The helicopter company in Kenya which hired the pilot who is now at the centre of a row over his alleged assault of a policewoman has distanced itself from his action.

Kwae Island Development Limited said in a statement that "it respects all the service men and women of the Kenya police and abhors the actions of [the pilot]".

It added that it has ended the contract with the pilot.

The pilot had been hired to transport the Deputy President William Ruto, who has also criticised him.

You can watch the video of the alleged assault here.

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British comedian Eddie Izzard has begun the first of the 27 marathons he's running for the Sport Relief charity.

Mr Izzard plans to run a marathon a day for the next 27 days - one for each year Nelson Mandela spent in prison during his struggle against minority rule.

"The first 10 are always the hardest, but then your body and your brain gets used to it so it gets easier," he told the BBC.

Mr Izzard previously attempted a similar feat in South Africa in 2012, but had to pull out for health reasons.

Read the full BBC story here

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says Kenya's draft legislations aimed at complying with anti-doping control are not in line with its code. 

Wada has given Kenya until 5 April to show it complies with the code.

"As of today, the draft bill, policy and regulations submitted by [Kenya's anti-doping body] are not in line with the code," Wada said in a statement. 

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BBC Sport revealed last week that Kenya had missed a deadline to prove to Wada it was tackling cheating in athletics, following a string of positive drugs tests and corruption allegations. 

Kenya's Sport Minister Hassan Wario said last week that the government were due to look at the bill tomorrow.

A South African news outlet has been tweeting videos and pictures from the University of the Free State, where some students have been attacking statues and daubing graffiti on a building.

EWN filmed students trying to destroy a statue of Charles Robert Swart who played a key role in furthering apartheid policy.

Some students tried to rename one building the Sobukwe Law School - referring to the anti-apartheid activist Robert Sobukwe.

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has suspended a Supreme Court judge who is at the centre of a $2m (£1.5m) corruption scandal.

A seven-member tribunal is to investigate claims that Justice Philip Tunoi received the bribe to influence an election petition case against the current Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero, has been set up.

Both the judge and the governor have denied the accusations that were first made by a former journalist, who claims to have been an intermediary in the scandal.

The bribery allegations have hugely embarrassed the Supreme Court and the judiciary as a whole which has long faced criticisms of being corrupt.

Another investigation into the matter was ordered last month by Kenya's chief judge Willy Mutunga.

Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has arrested the country's former Interior Minister Abba Moro, who oversaw a failed recruitment process in which 20 job-seekers were killed in 2014, the respected Daily Trust newspaper reports, external. 

Mr Moro was questioned by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last night over the process in which several other people were injured as they scrambled to take tests for jobs at the country's immigration department. 

The recruitment exercise was cancelled after it also emerged that millions of dollars in application fees were collected from the job-seekers.

Mr Moro has not spoken about the latest report but has previously denied any wrongdoing.

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A boom in the population of lions in Zimbabwe's largest wildlife reserve could lead to 200 being culled, the UK's Daily Mail reports, external.

It adds that the Bubye Valley Conservancy has more than 500 lions that are now affecting the populations of other mammals.

The newspaper reports that some are blaming the rise in the lion population on the "Cecil effect", meaning a reluctance of some hunters to visit Zimbabwe after a US dentist was vilified for killing the well-known lion Cecil there last year.

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The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza and the opposition have agreed to engage in what he described as inclusive dialogue to end the 10-month crisis in the country. 

Mr Ban, who was in Burundi, said the president has also agreed to release 2,000 prisoners - not 1,200 which was reported earlier.

Hundreds of people have been killed in political violence triggered by Mr Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in office. 

About a quarter of a million have fled the country. 

The pilot of a helicopter transporting Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has been filmed allegedly assaulting a policewoman. 

The film appears to show the pilot angry that the policewoman was not stopping people from crowding around the helicopter. 

He then shouts at her and gives her a shove:

Celeste Nurse, the biological mother of the baby which was kidnapped 18 years ago in South Africa has been giving evidence at the trial of the woman alleged to have taken her.

A BBC reporter is tweeting from the court:

Nasidi Adamu Yahya
BBC Hausa Service, Lagos

It is the second day of Nigeria's annual Social Media Week, which opened in the main city, Lagos, yesterday

The atmosphere is really jovial as social media experts and users talk about ways to strengthen the media.

They're spending the whole week talking about the benefits of social media, and the challenges it's posing to the development of the country.

Although today's theme is about social media's role in reducing poverty, many are focusing their attention on the Nigerian senate over its attempt last year to regulate its use in the country.

Experts think the platform can play a vital role in helping businesses and lift people out of poverty. 

Recent figures suggest that more than 16 million Nigerians are using Facebook.

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Janet Onyango

The Kenya Film Classification Board (KCFB) has banned a music video promoting gay rights in the country "on moral grounds". 

The song, "Same Love (Remix)" is a remix of an original song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis in 2012. 

It is described on YouTube as "a Kenyan song about same-sex rights... and civil liberties for all sexual orientations." 

KCFB's CEO Ezekiel Mutua tweeted about the ban:

The body further tweeted that the makers of the video did not have a filming licence as required by law.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been holding talks in Burundi with President Pierre Nkurunziza.

A Burundian media organisation has tweeted that "President Nkurunziza promises to Ban Ki-moon an inclusive dialogue [with the opposition] and the freeing of 1,200 prisoners".

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is in Saudi Arabia for talks with officials likely to be dominated by efforts to stabilise the global oil market. 

Oil prices have plunged to their lowest levels in nearly 13 years largely. This is largely blamed on over supply and the Opec refusal to cut production.

The leader of Africa's largest oil producer is to meet King Salman in Riyadh before travelling on to Qatar.

His visit follows last week's agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia in Doha to stick to January production levels if others followed.

"I wouldn't be surprised to see them [Nigeria] voice their support to the freeze agreed in Doha," Abhishek Deshpande, a leading oil market analyst at Natixis in London, told AFP news agency.

Poorer Opec members, including Nigeria and Angola, have been hard-hit by the price drop.

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The father of the baby which was kidnapped 18 years ago in South Africa is in court to watch the trial of the woman accused of taking her.

A South African news organisation is tweeting from the court in Cape Town:

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Kenya's Inspector General of Police has ordered the prosecution of a white pilot who was captured on camera assaulting a police woman. 

The pilot, who has not yet been named, was hired to fly Deputy President William Ruto to a political rally in central Kenya over the weekend, when the incident occurred. 

A spokesman for Mr Ruto has condemned the incident and asked police to take action. 

In the video, the visibly angry pilot can be seen approaching the police woman shouting at her to do her job by controlling a crowd that was milling around the helicopter. 

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He then grabs her police stick and moments later shoves the police woman towards the crowd. 

The police have now requested the pilot to surrender himself to the nearest police station and for investigators to start criminal proceedings against him. 

The deputy president said he had been made aware of the "unacceptable and regrettable incident" and asked the police to investigate what he described as the unbecoming behaviour of the pilot.

The video has gone viral on social media with many angry Kenyans using a hashtag calling for the deportation of the pilot.

A South African woman has pleaded not guilty to abducting a newborn baby 18 years ago.

The fifty-year-old was arrested on charges of kidnapping last February after being accused of snatching new-born Zephany Nurse form her mother's bedside in hospital in 1997.

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. 

Despite a nationwide search, Zephany Nurse was only found 18 years later by her biological sister at the school they both attend.

The two struck up a friendship, and the younger sister told her parents about the girl who looked strikingly similar to her. 

A DNA test was conducted and confirmed the girls were sisters. 

Zephany had been living a few kilometres away with the woman now accused of kidnapping her all those years ago.

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