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Malawi ‘prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri walks on air

22/09/2015

A Somali man uses the first-ever cash machine in Mogadishu. Photograph: Abdulfitah Hashi Nor/AFP/Getty Images

Somalia gets first cash machine – theguardian.com

23/10/2014

President Edgar Chagwa Lungu during the official opening of the African AU Committee of Ten Heads of State Summit on the UN Reforms of the Security Council at David Livingstone Safari Lodge in Livingstone, Zambia on Friday, May 9,2015 -PICTURE BY EDDIE MWANALEZA

Ban Ki-moon asks Lungu to repeat Parley speech at UN

25/09/2015

Oscar Pistorius leaves North Gauteng high court on Wednesday. Photograph: Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images

No date yet for Pistorius sentencing

07/12/2015

A day after South Africa’s top appeals court convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, prosecutors on Friday pushed for the Olympian runner to appear in...

Cameroon army kills Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages

03/12/2015

Cameroon troops killed around 100 members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group and freed 900 hostages in a three-day operation in the far north...

Pistorius risks 15yrs in jail after murder conviction

05/12/2015

Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of murder yesterday after South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal threw out a manslaughter conviction for killing his girlfriend,...