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Ugandan police have arrested opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye, who lost to President Yoweri Museveni in the February elections, the privately owned Daily Monitor newspaper reports, external. 

It said the Forum for Democratic Change leader was detained after making a surprise appearance in Kampala city, a day ahead of President Museveni's swearing-in. 

Dr Besigye was put under house arrest in February.

He rejected Mr Museveni's victory as fraudulent.  

Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar
BBC Africa, Abuja

Amnesty International's report, external is the latest in a series of damning reports on the Nigerian military's treatment of suspects detained.  

Amnesty says of the 149 detainees who died, 11 were children under the age of six, including four babies. 

It says the prisoners at the Giwa barracks detention centre in the north-east, where the military is fighting militant Islamist group Boko Haram, were kept in overcrowded and filthy cells, and may have died from disease, hunger, dehydration and gunshot wounds.

Image source, Kolawole Israel/Amnesty

Amnesty believes around 1,200 men, women and children are currently incarcerated there. 

It describes the facility as a place of death for both adults and children, and says it must be closed all detainees released or transferred to the civilian authorities.  

The military wasn't available for comment but recently said it had set up a human rights department to check abuses.

Here's how a newspaper in the UK and Nigeria are covering the furore caused by UK Prime Minister David Cameron after he called Africa's most populous state "fantastically corrupt":

From the UK, external:

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And from Nigeria:, external

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Sierra Leone's Alhaji Kamara can continue his playing career and has signed for MLS club DC United in the US.

Kamara's career looked to be over when his former Swedish club IFK Norrkoping said the striker had a heart defect.

The issue was found when he underwent a heart examination in February.

"The MLS cardiology consultant and a heart specialist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital determined that he could resume playing," said DC United's General Manager Dave Kasper.

Read the full BBC story here

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After the UK Prime Minister called Nigeria "fantastically corrupt" we thought we'd take a look at how it compares to the rest of the world.

It's hard to measure these things, but the anti-corruption body Transparency International gives it a go.

Nigeria is actually number 14 in their 2015 corruption perception index, external.

Here are the top ten:

1. Somalia / North Korea
2. Afghanistan
3. Sudan
4. South Sudan / Angola
5. Libya / Iraq
6. Venezuela / Guinea-Bissau / Haiti
7. Yemen / Turkmenistan / Syria / Eritrea
8. Uzbekistan
9. Zimbabwe / Cambodia / Burundi
10. Myanmar / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Chad

Police have dispersed thousands of supporters of  Democratic Republic of Congo football tycoon and opposition presidential candidate Moise Katumbi in the southern city of Lubumbashi, AFP news agency reports. 

The police intervened after Mr Katumbi's supporters forced their way into a court, where he was due to appear over government allegations that he had hired US mercenaries, it adds. 

Mr Katumbi has dismissed the allegations as a "grotesque lie" aimed at intimidating him ahead of presidential elections due by the end of the year. 

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UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has defended David Cameron after he was recorded calling Nigeria and Afghanistan "fantastically corrupt", saying the prime minister was "merely stating a fact".

Mr Cameron was also defended by ex-London mayor Boris Johnson, who said people would "find it refreshing he was speaking his mind".

Former Commonwealth secretary general Baroness Scotland said the furore was "unfortunate" but that Mr Cameron was not wrong to say corruption was an issue.

Mr Buhari, when asked at an anti-corruption conference in London if Nigeria was "fantastically corrupt", replied: "Yes."  

Read the full BBC story here

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Earlier Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said corruption was a major problem in the oil-rich West African state, but he was committed to fighting it. 

He was speaking at a conference in London, a day after UK Prime Minister David Cameron described Nigeria as "fantastically corrupt". 

Well, oil theft is a huge problem in the West African state.

So much so that no-one even knows how much oil is produced or refined in Nigeria.

It's thought that hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil are stolen every day, at each level of the supply chain.  

With theft at this scale, the question is if it is possible to really stop it.

Read four experts mull this question on the BBC News website.

The hashtag #anticorruption is trending on Twitter in Nigeria and the UK after Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari spoke at an anti-corruption conference in London. 

Some people picked out key quotes:

While others gave their analysis:

In an earlier post we reported that Mr Buhari has said he was not demanding an apology from the UK Prime Minister for saying Nigeria was "fantastically corrupt". Instead, he said, he wanted Nigerian assets returned.

Fifa has suspended Benin from global football after a court ruling in the country blocked upcoming elections.

A statement from football's world governing body , externalsaid: "The Benin Football Association was suspended with immediate effect due to a recent injunction by a local judicial court which impeded the holding of the due election."

The move means Benin are set to miss June's 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea.

The decision was made at the inaugural Fifa council meeting being held in Mexico.

A court ruling in Benin on 4 May prevented the FBF holding presidential elections and the suspension will be lifted once a new executive committee has been installed.

Read more on BBC Sport

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has told a conference in London of the steps his government has taken to tackle corruption since taking office a year ago.

Mr Buhari said:  

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says he does not want an apology from UK Prime Minister David Cameron for describing his country as "fantastically corrupt" - but he does want the repatriation of assets stashed in the UK by corrupt Nigerians.  

Speaking at an anti-corruption conference in London, he said: 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comparison of southern Kerala state with Somalia has angered politicians and social media users. 

On Sunday he said at an election rally that the "infant mortality rate among the scheduled tribe community in Kerala is worse than Somalia". 

Twitter users have responded with hashtag #PoMoneModi  which means "go off Modi".

Read more on the BBC News website

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has described corruption as a "hydra-headed monster" which threatens the security of countries.

He said corruption in Nigeria was endemic. His government was committed to fighting it, but it was not an easy task, Mr Buhari said. 

He is speaking at an anti-corruption conference in London, ahead of a summit of world leaders hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to tackle the problem.  

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is speaking at an anti-corruption conference in London right now. You can follow it here: 

At least 50 people have been killed in floods and landslides in Ethiopia in the last two days, a state-affiliated broadcaster reports. 

Fana Broadcasting Corporate cited local officials as saying that roads had been washed away, bridges had collapsed and tens of thousands of people were affected by heavy rains in many parts of the country.   

The floods come at a time when Ethiopia is gripped by one of the worst droughts in 50 years, leaving some 10 million people in need of aid.  

Amnesty International says at least 149 detainees have died "in horrendous conditions" at a military detention centre in north-east Nigeria this year.

In a report, Amnesty says 11 of those who died at the Giwa barracks were young children, including four babies.

It called the centre "a place of death" and said it should be closed.

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The army has not commented on the latest report but has previously said it has set up a human rights department to check claims of abuse.  

The Giwa barracks detention centre is in Maiduguri, the main city in north-eastern Nigeria, where the military is battling militant Islamist group Boko Haram. 

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More than 280 Zimbabweans have been named in the Panama Papers as having links to offshore investment vehicles, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports, external. 

They include business tycoons, most of whom were of "Caucasian extraction", it says. 

A represntative of two of them, Innscor Africa directors  Zinona Koudounaris and Michael Foweler, said their offshore investments were legal, and they had done nothing criminal as they ran businesses outside Zimbabwe, the Herald reports.  

Read: What is the Pananama Papers scandal about? 

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is deeply shocked and embarrassed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron's description of the West African state as "fantastically corrupt", his spokesman Garba Shu has told the BBC. 

Mr Cameron was caught on camera at Buckingham Palace telling Queen Elizabeth that the leaders of some "fantastically corrupt countries" - including Nigeria and Afghanistan - were coming to the anti-corruption summit he is hosting on Thursday. 

Mr Shehu said he thought the prime minister was looking at an old snapshot of Nigeria, which was removed from the current reality. 

He added Mr Buhari, who has made the fight against corruption one of his priorities, had been invited to the conference because of his success in combating graft. 

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