FOUR people suspected of helping Islamic extremists attack a hotel and office complex in Kenya’s capital last week have appeared in court.
A judge in Nairobi ordered three of the suspects to be held for up to 30 days, and a fourth for up to 10 days, as authorities investigate possible links to the deadly attack.
Another six suspects, including a Canadian national, appeared in court on Friday in connection with the investigation.
The five attackers, all of whom died, killed 21 people in the January 15 assault on the dusitD2 hotel and surrounding buildings.
Al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaida and based in neighbouring Somalia, claimed responsibility.
The group also carried out the 2013 attack at Nairobi’s nearby Westgate Mall that killed 67 people.
A FORMER French swimming champion is on trial for the alleged rape and sexual abuse of young boys and adolescents during the decade he ran an ice hockey club in northern France.
Vincent Leroyer told a jury as his three-day trial got under way in Bordeaux in south west France that he acknowledged “nearly all” of the accusations against him except for the allegation he raped a boy. Leroyer is accused of sexually abusing five boys aged six to 14 and raping one of them when he managed the ice hockey club in Rouen from 1986 to 1996.
He was a French national backstroke champion during the 1970s but an injury kept him out of the 1978 world championships.
Leroyer later worked for French swimming apparel maker Arena.
ZIMBABWE’S High Court has ordered the government to restore full internet to the country.
The ruling came after a week of turmoil in which Zimbabweans protested against dramatic fuel price hikes and government security forces launched a crackdown in which 12 people were killed.
The court ruled that the government’s shutdown of the internet was illegal because the minister of state for security, who ordered the closure, does not have powers to issue such a directive.
Only President Emmerson Mnangagwa has the authority to make such an order, the court said.
Zimbabwe’s government closed the internet for much of last week.
Over the weekend it restored partial internet, but kept a blackout on social media apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter.
Meanwhile, the leader of the country’s largest labour union has been charged with subverting the constitutional government.
The lawyer for Japhet Moyo, the secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, said he has been charged with subversion for his role in organising last week’s national strike that the government said degenerated into riots.
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