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Al-Shabab have carried out an attack on a base of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, housing Ugandan troops. The base is located around 100km from the capital, Mogadishu. The militant group said they captured the camp and killed dozens of ATMIS soldiers, but there's been no independent confirmation.

One of the last four fugitives wanted for their role in the Rwandan genocide has appeared in court in South Africa. Fulgence Kayishema has been at large for more than 20 years and was detained in a joint operation of UN investigators and South African police.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered yesterday in the Malian capital, Bamako, to demand the departure of the UN mission in the country, known as MINUSMA.

And Uganda's parliament has passed a bill increasing paternity leave from four to seven days. MPs said they got the idea from neighbouring Kenya, where male working employees get two weeks of leave.

(Picture: Migrants displaced by the militant group, al-Shabab. Credit: Abukar Mohamed Muhudin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)