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Nigeria investigates a fictitious agency that accessed government funds while also addressing police reform and climate change impacts in Mauritania.

In tonight's edition, Nigeria is investigating how a fictitious agency wielding forged appointment letters from the president accessed government funds. Meanwhile the country’s 36 states are about to ratify a major police reform that would allow them to set up their own forces. And in Mauritania, climate change and overfishing are threatening traditional fishing communities.

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