
Nigeria arrests Biafra separatist leader
Nnamdi Kanu was arrested and extradited to Nigeria earlier this week.
Prominent Nigerian separatist leader and head of the Indigenous People of Biafra group, Nnamdi Kanu, has been arrested and brought before the high court in Abuja.
South Africa’s Constitutional court has sentenced former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
Eswatini authorities ban protests as anti-monarch protests escalates.
(Picture: Political activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, wears a Jewish prayer shawl as he leave his house in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, on May 26, 2017, to meet veterans of the Nigerian civil war, whose 50th anniversary will be commemorated on May 30. Credit: By MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)
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