gone unheard for quite a while, leaving the community prone to attacks such as was recently experienced.

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives says it has reviewed the Lagos EndSARS report and observed that the Federal Government has questions to answer.
The lawmakers in a statement said the report has confirmed that there was indeed a massacre at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, despite the earlier denial of killings.
The Minority caucus also flayed the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed for rushing to the media, ahead of the judicial panel, to insist that there were no killings at Lekki Tollgate, even in the face of testimonies of witnesses at the sad event.
They described it as a shocking attempt to cover up details of the October 20 event demanding that justice be served.

The United States imposed an entry ban on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, his vice-president wife and his government, after elections that were internationally dismissed as illegitimate.
President Joe Biden says the repressive and abusive acts of the Ortega government and those who support it compel the United States to act.
He says the Ortega government’s undemocratic, authoritarian actions have crippled the electoral process and stripped away the right of Nicaraguan citizens to choose their leaders in free and fair elections.

The Libyan general, Khalifa Haftar has announced that he intends to run in the presidential election due next month.
Gen Haftar says elections were the only way out of Libya's severe crisis.
The military prosecutor, Mohamed Gharouda, had already asked the electoral authorities to reject Gen Haftar's possible candidacy, because of the offensive he launched against the capital, Tripoli, in 2019.