Preliminary results in the Equatorial Guinea elections point to a landslide victory for President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who is already one of the world’s longest serving leaders. He is set to extend his 43-year rule. The leader of an opposition party claims there have been widespread voting irregularities. Five years after Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe was forced to resign from office amid an economic and political crisis, we hear from ordinary citizens in the capital city, Harare, on whether their prospects are now better or worse. And we visit an orthopaedic clinic in Senegal that is working with children and pioneering a new way to correct the severely disabling deformity known as clubfoot, without the need for surgical intervention.