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DR Congo 'Terminator' gets 30 years jail sentence

Former rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda sentenced for war crimes and crimes against humanity

The former Congolese rebel leader, Bosco Ntaganda, has been given the longest sentence ever handed down by the ICC, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. We hear from the Court in The Hague and our correspondent Gaius Kowene gathers reactions from Kinshasa.

We speak to Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. who has tweeted that he doesn’t want to be called ‘His Excellency’ anymore because the title is a "symbol of executive arrogance". Instead he's chosen to be addressed simply as 'Mr Governor'.

(Photo: Mr Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Credit: Getty Images)

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Thu 7 Nov 201915:06GMT

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