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Three BBC Arabic journalists were briefly detained in Sudan on Monday while covering pro-democracy demonstrations in the capital, Khartoum.

"A BBC team were briefly detained by Sudanese authorities while working in Khartoum. We are glad that the authorities were able to resolve this situation quickly," the BBC said in a statement.

Those on the march captured on video the moment the journalists were stopped by a group of men in civilian clothes on motorbikes and a white pick-up truck without number plates.

Since the military coup in October, the authorities have been cracking down on media freedoms, with some newspapers being closed, offices raided and journalists assaulted.

The British ambassador to Sudan, Giles Lever, tweeted that he was relieved the BBC team had been freed and added that the intimidation of journalists had no place in a country striving for genuine and effective democracy.

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Overjoyed fans in Senegal continue to celebrate the national football team after they brought home the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) trophy for the first time.

Earlier on Tuesday President Macky Sall told players they had reached the "summit of Africa", saying:

Quote Message: Here you are, on top of Africa. Thanks to your fighting spirit, your talent and your commitment, you have brought back to us the pride and honour that marks great people."

Here you are, on top of Africa. Thanks to your fighting spirit, your talent and your commitment, you have brought back to us the pride and honour that marks great people."

Senegal's president also praised the national football coach, Aliou Cissé, for his efforts:

Quote Message: Thank you to coach Aliou 'El Tactico'. As I said, he doesn't talk much, he doesn't make noise, but he is efficient, and he brought us the Africa Cup with his valiant team. Thank you, from all those who were with you. Through quiet strength and imperturbable serenity, you have shown your qualities as a leader of men."

Thank you to coach Aliou 'El Tactico'. As I said, he doesn't talk much, he doesn't make noise, but he is efficient, and he brought us the Africa Cup with his valiant team. Thank you, from all those who were with you. Through quiet strength and imperturbable serenity, you have shown your qualities as a leader of men."

Read more:

• Twenty years in the making: Senegal's coaching hero
• National holiday declared after Senegal Afcon victory

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A businessman reportedly of Turkish nationality has been kidnapped in the centre of Mozambique's capital, Maputo.

Witnesses say the criminals acted very quickly. The incident occurred on Monday afternoon, on a road close to a police station and the government's Information Office where the man had parked his car.

According to witnesses, moments later, the victim was seized and taken to their own vehicle.

"The bandits fired just one shot into the air and we all stayed on the ground" but some "ran fearing for their lives", said a witness who said he was an employee of the victim.

After a slight lull, kidnappings for ransom are once again becoming a problem.

Mozambique is forming an anti-abduction unit - but the latest kidnapping is seen as an embarrassment given it took place in the city centre and after restructuring top roles at the interior ministry and the national criminal unit (Sernic).

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A judge from the Arusha International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has ordered that eight Rwandans expelled by Niger be returned to Tanzania.

The eight, who include former ministers and top military officials during and before the 1994 Rwandan genocide, were acquitted by the tribunal.

The UN and Niger signed a relocation agreement last November, but in late December Niger issued a seven-day expulsion order against them.

Niger said the decision was based on the Rwandan government's concerns about the men staying in Niger. The men had said they did not want to return to Rwanda.

Last month, former intelligence officer Innocent Sagahutu told the BBC that they were held in a safe house in the capital, Niamey, and that their documents were confiscated by Nigerien authorities.

The others who were in Niger are the former president's brother-in-law Protais Zigiranyirazo, former military intelligence Major François-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, plus former ministers André Ntagerura and Prosper Mugiraneza.

Former army officers Anatole Nsengiyumva, Alphonse Nteziryayo and Tharcisse Muvunyi complete the list.

The tribunal judge said that "what seemed to be a good solution" to problems of acquitted and released persons "has now turned into a possible human rights violation".

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The Judges Association in Tunisia has called for all courts to suspend work on Wednesday and Thursday in protest at President Kaïs Saïed's move to dissolve the Supreme Judicial Council.

On its Facebook page, the organisation also called for a protest on Thursday in front of the council building, which was closed after President Saïed's order.

Ambassadors to Tunisia from the G7 group of nations have expressed their deep concern, saying that an independent judiciary is essential to democracy.

Supporters of the president have welcomed his moves to rid the country of a system they see as corrupt.

More on this story:

• Tunisia judges locked out of their offices after president's decree
• Democrats, despots and the fight for power

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A grandson of Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's ex-president who died two years ago, has been evicted from his house over unpaid rent that has accumulated to more than $2,100 (£1,550) in six months.

It comes amid a court case as Mr Moi's relatives battle over the management of the family estate.

Collins Kibet, 45, told a court that he was broke and unable to pay his rent or provide for his family - adding that he was evicted last week.

He accused his relatives including his stepmother - who are administrators of his father’s estate - of excluding him from inheriting his father's wealth.

Mr Kibet’s father Jonathan Toroitich, Mr Moi's son, died in 2019 without leaving a will. The family’s wealth is estimated to be vast.

Mr Kibet wants the court to bar his step-mother and step-brother from acting as administrators and to be included as a beneficiary of the family estate.

Mr Moi was Kenya's longest-serving president. He was in office for 24 years, until intense pressure forced him to step down in 2002.

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Prosecutors in Burkina Faso are requesting a 30-year prison term for former President Blaise Compaoré, who is accused of complicity in the murder of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.

Sankara was assassinated in 1987 and a trial was launched into his killing last year, after French authorities finally agreed to release military documents detailing the circumstances of his death.

The 1987 coup brought Mr Compaoré to power and he ruled for 27 years before being deposed by a popular uprising in 2014. He then fled to neighbouring Ivory Coast.

Prosecutors asked the military court, where he is supposed to stand trial, to find Mr Compaoré guilty in absentia of an "attack on state security", "concealment of a corpse" and "complicity in a murder", accusing him of being the main sponsor behind the killing of Sankara and 12 of his colleagues.

The former president was Sankara's close friend and denies any role in his death.

The prosecution is also seeking:

• 30 years in jail for Hyacinth Kafando - who is suspected of having led the commando that murdered Thomas Sankara and his companions
• 20 years in jail for Gilbert Dienderé - the main defendant present at the trial and one of the army commanders during the 1987 coup. He is already serving a 20-year sentence over an attempted military coup in 2015.

Some Nigerians have taken to social media to complain about damage to their cars after buying what they describe as "dirty" petrol at filling stations in some major cities across the country.

One video posted on Twitter showed a filling station attendant dispensing heavily discoloured petrol into a plastic bottle:

In another video, cars and motorcycles that have been damaged after buying the dirty petrol are seen parked at a filling station.

The dirty petrol was allegedly imported by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and has caused fuel scarcity as authorities are said to be mopping it out of the system.

Nigeria’s Arise TV quotes the head of the national fuel marketers' association as saying that 100 million litres of petrol with high sulphur content are being withdrawn from filling stations on the orders of the NNPC.

He said fuel marketers were not responsible for the bad product and may seek compensation from the importer.

"As I am telling you, we have run into millions of naira in losses as a result of this bad product. So, the station owners are not responsible for this product," he is quoted as saying.

Nigeria, Africa’s largest producer of crude oil, imports refined petroleum products as its local refineries have not functioned for years.

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There were cheers from the Chagossians as they set sail for their remote island home. They believe their removal by Britain in the early 1970s was a crime against humanity.

The official reason for this boat trip – the first to be organised by Mauritius – is to map the reefs around the archipelago.

But this a highly political – some would say provocative move – by the Mauritian government.

Mauritius points to a succession of rulings and votes at the United Nations that make clear Britain is occupying the islands illegally.

The UK government disputes that but says it will give Chagos back to Mauritius when it’s no longer needed for security purposes. America has a military base on one of the islands – Diego Garcia.

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Britain has recently lost almost all global support in its tug-of-war over the archipelago.

Two UN courts have now ruled that only by surrendering Chagos, can Britain end its role as a colonial power.