This week in Africa, the International Court of Justice hands control of a large swathe of a disputed territory in the Indian Ocean to Somalia, angering its neighbour Kenya who also claims sovereignty; the trial for the assassination of Burkina Faso's former leader Thomas Sankara starts... then stops, with a two week-adjournment and without the presence of the chief accused, ex-president Blaise Compaore; Sierra Leone officially abolishes the death penalty; and in Senegal, an innovative construction company is returning to raw earth bricks to construct buildings that resist the heat.

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