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Two South African children are suing the mega church of popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua over the death of their father, their lawyer Bolajii Ayorinde has told the BBC. 

The three-year-old and six-year-old have filed papers in court in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, demanding compensation of more than 8m rand ($521,000; £375,000) from the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Nigerian media reports.  

Their father was among 116 people killed when a hostel owned by the church collapsed in Lagos in 2014. 

A coroner ruled last year that TB Joshua should be prosecuted over the collapse of the building, saying the church was culpable because of criminal negligence.

The pastor and church have consistently denied any wrongdoing.      

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Kenya is facing a race against time in its attempts to convince the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) that it will tackle doping in athletics. 

This week, Wada said Kenya's efforts were not good enough and it demanded that legislation be passed to establish an anti-doping agency within the country.

And so today, the government, Athletics Kenya and sports federations have been meeting in the capital Nairobi to amend the draft law they had proposed, before presenting it to the cabinet and parliament later next week. 

Kenya has already missed one crucial deadline set by Wada and is facing another one on 5 April when Wada will decide if Kenya is complying with its demands to clean up athletics . 

One of the authors of the proposed law, sports scientist Moni Wekesa, told me that he was concerned that Kenya was not taking Wada's demands seriously:

If they miss the deadline, Wada could recommend Kenya is banned from taking part in the Olympics later this year.

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Ivory Coast has given Burkina Faso's ousted ruler Blaise Compaore citizenship, reports the BBC Afrique's Valerie Bony from Abidjan. 

Ivory Coast does not extradite its nationals so it is unlikely that Mr Compaore will be sent back to Burkina Faso to stand trial for his alleged role in the 1987 murder of ex-President Thomas Sankara.

He has always denied involvement in the murder. 

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Mr Compoare fled to Ivory Coast in 2014 following a popular uprising against his bid to extend his 27-year rule. 

Read: Sankara's legacy

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The winner will work with teams across BBC News in London for three months.

The award was established to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41 in 2014.

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Lerato Mbele
BBC African Business Report

When South Africa’s finance minister delivers the 2016 Budget today it will be watched closely both locally and internationally.

That’s because South Africa could tip into a recession.

The recent global slump, caused by the fall in commodity prices and the Chinese slowdown, has seen foreign investors pulling back from emerging markets.

South Africa has been one of the biggest casualties.

Credit ratings agencies have given South Africa an ultimatum – improve the economy or face a downgrade to so-called junk status.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will have to make all the right noises about reducing government debt, tackling corruption, stabilising the currency, promoting growth and creating jobs.

Then, the markets need to convinced that he’s sincere. Otherwise,  the downgrade will be unavoidable, experts say.

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South Africa will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Sudan's Darfur region from 1 April, President Jacob Zuma's office has said in a statement, Reuters news agency reports. 

The troops have been in Darfur since 2008 as part of a force set up by the UN and African Union to end violence in the region.

Last year, South Africa's government defied its courts by refusing to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide. 

Mr Bashir denies the charges.    

Read: Why South Africa let Bashir go

Abdinoor Aden
BBC Africa, Nairobi

A Kenyan court has reduced the life sentence of two Iranians convicted of terror-related charges to 15 years.

Sayed Mousavi and Ahmad Mohammed were arrested for planning to execute attacks in Kenya in 2012 and convicted in 2013.

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A British pilot who was arrested in Kenya yesterday for allegedly assaulting a police officer has pleaded not guilty in court, reports the BBC's Robert Kiptoo from the capital, Nairobi.

Alistair Patrick Llewelyn is accused of assaulting the female officer while he had been hired to fly Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto to a political rally last weekend. 

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A video of the alleged assault went viral in Kenya yesterday, and led to people calling for the pilot's deportation.

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis

Reports from Libya say Islamic State (IS) militants and security forces have been fighting overnight in the centre of the western city of Sabratha. 

The mayor of Sabratha, Hussein al Dawadi, told the BBC that the militants attacked a security headquarters in the city, killing several police officers.  

Mr al Dawadi said affiliates of the radical group reached the city centre.  

However, local reports and pictures on social media suggest they withdrew shortly afterwards.  

IS jihadists have gradually established a presence in Sabratha in the past year, and its members are believed to have training centres there for foreign fighters.  

IS's main base in Libya is in the central city of Sirte, where the group has carried out public executions and hangings for months.  

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John Nene
BBC Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

World 3,000m steeplechase record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen has told me he is finally quitting athletics because of a nagging right knee injury. 

The Kenyan-born Qatari, known as Stephen Cherono before switching nationality, has been nursing the injury since 2009. 

Shaheen, a two-time world champion, shocked Kenyan officials when he decided to become a Qatari in 2003 in what he says was a protest move to show his dissatisfaction with ill-treatment of athletes in Kenya. 

He still holds the world record of 7 minutes, 53.63 seconds he set in 2004 in Brussels. 

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Thieves stole 17m rand ($1m; £700,000) from the offices of South Africa's spy agency during the festive season in December, State Security Minister David Mahlobo has told lawmakers, the local News24 site reports, external.

"You can't even say it was a break-in, it was a walk-in," he is quoted as saying.   

"It was an internal job - you cannot even access the facilities without an access card. There was no break-in. People walked-in using an access card. It is one of those incidents where we felt embarrassed," he added. 

Reports at the time said 50m rand was stolen from a safe in an office of the State Security Agency on 27 December. 

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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has warned that the government will take "decisive action" to prevent a secessionist movement from growing in its Oromia region, state television reports. 

Mr Hailemariam said "destructive forces", backed by neighbouring Eritrea, had launched an armed campaign to promote the region's secession, ambushing security forces and burning government property. 

"The people have understood that these destructive forces are on a mission to subvert the system and change the government," he is quoted as saying. 

"The government has realised that there is need to take a decisive action based on law," he added. 

On Monday, a leading campaign group, Human Rights Watch, said activists had reported that about 200 people had been killed by security forces in Oromia since November. 

The protests were mostly peacefully, it said.

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