KENYA: Five bodies have been exhumed from shallow graves at a coastal site near where more than 400 bodies of followers of a doomsday cult were recovered two years ago.

Government pathologist Dr Richard Njoroge said on Thursday that 10 human body parts had also been recovered in the Kwa Binzaro area of Kilifi county, about 1.5 miles from the site of the Shakahola cult, and that the exhumation would continue.

IRAN: Gunmen killed five police officers today in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.

The officers were patrolling in two police cars when they were attacked on the road near the city of Iranshahr, some 800 miles south-east of the capital Tehran, according to the IRNA news agency.

No group has admitted responsibility for the attack.

SRI LANKA: Police arrested senior opposition politician Ranil Wickremesinghe today over allegations that he had misused public funds during his time as president.

Mr Wickremesinghe, who held office from 2022 to 2024, was arrested on allegations of using public funds to attend his wife’s graduation ceremony in London following an official visit to the United States, said police spokesman Fedrick Wootler.

NIGER: The army claimed today to have killed a top leader of the Boko Haram jihadist group with a targeted air strike.

Ibrahim Bakoura died in an August 15 strike in the Lake Chad region that also killed “dozens of terrorists” and other senior Boko Haram leaders, the military said in a television broadcast on Thursday.