Summary

  • South Sudan's rival politicians order troops to stop fighting

  • SABC ordered to lift ban on showing footage of violent protests

  • Ethiopia social media shutdown during exams

  • South Africans arrested for 'planning attacks on Jewish and US sites'

  • Journalist shot in Lesotho

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Uwa Nnachi and Farouk Chothia

  1. Wise words

    Today’s African proverb:

    One sees all sorts of knives on the day an elephant dies."

    A Yoruba proverb sent by Sammy-King Bass, Calabar, Nigeria

    lephants stand together in the Garamba National Park in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on February 7, 2016.AFP

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