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Opposition boycotts new Sierra Leone parliament

Focus on Africa
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New MPs were sworn in as Sierra Leone’s parliament opened following June’s elections, but the main opposition APC party is boycotting government business over alleged fraud. Plus, could Ghana become the latest African country to legalise cannabis? President Nana Akufo-Addo has signed off on a bill allowing certain strains of the plant to be grown. And we look at how the increase in people moving off the land and to the city in Africa is affecting the continent’s dietary health.

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