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The town of Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast is commemorating the first anniversary of a jihadist attack in which 19 people were killed.

 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it carried out the attack, the first of its kind in the country. 

The authorities say they subsequently arrested 38 people. 

The attack has had a devastating impact on Grand Bassam, which is one of Ivory Coast's main holiday destinations. 

Hotel owners say they are struggling to stay in business, and people who make arts and crafts say they have hardly any clients any more. 

Read more: How I survived the Ivory Coast beach attack

The 2022 Commonwealth Games will no longer take place in Durban, South Africa, the BBC understands. 

An official announcement is expected to made at 15:00 GMT in London. 

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Senegal's extradition of Aboubakar Diakite - wanted over a 2009 stadium massacre in Guinea - has been criticised by his lawyer.

Baba Diop said it amounted to a "kidnapping" and said he had not been notified in advance.

However the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), an NGO, welcomed the move, describing it as "powerful signal in favour of the fight against impunity in West Africa".

The organisation representing victims of the massacre said it hoped Mr Diakite - also known as Toumba - would go on trial before the next anniversary of the killings in September.

Read more: Unearthing the truth of Guinea 'bloodbath'

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The death toll from a cyclone that has hit Madagascar has risen to at least 50, according to government authorities. 

Among the victims was a family who died in a landslide, while an estimated 153,000 people were displaced by storm waters. 

The country's National Bureau for Risk Management and Natural Disasters (BNGRC) also says that more than 100 people have been injured and 20 others are still missing.

Thierry Venty, executive secretary of the National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management, said:

Cyclone Enawo made landfall in the north-east of the island last week. 

Nearly 200,000 people are badly affected and more than half of them have had to leave their homes and move into shelters. 

Food and water are in short supply and some areas have no electricity. 

The government is counting on the international community to provide assistance but has not yet made any international calls for assistance.

President Buhari's aide has tweeted a photo of him back at work in the presidential office in Abuja: 

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

The mother of one-month-old baby Siwaphiwe Mbabo has appeared at the Durban Magistrates court and her case has been postponed to Wednesday. 

The 34-year-old sparked a national manhunt and widespread concern when she reported that her daughter was in the backseat of her car when it was hijacked by two gunmen outside a shopping centre in Durban on Friday. 

But she was later accused of making the crime up, after the baby was found with her boyfriend. A senior police official condemned what he called a false claim of a crime.  

General Khomotso Phahlane said he was disappointed by the abuse of state resources in this case. 

Magistrates pushed the case back to Wednesday to allow police more time to compile a full charge sheet. They also plan to take DNA samples to determine the child's paternity. 

The postponement was also partly made because the mother's lawyer was not present in court. 

Police found the baby safe in a car with two adults in the early hours of Sunday morning at a checkpoint following intense investigation involving around 100 policemen. 

Three people were subsequently arrested including the mother of the child and they will remain in custody.

Reporters at the court have been posting images of the mother - her face concealed by a scarf - to Twitter. 

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Nigerian writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani has suggested in an article in the New York Times, external that the #BringBackOurGirls social media and publicity campaign to free the hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram may have backfired.

Twenty-one of the girls have been freed - but, she says, they have exchanged one form of captivity for another.

She writes:

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The girls have been unable to go home since their release, Ms Nwaubani says. They are in a safe house studying English and their families are allowed to speak with them twice a week. 

They have returned to Chibok once, at Christmas, but were not allowed to stay with their families - instead they stayed at the heavily guarded home of a local politician.

Ms Nwaubani writes:

A government official told Ms Nwaubani that the girls were being so tightly guarded because if Boko Haram managed to re-kidnap one of them, it would be like "winning the World Cup".

The mother of one of the Chibok girls who is still in militant captivity told Ms Nwaubani that she was grateful for the publicity campaign because the girls might otherwise have been forgotten.

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But Ms Nwaubani says she wonders if other kidnapping victims who have not received ths same attention are better off because they can resume something like a normal life if and when they are freed.

If more Chibok girls are freed however, she says they will present the Nigerian government with yet more problems:

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Rescue workers are searching for survivors of a landslide that has killed 50 people at a vast dump in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. 

But what is it like to live on what is reportedly one of Africa's largest rubbish dumps? 

BBC World Service presenter Ed Butler visited the site back in 2015. 

Standing at the top of the man-made rubbish mountain, this is how he described the scene: 

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Speaking to the BBC this morning, Ed said he was not entirely surprised to hear about the collapse:

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a letter telling parliament he is resuming his duties as leader, his media advisor Femi Adesina says, and is due to be briefed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.

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Nigeria's Punch newspaper has been asking organisations what they think President Buhari should be focusing on as he resumes his duties.

Nigeria Labour Congress General Secretary Dr Peter Ozo-Eson said the government should move forward with plans for a new minimum wage.

He said:

The president of the Nigerian Voters Assembly organisation, Masud Erubami, said the president should redouble anti-corruption efforts:

However a former House of Representatives member, Dr Junaid Mohammed, told the newspaper that he thought there would be a clash between Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and people close to Mr Buhari over the exercise of presidential powers.

Dr Mohammed said that although Mr Buhari had returned to Nigeria he was not likely to be exercising the "full, awesome powers of the president" and Mr Osinbajo would continue to carry out some of his functions.

He said:

More than 600m Africans, nearly two-thirds of the continent's population, don't have access to electricity. 

But today, the Africa Progress Panel - led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan - releases a report on ways to redress this situation. 

Rachel Kyte, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sustainable Energy told the BBC's Newsday programme that if countries focus on building up capacity for both on-grid and off-grid power solutions, including solar and pay-as-you-go energy, then there was cause for real optimism:

Read more: Five African inventions to look out for in 2017

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

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More bodies have been pulled from a vast rubbish dump in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa where nearly 50 people were killed in a landslide over the weekend. 

A massive rescue operation is on going at a rubbish dump with authorities fearing the death toll could rise even further. Dozens of people are still unaccounted for following the disaster.

Rescuers are using bulldozers and their bare hands to move tonnes of debris as the search for survivors and dead bodies continues.

At the site, I saw dozens of families that lived in makeshift houses near the area, seeking information about missing relatives, as hopes fade of finding anyone alive.

Many of them were huddled in small groups talking in low tones, others were crying and sobbing loudly.

The country’s communication minister Dr Negeri Lencho has said all survivors will be resettled elsewhere. So far, about 200 families have been relocated.

Dozens of people who were injured during the Saturday night accident, have been treated and discharged from hospital.

It is still not yet clear what caused the landslide but the Ethiopian Prime Minister has offered his condolences to the families assuring them of a full investigation of the matter once rescue operations are completed. 

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Police in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, say a car bomb has exploded on a busy street near a hotel. 

At least 10 people were killed in the attack and a number of others wounded, according to the website of local Radio Shabelle. 

No group has said it carried out the attack, but the Islamist militant group al-Shabab has often targeted hotels in Mogadishu.

It is the second explosion reported today. 

Earlier, police shot at a speeding minibus when it failed to stop at a checkpoint. The vehicle exploded, killing the driver.

Hundreds of Somali soldiers protested in Mogadishu on the weekend over unpaid salaries, blocking roads and forcing businesses to close.

Senegal has extradited a former presidential aide in Guinea, accused of involvement in the massacre of opposition supporters at a stadium in the Guinean capital, Conakry, eight years ago. 

More than 150 people were killed when security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters at the capital's main stadium.

Women there were raped and dozens of people were never seen again.

Aboubakar Diakite, known as Toumba, was arrested in Senegal in December. 

He had been on the run since 2009 when he tried to kill his own chief - Guinea's former military leader, Moussa Dadis Camara - who was also implicated in the stadium massacre.

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari - who returned to Nigeria on Friday after seven weeks of medical leave in London - is due to return to to work today. 

Mr Buhari's assistant Bashir Ahmad tweeted that the president would send a letter to the National Assembly to "formally notify the legislature of his return to the country".

On Friday the Nigerian leader said he had never before been "so sick" but did not reveal details about his condition, although he did say further medical checks would be necessary.

Critics have questioned whether Mr Buhari is well enough to hold office and his public appearances are set to be scrutinised for any signs of physical weakness.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was left in charge while he was away and the BBC's Martin Patience in Lagos says Mr Osinbajo showed an energy as acting leader that was strikingly different to President Buhari's own style.

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