A UK-based Nigeria biker is to embark on a solo motorbike journey to the West Africa nation's main city, Lagos, to raise funds and awareness for international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

Omo Alokwe will embark on an epic tour across 12 countries and two continents hoping to raise $30,000 (£20,000) for MSF. 

The journey will take him from Land's End, the southern most point in the UK, to Lagos, stopping off at the charity's projects along the way and finding out more about their work in tackling Ebola in West Africa last year.

Mr Alokwe has been speaking to BBC Focus on Africa's Farayi Mungazi about his dream:

Burundi has descended into violence since April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his controversial bid for a third term. 

More than 200 people have been killed so far, and some 200,000 have fled to neighbouring states.

Activists who remain have to live in the shadows, fearing for their lives, as the BBC's Nkem Ifejika has been finding out:

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Bauchi, Nigeria

Security forces have shot dead a lion that escaped from a wildlife park this morning in the Nigerian city of Jos.

It was killed in the vicinity of the park after attempts at recapturing it failed. 

Police say the lion was too hostile when security personnel and wildlife experts attempted to get it back to the cage, and it was killed to prevent any danger to the public.

However, many people have condemned the killing, saying the lion should have been tranquillised and captured.

There are few lions in the Jos Wild Life Park. Soldiers and police were used to track down the animal. 

The lion escaped from a cage when staff opened the gate to feed it. 

British actor John Boyega reveals how his Nigerian father reacted when he got the news that he had been selected to cast in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 

Other actors Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver speak first - John comes in after one and a half minutes:

Tuesday was World Aids Day and in the three decades since HIV - the virus that causes the disease - was identified, there have been many advances in medical treatments.

But not in the stigmatising attitudes towards HIV-positive people.

In Uganda, a group of young men and women are aiming to change all that. Satirist Ikenna Azuike went to meet them in Kampala.

The series is a BBC and RNW Media co-production.

It's broadcast on Wednesdays and Fridays on Focus on Africa on BBC World News & partner stations across Africa from 1730GMT.

A prominent Angolan rapper on trial for rebellion has told a court that he is a pacifist who wants President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to step down after 36 years in office, the AFP news agency reports. 

"Besides concentrating all powers in himself, he is the first to violate the constitution he had sworn to respect. He interferes with the judiciary and the legislature," Luaty Beirao told the judge hearing his case in Angola's capital, Luanda, AFP reports. 

The rapper said he had been campaigning against the government through music since 2004, it adds. 

Mr Beirao is on trial with 16 other young Angolan opposition activists. They deny charges of plotting a rebellion. 

The 17 were picked up during a meeting of a book-reading club where one of the books was about non-violent resistance to repressive regimes. 

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Abdussalam Ibrahim Ahmed
BBC Africa, Enugu, Nigeria

Nigeria's police have dispersed protesters calling for the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra.

Members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) had converged for a demonstration in the south-eastern city of Enugu before police intervened. 

Earlier, Nigeria's police chief Solomon Arase said the group's threats to "public order" would not be tolerated. 

The protesters had on Tuesday blocked the main bridge linking the south-east to the rest of Nigeria

The mainly ethnic Igbo protesters want to form an independent state in southern part of the country.

They are calling for the release of one of their leaders, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention for two months.

See also 11:01 post

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has warned the United States not to interfere in his country's politics, amid a row over whether he should stay on in power. 

In a message on his twitter feed, external, Mr Kagame said it was up to Rwandans to decide their political future. 

On Tuesday, the American ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said Mr Kagame should step down at the end of his term in 2017, to allow the next generation of leaders to come forward. 

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Mr Kagame has been in power since the end of the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Last month the country's parliament passed a constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a third term in 2017.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Bauchi, Nigeria

A big lion has escaped from a wildlife park in central Nigeria's Jos city, causing fear and panic among residents. 

Police spokesman Abuh Emmanue told me the lion was still on the loose, despite wildlife officials trying to track it down. 

The authorities have called on the public to be vigilant, and not to approach the lion if they spot it. 

Local media reports say the lion was in a cage at the Jos Wild Life Park, and it slipped out after staff opened the gate to feed it. 

At least 13 people have been killed and 466 others injured in Senegal after road accidents involving pilgrims returning from an annual Muslim festival, AFP quotes emergency services said as saying.

There were about 100 accidents on roads from Senegal's second largest city Touba, the spiritual home of the Mouride sect, where the event was held on Tuesday.

The Mourides are one of Senegal's biggest Muslim brotherhoods and Senegalese expatriates return from around the world to take part.

Read: Senegal's Mouride Islamic sect in pictures

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South African civil engineer Naadiya Moosajee co-founded non-profit organisation WomEng to help develop the next generation of female engineers in Africa.

One in 10 engineers are in South Africa are women - but Ms Moosajee wants that proportion to be much higher.

Thousands of girls are going through the organisation's fellowship programme, which includes practical workshops in skills development, training and networking.

She says: "It's such a proud moment for me to have these girls come up to me and say: "Naadiya, you have changed my life. I'm an engineer because of you."

WomEng is currently working across South Africa and Kenya, with the aim of replicating its programmes across Africa and the globe.

Women of Africa is a BBC season recognising inspiring women across the African continent. The first series, Africa's Unsung Heroes, introduces eight women who are making a difference in their country - and beyond.  

Muhamman Babalala
BBC Africa, Cameroon

The raid that reportedly killed more than 100 members of militant Islamist group Boko Haram in northern Cameroon was carried out with the support of the regional task force (see 12:20 post).

About 900 people held hostage by the militants were freed following the operation, which took place in the far northern region that borders Nigeria, the defence ministry said.

Cameroon is part of an 8,000-strong force that includes troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin that aims to tackle Boko Haram.

There has been no independent confirmation of either the deaths or the released hostages and it is not clear exactly where the clashes took place.

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A preliminary investigation in South Africa has cleared the powerful Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini of inciting the anti-foreigner violence that swept through the country earlier this year. 

The king had not made a call to arms, but was guilty of making “hurtful and harmful” comments against foreigners, the Human Rights Commission (HRC) said in a preliminary report.

King Zwelithini said at a rally in March that the government should "help us clean our land of lice", and that "all foreigners should take their baggage and be sent back".

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"There can be little argument against the conclusion that a public expression by a public figure with moral authority to the effect that foreigners should pack their bags and leave, would leave foreign nationals diminished in their human dignity," the HRC said.  

The monarch should either publicly apologise to foreign nationals or enter into a "private mediate settlement" to resolve the dispute or failing that he could be referred to the Equality Court, said the statutory body, which investigates rights abuses in South Africa. 

Piers Edwards
BBC Sport

The head of Liberia's Football Association, Musa Bility, has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) after being excluded as a candidate for the Fifa presidential election.

Mr Bility was ruled out by Fifa's Ad-hoc Electoral Committee after failing integrity checks.

"I find this decision of Fifa to be unfair, troubling and disappointing," Bility said in a statement.

"I have appealed to Cas urging that body to act with urgency in the disposition of this matter."

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The 48-year-old, who has questioned the veracity of the integrity checks, has also called on Fifa to share its findings on each presidential candidate with its 209 member associations, rather than keep them in-house.

The election to replace outgoing president Sepp Blatter takes place on 26 February.

Read the full BBC sport story here, external

China's President Xi Jinping has arrived in South Africa ahead of Friday's China-Africa summit in Johannesburg.

A string of deals are expected to be announced for power plants, infrastructure and agriculture projects, as Africa seeks further investment from its biggest trading partner.

However, the summit is coming at a time the Asian giant's is facing an economic slowdown.

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President Xi said the summit would be "a milestone in advancing China-Africa relations across the board".

"I look forward to... injecting fresh impetus into the future of China-Africa friendship and cooperation under the new conditions," he said in a statement. 

But Africa is already feeling the pinch, with Chinese investment falling by more than 40% in the first half of 2015, according to official data, AFP news agency reports.

Libya's warring factions could sign a long-awaited peace accord in a month and are very close to forming a government of national unity, the new UN envoy said, Reuters news agency reports. 

"We are very close to a deal even if some hurdles remain. I believe we can sign in a month. Talks have lasted for a year and it is time now to sign a deal," Martin Kobler told Reuters.

Western governments see the UN-backed agreement as the only way to end the chaos in Libya, where two rival governments and their armed militias are fighting for control. 

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Moderates have supported the proposal hammered out in a year of talks, but hardliners in both camps have been demanding more  concessions from the other side. 

Libya descended into chaos after the 2011 uprising which led to the overthrow and killing of long-serving leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Burundi's presidential spokesman Willy Nyamitwe says the government is not responsible for the violence in parts of the country.

Since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid for a third term in April, tit-for-tat killings and attempted assassinations have been reported on an almost daily basis in the capital, Bujumbura.

Mr Nyamitwe told the BBC's Newsday radio programme that the violence is being orchestrated by the opposition:

Kenya's media watchdog body is tweeting details of its report which accuses the East African state's media of continuing to “reproduce stereotypes of women”.

The Media Council of Kenya says men - including actors - are 10 times more likely to get coverage than those of the opposite gender.     

It adds that this is a “serious obstacle” to achieving gender equality:

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Nigeria's police have warned members of a secessionist movement calling for the creation of the breakaway state of Biafra to stop "threatening public order".

It follows a protest yesterday by activists of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) group in the south-east of the country. 

 On Tuesday, police said protesters attempted to block the strategic bridge across the Niger river, which links the south-east with the rest of Nigeria and was the de facto border during the 1967-1970 civil war, Reuters news agency reports.

The protests disrupted business activity and caused huge traffic jams in Onitsha town, says BBC Hausa service correspondent Abdussalam Ibrahim in Enugu, the main regional city.

"The restoration and maintenance of law and public order, and protection of lives and property remain sacred and the statutory mandate of the Nigeria Police," the force said in a statement.

The mainly ethnic Igbo activists are calling for the release of one of their leaders, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention for two months.

Authorities have accused him of treason.

The first Biafra republic was declared in 1967 but the military defeated the secessionists after a three-year conflict. 

More than one million people lost their lives, mostly because of hunger caused by the civil war.

Read: Should new calls for Biafra worry Nigerians?

Nine people have been killed overnight in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye has told the BBC Great Lakes service. 

The dead included eight civilians and one police officer, he added. 

Shootings and grenade explosions were heard in various parts of the city.

More than 200 people have been killed since April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would run for a third term. 

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