Nigeria convicts separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of terrorism

Nigeria’s High Court has convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on seven terrorism-related charges.

At the trial in Abuja on Thursday, Judge James Omotosho ruled that prosecutors provided “incontroverted evidence” that Kanu’s broadcasts to the now-banned Indigenous People of Biafra, or Ipob, group incited deadly attacks on security forces and citizens in the country’s south east. The judge described Kanu’s actions as…