Thousands continue to leave Sudan
Thousands of Sudanese and foreign nationals are trying to get out of Sudan.
Thousands of Sudanese and foreign nationals are trying to get out of the country, during a tenuous 72-hour ceasefire. Heavy clashes were reported in Khartoum, and across the Nile in Omdurman, and there are claims that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have seized an oil refinery 70 kilometres north of the capital.
Kenya continues to be gripped by the story of a death cult. Detectives are continuing the task of digging up mass graves.
In a bid to tackle the ongoing insurgency in West Africa, Mali and Burkina Faso have launched a joint military operation along their common border.
And we hear from Recho Rey, an up and coming rap artist from Uganda.
(Picture: British citizens wait to be evacuated from Sudan. Credit: Wathig Ali)
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