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Leading Nigerian lawyer Rickey Tarfa, who appeared in court with more than 90 lawyers representing him, was charged by Nigeria's elite anti-corruption agency, the Economic Finance and Fiscal Commission (EFCC).

He is accused of obstructing two anti-corruption agents from arresting two people suspected of committing financial crimes by keeping them in his car on 5 February. 

In the second charge, he is accused of perverting the course of justice by communicating through his personal mobile phone with a judge overseeing a trial between the EFCC and two private companies which Mr Tarfa is representing. 

Mr Tarfa has denied the charges.

See our 10:44 post for more details

One of the most famous and influential journalists in the Arab world, the Egyptian Mohamed Heikal, has died in Cairo, aged 92.

His name is most closely associated with the nationalist Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, in the 1960s. 

Mr Heikal was the editor of Egypt's most respected newspaper, Al Ahram, during that time, articulating the Nasserist ideology of pan-Arabism. 

He also served as information minister and briefly as foreign minister. 

But he remained for decades one of the most authoritative commentators on Egypt and the Arab world - as well as a historian of the tumultuous events of the Nasser area.

Read the full BBC article here

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Nigeria's army says it has destroyed camps of militant Islamist group Boko Haram in Doro and Kuda villages in north-eastern Borno state. 

Four of the militants were killed and two others were arrested during the operation around Alagarno and Sambisa forests, army spokesman Col Sani Usman said in a statement. 

Three soldiers and four civilians were also wounded in the fighting, he said.

About 40 motorcycles, along with horses and donkeys, were recovered at the camps, he added. 

Boko Haram has lost most of the territory it controlled but still carries out deadly suicide bombings.

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Read: Surviving Boko Haram

A researcher with campaign group Human Rights Watch is tweeting about deadly violence in Mozambique's central Sofala province:  

Nigeria's respected Premium Times, external news site has published a story which caught our eye.

It's about the trial of leading Nigerian lawyer Rickey Tarfa, who is accused of obstruction of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

More than 90 lawyers were in court yesterday in the commercial capital, Lagos, to represent Mr Tarfa, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, Premium Times reported.

The trial judge complained about the large number of lawyers who pitched up to represent him, saying it amounted to harassment and intimidation of the court, it reported.

The case was adjourned to next month.

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Zimbabwe's former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has confirmed to AFP news agency that she is forming a new party to challenge President Robert Mugabe's powerful Zanu-PF.

"We are 'People First'," Ms Mujuru said, confirming the name of the proposed  party but giving no further details. 

Last April, the BBC reported that Ms Mujuru was tipped to lead the new party following her expulsion from Zanu-PF. 

She was accused by Mr Mugabe's wife, Grace, of plotting to oust the president. She denied the allegation.

Ms Mujuru was a former close confidante of Zanu-PF, and was known as "Spill Blood" during the independence struggle. 

Miitant Islamists used an armoured vehicle for the first time in an attack on UN peacekeepers in northern Mali, killing seven of them and wounding 30 others, a UN spokesman has said, the Associated Press news agency reports.

Experts investigating Friday's attack believe the militants used homemade shields to reinforce the truck which drove into the UN base in Kidal town, Radhia Achouri told AP. 

Shells fired outside the camp diverted the soldiers as the truck, filled with explosives, entered the camp, she is quoted as saying. 

"When the truck forced through the front door, the peacekeepers opened fire on the car, but the bullets could not penetrate the truck which continued into the interior of the camp,'' Ms Achouri added, AP reports.  

The Mali-based Ansar Dine group, which is linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, said it carried out the attack. 

Uganda's police chief Kale Kayihura says officers will protect voters from intimidation in tomorrow's fiercely contested general election. 

One person was killed on Monday in clashes between police and supporters of the main opposition presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye, in the capital, Kampala. 

A BBC reporter is at the press conference where Mr Kayihura is speaking: 

See our 09:02 post for more details

Senegal's President Macky Sall has said he will remain in office until the end of 2019 after the country's highest court rejected his proposal to reduce his term by two years to five. 

In a televised address last night, Mr Sall said he would put the proposed constitutional change to a referendum on 20 March. 

"A five-year term is in line with international electoral standards for a democracy that claims to be mature and modern like ours," he said. 

During his campaign a year ago, President Sall had pledged to reduce the president's term of office. 

Several other African leaders, including the presidents of Algeria, Angola, Chad, Rwanda, Djibouti and Uganda, have done the opposite.

Read: Third terms and the arrogance of power

Uganda's electoral commission has warned of fraudsters circulating illegal papers in tomorrow's tightly contested elections, as seven opposition candidates try to end President Yoweri Museveni's 30-year rule.

A BBC reporter has been tweeting from the commission's press conference in the capital, Kampala: 

Read: old guard tries new tactics

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An Islamic school teacher has been identified as the man who carried the bomb which caused a hole in the fuselage of a commercial flight from Somalia to Djibouti on 2 February, the associated Press news agency reports. 

Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh was blown out of the Daallo Airlines-owned Airbus 321, when the bomb detonated soon after takeoff from Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, it reports.

Some intelligence officials believe that Mr Borleh, who hailed from Somalia's breakaway state of Somaliland, had knowingly carried the bomb, but this has not been conclusively established, AP adds.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the explosion, but it did not identify the bombers. 

No-one was killed in the blast, which happened about 15 minutes into the flight, when the plane was only at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet pressurised.

The plane an emergency landing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. 

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