A BBC reporter in Uganda's High Court tweets that the tenth man to take to the dock at the World Cup bombings trial in Kampala, Suleiman Hajjir Nyamandondo, has been found guilty:

Another journalist tweets a photo of him:

The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga says that Muhammed Ali Muhamed being found guilty at the World Cup bombing trial in Uganda.

Another journalist tweeted this photo of him:

The verdicts so far:

• Six guilty
• Three not guilty
• Four to go.

They are on trial for the al-Shabab bombing of venues in Kampala showing the 2010 football World Cup final. In total 76 people died, including two bombers.

Correction: This post has been amended - it earlier stated that the suspect was found not guilty.

This Uganda judge has stamina - he's been reading the verdict for close to six hours. Our reporter tweets:

Another acquittal at the High Court in Uganda's capital, Kampala, at the World Cup bombings trial.

 Muhammed Hamid Suleiman was acquitted, the New Vision tweets  

So far we've had: 

• Five guilty verdicts
• Three acquittals
• Five more verdicts due

The seventh man in the dock today accused of being behind the deadly World Cup bombings in Kampala in 2010 is Omar Awadh Omar.

The state-run New Vision reports he was accused of financing the attacks:

But the BBC's Catherine Byarughanga in court says he has been acquitted, the judge ruling that there was not enough evidence to convict him.

Six more verdicts to go...

Feeling peckish? How about a giant sea snail for lunch?

The BBC’s Tamasin Ford has taken a photo of one lucky fisherman’s catch in Monogaga in the west of Ivory Coast.

It’s big enough to feed an entire family:

The sixth man to take to the dock in the Kampala High Court courtroom is the brother of Isa Luyima, who was found guilty earlier of being the mastermind of the World Cup bombings (see 11:43 post).

A BBC reporter tweets that the judge has found Hassan Haruna Luyima also guilty of terrorism:

Uganda's state-run paper tweeted a photo of him:

The brother of the Kenyan man who has just been acquitted at the Uganda World Cup trial (see 12:54 post) took the dock and was mumbling prayers as the judge pronounced his verdict.

Justice Alfonse Owinyi Dollo ruled that Suleiman Njoroge was guilty, as our reporter tweets from court:

International medical agency Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) has disclosed details of a Boko Haram attack that destroyed one of its health centres in Niger’s south-eastern Diffa province.

It said that six people were killed and eight more severely injured when the militants – usually based over the border in Nigeria – attacked the village of Yebi in Bosso district last Thursday.

The market and many houses were burned down and Yebi was now without a supply of water, the medical charity said.

The health post had served a population of around 20,000 people and registered an average of 400 consultations per week, MSF said.

No other health facilities were available in the area and it was not the first time its medical facilities had been attacked in Diffa - one in Ngarwa had been looted on 2 May, it added.

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The judge at the biggest terrorism trial in Uganda has been acquitted of being involved in the 2010 World Cup bombings which were carried out by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.

A BBC reporter has tweeted from court in the capital, Kampala: 

There's trouble at the opposition-organised protest in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, as a member of campaign group Human Rights Watch tweets from there: 

The opposition has called nationwide protests after the highest court ruled that President Joseph Kabila can remain in office if the vast central African state is not ready for elections by the end of the year (see11:10 post). 

BBC Swahili service reporter Byobe Malenga sent these photos from the eastern city of Bukavu, where the protest seems to be peaceful: 

Read: Arrogance of power

Taxi-hailing app Uber has said it will launch in cities in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda within a month, the Associated Press news agency reports. 

Uber already operates in nine sub-Saharan African cities in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. 

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Alon Lits, Uber general manager in sub-Saharan Africa, said the company also planned to experiment with a cash payment option in South Africa, in addition to the electronic payment system in its app.

Uber's business increased in Kenya, where many people do not use payment cards, after cash payments were accepted, he said, AP reports. 

The judge is on a roll in Kampala - and has delivered his judgement on a third suspect in the 2010 World Cup bombings in Kampala.

A BBC reporter in court tweets that Kenyan man Idris Madongu has also been found guilty:

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

Kenyan Hassan Hussein Agade has also been found guilty of terrorism at the trial of 13 al-Shabab suspects accused of being behind the bombings of football fans watching the World Cup final in July 2010 (see previous posts).

The judge says there was a "cobweb" of phone communication between him and Isa Luyima, a Ugandan who was earlier convicted of masterminding the twin attacks.

His number was also linked to a phone found next to a bomb that failed to detonate.

Three hours into the judgement at the Uganda al-Shabab World Cup bombings trial in Kampala, we have a guilty verdict for one of the 13 suspects, Isa Ahmed Luyima, considered the mastermind of the twin attacks.

A BBC reporter tweets from the courtroom:

The judge said all evidence showed that he was the mastermind of the operations on the ground in Kampala, our reporter says.

Earlier the judge said that Luyima's complaints that he had been tortured in detention were questionable:

Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Africa, Nairobi

I have more on the landmark judgement in Kenya allowing the inclusion of the father’s name on birth records of children born out of wedlock (see 10:40 post).

Judge Mumbi Ngugi observed in her ruling that children born outside marriage face discrimination based on their parent’s marital status.

She noted that every child has a right to have the name of their father on the birth certificate. 

The father’s consent will not be required as has been the case up until now - and some birth certificates have Xs marked in the slot for the father.

This case was brought to court by an unmarried mother who wanted her children to have their father’s name entered in birth registers arguing that as it discriminated against them in terms of inheritance.

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Prominent South African cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, known by his pen name Zapiro, has admitted that he blundered by depicting chief prosecutor Shaun Abrahams as a monkey following a welter of criticism on Twitter that he had acted in a racially offensive way. 

Zapiro told the local Mail & Guardian newspaper that the cartoon was "perhaps" the biggest regret of his career. 

"I don’t want to stand on the podium of free speech and defend something that is clearly so hurtful," he is quoted as saying, external.

“I find it hard to imagine myself drawing a person of any degree of colour as a monkey again,” he added.

Zapiro drew Mr Abrahams as a monkey and President Jacob Zuma as an organ grinder following the chief prosecutor's decision on Monday to appeal against a court ruling recommending that corruption charges be reinstated against the South African leader. 

Here's a flavour of the backlash Zapiro, a former anti-apartheid activist, faced on Twitter:

However, Zapiro did have some defenders: 

Opposition protests are kicking off across the Democratic Republic of Congo in protest at a Constitutional Court ruling earlier this month that President Joseph Kabila could remain in power after his mandate ends if elections are not held by the end of this year.

The BBC’s Poly Muzalia snapped those gathering in the capital, Kinshasa:

The demonstrations have been banned in certain areas, including the second city of Lubumbashi - home of opposition presidential hopeful Moise Katumbi.

In the eastern city of Goma the situation seems tense, with reporters tweeting that military police have been firing live ammunition and stopping people from gathering.

Freelance reporter Ley Uwara tweeted in French that there has been no public transport so people haven't been able to go to work.

In Goma's Birere neighborhood she says it is a game of stones v tear gas between youths and police:

She says some young demonstrators have been arrested and the army deployed to reinforce police.

A Human Rights Watch researcher in the city has tweeted these photos of the trouble:

A court in Kenya has given a landmark ruling in favour of children born out of wedlock including their father's name on their birth certificate, as a leading local newspaper tweets: 

Seven Christian-owned homes have been ransacked and torched in a province south of  Egypt's capital, Cairo, by a Muslim group, following rumours that a Christian man had an affair with a Muslim woman, according to a statement by the local Orthodox Coptic church, the Associated Press news agency reports. 

The statement, issued late yesterday, said the mother of the Christian man was publicly stripped of her clothes during the 20 May attack in order to humiliate her, and her son fled the village, AP reports.

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