A Kenyan court has sentenced three former policemen and a civilian to death over the 2016 killing of a prominent human rights lawyer. The bodies of Willie Kimani and two others were found after they had been dumped in a river on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has met the state governors from his ruling All Progressives Congress party over the challenges arising from a scarcity of local currency in the country.
Some of the governors who spoke to journalists at the end of the meeting said that they explained to the president the inappropriateness of taking such a step at this time and the problems the measure has caused the nation.
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