Kenya's The Star Newspaper has just reported that there have been arrests after a ship was seized with cocaine believed to be worth more than $3m (£2.2m):

The case had confounded people as The Star reported, external the ship "was sneaked out of Mombasa port".

It is unclear who moved the ship.

The Star reported that, external it looks like the vessel was importing brown sugar from Brazil.

A BBC reporter is tweeting from a court in South Africa on the sentencing hearing of a 51-year-old woman convicted of kidnapping a three-day-old baby girl in 1997. 

Clinical psychologist Mark Steyn is giving evidence in her defence in the hope that she will get a light sentence:  

The prosecutor is giving Mr Steyn a tough time in a bid to discredit his testimony: 

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A Nigerian suspected of being in charge of a network of internet scammers, stealing around $60m (£45m), has been arrested in the oil city of Port Harcourt, Interpol says, external.

The international police organisation alleged that in one case a target was conned into paying out $15.4m. 

Interpol added that one of the main scams the 40-year-old was suspected of was payment diversion fraud – where a supplier’s email would be broken into and fake messages would then be sent to the buyer with instructions for payment to a bank account under the criminal’s control.

Clinical psychologist Mark Steyn is testifying for the defence at the sentencing hearing in South Africa of the woman who snatched Zephany Nurse when she was three days old, as  a local radio station tweets: 

Protests are rare in Ethiopia so Sunday's demonstration in the northern city of Gondar has attracted a lot of attention.

Tens of thousands of people from took part in a protest to demand that the government reverse the decision to place a district in the Amhara region under the administration of neighbouring Tigray. 

But the protesters also carried banners expressing solidarity with anti-government groups in other parts of the country.

People on social media are using the hashtags #AmharaProtests, #GondarProtests and #GonderProtests to share images on Facebook and Twitter:

The Amhara regional government has also reacted saying that the issues raised by the demonstration were to do with good governance, adding that the grievances will be addressed.

The sentencing hearing of the 51-year-old South African woman convicted of kidnapping a three-day-old baby in 1997 is under way in Cape Town city, as a BBC reporter tweets:

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Nigeria's military has warned that it will put down any attempt by a new militant group to declare a breakaway state in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, the local This Day, external newspaper reports. 

The little-known Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) said it would declare an independent state in the region today. 

There's been a huge exodus from parts of the Niger Delta amid fears that violence could erupt, This Day reports. 

Militants in the Niger Delta are fighting for a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth, saying the local population is not benefiting from it. 

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A South African teenager is due to testify at the sentencing hearing of the woman who brought her up after snatching her from a hospital when she was three days old. 

Zephany Nurse will appear in court for the first time in an emotion-filled trial which has gained international attention. 

In March, a 51-year-old woman was convicted of kidnapping Zephany from a hospital in Cape Town in 1997. 

She was arrested last year after suspicions were raised when there was a similar-looking girl at the child's school.

DNA tests then proved that the two girls were sisters, police said.

The kidnapped girl's biological parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, called her Zephany, but the name she grew up with has not been revealed to protect her identity.

During the trial in March, she released a statement which appeared to defend the woman who brought her up.  

The convicted woman, who has been denied bail while she awaits sentencing, has also not been named. 

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