Summary

  • Nearly $7bn stolen by Nigerian officials and businessmen, minister says

  • Millions at risk of hunger in southern Africa following drought, WFP says,

  • Morocco arrests Belgian man of Moroccan descent linked to Paris attacks

  • Gabon recalls ambassador to France over comments about Bongo election

  • Kenya searches for missing soldiers in Somalia

  • Burkina Faso and Mali to join forces in anti-terror fight

  • Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Monday 18 January 2016

Live Reporting

Naziru Mikailu and Damian Zane

  1. Kenya searches for missing soldiers in Somalia

    Odhiambo Joseph
    BBC Africa, Nairobi

    Kenya's military has launched as search and rescue operation for the soldiers captured on Friday during an al-Shabab attack on a base in el Ade, Somalia.

    The Kenyan soldiers are part of the African Union Amisom force which is supporting the Somali government in attempt to wrest control of much of the country from al-Shabab.

    Kenya's Chief of Defence Forces Samson Mwathethe said the Islamist militants are using the soldiers who have been taken as human shields.

    He has told Kenyans that the army is doing everything possible to rescue the soldiers alive.

    Al-Shabab said on Friday that more than 60 Kenyan soldiers have been killed, but Kenya dismissed this as propaganda, but has not given a death toll itself.

    Injured kenyan soldiersReuters

    Soldiers injured in Friday's attack in Somalia have been flown back to Kenya

  2. Today's wise words

    Today’s African proverb:

    "Don’t fear planting cassava in a field full of spear grass."

    A ‪#‎Lango‬ proverb sent by Martin Okwir, Lira, Uganda

  3. Good morning

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