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The UN's refugee agency says it's seriously concerned about Israeli proposals to relocate tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees to third countries in Africa.

If they don't comply Israel says they would face imprisonment.

For nearly a decade, Israel has struggled to deal with tens of thousands of non-Jewish Africans entering the country, seeking asylum or work.

But human rights activists says Israel's plans violate international and Israeli laws. Adi Dori Avraham from Israeli refugee rights group, Assaf, told BBC Focus on Africa:

Israel's government has previously said that it would pay the Rwandan government $5,000 (£3,800), external for every African asylum seeker it accepts from Israel.

Yesterday, seven leading Israeli human rights organisations appealed to Rwandan President Paul Kagame not to accept refugees sent from Israel. And today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just announced the opening of a new Israeli embassy in Rwanda.

A minister from the governing Likud party, Avraham Neguise - who also leads the Knesset's Caucus for Israel-Africa Relations - told BBC Focus on Africa:

The British press is suddenly interested in Botswana. It's for one reason: it looks like it is the place where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appear to have fallen in love.

After two dates he invited her to come and join him in Botswana for five days.

Prince Harry revealed this in an interview with the BBC:

Camping doesn't sound very royal.

But the Evening Standard has tracked down, external the location in question, Meno A Kwena, and it appears to be highly luxurious:

The UN Security Council has warned that the Democratic Republic of Congo must stick to a December 2018 date for holding elections, reports Reuters.

"Now that the 23 December 2018 has been set as the date for elections, the members of the Security Council emphasised the critical importance of ensuring the elections are not postponed further," said the statement.

The date of the election has been controversial in the country.

Despite protests, President Joseph Kabila refused to step down at the end of his second and final term in office in December 2016.

At the beginning of November this year DR Congo's electoral commission announced the new date for the election.

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People on social media are sharing photos appearing to show migrants returning home from Libya after being released from slavery.

However, the top image dates back at least a year and shows migrants leaving Libya for Burkina Faso, external:

Football star Samuel Eto'o has denied claims that he personally donated money or purchased plane tickets for Cameroonian migrants so they could return home.

In a post on his Facebook page, external, he said "this rumour is completely baseless".

He urged his followers to act to prevent the terrible plight of migrants rather than react to it, adding that "among the victims will be people who we've lived alongside at some point".

Red bell pepper, crayfish, locust beans plus stockfish are among the ingredients you need to make efo riro.

Watch Nigerian chef Michael Elegbde prepare the Yoruba dish for the BBC in the video above.

And if that whets your appetite, hear the curious story of how a fish from Norway became a Nigerian staple on The Documentary:

More from The Documentary on BBC World Service

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One of ancient Rome's great Mediterranean cities is almost entirely cut off from the outside world.

That's because they are in conflict-ridden Libya. Foreign tourists came frequently before the 2011 uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's rule, but visitors stopped coming in 2013 when the security situation declined rapidly.

The limestone and marble ruins of Leptis Magna are on Libya's coast.

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Most visitors are local, with only the occasional handful of foreigners, reports Reuters' Aidan Lewis.

Several dozen unpaid guards volunteer to monitor the site. One, 60-year-old Ali Hrebish, told him he watched over the site "for God and country".

"There's something that remains of the tourist police, but they can't protect it," he said.

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The authorities in Mozambique have ordered the closure of several mosques in the north of the country following attacks they blame on Islamist extremists.

Last month three police posts were attacked near the border with Tanzania.

The head of Mozambique's Islamic Council said closing the mosques would alienate the country's Muslim community.

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The interior ministry in Egypt says that an operation by the security forces in the Sinai has targeted a militant hideout, killing 11 suspects.

The raid took place in the province of Ismailiya, which includes an area in the north-western Sinai.

It's not yet known if the operation was directly connected to the attack on a mosque in the Sinai last Friday that killed 305 people.

French President Emmanuel Macron has described the enslavement of African migrants in Libya as a "crime against humanity".

He was speaking in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in a speech broadcast live by French state-funded broadcaster Radio France Internationale.

He said he would propose a strategy for "Africa and Europe to come together to the rescue of the people in danger in Libya" during the African Union-European Union summit in the Ivorian capital on 29 November.

President Macron arrived in Burkina Faso yesterday at the start of a three day African tour which will also take him to Ivory Coast and Ghana.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says a three-month amnesty has been granted for the return of funds which have been "illegally externalised", the state broadcaster ZBC TV reports, external.

The new president told ZBC in a statement that the amnesty period stretches from the beginning of December until the end of February next year.

"As a first step towards the recovery of the illegally externalised funds and assets, the government is gazetting a three month moratorium within which those involved in the malpractice can bring back the funds and assets, with no questions being asked or charges preferred against them."

The station does not specify whether "illegally externalised" means stolen or moved into unauthorised, foreign bank accounts.

Stephanie Hegarty
BBC Africa, Lagos

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Amnesty International claims that oil giant Shell may have been complicit in human rights violations and murder by the Nigerian military in the early 1990s.

During that period the Nigerian army launched an operation against anti-oil pollution protesters in Ogoniland, which led to many extrajudicial killings and the execution of nine activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.

The report released by the rights group today looked at thousands of internal documents from Shell as well as eye-witness testimony, and calls for an official investigation.

Shell says the allegations are false and without merit.

This investigation drags up a murky period in Nigeria’s history - a violent crackdown on protesters and the execution of the nine.

They were protesting against years of oil spills from pipelines managed by Shell.

Amnesty International claims these documents show Shell repeatedly encouraged the Nigerian army to provide security for its operations in Ogoniland.

They claim Shell gave the army logistical and financial support - despite knowledge of human rights violations, including murder, committed by Nigerian soldiers in the area.

Shell says it denies these allegations in the strongest possible terms and added that it appealed to the Nigerian government for clemency for the nine Ogoniland activists executed in 1995.

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Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has unveiled the country's new flag, which was redesigned after a referendum in August. The constitutional amendments voted in by the poll also abolished the Senate and changed the national anthem.

The new flag will include two red strips — one on the top and one on the bottom of the flag — to symbolize the blood of patriots in the country’s struggle against their French colonizers.

In scenes aired live on state-run Mauritanian TV from independence day celebrations in the province of Gorgol, Mr Abdel Aziz watched the new flag being raised, after greeting military and political officials.

The new national anthem was sung as the flag was raised. Its lyrics address the country:

Opposition parties have protested both the new anthem and flag, having boycotted the referendum, which saw an overwhelming 'yes' vote.

Some have criticised the fact the new anthem, which was supposed to be a celebration of Mauritania, was composed by an Egyptian.

It is an unlikely love story which spans continents.

However, the passion Nigerians have for stockfish - a cod sourced from the freezing fjords of Norway - shows no sign of abating.

As people at a market in Lagos told the BBC:

So what is it about this particular cod, and how did Nigeria end up importing 4,000 tonnes from Norway each year?

Read more on the BBC News website.

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Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has told the Financial Times that he thinks he was the victim of an assassination attempt.

In the first interview since he was shot 16 times outside his flat in the capital Dodoma in September, he blames President John Magufuli, saying that it is evidence of a campaign to turn “the country into a dictatorship”:

Hassan Abbas, a government spokesman, told the Financial Times, external that Mr Lissu’s allegations are “misplaced”.

The FT adds that the president himself had previously called the shooting barbaric.

Mr Lissu described the shooting to the FT which reported a car had been following him for three weeks.

It adds that two armed men leapt from the car and Mr Lissu's driver threw him to the ground to save him from a hail of bullets.

“I have been told, because I couldn’t count, that 38 bullets hit my car and out of those something like 16 hit me.”

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga told a crowd that he would hold an assembly that would swear him in as president on 12 December, reports Reuters news agency.

Minutes after Mr Odinga spoke, riot police teargassed his convoy and charged the crowd, Reuters adds.

Mr Odinga made the announcment when supporters were gathered along a road in the Nairobi suburb of Eastlands after police sealed off the location where he had planned to hold a rally earlier in the day.

Our senior Africa Correspondent has tweeted that police have stopped a meeting set up by Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga:

The meeting was set for the same day as Uhuru Kenyatta's inauguration as president of Kenya.

Sixteen men arrested last month during a crackdown on homosexuality by the authorities in Egypt have been sentenced to three years in prison.

They were arrested when rainbow flags were raised at a concert in September which provoked a public outcry, says the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).

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A court in Cairo found 14 of them guilty of "inciting debauchery" and "abnormal sexual relations" on Sunday. The other two were convicted on Monday.

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A successful businesswoman in her own right before marrying the Namibian president, Monica Geingos says she has struggled with her current title of First Lady.

Listen to her comments in full:

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Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Abuja

The house of the founder of the militant group Boko Haram will be converted into a museum, the government has announced.

Authorities in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria say building the museum will boost tourism and educate future generations on the activities of the militant group and its dangers.

They say turning the late Mohammed Yusuf's house into a museum will also help preserve artifacts relating to the group’s insurgency.

But the move is controversial - critics say the move keeps the wounds of the conflict open.

Yusuf's home in Maiduguri is where the ongoing deadly conflict began.

He was shot dead while in custody in 2009 which angered Boko Haram members who became more violent.

Boko Haram’s insurgency has killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others.