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Plane crash shuts Sudan airport

An accident involving two military planes on the runway of the airport in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, has temporarily closed the airport and forced international flights to divert to Port Sudan.

Eight people were injured as the two Soviet-built Antonov aircraft collided, the AFP news agency reports quoting an airport official who wanted to remain anonymous.

Video footage posted on Twitter appears to show one plane ramming another as it tries to slow down.

MPs to visit toilet in bribery probe

A committee of Kenyan MPs will visit the women's toilet in parliament as part of its investigation into claims that some lawmakers were allegedly bribed to reject the findings of a report on the importation of fake sugar, the Star newspaper reports.

The allegations were made by MP Gathoni Wamuchomba.

Ms Wamuchomba said she overheard her colleagues in the toilet talking about being given bribes.

She said she could not identify them because they were locked inside cubicles.

Up to 60 people, suspected to be migrants, are missing after the wooden fishing boat they were travelling in sunk during a storm off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, the authorities there say.

The navy was unable to help when the boat went down on Monday as it lacked the resources, national ports head Felix Siga told the BBC.

The coastguard has two speedboats, but they are often unable to leave the port because of a lack of fuel, AFP news agency reports, quoting a naval officer.

The boat, which had a capacity of about 60 people, has been recovered, but none of the passengers have been found, the authorities say.

Guinea-Bissau has sometimes been used as a departure port for migrants trying to reach Europe, reports the BBC's Khady Lo.

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A prominent Saudi journalist known as a fierce critic of his country's policies has vanished after visiting a Saudi consulate in Turkey.

Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post, entered the consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday afternoon.

Khashoggi went to complete "routine paperwork", the Post said, and has not been heard from since.

"We don't know if he is being detained, questioned or when he will be released," the newspaper said.

Sharp criticism

Khashoggi has been living in self-imposed exile in the United States, and is an established critic of the Saudi government - particularly the reform plans championed by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

"With every supposed reform comes a wave of fresh arrests, prison sentences and increasingly repressive behaviour," the Washington Post's Jason Rezaian said.

"At each turning point, though, Jamal has offered readers of the Post insightful commentary and sharp criticism about the seemingly impenetrable country."

Formerly an editor of the Al-Watan newspaper and of a short-lived Saudi TV news channel, Khashoggi has also been a contributor to BBC programmes about Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

At times, he served as an adviser to the Saudi royal family, and was for many years seen as an insider - until he left more than a year ago amid a reported clampdown on press freedom.

He is also known for his close association with the young Osama Bin Laden, with whom he travelled extensively in Afghanistan in the 1980s during the Soviet occupation - though he publicly rejected Bin Laden's later ideologies and had lost touch with him long before the 2001 attacks on the US.

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A court in Peru has reversed a pardon granted to the country's ex-president, Alberto Fujimori.

Fujimori was pardoned in December on health grounds, nine years after being found guilty of having links to a death squad and two massacres.

But a court ordered him back to jail after a victims' group won an appeal against the decision, made by then-president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

Fujimori, who led Peru in the 1990s, will fight the ruling, his lawyer said.

His daughter Keiko, who leads the main opposition Popular Force party, told reporters the decision was "inhuman" and "unjust".

Most Peruvians had assumed Fujimori, now 80, would be in prison for the rest of his life after being sentenced to 25 years in 2009, having been convicted of ordering the killings of 25 people by a government-backed death squad during Peru's internal conflict.

But in December 2017, he was taken from prison to a hospital in the capital, Lima, because of health concerns; he was suffering from low blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythm.

Mr Kuczynski, who resigned in March over a vote-buying scandal, gave him a pardon the same month, prompting protests in Lima - even as Fujimori's supporters celebrated outside the city hospital where he was being treated.

The pardon was widely seen as part of a political deal. Mr Kuczynski had narrowly avoided impeachment, with the support of Fujimori's supporters, three days earlier.

Carlos Rivera, who is representing victims' family members, said the decision to reverse the pardon "re-establishes the right to justice for the family members of the victims".

Fujimori is admired by many in Peru for ruthlessly crushing Maoist rebels in the 1990s, ending a conflict that cost tens of thousands of lives.

But his critics say he is a corrupt dictator who was rightfully jailed for ordering the killings of innocent peasants.