A week ago Ghanaian nurse Mzznaki Tetteh posted this picture on Instagram announcing her engagement:

What happened next was not nice.

She received an onslaught of mean comments about her weight. One of the milder ones was "RIP that man's spine".

But that isn't the end of the story. 

She spoke out against the fat-shaming internet trolls.

BBC Trending reports that this defiance has made her a social media star.

She even has her own media manager.

Here's what she told BBC Trending's Megha Mohan in one of the many many TV and radio interviews she has done in the last week.

Odeo Sirari
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has reiterated that the government would not allow violent protests in reference to recent demonstrations by the opposition Cord alliance that have ended in the clashes with the police.

But he added: "We will allow protests as long as they remain peaceful as provided for in our constitution." 

Cord has been holding regular demonstrations calling for changes within the electoral commission.

Earlier on Friday it said it would defy a protest ban put in place by the security minister.

Mr Kenyatta challenged the opposition to talk to the government about its issues.

"We have formed our team... bring on yours," he said.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have begun his efforts to overturn a High Court ruling that the NPA should review a 2009 decision to drop corruption charges against the president, Reuters news agency is reporting.

In April, a judge described that decision as irrational.

Last month NPA head Shaun Abrahams said that prosecutors should be able to exercise discretion over whether an investigation should continue.

He pledged to challenge the court ruling.

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South African Penny Sparrow who compared black people to monkeys on social media is "too ill" to appear on court, reports News 24, external.

She had been called to appear in an equality court in Umzinto, KwaZulu-Natal, to face a complaint of hate speech brought by the governing ANC. 

The white South African woman called black people "monkeys" in a Facebook post at the beginning of the year.

She used the word to describe New Year's revellers on Durban's beach because of the mess she said they made.

The post caused outrage in the country where many of the nicest beaches were reserved for white people only during apartheid era.

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Read more on the BBC News website about the outrage

Ugandan police have detained 30 soldiers over their alleged links to an unnamed rebel group, reports the Daily Monitor., external

The newspaper says that among them were two officers in charge of the armoury, an MP and an opposition politician.

It adds that seven civilians have been separately detained.

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi has said that Somali refugees in Kenya should not be forced to go home.

He insists repatriation should be voluntary.

He's been speaking to refugees at the Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya, which is home to 320,000 Somalis.

The comments come as Kenya is seeking to close the camp - one of the largest in the world - by November.

Mr Grandi said there's "no need repatriating them to Somalia only for them to come back here or be refugees again".

A Kenyan newspaper reports:

The BBC previously reported that Mr Alden's lawyer claimed Ms Kinyanjui was taking a selfie posing with a gun and it went off.

There's been a lot of controversy this week over a piece in the New York Times, external written, or perhaps we should say purportedly written, by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar.

The reason for the "purportedly" is that people in Rike Machar's office have since denied that he wrote the piece.  

The op-ed argued that South Sudan's alleged war criminals should not be subjected to a judicial process but rather appear at a truth commission and be offered amnesty for full disclosure.

The two men had previously signed up to a judicial process in an internationally-brokered peace deal.

The US ambassador to the UN has joined many others in criticising this about face.

Foreign Policy, external magazine has an excellent summary of the row around the article.

An oil pipeline run by a subsidiary of Nigeria's state oil company has been attacked, the Reuters news agency reports.

It adds that the pipeline in Warri, south-east Nigeria, was targeted on Thursday evening.

The country's oil producing region has been hit buy a series of attacks by the Niger Delta Avengers group, which have caused a decline in Nigeria's oil output.

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Dadaab, Kenya

Head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi is in Kenya for talks on controversial government plans to close down the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab. 

The Kenyan government announced last month that it wants to close down the camp in the east of the country which is home to more than 340,000 Somali refugees by the end of November. 

It claims some of the attacks carried out in the country were planned there. 

Despite intense pressure from the international community to reverse that decision, President Uhuru Kenyatta maintains that all refugees in Kenya will be returned home as the country is facing a huge economic and security burden. 

This year alone, 8,000 refugees in Dadaab have voluntarily returned to Somalia but tens of thousands others say they are too afraid to go back due to security concerns. 

Ruth Nesoba
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Kenya's opposition has promised that regular protests demanding changes to the electoral commission will continue despite a ban. 

A leader of Kenya's opposition alliance Norman Magaya told me that the protest ban by the internal security minister is unconstitutional.

He said the ban is an attempt to suspend the constitution, which says rights and freedoms are not granted by the state, they are inherent.  

He added that the protest ban flies in the face of a court order which compelled police to provide security to demonstrators. 

According to his alliance  - the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) - there is no law that the internal security minister can rely on to ban their demonstrations.

Nigeria's army has dismissed a report from the rights group Amnesty International that it brutally suppressed a celebration held by supporters of a separate state for Biafra.

The group said it received reports alleging that at least 40 people were killed and more than 50 other injured when the separatists held commemoration events in Onitsha, southeast Nigeria last month. 

Amnesty said it has gathered evidence that the Nigerian military opened fire on the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) supporters and bystanders at three different places.

In its statement, the army says that Ipob members "engaged in violent protests which were featured with outright disregard for law and order". 

It adds that the security forces acted to restore order.

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