Odeo Sirari
BBC Africa, Nairobi

A total of 302 police officers have been sacked in Kenya for refusing to be vetted since a process began in 2013 to root out corruption, the body that oversees the force says.

The revelation was made by Johnston Kavuludi, who heads the National Police Service Commission, as officers prepared to be questioned by a panel in the western city of Kisumu this morning.

The vetting is a public process, done before the full glare of the cameras, and officers have their finances scrutinised and any conflicts of interest probed:

Last month, when the panel was in Mombasa, one senior traffic officer couldn’t account for nearly $500,000 (£345,000) which had passed through a mobile money transfer service and his bank account.

Kenyans on social media were outraged - and gave accounts of how they are often forced to give a bribe after they were caught for traffic offences.

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC Africa, Monrovia

Liberia, the last country still affected by the deadly Ebola epidemic, is set to be declared free of the virus later today. 

This will be the fourth time the West African country has been declared free of the disease by the World Health Organization (WHO). 

But it has now passed the required 42 days since tests showed the last infected person no longer had the virus. 

"Liberia is again free of Ebola. We have just ended the incubation period following the last case," Sorbor George, chief of communication at the ministry of Health said.

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More than 11,000 people have died of the disease since December 2013, the vast majority of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.  

Read: How Ebola changed the world

Friends of an Eritrean man believed to be at the heart of a vast people-smuggling network from Africa to Europe claim that the wrong man has been arrested.

Italian and British authorities announced on Wednesday that Mered Medhanie, also known as "the General" had been extradited from Sudan to Italy.

A spokesman for Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), that was involved in the operation, told the Press Association they were "liaising with our partners".

"This is a complex multi-partner operation and it is too soon to speculate about these claims," it added.

Meron Estefanos, who is an Eritrean radio show host and human rights activist based in Sweden, told BBC Newsday's Julian Keane that relatives and friends of the man held, pictured below with Italian police, was called Mered Tesfamariam.

Listen to the full interview below and click here to read the BBC News story.

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US officials have told the Reuters news agency they see no evidence that Nigerian Boko Haram militants have received significant operational support or financing from the so-called Islamic State group.

The report comes after the Islamist group’s attack on the Niger town of Bosso, which borders Nigeria, killing 26 soldiers.

It said it carried out the raid in the name of Islamic State West Africa Province, Reuters reports.

It is more than a year since the group pledged allegiance to IS.

Multiple US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to Reuters, suggested Boko Haram's pledge was more a branding exercise designed to boost its jihadi credentials, attract recruits and assistance.

"This is an African fight, and we can assist them, but it's their fight," one official is quoted as saying.

In the last year, a regional force has recaptured much of the territory Boko Haram controlled in north-eastern Nigeria.

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it has killed more than 40 Ethiopian soldiers in an attack on an African Union base in central Somalia.

Residents in Halgan told the BBC they had heard a huge bang followed by a heavy exchange of gunfire.

The AU mission (Amisom) has confirmed the attack on Twitter but says the "enemy was successfully repulsed":

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Amisom supports the government as it fights to regain control of the country from al-Shabab.

Ethiopia is one of five countries contributing troops to the 22,000-strong mission and this is the first time an Ethiopian-run Amisom base has been attacked.

Read the BBC News story for more.

The daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said she felt part of her had been "stripped away" when she had to relinquish the Anglican priesthood after marrying her female partner in December. 

Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth recently married her long-term Dutch girlfriend Marceline van Furth in a small private ceremony in Holland.

They went public in May when they had a wedding celebration in Cape Town.

“It was incredibly sad for me. A few years ago I celebrated the Eucharist with my father….and now to be in a position that I cannot serve at the alter with him…I was surprised by how much it hurt,” she said..

Click here to watch BBC's Nomsa Maseko interview about falling in love, and the pain of leaving the church.

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