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But the man - taken off a deportation flight - says he didn't know about the policy before reaching the UK.

Carbon-rich peatlands are under threat from development, posing a risk for future climate change.

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And we leave you with these pictures from Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey of his installation at London's Kew Gardens entitled Shooting at Hunger, which remembers the famine that once befell the Ga community in pre-colonial Ghana:

Aleem Maqbool
Religion editor, BBC News

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after it emerged the Church of England's investment fund has links to the transatlantic slave trade.

Queen Anne's Bounty was a fund to help support poor clergy in the 18th Century - but large parts of its investments supported carrying slaves from West Africa to the American colonies in horrific conditions.

That fund now makes up a part of the Church's $12.3bn (£10bn) investment fund.

In a snapshot from the late 1730s, for example, research commissioned by the Church itself found it was investing the equivalent of more than $530m in today's terms in the South Sea Company.

That was responsible for shipping tens of thousands of slaves from Africa to the Spanish colonies. It is estimated around 15% of them died on the torturous journey.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has apologised saying it is a source of shame that some in the Church actively supported and profited from the slave trade - and that he prayed for those affected by this news.

The Church of England says a group will now be set up to decide what its response should be. But a spokesperson would not be drawn on whether that included a discussion about reparations.

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Norah Magero has told the BBC of her excitement at becoming the first Kenyan to be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

Her winning invention is a small, portable, solar-powered fridge, named Vaccibox, that safely stores and transports vaccines so they can be used in field vaccinations and at remote clinics.

Ms Magero was inspired when she worked with farmers in remote locations who needed cold storage but didn't have a reliable electricity supply.

Then when Covid struck she thought she could adapt her invention for use with vaccines.

"It's a signifier that we're on the edge of something really, really great," she told BBC Focus on Africa radio.

Listen to the full interview here:

More on this topic:

• Can a solar-power fridge get more people vaccinated?

Record seven-time African champions Egypt sack Ehab Galal as coach after just three games in charge of the national team.

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Transport by air, land and sea has been all but suspended in Tunisia as hundreds of thousands of state employees hold a 24-hour strike to demand better pay amid soaring inflation.

The powerful UGTT union that called the industrial action says that its one million members are observing the strike.

It's a major challenge to President Kais Saied, who has been ruling by decree after suspending parliament last year.

His government is proposing an austerity plan that includes a freeze on public sector wages to try to secure a $4bn (£3.3bn) loan from the International Monetary Fund.

Water rationing will be introduced in large parts of Durban, one of South Africa's main cities, following damage caused to infrastructure in April's floods, the local water company has said.

Different areas of the port city will receive water on a rotational basis. This plan will begin on Monday and be in place for the next 12 months at least.

In a statement, the local authority and the water company said the heavy rains caused "extensive damage to two raw water pipelines" that connected the city's water supply to a nearby dam.

More than 400 people died after devastating floods wrought havoc in the area.

Tens of thousands of people were also forced from their homes after mudslides submerged and swept away houses.

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC News, Monrovia

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Lecturers at the state-run University of Liberia are pushing for the sacking of the institution's president, Julius Nelson, after declaring a no-confidence vote in him.

It follows the university’s alleged decision to withhold the salaries of about 70 lecturers - who Dr Nelson said were found culpable of drawing full-time salaries while working in two different government institutions.

The protesting lecturers nevertheless have asked President George Weah to dismiss the university head and have vowed to stay away from work.

Dr Nelson told the BBC that the university's administrators were in discussions with government officials to find an amicable solution to the controversy.

The protest is likely to affect the planned re-opening of the university on 27 June.

Public universities and colleges in the country are facing a funding shortfall following President Weah's declaration of a tuition-free scheme for students.

University administrators were said not to have been involved in the decision.

Already lecturers at a state-run in the north-eastern region of Nimba have announced that they will boycott work because of lack of support from the government.

Officials at the education ministry have cited the country's economic difficulties as a reason for the poor funding of universities.

Samba Cyuzuzo
BBC Great Lakes

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A meeting of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s top security officials has recommended that the government suspend all agreements and protocols that the country has with Rwanda amid allegations that Rwandan troops have entered the country and are supporting M23 rebels.

The Rwandan authorities have constantly denied any role in the ongoing crisis in eastern DR Congo.

The Rwandan government’s deputy spokesperson Alain Mukuralinda said they would “wait and see” if any decision was approved by the government.

On the ground in North Kivu province, where M23 rebels have occupied the border town of Bunagana since Monday, locals are fearful that clashes could restart any time.

North Kivu army spokesperson Lt Col Guillaume Kaiko told BBC Great Lakes that “all necessities are now in place” for the military to retake the town from the rebels.

The M23 rebels - who insist they want talks with the government – says the army has “not come for peace”.

“We are very scared. Terrible war can resume here. Those who fled are now scared of returning,” Francine Mundele, who lives in a village near Bunagana, told the BBC.

More than 130,000 people have fled their homes in the local area since fighting began in May, UN-backed Radio Okapi reports, quoting figures from the UN refugee agency.

Nduka Orjinmo
BBC News, Abuja

Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria's main opposition presidential candidate, has picked Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate for the February 2023 election.

Mr Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), announced the choice of Mr Okowa, a state governor, on Thursday.

Political parties in Nigeria have until Friday to submit the names of their presidential candidates and running mates.

Mr Okowa, a former senator is into a second four-year term as governor of Delta state, which is in southern Nigeria.

Mr Abubakar, a Muslim from northern Nigeria was expected to pick a running mate from the Christian-majority south of the country so his choice has come as no surprise.

However, many are worried about Mr Okowa's links to James Ibori, a former governor of Delta state convicted of money laundering in the UK in 2012., external

Ibori is still highly influential in Delta state politics and, many believe, had a hand in the election of Mr Okowa as governor.

The PDP is seeking to reclaim power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which will field Bola Tinubu as its presidential candidate.

Mr Tinubu is yet to announce a running mate.

Joe Inwood
BBC News, Kyiv

The sister of the Moroccan man who has been sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine says she feels his story is being ignored - and that he may be forgotten.

Brahim Saadoune was sentenced alongside Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who have received much more coverage.

Saadoune, 21, was studying in Ukraine but signed up to fight in the defence of Mariupol.

When he surrendered - he was put on trial, along with the other two, not as a soldier but a mercenary.

“At first, when they both captured all of them, then it was like different news about every person,” Imane Saadoune says.

“There wasn't much attention on my brother… he was left aside a little bit. Maybe it's because of my government they're not doing much about it, they are literally silent and nobody is claiming him.”

The three men do have a chance to appeal but the separatists have said they see no reason not to put them to death.

It has been left to his friends to campaign for his life.

“He has a lot of support. His friends, they are real friends, just starting many campaigns for him. I just want to tell him that he is loved. He's really loved.”

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South African authorities have been searching for days for a missing six-year-old boy who fell into an open sewer manhole.

Khayalethu Magadla had been playing with friends on Sunday at a popular park in Soweto, Johannesburg, when the incident happened.

He had been trying to jump on a plank placed across the manhole when he slipped and fell, according to some reports.

A search and rescue operation involving Johannesburg’s emergency services, the city’s municipal workers and the police continued for the fifth day on Thursday.

Robert Mulaudzi, the Johannesburg's Emergency Management Services spokesperson shared a video as the operation began for the day.

Speaking to the local media earlier, the city’s mayor, Mpho Phalatse, assured the boy’s family that the search would continue until he is found.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja

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At least 35 teenagers have been rescued from a so-called ‘’baby factory’’ in Nigeria.

Essentially these are places where women and girls are kept to give birth to babies for sale.

The authorities said four of the girls in the building in the south-eastern state of Anambra were already pregnant.

Police spokesperson Torchukwu Ikenga told the BBC three suspects had been arrested - accused of abducting the teenagers as well as engaging them in sexual slavery, prostitution and operating a baby factory.

The police recovered three guns during the raid on the building in the town of Nkpor, near the commercial city of Onitsha.

These facilities are usually operated by human trafficking gangs – some in buildings disguised as maternity clinics or hotels.

Despite frequent efforts by the authorities over the years to shut them down – they continue to operate, mostly in secret.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

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More than 15,000 people have already fled a new wave of attacks in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The renewed attacks began about a week ago in the south of the province, which was considered a safe area.

Conflict in the area started in 2017. Since then, more than 4,000 people have been killed and 800,000 forced from their homes.

The fear of more attacks by jihadist groups has triggered the movement of the thousands of people, an IOM report indicates.

Many of them are children and there are at least 125 pregnant women among the terrified population - some of whom are fleeing for the second time, now abandoning the places where they were starting to live again.

The new attacks are in areas around 100km (62 miles) from Pemba that have been a refuge for populations displaced in recent years.

The IOM says that people should only "voluntarily" return to the areas where they fled, contradicting a push by the authorities for the people to return.

Read more on the fighting in Mozambique:

• Mozambique insurgency: Why 24 countries have sent troops

Sebastian Usher
BBC Arab Affairs Editor

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A nationwide strike by state employees in Tunisia is taking place.

The most powerful union in Tunisia called for the stoppage to protest against the economic policies of the President Kais Saied in the latest challenge to his rule.

The UGTT union has urged its one million members to observe the strike across the country to protest against government plans for a wage freeze and cuts in subsidies, aimed at securing a $4bn (£3.3bn) loan from the International Monetary Fund to ease Tunisia's economic crisis.

Flights to and from Tunisia are being halted as a result of the industrial action.

The union says its motive is not political, but it is bound to be seen as another challenge to President Saied, who has effectively assumed one-man rule for the past year.

The UGTT is in any case already caught up in a showdown with the government after it refused to engage in Mr Saied's plans for a new constitution.

The next 24 hours are likely to see the fault lines in Tunisia become even sharper.

BBC World Service

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The charity Save the Children is warning that about 185,000 Ethiopian children are suffering from the deadliest form of malnutrition.

It says children, especially small ones, are suffering the most from famine, with much of Ethiopia gripped by the worst drought for 40 years.

Save the Children's country director, Xavier Joubert, says the expanding drought is wearing down their resilience, already weakened by conflict and Covid.

With four rainy seasons already missed, and a fifth likely, the charity says 30 million Ethiopians need humanitarian assistance.

Parts of neighbouring Kenya and Somalia are also affected by drought.

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Police in Zimbabwe say they have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering an opposition activist whose mutilated body was found in a well weeks after she went missing.

The suspect has been identified as Pius Jamba, who police previously described as an ex-lover of the victim Moreblessing Ali.

Ms Ali was reported missing following an argument with Mr Jamba.

She was a member of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party.

The suspect has not commented on his arrest and police have said they will issue a detailed statement later.

The police had previously said they were treating the case as a domestic issue rather than something that was politically motivated.

Chaos broke out at Ms Ali's funeral earlier this week after ruling Zanu-PF party supporters allegedly attacked mourners.