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Hundreds protest in Nigeria over a controversial police unit
They are calling for a for complete disbandment of SARS.
Hundreds of youths marched through Computer Village in Ikeja, to police headquarters in Lagos to protest alleged brutality and extra-judicial killings by Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit.
Sierra Leone's former president Ernest Bai Koroma has been summoned to appear before the country's anti-graft commission on Thursday.
Every 15 years, the Maasai hold a ceremony called Olngesher where young men graduate to become community elders, we hear from one of them.
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