The businessman who raised money to send a Kenyan woman to China after she photoshopped herself into other people's holiday shots has tweeted “before and after” pictures from the Great Wall of China:

Sevelyn Gat’s original images went viral on Facebook.

Sam Gichuru expands on a Facebook post , externalthat he wants this to be an example to young Kenyans, who should have their own dreams and not those of politicians or ethnic groups:

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent

A suicide blast in Libya outside a police station in the town of Abughrain has killed 10 people, a spokesman for the militias fighting the so-called Islamic State group has told the BBC.

Mohamed El Gasri said about 15 people had been injured in the explosion.

Abughrain is a small town about 60km (37 miles) east of Libya’s third largest city of Misrata.

Last weekend, the anti-IS forces, aligned to the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli, said they had taken control of the port in the city of Sirte from IS fighters.

Sirte had been the most significant IS stronghold outside Iraq and Syria.

Those fighting the militants are largely made up of brigades from Misrata.

Image source, Al Nahar

A new TV show called Mini Daesh has whipped up controversy in Egypt.

It is being broadcast every evening during the month of Ramadan, when TV viewing is high, and plays pranks on celebrities making them think they have been kidnapped by militants from so-called Islamic State (IS).

Daesh is the Arabic name for IS. 

In one episode, masked actors carrying guns and a whip try to put a "suicide belt" on an actress who shouts and cries.

Mohamed Khairat, chief editor of the Egyptian Streets online paper, told the BBC’s Newsday programme that he was appalled when he first saw the show on Al Nahar TV:

It has spawned a Twitter hashtag in Arabic meaning “the most stupid programme in the history of programmes” and some are calling for it to be banned.

The main actor in the show, Khaled Eleish, has been defending it on his Facebook page, external, saying it indicates that Egyptians are united against terror, Mr Khairat said.   

The Canadian High Commission office in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, was evacuated this morning because the delivery of a 30kg (66lb) parcel led to fears that it could be a bomb, the local Capital FM news site reports, external. 

The parcel was opened by police who found visa forms in it,  police chief Joseph Boinnett is quoted as saying. 

He said the parcel was delivered at the High Commission by courier firm Fedex but staff became concerned “because they were not expecting it, prompting them to call police who moved in quickly and ordered an evacuation”.

A section of Limuru Road was closed temporarily as sniffer dogs and bomb disposal unit experts moved in to ascertain the contents of the parcel, Capital FM reports.  

This is how it covered the story on its website: 

Image source, CFM NEWS

BBC Monitoring

Feeling itchy? You will be after reading this post. 

Most matutus or minibus taxis in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, have bed bugs, reports the local Standard newspaper, external.

“These parasites are now threatening to cripple our business since many people fear to board public service vehicles,” tout Chrispin Omollo told the paper.

The parasites are carried unknowingly by passengers from their homes or offices to vehicle seats, the paper says.

Now public transport operators have started a campaign to get rid of bed bugs by fumigating their vehicles and asking passengers to file complaints it they spot any of the creatures.

Image source, AFP

Research earlier this year found that the blood-sucking insects love black and red but hate yellow and green - a tip matatu owners might want to take on board.

Image source, Getty Images

Ibrahim Aden
BBC Africa, Mogadishu

More than 300 Somali migrants heading to Saudi Arabia are being held captive in Yemen by a militia group which is demanding a ransom for the release, some of the migrants have told me by phone.

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There's strong reaction on our Facebook page, external to the report by campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) accusing Ethiopia's security forces of killing some 400 people to curb protests in its Oromia region (see earlier post).

Tadesse Hailu, external comments: 

Olatunji Ibrahim, external draws paralells with the Islamist-led insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria:

Zed Assefa, external disputes the HRW's facts: 

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Mombasa

The two Kenyan men who lost their High Court bid to declare as unconstitutional anal tests carried out on them to see whether they had had gay sex are to appeal against the ruling, their lawyer has said.   

Homosexual acts are illegal in Kenya, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

A street child came to the rescue of drivers on a gridlocked intersection in Kenya’s capital this morning. 

The BBC’s Abdinoor Aden snapped these shots of a homeless teenage boy who directed traffic for almost two hours in Nairobi.

He stopped cars on one road to allow vehicles on another to pass – and vice versa – and probably helped people get to work on time.

His move surprised many drivers who often regard street children as a nuisance as they often beg motorists for money, our reporter says.  

Image source, AFP

Legendary Ivorian writer Bernard Dadie, who turned 100 earlier this year, has launched a petition demanding the release of Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo and ex-Youth Minister Charles Ble Goude. 

The two are on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague accused of war crimes during Ivory Coast's post-election violence in 2010/2011. They deny the charges. 

Mr Dadie, whose plays and poems are taught in schools and universities across the continent, has been a long-time supporter of Mr Gbagbo.  

Along with former Togolese Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Kofigoh and members of Mr Gbagbo's party, the Ivorian Popular Front, he hopes the international petition will attract the attention of the ICC.

Eritrea forces killed more than 200 Ethiopian troops and wounded 300 others in fighting along their border on Sunday and Monday, Eritrea's Ministry of Information has said.

Eritrea "quashed" the attack launched on it in the Tsorona area, and forced Ethiopian forces to retreat, it added in a statement, external. 

Eritrea did not give casualty figures for its side. 

On Monday, Ethiopia said it had inflicted "significant damage" on Eritrean forces who it said were the first to attack. 

Image source, AFP

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No person has been awarded the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.

The $5m (£3.2m) award is up for grabs each year for an elected African leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office.

But since the annual prize was instituted in 2007 only four leaders have been deemed worthy of it. 

Mo Ibrahim, a British-Sudanese mobile communications entrepreneur and philanthropist who made billions from investing in Africa, launched the prize through his foundation to encourage African leaders to leave power peacefully. 

The previous winners have been: 

• 2014 - Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba
• 2011 – Cape Verde’s Pedro Pires
• 2008 - Botswana’s Festus Mogae
• 2007 – Mozambique’s Joaquim Chissano

The late Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, was also many an inaugural “honorary laureate” in 2007.     

Image source, AFP

BBC World Service

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In South Africa, a day of ceremonies is being held to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, when thousands of black students marched against being forced to learn in the Afrikaans language. 

It was a turning point in the fight against white-minority rule and its bloody suppression by the authorities saw hundreds killed. 

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has laid a wreath at the memorial to 13-year-old Hector Pieterson. It was a photograph of his body being carried by a fellow schoolboy that drew international attention to the protest. 

Image source, AFP

Wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month has been found, Egyptian investigators say.

A statement said "several main locations of the wreckage" had been identified.

A deep sea search vessel had also sent back the first images of the wreckage, the statement added.

There were 66 people on board flight MS804 when it crashed on 19 May while flying from Paris to Cairo.

The Airbus A320 plane vanished from Greek and Egyptian radar screens, apparently without having sent a distress call.

Read the BBC News story for more.

Image source, AP

Isa Sanusi
BBC Africa, Abuja

Niger's interior ministry says 34 migrants, abandoned by a smuggler, have died while trying to cross the Sahara desert. 

The dead include 20 children, nine women and five men, a statement added. 

Two of the dead had so far been identified as a Nigerian and Nigerien, it said. 

Niger's Interior Minister Bazoum Muhammed  warned people against taking "this dangerous path" which was run by "criminal networks of smugglers and their intermediaries". 

It is unclear why the smuggler abandoned the migrants. 

Last year, 33 migrants died in the Sahara desert in Niger while en route to Europe. 

In one instance, 18 were found dehydrated near a road towards the border with Algeria. 

According to the International Organisation for Migration, as many as 150,000 migrants, mostly from other West African nations, will travel through Niger this year, crossing the Sahara desert on their way to the Mediterranean coast.

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

A leading rights group has accused Ethiopia's security forces of killing more than 400 people and arresting tens of thousands to quell protests by the Oromo ethnic group that began last November. 

In a report, external, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Ethiopian troops had repeatedly fired at peaceful protesters. 

The demonstrations were triggered by a proposal to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, which has since been shelved. 

Ethiopia has dismissed HRW's claims as exaggerated, saying any violence was the result of "a few bad apples". 

Last week, in its own report on the violence, Ethiopia's Human Rights Commission acknowledged 170 deaths. 

It attributed the violence to factional rivalry in Oromo regions and failed to mention any involvement of the security forces.

Read: What do Oromo protests mean for Ethiopian unity? 

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Mombasa

The High Court in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa has thrown out a constitutional case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of gay sex. 

Judge Mathew Emukule said there was sufficient grounds in Kenyan law for intrusion into the human anatomy to gather medical evidence of a crime, including rape and sodomy. 

He said the anal tests were therefore permissible and the two men who brought the case had given their consent for the tests. 

The judge dismissed the argument that they were sexually discriminated against.

The two men alleged they were also made to take tests for HIV and hepatitis following their arrest in February 2015 on suspicion of homosexual activity.

Homosexual acts are illegal in Kenya, and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

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