Thomas Naadi
BBC Africa, Accra

Ghana's President John Mahama has condemned the mishandling of sensitive security information on a possible terror attack in Ghana (see 09:07 entry).

The president has assured the nation that the security forces are prepared for any eventuality. 

He urged the public to report any suspicious activity to the security agencies. 

The document was issued to security agencies in Ghana following the confessions of a suspected Malian terrorist being interrogated in Ivory Coast.  

The suspected terrorist is reported to have said that Ghana and Togo were next to be attacked.  

The report indicated Ghana was cited because the terrorists want to dispel the notion that it is only Francophone countries that are being targeted.

Read more on the BBC News Online story.

Image source, AFP

China's state media has shown the Taiwanese people who were deported from Kenya to mainland China "confessing" to fraud while under police detention.

It's the latest controversy in the case of 45 Taiwanese people accused of telecoms fraud who were flown to China this week.

Taiwan said it had filed suit against officials in Kenya for ignoring a court decision which cleared some of the suspects and "illegally cooperating with mainland personnel to deport them to China".

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The Drogba Foundation, based in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan, has been defending its record in the face of a report in a UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, that donations have been misused.

The BBC's Tamasin Ford visited the foundation's offices this morning and met staff members angry that they had not been contacted by the newspaper.

The charity's coordinator Alfred Zebi said they never had a chance to give their side of the story.

Tamasin was shown the charity's accounts and photographs of its projects. 

The charity was criticised for a lack of progress in constructing a hospital.

Mr Zebi said the foundation's hospital is not yet open because they are waiting for authorisation from the government. 

The ministry of health visited last month but the charity needs to make some changes before the official opening.

Truckloads of Ivory have arrived in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, from across the country.

Image source, AFP

Image source, AFP

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Almost the whole of Kenya's ivory stockpile - 105 tonnes - is going to be burned in a massive bonfire on 30 April, reports AFP news agency.

Back in January AFP said that Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman will be at the burning ceremony.

Photoshoots of burning Ivory have become a bit of a trend. 

When we investigated if these stunts actually destroy the ivory we found that it would take a week to burn an average male tusk.

Image source, Malick Sidibe

People are paying tribute to the Malian photographer Malick Sidibe who died yesterday, aged 80 years old. 

His photos taken in Mali in the 1960s captured the spirit of the freedom of the time.

This tweeter says his impact was far reaching:

While another tweeter says his overwhelming talent impacted his life in a very personal way:

And perhaps a fitting tribute was of his studio - still intact, but empty - this January:

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

A new UN report says half of the 60 million people worldwide require urgent assistance due to the on-going El Nino weather pattern. 

The UN's humanitarian affairs office, Ocha, says half of those affected are in Southern Africa - that is witnessing the worst drought in decades. 

But when it comes to individual countries, Ethiopia is the worst affected - with more than 10 million people in urgent need of food assistance there.

The assessment says the El Nino pattern, which is the strongest ever recorded, has affected rains in countries like Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia and Lesotho, while in Malawi, the effects have been both drought and flooding. 

The report says while governments and international agencies have scaled up assistance, relief efforts are still facing a $2bn deficit.  

It further warns that the situation for many people will get worse in the second half of 2016, unless urgent aid is provided.

Image source, Reuters

It's 20 years since the beginning of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was aimed at bringing the country together after the end of apartheid.

But has it worked?

Among the victims who testified was Mavis Phungula. She was injured in a bombing that occurred at a Supermarket in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, killing 10 people instantly.

She revisited the site of the bombing with the BBC's Karen Allen:  

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

Child law experts in South Africa say they are disappointed with a ruling which may make it possible for adoptive parents to “return” adopted children long after the permitted 2-year window. 

This precedent was set after the Constitutional Court dismissed an application by the registrar of adoptions for permission to appeal a decision by the Johannesburg High Court which allowed a stepfather to cancel his adoption order. 

The registrar argued that the case negates the intended permanence of adoption. 

In 2007 a Johannesburg man adopted his then wife's two children but the couple divorced the following year. 

After six years as legal guardian, the man approached the courts to have the adoption nullified. 

But social development officials, worried about the implications of the ruling on future cases challenged the matter and lost. 

We're always keen to hear about the many and varied ways to get to and from work. 

The BBC's Ayo Bello took this picture of traders commuting this morning in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

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Skateboarding may be a relatively new sport in Ethiopia but it's growing in popularity and now the capital, Addis Ababa, is getting its first concrete skate park. 

Local youngsters and keen skaters from around the world have come together to build the park.

They say that people are really excited about the possibility of skating in a safer place away from the traffic and police.

Yared Eyastu is a keen skater and one of the volunteers and Sean Stromsoe is one of Ethiopia Skate's organisers.  

They spoke to the BBC's Newsday programme:

Ethiopiaskate have been posting pictures of the construction on their Instagram account, external:

Tamasin Ford
BBC Africa, Abidjan

All classes have been postponed at Ivory Coast's biggest university, the Felix Houphouet Boigny in the main city, Abidjan, after student protests and allegations of police brutality. 

"Yesterday night it wasn't good there," said 25 year old student Maxime Gozo who's studying English there. 

"Police came into the different dorms beating the students, stealing their phones and laptops," he added. 

Students began striking on Monday against the decision to evacuate the dormitories for renovation for next year's Francophonie Games. 

"It's just not normal. Some students have no where else to live," said Mr Gozo.

The university has not yet responded to a request for a comment.

Sammy Awami
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has arrived in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, where he is scheduled to sign an accession treaty into the East African Community (EAC). 

Early last month the EAC heads of state approved the admission of the new country, which is trying to recover from a civil war. 

His Tanzanian counterpart, John Magufuli, who doubles up as the bloc chairman will host him. 

South Sudan becomes the sixth member of the East African Community that was originally formed by Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. 

A couple of years later Rwanda and Burundi were welcomed 

After joining today, South Sudan is expected to open up its borders for trade. 

Ghana and Togo are the next targets for Islamist militants following high-profile attacks this year in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, according to a memo from Ghana's Immigration Service, says Reuters news agency.

The memo says the National Security Council Secretariat has evidence from the interrogation of a man suspected of orchestrating March's attack on a beach resort in neighbouring Ivory Coast where 16 people were killed.

"The choice of Ghana according to the report is to take away the perception that only Francophone countries are the target," said the memo, dated 9 April and published by Ghanaian media. 

Image source, AFP

Zambia's currency, the kwacha, is the world's best-performing currency of 2016, the Bloomberg news agency reports, external.

It says that its value against the US dollar has risen 19.9% since the beginning of January.

That rise outstrips the increase in the price of gold.

This comes off the back of the kwacha being labelled one of the worst-performing currencies of last year.

That was precipitated by a fall in the copper price, one of the country's main exports, as well as a power shortage.

Bloomberg quotes an analyst suggesting that the kwacha will continue to rise as the copper price recovers.

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