Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa Uganda correspondent

Image source, Charles Rwomushana

Human rights activists and friends of former Ugandan spy Charles Rwomushana say they cannot trace him since his arrest by police on Friday. 

Activist Andrew Karamagi told me he went to the headquarters of the Special Investigations Division (SID) in the capital, Kampala, on Saturday, but was told that Mr Rwomushana was not being held there.

This was despite the fact that Mr Rwomushana was initially taken to the SID headquarters, he added. 

A spokesman for Uganda's Internal Affairs Ministry told me that Mr Rwomushana was in police custody, and denied claims that he had been denied access to his lawyers. 

She did not say where he is being held.  

Mr Rwomushana was arrested after publishing a picture on Facebook, which he alleged showed the dead body of Christopher Aine, the security chief of opposition presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi. 

Mr Mbabazi's team accuse the police of kidnapping Mr Aine last month. 

The authorities deny this and say he is on the run, wanted for leading an attack on President Yoweri Museveni's supporters. 

Police chief Kale Kayihura has issued a $5,800 (£4,000) reward for information leading to Mr Aine's arrest.

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A split in the Anglican Church over the issue of homosexuality "would not be a disaster, but it would be a failure", the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

Speaking ahead of a meeting of Church leaders, Justin Welby said he wanted "reconciliation", but that would mean "finding ways to disagree well".

Church leaders in North America are on opposite sides of the debate to their more conservative African counterparts.

There are fears of a permanent schism in the third largest Christian Church.

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Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi
BBC Africa, Abuja

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Lawyers in Niger have started a 24-hour strike to protest against what they call the arbitrary arrest of government opponents, and the refusal of authorities to give them access to their clients.

The arrests come after President Mahamadou Issoufou last month accused some senior military officers of trying to overthrow his government, they said.

Opposition and civil society organisations have complained of intimidation since the alleged coup attempt. 

Tension is running high in Niger ahead of next month's general election in which President Issoufou is seeking a second term.

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

Niger is rated by the UN as one of the world's least-developed nations. 

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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked several top police generals, including the police chief and his deputy, local media reports say. 

The dismissals come after Mr Kiir agreed to give the interior ministry - which is in charge of policing - to rebels as part of a peace deal brokered by regional mediators. 

Police chief Pieng Deng Kuol and his deputy, Andrew Kuol Nyuon, have been replaced with Makur Arol and Biel Ruot respectively.

The two sides held talks in the capital, Juba, where they reached an agreement on Saturday on sharing portfolios in a new unity government.

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The government got 16 ministries, including finance, defence and national security, while the rebels got 10, including petroleum, interior and humanitarian affairs. 

Former political detainees got foreign affairs and transport, while smaller opposition parties were given cabinet affairs and agriculture.  

Conflict broke out in 2013 in the world's newest state 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. 

Teaching has resumed at the Kenyan university where 148 students died in a gun attack last April but only a few students have turned up for its reopening.

Security has been tightened at Garissa University College nine months after the attack by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.

But it appears that many potential students have stayed away.

Last year's attack was the deadliest so far by the Somali-based group in Kenya.

Staff reported to work last week to get the campus in north-east Kenya ready.

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Uganda's government and ruling party officials are intimidating journalists in a bid to stifle criticism ahead of tightly contested presidential and parliamentary elections next month, a leading rights group says in a report released today.

"Journalists have been suspended under government pressure, and radio stations threatened for hosting opposition members as guests or when panelists expressed views critical of the ruling party," US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

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The intimidation was having a "chilling effect" on the media, it added. 

"How can Uganda hold fair elections if the media and independent groups can't criticise the ruling party or government leaders without fear?" HRW researcher Maria Burnett said. 

The government has not yet commented on the report.   

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is facing one of the strongest challenges to his 30-year rule. Seven candidates are running against him, including his former ally and Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and three-time loser Kizza Besigye.

Our African proverb for the day‬, external: "Get to know me, before you reject me." A Somali  proverb sent by Abshir Fire Cadde in Nelspruit, South Africa. 

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