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Officials from Thailand, Myanmar and the United Nations arrange a deal to begin repatriating the first of some 100,000 refugees to Myanmar now that an elected government has assumed power. Diane Hodges reports.
More than 100 Iraqi refugees who sought asylum in Finland last year, have voluntarily returned to Baghdad saying, "we got tired of waiting for a solution." Rough Cut - subtitled (no reporter narration).
Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, unable to settle in Pakistan, return to their war-torn home country. Yiming Woo reports.
The Seleka rebel coup is the latest in a long series of military takeovers in the Central African Republic. We take a look back at the country's troubled past. Meanwhile, China's Xi Jinping is on tour in Africa, the latest sign of growing relations between the world's second-largest economy and a rapidly developing continent. Finally, at a refugee camp in Uganda, a new phone app is helping to bring scattered families back together.
French President Emmanuel Macron receives his Central African counterpart Faustin Archange Touadera in Paris, to discuss the situation in the African nation and the region. IMAGES
Images of home belonging to the uncle of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. The ex-Olympic runner was released from jail on parole Friday, having served more than half his sentence. He has been restricted to staying within the Pretoria district of Waterkloof, where his uncle lives, although precise information on his whereabouts has not been confirmed. IMAGES