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Eleven members of an opposition coalition in Chad have been taken into custody, pending possible charges for allegedly trying to organise an anti-government protest, BBC Afriue reports. 

The demonstration was due to take place on 17 November but was banned by the authorities.

All those arrested are part of the New Opposition For Alternance and Change (Fonac), which has been campaigning against austerity measures in Chad. 

Fonac lawyer Alain Kagombe told the BBC they were arrested when police raided an opposition meeting:

President Idriss Deby came to power in 1990 after toppling Hissene Habre. 

He won a fifth term in April 2016 after elections that opposition said were marred by fraud.   

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed what they describe as a city that dates back more than 5,000 years, containing houses, tools, pottery and huge graves.

It lies by the River Nile, close to the Temple of Seti the First in Abydos.

Experts say the size of the 15 newly discovered graves indicates the high social standing of those buried.

It is believed the city was home to important officials and tomb builders and would have flourished during early-era ancient Egyptian times.

Experts say the find could be a boost for Egypt's struggling tourism industry which has been in the doldrums since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown as president in 2011.

Read the full story: Egypt ancient city unearthed by archaeologists

Martin Patience
BBC News, Nigeria correspondent

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In the most serious incident detailed by Amnesty in its report, Nigerian security forces are accused of killing at least 60 demonstrators. 

In May of this year hundreds of protesters were marking Biafra Remembrance Day in the city of Onitsha. 

During the event Amnesty alleges the military carried out extrajudicial killings in several locations. 

The human rights group also alleges that security forces tortured detainees at military barracks. 

One man who was shot during the protests alleged that soldiers then tried to pour acid on his face. 

The Nigerian army denies the allegations and says five police were killed during the violent clashes. 

In the past year there have been a series of protests by supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob). 

The movement wants to create an independent state - Biafra - in the south-east of the country. 

A previous attempt to establish a state triggered the Nigerian civil war almost 50 years ago.

Read more: How first coup still haunts Nigeria 50 years on

Juba International Airport in South Sudan is being renovated and expanded, its director has told Eye Radio. In the meantime, tents are being used:

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

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At least 38 inmates have been charged in an Ethiopian court with causing a fire that led to the death of dozens of fellow prisoners in September. 

Authorities say more than 20 inmates died when fire broke out at the Kilinto prison, on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa, which at the time was holding hundreds of anti-government protesters and some prominent opposition figures. 

Details of what exactly caused the fire at the prison in early September remain scarce and the charges against the prisoners contradict earlier accounts by the authorities. 

At the time, the government said 23 inmates had died of suffocation. 

The charge sheet says the dead prisoners were beaten before being burnt to death.

The 38 have further been charged with incitement and trying to recruit other prisoners to join banned groups, including the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

Opposition figures and rights groups have constantly disputed the account given by the authorities and say some of the dead bodies had bullet wounds. 

The Ethiopian government declared a six-month state of emergency last month to deal with nearly a year of anti-government protests from two of the country's biggest ethnic communities.

Read more: Are the protests a game changer?

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Sudanese security agents have arrested four prominent opposition figures over a wave of protests, a left-wing coalition says. 

The National Consensus Forces (NCF) alliance said the leaders, including veteran opposition politician Siddig Youssef, were summoned to the secret service’s headquarters and arrested on arrival. 

There have been a series of small but rare protests in the capital, Khartoum, over rising prices over the last week.

The government has been forced to progressively reduce fuel subsidies since 2011 when South Sudan seceded, taking most of the countries united oil reserves. 

NFC spokesman Mohammed Dia al-Din, along with Manzar Abu al-Maali and Tareq Abdel Mageed from the coalition, were also detained.

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The Nigerian army has denied allegations by rights group Amnesty that it killed at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters, which it called an "outright attempt to tarnish its reputation".

In a statement, the army accused the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) group of carrying out "violent secessionist agitations" and murdering people who had arrived in south-eastern Nigeria from other parts of the country.

The army said it had intervened to prevent ethnic clashes, exercised "maximum restraint" in the face of violence and had itself been targeted by armed attacks.

It said five police officers were killed and several soldiers wounded in one incident in May.

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Nigeria's security forces killed at least 150 people protesting peacefully for the creation of an independent state of Biafra between August 2015 and August 2016, Amnesty International says. 

The security forces had carried out a "chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence" in a crackdown on the secessionist movement in south-eastern Nigeria, it added in a statement.

Testimonies from 146 eyewitnesses, along with an analysis of 87 videos and 122 photographs, showed that the military often fired live ammunition with little or no warning to disperse crowds, Amnesty said. 

The security forces have not yet commented on the allegations. 

Amnesty International said members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) group had been heavily targeted by the security forces. 

There was a "disturbing pattern of hundreds of arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment by soldiers" and "wounded victims" had even been arrested in hospital, it said, adding: 

Ipob was formed in 2012. It says Nigeria's government is dominated by northerners and has not done enough to develop the mostly Igbo-speaking southeastern parts of Nigeria.  

Secessionists declared a breakaway state of Biafra in 1967. It led to a civil war in which  at least a million people died. 

Read more: Should new calls for Biafra worry Nigerians?

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