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Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has died in Kenya, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend in an attack in her home. "She had severe percentage of burns, which unfortunately led to multi-organ failure," says Kimani Mbugua, head of the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. SOUNDBITE
Exterior of hospital where Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has died in Eldoret, Kenya, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend in an attack in her home. IMAGES
Kenyan investigators gather at a police station in the capital Nairobi where earlier a man who police say confessed to murdering 42 women escaped from a police cell, along with a dozen other detainees. Collins Jumaisi, 33, described by police as a "vampire, a psychopath", was arrested last month after the horrific discovery of mutilated bodies in a garbage dump in a slum in the Kenyan capital. IMAGES
Anti-government protestors in the capital's central business district are being quickly dispersed as police fire tear gas, and make arrests, in a show of force. The East African nation,has been rocked by weeks of sometimes deadly protests against Ruto's two-year-old administration, mostly led by young Gen-Z Kenyans. IMAGES
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who is to head an interim government in Bangladesh, tells reporters at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris that he is "looking forward to going back home" and helping his country "get out of the trouble we are in." IMAGES