US tells its citizens to leave Libya

The US state department warns US citizens not to travel to Burundi as political violence continues, with 87 people killed on Friday.

The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency US government personnel and dependents to leave violence-torn Burundi and warned other Americans to get out “as soon as it is feasible to do so”.

>Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi on Saturday said the talk about his perceived presidential ambitions was “nonsense”, but stressed that nobody will stop him when he decides to stand for any elective position.

A Royal Navy ship is on its way to Tripoli to help evacuate Britons after violence worsens in Libya, the BBC understands.

A top diplomat from the Philippines is to oversee the evacuation of 13,000 citizens from Libya after a Filipino worker was beheaded and a nurse raped.

An attack on a power plant in Libya leaves at least 19 soldiers dead, while a rocket strikes a Libyan oil terminal in a separate incident.

Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli on the evacuation by the Royal Navy of Britons caught up in fighting between militias in Libya.

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