Madrid / AFP Spanish police were searching on Tuesday for several Algerians who fled a migrant detention centre following a riot, the sixth such incident since August as calls mount to close the facilities. In the latest incident, which took place on Monday evening, nine Algerians escaped from a holding centre in Murcia, a region in the south east, …

  France /AFP Burundi’s brutal regime has set the small central African country on a “descent into hell”, a prominent human rights group said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of genocide. “Since April 2015, when large popular protests broke out against the decision of President Pierre Nkurunziza to seek a third term, Burundi has been in violent political crisis,” …

  Dhaka / AFP Around 200 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a surge in violence after security forces took control of Myanmar’s Rakhine state last month are stranded at the Bangladesh border, community leaders said on Tuesday. Bangladeshi border guards pushed back the Rohingya—mostly women and children—to the Myanmar side on Monday, community leaders said. “We heard they are 200 in number. …