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The BBC's on board Save the Children's rescue boat as migrants flee Libya.

Violence breaks out in a rural town after two men, charged with murdering a black boy, are released.

Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari, who left the field in protest at racist abuse during their game against Cagliari, says people who are abused should not be afraid to speak out.

The girls freed in Nigeria have been named on Twitter but many families have no access to social media.

Every May the people of the Ghanaian coastal town of Winneba celebrate their migration from Timbuktu with a traditional hunt, known as the Aboakyer festival.