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We reported earlier that two foreign journalists are in police custody in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura (09:02). 

The police spokesman Moise Nkurunziza said British photographer Phil Moore was caught in a meeting of suspected armed criminals.

"Security forces were surprised that he chose to run away from them with criminals. He should have come and shown to the security forces that he was doing his job of journalist. That’s not what he did.’’

But the Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa says that Phil Moore denies that he was with armed men at the time of his arrest. 

South African journalist Andi Makinana has just spotted this curious job title on eNca News:

She says it has flashed up on the screen at least five times in the last hour alone.

This week a South African mayor defended the decision to award scholarships

to 16 female university students on condition they remain virgins and get regular virginity tests.

Rwanda has the highest rate of breastfeeding in the world, according to new figures from the World Health Organization. 

The figures say 85% of mothers exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first six months. 

That's compared to just 1% in the UK, which comes at the bottom of the list.

Here's what the situation is in the rest of the world:

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In a report in the medical journal the Lancet researchers say breastfeeding improves child development and reduces the incidence of breast cancer among women.

The World Health Organization has warned that the Zika virus is spreading "explosively".

Experts do not know much about the virus, but it was discovered in a Ugandan forest.

The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga has been there.

Uganda's New Vision newspaper says the army - the UPDF - has a new enemy in its sights:

The BBC's Patience Atuhaire in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, says soldiers will be doing door-to-door spraying to get rid of bedbugs as part of their community activities during army week. 

The New Vision says there is an infestation in the low-lying areas in a slum just outside Kampala.

The annual army week is an opportunity for the military to get involved in different community activities, such as cleaning up streets and open drains. 

Our reporter says it is part of what the army does to get closer to ordinary Ugandans.

We're getting lots of announcements of African footballers moving clubs around Europe.

The BBC's Nick Cavell says this is because the January transfer window will soon be closing.

Here are a few of the footballers who are one the move:

The lawyer representing the victims at the trial of the former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has been speaking in court for the first time since it opened on Thursday.

The BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague says 726 victims will be participating in the trial.

Mr Gbagbo has denied the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity,  

The twice-yearly African Union heads of state meeting is due to start in Addis Ababa tomorrow, and the presidents (and their advisors) have been tweeting about their journeys:

Some meetings have already started and Senegal's President Macky Sall has been pictured busy at work:

Later today there is a Peace and Security Council meeting.

The BBC's Sammy Awami in Addis Ababa says there will be an open session on the efforts to tackle terrorism as well as the situation in South Sudan.

There will then be a closed-door session on the situation in Burundi.

Our reporter says South Sudan and Burundi are expected to dominate the agenda.

Exasperated Kenyans have asked the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch for help in finding almost $1bn of public funds which have appeared to have gone missing.

The government sold loans to investors in 2014 but the money is now allegedly unaccounted for.

BBC Trending reports a Twitter hashtag #KenyansToLorettaLynch has been used thousands of times. Here's a couple of examples:

She played a key role in indicting 14 Fifa in 2015. This may go some way to explaining why tweeters like the last one have decided she is up to the job. 

It's day two of Ivory Coast's ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's trial for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court.

Mr Gbagbo and ex-militia leader Charles Ble Goude - he is also on trial - deny murder, rape, attempted murder and persecution charges.

A lawyer for Human Rights Watch has tweeted the latest goings-on in the court:

Meanwhile the Reuters correspondent in Ivory Coast has noticed a change from other cases at the International Criminal Court:

The trial is taking place in The Hague, the Netherlands and is being streamed live, external.

But if you're planning to watch the whole thing, take note: It could last three or four years.  

Do you know the answer to this question:

Test yourself on the 7 days quiz.

We're just getting in photos from our cameraman Ayo Bello in Lagos state in Nigeria of a fuel tanker which exploded last night:

A crowd gathered round the tanker which exploded at MRS fueling in Surulere area of Lagos state. 

No life was lost but property was destroyed.

Teams of firefighters managed to put out the blaze after a few hours.  

It is not uncommon for fuel tankers to burst into flames on the streets of Lagos.

For the last decade photographer Akintunde Akinleye has been capturing the moment firemen turn up.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

A South African High Court has ordered a TV channel to re-instate a judge of the reality show Idols.

The pay TV channel M-Net sacked Gareth Cliff for what they described as a "racial slur".

He had Tweeted a response to widely-circulated comments from a white estate agent who had said that black people were "monkeys".

The original comments sparked widespread outrage.

Mr Cliff said people criticising the comment did not understand free speech.

The channel said they could sack Mr Cliff because he did not have a contract.

But Judge Caroline Nicholls said that actually there was a contract.

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The UK-based Economist weekly newspaper has written a damning critique of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari's economic policy, external. 

But it's a line about former President Goodluck Jonathan that has got a lot of people hot under the collar.

It called him "an ineffectual buffoon".

And some Nigerians have taken offence:

But others have wondered what the problem is:

The main thrust of the article is that President Buhari should abandon his policy of trying to shore up the value of the naira, which has been under pressure in recent months.

Kenya's Standard newspaper features a picture from the funeral of one of the Kenyan soldiers who died in the al-Shabab attack a fortnight ago.

They were attacked while at an African Union base in southern Somalia.

The authorities have not yet given a death toll and say they are still identifying those who have been killed. 

Cameroonian footballer Stephen Mbia has been tweeting about joining his new Chinese club: 

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has called for the immediate release of the two foreign journalists - one of them a French national - who have been detained by police.

British photojournalist Phil Moore and French reporter Jean Philippe Remy were arrested with 15 other people in an opposition neighbourhood of the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, on Thursday.  

Both men, who have won several awards for their work, have travelled to Burundi several times since the crisis began, reports the BBC's Maud Jullien. 

The association of foreign journalists in East Africa said they were extremely concerned by the arrests of their colleagues who they described as consummate professionals.

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We are getting more information in about the new allegations that French troops sexually abused children in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The AP news agency reports that UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein says his staff has found six more cases of sexual abuse of children by European troops.

The allegations date back to 2014 in a camp for displaced people near Bangui airport.

Mr al-Hussein's office says a UN team interviewed five girls and a boy.

A 7-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy said their abusers were French. 

While other girls believe their abusers were from the Georgian peacekeeping contingent.

AP say Mr al-Hussein  raised the cases with the European, Georgian and French authorities, as well as with another country last week.

The Reuters news agency is reporting that there are new allegations of French troops sexually abusing children in the Central African Republic in 2014.

More details to follow.

The former head of Nigeria's air force has been questioned by the country's anti-corruption commission over the alleged diversion of funds meant for the military, the AFP news agency reports.

An anonymous source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told AFP that Air Marshal Adesola Amosu has been with them since Wednesday. 

He is among 20 former military chiefs and officers who President Muhammadu Buhari wanted questioned over an alleged arms procurement fraud.  

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