April 14, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Wide-scale looting erupts across Durban’s townships.

Nigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vows to make every effort to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants.

And,  Eskom continues stage 2 power cuts on Tuesday.

 

Wide-scale looting erupted across Durban’s townships on Monday night as tensions fuelled by anti-foreigner rhetoric boiled over.

Several people have been killed and thousands more displaced as the violent attacks on the basis of ethnicity continued unabated.

Hundreds of police officers, deployed to the city from all corners of KwaZulu-Natal, were stretched thin as thousands of people descended on foreign owned shops.

The upsurge in violence and criminality follows an effort from local and provincial government to reintegrate thousands of displaced foreign nationals back into their communities by encouraging them to return to their homes.

 

Nigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday to make every effort to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants a year ago. He admitted, however, that it was not clear whether they would ever be found. 

The abduction of the girls from a secondary school in Chibok in the country's north-east last April drew international attention to the humanitarian crisis caused by Boko Haram's attempt to establish a caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria.

A march is expected in the capital, Abuja, on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the mass kidnapping.

Buhari said his administration would do everything it could to defeat the militant Islamist group.

 

State-owned power utility Eskom on Tuesday announced that it has implemented Stage 2 power cuts to ease the strain on the national electricity grid.

Stage 2 power cuts, which have been ongoing since Sunday morning, started at 06:00 am on Tuesday and would continue until 10:00 pm.  

Eskom said the electricity supply system remains very vulnerable due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently out of service due to planned and unplanned outages.

The utility reiterated that any additional changes on the “already vulnerable” and constrained power system could lead to a change in the stage of load-shedding “at short notice”.

Also making headlines:

Thousands of workers at the Medupi power plant stayed away from work again on Tuesday but their union said it hoped the dispute could be resolved for work to resume on Wednesday.

At least six people were shot and wounded in Guinea's capital during protests against the timing of elections and what opposition figures say is targeted violence against them.

The US and the African Union signed an agreement to create an African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agency.

And, Nigeria's relatively peaceful elections have set the bar high for a string of votes this year across West Africa, though tensions in Guinea remain a concern.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.