Kerry Leads US Team To Buhari’s Inauguration

John Kerry, the United States secretary of state, will lead the US presidential delegation to the inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president on May 29, the US mission in Nigeria has said.

“President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a presidential delegation to Nigeria to attend the inauguration of His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, president-elect of the federal republic of Nigeria, on May 29, 2015,” the mission said in a statement.

EBOLA OUTBREAK: Ebola Cases Rise In Guinea, Sierra Leone —WHO

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The World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed on Tuesday that Ebola has spread further in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Bruce Aylward, WHO Special Representative for Ebola in Geneva, told a technical briefing attended by health ministers that there were 36 new cases in the past week, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.

He said the situation was four times as many cases as the week before.

Aylward said the findings were an indication that the virus would not go quietly and it would take an extraordinary effort to finish the job.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free earlier in May.

UK Police Arrest Seven Over Multi-Million Pound Hatton Garden Jewellery Heist

The safe was left strewn with empty safety deposit boxes when police found it after the Easter weekend (Image source: Daily Mail UK)

British police said they had arrested seven suspects, one aged 76, on Tuesday over a multi-million pound raid in London's jewellery business district last month, which local media said could have been the country's biggest-ever heist.

Thieves used heavy cutting equipment to break into a vault at Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd over the Easter holiday where they ransacked about 70 boxes, according to Reuters.

Police have given no details of what was stolen but media estimated it could be as much as 200 million pounds (US$300 million), dwarfing the amounts taken in Britain's previous biggest heists.

More than 200 officers raided 12 addresses in north London and southeast England on Tuesday, arresting seven men aged between 48 and 76.

Detectives said large bags containing "significant amounts of high value property" were found in one of the properties they raided which they believed were stolen during the burglary.

Burundi Police Fire Tear Gas, Beat Protesters; Elections Should Be Postponed Until There's Stability: Zuma

So far, however, there are no signs of supporters and opponents of Nkurunziza being divided along ethnic lines. Image by: Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

Burundi police fired tear gas and beat protesters who were demanding President Pierre Nkurunziza end his bid for a third term, in a resurgence of unrest that has stoked fears of ethnic conflict in Africa's Great Lakes.

A Reuters photographer said at least eight of the flag-waving and chanting demonstrators were dragged off by police on Tuesday. Some in the crowd responded by pelting officers with stones and rocks.

Rights groups say at least 20 people have died in three weeks of clashes between security forces and protesters who say Nkurunziza's ambitions violate the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically fuelled civil war in 2005.

Jonathan For ECOWAS Summit; West African Leaders To Discuss Presidential Term Limits

President Goodluck Jonathan will today attend the 47th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government holding in Accra, Ghana.

The summit, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of ECOWAS, will receive reports on the current situation in Burkina Faso and Guinea Bissau and deliberate on issues of democratic consolidation and regional peace and stability.

West African leaders are due to discuss a proposal aimed at limiting presidential mandates to two terms at a regional summit on Tuesday, officials said.

The talks by members of West Africa's ECOWAS bloc come as several long-standing African presidents are approaching legal term limits. Attempts to change the law, or circumvent it, have sparked unrest in Burundi and Burkina Faso.

Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the top United Nations official in West Africa, told Reuters that countries in the region without term limits would be encouraged to introduce them.

Togo and Gambia do not have term limits.

Another official with direct knowledge of the talks said leaders would be asked to commit to protecting clauses on term limits from any broader revisions of constitutions.

ECOWAS can suspend members who do not comply with regional measures.