Martin Patience
BBC News, Nigeria correspondent

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Leading human rights group Amnesty International says dozens of people accused of belonging to the Islamic militant group Boko Haram have died in horrific conditions at prisons in Cameroon.

In a report,  Amnesty said the suspects died of disease, malnutrition and in some cases had been tortured to death. 

It added that Cameroon has detained more than 1,000 people accused of supporting Boko Haram. 

But in many cases, Amnesty said, the suspects were arrested without any reasonable suspicion that they had committed a crime.

 They are being held in what the organisation describes as "inhumane" conditions.

 At one prison in the north, up to eight people are dying a month. 

 Amnesty said it had  also documented extrajudicial killings by the security forces and six cases where suspects were tortured to death.

 The government in Cameroon has yet to respond to the allegations.

A suspected member of militant Islamist group al-Shabab, who was at the centre of a deadly assault on a police station in north-western Kenya, has been killed, local media are quoting police as saying.  

Kenyan police chiefs had sent an elite squad - which included hostage rescuers - to Kapenguria town after the attack on the local police station.

Commandos stormed the station, and killed the suspected militant, local media report. 

It is unclear how many gunmen were involved in the attack, which left between four and six policemen dead.  

We'll bring you more details as they come in. 

Boris Johnson appointment as the new UK Foreign Secretary has been greeted with mixed reaction around the world  - not least because he has been less than diplomatic about other countries and their leaders in the past.  

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Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Kigali

Rwanda has dismissed a request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir if he attends the African Union Summit being held in the capital,Kigali, this weekend.

Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said the request - made in a letter two days ago - was a "distraction". 

 Earlier this week, the Hague based court reported Djibouti and Uganda to the United Nations Security Council for failing to arrest President Bashir when he traveled to the countries. 

South Africa's courts ruled that President Jacob Zuma's government breached its international obligations by ignoring an ICC request to arrest Mr Bashir when he attended an AU summit in Johannesburg last year. 

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 AU leaders will once again discuss the thorny issue of their relationship with the ICC at the Kigali summit. 

Many African leaders accuse the ICC of being racially biased by failing to arrest warrants for other world leaders accused of war crimes. 

The ICC says it is trying to achieve justice for victims of conflict in Africa. 

It wants to try Mr Bashir on charges of genocide and war crimes related to the conflict in Darfur. 

He denies the charges. 

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India has sent two aircraft to South Sudan's capital Juba  to evacuate more than 300 of its nationals  stranded there by recent fighting, the Times of India reports, external.

It quotes the ministry of external affairs as saying that  there are around 600 Indians in South Sudan, 450 of them are in the capital and nearly 150 in other areas. .

The BBC's Abinoor Aden has  tweet about it:

Nomsa Maseko
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

Six children and two adults died in the fire which broke out at the Key of Hope orphanage in the early hours of this morning in South Africa's coastal city of Durban. The youngest of the victims was eight years old. 

Rescue officials say the fire tore through the boys section of the orphanage. It took four hours to put out the blaze. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari donned a military uniform on his visit yesterday to northwestern Zamfara State to launch a new military operation to tackle cattle rustling. 

The looks of the ex-military ruler - who returned to power last year after defeating then-incumbent Goodluck  Jonathan in elections -  has provoked lots of comments on social media:

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A heavily-armed Ugandan military convoy has crossed into South Sudan to evacuate citizens trapped by recent fighting in the capital, Juba, the AFP news agency is reporting from the border. 

The convoy of around 50 trucks, escorted by machine gun-mounted armoured vehicles, crossed the border at Nimule, some 200km (120 miles) from Juba, it reports. 

The agency quotes army chief Brigadier Leopold Kyanda as saying: 

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A Zimbabwean pastor who was briefly detained after organising a nationwide strike last week has called on people to keep protesting.

Evan Mawarire told the BBC people should stay at home as part of a campaign against corruption, economic mismanagement and unemployment.

He said the campaign was serious about wanting change.

Mr Mawarire was freed on Wednesday when a court in Harare dismissed a legal case against him.  

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Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Africa

I have just spoken to Kenya's police chief Joseph Boinet who has confirmed the killing of four police officers at a police station in north-western Kapenguria town. 

He said many others had been wounded. 

He declined to confirm or deny that gunmen from militant Islamist group al-Shabab raided the police station. Local leaders, security officers and journalists said that suspected militants carried out the assault to free a colleague who was arrested two days ago for allegedly recruiting youth into al-Shabab. 

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Newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has expressed controversial views about Africa in the past, as this American political scientist points out in a tweet:    

A fire has swept through an orphanage in South Africa's coastal city of Durban, killing at least seven people, most of them children, the emergency services are quoted in local media as saying. 

Police have sealed off the orphanage as investigations are carried out into the cause of the fire. 

The ages of those killed ranged from four years to 21 years, the eNCA news site reports, external.   

Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Africa

More than five police officers are feared dead in north-western Kenya after suspected militant Islamists raided a police station. 

The al-Shabab gunmen are said to have carried out the assault in a bid to rescue one of their colleagues being held at the police station in Kapenguria town.

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