At least nine people were killed in villages in three districts in a week, local leaders say, as Nigeria remains the deadliest country in the world for Christians.
· Africa
The ruling ends the threat of a death sentence but keeps one of East Africa's best-known opposition figures behind bars.
Africa's richest man is extending his refining group's reach beyond Nigeria into southern Africa.
The sentence follows the Shakahola forest deaths, in which hundreds of followers were found to have starved after being told to fast to meet Jesus.
Armed men struck a village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where health workers are also battling an Ebola outbreak.
