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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.)

23 minutes

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Thu 9 Jun 202219:06GMT

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