Africa highlights: Friday 19 February 2016 as it happened

Summary

Police raid headquarters of Uganda's main opposition FDC party
Opposition leader Kizza Besigye detained by police
Air strike targeting Islamic State militants in Libya kills at least 30 people
At least four lions escape from wildlife park in Kenya's capital
Ghana bus company says speeding caused deadly bus crash
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Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Friday 19 February 2016

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Clare Spencer and Damian Zane

Police at offices of Uganda's main oppositionpublished at 10:12 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
A freelance journalist in Uganda is tweeting from the scene of a police raid on the headquarters of the main opposition FDC party:
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Uganda police raid head office of main opposition partypublished at 09:59 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
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A BBC reporter in Uganda's capital, Kampala, is tweeting that police have raided the headquarters of the main opposition Forum for Democratic Change party.
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At least four lions escaped from Nairobi wildlife parkpublished at 09:49 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
Wardens from a wildlife park in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are saying that at least four lions have escaped, rather than the two that we had initially reported.
The wardens say they are using helicopters to track and trace the escaped animals.
Coach company say speeding to blame for crash which killed 71published at 09:14 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
Sammy Darko
BBC Africa, Accra
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The coach wreckage has been towed to the transport yard in Kumasi
The day after a coach crash in northern Ghana killed 71 people, questions are being asked about who or what was to blame.
The transport company denies their bus developed brake failure, instead saying it was due to speeding.
I walked into a morning meeting of drivers, where the bus drivers were told they would be sacked if they drove too fast or overloaded their buses.
The bus company deny allegations that they do not service buses and do not train their drivers properly.
Yesterday investigators said that the bus, which crashed into a lorry transporting tomatoes, was overloaded with more than 70 passengers - it should have had a maximum of 63.
A transport official had added yesterday that the driver picked up other passengers on the way home from work because their vehicle had been involved in an accident.
'Don't confront the lions', Kenyans warnedpublished at 09:12 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
An official from Kenya's wildlife service has been tweeting about the lions that have escaped from a park in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
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And in an exchange on Twitter Paul Udoto, responding to a question about whether someone should lock their children in, he advised that people should keep their kids safe:
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Lions escape from Nairobi's national parkpublished at 09:03 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
Officers from the wildlife service in Kenya are searching for two lions that escaped from the Nairobi National Park and were seen in a residential area early in the morning.
The two lions are part of a pride that strayed from the park on Thursday.
Four of them have since been returned there.
Museveni takes early lead in Uganda pollpublished at 09:02 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni has taken an early lead in the results that have been announced following yesterday's presidential election.
The electoral commission has compiled the results from 10,000 of the more than 28,000 polling stations.
It says that Mr Museveni has 62% of the vote and his main rival Kizza Beisgye has 33% of the vote.
The final preliminary results should be known by tomorrow.
Voting is still taking place in a handful of places where the late arrival of election materials meant that polling stations did not open.
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Wise wordspublished at 09:01 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
Today’s African proverb:
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The way you bring up a child is how it ends up being."
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Good morningpublished at 09:00 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2016
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