South Africa's Finance Minster Pravin Gordhan has criticised what he called “greedy and selfish" people who are just interested in looting state coffers, the IOL website is reporting, external.

The website interprets this as a veiled comment on President Jacob Zuma.

Mr Zuma is facing an impeachment debate in parliament today (see 09:06 entry) after the Constitutional Court found that he had breached the constitution over failing to pay for improvements to his private home.

Mr Gordhan is also quoted as saying:

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The first group of peacekeepers accused of sexual abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) have gone on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the AFP news agency reports.

It says that the three Congolese men on trial were part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the CAR.

More than 100 victims have made allegations that they were sexually abused by peacekeepers and French troops.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "shocked to the core" by some of the recent descriptions of abuse.

AFP says that 18 more DR Congo soldiers are accused of rape or attempted rape of civilians.

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Kenya is set to miss another World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) deadline, moving it closer to a possible Rio Olympics ban.

Wada's, external compliance review committee meets in Montreal on Tuesday and is expected to recommend the East African country is declared non-compliant.

The organisation's board is then expected to approve the move on 12 May.

As revealed by BBC Sport, Kenya failed to meet a deadline on 11 February to pass a law establishing a new national anti-doping agency.

Wada then placed it on a 'watch-list' of nations at risk of breaching its code and gave it until 5 April to show it was tackling cheating in sport.

Kenyan lawmakers have held a preliminary reading of a bill criminalising sports doping, but two further hearings and presidential assent are still required.

But Kenya's Moni Wekesa, one of the architects of the bill going before parliament, told BBC Newsday that things are on track to tackle doping in Kenyan athletics:

We reported in a previous post that the police are blocking Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye from entering the centre of the capital, Kampala.

Our reporter on the scene, tweets that Mr Besigye's car has now been towed away and the police are blocking those nearby:

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is due to find out whether a crimes against humanity case against him will be thrown out by judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Mr Ruto denies murder, deportation and persecution charges during violence that followed the 2007 elections in which about 1,200 people were killed.

His lawyers want the case to be terminated due to a lack of evidence.

Mr Ruto is one of the most senior politicians to face trial at the ICC.

The prosecution case against him has been dogged by repeated setbacks.

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Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was trying to make his way into the capital, Kampala, today.

But police have blocked him at a point close to the entrance of the city.

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His supporters have gathered and policemen have been deployed.

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The police had initially allowed him to come into town and proceed to prayers at his party headquarters on condition that he did not disrupt business in the city.

The police chief issued an order on Friday that security forces blocking his house should withdraw.

Mr Besigye had been under house arrest since February's presidential election.

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South Africa's National Assembly is set to debate an opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) motion to remove Jacob Zuma as president.

It comes after the Constitutional Court ruled last week that Mr Zuma went against the constitution by not copying with a ruling by the corruption watchdog body, the Public Protector, that he should repay some of the money spent on upgrading his private home.

Mr Zuma has apologised and said he did not deliberately set out to go against the constitution.

The ANC has a large majority in parliament so the motion is unlikely to pass.

The DA says all MPs should support the impeachment as they have previously pledged to uphold the constitution, which the president failed to do.

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