Tulanana Bohela
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

The Tanzanian government has banned shisha smoking in the country. Businesses in the main city, Dar es Salaam, are expected to stop sales within seven days.

There has been growing concern that smoking the fruit-scented tobacco could be used to cover up alcohol and drug abuse. 

Shisha smoking, also known as hookah, narghile or hubble bubble, is a way of smoking tobacco, sometimes mixed with fruit or molasses sugar through a bowl and tube. 

But there have been cases of users replacing the water with alcohol or marijuana infused water.

Shisha smoking has become increasingly popular with young people in the country.    

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Kenya's president has been tweeting details of his meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in the country on the second day of his visit to East Africa:

Mr Netanyahu is also due to visit Ethiopia and Rwanda.

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

A post-mortem report into the deaths of a Kenyan lawyer, his client and their driver has showed they were brutally beaten before they were killed. 

It reveals that they were beaten and strangled.  

The three disappeared after attending a court case and their bodies were recovered a week later from a river near the capital, Nairobi.

The pathologist found that lawyer Willie Kimani was hit on the back of his head repeatedly with a heavy blunt object until his skull fractured. 

Taxi driver Joseph Muiruri also had injuries to his head and was strangled.  

But it was the lawyer's client Josphat Mwenda who appeared to have suffered the most. 

The report says Mr Mwenda had injuries to his head, his neck and chest. His skull was fractured and blood was also found on his chest cavity.

The brutal murders have sparked national outrage.

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We posted on the Africa Live page yesterday about the European writer, Louise Linton, whose memoir about her year in Zambia has led to a lot of critical comment on social media.

It was sentences like this, and many others, that seems to have annoyed people: 

Ms Linton has now responded to the criticisms on Twitter, and seems surprised by the critical commentary:

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Mombasa

The Kenyan director of criminal investigations, the head of the flying squad and the head of the serious crimes unit are appearing in court in connection with the murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others. 

They are there to answer questions about alleged extrajudicial killings.

Mr Kimani went missing after lodging a complaint against a police officer on behalf of a client, who was also killed, along with their driver. 

The results of a post-mortem are expected to be released on Tuesday.

Three policeman have already appeared in court  in connection with the killings.

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It's day two of the visit of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to East Africa and he's due in Kenya today.

And what seems to be bothering most people in the capital, Nairobi, is the traffic jams it has caused.

The BBC's Ruth Nesoba has been trying to get to the office for the past three hours:

The South African writer and film-maker Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African writing, external, one of the most prestigious prizes for African authors. 

His short story, Memories We Lost, about siblings coping with schizophrenia, draws on his experiences in a small village in Eastern Cape province. 

The $15,000 (£10,000) prize, awarded at Oxford University, includes the offer of a writer's residency at Georgetown University in Washington. 

Hear him reading his story:

And you can read it here, external.

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