Al-Shabab claims Somalia plane attack
Craig TaylorSomalia’s main Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a bomb attack on a passenger plane that blew a huge hole in its fuselage. BBC News – Africa
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Nigeria to probe generals over arms fraud
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US worried over ‘Rwanda’s Burundi role’
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Zuma U-turn over home revamp money
South Africa’s president makes a U-turn in court over his refusal to repay millions of dollars in public funds used to upgrade his rural home. BBC News – Africa
Video ‘shows Somalia plane bomber’
Somali intelligence officials release a video showing a passenger being given a laptop they say concealed a bomb that blew a hole into a passenger plane. BBC News – Africa
Burkina militants free Australian woman
Militants freed an Australian woman kidnapped with her husband last month in Burkina Faso, where they provided health services. BBC News – Africa