Africa highlights: Monday 12 October 2015 as it happened

Summary

Ugandan troops to start pulling out of South Sudan
Zimbabwe will not charge US killer of Cecil the lion
Guinea's opposition reject presidential poll
Tenants in Pistorius home take film tour of where girlfriend was killed
ICC says it needs support in Africa to fulfil its mandate
Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Monday 12 October 2015

Live Reporting

Naziru Mikailu and Damian Zane

Raven-Symone under fire for 'racist' commentpublished at 17.52
Thousands of people have been talking about the actress after saying black people should avoid certain names:
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Coming up on Focus on Africa TVpublished at 17.39
BBC Africa presenter tweets
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You can see the programme on BBC World News at 17:30GMT.
All smiles in Nigerian senatepublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 12 October 2015
The Nigerian Senate has posted some jolly photos of the moment when the second batch of names proposed for President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet was handed over to the Senate.
Abba Kyari - Mr Buhari's chief of staff - is giving the envelope to Senate President Bukola Saraki:
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Fleeing conflict in South Sudanpublished at 17.16
The BBC's Tim Franks travels to South Sudan to find out why the world's youngest nation has failed to deliver on the hopes placed in it at independence.
Although a fragile peace deal is in place, observers are not optimistic about its success.
Tim visits Malakal, which once had a population of 140,000 but is now largely deserted as a result of the recent conflict between rebels and government forces.
Media caption,
What chance that peace will hold in the world's newest country?
Buhari sends more ministerial nomineespublished at 16.47
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted the second batch of his ministerial nominees to parliament for screening.
Last month Mr Buhari - who came to office in May - sent a list of 21 people he wanted to have in his cabinet.
MPs will start screening the nominees on Tuesday.
The president of the Senate tweets:
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ANC decision 'good news for war criminals'published at 15.46
An activist with Human Rights Watch has been reacting to the South Africa's ruling ANC party's recommendation that the country should pull out of the International Criminal Court:
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Ex-Nigeria governor questionedpublished at 13:40 British Summer Time 12 October 2015
Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former governor of Benue state over allegations of corruption.
Gabriel Suswan, who was governor between 2007 and May 2015, has previously denied any wrongdoing.
President Muhammadu Buhari who came to power in May, has promised to tackle corruption in Africa's largest economy.
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Ugandan troops to withdraw from South Sudanpublished at 12:58 British Summer Time 12 October 2015
A Ugandan government spokesman has been tweeting the comments by the country's foreign affairs secretary, who is addressing a press conference about Uganda's decision to withdraw its troops from South Sudan (see 9:07 post).
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Social media criticism of Uganda policepublished at 10:06 British Summer Time 12 October 2015
Patience Atuhaire, BBC Africa, Uganda
#SomeoneTellKayihura is trending in Uganda as people here are angry at the Police Chief Kale Kayihura after his officers appeared to undress a woman while trying to arrest her at an opposition FDC rally on Saturday.
The police had been deployed to stop Kizza Besigye and his supporters from holding the rally.
FDC delegate Zaina Fatuma was photographed by local press almost completely naked being picked up by female police officers and put in a police pick-up.
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