AFRICA• A Rwandan military tribunal condemns two senior army figures to 20 years in prison for inciting rebellion.• Uganda police end a six-week-long house arrest of an opposition leader only to re-arrest him hours later.• The UN Security Council backs a resolution for the deployment of a UN police presence in Burundi to help quell violence.• A second case of Ebola is confirmed in Liberia, months after the country was declared free of the disease.• Thousands flee fighting in Brazzaville, Congo, following President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s re-election in a disputed poll.ABROAD• Boats carrying refugees deported from Greece arrive in Turkey in line with an EU plan to limit migration to Europe.• A US judge approves a $20bn settlement over BP’s huge 2010 oil spill.• Ecuador starts drilling for oil on the edge of a rainforest inhabited by two of the last tribes in the world living in isolation.• Azerbaijan and Armenian authorities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region reach an agreement to end fou...
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