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The Togolese government has declared a "state of security emergency" in its northern border region.

The measure will last for three months and could be extended by the national assembly, the government spokesman said on Monday.

It allows security forces there to have more flexibility to deal with threats of jihadist attacks.

The move follows last month’s attack in a northern town near the border with Burkina Faso, in which eight Togolese were killed and others were wounded.

Togolese troops are deployed in the north to try to contain a jihadist threat pushing south from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where militants linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group operate.

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The head of the UN refugee agency has condemned plans by Britain to send a first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday.

Filippo Grandi said the policy set a catastrophic precedent.

He said other countries who took in far more asylum seekers than Britain could decide to follow its example.

Courts in London have rejected two last-minute challenges to the new policy.

The British government argues that the move is designed to deter people-trafficking, but there's been widespread criticism by opposition parties and rights groups.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Home Office.

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A United Nations tribunal has ruled that a man alleged to be one of the main financiers of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is fit to stand trial in The Hague, where he is currently detained.

Félicien Kabuga is accused of funding and arming the Hutu militias who slaughtered some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocide.

His lawyers had previously sought to halt proceedings against the 87-year-old on health grounds.

Mr Kabuga had been on the run for 26 years until his arrest in 2020 in Paris, where he had been living under a false identity.

He denies all the charges against him.

In 1997 he was indicted by the International Criminal Court for Rwanda on seven counts including genocide and crimes against humanity.

More on this topic:

• How Félicien Kabuga evaded capture for 26 years
• Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter

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The UK government's first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda will now go ahead tomorrow evening.

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More than a dozen people are said to have been injured after ruling Zanu-PF party supporters allegedly attacked mourners gathered at the home of a murdered opposition member in Chitungwiza, about 30km (18 miles) from the capital, Harare.

Zanu-PF has not commented on the allegations.

Political tensions have been rising in the community after Moreblessing Ali's severed remains were found in a well this weekend, close to three weeks after she was reported missing.

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Job Sikhala told the BBC that about 20 party supporters had been injured and were at St Mary's police station in Chitungwiza to report the alleged assault.

He said the mourners had been attacked with logs and stones after Zanu-PF members ordered mourners to move the funeral to a different location.

A video posted on social media earlier showed a community leader demanding that the funeral be moved out of his area.

The CCC says Ali's murder was politically motivated, her former partner who is a suspect is reportedly in hiding and is said to have a history of terrorising opposition members.

Police say this is a domestic matter rather than a political motivated case.

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC News, Monrovia

There has been an outpouring of emotion on social media following the death of newborn conjoined twins in Lofa County, in the country’s far north, at the weekend.

The infants, who have not been named publicly, had been born with their chests and stomachs attached. The presidency had ordered that they be transported from the rural region to the capital city, Monrovia, for possible transfer abroad for surgery.

"Sad! The mother enduring the pain from the surgery and now their passing. Sad,” Isaac Garyeazon Redd, a senior manager at the state-run Liberia Broadcasting System, said in a Facebook post on Monday.

Yusuf Mafin Sherif blamed the deaths on Liberia's “broken medical system”.

Onesimus Leigh wrote: “I wasn’t expecting them to survive in Liberia that is far behind medically; thus, [it] isn’t a surprise to me.”

But Boakai Fofana, an assistant minister at the Ministry of Information, wrote: “The separation of conjoined twins isn't done just anywhere or at any facility,” adding that “even advanced countries send these cases to specialist hospitals.”

Liberia’s health sector has remained under-equipped, underfunded and understaffed ever since the country’s civil war ended nearly 20 years ago.

Healthcare workers who are among the least-paid often go on strike before the issues of their delayed salaries are addressed.

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Africa editor, BBC World Service

The government of Burkina Faso says at least 50 civilians have been killed by suspected Islamists in a raid on Seytenga village, in the north of the country.

The UN has condemned the latest attacks on civilians.

The raid is one of the bloodiest since a military coup in January, when colonels angered at failures to roll back the insurgency ousted the elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore.

A spokesman for the government of Burkina Faso said the Islamist attack in Seytenga was in response to a successful military operation last week.

There are fears that the number of civilian deaths from the weekend attack could be far higher than is being admitted - some reports had put the number at 100 or more.

The recent escalation of raids by Islamist linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group is a major setback for the military government in Burkina Faso.

It forced its way to power accusing the elected government of failing address the insecurity.

The conflict which also affects swathes of Mali and Niger is displacing rural communities and contributing to a severe shortage of food.

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There are reports from Sudan's Darfur region that more than 100 people have been killed in inter-communal clashes.

Conflict between Arab and non-Arab groups has escalated over the last year in Darfur, where there is intense competition for land and access to water for livestock.

A leader of the Gimir community said 14 villages were burnt last week during clashes with the Arab Rizeigat community.

The violence near Kolbus in West Darfur was triggered by a land dispute.

The UN special representative for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said he was appalled by the violence and said the root causes needed to be addressed.

More on Sudan:

• Sudan anger over racist slur caught on air at Bashir trial
• Sudan or Chad? Why a Darfur sultan regrets a twist of colonial fate
• Darfur: Why are Sudan's Janjaweed on the attack again?

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Malawi’s minister responsible for child welfare says the racism revealed in a BBC investigation is an "insult to Malawian children and it is also an insult to the Malawian nation".

The in-depth report by BBC Africa Eye uncovered a Chinese video-making industry that exploits vulnerable children across the continent, including Malawi, in which they are paid to chant racist slogans in Chinese.

Patricia Kaliati told BBC Focus on Africa the Malawian government had launched an investigation into the claims made in the documentary, and said the government would not tolerate abuse of Malawian children.

Their exploitation is "reprehensible" and "despicable", said Malawi's Human Rights Defenders Coalition. The group deplored the lack of accountability for those responsible, and urged the government to join forces with the UN and others to "halt" the murky video-marking industry.

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Police in Ghana have clashed with students who were protesting outside their school. Some reports say tear gas and live bullets were fired but this has not been independently confirmed.

At least 20 pupils from Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi have been hospitalised with injuries but no reports yet indicate any sustained gunshot wounds.

They were part of a group calling for speed bumps to be installed following a number of accidents, according to local media.

Many worried parents have turned up at the schools gates demanding to check if their children are safe, Citi Newsroom reports.

“We are appealing to all parents, no student has died. More than 6,000 children in this school are all alive. The police did not come to kill the children, they didn’t come to beat them. It was just a little issue that brought the police here. Nobody has shot any student," the news site quotes the school's imam as saying.

Ghanaian police have not confirmed or denied firing live bullets or tear gas. But the force said in a statement that their officers "dispersed rioting students" and that "calm [had] been restored".

It added that police officers as well as students "had been taken to the hospital for medical attention" and said an investigation was now under way.

Citi Newsroom shared these photos of police chiefs on their way to meet the school's management:

Pitso Mosimane leaves Egyptian giants Al Ahly by mutual consent, three months after signing a new two-year deal as head coach.

Alfred Lasteck
BBC News, Loliondo

Thirty-one people are seeking treatment in Kenya for wounds sustained in clashes between the police and Maasai community in Loliondo, northern Tanzania.

Early last week, dozens of police were deployed in the area, which the Tanzanian government had decreed a hunting bloc.

One police officer was fatally speared on Saturday.

The MP for the Ngorongoro area, Emmanuel Ole Shangai, told the BBC that the injured Tanzanians had to seek medical attention in neighbouring Kenya.

"My fellow citizens of Ngorongoro have been seriously injured in the ongoing clashes. They have been denied access to the Osero clinic in Ololosokwan ward,” he said.

He added that the injured had also been denied the right to fill out witness statements.

Tanzania’s government has denied the use of violence and excessive force by police in what it has termed a land-marking exercise.

Campaigners are trying to stop the first removals on Tuesday, with 11 people due to fly currently.

Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo

Despite global wheat shortages caused by the war in Ukraine, Mozambique says it has enough stocks to last until the end of the year "without any problem".

"Next year we’ll remain vigilant while we don’t produce this raw material, always working with the private sector," said Agriculture Minister Celso Correia.

Last month the Mozambican government ruled out subsidies on bread and fuels amid a rise in cost of living.

There were deadly riots across cities in Mozambique in 2010 sparked by a 30% rise in the price of bread, in which a dozen people died and more than 400 others were injured.

For some time afterwards the government subsidised flour and since then prices have mostly remained low, but the national bakers' union warned recently that the war in Ukraine made rising bread prices "unavoidable".