The Africa Reports with Crystal Ordison.

All right, Crystal Ordison joins us now for stories from the continent that we think you should pay some attention to.

This is a really, really worrisome one, Crystal Ordison.

What almost thirty people killed as civil society organizations in Angola accused that country's security forces of being excessive when it deals with violent protests.

Yes, good morning, Bunghani.

I don't think Luanda we Angola often makes the news, but I think when thirty people are gunned down because they're protesting against the massive increase of petrol, then you do wonder.

So we see human rights bodies, both local and international, condemning the action of the police.

It was about taxi drivers were angry about the massive increase in the price of petrol.

Of course, the security forces came out and sadly people were killed, including a mother, a mother with six children who also joined the protest.

But I think there's a deeper underlying issue.

Yere Bongani for years and Golands were subsidized with cheaper petrol.

Of course, and Goola is one of Africa's largest oil producers, so one would assume that at least the ordinary people can benefit from it.

Then of course we know international bodies like the International Monageer Fund and the World Bank coming on board and then saying well, you know, you need to start phasing out this subsidy because and we know the story in Nigeria as well, and we do see that there's absolutely been a squeeze on cost of living for ordinary and golands.

In fact, a report came out that day.

It's estimating that seven in ten people are unable to afford a healthy diet and we also see millions lacking access of basic food, so we do see that.

I think this protest was, you know, about the fact that people simply do not have enough to keep the lights on, to buy food, to eat food, and this protest is more a symptom of that cost of loving.

And then of course the impel AF been in power since independence in nineteen seventy five Mogani, so there's not been a sea change in political power as well, and we do know that the elites in that country have had it really good.

So anger in Luanda Boghani.

Yeah, I mean, it's an extraordinary development because this increase is not just you know, a ten percent increase in the price of fuel.

It went up by a third.

So can you imagine your petrol all of a sudden costing more than thirty three percent more than it used to.

I saw a report on Al Jazeera about a woman being shot from behind by a policeman as the protesters were all crying, We're hungry, we are hungry.

Let's go to Rwanda.

Now, Crystal, they've signed an agreement with the US again to accept migrants deported from America.

So, yes, this is the big story in Rwanda.

So they say the deal was already signed in June as part of an ongoing corporation agreement between the two.

Now Rwanda's insisting that they will be vetting those migrants coming, and of course ensuring that the migrants to are not former killers or on death row.

But we do know already that, you know, those sort of convicted criminals have made their way to other parts of Africa.

So Rwanda is saying, look, this is not the first time they're taking in migrants.

They say, since twenty nineteen they've received hundreds of asylum seekers, for instance from Libya, and so I do think it's interesting from a legal point of view, and of course a bigger humanitarian issue.

Firstly, we know that the Ruanda UK deal didn't go through because exactly of human rights issues.

It is problematic from a legal point of view in terms of the rights of these migrants, but broadly as Africa become a dumping ground and it's clear that the US has smaller, weaker nations.

We look at Iswatini, we look at South Sudan.

Of course Rwanda will say no, they are doing it because of its own history and position of displacement, and that the migrants will be given essential services, etc.

But I think it do just raises this issue Bongani, that you know, smaller African nations have become dumping grounds for migrants that the US don't no longer want.

Yeah, I mean there's a group that was sent to South Sudan.

I know there's conversations about sending some to Eswatini, but listen, Crystal, a US Department of Homeland Security described these groups of migrants as barbaric criminals.

So that's how the US sees them.

And many of these people are not allowed even back into their countries of origin, but we Africans must take them in.

Again, I think it speaks to the kinds of leaders we see in some of the countries on the continent.

Crystal ordison with today's Africa Report