Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) says its integrity commission will quiz president Jacob Zuma next week over allegations of corruption. 

But the commission led by the party’s stalwart Andrew Mlangeni, who was in prison with Nelson Mandela, also wants to ask the 74-year-old president about the ANC’s poor results in this year’s municipal elections. 

The ANC suffered its biggest loss since coming into power in 1994. It lost major metropolitan areas including Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria.

ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe confirmed the meeting, expected to be held on 3 December, referring to the integrity commission.

But he did not specify what will be discussed.

The Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper reports that the meeting will be about President Zuma “bringing the party into disrepute”.

Many senior party leaders have publicly called for President Zuma to resign.

He was ordered by the Constitutional Court back in March to pay back some of the public money used for controversial security upgrades at his private residence in Nkandla.

The president has always denied any wrongdoing.

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Stoke manager Mark Hughes says on-loan striker Wilfried Bony has a clause in his contract allowing him to be sold to Chinese Super League clubs in January.

However, Hughes expects the 27-year-old, who joined the club on a season-long deal from Manchester City in the summer, to stay with the Potters.

"I think that may well be true," said Hughes when asked about the clause.

"A lot of things have come to the fore to make that happen, not least that Wilf needs to want to go himself."

He added: "I don't think he will want to. I think he sees himself very much as a Premier League player this year and in the years to follow."

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A senior nurse found to have concealed the true temperature of Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey has been suspended for two months.

A disciplinary panel said Donna Wood's dishonesty was "very serious, but not premeditated".

Mrs Wood and Ms Cafferkey were among volunteers returning from fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone in December 2014 when they were screened.

Ms Cafferkey became ill quickly afterwards with the virus.

Dr Martin Dheal, a consultant psychiatrist who travelled out to Sierra Leone with Mrs Wood as an NHS volunteer, told the BBC that when they all arrived back at Heathrow, the situation was "utterly chaotic and disorganised".  

"We came back utterly exhausted, completely stressed out.

"The fact that we had to take each others' temperatures - that should simply have not happened."

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Nairobi-based photographer Lyra Aoko has been sharing shots on Instagram from her latest project, on the "exploration of the vulnerabilities of womanhood". 

She says this pose deals with the emotion of anger: 

"The second vulnerability is something all women face, once a month,"  Aoko says of the shot below. 

We look at the path BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016 nominee Andre Ayew took to building his successful career starting at FC Nania, a club close to his family's heart, before ending up at West Ham.

Ayew joins Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Riyad Mahrez, Sadio Mane and Yaya Toure in the five-man shortlist for the BBC award.

The winner will be decided by fans from across the world, who have until 18:00 GMT on 28 November to vote for their choice.

Make your vote here.

Stuck in traffic in the Ghanaian capital Accra, the BBC's Taurai Maduna snapped two supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party doing some canvassing amid the waiting cars. 

He says there's lots of campaigning going on ahead of the presidential elections on 7 December.

The man with white body paint supports the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of President John Mahama, while the man in blue and red colours is backing the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

"I need peaceful elections" reads the message on the NDC supporter, perhaps a reference to recent clashes between the two sides. 

Read more: Deciphering Ghana's campaign parables

Peter Mwai
BBC Swahili, Nairobi

There's an interesting ad in the classified section of Kenya's leading Daily Nation newspaper this morning. 

It offers those who apply the chance to “join corruption cartels and win government tenders without sweat”. 

This comes amid a fierce national debate on the issue, with Deputy President Wililam Ruto accuses opposition leader Raila Odinga of shielding his supporters involved in corruption. 

And it seems the ad isn't a stunt by an anti-corruption activist, but a serious offer from an apparent fraudster.

The man, who wanted to be known as "Master", told our reporter that he should open a company, pay about $500 (£400) up front and the cartel would then arrange for the company to land a government contract.

Each contract would be worth about $500,000 and there was no need to worry about investigation by the authorities because they had all been corrupted by the cartel, the man said.

The Daily Nation newspaper, which has been roundly criticised for publishing the advertisement, has apologised.

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The Law Development Centre in Kampala - where a student says she was stopped from entering because her knee-length skirt was deemed "too short" - says it has not received a formal complaint about the incident.

But a press officer for the LDC said there was a dress code in place and women are supposed to wear skirts that reach the knee.

Female students are supposed to dress "in a modest way that lends itself to the dignity of the legal profession", Hamis Lukyamuzi said.

He said this was aimed at ensuring students were dressed professionally and not intended as a way of controlling women's bodies.

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Chelsea's John Obi Mikel has told the BBC he's ready to quit Stamford Bridge in January if he can't force his way back into the team.

His comments come as Nigerian media report that he has been offered $212,000 (£170,000) a week to move to Chinese club Shanghai SIPG. 

But Mikel says he has no regrets about deciding to go to the Olympics in Rio rather than spending pre-season with the club, a decision which is said to have upset manager Antonio Conte.

A well known Yoruba filmmaker, Seun Egbegbe, has been remanded in custody by a court in Lagos for allegedly stealing 10 iPhones.

Mr Egbegbe - the former partner of actress and socialite Toyin Aimakhu - has denied the charge.

The prosecution accused him of running out of a shop with the phones and jumping into a waiting vehicle while a sales assistant was calculating the price.

He was eventually caught and beaten before police arrested him, the Vanguard newspaper reports. 

There were chaotic scenes outside the Ikeja courtroom as the filmmaker's supporters threatened people who wanted to take photos of him, the newspaper said.

However, Mr Egbegbe was eventually smuggled out of the back of the courtroom by officials.

A public exhibition of dirty underwear is trying to raise awareness of the huge, but often under-reported, problem of rape and sexual violence in South Africa.  

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A Human Rights Watch researcher says that the number of people who were killed in a fuel tanker explosion in Mozambique last Thursday has risen to 93 (see photo of blast above).

Fifty-one patients, including one pregnant woman and three children, remain hospitalised, 13 in critical condition, according to local English language news website Club of Mozambique, external.

The country held three days of mourning after the blast, which happened in the village of Caphirizanje in Tete province, near the border with Malawi.

South African President Jacob Zuma will be questioned next week by the governing African National Congress' (ANC) integrity commission following persistent allegations of corruption and poor election results, the party says. 

Mr Zuma's appearance before the panel could deepen divides within the ANC as it gears up for a national conference next year when the 74-year-old is expected to stand down as party leader.

Yesterday influential union Cosatu said it would support businessman Cyril Ramaphosa as the next ANC leader.

The south-east caucus in Nigeria's Senate has urged the federal government to investigate allegations contained in an Amnesty International report that the Nigerian military killed 150 pro-Biafra activists, the Punch newspaper reports.

The army has denied the allegations and says it has come under attack by the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) group.

The chairman of the caucus, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, said:  

Read more: How first coup still haunts Nigeria 50 years on

Meet the Congolese fashion designer finding fame - making clothes out of paper: 

The hashtag #BlackFriday is trending across South Africa, with chaotic scenes at some shopping centres as people rushed to grab the best deals. 

Bargain hunters in Port Elizabeth who had queued from the early hours this morning burst through the doors of the city's Greenacres shopping centre to grab the best deals, according to footage uploaded by the local Herald newspaper, external.

The Black Friday concept is adopted from the American Black Friday, which takes place the day after Thanksgiving, with shops offering large discounts.

A Ugandan student, Joaninne Nanyange, has written a long Facebook post detailing how she was stopped at the entrance to her faculty on Wednesday by two women, one apparently dressed in a police uniform.

She says the uniformed woman asked her to pull her skirt down as far as it would go: 

She was then told the skirt was too short and that she could not enter the Law Development Centre:

Ms Nanyange goes on to link the sexual harassment of women with a broader culture in the country of dictating what women can wear.

She says men should be made responsible for controlling their sexual urges, if they really are as out of control as some in Uganda appear to believe:

Ms Nanyange has since been allowed to go into the LDC wearing a similar outfit, she says.

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Nearly 60 people taking part in a vintage air rally from Europe to South Africa were released on Thursday after being detained by authorities in Ethiopia, organisers of the journey said.

Pilots of a dozen biplanes and their teams were allowed to leave the airport in Gambella, two days after arriving at the outpost in western Ethiopia, close to the border with South Sudan.

"They have been released. We hope to leave Ethiopia," a spokesman for organisers Vintage Air Rally told AFP.

President John Magufuli has revealed that he decided to sack the Board Chairman of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and dissolved the entire board following its decision to deposit nearly $13m (£10m) in fixed accounts in commercial banks, the Tanzania Daily News, external reports.

The paper quotes Mr Magufuli as saying:

The money had been earmarked for the budget of the country's tax authority but was instead banked by the board, the president added.

"After I learned of the irregularity, I directed that the money should be returned and thereafter dissolved the board," Dr Magufuli explained yesterday in a speech at the Open University of Tanzania.

Mohammud Ali Mohamed
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Somalia's Auditor General has told the BBC that his office is documenting cases of corruption in the ongoing Somali parliamentary election. 

Indirect elections have been taking place since October to renew the Somali parliament as the country remains too dangerous for a national vote.

There are allegations of corruption, intimidation and misuse of government resources, Auditor General Nur Farah Jimale told the BBC's Somali Service. 

His team has been collecting evidence from regions that are conducting the elections. 

The BBC has also learned that some candidates have been offering bribes of up to $1.3m (£1m) to secure votes.

This comes as the election for the president may be postponed again, because there are not enough members of parliament currently elected to carry out the presidential election.

Much of the country is still under the control of Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.  

Read more: Somalia's rocky road to democracy