Soldiers from Chad and Equatorial Guinea have been implicated in a scandal over allegations of child sex abuse mainly involving French peacekeeping troops in Central African Republic.

Paula Donovan from the AIDS-Free World organisation says she has seen the full leaked UN report. She told the BBC's Newsday programme that child witnesses had given testimony that two soldiers from Chad and two from Equatorial Guinea were directly involved in the alleged abuse.

A rare reference has been made to Africa during the British general election campaign.

Leader of the UK Independent Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage criticised British aid policy and argued there are other ways to help.

"The EU puts huge barriers against Africa selling [their agricultural products] to us. We rape and pillage the fisheries... of Africa. We're behaving in a neo-colonial way," said Mr Farage, whose party wants Britain to pull-out of the European Union.

African music giants Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Salif Keita are releasing a special song today in response to the recent wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa.

It's called "United We Stand". Sibongiseni Shabalala from Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been speaking to the BBC's Newsday programme.

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Image source, Standard

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta now plans to provide school children with computer tablets instead of laptops according to the Standard newspaper.

The provision of laptops for pupils was a major promise of his campaign in the 2013 election, but it has got bogged down in a tender row and now the president is looking to a tablet supplier, the newspaper reports.

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The discovery of a mass grave near the Kenyan town of Wajir in the north-east of the country, is one of the main stories in the Star newspaper, external.

It reports that 11 bodies have been found in a shallow grave and a number of locals are reported missing after being picked up by people posing as policemen.

Maud Jullien
BBC Africa, Bujumbura

Hundreds of students have spent the night here in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, in front of the US embassy after the University of Burundi was shut. It was closed down in an apparent measure to prevent the spread of protests against the third-term bid by President Pierre Nkurunziza.

The students say the government forces are targeting them and so it is not safe for them to go home.

Today's African proverb is: "It is difficult to throw a stone at a lizard that is clinging to a pot." An Ashanti proverb sent by George Cantreph, Accra, Ghana.

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