There's been a lot of reaction to the BBC Africa Facebook post on Kenya's ban on daytime 'sex talk' shows and preachers offering blessings in exchange for money.

One commenter thought the content can sometimes be useful, but sometimes presenters go too far:

Another commenter disagrees with the ban, saying people should be free to listen to what they want:

Regarding the preachers, a commenter in Uganda hopes the idea spreads:

Leeds United have signed Gambia's winger Mustapha Carayol on loan from fellow English side Middlesbrough until the end of the season. 

The club tweeted his arrival on Twitter:

Niger has completed changes to its electoral register recommended by the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF), Reuters news agency reports.

The OIF asked for the removal of around 300 "ghost" polling stations and 25,000 voters counted twice. 

"All of the recommendations for immediate application recommended by OIF experts overseeing the electoral register were put in place," OIF's Inoussa Ouedraogo said, Reuters reports. 

President Mahamadou Issoufou is seeking a second term in next month's election.

He is the favourite to win the 21 February poll, but critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian and repressive ahead of the elections.

The Madam & Eve weekly satirical cartoon strip has come up with some new collective nouns for the country.

These include:

• A wealth of ministers
• A Twitter of racists
• A Bavuma of runs

BBC sport journalist tweets about the potential contenders for 2016 African footballer of the year and where the 2015 winner, Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, could end up:

John name checks Algeria's Riyad Mahrez, Nigeria's Odion Jude Ighalo and Egypt's Mohamed Salah.

South Africa's Mail and Guardian newspaper is reporting, external [paywall] that President Jacob Zuma "secretly received money from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and that he feared for his position as president".  

It's quoting an email from 2011 addressed to then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from an advisor.

In the email, Sidney Blumenthal says knowledgeable individuals have informed him that President "Zuma has accepted substantial secret financial support from Qaddafi. They add that the Libya dictator is now calling in these favors to gain international support for his regime".

This came at a time when the Libyan leader was fighting against forces aiming to topple him.

Mr Blumenthal also says that the South African president was concerned that corruption allegations could "spark a protest movement that could endanger his government, particularly if they can look to Libya and other countries in North Africa as examples of where these movements succeeded".

Mr Zuma's office has called the story "malicious and irresponsible gossip, external and fabrication perpetuated by this newspaper".

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A Swiss woman has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the Malian town of Timbuktu, Mali's military spokesman says, Reuters news agency reports. 

Souleymane Maiga said the incident happened last night.

Mali has not been stable since the 2012 Touareg rebellion that prompted some army factions to stage an uprising, sparking a civil war.

French troops drove Islamist fighters from the country's major urban areas in 2013, but the militants remain active in the West African state and have recently intensified their insurgency.

Read: Why Mali is an insurgent hotspot

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has apologised for the first time to his people for the suffering they went through during the two-year civil war.

Mr Kiir says the apology is a first step toward reconciliation and justice and acknowledges that the "unnecessary" conflict has brought unbearable suffering to the people of South Sudan.

More than 2.2 million people have been displaced by the fighting that began in December 2013 after Mr Kiir accused his sacked deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup.

Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army to fight the government.

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"It is important to reconcile... to reach a point of harmony and unity within ourselves and with our neighbours," Mr Kiir said during a ruling SPLM party convention. 

He appealed on people to use the meeting as a turning point to launch the process of "national healing, forgiveness, truth and reconciliation".

There have been various efforts to mediate an end to the conflict in South Sudan, the world's newest state, and now there are moves to form a national unity government.  

Read: South Sudan's obstacles to a lasting peace

A journalist in Madagascar has tweeted about a protest in the capital over a dinner at state house as the country goes through financial difficulties:

Martin says that more than 1,000 people were treated to a full sit-down lunch at the palace.

Anne Soy
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Along with the sex talk issue (see 09:50 post) Kenya's new broadcast code bans preachers from soliciting for money from the audience in exchange for blessings. 

They promise bigger blessings for bigger offerings, at times drawing condemnation from traditional churches who describe them as false teachers.  

One preacher recently hit the headlines for faking miracles and asking people to send him about $3 (£2) each.  

Some preachers are thought to have built empires out of these pledges.

But now they will no longer be able to use broadcast media for fund-raising.  

For a country where 84% of the population follow Christianity, the preachers tend to have a big following.

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Authorities in South Sudan have arrested a journalist who criticised the government's handling of the country's civil war and shut down his newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said., external

Joseph Afandi, a journalist for the Arabic daily newspaper El-Tabeer, was arrested on 30 December by security forces in the capital, Juba.

His detention followed an opinion article criticising the government's actions over the past two years of civil war, the US-based watchdog said, adding the newspaper had not appeared since. 

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El-Tabeer only began printing late last year after a previous newspaper, Al-Rai, run by the same editor, was shut down.

"No journalist should be jailed for doing his job, which includes the right to publish or broadcast critical observations about public figures and institutions," the CPJ added in a statement. 

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Gaelle Enganamouit of Cameroon was named the female player of the year. She was a big part of the Indomitable Lionesses reaching the second round of the Women's World Cup, having qualified for the tournament for the first time in their history.  

Tanzania's Mbwana Aly Samatta, who helped his club side TP Mazembe to the African Champions League title, was crowned 2015 African-based player of the year at last night's Confederation of African football ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria.

Image source, Mbwana Aly Samatta

Meanwhile, TP Mazembe were named club of the year, having also represented Africa at the Club World Cup.

Ivory Coast and Cameroon were respectively named men's and women's national team of the year.

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Herve Renard, who managed Ivory Coast to their Africa Cup of Nations victory, won the coach of the year award.

The Frenchman, who led Zambia to victory in the tournament in 2012, is the first person to coach two different countries to the title.

Uganda's Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga has told all sides in the Burundi crisis to return to the negotiating table.

Peace talks scheduled for this week were postponed as the Burundian government objected to some of the participants.

Uganda's government media centre has been tweeting some of the comments the minister made to journalists in Kampala this morning:

Kenyan TV and radio stations will have to tone down some of their daytime shows according to new regulations, which have just been released.

The document says:

The watershed period is defined as between 5am and 10pm.

The BBC's Anne Soy in Nairobi says that popular radio stations in the country often broadcast explicit content during peak hours to attract audiences. 

She adds that a morning ride to work on a bus in Kenya will likely have you listen to radio call-ins from fathers confessing to having sexual feelings for their children, or women who are dissatisfied with the performance of their husbands in the bedroom. 

Also banned from the airwaves are religious programmes that solicit money from audience in exchange for blessings. 

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The newly crowned 2015 African footballer of the year, Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, has urged youths on the continent to listen and obey their parents if they want to succeed.

"To parents, give your kids the chance to fulfil their dreams, and to kids, listen to your parents because they wish you well and they give you their blessing," he said in his acceptance speech.

"I have listened to them [my parents] and here I am," he added.

The Gabonese also thanked his family, team mates and Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba a well-known football fan. 

More than 100 people have been killed during the recent wave of protests by Oromos in Ethiopia, the New York-based campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, external.

It quotes activists as saying that "security forces have killed at least 140 protesters and injured many more".

The rights group also calls for the release of leading Oromo politician Bekele Gerba - the deputy chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress.

He has been in detention since 23 December and HRW says his whereabouts are currently unknown.

Ethiopia's Oromia region has been hit by a wave of protests as members of the country's largest ethnic group have been objecting to a plan to expand the city boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa, into the area.

Analysts also say that the protests are over a feeling of marginalisation among some Oromos.

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Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang narrowly beat Ivory Coast's Yaya Toure to win the Confederation of African Football's player of the year award.

In a vote of coaches and technical directors of Caf member nations, Aubameyang earned 143 points, with Manchester City midfielder Toure the runner-up with 136 points.

Aubameyang is the first player from his country to win the award.

Ghana and Swansea midfielder Andre Ayew was third with 112 points.

Aubameyang is the Bundesliga's leading scorer so far this season, with 18 goals in 17 league games.

The event was held in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Read the full story on BBC Sport

Today’s African proverb: "The tortoise knows where he bites his brother." A Sudanese proverb sent by Hassan Ishag Ahmed, Nairobi, Kenya.

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Click here and scroll to the bottom of the page to contribute your proverb.

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