The International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved a $3bn three-year loan programme for Ghana. The West African nation has been battling its worst economic crisis in a generation. In Burundi, a group of women have set off to go and work in Saudi Arabia, as part of a government-backed initiative which aims to curb illegal migration. And in Nigeria, medical services at teaching hospitals across the country have been disrupted by a five-day strike by resident doctors who are demanding salary increases.