Alastair Leithead
BBC Africa correspondent

The figure is $11m, the allegation is that state coffers were left empty - but there’s been no evidence provided by President Adama Barrow’s administration as to the supposed theft. 

He remains in Dakar as a regional force led by Senegalese troops has moved into strategic positions across the capital. His staff will be meeting heads of the civil service to manage the changeover. 

President Barrow said he wants to return as soon as possible, but needs to ensure the army and police - who were loyal to former president Yahya Jammeh who left the country for Equatorial Guinea on Saturday night - will support their new democratically elected leader.    

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Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang believes insufficient time together led to the hosts' group-stage elimination from the Africa Cup of Nations.

The Panthers needed to beat Cameroon on Sunday but could only draw 0-0.

Aubameyang said: "It is really annoying because we had chances. Sadly there are days when it doesn't go in, like my first chance from two metres out.

"We are all really disappointed. We didn't really have the time to prepare (for the tournament)."

Aubameyang reacted angrily after final whistle, storming off, kicking a ball off the pitch and not shaking hands with anyone.

Coach Jose Antonio Camacho told him to calm down but Aubameyang waved him away as he walked down the tunnel.

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All activity has stopped in the northern Mali town of Gao as residents protest at a massive suicide attack last week that killed at least 77 lives, local media report.

All schools are closed, shops are shut and local government services are not operating. Residents hope to show last week's attackers that they are unified in condemnation but also show their anger at growing insecurity in the region, Maliactu.net, external reported.

The attack on 18 January targeted a camp housing former rebels and pro-government militia who were signatories to a 2015 peace accord with the government and was claimed by a group run by Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar and linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).  

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Meanwhile, three Malian soldiers have been killed and a fourth seriously injured when their vehicle hit a landmine as it headed for Gao, AFP reported.

Mali's north fell under the control of jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda in 2012. They were largely pushed out by a French-led military operation in 2013 but insurgents remain active across large parts of the region.

The BBC's Focus on Africa TV and Focus on Africa radio along with Swahili sister programme Dira ya Dunia are broadcasting from Uganda's capital Kampala all this week. 

The team has been up and about collecting stories for the special broadcast. 

Peter Okwoche has been out rally driving just outside the capital: 

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Police in Zambia have been banned from marrying foreigners according to a memo by police chief Kakoma Kanganja, private-owned Lusaka Times reports., external

It said that police officers who are already married to foreigners should declare their spouses within a week. 

A police spokesman Esther Mwaata Katongo defended the order saying it was constitutional, the report says.

It is unclear what is behind the move. 

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At least four Cameroonian soldiers, including a general who was coordinating the fight against Nigerian Boko Haram militant Islamists, were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, reports say.

"We lost four men, including the general", named as Jacob Kodji, as well as a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram told AFP news agency.

The men were killed when the Cameroonian military helicopter they were travelling in crashed in Bogo region in the far north, said the official, without giving details of the cause of the accident. 

"They were on a mission in Waza Park as part of an operation to battle Boko Haram," he said. 

Gen Kodji was the leader of Emergence 4, the name given to one of the operations launched by Cameroon against Boko Haram. 

He is the first Cameroonian general to die in the battle against Boko Haram, whose insurgency has spread across the border into Cameroon, Chad and Niger as the militants have been pushed out of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.

At least 20,000 people have been killed and some 2.6 million displaced in the violence.

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Affordable housing is a considerable challenge for urban areas with large populations, and this is particularly prevalent in the Nigeria's city of Lagos.

More than 500,000 people move to the city every year, and across Nigeria, there is already a housing deficit of more than 17 million units.

There are on-going projects of varying scale trying to address the shortage; one is reclaiming land from the Atlantic Ocean to build a new city suburb called Eko Atlantic on the shores of Victoria Island.

But some residents of Lagos feel that there are already many housing options - they just cannot afford them.  

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Some of the 45,000 Gambians who fled fearing violence before former president Yahya Jammeh agreed to step down have been returning.

There are smiles as they queue for a ferry, a Wall Street Journal reporter says.

David Wafula
BBC Africa

Kenya's new anti-corruption boss has been sworn in at an event in Nairobi. 

Bishop Eliud Wabukala, a former head of the Anglican church, said that he was taking up the role at a time when corruption was perceived to be high. 

He also said that he would need the cooperation of other state agencies to help the institution's efforts to eliminate corruption. He warned that people should stop stealing money "from today". 

Attorney General Githu Muigai praised Mr Wabukala, saying "there are no good hands to fight this war than the hands of a man of God". 

Previous anti-graft chiefs have found their intentions frustrated and have been forced to resign after political pressure or after themselves being accused of facilitating corruption. 

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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The current controversy about a sermon delivered in one of Soweto’s biggest churches Grace Bible Church by a visiting pastor from Ghana demonstrates how sensitive the subject of homosexuality still is on our continent.

South Africans are steadily coming to terms with being a tolerant society when it comes to matters of sexual orientation. But by doing so, they might be out of kilter with the rest of the continent.

Take the South African position at the United Nations in July 2016 for instance, when its ambassador in New York abstained on a vote of setting up of a gay rights watchdog body. 

This was something which the constitution back home would completely support. So it was expected that she would vote for the motion.

Explaining her decision to abstain from the vote UN Ambassador Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko said there was need to build consensus:

“We learned from our struggle against apartheid that if we are clear about the end goal, which for us is the end of violence and discrimination against the LGBTI persons, a better approach is building maximum consensus.”

She later explained further on a local radio show that the majority of fellow African states had voted against the motion and therefore she would have been out of step with them.

So as this debate rages on and as the television personality Somizi Mhlongo leads the charge on social media against what he described as an offensive sermon, it is important to recognise that part of the solution in this debate lies with the concept of time. 

Many people tell me that they’re still trying to come into terms with the more liberal form of their constitution but they need time.

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An aide of Gambia's President Adama Barrow alleged that the ousted President Yahya Jammeh took more than $11m (£8.8m) out of state coffers. 

Other reports say that luxury cars and other items were reportedly loaded on to a Chadian cargo plane as Mr Jammeh left the country.  

The BBC's Umaru Fofana has tweeted that the cars were indeed taken out of the country with plans to take out more: 

Our reporter in the capital Banjul snapped these photos of one of Mr Jammeh's Rolls Royces at the airport in Banjul last week: 

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Gabon became just the fourth hosts in Africa Cup of Nations history to fail to make it past the group stages of the tournament (Tunisia 1994, Ivory Coast 1984 and Ethiopia 1976). 

Instead it is Burkina Faso and Cameroon who advance to this weekend’s quarter-finals, Guinea-Bissau are the other team from Group A to be eliminated. 

Gabon had to beat Cameroon in Libreville to advance but instead the game ended 0-0. The hosts had the chances to win, most notably in the opening minutes of the match when their star player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and one of the top strikers in the world at the moment inexplicably but the ball wide of an open goal from close range. 

Then in injury time Didier N’Dong was denied by a fine save from keeper Fabrice Ondoa. Cameroon finished second in Group A and will now face Senegal in the quarter-finals.

Burkina Faso finished top of the group after a 2-0 win over Guinea-Bissau thanks to an own goal from Rudnilson and one from Bertrand Traore, who is on loan at Dutch club Ajax from Chelsea this season. He is just 21 but at his third Nations Cup having played at 16 in 2012.

Group B concludes today with Senegal against Algeria in Francevill while at the same time in Libreville it’s Tunisia against Zimbabwe. Senegal have already guaranteed finishing top of the group, Tunisia know a draw or a win will see them progress.

The only way Zimbabwe and Algeria can progress is if both teams win their matches to earn four points and it would then be down to the goal difference between the tow sides (head-to-head is level). Algeria have a slight advantage with a goal difference of -1 while Zimbabwe’s is -2 before today’s games.

After a 10-year hiatus Big Brother Nigeria reality show is back on the screens but fans are not happy that the show will be located in South Africa:

Africa Magic, the show’s organiser, says however that the show will be "100% Nigerian, with fully Nigerian housemates and content".

Africa Magic also says that the decision to film the show in South Africa is because the venue was already set up.

This is despite Nigeria being home to by far the biggest film industry in Africa.  

The 12 housemates will be competing to outlast each other for 11 weeks.  

A well-known church in Soweto - the #GraceBibleChurch - is trending in South Africa after popular choreographer and radio personality Somizi Mhlongo stormed out of a service there when Ghanian Bishop Dag Heward-Mills said being homosexual was "unnatural". 

Mr Mhlongo, who is gay, later posted a video to Instagram saying he wasn't going to sit there and be offended. The video has been viewed more than 62,000 times and has attracted almost 1,000 comments.

Mr Mhlongo said the congregation had been cheering as the Ghanaian pastor said homosexuality was "sinful and disgusting".

He said:

Yahya Jammeh has denied allegations of torture and killing opponents during his two decades of autocratic rule in The Gambia. 

Fatou Camara was Mr Jammeh's press secretary before falling out with him, being imprisoned and escaping to the US in 2013. 

She told BBC Newsday that Jammeh struck her as someone with multiple personalities:

Unforeseen heavy rains overnight have pounded the Rwanda capital Kigali causing massive destruction on property and infrastructure. 

The number of casualties is not yet known but it is feared that as many as five people may have died and dozens left homeless. 

At least 800 houses including homes, schools and residential areas, plus a number of roads have been washed away have been demolished.    

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Tanzania on an official tour of Africa that will also take him to Mozambique and Madagascar. 

Although officially the Turkish leader is in Dar es Salam to seek trade partnership with his counterpart John Magufuli, the real agenda could be security. 

In the recent past, Turkish authorities have been lobbying African nations to close or take over local schools linked to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding a failed coup attempt last year. 

In Tanzania, 11 schools in the Feza system inspired by Mr Gulen have a total of 3,000 students, many of them Muslims.  

Turkey accuses international schools inspired by Mr Gulen of providing militant recruits for his movement, which in turn says an increasingly authoritarian government is casting as wide a net as possible for perceived opponents. 

The Turkish leader is expected to have a presser later in the day at state house Dar es Salam. 

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The grandmother of the former US President Barack Obama will continue enjoying state protection, Kenya's Standard newspaper reports, external, quoting government sources. 

Sarah Obama's home in Kogelo village, Siaya county in the western region, was fenced and later had 24-hour police protection after her grandson became the 44th president of the United States. 

Visitors to the home will continue to be vetted at a police station outside her compound, the report says. 

Area police boss Joseph Sawe told the paper that they would be visiting Mrs Obama to see how she was coping: 

“We are going to visit Mama Sarah next week to find out how she is coping with news of her grandson’s exit from the White House,” he said.

Kogelo village continues to attract tourists who want to see where Mr Obama's father, who he talks about in his book, Dreams From My Fathers,  is from. 

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More than $11m (£8.8m) is missing from The Gambia's state coffers following the departure of long-time leader Yahya Jammeh, an adviser to President Adama Barrow has said.

Mai Ahmad Fatty said financial experts were trying to evaluate the exact loss.

Luxury cars and other items were seen being loaded on to a Chadian cargo plane on the night Mr Jammeh left the country.

Mr Jammeh flew into exile on Saturday, ending his 22 years in power.

He had refused to accept election results but finally left after mediation by regional leaders and the threat of military intervention.

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