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Burkina Faso’s junta has expelled the UN’s top official to the West African nation over a report about children caught up in the jihadist conflict. Carol Flore-Smereczniak was declared “persona non grata” because of her role in drafting the report that came out in March. Covering a two-year period, the study detailed more than 2,000 […]

The US has reached bilateral deportation agreements with Honduras and Uganda as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration, according documents obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS. Uganda has agreed to take an unclear number of African and Asian migrants who had claimed asylum on the US-Mexico border, while Honduras will receive several hundred […]

Brash, controversial and unafraid to speak his mind, South Africa’s Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has been swift to call out racism in others but he himself has now been branded a racist – a charge he refutes. He is often seen as the lightning rod for the frustrations of the country’s coloured […]

Rescue workers in northern Nigeria are still searching for about 25 missing passengers after a boat accident in Sokoto state on Sunday, a local councillor has said. The National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said the boat was carrying more than 50 people to a local market when it capsized in the River Goronyo. Aminu Bare, […]

The main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23, has walked away from peace talks with the government, saying it will not return unless the authorities adhere to a previous ceasefire deal. Fighting between the two sides escalated in January, when the M23 captured large parts of the mineral-rich east, including the […]

A prominent Sudanese human rights group has accused the country’s army and security forces of torturing people to death and operating “execution chambers”. The Emergency Lawyers group said it had documented hundreds of arrests in the capital Khartoum. It said that in the “worst cases”, some captives had later been found dead with evidence of […]

Augustine Ogbo works as a doctor, treating patients in clinics across the striking Caribbean island of St Lucia. When he returns to his home in the coastal town of Rodney Bay, he clocks in for his second job – as the owner and solo chef of a Nigerian takeaway. “Egusi soup and fufu, that’s more […]

Cape Verde has declared a state of emergency on the islands of São Vicente and Santo Antão, after deadly floods which killed at least nine people and forced 1,500 from their homes. The state of emergency activates crisis funds and urgent infrastructure repairs in the Atlantic Ocean islands off the west coast of Africa. Monday’s […]

French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged the violence committed by his country’s forces in Cameroon during and after the Central African nation’s struggle for independence. It followed a joint report by Cameroonian and French historians examining France’s suppression of independence movements from 1945 to 1971. In a letter to Cameroon’s President Paul Biya made public […]

The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to do. They are innocent. They have nothing to do with the army or [its paramilitary rival] the Rapid […]