A survey indicates rising optimism among African youth, even as the DRC's constitutional court approves a referendum law that critics fear could allow President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third term. Meanwhile, millions across Africa could face challenges as the El Niño weather pattern looms.

President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has agreed to open national talks with the political opposition, following intensified pressure over his proposed constitutional amendments.

When Congo’s President, Felix Tshisekedi, squeezes his corpulent bulk into designer clothing, accessorised with expensive watches that would feed thousands of his immiserated citizens for years and climbs into a flying palace to shuttle around the world to weep crocodile tears and move the powerful to pity his long-suffering people, it is a diversionary dance in step with his Western audience