Summary

  • Archbishop Tutu to spend second night in hospital

  • Burundi political parties to hold 'intensive talks'

  • Sunday Oliseh unveiled as Nigeria's new national football coach

  • Nigeria's president pledges support for Nollywood in tackling piracy

  1. Burundi parties will 'carry on talking'published at 17:16

    Uganda President Museveni's media team has been tweeting the results of his two-day mediation in Burundi:

    Uganda's defence minister will travel to Bujumbura on Thursday to help the talks continue.

  2. "Free our passports"published at 16:19 British Summer Time 15 July 2015

    Alex Duval Smith, BBC Africa, Bamako

    Frustrated passport seekers in Bamako have created the #Libereznospasseports, external hashtag on Twitter to denounce long waiting times and what they claim are corrupt police officers demanding bribes to process applications.

    This tweeter in Bamako came across long queues at the passport office:

  3. UK training of Sudanese army challengedpublished at 15:31 British Summer Time 15 July 2015

    A refugee Sudanese lawyer has gone to the UK’s High Court to stop the British government from training the Sudanese army.

     Ali Agab Nour says, external the training should stop because it breaches the British government’s overseas security policy.

    Campaigner for Waging Peace, Maddy Crowther, has been following the case which has been scrutinising some of the training:

  4. Kenya's multi-lingual people preach peacepublished at 14:56

    How many languages are spoken in Kenya? The figure is put at nearly 70 and the BBC has gone to Kibera in the capital, Nairobi, to hear some of them.

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    One of them is Luhya:

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    And another is the street language Sheng - a mixture of Swahili and English:

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  5. Uganda's president holding Burundi talkspublished at 10:57

    One of the media advisers for Uganda's President Museveni says he is currently talking to people from Burundi's governing party.

    He is in Burundi to mediate between in the third-term crisis.

  6. Welcome to Olisehpublished at 10:14

    The Nigerian Football Federation has tweeted about former Super Eagles captain Sunday Oliseh becoming the national coach:

    The 40-year-old who won 63 caps is set to be formally unveiled as the coach at a press conference in the capital, Abuja, today.  

  7. Museveni urges unity in Burundipublished at 09:21

    Uganda's president has been tweeting about what he has been saying to Burundi's politicians.

    He is in the country to mediate in the third-term crisis: