Nigeria: Video released purporting to show kidnapped boys
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
We get the latest on the fate of hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped in Nigeria鈥檚 Katsina State. The militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the kidnapping, and now a video has been released, purporting to show the captives. Some analysts are sceptical as to whether or not Boko Haram was actually responsible.
Plus, an HIV vaccine trial which is the 鈥渇irst of its kind in East Africa鈥. We hear from Prof. Pontiano Kaleebu of the Uganda Virus Research Institute, who says he鈥檚 excited by it.
And the mayor of Zambia鈥檚 capital Lusaka, Miles Sampa, defends his decision to hold his wedding in a stadium 鈥 and invite the whole city 鈥 despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
(Photo: A protest in Katsina urging the authorities to rescue the abducted schoolboys; Credit: Kola SULAIMON / AFP)
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