For a second day in a row, the celebrations have been put on hold in South Sudan's capital, Juba.

Rebel leader Riek Machar once again failed to arrive at the airport. He was supposed to return to Juba to take up his post as first vice-president in a major step towards ending the civil war.

The BBC's Charlotte Attwood met these two women who had to keep the doves of peace in their box for another day.

Mr Machar's spokesman says his arrival was delayed today because his chief of staff General Simon Gatwech Dual could not get a landing permit. 

But the doves may get a chance to fly on Wednesday - as the spokesman said that's when Mr Machar will come.

Looting has continued for a second day in parts of Zambia's capital, Lusaka, as Rwandan-owned shops are targeted following accusations that they are carrying out ritual killings, the BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo reports.

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The police say 62 shops have now been broken into 256 suspects have been arrested.  

Image source, Cynthia Nkhata

Image source, Cynthia Nkhata

A journalist waiting for South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar to turn up to the capital, Juba – who seems to be a fan of the TV series Games of Thrones – has been parodying the "will he, won't he" mood over the last couple of days:

And after it was announced that Mr Machar would not be arriving today either:

Mr Machar was supposed to arrive in the capital on Monday to take up his post as first vice-president, which is seen as a step towards ending the country's civil war.

There has also been much speculation among Game of Thrones fans about whether the character Jon Snow will return to the sixth series of the TV drama which airs this weekend.

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar is not the only person journalists are waiting for at an airport in East Africa.

In Kenya's capital, Nairobi, the red carpet is out for the victorious rugby sevens team who won their first World Series title at the weekend in Singapore.

President Uhuru Kenyatta tweeted praise for the victory and may turn up for the homecoming.

We reported earlier that a bridge has opened to go over a sea creek on the edge of Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. 

It links to an area which was earmarked for an ambitious plan to build a satellite city in 2010. 

This film by the ministry of land from 2011 talks about the Kigamboni New City development plan for an industrial city housing 500,000 people:  

The bridge is the first stage of that plan and opens a year later than planned. 

And there's a lot left to do. 

The masterplan, external explained in 2010 that sewage, power supply and waste management won't be ready until 2030.

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar will not be coming to the capital, Juba, today, a rebel spokesman says.

A BBC reporter has tweeted the news:

Mr Machar was supposed to arrive in Monday to take up his post as first vice-president in the new unity government - a major step to ending the civil war.

Yesterday's trip was cancelled for "logistical reasons", spokesman William Ezekiel had said on Monday.

Today, he said there were also logistical problems plus South Sudan's government has insisted plane carrying Mr Machar's Chief of Staff General Simon Gatwech must obtain clearance to fly in South Sudan airspace.

An Ethiopian TV channel is reporting that parliament has announced two days of mourning for the victims of an attack by unidentified armed groups in Ethiopia's western region of Gambella, starting tomorrow, reports BBC Monitoring's Janet Onyango.

Flags will fly at half mast across the nation, at Ethiopian embassies and on Ethiopian ships, according to the privately-owned Fana Broadcasting, external.

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that an estimated 208 people were killed and 108 women and children abducted on Friday.

The government has blamed people from the Merle ethnic group from across the border in South Sudan.

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The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in the capital, Addis Ababa, has spoken to some of the survivors:

A Kenyan hospital has promised to pay for the radiotherapy treatment of 400 Ugandan cancer patients after the country's main radiotherapy machine broke down.

The Aga Khan University hospital said in the statement that they can only treat "a small fraction of those requiring care" but "encourage others to follow our lead".

Uganda's government had already announced that it would transport the patients to Kenya for the treatment.

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You can read more on BBC News Online about the impact that the failure of the machine is having

We reported in our 10:27 post that a 680m-long cable-stayed bridge is opening in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, today.

The Tanzanian President John Magufuli has officially opened the bridge by cutting the ceremonial ribbon:

Hundreds of people turned up to try the bridge out:  

Our correspondent tweets that the President has suggested a name:  

Julius Nyerere was the first president of Tanzania, nicknamed Mwalimu, which means teacher in Swahili.

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Comments about academic Stella Nyanzi and her naked protest on Monday are trending on Twitter in Uganda according to Trendsmap, external.

People are still discussing whether she was right to strip naked after finding that she was locked out of her university office following a row with the management.

The BBC's Patience Atuhaire in the cpaital, Kampala, says Ms Nyanzi is very popular on Facebook, external for her posts about sex and sexuality.

In her post discussing her protest she said:

In the period running up to and after the presidential election she wrote about her support for opposition candidate Kizza Besigye.

Image source, Stella Nyanzi

The International Monetary Fund has suspended funding to Mozambique after it discovered the government had hidden $1bn (£700m) of debt, the Financial Times is reporting, external.

It quotes an IMF official as saying "it is probably one of the largest cases of the provision of inaccurate data by a government the IMF has seen in an African country in recent times".

The FT adds that it could affect other donors' willingness to provide money which could heap pressure on Maputo, which is dependent on donors to finance about a quarter of its budget". 

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A bridge opens today which connects Tanzania's central business district to Kigamboni, where there had been plans to develop a satellite city.

The cable-stayed bridge has a similar appearance to a suspension bridge.

It's 680m long, and cost more than $140m (£98m).

And it enters the world of superlatives.

The Tanzanian state newspaper the Daily News says, external it is the longest cable-stayed bridge in East Africa.

And our correspondent believes it is Tanzania's first toll bridge.

The authorities hope it will end a traffic bottle neck around the car ferry

The BBC's Charlotte Attwood is among those journalists waiting in South Sudan's capital, Juba, for the arrival of the rebel leader Riek Machar.

The unattended cameras are a sign of the level of interest in this story:

Charlotte says she had two arrival times for Mr Machar on Monday which he missed.

And today, she was told that he would land at 10am local time (07:00 GMT), which has come and gone. 

The US ambassador to the UN has expressed her "great sorrow" after her motorcade accidentally hit and killed a seven-year-old boy in Cameroon.

Samantha Power was in Cameroon to show US support for the campaign against militant Islamist group Boko Haram when the accident happened on Monday.

She said she met the boy's family to offer "profound condolences".

An armoured jeep knocked the boy as he tried to cross a road when the convoy was heading towards a refugee camp.

"Although the boy received immediate medical care from an ambulance in our convoy, he died shortly thereafter," Ms Power said.

Read more on BBC News Online

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It's deja vu in South Sudan's capital, Juba, as people there wait for the arrival of rebel leader Riek Machar.

He's due to take up his post as first vice-president in a new government of national unity - a big step in ending the country's civil war.

Mr Machar was supposed to come around this time yesterday, but he was delayed for "logisitcal reasons" according to a spokesman - though those reasons were never spelt out.

The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi is among those at the Juba's airport and sent this picture of the security waiting for the rebel leader:

There has been some confusion about what happened to a boat which capsized in the Mediterranean on Sunday. 

That's partly because the authorities have not said anything about it.

But some East African survivors in the southern Greek port of Kalamata have told the BBC's Will Ross that they saw hundreds of people drown.

One Ethiopian man told our correspondent that he saw his own wife and baby drown. 

They say that the boat left Libya and in the middle of the next night the captain ordered them all to move on to a wooden vessel but it was already absolutely packed with people and then capsized.

So, according to the survivors, the group of 40 who survived, from almost 600 people, were those who had not been transferred to the new boat and a few others who managed to swim.

Hear Will Ross's account:

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

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A naked protest by a well-known university academic Stella Nyanzi has sparked a massive debate in Uganda.

She has as many fans as critics for her Facebook posts about sex and sexuality.

On Monday, fed up that she was locked out of her office after a row with the management at Makerere University she stripped naked in protest.

In the end she got access to her office.

Many of her supporters say she was driven to the edge by the way she was treated.

But many of her critics are playing the moral card. They say a woman should not show her nakedness to the public. 

The New Vision, external reports that the minister of integrity and ethics has waded in calling for her arrest under the anti-pornographic act.

Uganda station NTV has reported on the protest.

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