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Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children before setting off dynamites that had congregants scampering to escape the explosions according to local and eyewitness reports.

Mali has expressed disappointment at the decision by the West Africa regional group, Ecowas, to maintain crippling economic sanctions on the country.

South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory.
The country has 11 official languages, and many say they cannot understand Afrikaans - a language which was imposed during white-minority rule.

(Eyewitnesses say at least 50 bodies were left strewn across the church floors. Credit: Â鶹Éç)