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Gunmen kill Nigeria's ex-defence chief
Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh is killed in an ambush outside the capital, Abuja.
A former chief of defence staff is shot dead in Nigeria. Will it be Rajoelina or Ravalomanana in Madagascar's presidential election runoff? And around half a million people have been displaced by conflict in Anglophone Cameroon - but why are they not getting enough assistance?
(Photo: Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh. Credit: Getty Images/AFP)
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