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Military officers who seized power earlier this month in Guinea have been holding talks with representatives of dozens of political parties.

The coup leaders say the four days of talks are aimed at building a consensus on the country's future including a timetable for a return to civilian rule.

But lengthy discussions or debate would seem impossible given that the dozens of politicians were given just two hours with the military officers.

Amongst those taking part are the main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo and officials from the party of the toppled president Alpha Condé.

The military officers will also meet meet religious leaders, representatives of business, trade unions, diplomats and civil society groups.

The West African regional body, Ecowas, and the African Union have suspended Guinea and the country faces the threat of economic sanctions.

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The Moroccan security forces say they've broken up a cell of militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group.

Three arrests were made in the southern city of Errachidia.

The suspects have been accused of plotting the imminent killing of a public servant.

The name of the target hasn't been revealed.

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More than 80 people have been killed by flooding in Sudan since the beginning of the rainy season in July, authorities say.

The spokesman for Sudan’s National Council for Civil Defence on Monday said that 84 people had died and 67 injured.

The torrential rains have affected at least 14 of the 18 provinces, with over 30,000 houses destroyed or damaged.

Crops and public infrastructure have also been affected.

The UN estimates that at least 102,000 people have been affected by heavy rains and flooding across the country.

Last year, Sudan declared a national state of emergency for three months because of floods that killed about 100 people and affected over 600,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 homes.

The International Judo Federation (IJF) has imposed 10-year bans on an Algerian player and his coach because they pulled out of the Olympics in order to avoid a bout with an Israeli.

The IJF said Fethi Nourine and Amar Benikhlef had used the Tokyo Games as a platform for protest and the promotion of propaganda.

The Algerian player said his support for the Palestinian cause had made it impossible for him to compete.

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Revocant Karemangingo, the businessman who was gunned down in Mozambique on Monday, was a lieutenant serving in Rwanda's army that was ousted in 1994.

He fled to Mozambique when Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took over power.

Karemangingo settled in Maputo as a refugee and became a prominent businessman in pharmaceuticals.

While in Mozambique, he's believed to have clandestinely been involved in politics in Rwanda.

However the head of the Rwandan refugees association in Mozambique, Cleophas Habiyaremye, denies this, saying that Karemangingo was just a refugee doing his business for a living.

Karemangingo was a suspect in the assassination of Louis Baziga the former leader of the pro-Rwandan government Diaspora Association in Mozambique, who was shot dead in Maputo in August 2019.

However, Mr Habiyaremye told the BBC that Mr Karemangingo had been cleared by courts on the suspected role in Baziga's killing.

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The British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has been urged to block the appointment of Rwanda's new high commissioner to London.

An American human rights group, the Lantos Foundation, says Johnston Busingye was involved in the detention of a prominent critic of the Rwandan government.

Paul Rusesabagina - who was portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda - was tricked into returning to the country from exile last year and now faces terrorism charges.

Mr Busingye, until recently the justice minister, has admitted the government paid the person who carried out the deception.

The Rwandan government insists Mr Rusesabagina’s arrest complied with international law.

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Guinea's military junta is due to start holding four days of talks later on Tuesday in what it says is an effort to build a consensus on the future of the country.

The west African regional body, Ecowas and the African Union have suspended the country following the military take-over a week ago.

With the threat of economic sanctions looming, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and the other coup leaders are under increasing diplomatic pressure.

They need to prove to nervous neighbouring countries that they have concrete plans to return Guinea to civilian rule.

But they say determining the country's future is to be a joint effort.

Over the next four days they'll be holding meetings with people from all walks of life.

First there will be religious and political leaders and then diplomats and civil society groups.

Among the others invited are business leaders including the bosses of mining companies and the trade unions.

Behind the scenes the military junta is also trying decide what to do with the ousted president, Alpha Condé.

There are international calls for him to be released.

But the soldiers will want guarantees that he remains an ex-president and doesn't try to bounce back.

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A Rwandan businessman has been shot dead in Matola municipality, a few kilometres outside the Mozambican capital, Maputo.

Revocant Karemangingo was shot about 50m (164ft) from his residence in the Liberdade neighbourhood on Monday afternoon.

He was reportedly confronted by gunmen on three vehicles who intercepted his car before they fired a hail of bullets at him.

The killers are so far not known, much less the reasons for the crime that shocked the neighbourhood and the Rwandan community in Mozambique.

The police were at the scene for forensic work and the body was taken to a provincial hospital.

Some Rwandans have told reporters that the deceased was among people who were being targeted because of their opposition to the current government in their home country.

The Association of Rwandan Refugees in Mozambique said Karemangingo was a refugee doing pharmaceutical business and a victim of persecution by President Paul Kagame's government.

The Rwandan community has asked the Mozambican government to provide more protection.

In 2019, another Rwandan, Louis Baziga, was shot dead in a similar style in a Maputo suburb after gunmen intercepted his car. He was a known supporter of the Rwandan government.

The Rwandan government has been accused in the past of carrying out targeted killings to dissidents out of the country - claims which it has vehemently denied.

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• Karemangingo: Who is the man shot in Mozambique?

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An ambush on a Burkina Faso military convoy escorting fuel tankers from a gold mine near the border with Niger has left six officers dead, officials say.

Seven people were wounded after what the regional government in eastern Burkina Faso said was an attack by suspected jihadists.

Two years ago 39 people were killed when a convoy of vehicles from the same mine was targeted.

That incident shut down production for almost a year.

Since 2015 attacks in the country by groups linked to the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda have killed more than 1,500 people and forced more than a million people from their homes.

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The UN human rights chief has said gross violations continue to be perpetrated by all sides in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict and has warned that the country risks being torn apart.

Speaking after limited field trips by investigators working with Ethiopia's Human Rights Commission, Michelle Bachelet said civilian suffering was widespread.

She accused the Ethiopian government forces and their allies of mass detentions, killings, sexual violence, systematic looting, forced displacement and detention of civilians.

The UN rights chief also highlighted allegations that Tigrayan forces were recruiting child soldiers, attacking civilians in neighbouring regions and causing mass displacement.

She called on all parties to end hostilities immediately, without preconditions, and negotiate a lasting ceasefire.

"We are terrified. Only death awaits us if we are deported to Eritrea," two Eritreans detained in Egypt have been quoted by rights group Amnesty International as saying.

Amnesty - along with other groups and activists - have launched a campaign to secure the release of Kibrom Adhanom Okbazghi and Alem Tesfay Abraham, and to prevent their deportation.

The campaign was launched following reports that the deportation of the two - detained without charge in Egypt for more than eight years - was imminent.

Eritrean advocacy groups say the two fled indefinite military conscription, which is mandatory for most young Eritreans.

Amnesty said their deportation would be a "grave" breach of international law.

They should be released and given "immediate access to asylum procedures", it added.

The Egyptian authorities have not yet commented.

Over the last two decades, hundreds of thousands of Eritreans have fled the country and many have died trying to cross the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

The Eritrean government is accused of human rights violations, including forced conscription, religious persecution, and political repression, which it denies.

In 2018 an Eritrean migrant, who was deported from the US, took his life at the airport in Cairo, while on the way to Eritrea.

Money-laundering charges against a leading Ugandan human rights lawyer, Nicholas Opiyo, have been dropped, documents from the director of public prosecution’s office show.

Mr Opiyo was arrested in December 2020 by plain-clothes officers in a restaurant, and spent a week in custody.

His bail money is to be refunded to him, according to the documents.

Mr Opiyo is the founder and director of a human rights organisation known as Chapter Four Uganda.

He built his career representing activists, journalists, and sexual minorities.