African Migrants Told To Leave Israel
Israel offers cash to failed asylum seekers to leave or risk imprisonment
The Israeli government has issued a 90-day ultimatum to thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment.
Plus four men have appeared in a court in Somalia charged in connection with the October truck bombing in Mogadishu that killed more than 500 people.
And DJ Rita Ray gives us a taster of some of the new sounds and musical talent from around the continent to look out for in 2018.
(Image: African asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea, protesting outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in January 2017. Credit: AFP\Getty Images)
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