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The first international treaty on managing migration is to be signed at a two-day gathering in Morocco.

The UN's Global Compact for Migration sets out a number of objectives, external, including the integrated management of borders and ensuring that migrants have access to basic services.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among the leaders expected to attend the meeting in Marrakesh.

But a large number of countries, from Poland to Australia, have refused to take part.

A BBC correspondent says political parties in many parts of the world are in no mood to sign up to multilateral solutions to problems that cross borders.

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Journalist and poet Harriet Anena has won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, becoming the first Ugandan to receive the honour.

She tweeted that she was "super happy" to have won the award for her book of poetry, A Nation in Labour.

Her publisher calls it "a collection of social conscience poetry" taking in "the giant politician, the restless citizen, the clueless youth, those struggling to heal from life's scratches and the ones hunting for words to describe fiery flames of affection".

Anena, who hails from Gulu in northern Uganda, shares this year's prize with Nigeria's Tanure Ojaide who wrote Songs of Myself.

They each win a cash prize of $10,000 (£7,870).

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