The BBC's Ed Butler has visited a vineyard in Ethiopia, planted with four varieties of grape, and finds there's a strong demand from Ethiopians for the locally made wine. 

Listen to his interview on BBC Business Daily with a winemaker who explains why the climate there is fantastic for wine production:

Abdourahmane Dia
BBC Afrique

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Tweeters in Senegal have been having a field day since President Macky Sall announced earlier this month that he would not be able to reduce his current term in office from seven to five years as he had promised.

He says legal advisers had told him that a reduction would only be possible on future terms - which will be put to a referendum next month.

Now the hashtag #PrometDesTrucsCommeMackySall, external - meaning "make promises like Macky Sall" - has gone viral, with users having fun and making unrealistic promises that cannot be kept.

On Twitter, 1,400 messages have been tagged using the hashtag in the last 24 hours. 

One tweeter using it has posted an image of himself in the full Arsenal kit, saying (translated from French): 

"Next season, God Willing, I will be Arsenal Captain ahead of Laurent Koscielny"

Another promises free electricity and phone usage once elected president:

And another says that in 2017, Senegal's capital, Dakar, will be just like New York:  

The Kenyan military has dismissed comments made by the Somali president (see earlier post at 09:23), who said that between between 180 and 200 Kenyan soldiers were killed in an al-Shabab attack in January. 

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Kenya has not given a death toll for the attack, saying that they are still trying to identify the victims.

South African students are continuing to leave the Mafikeng campus of North-West University, a day after clashes between campus security guards and students, which left several students injured and caused widespread damage.

Private security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse students, with allegations, since denied by university authorities, that some live ammunition was also used.  

At least two university buildings have been completely destroyed after they were set on fire during the unrest. 

The deadline for students to evacuate has now passed, after authorities closed the campus indefinitely on Wednesday evening. 

But some students have gathered outside the campus and are singing anti-apartheid songs, local news website The Daily Vox reports. 

One civil society movement has been posting photos of Wednesday's chaos on its Twitter feed, some showing alleged injuries from rubber bullets:

Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Africa

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lambasted his own citizens about endemic corruption in Kenya while on a state visit to Israel.

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The president told the audience of Kenyans that they could learn much from how well Israel was run.

Stories of corruption dominate the media and Twitter and Facebook feeds in East Africa's largest economy at the moment.

Last year, Mr Kenyatta sacked five of his ministers and other senior state officials because of allegations of corruption.

Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva

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A UN report has warned that human rights violations that could amount to war crimes are being committed with complete impunity in Libya.

The report to the UN Human Rights Council describes a country descending into violent chaos.

Hundreds of armed groups are battling for control in Libya: Their tactics include the torture and killing of detainees, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, the assassination of journalists and human rights activists, rape, and other sexual violence.

The collapse of Libya's justice system means that no one is being held responsible for these crimes, the report says.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) should be able to carry out investigations and prosecutions, and protection programmes should be set up, it says.

It also calls on the UN Security Council to consider economic sanctions against Libyans found responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Libya has had no stable government since an uprising toppled long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi five years ago.

In January, the UN brokered a deal between rival lawmakers to form a unity government, but this has not yet happened.

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Kwesi Nyantakyi, head of the Ghana Football Association, has told the BBC's Alex Capstick that the majority of African delegates will support Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa to become Fifa's new president in tomorrow's elections.

Executives at the Confederation of African Football (Caf) have asked their members to back him, but the ballot is secret.

The 54 members of the Caf will meet in Zurich at lunchtime to confirm their preferred candidate but the Ghanaian was confident an "overwhelming majority will toe the line".

Mr Nyantakyi also told the BBC he wished that Africa had a strong candidate.

South African Tokyo Sexwale "doesn't appear that he is the right person for Africa to support at this moment," he said. 

South African President Jacob Zuma and four other African heads of state are in Burundi as part of international efforts to end the country's political crisis.

Earlier this week the UN chief Ban Ki-moon said President Pierre Nkurunziza had agreed to negotiate with opposition leaders.

There have been clashes in Burundi since Mr Nkurunziza announced last April that he intended to run for a third term in office.

An African diplomat in the capital, Bujumbura told AFP the aim of the leaders’ visit was to revive “inclusive dialogue”.

"The issue of deploying a peacekeeping force in Burundi is not on the agenda," the diplomat added.

The African Union had suggested sending 5,000 peacekeepers to help restore stability, but this plan has been abandoned.

In an interview with the BBC earlier in the week, Mr Ban said that deploying an international police force could possibly be an option for the UN Security Council.

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BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Somalia’s president has given some details about the death toll of the al-Shabab attack on Kenyan soldiers in the el-Adde military base last month.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud put the figure at between 180 and 200, during an interview on Somali Cable TV.

The Islamist militants said 100 Kenyan troops died. Kenya has not disclosed any information on casualties.  

He was defending his recent visit to Kenya as people on social media had been critical of his visit so soon after the Lido beach attack in the capital, Mogadishu, later in January.

But he said it was important to pay tribute to the Kenyan soldiers who were killed:

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What happened in el-Ade?

Most people who survive an Ebola infection will have long-lasting health problems, say doctors from the US National Institutes of Health.

Their studies on survivors in Liberia showed large numbers had developed weakness, memory loss and depressive symptoms in the six months after being discharged from an Ebola unit.

Other patients were "actively suicidal" or still having hallucinations.

More than 17,000 people in West Africa have survived Ebola infection.

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to hold talks in South Sudan's capital, Juba, to strengthen an existing peace deal it's hoped will end two years of civil war.

The government is to allow the redeployment of troops loyal to former rebel leader Riek Machar, now vice-president, in Juba next week. It will be their first time back in the city since the start of the conflict.

The visit comes amid violence in the strategic northern town of Malakal. 

A spokeswoman for the UN mission says burning and looting has continued in the town following last week's clashes at a nearby UN camp, which left 18 people dead.

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