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Added on the 05/01/2024 08:51:52 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A parole board is expected to decide if South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius should be released from prison early, a decade after he killed his girlfriend, a lawyer for the victim's family says outside the correctional facility where the parole hearing was taking place. "We have been advised that there will be a decision later today." SOUNDBITE
Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko and his second-in-command, presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, are released from prison ten days before the country's election. Their released sparked an outburst of celebration among thousands of Dakar residents who spontaneously took to the streets of the Senegalese capital. IMAGES
Cheering and joy as several government opponents are released from the Reubeuss prison in Senegal, amid a political crisis that has gripped the country since the presidential election was delayed. IMAGES
Military and police guard an air base in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil where the wife and children of Ecuadoran fugitive Adolfo Macias, the drug lord known as "Fito," are being held after being expelled from Argentina. IMAGES
Images of Ecuador's National Police removing the body of the prosecutor investigating an armed assault by gangsters on live television from a crime scene, after he was shot dead in Guayaquil. Images also show Cesar Suarez's car riddled with bullet holes on the street. IMAGES