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Nigeria Begins Mass Trials Of Boko Haram Suspects

Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

Suspected Boko Haram militants appear in mass trials in Nigeria. Most of the defendants were arrested in the last few years as the Nigerian government stepped up its campaign against the Islamist group.

Plus the works of more than 150 African artists go on show in London.

And there is jubilation in Egypt as the football team qualifies for the World Cup for the first time in 28 years.

(Image: A Nigerian soldier looks at the remaining dilapidated buildings of the school in in Borno State north-eastern Nigeria where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenagers in 2014. Credit AFP/Getty Images)

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Mon 9 Oct 201715:06GMT

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