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Millions of people are playing Pokemon Go - a mobile game that blends the real world with computer graphics.

Like many other players around the world, people in Lagos, Nigeria, found a way to download the game when it was released earlier this month, despite it being officially available only in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.  

But players have been telling AFP news agency that they have to keep their wits about them when walking around staring at their game.

"Here it's like Mad Max, you've gotta be sharp or else there will be some injuries," Timi Ajiboye, a 23-year-old software developer, told AFP.  

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But playing in Lagos comes with its advantages.

"There's so much rare Pokemon here because it's not a mainstream country,"  Ajiboye's younger brother Tade said.

The 19-year-old explained that he's seen "quite a few Bulbasaur" though hasn't been able to catch the green dinosaur-like species since "they are very stubborn".

AFP reports that just the fact people can play the game, which has to be connected to the internet, shows mobile phone coverage has improved in the city.

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A Kenyan banker who had been detained at Nairobi's main airport for allegedly trying to leave the country while under investigation (see earlier post) has been released, the Daily Nation has tweeted:

Mr Ahmed was sacked in April from the National Bank of Kenya over claims of financial malpractice.

In a report, the Daily Nation, external says that the police believed the banker was trying to flee the country. 

It quotes his lawyer Paul Muite as saying that Mr Ahmed was going on holiday after the police had released his passport.

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Kenyan businessman James Mworia witnessed the attack in Nice, France, last night.

The BBC has also spoken to an Egyptian eyewitness who said: "I kept yelling at him and shouting at him to stop, because there were people under the truck."

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Some Kenyans on Twitter have been campaigning for the release of a poet who they say were arrested for wearing a beret:

A Sankara beret is a beret inspired by the Burkina Faso revolutionary leader who wore one, but was killed by soldiers in 1987.

Military-style berets have been known to be a symbol synonymous with leaders of revolutionary struggles.

But Mr Mwangi says poet G-cho Pevut was wearing the beret because he is a poet and that's what poets wear:

The poet himself has tweeted that he was released.  

His tweet, written in a mix of English and Swahili, says that he has been released but they have taken the beret.

However the police have not confirmed the arrest and are asking for more details:

The identity of the attacker in Nice, France, who killed more than 80 people by driving a truck into crowds of people has not been confirmed.

But local media are reporting that inside the vehicle police found papers that apparently identified him as a Franco-Tunisian or a man of Tunisian origin who lived in Nice.  

Tunisia's Ambassador to France Mohammed Ali al-Shehi has told Tunisian radio station Mosaique FM that he wanted to request a halt to the spread of “information" that the assailant was of Tunisian origin “because he is a French national citizen, regardless of his origins”.

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The UN body Unesco says that at least half of young people, external aged between 15 and 17 in sub-Saharan Africa are not in school, the highest rate for any region in the world. 

In total, more than 93 million children of primary and secondary school age in sub-Saharan Africa don't receive formal education. 

Conflict, poverty, and resistance to educating girls are some of the reasons given.  

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Unesco says at least 15 million of them will never set foot in a classroom.

Girls are less likely to go to school than boys -  nine million girls will never attend school compared to six million boys, Unesco calculates.

Tulip Mazumdar
Global Health Correspondent, Nairobi

As we've posted the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Babatunde Osotimehin has described female genital mutilation (FGM) as child abuse for the first time. 

Until now, the organisation had referred to the practice as a human rights violation, but has stopped short of calling it child abuse. 

Kenya is one country which is leading the fight against cutting.

The UN's children's charity, Unicef, says Kenya could eradicate FGM in the next 15 years. 

At the moment around one in five women have been cut in the country.

But deeply entrenched traditions in some communities in this region, and across the world, are still posing major challenges. 

The ceasefire is holding in South Sudan's capital, Juba, but there is still a lot of concern about what could happen next.

One person on Twitter that we've been following this week is back at work near J1 (the presidential palace), the scene of last Friday's major clashes.

The fighting was between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar.

Mr Machar has since left Juba.

The head of the body monitoring the ceasefire after the country's civil war ended has called for the two men to meet:

African heads of state are meeting in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, this weekend for an African Union summit.

And one newspaper predicts that Morocco will announce it has decided to return to the African Union after a 32-year absence.

“A diplomatic source approached by Akhbar Al Yaoum [newspaper] has confirmed the desire of Morocco to resume its seat in the pan-African organisation,” reports Morocco World News, external.

We have not independently confirmed this so we will have to wait to see at the summit. 

Morocco left the Organisation of African Unity in 1984 after the OAU recognised the independence of Western Sahara. 

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At least 84 people have died, including children, after a lorry slammed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice.

The driver of the lorry hasn't been identified but French media are reporting that identity papers, belonging to a 31-year-old French-Tunisian were found inside the vehicle. 

In a statement, Tunisia's foreign ministry did not address the issue of the identity of the driver but did condemn the attack:

Last year, Tunisia was targeted in two major attacks.

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The appointment of Boris Johnson as the UK's new foreign secretary has attracted a lot of attention, but the new minister of the Department for International Development (Dfid) is also a significant appointment.

Priti Patel was quoted in an interview in 2013 as saying she wanted the current department abolished, external:

In her first statement as the new minister, Ms Patel appears be wanting to shift the focus to more to trade, while keeping the aid promises the UK has already made:

The Democratic Republic of Congo is unlikely to hold a presidential election as scheduled in November, Reuters reports the UN head of mission as saying this morning

"I do not see the elections [taking place] on 27 November," UN mission chief Maman Sidikou told a news conference in the capital, Kinshasa.  

"It is the Congolese who will decide when the elections will take place," he added. 

A delayed election is something that UN experts have warned could trigger violent political unrest.  

President Joseph Kabila is bound by term limits to step down, but opponents accuse him of deliberately delaying the poll to cling to power.

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Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Africa

Former chief executive officer of the National Bank of Kenya Munir Ahmed has been arrested at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he tried to leave the country. 

Mr Ahmed, who was sacked in April from the bank over claims of financial malpractice, will be appear in court today. 

United Nations Population Fund chief Babatunde Osotimehin has described female genital mutilation as child abuse. 

It's the first time the UN has used that description, normally referring to the practice as a human rights violation. 

In an interview with the BBC Mr Osotimehin said there was absolutely no excuse to cut anybody and the custom should stop. 

More than 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone the procedure, where parts of their genitals are removed.

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