We reported earlier (see 11:49 post) that Tokyo Sexwale invited his rivals for the job of Fifa president to South Africa.

Only one accepted his invite - Gianni Infantino, and he's just been pictured at Robben Island, where Mr Sexwale was imprisoned during the apartheid era.

Photos are just coming through of Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye being arrested earlier today.

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Four days before the election to choose Fifa's president, there's an unexpected twist.

Presidential candidate Gianni Infantino is visiting his rival, Tokyo Sexwale in South Africa.

Mr Sexwale had invited all the people going for the job but Mr Infantino was the only to accept.

He will take him on a tour of Robben Island, where Mr Sexwale was imprisoned, along with Nelson Mandela, during the apartheid era

USA Today says, external Mr Infantino's visit is "bound to lead to speculation that he is seeking an endorsement" from Mr Sexwale.

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An Uber taxi driver has been attacked in the Kenyan capital and his car has been torched, the Nairobi News website, external reports.

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There has been tension in Nairobi in recent weeks between traditional taxi drivers and Uber drivers, who get their passengers by people accessing an app on their smartphones.

The website reports that the driver was burnt and is "fighting for his life" in hospital.

The driver described what happened: 

Students say a Nigerian statue of a bronze cockerel, which is now displayed at a Cambridge University college, should be returned, according to a report by the Guardian, external newspaper.

The statue was looted in the 19th Century and is part of the Benin bronzes taken at that time.

Jesus College student Ore Ogunbiyi led the campaign.

She says that the statue should be repatriated to "weed out the colonial legacies", the Guardian reports.

But it is not clear if the college will be sending the cockerel back.

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Read more about the man who returned his the Benin bronzes his grandfather stole.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa,

The results of yesterday's presidential and parliamentary polls are being awaited in Niger. 

Voting is still going on in parts of the country because of delays in opening some polling stations.

There are 15 candidates vying for the presidency including the incumbent Muhamadou Issoufou who is seeking a second term. 

One of the opposition candidates, Hama Amadou, is in prison, accused of being involved in a so-called baby factory in Nigeria where women give birth and the babies sold, something he denies.

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The atmosphere in the capital, Niamey, is calm while the electoral officials are busy putting the results together. 

The opposition parties have criticised what they call shoddy arrangements for the polls by the electoral body, and the arrest of their members by the authorities prior to the elections. 

The final results are expected by Wednesday. 

If no candidate secures more than 50% of the votes, a second round of voting will have to take place.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

Students at South Africa's University of Pretoria are protesting against the use of the Afrikaans language as a medium of instruction.  

They are boycotting lectures and many of them are reported to have gathered outside lecture halls. 

Demonstrators are believed to have interrupted classes and those who were in class are now standing outside.

It comes 40 years after the Soweto student uprising of 1976 when thousands took to the streets in South Africa’s largest black township and protested against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. 

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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has told that BBC that his main rival was detained last week and kept under house arrest because he "wanted to cause violence" and was going to declare his own set of results from last week's presidential election.

He was speaking before Mr Besigye's latest arrest this morning.

Mr Museveni also said that one of his other opposition rivals, Amama Mbabazi, was colluding with Mr Besigye, and that's why the police were watching him too.

He also said observers' complaints that there were irregularities are not substantiated.

"Those European [observers] are not serious," he said.

Listen to the interview here:

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has just been blowing out the candles on his birthday cake marking his 92nd birthday.

It doesn't look like there was a candle for each year:

The cake was given to Mr Mugabe in a ceremony organised by his staff this morning.  

The writing on the cake says "happy birthday Gushungo 92".

Gushungo is his clan name.

The BBC's Brian Hungwe, who was at State House for the ceremony, says military generals were present.

His birthday was yesterday and he has planned another celebration costing an estimated $1m (£700,000) in Masvingo, a southern province of Zimbabwe, our reporter says.  

Ethiopia's government has dismissed claims in a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that it is violently suppressing anti-government protests in the Oromia region.

Communications Minister Getachew Reda was asked by the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza about HRW's evidence that anti-government demonstrations were continuing, and he said "it is an absolute lie".

He acknowledged that there had been trouble, but said attacks against public buildings were carried out by armed gangs "who are trying to stir up emotions in the public".

Mr Getachew said that HRW has been "churning out report after report" on Ethiopia without a presence in the country.

He called it a "stroke of magic" for HRW to come up with this report "from half way across the world".

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The trial of a Cape Town woman accused of abducting a newborn baby 18 years ago was expected to start today but South Africa's Eyewitness news says it has been postponed:

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Johannesburg says a 50-year-old who was arrested on charges of kidnapping last February is currently out on bail. 

Zephany Nurse was snatched from her mother's bedside two days after she was born, our correspondent adds.

It's alleged the woman who raised the teenager as her own befriended the girl's biological mother while still in hospital. 

She then convinced her to hand over her daughter so that she could sleep. Hospital staff later woke her up to inform her that her baby was missing. 

She was only found 18 years later when her biological sister told her parents about a girl at her school who looked strikingly similar to her. 

A DNA test confirmed the girls were sisters. 

In an earlier post we reported that Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been taken from his house by the police. 

The BBC's Patience Atuhaire in the capital, Kampala, says he was arrested when he was trying to leave his house.

His home was surrounded by police throughout the weekend, she adds.

He had vowed to march to the Electoral Commission headquarters this morning to ask for a copy of the declaration of the results from last Thursday's elections.

Our correspondent says there is still heavy police presence at his home and at the Electoral Commission offices.

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The rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, external Ethiopia is "violently suppressing" what it describes as "largely peaceful protests" in the Oromia region.

The protests were initially sparked last November by a plan to expand the city boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa.

But despite the dropping of that plan, the protests have continued, HRW says.

It alleges that security forces have responded by arresting and detaining thousands of people without charge. 

HRW also says that people are being tortured in detention.

“Flooding Oromia with federal security forces shows the authorities’ broad disregard for peaceful protest by students, farmers and other dissenters," HRW researcher Leslie Lefkow is quoted in the report as saying.

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Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa Uganda correspondent

Eyewitnesses say Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been taken away by the police after trying to leave his house.

His lawyer has confirmed this.

Mr Besigye has been under house arrest since Friday night.

The main opposition leader in Uganda, Kizza Besigye, has rejected the result of Thursday's elections, in which President Yoweri Museveni won a fifth term in office.  

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