AFRICA• Niger’s opposition slams the final round of the country’s presidential election as being a sham, because of low voter turnout.• Liberia closes part of its border with Guinea over fears of an Ebola flare-up.• Benin businessman Patrice Talon is declared the winner of a presidential run-off, beating Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou.• Zambian police arrest an opposition leader for saying President Edgar Lungu used public funds for a holiday.• The EU military training mission’s headquarters in Bamako, Mali is attacked.• Four British plane spotters are told to pay a fine or face a year in a Kenyan jail for photographing aircraft in Nairobi.ABROAD• China lodges a protest with Japan over new Japanese school text books which it believes distort the history of Japanese atrocities in China.• Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in terrorist attacks in Paris is arrested in Belgium.• Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff will take legal action against a senator who accused her of involvement in corruption....
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