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And we leave with this photo of a man reciting from the Koran at a mosque in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on the second day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

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A group of sports enthusiasts in Uganda are trying to revive a traditional game they played in the playground at school. 

Simon Peter Tumukunde and his team are taking "kwepena" or dodge ball into schools across the country with very positive results. 

He told the BBC's Patience Atuhaire he believed kwepena could soon be as fashionable as football:

Kenya's opposition Cord alliance says it takes great exception to the interior minister's banning of its demonstrations (see earlier post), and adds that it has a democratic and constitutional right to demonstrate.

It said it would continue with planned demonstrations next week on Monday and Thursday.

South Africa's public protector Thuli Madonsela, who heads an anti-corruption body, has asked for additional resources to investigate the relationship between the Gupta family and President Jacob Zuma.  

She told reporters that her office has been asked to probe "whether or not the government of South Africa, in this particular case the president, unlawfully helped the Gupta family to choose ministers and other occupants of higher offices'', reports the Associated Press news agency.

The Gupta family has been in the spotlight for years because of its closeness to Mr Zuma amid accusations it received preferential treatment.

Read more about the Guptas and their links to President Zuma.

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Neil Ford's piece about the rivalry between Kenya and Tanzania in the battle to become East Africa's biggest port has generated many comments on the BBC Africa Facebook page, external.

Read: The battle of the ports

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

A six-year-old albino child has been murdered in the central Mozambican city of Chimoio and his body dismembered.

Relatives found what remained of the child’s body on Monday morning.

He had gone missing on Sunday and had been dumped in a sack but without his hair, arms and legs.

This is not the first time a person with albinism has been killed for their body parts in Mozambique.

Recently those found guilty of killing an albino were sentenced to 40 years in jail in the north of the country.

The police say work is under way to find the criminals and bring them to book.

Attacks have been driven by the belief - advanced by some witchdoctors - that albinos' body parts have properties that confer wealth and good luck.

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The National Gallery of Denmark is to remove the word "negro" and "Hottentot" - a derogatory name for the Khoikhoi ethnic group - from titles and descriptions of artwork, the AFP news agency reports.

It will affect 14 works at the Copenhagen museum, and the words will be replaced by either a nationality or noting that the person depicted is of Afrian descent.

"At the time, it was the word that was used [but] you no longer do," the art museum's head of collections and research, Peter Norgaard Larsen, told AFP.

However, original titles by an artist will not be changed. 

Critics of the move have accused the museum of  "cleansing history".

Egypt's former top auditor, who was sacked after highlighting government corruption, has gone on trial accused of spreading "false news".

Hisham Geneina was fired in March, soon after estimating corruption cost Egypt $67.6bn (£46.3bn) over four years.

Mr Geneina said the figure was based on an exhaustive study, but a presidential commission concluded that he had misled the public with "foreign" help.

The former judge denies the charges and says they are politically motivated.

Critics say the prosecution raises questions about President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's avowed commitment to fighting corruption.

For more, read the BBC News story.

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Tanzania is on the cusp of an infrastructure boom as the power dynamics in East Africa shift in its favour, reports the BBC's Sammy Awami.

Peacekeeping troops from Congo-Brazzaville killed at least 18 people, including women and children, whilst serving in the Central African Republic (CAR), the campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.

The discovery of a mass grave, exhumed in February 2016, contained the remains of some people identified as having been detained by the peacekeepers, the rights group said.

Despite this evidence the Congolese government has failed to launch an investigation, it said.

The government spokesman told the BBC French Service today that he would respond to the allegations once he had read the report.

HRW researcher Lewis Mudge told the BBC's Newsday programme the killings date back to 2014 and the case was not being taken seriously:

Burundi's security ministry has sacked 25 high-ranking police officers.

The police spokesperson told BBC Great Lakes said they had absent without leave - some failing to return to Burundi after training abroad.

The spokesperson, Pierre Nkurikiye, said the police expected a high standard of behaviour from all officers and those who failed to maintain it would face the consequences.

The police have been under scrutiny from human rights groups after a crackdown on opposition elements in the last year.

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The Kenyan government has banned all opposition demonstrations.

Kenyan Security Minister Joseph Nkaissery said the move was to save lives and protect properties.

Current demonstrations pushing for the dissolution of the electoral commission were violent, he said.

Attorney General Githu Mungai was also at the press conference, which was broadcast live – reiterating that the constitution only allowed peaceful demonstrations and picketing, not violent protests.

People disobeying the order would be arrested, Mr Nkaissery said.

Several people have been killed in recent demonstrations organised by the opposition alliance Cord.

Led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, it wants members of the electoral commission to resign ahead of next year's presidential election.

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Angola hosts Africa's biggest ivory and bushmeat market but now steps are being taken to stop the illegal trade, reports the BBC's Karen Allen in Luanda. 

Steve Boyes, a scientist from the Okavango Wilderness Project and the leader of a National Geographical Society expeditionary team, who monitor the trade told our reporter that, "it is not about judgement, it is about conservation," adding that $6 (£4) will buy you a monkey and $60 a fine cut of snake.

Angola has become a flourishing hub for bushmeat from across the region, with billions of dollars netted globally from what has been dubbed "environmental crime." 

The UN estimates that the value of environmental crime has risen by 26% in two years and now stands at $258bn, only behind drugs, counterfeited goods and human trafficking in terms of criminal enterprises.  

Read: Inside Africa's biggest bushmeat market in Angola

John Nene
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Mohammed Abdalla Kent was the only Kenyan brave enough to take on Muhammad Ali when he visited the East African nation in February 1980.

"Other heavyweights were all afraid to have the sparring session with him," he told the BBC.

So Kent agreed to trade blows with three-time world heavyweight champion at an exhibition match which was part of a controversial US diplomatic mission to persuade African countries to boycott the Moscow Olympics.

In the third round, he actually floored the legend – but Ali rose to give him a hard left punch to the neck.

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Kent said he whispered Ali was hurting him and it was just meant to be an exhibition match, but he replied: "No you must guard yourself."

It was called a draw after the fourth round.

Now 62, Kenya’s former international boxer said that he cried when he heard about Ali’s death on Saturday morning.

"It is the second person for whom I have shed tears since I was born - the first time was when my mum passed away," he said.

Mr Kent said the great boxer had had a powerful influence on his life, and he too changed his name and converted to Islam, changing his name from Simon Kent.

He is appealing for support to help him attend Ali's funeral in the US town of Louisville in Kentucky.

The Benin Football Federation (FBF) will hold elections for a new executive committee on Thursday. 

Fifa suspended the FBF from global football in May after a court ruling in the country blocked previous elections. 

If Thursday's elections go ahead as planned, Benin will be able to play an Africa Cup of Nations Cup qualifier against Equatorial Guinea on Sunday.

Read more on BBC Sport:

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The Kenyan Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro has approved plans to investigate allegations of police brutality during opposition demonstrations in the country, in recent months.. 

Two people were killed and five injured in the western city of Kisumu on Monday. 

A bullet was removed from the body of a young boy caught up in the protest. He survived the injury.  

Police shot dead three people in similar protests in May. They said they were acting in self-defence, and to end looting. 

Mr Ethuro said the House Security Committee would reveal its findings in a report in 60 days.

The leader of a rebel movement seeking independence for Angola's oil-rich region of Cabinda has died in exile in France, Reuters quotes a statement from the group as saying.

Flec said Nzita Henriques Tiago, 88, would be buried in France on Friday as he only wanted his body taken back to Cabinda if it was an independent state, Reuters reported.

It did not say exactly when Mr Tiago, who was president and co-founder of Flec, died. 

The group - in one form or another - has been fighting a low-level insurgency since the 1960s.

It first took up arms against the colonial power Portugal. Then when Angola gained independence in 1975 and Cabinda was absorbed into Angola, Flec rebels continued to fight against the Luanda government.

The closure of Dadaab refugee camp topped the agenda during three hours of talks between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in the capital, Nairobi, today:

A statement from the Kenyan presidency says a second round of talks is planned for tomorrow.

President Mohamud visited Dadaab on Monday – it is the world’s largest refugee camp and home to about 300,000 Somalis. He is the only Somali president to have visited Dadaab that was set up more than two decades ago.

Nigeria is planning peace talks with militants in the oil-producing south to end attacks that have slashed output, Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has said.

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) group has been blamed for a string of attacks since February.

“Probably, we will suspend the operations of the military in the region for a week or two for individuals in the creeks to converge for the dialogue,” the AFP news agency quotes Mr Kachikwu as saying.

The government was determined to restore "genuine peace in the region where oil production has been significantly hurt by the activities of the Niger Delta Avengers".

Nigeria's oil production has dropped to 1.65 million barrels per day (bpd), as against the projected 2.2 million bpd. 

Read BBC Nigeria reporter Chris Ewokor’s piece on the Rise of Nigeria's Delta Avengers.

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Forbes magazine has chosen its 100 most powerful women. BBC Africa profiles the three Africans to make the list: