June 12th marked Democracy Day in Nigeria, in recognition of the 1993 elections that were supposed to return the country to democracy. These elections were won by M.K.O. Abiola of the Social Democratic Party before being annulled by the military government. The Republic is launching a narrative podcast about the events leading up to June 12th. President Tinubu used his speech to praise Abiola and to bolster his own claim to having won this year’s election.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has written Ugandan Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba to express “grief and dismay” over Uganda’s new anti-gay law. The Church of Uganda has come out in support of the legislation, which authorizes life imprisonment and the death penalty for homosexuality.

• South African animation studio Triggerfish has been working with Disney on Star Wars content since 2015.
• Sudan’s military government has declared the UN Special Envoy to the country persona-non-grata and asked the African Union and Ethiopian Government not to deal with him. The UN argues that its staff is exempt from withdrawing diplomatic recognition in this way.
• Africa Is a Country has a podcast episode with Mahder Serekberha, a PhD candidate in Political Science at Syracuse University, about the causes of the conflict in Sudan.

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Image: Statue of 1993 presidential candidate MKO Abiola in a park named after him in Ojota, Lagos. Creative Commons. 5 February 2022. Photo credit: Kojoclicks.