
Somalia’s newly elected president is inaugurated
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took office after a handover ceremony in Mogadishu.
The new president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has been inaugurated in the capital, Mogadishu, at a ceremony attended by leaders from the region.
The Nigerian authorities say they suspect the militant group Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) carried out the deadly attack at a church in Owo in Nigeria's Ondo state last Sunday.
And we hear from the director of a UK-Sa Lone cancer charity providing medical assistance and social support to affected under-privileged and lower income families in Sierra Leone.
(Photo: Somalia's new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Credit: Getty/AFP.)
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