AFRICA• Kenya closes two large refugee camps at Dadaab and Kakuma, citing security concerns and financial pressures.• Zimbabwe faces a food supply crisis, with funding of US$290m desperately required to feed 4.5m people by next year.• Egyptian prosecutors detain a member of a group of satirists who posted a video critical of the government.• Burundi’s supreme court slaps life sentences on 21 army officers involved in an alleged coup plot.• The trial of two former Rwandan mayors accused of inciting violence during the 1994 genocide starts in the French capital, Paris.ABROAD• An impeachment process against Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff will go ahead after the acting speaker of the lower house revoked his decision to suspend a crucial vote.• An uncontrollable wildfire sweeps through Fort McMurray in Canada, forcing the evacuation of the entire city.• Israel indicts Mordecai Vanunu, a nuclear whistleblower, for meeting US citizens and violating court-ordered restrictions.• Sadiq Khan, a Labou...
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