Nurses in Kenya have ended their strike after their union signed a return-to-work deal. 

The Ministry of health has been tweeting details of the agreement:

Nurses joined doctors in a nationwide strike on 5 December paralysing services in public hospitals.   

Doctors have ignored several calls to return to work saying they would only do so when a pay package deal agreed in 2013 is honoured.   

The Bones Remember, an exhibition by conceptual Kenyan visual artist and filmmaker Jim Chuchu, examines the evolution of African spirituality.

He wants his work to encourage Africans to ask themselves the question: Where do we fit and what colour are our gods?

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

Ethiopia's authorities have been restricting access to the internet leaving a lot of people frustrated. 

I met several of them at an internet cafe in the capital, Addis Ababa. 

Access to social media sites remains restricted but most use Virtual Private Network which allows backdoor access to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and WhatsApp.

An Amnesty International report has accused Ethiopia's government of "systematically and illegally" blocking access to social media and news websites in its efforts to crush dissent.  

Image source, wid A. Iurino

Footprints made by early humans millions of years ago have been uncovered in Tanzania close to where similar tracks were found in the 1970s.

The impressions were made when some of our distant relatives walked together across wet volcanic ash.

Their makers, most likely Australopithecus afarensis, appear to have had a wide range of body sizes.

Scientists say this gives clues to how this ancient species of human lived.

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human species.

The fossil of "Lucy", a young adult female who lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago, is perhaps the most famous individual.

The newly discovered footprints may have been made by a male walking with smaller females.

Read the full BBC story here

 In Nigeria, small investors are in a panic after a massively popular investment scheme froze all their accounts. 

The Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox or MMM scheme describes itself as a peer to peer money exchange, but it appears to be acting as a classic Ponzi or pyramid racket, using new investors' money to pay out dividends promised to earlier participants. 

Such a structure is illegal in many countries and can only be sustained by an ever expanding pool of new investors with ready cash. 

Olawale Quadri from Lagos invested in the scheme last week.  

In an interview with the BBC's Newsday radio programme, he said he wanted his money back. 

Listen to Mr Quadri's interview:

In a statement, external on its website yesterday, MMM Nigeria said there had not been any payment delays but to avoid "taking risk... all confirmed Mavro will be frozen for a month".

It added: 

Sammy Awami
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

Tanzanian police have failed to bring Maxence Mello, the co-founder of popular blogging site JamiiForums, external, to court in the main city of Dar es Salaam. 

His lawyer said was considering bringing court action to secure his release as it was unlawful for a person to be held for more than 24 hours without being charged.

Mr Mello was arrested yesterday after resisting attempts to force him to release the names of contributors to JamiiForums, which publishes in the Swahili language. 

Seer earlier post for more details

Naziru Mikailu
BBC Abuja editor

Protesting Super Falcons marched to the presidential villa where they were received by Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari.

Mr Kyari told the African women's football champions that the government was aware of their situation and promised that their grievances will be resolved in two days.

One of the players told me that they have decided to go back to their hotel and wait for Mr Kyari to fulfil his promise. 

The players had earlier protested outside the National Assembly against the delay in paying their allowances. 

See earlier post. 

South Sudan's government has forced two senior employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to leave the country in  the past week, the aid agency has said. 

No explanation was given for the expulsions, it added. 

NRC secretary-general Jan Egeland said:

South Sudan has been gripped by a humanitarian disaster since fighting broke out in December 2013 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy, Riek Machar. 

Image source, AFP

Image source, AFP

Ethiopia's government "systematically and illegally" blocked access to social media and news websites in its efforts to crush dissent during the wave of protests which started in November 2015 and culminated with the declaration of a state of emergency in October this year, leading rights group Amnesty International has said in a report, external published today.

 Amnesty said research it had conducted jointly with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) showed that access to at least 16 news outlets and WhatsApp messaging service had blocked between June and October 2016. 

Amnesty also said that Ethiopia's government uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to filter access to websites. 

DPI is a technology that can be bought and deployed on any network. Though it has many legitimate functions, it can also enable monitoring and filtering of internet traffic.

Maria Xynou of OONI said:   

Read: Seven things banned under state of emergency

Nasidi Adamu Yahya
BBC Hausa Service, Abuja

The Nigerian women's football team, the Super Falcons, have protested outside the National Assembly in the capital, Abuja, over the non-payment of their allowances by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), the Punch newspaper reports, external. 

The team has refused t o leave a hotel in Abuja since returning from Cameroon where they won the 10th edition of the African Women championship on 3 December. 

NFF promised to pay the players $17,150 ( £13,500) each for winning the tournament. 

One of the players recently told BBC Sport that their sit-in at the Agura hotel would not end until they receive  $23,650 each.

The players are hoping to petition President Muhammadu Buhari, who is due to visit the National Assembly today to present the 2017 budget.

Pictures of the team holding placards have been shared on social media with many people supporting their cause: 

Sammy Awami
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

The co-founder of Tanzania's most popular blogging site, JamiiForums, external, has been arrested after he ‘resisted’ attempts by the authorities to force him to release the names of anonymous contributors, his lawyer has said. 

Maxence Mello is due to appear in court this morning following his detention yesterday, the lawyer Benedict Ishabakaki added.   

JamiiForums is known for publishing sensitive information about the government. 

Image source, Jamii Forum

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