With songs like “Locked Up” and “Lonely,” hip-hop artist Akon has climbed to the top of America’s music industry. Born in Missouri and raised in Senegal, Akon has performed with Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and African artists.

Northern Nigeria remains in the state of unrest that began with the onset of Boko Haram in 2009. The Islamic extremist group, whose name means “western education is sin,” abducted women and children, burned down villages, and left families divided.

When President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi announced in April he was running for a third term, street protests broke out, leaving 20 people dead and more than 370 injured, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The protests resulted in a failed coup last month that lasted 48 hours.

Parliamentary elections that were set for Friday and presidential elections that were set for June 26 have now been postponed.

The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) arrested 21 bankers for stealing defaced currency worth more than six billion naira, more than $33 million.

“Instead of carrying out the statutory instruction to destroy the currency, they substituted it with newspapers neatly cut to Naira sizes and proceeded to recycle the defaced and mutilated currency,” the EFCC said in a statement.

Seventy-one children who have waited for two years will now have new homes. In 2013, a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ban on foreign adoption put on hold nearly 1,000 ongoing individual adoptions. On Saturday, Albert Paka, judicial adviser at DRC’s interior ministry, announced 71 of those adoption processes will be completed with families across five countries, including the United States and Belgium.

Unwanted calls may ring for the last time as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) cracks down on the power of telemarketers and robocalls.

Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, released a proposal on Wednesday to tackle the commission’s leading cause of consumer complaints. The commission will vote on the proposal June 18.

In his proposal, Wheeler addressed an inquiry from several telephone companies questioning whether it’s legal to block robocalls.