We've already posted about the letter from the US ambassador to Nigeria criticising the alleged behaviour of Nigerian parliamentarians while on an official trip to the US.

One of them, Mohammed Garba Gololo, was reportedly involved in a sexual assault incident, which he has said are "totally false, baseless and unfounded".

The US letter has some very strong words for Nigerian officials in general:

A second black box has been found from the crashed EgyptAir flight, investigators say.

Further details to follow.

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BBC Afrique reports that Mali has appealed to the UN to bolster the peacekeeping mission there to combat an increase in deadly attacks by Islamist militants. 

The Malian Prime Minister Modibo Keita told the UN Security Council that the deterioration was a threat to all nations in the region. 

The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, said losses could have been avoided if the troops had been equipped with armoured vehicles strong enough to withstand roadside bombs. 

One of the challengers to Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso in this year's election has been detained.

General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, who came third in the poll, was picked up for allegedly conspiring against the state.

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A video has been circulating that purports to show him discussing a plot against the government.

His lawyer told the BBC that the general denies the charges and described the charges as politically motivated.

President Sassou Nguesso has been in power for more than 30 years.

Tributes are still coming in for the British opposition MP Jo Cox, who died after being shot and stabbed on Thursday.

She had only been an MP for just over a year and before that she was a prominent voice in international development, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan.

The aid agency Oxfam, where she worked from 2001 to 2009, has released a statement , externalin her memory:

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Read more about her here.

A pastor who shot to fame the last month in Zimbabwe has thanked the governor of the country's reserve bank for inviting him to a meeting on Thursday:

Pastor Evan Mawarire didn't hold back in his criticism of the governor's plans to print its own version of the US dollar in order to ease a cash shortage in the country.

In his speech, which he posted on Facebook, external, he called it an immoral plan.

"We are asked to go to a place that we are too familiar," he said.

He was referring to the period of hyper-inflation in Zimbabwe - when Zimbabwe went as far as issuing multi-billion dollar notes:

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The pastor became an accidental celebrity in May when he took to social media, external and called for Zimbabweans to re-own their flag, to stop wishing they lived in another country, and to force the politicians to answer questions on their lack of accountability and corrupt ways without fear. 

Watch the BBC's Brian Hungwe explain how the bond notes will work.

One of Kenya's leading satirical cartoonists, Gado, is back after being dropped in March by the Nation newspaper.

His contract was not renewed. He alleged that the management were reacting to pressure from the government but the paper denied this, external.

The Standard newspaper has now employed him, and has devoted a full page spread to three of his cartoons.

He has also tweeted , externalsome of them, including this one suggesting there isn't much to choose from the country's two leading political alliances at the moment:

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The Islamic State group phone app aimed at children that the Nigerian government warned about yesterday is just one of a plethora of ways being used to recruit people through their children, reports BBC Monitoring. 

We reported yesterday that the Nigerian government has warned parents that the Islamic State group has launched a new mobile phone application to promote jihad among children.

In a statement, Information Minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed urged parents to make sure their children stayed away from the application.

The IS spelling app for children uses images of military hardware to illustrate letters:

Image source, IS Media

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The man behind the $5m-prize for African leadership has been explaining why it wasn't awarded for a second year in a row.

The criteria for ex-presidents to get the prize are hard to meet and Mo Ibrahim is unapologetic: 

Mr Ibrahim has been speaking to the BBC's Newsday programme:

Since its launch in 2006, the Ibrahim Prize has only been awarded four times.

The BBC's David Wafula is sending more pictures through of the scene outside the High Court in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, where eight parliamentarians are attending an initial hearing over charges of incitement to violence (see earlier entry).

Four are from the opposition Orange Democratic Movement, and this woman has turned out to support them:

There are lots of other interested onlookers:

Our reporter tweets that thousands of people in Tanzania will have woken up to find their phones aren't working:

The government switched off counterfeit phones at midnight.

Fake handsets don't have authentic International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers.

So Tanzania's communication agency launched a new system in December called the Central Equipment Identification Register, which contains a database of all IMEI numbers. 

Last night they paired it with the network providers' databases, which made it possible to block all counterfeit phones from accessing the network.

Seven Kenyan MPs, one senator and a student are in court in the capital, Nairobi, over allegations of incitement to violence.

The BBC's David Wafula says there is tight security outside the High Court:

And, he adds, supporters are singing outside the court compound calling for the release of the parliamentarians.

This stems back to comments that one MP, Moses Kuria, allegedly made last weekend saying that opposition leader Raila Odinga should be killed. 

Mr Kuria has denied this. He is in court, along with two other government MPs.

Four opposition parliamentarians responded saying they would organise protection for their leader themselves.

The police says that this amounted to incitement.

The US ambassador to Nigeria has warned members of Nigeria's House of Assembly that their future official visits to the US could be in jeopardy over an alleged sexual assault that reportedly happened during a trip by some lawmakers to the US.

James Entwistle wrote a letter to the speaker outlining what allegedly happened and saying that when it was brought to the attention of other members of the delegation "they reacted very negatively... further calling into question their judgement".

But the lawmakers have denied the allegations and have threatened to sue the US government for character assassination.

Ten lawmakers were invited to the International Visitor Leadership Program held between 7-13 April in Cleveland, Ohio, and three of them were accused of gross misconduct. 

In a response to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Gololo dimissed the allegation as "totally false, baseless and unfounded". 

"I categorically deny that any such incident happened," he added. 

Mr Goloo said he was demanding an apology from the US government over the allegations or would take legal action to clear his name.

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