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    2015-04-08  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    1. Buhari wins in historic Nigerian vote

    Amid anger over an Islamic insurgency* that has claimed thousands of lives, Nigerians elected a 72-year-old former army general in a historic transfer of power officially announced on April 1.

    Challenger Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC) party won Nigeria’s presidential election.

    The victory writes a new chapter in the country’s often turbulent* history after six military coups* since independence in 1960.

    2. Turkey hostage drama ends in shootout

    A senior Turkish prosecutor and his two hostage-takers were killed when security forces launched an operation to free the official in a bloody end to a six-hour standoff* in Istanbul.

    The hostage-taking coincided on April 2 with the worst power cut Turkey has seen for 15 years, which has caused chaos in Istanbul. There was no indication of a link between the two events.

    Two radical leftist militants had earlier on April 2 taken the Istanbul prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage in his office, putting a gun to his head and threatening to kill him if their demands were not met.

    3. Flight school knew of pilot’s depression

    Lufthansa knew that the co-pilot of the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps a week ago had suffered from an episode of “severe depression” before he finished his flight training with the German airline.

    The airline said on April 1 that it has found emails that Andreas Lubitz sent to the Lufthansa flight school in 2009 when he resumed his training in Bremen after an interruption of several months.

    In them, he informed the school that he had suffered a “previous episode of severe depression,” which had since subsided.

    The airline said Lubitz subsequently passed all medical checks and that it has provided the documents to prosecutors.

    4. Boko Haram uses children as bombs

    Boko Haram Islamist militants in northern Nigeria are using children as human bombs and targeting women and girls for particularly horrific abuse, including sexual slavery, the United Nations human rights chief said on April 1.

    Zeid Raad Al Hussein told a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva that his office had received reports of Boko Haram using children as its first line of attack, as “expendable cannon fodder*.”

    5. Myanmar apologizes over bombing

    Myanmar has accepted responsibility and apologized for bombs dropped on Chinese territory last month that killed five people, China’s Foreign Ministry said on April 2.

    The incident happened during clashes between Myanmar government forces and a rebel group called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). Thousands of refugees have fled to China as fighting flared on the Myanmar side of the border in the past month or so.

    The Chinese Government was infuriated* by the deaths in its southwestern province of Yunnan, and warned of a “decisive” response should there be any repetition.

    6. At least 147 dead in Kenya university

    Al-Shabab gunmen stormed a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn on April 2, killing at least 147 people in the group’s bloodiest attack in the East African country, officials said. Four of the gunmen were killed by security forces.

    In the attack, which turned into a hostage siege* that continued into the evening at Garissa University College, masked militants separated Christian students from Muslims, and then gunned them down without mercy, survivors said. Others ran for their lives with bullets whistling through the air, and hundreds of students remained unaccounted for more than 11 hours after the bloodshed began.

    At least 79 people were wounded at the school 145 kilometers from the Somali border by the al-Qaida linked group, said Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery, who gave the death toll. A dusk-to-dawn curfew* was ordered in Garissa and three nearby counties.(SD-Agencies)

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