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Summary

  • AU troops 'shot dead' Somalis at wedding

  • Revered Nigerian monarch buried

  • Corruption 'killing' small businesses in South Africa

  • Kenya destroys British yacht packed with heroin

  • New anti-slavery law in Mauritania welcomed

  1. Sierra Leone's Ebola quarantine centre closespublished at 12:21 British Summer Time 14 August 2015

     Sierra Leonean journalist Umaru Fofana is at the celebrations to mark the  closure of the West Africa last major Ebola quarantine centre:  

  2. Kenya to destroy boat with heroinpublished at 09:33

    The Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Ferdinand Omondi is at the scene of a boat filled with heroin seized by police off the coast of Mombasa in Kenya.

    The Chief of Defence Forces and Kenya's Interior Secretary are expected to supervise the destruction of the vessel and the drugs:

    The drugs have been tested ahead of the destruction by the police's anti-narcotics unit and and the navy.

    The drugs being tested

    A senior police officer Ferdinand spoke to told him there is 7.5kg (17lb) of heroin.

    Although no official accounts have confirmed this.

    Heroin