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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, new World Trade Organization's director general, arrives at the WTO's headquarters for her first in day in office. She is the first woman and first African to lead the WTO. IMAGES
Nigeria Health Minister Osagie Ehanire announces on Friday the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in the country. SOUNDBITE
Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrive at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York City. Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced later Thursday following his conviction in one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history. IMAGES
A day after their release, dozens of Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month, arrive at the Kaduna State Government House ahead of a meeting with the governor of the northwestern state, Uba Sani. The mass abduction in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest attacks on a school in years and sparked a national outcry over insecurity. IMAGES
A military helicopter carrying former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso, who spent 16 years in a US jail, arrives in Colombia's capital. Regarded as one of the most powerful warlords of the 1990s and early 21st century, Mancuso has pledged to tell the truth about his links to politicians and businesspeople in the South American country. IMAGES
Hundreds of people in the southern Nigerian city of Lagos protest the high cost of living in the country as part of a nationwide call to demonstrate by the Nigerian workers union. IMAGES