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The verdict hearing for four of the defendants begins in the trial over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a 2016 machine-gun assault on the Ivorian beach resort of Grand-Bassam that killed 19. The verdict is expected on Thursday. IMAGES
The peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in France "appears to be behind us", Prime Minister Jean Castex says, announcing that travel restrictions will be relaxed from early next month. Castex tells reporters there has been a "drop in the circulation of the virus" over the last 10 days, confirming that restrictions confining people to a 10-kilometre (six-mile, ed) radius of their homes would be dropped from May 3. SOUNDBITE
A national tribute to former Ivory Coast prime minister Hamed Bakayoko, who died of cancer at the age of 56 on 10 March 2021, is underway at the Stade Olympique Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. IMAGES
The body of the Ivory Coast's late prime minister arrives from Germany at Abidjan airport. Hamed Bakayoko, popularly known as "Hambak", died in Germany from cancer aged 56, four days after legislative elections that went ahead peacefully and handed victory to the ruling RHDP party. IMAGES
The rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine begins as a patient in Oxford becomes the first to receive it. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, recieves the vaccination at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation. IMAGES
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