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Former Kenyan policeman sentenced to death for murder

Kenya has not carried out the death penalty since the 1980s.

A former Kenyan policeman has been sentenced to death for murdering human rights lawyer, Willie Kimani, in 2016.

We hear from Archbishop Ewostateos after he was excommunicated by the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, following appointing 26 new Bishops in defiance of orders by the Holy Synod.

The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has met top Tigrayan officials for the first time since a peace deal was signed to end the two-year civil war.

And gyrating in some Zambian churches has caught the attention of Olushambles in this week鈥檚 Resident Presidents.

(Photo: Former police officers and main suspects in the murder of rights lawyer, Willie Kimani. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images).

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Fri 3 Feb 2023 17:06GMT

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