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NAIROBI — Thirty-one years ago this week, a Nigerian diplomat walked into a modest office at Wilson Airport and asked two Kenyan pilots to do something almost no one could know about. The mission: fly the body of Somalia’s ousted ruler, Mohamed Siad Barre, from Lagos to his hometown of Garbaharey for a swift Islamic burial — quietly, safely and without alerting authorities across half a continent. For the first time, one of those pilots, Hussein Mohamed Anshuur — a former Kenya Air Force captain and co-founder of Bluebird…

Two Sukhoi, Russian-made fighter jets belonging to the Angolan army, were at an air show in the sky over Kinshasa on Friday. These military maneuvers took place four days after Félix Tshisekedi's stay in Angola. The Congolese head of state spoke for a few hours on Monday, November 16, with his Angolan counterpart. The military exercise on Friday was intended to "enlarge the perfect understanding between the two air forces", the Congolese army explains. According to the cabinet of Félix Tshisekedi, this air meeting is "the…