Focus on Africa - 17/12/2015 1900GMT
Libyan unity deal; Burundi on 'cusp of civil war'; footballing first in Somalia.
Two rival parliaments in Libya have signed an agreement in Morocco to form a government of national unity. The deal was brokered by the United Nations. We speak to the 麻豆社's North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is holding an emergency session in Geneva, to discuss the deepening crisis in Burundi. The UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said the country was on the brink of civil war, and and called for decisive action. Our Geneva Correspondent Imogen Foulkes speaks to Adama Dieng, the UN's special adviser on the prevention of genocide.
Somalia has broadcast its first-ever life football match on television. The final of the General Da'ud cup, played in a stadium in the capital Mogadishu, was screened on Somali state television.
[Library image: Two men carrying guns sit on the back of an open truck in Burundi. Credit: 麻豆社]
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