The BBC's Abdinoor Aden in Nairobi has a photo of doctors union officials in handcuffs. 

Some officials have been jailed for a month for contempt of court after failing to act on an order to end strike action that has paralysed the public health service in recent weeks.

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Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

Gruesome crimes of violence at home over the past week have shocked Mozambicans. 

In one incident a man killed his wife before committing suicide, leaving two children behind. 

In another, a woman burned her husband on several parts of his body with boiling cooking oil and kerosene, including his face and genitals. 

A further case saw parents beat their 14-year old daughter to death after she told them she was in love with a 47-year-old man. 

These cases follows the high-profile murder of Valentina Guebuza, the daughter of a former president and one of the country's richest women, in December. 

Police said the killing appeared to be a case of domestic violence.

The government says the brutality is the result of an erosion of moral values.

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Donald Trump is expected to speak with the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa later this afternoon. 

President Jacob Zuma is expecting the call, according to a tweet from his office:

Nigerian authorities have not yet confirmed the call between Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump. 

But the Globe and Mail's Africa correspondent has suggested that Nigerians will be following the call closely, if only to get news of their own leader. 

The 74-year-old Nigerian leader has extended his medical leave in the UK, amid concerns back home that his health may be worse than officials are publicly saying.   

What do you think the two leaders should raise with President Trump in their conversation? Get in touch via email on africalive@bbc.co.uk

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Monitoring's Africa security correspondent

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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed accusations of ethnic bias within the country’s armed forces following the resignation of the deputy army chief, who said the military orchestrated violence in 2013 along tribal lines. 

Lt Gen Thomas Cirillo Swaka is highest-ranking official to resign since renewed clashes broke out between military factions last July. 

He described South Sudan’s conflict as “tribally engineered” - accusing the leadership of recruiting people from the ethnic Dinka group to strategic positions. 

Swaka was the highest-ranking army officer from the Equatoria region, which has seen ethnically targeted killings. 

He also accused the government of deliberately violating a 2015 peace agreement and prolonging the country’s civil war.

President Salva Kiir has denied the claims, saying the dominance of his Dinka group in the force was not a result of bias, but because others simply did not sign up during military recruitment. 

The UN Security Council has condemned the continued fighting in South Sudan, particularly in the Equatoria and Upper Nile regions. 

It has also accused both government troops and rebels of committing atrocities during the conflict.

More than 3.5 million people have been displaced since the outbreak of the civil war in December 2013.

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

South Africa’s Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana is planning to visit affected farms the northern province of Limpopo, to assess the damage caused by maize-destroying Armyworms, which have invaded farms in parts of Southern Africa. 

This has led to concerns about food supply in the region, where maize is a staple food. The worm also likes sorghum, potatoes and soybeans. 

Farmers have called for speedy intervention as scientists and other experts in the country consider how to combat the threat.

The worm is already causing havoc on crops in other maize-producing provinces.

Janny Voss from the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) has explained why the worms can cause so much damage: 

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A Tanzanian tourist guide arrested last week for wrongly translating a tourist's comments has apologised.

The two have released a new video in which they say they were just joking and having fun in the original video.

In that video, the guide says in Swahili that the tourist wants Tanzanians to stop "complaining" about hunger when she, in fact, says Tanzanians are "fabulously wonderful".

Police arrested the guide for casting the tourism ministry in a "bad light".

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Ashish Thakkar is one of Africa's most successful businessmen. 

His company - Mara Group - has grown from a small computer hardware trading firm in East Africa to a conglomerate branching out into fields like telecoms infrastructure, hotels, conference centres and shopping malls. 

His business operates in dozens of countries, mostly in Africa. 

He's been telling the BBC why he thinks the Trump administration in the US could present new opportunities for the continent: 

Image source, Khaled Desouki

Sadio Mane's uncle says he fears for his family's safety following his nephew's missed penalty at the Africa Cup of Nations, which saw Senegal crash out at the quarter-final stage. 

Sana Toure said that a 4x4 bought for him by his nephew, who is Africa's most expensive player, was vandalised and that his home was targeted. 

Speaking to local media, external, he said: 

On the pitch, the £36m ($45m) Liverpool striker appears to have put his Afcon woes behind him, scoring a double to see off top-four rivals Tottenham this weekend. 

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A rise in "brutal tactics" used by Tunisian security forces to counter terrorism are threatening reforms, rights group Amnesty International says.

Islamist attacks in the country have killed soldiers and police, civilians and tourists and the country has been under a continuous state of emergency since 2015.

Amnesty says the security forces are resorting to torture, arbitrary arrests, detentions and restrictions on travel of suspects as well as harassment of their family members. Some 5,000 people have been blocked from travelling abroad to prevent them joining jihadist groups, Amnesty said.

Victims spoke of being "brutally beaten with sticks and rubber hoses... subjected to electric shocks, deprived of sleep or had cold water poured on them". 

One man told Amnesty he had been "raped with a wooden stick" in police detention.

The organisation said the accounts were a "grim reminder" of rule under the former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in the 2011 uprising.

Amnesty's Heba Morayef said:

The United Nations' special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson spent five days in Tunisia earlier this year to assess the country's human rights progress. 

He praised Tunisia's efforts to counter terrorism but said the fight should be "grounded in human rights to serve as a model for the region and beyond" and expressed concern about prison conditions.

Thousands of girls and women have been kidnapped by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria in recent years.

The group often uses female suicide bombers and there have been cases in which girls as young as six were sent to their deaths. 

Dr Fatimu Akilu is the director of the Neem Foundation, a non-profit group which takes care of women and children rescued from Boko Haram: 

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A Kenyan court has jailed seven union officials for a month over a doctors strike that has crippled public hospitals for 10 weeks. 

High Court Judge Hellen Wasilwat had handed down suspended sentences to the officials a month ago after they ignored an earlier court order to end the strike.

Jailing them for contempt of court, the judge said they had provided no reason for the punishment to be deferred. 

The seven officials were handcuffed and driven to jail past placard-waving supporters gathered outside the court. 

The nationwide strike involving thousands of doctors and nurses began on 5 December and has left public hospitals closed and patients unable to get basic medical care.

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Six journalists are expected to appear in court in Ivory Coast, charged with spreading false information following a mutiny last week by more than 2,000 soldiers demanding bonus payments. 

The journalists - who work for three opposition newspapers - reported on Saturday that the Ivorian government had agreed to pay the mutineers about $11,000 (£8,800) each to persuade them to go back to work. 

This contradicted an official statement that the troops had apologised and no money was involved. 

The newspapers said the cash was expected to be handed over on Monday. 

During the mutiny, members of an elite unit fired into the air at their base in the south-eastern town Adiake near the border with Ghana.

Residents stayed indoors and shops and schools closed.

The Ivorian special forces, who report directly to the president's office, accused their commanders of stealing part of their salaries.

It comes a month after regular soldiers staged a mutiny over pay and conditions.

Security forces in Sudan have found bomb-making materials and foreign passports after an explosion at a flat in the capital, Khartoum.

Police said a man had been wounded as he tried to assemble a bomb. They said he went to a nearby hospital but left when staff refused to treat him unless they informed the authorities. 

A hunt is now on for the man and several other people. 

Local residents said many Egyptians, Somalis and Syrians live in the apartment block where the explosion took place. 

Tens of thousands of Syrians have arrived in Sudan since the civil war in their country began in 2011.

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