The Johannesburg office of South Africa's ruling ANC party says its Twitter account fell victim to a hack this morning, with someone using it to announce the removal of President Jacob Zuma. 

In Tweets that were subsequently deleted, the account said: 

"We took the painful decision to recall the ANC Pres from his position as head of State and the President of the Republic of South Africa" 

Further Tweets said that the deputy president would take over in the interim, until parliament could be convened to organise the election of a new leader. 

President Zuma has taken a lot of heat this week from within his own governing ANC party, after his decision to sack two finance ministers in the space of a week.

Once the ANC regained control of the account, it quickly sought to clear up any confusion: 

The ANC has just held a press conference in which it gave its full backing to President Zuma saying that the way he changed his mind over the appointment of David van Rooyen as finance minister showed that he was listening.

Zuma's sacking blunder: analysis from BBC's Milton Nkosi

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

Half a million HIV-positive people in Uganda who should be getting the drugs that help keep the virus under control at government hospitals, have not been receiving them for the past two months, health activists say.

They wanted to march to the ministry of health in the capital, Kampala, today but the police said they did not have permission.

Instead they held a press conference.

Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC Africa, Gitega, Burundi

The trial of those suspected to have been involved in May's failed coup attempt in Burundi has entered its second day today, with seven defendants appearing in court. 

Twenty-eight people have been charged of plotting to oust President Pierre Nkurunziza,including his former Defence Minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye.

The judge said that the decision by six of the seven defendants in court today not to bring their lawyers was a ploy to delay the trial.

The defendants have said they will not enter a plea until the "inhumane conditions" under which they say they are being held are improved. 

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Shewa Hagos and her sons changed their sandwich shop in London into a traditional Eritrean cafe in 2014.

Within a few months, the Blue Nile had been rated as the best restaurant in London on the review site TripAdvisor.

BBC's Africa's Peter Okwoche went to test his taste buds:

BBC Africa is running a special week of radio and TV programmes about African food in Europe from 14-18 December.  

African leaders have said the World Trade Organization (WTO) must do more to support agriculture in Africa, and develop a global approach to farming subsidies. 

The leaders issued their call on the eve of the first-ever WTO ministerial conference to take place in Africa, to be hosted by Kenya. 

The Liberian president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, said African countries must press wealthy countries to reduce their domestic subsidies to give African importers a chance of competing.

Kenya's Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed is chairing the meeting and has been tweeting about the series of talks she's been holding with delegates.

Nigeria's army has said that it has "cleared" Boko Haram fighters from an area of the Sambisa forest in north-eastern Nigeria, where the Islamist insurgents are hiding out.

It says in a statement that soldiers destroyed four camps.

During the fighting one Boko Haram fighter was killed and 31 people were freed.

The army says it found farm produce stored in metal drums, but no weapons cache was discovered.

Image source, Nigeria Army

The ongoing civil war in the world's youngest state has inflicted unimaginable suffering on millions. So, on the second anniversary of the start of the conflict, how did we get here? 

The BBC's Africa Correspondent Alastair Leithead has followed the crisis over the past two years and gives his account of what has happened and where it is heading.  

It's two years today since the start of the civil conflict in South Sudan, and aid agencies have warned that nearly four million people there, a third of the population, face severe food shortages. 

Of those, 30,000 are at risk of what they call catastrophic hunger, one step away from famine. 

With fighting between rival factions continuing and poor rains this year, the agencies say the situation is worsening.

The UN says 185,000 people are now crowded inside their protection camps, where malnutrition and disease are prevalent, and where there are many reports of murder and rape.

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The luxury hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, attacked by gunmen last month is set to reopen today.

Armed men held 170 guests and staff hostage during a nine-hour siege at the Radisson Blu, killing 22 and wounding 14 before police stormed the building.     

Image source, AP

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has confirmed in a tweet this morning that the hotel will reopen.

He is also set to visit the site:

Today’s African proverb: "It is better to walk than to curse the road." Sent by Victor Chilufya, Solwezi, Zambia.

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