Critics Warn Of Chinese Debt Traps

As China pledges an additional $60 billion to Africa, critics have warned that countries could be going into unsustainable levels of debt. But Rwanda's Paul Kagame, has dismissed talk of debt traps, and has said the China-Africa relationship is vital.

Plus, according to Libyan police, hundreds of inmates have escaped from a prison in the capital, Tripoli, where fighting continues between rival militias.

And a rights group has warned that teenage girls in the Lake Chad region are living in a state of unrelenting fear of violence from both Boko Haram militants and their own communities.

(Image: A bilateral meeting in Beijing, ahead of the opening of the China-Africa summit. Credit: Getty Images)