AFRICA• Côte d’Ivoire’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo’s trial for crimes against humanity begins, but rights groups won’t participate.• Uganda cuts military and police ties with North Korea, depriving it of a base for arms and other exports in Africa.• A special AU-backed court in Senegal sentences former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré to life in prison for war crimes.• Nigeria’s police chief orders members of a Biafran secessionist group accused of involvement in violent protests to disarm.• Over 800 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya.• The head of Egypt’s journalists union is charged with spreading false news and harbouring wanted journalists.ABROAD• French president François Hollande insists that controversial labour reform will not be withdrawn in spite of nationwide strikes.• Turkey labels the pacifist movement of Fethullah Gulen a terrorist group and says it is trying to topple the government.• A second minister in Brazil’s governmen...
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