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Tanzania to offer citizenship to Burundian refugees before 2017

Burundians are still fleeing the country, one year after the crisis began.

Ads trick and force Germans to listen to plight of refugees

Those looking for anti-immigration videos on YouTube are redirected to websites providing info on condition of refugees.

DRC media repression continues as radio journalist assaulted warns RSF

Reporters Without Borders slams beating of Radio Tomisa reporter Badylon Kawanda by ANR.

Chad elections: Idriss Deby re-elected for fifth term in office after landslide first-round win

Deby's victory overshadowed by the disappearance of sixty soldiers believed to have voted against Deby.

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Burundi tensions escalate in Mugamba as police detain dozens of civilians at unknown location

Mugamba, primarily Tutsi, saw protest movements against President Pierre Nkuzunziza's third mandate

Colonel Emmanuel Buzubona's death 'evidence of clear divisions in Burundi's army'

Colonel Buzubona is allegedly 'suspected of supporting opposition', IBTimes UK reveals.

Chad: Where are 60 missing soldiers who 'voted against' incumbent president Idriss Deby?

Bodies allegedly recovered bearing marks of torture, but government says soldiers 'in mission'.

ESPN star baseball analyst Curt Schilling fired for comments about transgender people

Schilling insists he was merely commenting on the 'functionality' of toilets.

Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso

Congo-Brazzaville: Pool shelling 'killed 600 and displaced 2,000' claims opposition

IBTimes UK speaks exclusively to spokesman for presidential candidate André Okombi Salissa.

Kenya: President Kenyatta asks MPs to approve ICC withdrawal, but court warns of penalties

Charges against Kenya's president, who says 'No other Kenyan will go to the ICC', dropped in 2014.

Gambia: 'Fight against dictatorship' continues after opposition figure dies in custody

EXCLUSIVE: IBTimes UK speaks with activist on growing discontent among Gambians before the election.

Archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Mugabe discussed same-sex marriage

Mugabe is known for hard lines against homosexuality and the implementing of anti-gay laws.

Former UN head Kofi Annan urges African leaders 'to leave when their mandated time is up'

Annan encouraged leaders to step down to stop contributing to conflicts on the continent.

Killing of Minusca peacekeeper in CAR may be a war crime says UN Security Council

UN condemned the killing of a Moroccan peacekeeper from the Minusca by alleged LRA rebels.

South Africa's sex workers are lured by cash but face lethal risks beyond disease and addiction

There are incredible risks to sex work that extend beyond sexually transmitted disease and drug addiction.

UK firm hired former African child soldiers as mercenaries in Iraq claims documentary

A former senior director at a British private security firm said African soldiers were recruited to save costs.

Student Khairuldeen Makhzoomi kicked off Southwest Airlines flight after speaking in Arabic

Makhzoomi was escorted off the flight and searched as police officers, bystanders and dogs looked on.

Philippines elections: Rodrigo Duterte condemned over 'disgusting' rape comments

Presidential candidate branded 'unfit' for office after joking about murdered Australian woman.

Pope Francis returns to the Vatican with 12 Syrian Muslim refugees from Lesbos

Catholic leader made an unprecedented intervention and told suffering refugees: 'You are not alone.'

Migrant crisis: Pope Francis arrives in Lesbos to witness 'the worst humanitarian disaster since WWII'

Leader of the Catholic Church describes the Mediterranean Sea as a 'cemetery' in his visit to Greece.

Families sue sperm bank as history of 'mentally ill' donor is revealed

Mothers who used 'super donor' sperm seek damages after health cover-up is revealed.

France: Riot police spray Montpellier students with tear gas during protest

Montpellier is one of over 30 cities in France that has staged protests against the upcoming labour reform plans

United States raises concerns over 'extended detention' of failed asylum seekers in UK

The US State Department also highlighted the 'erroneous refoulement of Eritrean asylum seekers to their homeland'.

Congo-Brazzaville: Ex-government minister, Claudine Munari, accuses authorities of 'genocide'

Opposition politician, Claudine Munari, calls on President Sassou Nguesso to stop bombing rebel areas.

US State Department: Abuses by security forces 'most significant' human rights issue in India

The report cites 'failure' of the Gujarat government to convict those responsible for the 2002 riots.

Burundi: Comparing Human Rights Watch and President Nkurunziza's rights abuses inquiries

Summary of Burundi's official inquiry into allegations of extra-judicial executions by security forces.

Burundi: Independent international inquiry into executions needed, claims Human Rights Watch

'Burundi ignored widespread abuses by security forces' in 'flawed and biased' findings, says HRW.

Why the toilet has become a key battleground for transgender rights

North Carolina's 'bathroom bill' says trans people must use bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender.

Blogger summoned by Zimbabwe police in President Mugabe's latest crackdown on critics

127 people arrested for posts on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter since August.

DRC: Veteran US researcher Jason Stearns' expulsion slammed by rights groups

Jason Stearns was expelled weeks after publishing a report into massacres in DRC's north-east.

Refugee crisis: Pakistani migrants in Greece 'treated like animals'

Bad conditions in Lesbos camps have provoked daily protests and hunger strikes

UK immigration officials granted power to hack into refugee phones

Home Office says power given under amended Police Act 1997.

Bryan Adams cancels Mississippi gig over new anti-LGBT law

Adams was due to play Biloxi, Mississippi, on Thursday 14 April.

CIA won't waterboard even on presidential orders, vows director John Brennan

'I would not agree to having any CIA officer carrying out waterboarding again,' the CIA boss said.

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