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• Power restored to Sierra Leone as minister quits

  27 avril
  Most of the electricity in the capital is supplied by a Turkish ship floating off the country’s coast.

• The ’get-out-of-jail’ election and 30 years of freedom

  27 avril
  Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.

• Burkina Faso suspends BBC over HRW massacre report

  26 avril
  BBC websites and radio are blocked for two weeks over a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.

• Mbeki vows to rid South Africa’s ANC of ’rotten apples’

  26 avril
  South Africa's former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.

• Two East Africans charged in UK migrant deaths investigation

  26 avril
  Five migrants, including a child, were killed in a crush on board a boat crossing the Channel.