Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has killed 20 mourners returning from the burial of victims of an earlier attack by the jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria, police say.

A junior navy officer named by The Gambia’s government as the mastermind of a foiled coup plot in December last year has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Kenyans are protesting a directive by the revenue authorities seeking to tax personal or household items worth $500 (£400) and above from visiting tourists and citizens returning to the country.

There has been quite a hullaballoo in Nigeria recently over the fact that the three top candidates in February’s presidential elections presented academic records showing different names to those by which they are now known.

Juliette Touma, from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA, says Gaza has “become a hellhole” over the last couple of weeks.

Ugandans have been sharing their tributes to a former minister in the Idi Amin government, Henry Kyemba, who died on Thursday from diabetes-related complications aged 84.