Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his African tour and has now arrived in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after being in Nigeria since Tuesday.

He's already posted about the trip on his Facebook page, external:

He also met two people who "designed a system to help people use mobile payments to buy small amounts of cooking gas".

Image source, Mark Zuckerberg

The recent decision by the Jubaland administration in Somalia not to accept any more refugees returning home from Kenya has left many people stranded.

At the Dadaab refugee camp complex in northern Kenya, there are more than 2,000 Somali refugees who have packed up their belongings are are now just waiting.

The BBC's Ahmed Adan has been taking pictures of some of them:

On Tuesday 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 the administration controls.

The Kenyan authorities are hoping to close the camp complex, which hosts half a million mainly Somali refugees, by the end of the year.

Gabon's police chief says that 200 people have been arrested for looting as unrest continues following official election results on Wednesday, the AFP news agency reports. 

More to follow... 

People in Gabon have been unable to access social media and internet access has been cut off, a BBC reporter in the capital says. 

Sarah Crozier from the European Union election observer mission, told the BBC it was hampering their communications as well:

According to this graph from an Internet tracking site, internet access has been severely disrupted since Thursday evening, when protests broke out after the announcement of Ali Bongo's presidential election victory. 

Image source, RIPE NCC

How African governments block social media

We're tracking the annular solar eclipse as it makes it way across Africa. 

Africa's Indian Ocean islands were the last place to witness the eclipse at around 10:00 GMT.

This picture from Madagascar intrigued us. We're not sure how the effect was made, but in the shadows you can see the crescent shape the moon made as it passed in front of the sun.

And this is how the sky looked in Mauritius:

Image source, AFP

There have been violent protests in several parts of Gabon this morning, reports the BBC Afrique correspondent Charles Mavoungou from the capital, Libreville. 

Demonstrators set up barricades on roads in the city's so-called coconut tree zone, in the 2nd arrondissement. 

Offices belonging to the governing PDG party of President Ali Bongo were set on fire in the southern town of Mouila and Oyem in the north. 

More on Gabon's elections

Image source, AFP

Gabon's defeated presidential candidate, Jean Ping, has told French media that he fears for his safety and could be arrested at any moment.

Mr Ping told private French radio station RMC that he had effectively gone into hiding following the violent storming of his party headquarters overnight:

He also called for international support, singling out former colonial power France, which appeared to back his candidacy:

Image source, AFP

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

From today anyone in South Africa who is HIV Positive will have access to anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment from the state before they get ill.  

This is good news for the nearly four million people living with the virus here but who are not on medication.

A World Health Organization (WHO) study found that treating anyone who is HIV positive as early as possible helps improve their health and prolongs their life.

Until this new measure was announced only HIV Positive people with a CD4 count - a measure of the strength of the immune system - below 500 were qualified to receive treatment from the government.

Ministry of Health Joe Maila spokesperson told me:

The current life expectancy in South Africa is 63 years.  

South Africa has the largest free HIV treatment programme in the world and is the country with the highest number of people who live with HIV.

Image source, AFP

As people across the continent are hoping to catch a glimpse of the annular solar eclipse, government workers and school children in Madagascar were told to take the morning off and stay indoors, journalist Tim Healy reports from the capital, Antananarivo.

He says the advice was an attempt to dissuade people from looking directly at the sun, which could be dangerous.

Not everyone in Madagascar took the advice, but some did take precautions:

Meanwhile, people are continuing to share images from elsewhere.

This one's from Tanzania:

And here's someone in Malawi who's viewing the eclipse indirectly:

The annular eclipse is still making its way across the continent.

It should be visible in southern Tanzania at the moment. 

Just a little to the north, in the capital, Dodoma, the BBC's Abubakar Famau snapped these sky gazers hoping to get a partial view of the eclipse: 

It can also be seen in Mozambique:

And this is how the sky looked earlier in south-east Nigeria:

People are beginning to share photos of how the annular eclipse looks where they are.

It's passing directly over a swathe of central Africa, but it can be partially viewed elsewhere.

This is the view from the Congolese capital Kinshasa:

This is the view from a very cloudy Abuja:

If you're trying to view the eclipse, do not look at the Sun directly as you will damage your eyes and it could cause blindness.  

For more advice on viewing the eclipse see here.

The website space.com, external is hosting a live discussion as the eclipse makes its way across the continent.

Image source, AFP

In Gabon, the spokesman for Jean Ping, the opposition candidate who narrowly lost the disputed presidential poll to Ali Bongo, has said a full recount of the votes was needed:

Jean Gaspard spoke to the BBC's Newsday programme about irregularities in the results:

He also appealed directly to the president following the violence overnight in the capital, Libreville:

He went on:

Liberia tops a UN list of places where the highest proportion of children miss out on primary school education.

The UN's children's fund, Unicef, says in the top 10 countries on the list, external, nine of which are in Africa, 18 million children are out of school.

Unicef's list of the top 10 countries with the highest proportion of children missing out on education is as follows:

• Liberia 62%
• South Sudan 59% 
• Eritrea 59%
•  Afghanistan 46%
• Sudan 45%
• Djibouti 43% 
• Equatorial Guinea 42%
• Niger 38%
• Mali 36%
• Nigeria 34%

Image source, Gett

An annular solar eclipse - where the moon moves in front of the sun, but the edge of the sun is still visible - will be seen across a swathe of central Africa this morning.

Nasa has published a map, external of the path it will take:

Image source, NASA

It is due to first pass over Gabon before making its way across Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Mozambique.

In other parts of the continent people will get a partial view.

The Astronomical Society Southern Africa, external is streaming the view from South Africa:

Image source, Smoke and flames poured from the national assembly building in Libreville

Gabonese security forces have stormed the headquarters of the defeated presidential candidate, Jean Ping, as unrest continues after Saturday's disputed election.

A government spokesman said the operation in the capital, Libreville, was aimed at rooting out "criminals".

Mr Ping said two people had been killed in the assault on his headquarters.

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