South Sudan peace monitor Festus Mogae says people are starving as the peace deal is delayed
Zimbabwe's chief prosecutor Johannes Tomana in court after arrest
Kenyan police look into alleged violent attacks on Uber drivers
Offices of Nigeria's ex-Vice President Namadi Sambo raided by anti-corruption officials
Uganda's General Sejusa appears at court martial over 'defiance campaign'
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Brian Hungwe
BBC Africa, Harare
Zimbabwe's chief prosecutor Johannes Tomana (pictured above in the grey suit) has arrived at a court in the capital, Harare.
Government sources have told me that Mr Tomana is accused of withdrawing banditry and money laundering charges against two army officers.
They were accused of plotting to attack President Robert Mugabe's dairy outside Harare.
People are starving in South Sudan's Western Equatoria as the two sides in the civil war delay implementing a peace deal, the Associated Press reports, quoting the head of the group that's monitoring the process Festus Mogae.
"I am staggered that things have been allowed to get this bad," the former president of Botswana told a meeting of government and rebel representatives, AP adds.
A monitoring team found starving people in the Mudri area of Western Equatoria.
Image source, AFPA peace deal signed last year has not yet been fully implemented
South Africa's Times newspaper has published this picture of an elephant attacking a buffalo which got too close to her cubs.
The picture was taken by amateur photographer Kimberly Maurer who was on holiday in Kenya's Masai Mara.
"This was a once-in-a-lifetime capture," the paper quotes her saying.
Ugandan television station NBS has been tweeting updates on the court martial of former intelligence chief Gen David Sejusa.
It says that he has been remanded in custody and will return to court for a bail hearing next week.
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It also tweeted a screen-grab from its coverage of Gen Sejusa's vehicle as he was being driven to prison:
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Image source, BBC SportZimbabwe captain Brandon Mavuta made an incredible boundary save to prevent a six during their ICC under-19 World Cup match against West Indies.
Zimbabwe lost the match by two runs in controversial circumstances with the final wicket taken via a 'mankad' where the non-striker is run out backing up.
Watch the video of Mavuta's triumph here (UK only).
We featured on the Africa Live Page yesterday, and the picture of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta atop a brand new armoured personnel carrier was too good to resist for the country's Daily Nation newspaper.
Running the picture on its front page, the newspaper says that the equipment is for the police force to help boost security, especially the "war against terrorism".
Tunisian forces have killed three suspected militants during an ongoing security operation in the Gabes region, the interior ministry said, AFP news agency reports.
The operation began after the authorities were alerted to the presence of a "terrorist group", it adds.
Guns and ammunition were seized during the ongoing operation, the ministry said.
Islamist militants have killed dozens of police and soldiers since the 2011 revolution that ousted Tunisia's longtime leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Image source, ReutersUganda's former intelligence chief and critic of President Yower Museveni Gen David Sejusa has appeared at a court martial in the capital, Kampala.
Among the charges he faces are being absent without leave and participating in partisan political activities, the Daily Monitor website is reporting, external.
He pleaded not guilty to the second charge but did not enter a plea for the other, the website says.
Gen Sejusa went into self-imposed exile in London in 2013 after claiming that President Museveni was grooming his son to be Uganda's next leader.
But he returned to the country in 2014.
Image source, Reuters
Image source, IWGAMalawi's leading netball player Mwai Kumwenda has won the International World Games Association (IWGA) athlete of the year, external award.
The IWGA says on its website that Kumwenda topped its internet poll with 17,910 votes.
She beat a shortlist of 18 athletes.
Kumwenda is one of netball's international stars.
The IWGA is a body made up of largely minority sports such as netball.
Image source, Getty ImagesZimbabwe's chief prosecutor Johannes Tomana has been detained by police and is due to appear in court, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports, external.
The newspaper says the charges are not yet clear, but it is believed to be in connection with the dropping of charges last week against two people accused of plotting to bomb a dairy owned by President Robert Mugabe.
Image source, ReutersThe High Court in London heard that Zimbabwean national Andre Babbage had a "serious criminal record"
A judge has ordered immigration officials to release a Zimbabwean convicted criminal because the UK has "no prospect" of deporting him.
Mr Justice Garnham, at the High Court in London, accepted that Andre Babbage was "likely" to abscond and offend.
But he said Babbage's continued detention was unjustified, because the home secretary was not going to be able to send him back to Zimbabwe.
Babbage has UK convictions for supplying cocaine, assault and robbery.
The Zimbabwean national, who was born in 1986 and came to the UK with his mother in 2003, had been in immigration detention since October 2013.
Nigeria's anti-corruption agencyhas raided the office of former Vice President Namadi Sambo in the capital, Abuja, a source has told the BBC.
This investigation is in connection with an ongoing probe into the alleged diversion of $2bn (£1.3bn) meant to buy weapons to fight the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, the source added.
Documents, including bank statements and contracts, were seized during the raid, which happened on Saturday.
Mr Sambo, who served under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan between 2010 and 2015, has not yet commented on the raid.
Image source, Getty ImagesPresident Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in May, set up an investigation into the procurement of weapons for the military, which found that phantom contracts worth $2bn had been awarded.
Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC Africa, Bujumbura
Two teenage boys, aged 14 and 15, were killed last night in a rural village about 5km (3 miles) outside Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.
The brothers were shot dead as armed men attacked their home in Nyamutenderi, injuring their father and their uncle.
A local administrator said the gunmen stole money from the home but the motive for the crime could not be established immediately.
There are some reports alleging that there may be a political motivation.
The area is known to be a stronghold of former rebel and opposition leader, and now deputy speaker of national assembly, Agathon Rwasa.
In a separate incident, eight people were injured in a grenade attack on a bar in the Buterere neighbourhood of the capital last night.
Image source, AFPThere has been concerns over the continuing violence and killings in Burundi
An Ethiopian official has told the Bloomberg news agency, external that dozens have been killed in ethnic clashes between Nuer and Anuak groups in the west of the country which also involved security forces.
A local administrator told Bloomberg that the violence is retaliatory following a murder in September.
Villages have been razed as well as people being killed, he added.
A South African businessman has promised to give the governing Africa National Congress a run for its money in the upcoming local elections.
Herman Mashaba, a self-made hair products millionaire, is running to become mayor for the country's economic heartland, Johannesburg, for the opposition Democratic Alliance.
He has been speaking to the BBC's Milton Nkosi about the thorny issue of race, affirmative action and the motives behind his candidacy.
SA businessman challenges ANC dominance
Ugandan General David Sejusa has spoken at his court martial for the first time.
A journalist for the Nation Media Group is tweeting from the court in Kampala:
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The first charge appears to relate to his self-imposed exile in London in 2013:
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The general's lawyers are arguing that the court does not have jurisdiction as he was effectively retired from the army:
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Somalia's government has formed a committee to investigate claims of heavy civilian casualties following Kenyan air strikes in the southern part of the country.
The strikes were apparently in response to the al-Shabab attack which killed an unknown number of Kenyan soldiers in the town of el-Ade on 15 January.
Kenya has denied the militants' claim of heavy casualties but has not given its own figures.
Somalia's Defence Minister General Abdilkadir Ali Dini, who is leading the investigation, confirmed the development to the BBC but did not give further details.
Kenya contributes more than 4,000 troops to the 22,000-strong AU force that is in Somalia helping the UN-backed government battle al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda.
Read: What happened when al-Shabab attacked a Kenyan base in Somalia?
Image source, AFPNishat Ladha
BBC Africa sport
Eight Nigerian athletes have been banned from competition for doping.
Four of them won gold at last year's African Games in Congo's capital, Brazzaville.
The eight are:
They have all been banned for four years, except for Onua who has been given an eight-year suspension for multiple doping violations.
Image source, AFPMany of the athletes were found to be doping at last year's African Games
Controversial Ugandan General David Sejusa has appeared a court martial in the capital, Kampala.
A Nation Media journalist has been tweeting from the courtroom:
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The exact charges are not yet clear.
But on Monday the Bloomberg news agency quoted government spokesman Ofwono Opondo saying that Uganda is “investigating reports that appear to link” renegade army Gen David Sejusa to groups that have “sinister plans” for civil disobedience.
Gen Sejusa was detained on Sunday in Kampala.
He went into exile in May 2013 after falling out with President Yoweri Museveni, but returned 18 months later.
He had accused Mr Museveni of trying to create a "political monarchy" and ruling over a "decadent system". The government denied the allegations.
Today’s African proverb:
A male tortoise is identified when it is thrown in the fire.
Quote MessageA male tortoise is identified when it is thrown in the fire.
A Madi proverb sent by Jimmy Abirigo and Morris Kulang Samuel Eresto, both from Juba, South Sudan.
Image source, AFP