MPs among dead in Mogadishu hotel attack
Craig TaylorTwo MPs are among 10 people killed as al-Shabab gunmen storm a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu after car bomb attack. BBC News – Africa
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Chad’s Habre gets life in landmark case
A Senegalese court jails Chad ex-leader Hissene Habre for life for crimes against humanity, in the first African Union-backed trial of a former ruler. BBC News – Africa
Shipwrecks ‘kill up to 700 migrants’
Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says. BBC News – Africa
Uganda bombers given life sentences
Five people convicted of terrorism over the 2010 bomb attacks in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, which killed 74 people, are given life sentences. BBC News – Africa
Uganda World Cup bomb mastermind guilty
The mastermind of the 2010 bomb attacks in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, which killed 74 people as they were watching the World Cup final, is found guilty. BBC News – Africa
Migrant boat capsize caught on camera
The deadly capsizing of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean is caught on camera by the Italian navy as it rescues 550 people. BBC News – Africa