Today's news from Africa. (Malawi seems quiet today, though some are upset that Mugabe is coming to visit.)
Lake Chad has shrunk from 15,000 to 500 sq miles. Baga was a waterfront town. Now it is stranded many miles from the lake as the land around it becomes desert.
Burundi has lifted a midnight to dawn curfew that has been in place for 34 years, saying the country is stable. This, following a civil war that killed 300,000. Chad's government has announced it has cut off diplomatic relations with Sudan after repelling a rebel attack on the capital. The 200,000+ Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad will likely be expelled. Don't all volunteer to take them in at once!
A Rwandan ex-mayor has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for aiding and abetting killing in the 1994 genocide. 800,000 people were killed in about 3 months.