South Africa’s top court on Friday reinstated a 24 year prison sentence for Henry Okah convicted of a series of terror attacks in Nigeria eight years ago. Okah was jailed in 2013 for masterminding a number of attacks, including twin bombings which killed 12 people in the Nigerian capital Abuja during independence day celebrations in 2010. Okah’s appeal was first heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2014, which overturned four of his 13 terror convictions and reduced his sentence to 20 years, but the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg…

A suicide bomber who blew himself up after throwing a grenade into the US embassy compound in the Montenegro capital Podgorica left a farewell note seeking forgiveness from his family, local media reported Friday. Montenegrin authorities continued to investigate the motive for Thursday’s attack, in which no one else was injured. There have been no indication so far it was linked to terrorism. Serbia-born Dalibor Jaukovic left a six-page handwritten note asking his family “to forgive him for what he is going to do,” the Pobjeda newspaper reported, citing sources…