Nigerian former senator jailed for nine years in UK

A former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has been given a nine-year jail term and his wife four-and-a-half years for conspiring to bring a 21-year-old Lagos street trader to the UK as a potential kidney donor for their sick daughter. A doctor who was also part of the plot received 10 years.<br /> <br /> South Sudan&rsquo;s foreign minister, Deng Dau Deng, says his country is continuing efforts to persuade the two sides fighting in Sudan to meet for peace talks.<br /> <br /> Heavy gunfire continues to tear through the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, despite multiple ceasefire declarations.