Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC Africa, Bujumbura

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has told the BBC that it has only managed to raise about 1/40th of the funds it needs to respond to the Burundian refugee crisis. 

Just $4.7m (£3.3m) has been raised of the target of $175 million, a UNHCR official told the BBC's Great Lakes Service. 

The spokesperson said that competing refugee crises in Syria, the Middle East, the Central African Republic and South Sudan were making it very difficult to raise the funds. 

According to official figures, there are about 250,000 Burundian refugees in neighbouring countries including Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda.

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Young and Connected is BBC Africa's first ever WhatsApp series - bringing the story of the rise of youth groups challenging leaders who want to stay in power or who are not accountable. 

Chapter Two of the series covers the Lucha movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma, which has been badly hit by years of conflict. 

The BBC's Maud Jullien went to meet the activists involved.

To subscribe to the rest of the Whatsapp series, you can add +44 7734778817 to your phone contacts. Send a message to the number saying "SIGN UP" to receive the videos in English, or "SOUSCRIRE" to the same number for the French editions. 

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

Zimbabwe have won their opening game at the World Twenty 20 Cricket, beating Hong Kong by 14 runs.

Next up for Zimbabwe will be Scotland on Thursday, followed by the final match of the group against Afghanistan on Saturday. 

Only the winners of the group will advance to join the best sides in the world when they start next week - waiting for the victors in Zimbabwe's pool are England, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies.

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Read the full BBC Sport story here

For our coverage of International Women's Day, we've asked you: "What's the one change you'd like to see for women where you are?" 

There's a lively discussion happening on the BBC Africa Facebook page, external, with traditional male perspectives coming up against women who are demanding greater empowerment: 

Many of you have also been sending us Twitter messages on the one thing you'd like to see change:

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the South African telecoms company MTN is trying to negotiate a gradual payment of the multi-billion dollar fine a Nigerian regulator imposed, the Reuters news agency reports.

MTN was fined $3.9bn (£2.4bn) for its failure to cut off unregistered SIM cards.

Mr Buhari's comments come as he is hosting South Africa's President Jacob Zuma:

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Senegal's President Macky Sall has just been talking at the opening of the Next Einstein Forum in the capital, Dakar.

The aim is to boost investment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics across Africa.

President Sall said that "we need to urge our youth to invent and innovate".

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has also been speaking:

Matthew Davies
Editor, BBC Africa Business Report

Exploration for shale gas is set to begin in South Africa within the next 12 months, according to a statement from the government. 

The process, known as fracking, has often caused environmental concerns, but the South African authorities insist it will add "value to the country's mineral wealth". 

Tuesday's statement follows an announcement in South Africa's parliament two weeks ago, in which an official from the country's department of mineral resources said that the first licences for hydraulic fracturing would be issued this year. 

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Fracking is a process where fluids are used at high pressure deep underground to break up rock in order to release oil and gas deposits - it often raises concerns among environmental campaigners who claim it can, amongst other things, pollute groundwater. 

Many oil companies have recently adopted a wait-and-see stance when it comes to fracking in South Africa, given the low oil price and the delays in awarding exploration licences. 

The government argues that the country could benefit from fracking.

Read more: What is fracking and why is it controversial?

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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame is speaking at the opening of the Next Einstein Forum in Senegal's capital, Dakar (see 11:07 entry).

You can follow the opening ceremony here, external.

To mark International Women's Day Nigeria's senate has been discussing a motion calling for equality for women.

Its official Twitter account has highlights from the discussion:

So far so normal, but then a senator urged his colleagues to "take care of women":

Then there was a joke about taking more than one wife:

And then another male senator spoke about the "good nature of women":

A student pilot from Egypt has agreed to leave the US after posting on Facebook that the world would thank him if he killed Donald Trump.

Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, was not charged with a crime but the US authorities sought to deport him, his attorney, Hani Bushra, said.

Immigration authorities said they would allow him to return home voluntarily as long as he departed by 5 July.

Mr Elsayed is being held in a jail in California after his visa was revoked.

Mr Bushra said on Monday that Mr Elsayed's detention was illegal.

Read more from BBC News Online.

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A major conference aimed at promoting science on the continent has just opened in Senegal's capital, Dakar.

It's called the Next Einstein Forum, external (NEF) and is bringing together scientists and politicians.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame is opening the conference with Senegal's President Macky Sall.

You can follow the events here., external

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

This morning South African newspapers, social media pages and talk shows are dominated by discussions about former President Thabo Mbeki's HIV-Aids policy.

They've been ignited by a denial contained in his weekly blog published on Monday aimed at setting the record straight, external that he ever challenged the notion that HIV does not cause Aids.

During his presidency Mr Mbeki was accused of denialism when it came to the issue of HIV/Aids.  

The 73-year-old former head of state said in 2006 that HIV was the ninth leading cause of death in South Africa, while tuberculosis was at the top, according to Statistics South Africa.

Mark Heywood, a leading HIV activist who led the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) at the time, reacted by saying that the letter did not offer an apology or show remorse for Mr Mbeki's Aids policy, which threatened the lives of many South Africans. 

He told local station Talk Radio 702: “I think that Thabo Mbeki’s latest intervention on HIV-Aids is tragic, sad, flimsy and embarrassing.”

#IWD2016, external is trending across the world as people take to social media to celebrate International Women's Day. 

We've gathered some of the most popular tweets below from followers of @BBCAfrica.

And on today's Africa Live Page, we're asking all our readers to answer this question: 

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We'll feature a selection of your responses on the BBC Africa Live page throughout the day.

The Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab says the US has exaggerated the death toll from Saturday's air strike on its fighters. 

But it has confirmed that the attack happened in territory it controls in Somalia.

The US military says the operation involving drones and manned aircraft killed 150 jihadis.

While Washington will see the attack as as a success, the fact that al-Shabab could assemble more than 100 fighters in one place shows it is not a spent force, reports BBC Africa Security Correspondent Tomi Oladipo.

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A former US missionary has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya.

Matthew Lane Durham, 21, had committed "heinous crimes on the most vulnerable victims", the US court said.

Durham targeted orphans while working as a volunteer at the Upendo Children's Home in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, between April and June 2014.

He is the latest charity worker in Kenya to be convicted of sex crimes.

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Martin Patience
BBC News, Nigeria correspondent

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is expected to hold talks with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari and address the national parliament on his two-day visit to the country.

The official trip is being seen as an attempt to improve relations between Africa’s two largest economies.  

Several government ministers are joining President Zuma on a trip that’s expected to focus on trade. 

But it will be overshadowed by the multi-billion dollar fine imposed by Nigeria on South Africa telecoms giant MTN for failing to disconnect unregistered SIM cards. 

MTN has so far paid out $250m (£175m) and is currently trying to negotiate a settlement. 

Other South African firms claim they’re being unfairly targeted by regulatory bodies. 

But President Buhari’s government insists that regulations must be implemented as part of its efforts to clean up corruption within the country 

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A man who stowed away on a long-haul flight from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to Stockholm has requested asylum after surviving the perilous journey, Swedish media report.

The 27-year-old man was discovered by staff on Monday at Stockholm's Arlanda airport, was described as "exhausted but alive" by emergency services, Swedish news website The Local reports, external. 

Read more: The medical conundrum of plane stowaways

The second round of Benin's presidential election is set to be between Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou and businessman Patrice Talon, according to provisional results announced by the country's electoral commission, the AFP news agency reports.

Mr Zinsou took 28.4% of the vote and Mr Talon came second with 24.8%.

They topped a field of 33 candidates in Sunday's first round.

The winner will replace President Thomas Boni Yayi, who has been in power for two terms.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Nigeria for a two-day state visit.

In an official statement, external President Zuma's office says the two countries have "good bilateral political, economic and social relations underpinned by strong historical ties".

It makes no mention of the more than $3bn (£2.1bn) fine imposed recently by Nigerian regulators on the South African mobile phone company MTN, though there is speculation in South Africa that this issue will be raised.

Nigeria and South Africa are the continent's two largest economies.

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