The BBC reporter in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, Ibrahim Aden has visited the hospital where the injured from this morning's bomb blast have been taken.

He says that politicians, including a government minister, have been injured after a bomb carried by a truck exploded near some hotels and the presidential palace. The hospital is saying that 22 people were injured in total. 

Eyewitnesses have told the BBC Somali service that 10 people have died.

A journalist has been sharing more pictures from the scene:

Image source, Daily monitor

A court in Ireland has ordered Facebook to reveal the identity of a user who is accused of defaming a Ugandan lawyer, Uganda's privately-owned newspaper The Daily Monitor, external, reports. 

The judge ruled that revealing the identity of the user would allow the lawyer to sue him in a Ugandan court, the report says.

Lawyer Fred Muwema says that a Facebook user going by the name Tom Voltaire Okwalinga (TVO) defamed him for alleging that he staged a robbery at his law firm at the start of the hearing of a petition challenging the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni.

TVO also alleged in several posts on Facebook that Mr Muwema had refused to represent former Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi in the case after being bribed. 

Mr Muwema told the Monitor that he was happy with the ruling and was looking forward to Facebook complying with it.

Uganda's government spokesman, Ofwono Opondo reacted to the ruling telling the Monitor that the case had set a precedent for Ugandan courts: 

We just posted a picture from Somalia's official news agency of the damage to a hotel after a car bomb explosion in the capital, Mogadishu.

In that picture it looked like a perimeter wall had come down, but the building was left undamaged.

A Somali journalist, however, has just posted this picture which shows the view just to the right, and it shows a badly damaged building:

This journalist says at least 10 are dead, but at the moment the police have put the death toll at least five, according to the Reuters news agency.

The Somali government's news agency has tweeted a picture of the aftermath of thiis morning's bomb attack near a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu:

Militant group al-Shabab has said it was responsible.

It is not clear how many casualties there are.

Image source, The Spread

The body that regulates film content in Kenya has warned that it will take action against producers of a sex talk show, launched in April, if investigations find that they have broken the law. 

A statement by the chief executive of the Kenya Film Board Ezekiel Mutua refers to the show as the "first lesbian TV show hosted by two popular lesbian celebrities".

It adds that the show, called the The Spread Podcast, was "set to be distributed by WGNTV, a global on-demand service with a presence in Kenya's cyberspace". 

He says the content of the show likely contravenes the country's law that bans homosexuality and its promotion.

Mr Mutua has issued statements in the past calling for the ban of media content for being "unethical" and "unlawful".

The Somali militant al-Shabab group has said it carried out the explosion outside a hotel, and near the presidential palace, in the capital, Mogadishu.    

 A number of journalists are reported to be amongst the injured.  

A former BBC reporter, and someone who was himself injured in a millitant attack, has tweeted:

Local media are reporting that a security conference was scheduled to take place at the SYL Hotel this morning.

A large car bomb has exploded outside the SYL Hotel in central Mogadishu, near the gate of Villa Somalia - the presidential palace.  

The BBC Somali service spoke to an eye witness, who said he’d seen many injured people.  

He said the hotel was extremely badly damaged, and that security forces are now at the scene.  

He added that he didn’t believe there were gunmen present, contrary to some early reports.  

The SYL Hotel is a popular meeting place, and has been hit by attacks several times in recent years. 

A journalist in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has tweeted a video of what he could see in the sky in the immediate aftermath of an explosion in the city:

A car bomb has exploded near the president's residence in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the Reuters news agency reports, quoting a police source.

It adds that a nearby hotel has been partly destroyed. 

One of the militant groups in Nigeria's oil-producing area, the Niger Delta Avengers, has announced that it will halt its hostilities.

The Avengers have been responsible for a series of attacks in recent months which have damaged the country's oil output.

The attacks have also been cited as a cause of an uptick in the price of oil.

The group on its website, external said: "We expect a genuine and positive attitude to restructuring and self-determination for every component unit of Nigeria."

The militants argue that the people in the Niger Delta are not benefiting from the oil industry.

They were also very critical of President Muhammadu Buhari saying he should "put away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists".

The statement added that a military solution is not viable: "You cannot apply the might of the state to restore the people's confidence in your leadership." 

The government has already said that it is talking to militants to try and solve the problem.

Image source, AFP

A loud explosion has been heard near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

One journalist in the city says there is an attack at the SYL hotel:

Mohammud Ali Mohamed
BBC Africa, Nairobi

The authorities in the Somali region of Jubaland have suspended receiving Somali refugees repatriated from Kenya. 

Jubaland lies on the border with Kenya.

The repatriation process has been going on since early 2014, but it has gained momentum this year after the Kenyan government announced that it was closing the Dadaab refugee camp, where there are more than 500,000 refugees.

Jubaland’s interior minister Mohamed Warsame Darwish told the BBC Somali Service that the refugees face more risks after coming home as they do not get the help that they have been promised.

He blamed the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, for not following the procedures and just dumping the refugees in the territory that administration controls

The standoff is big blow to Kenya’s attempt to shut down the refugee camp.

Image source, AFP

The ranking for the 2016 best and worst place to live for expatriates is out and Uganda is listed as the most favoured country in Africa. 

It's 25th in the world, according to a survey published by the Expat insider, external. 

The ranking scores countries on different aspects including: 

• Ease of settling
• Learning local language 
• Family life 

Our reporter in Uganda has snapped a photo of the story in the part government-owned newspaper paper the New Vision: 

Image source, New Vision

Kenya came in second and 46th worldwide. 

Nigeria was ranked last on the quality of life and cost of living indexes but recorded an improvement from last year in the ease of settling.

The rules governing hair styles at a South African school have garnered a lot of attention in the last few days.

Black pupils at Pretoria Girls High held a protest over the weekend alleging that they were not allowed to wear their hair in an afro hairstyle and also saying they were told off for speaking in their own languages.

On Monday, the provincial education minister Panyaza Lesufi visited the school and spoke to the students.

In a hard-hitting statement, external he suspended the school's code relating to hair styles and called for an investigation of "all the claims of racism".

He also recorded what he heard from the students:

A top official of the UN's refugee agency, Filippo Grandi, has called on the South Sudan leaders to end the suffering of their people.

Mr Grandi was addressing the media after meeting refugees in western Uganda. 

UN agencies estimate that more than 80,000 have arrived in Uganda since the recent outbreak of fighting in the country.

He said: "The leaders of that young country have to behave responsibly."

Forces loyal to rival politicians clashed in the capital, Juba, last month, appearing to derail the peace process aimed at ending the country's civil war.

Watch his emotional plea here: 

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