Summary

  • British colonialist's statue falls in South Africa

  • Lowest Ebola figures in nearly a year

  • Row over 'missing' students after Garissa massacre

  • Sierra Leone's VP to challenge sacking

Live Reporting

Hugo Williams and Farouk Chothia

  1. 'Dead man on militant list'

    Bashkas Jugsodaay
    BBC Africa, Garissa

    There are some strange names on the list of possible al-Shabab financiers released by Kenya's government. One has been dead for two months, while several others have themselves been targeted by the militants because of their vocal opposition to the group.

    And many people in Garissa and other areas in the region are worried about the government's decision to shut down 13 money transfer agencies. They get remittances from friends and relatives living abroad via these agencies and they are now asking: How will we pay our bills?

    A customer of Dahabshiil, Somalia's largest remittance company, exchanges his US dollar bills for Somali shillings outside the company's headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia on 16 February 2014AP

    Informal remittance firms are popular because of the weak banking sector

  2. Angola 'seizes' ship

    Zenaida Machado
    BBC Africa

    tweets: "SouthAfrica says it is trying to assist a predominantly South African crew of a ship impounded by #Angolan authorities for unpaid dock fees"

  3. Garissa students 'missing'

    The main body representing Kenya's academics says 166 students from Garissa University College are unaccounted for, a week after al-Shabab's assault on the campus. The Universities Academic Staff Union fears that the students were abducted by the Somali-based militants. It says 152 students were killed in the attack, not 142 as the government claims.

  4. Big drop in Ebola cases

    The number of confirmed new cases of Ebola in West Africa has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a year. The World Health Organization says there were 30 new cases in the past week, most of them in Guinea. Sierra Leone recorded just nine new cases and Liberia had none.

    Students washing their hands as a measure to curb the spread of ebola at the SIMS Community School, Coffee farm, Caldwell, outside Monrovia, Liberia, 31 March 2015EPA

    Liberia has taken strong measures to curb the spread of the deadly virus

  5. Today's African proverb is: "What prevents you from sleeping is of your own making." A Nuer proverb sent by Jal Gatluak Toch and Deng Nhial Chioh in Juba, South Sudan.

  6. Good morning

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