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Burundian journalist briefly held while investigating blasts – official

Burundian journalist briefly held while investigating blasts – official

BURUNDI on Friday briefly detained a journalist investigating a grenade attack in the commercial capital Bujumbura, his radio station and an official said, after a series of explosions this week that killed at least five people. Radio Bonesha FM said their reporter was arrested while investigating a grenade incident that was said to have killed two people on Thursday. "Radio Bonesha FM journalist arrested on Friday morning by the police has just been released. Aimé Richard Niyonkuru is still waiting for his recorder. He spent many hours at the Special Research Office under the hot sun," the station wrote on…
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Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in northern Cameroon

Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in northern Cameroon

SUSPECTED  militants from Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people inside the camp in the village of Nguetchewe, said district mayor, Medjeweh Boukar. The camp is home to around 800 people, he said. The village is located in the Mozogo district, close to the Nigerian border in the Far North region. Boukar was informed by residents that 15 had…
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