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For nearly a year Israel has been offering African migrants cash and the chance to go and live in what is supposed to be a safe haven in a third country.

The Israeli government has deals with two countries in Africa to host its unwanted migrants.

Israel refuses to name the two African countries but the BBC has spoken to migrants who say they were sent to Rwanda and Uganda.  

It promises that people who take the option will receive papers on arrival that give them legal status in the country.

As an extra incentive, they're given $3,500 (£2,435) in cash, handed over in the departure lounge of the airport in Tel Aviv.  

But the BBC has spoken to two men who say that they were abandoned as soon as they got off the plane.   

One was immediately trafficked, the other left to fend for himself without papers.   

Read Kathy Harcombe's report on the BBC News website.

Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC Africa, Bujumbura

At least four people have been injured in grenade explosions  in the centre of Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.

At around 12:15 (10:15GMT) two grenades were thrown near the central post office and the offices of the mobile phone operator Lumitel. They injured four people.

A third explosion was heard nearly half an hour later but we're still trying to find out where this happened.

SOS Medias Burundi has been tweeting from the scene:

They describe "scenes of panic" at the third explosion.

They later tweeted that there has been an arrest at the scene:

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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South African President Jacob Zuma's willingness to finally pay back the money spent on controversial security upgrades at his private residence in Nkandla could be a calculated move to avoid embarrassment at the Constitutional Court hearing due next week. 

But it could also be linked to the forthcoming crucial local government election. The Nkandla scandal, which revolves around $23m (£15m) of government money being spent on upgrading his home, has been a sore point for Mr Zuma's African National Congress (ANC), especially as the party faithful go out to campaign for votes. 

Political analyst Professor Somadoda Fikeni told me that it could also be related to the president being "politically vulnerable as he enters his lame duck period" and following the controversy late last year over the appointment of a finance minister. 

Another consideration could well be the fact that Mr Zuma is due to deliver his state of the nation address in parliament on 11 February. 

He may want attempt to avert another episode of the chaotic scenes we saw last year when when left-wing MPs from Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) heckled and disrupted his address. 

Security personnel had to be called into the chamber to remove the MPs who would not stop shouting "pay back the money'" while Mr Zuma desperately tried to deliver his speech.

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South Africa's private medical emergency service ER24 says its paramedics are at the scene of the deadly plane crash in South Africa's Gauteng province. 

The light aircraft crashed into shacks in Benoni city's Watville township, east of Johannesburg, News24 reports on its site, external.

"On assessment, paramedics found the bodies of three people lying inside the aircraft. Unfortunately all three occupants had already succumbed to their fatal injuries," ER24 is quoted as saying.

It has tweeted a picture from the site of the crash:  

The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi has sent these pictures of Kenyan customs staff emptying sacks of banned sugar:

The sacks were emptied into a barge in Mombasa, which is sailing further out from the coast to dump it into the ocean.  

18 containers of sugar were picked up at the port in Mombasa on their way to Uganda. But the revenue authorities said the goods hadn't been declared and also said they were unfit for consumption .

The Kenyan Revenue Authority also said they picked up 63 containers of ethanol.

Our correspondent saw litres upon litres of "foul smelling" ethanol being emptied when he was at the port:

  Workers said they planned to dilute the ethanol before dumping it in the sea.  

A plane has crashed in South Africa, killing three people, local reports say. 

Prosecution lawyers in Burundi have appealed against  the verdicts given against leaders of a failed coup, demanding all should face life sentences, the AFP news agency reports. 

They also released a list of 34 exiled opposition chiefs, civil society leaders and journalists whom they want to put on trial for their alleged role in the May 2015 coup bid, it reports. 

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The appeal comes after a court last month jailed 21 men for their role in the coup, sentencing former Defence Minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye (pictured above) and three ex-generals to life in prison, nine others for 30 years, and eight soldiers to five years. 

Prosecutors said in a statement that they were "not satisfied with the judgement", and seven people acquitted by the court should also be re-tried, AFP reports. 

Read: Has African Union let down Burundi?

The hashtag #PayBackTheMoney is trending on Twitter in South Africa as people react to the news that President Jacob Zumba has offered to pay back some of the public money he spent on renovating his house.

There's been scepticism from some:

And cynicism from others who want to know exactly how Mr Zuma is going to pay back up to $23m (£15m):

And then there are those are predicting this isn't the end of the story and are just settling in for the show:

We reported in an earlier post that the South African President Jacob Zuma has offered to pay back some public money which was spent on renovating his private home.

The main opposition Democratic Alliance party, and its leader Mmusi Maimane, have been tweeting their response:

They are referring to the case they have brought in the Constitutional Court demanding he repays the money (see our 09:02 post). 

Here's why they rejected Mr Zuma's offer:

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Nigerian Justice Minister Abubakar Malami is quoted as saying in local media that over 12 years Nigeria recovered more than $2 trillion (£1.4tn) that had been looted from the national treasury.

However, this is almost the equivalent to the country's whole GDP from 2011-2014 - which is $1.96tn.

Mr Malami said criminal gangs and public office holders had stolen the money.

In 1998 alone, then-military ruler Sani Abacha laundered over $2m, Mr Malami is quoted by Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper as saying. 

President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed “to recover the fortunes that criminals have made illegally by returning every penny that belongs to the Nigerian public”, the minister added.  

A blast on a passenger plane caused  a hole in its fuselage, forcing it to land soon after take off from the airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police have said, AFP news agency reports. 

The plane, operated by Daalo Airlines and flying from Mogadishu to Djibouti with around 60 passengers, landed safely. Two passengers were slightly injured. 

Image source, Darren Howe

Somali police officer Mohamed Ise said it was not clear what caused the explosion and fire, and investigations were being carried out, AFP reports. 

Earlier, Darren Howe, who had a colleague on the plane, said there had not been an explosion on the plane, but a "fuselage failure".  

VOA journalist Harun Maruf has been tweeting pictures of the plane:

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has agreed to repay some of the $23m (£15m) the government controversially spent on upgrading his private residence - including building an ampitheatre, swimming pool, and cattle enclosure. 

Mr Zuma's decision came a week before South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, hears a case brought by opposition parties to demand that he repays the money.

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In papers filed in court, Mr Zuma said the auditor-general and finance minister should determine how much he should repay in order to "achieve an end to the drawn-out dispute". 

In 2014, South Africa's  Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said the president had "benefited unduly" from some of the upgrades, and he should repay the government for money spent on non-security features. 

The total cost of the security upgrades was estimated to be around $14m. 

Read: How Zuma's residence has grown

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