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18 year prison sentence for Westgate Mall attackers
At least 67 people died in the assault by al-Shabab militants.
A court in Kenya has sentenced two men to serve 18 years in prison for helping al-Shabab gunmen in a 2013 attack on a shopping mall, Reuters news agency reports.
In Tunisia, a surge in infections over the past month has seen cases increase by more than 1,000 per day.
This week our Resident Presidents talk about the normalisation of the diplomatic relations between Sudan and Israel.
(Photo: Hussein Hassan Mustafa (l) and Mohammed Ahmed Abdi (r) were found guilty of helping the attackers. Credit: EPA)
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