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And we leave you with this photo of an installation by South African artist Sue Williamson. Titled Messages from the moat, external , the bottles in the net represent slave transactions made by the Dutch East India company in the 17th Century.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

The Chinese Communist Party is to donate rice worth $8m (£6.4m) to support victims of natural disasters in Mozambique. The donation was announced by the paty's politiburo member Guo Jinlong during a visit to the southern African nation.

According to the UN's World Food Programme, more than 1.4 million people in southern and central Mozambique are in need of food aid because of a severe drought last year. 

The humanitarian crisis worsened worsened in February when cyclone Dineo hit the southern province of Inhambane, killing four people and leaving many homeless. 

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A baby girl whose twin failed to develop properly and fused to her growing body in the womb is recovering after a successful operation in the US.

A team of five surgeons at Advocate Children's Hospital in Chicago removed baby Dominique's parasitic twin.

In this extremely rare case, her parasitic twin was attached to her back and shoulder. This made her look like she had two extra legs and feet.

Dominique travelled from Ivory Coast for the operation and will return soon.

Read the full BBC story here

Leone Ouedraogo
BBC Africa

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A religious TV channel in Senegal has broadcast a hardcore porn movie, causing shock among many viewers. 

Touba TV inadvertently aired the explicit content in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, between 13:10 and 13:30 local time.

The embarrassing slip-up has not escaped the attention of the authorities either.

The National Audiovisual Regulatory Council has demanded an explanation from the channel.

Touba TV has said that a troublesome "network bug" had caused the material to air.

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South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters have reiterated their call for white-owned land to be expropriated, without compensation

In a statement released to mark Human Rights Day in a country where white minority rule ended in 1994, the EFF said there could be "no human right without land". 

It added: 

It follows an announcement from Namibia's president earlier that the country planned to expropriate land to increase black ownership ( see earlier post ).

The UK has announced a cabin baggage ban on laptops on passenger flights from six Middle East and North African countries.

The UK restrictions, which also apply to tablets, DVD players and phones over certain size, come after a similar  US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ban .

Flights on nine airlines from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries are subject to the US move. 

The DHS cited at attacks on planes and airports in two African states as a reason for the ban.

In a statement, the DHS said bombs, had been hidden in such items as a soft drink can, in the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt in 2015, and the laptop used in the unsuccessful attack in Somalia last year.

It added:

Image source, Harun Maruf

Read more: What happened in the Somali plane bomb? 

That's the long journey taken by a Sierra Leonean, who was forced to take up arms in his country's civil war in the 1990s - aged just 11. 

Now John Idriss Lahai is an academic, working as a research fellow at the School of International Studies at Flinders University in Australia. 

He will soon move to the US to take up a position at an Ivy League university. 

He's been telling his story to BBC Focus on Africa's Veronique Edwards:

Listen to the full interview below:

Several people have been killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu after a car bomb went off a few hundred metres from the presidential compound.

"A suicide car bomb rammed into a checkpoint near the national theatre," local police officers Ahmed Hussein told Reuters news agency.

The editor of Somalia's National News Agency has shared a video of the aftermath of the explosion, reporting that at least seven people were killed: 

The attack comes just a few hours after the government announced its new cabinet ( see earlier posts ).

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, but Islamist militant group al-Shabab carries out frequent attacks in Mogadishu.

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France's far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen is due to meet Chad's President Idriss Deby, following her arrival in the capital Ndjamena earlier today.

In a statement, reported by Reuters news agency, her party said:

Ms Le Pen, among the leading candidates in this month's French presidential election, will also visit troops serving as part of Operation Barkhane, France's 3,500-strong anti-Islamist force, which has its headquarters in Chad. 

Chadian opposition parties say she should have been banned from visiting describing her as a champion of "fascist" policies (see earlier entry).

Read the full BBC News story

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Polisario Front has called on African countries to sanction Morocco after it failed to attend a meeting of the African Union to discuss the territorial dispute over Western Sahara, the Associated Press news agency reports. 

Its Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ouldsalek said Monday's meeting of the AU's Peace and Security Council was the first test of Morocco's admission to the body in January:

A letter from Morocco to the AU ahead of Monday's meeting said the question of Western Sahara was in the hands of the UN Security Council and "the organs of the African Union are invited to support this process... in line with the United Nations' mandate.'' 

Morocco left the Organisation of African Unity, the precussor to the AU, in 1984, after it recognised the independence of Western Sahara, regarded by Morocco as part of its territory.  

Watch: Forty years in a refugee camp

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In the atmosphere, the seas and around the poles, climate change is reaching disturbing new levels across the Earth.

That's according to a  detailed global analysis, external  from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

It says that 2016 was not only the warmest year on record, but it saw atmospheric CO2 rise to a new high, while Arctic sea ice recorded a new winter low.

The "extreme and unusual" conditions have continued in 2017, it says.

The report states that extreme weather events in 2016 included severe droughts in southern and East Africa, and in Central America.   

Read the full story from BBC Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath

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Africa is expected to be one of the continents hardest hit by climate change, despite accounting for less than 4% of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. 

Read more: Five ways climate change could affect Africa

A European NGO has shared photos of a baby girl who was born on board a boat that rescued migrants in the Mediterranean:

Almost 1,000 people were rescued and have now landed at the Sicilian port of Catania, it adds:

Read BBC coverage of the migrant crisis

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The US has announced a ban on large electronic devices from cabin baggage on passenger flights from Egypt, Morocco and six other Muslim majority countries. 

The Department of Homeland Security said extremists were seeking "innovative methods" to bring down jets.

Bombs could be hidden in laptops, tablets, cameras, DVD players and electronic games, it said. 

US officials said nine airlines - including Egypt Air and Royal Air Maroc - had been given 96 hours, beginning at 07:00 GMT on Tuesday, to ban devices bigger than a mobile phone or smartphone from cabins. They said the ban had no end date.

Read the full BBC story here  

A video of a white man threatening a black woman inside a popular restaurant has caused outrage in South Africa.

The film of the incident at a Johannesburg branch of the Spur chain of restaurants has been widely shared.

In it, the two can be heard arguing and hurling insults at each other, while a group of children are sitting at the table watching the row unfold.

The video appears to have touched a nerve in a country where racism is still a sore point.

It is not clear what started the altercation but both adults say that their child was bullied by the other's child.

The confrontation escalated when the man threatened to hit the woman, who accused him of bullying her because she was black.

"You can't come here and bully me… this is a democratic South Africa in case you had not noticed," the incensed woman says.

Although the man does not say anything specifically racist, many have interpreted his treatment of the woman as being based on her skin colour.

Some Twitter users have shown  their support for the woman: 

The restaurant chain has apologised for the drama and banned the man involved.

"The man in the video is not welcome at any Spur restaurant nationally.

"We do not condone any forms of violence against women or children, irrespective of the circumstances," the company said in statement shared on social media.

BBC World Service

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The United Nations says Cameroon is forcing thousands of Nigerian refugees displaced by the jihadist group Boko Haram to go home. 

The UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR, said Cameroonian soldiers have so far this year sent home more than 2,600 people to villages in north-east Nigeria, where insecurity persists and basic services are scarce. 

Earlier this month, the two countries signed an agreement stating that refugees would not be forcibly repatriated. 

More than 85,000 Nigerian refugees reside in neighbouring Cameroon's Far North region, where the Islamist militants also launch attacks, often using female suicide bombers and children.

Read: Who are Boko Haram?

Mohammud Ali Mohamed
BBC Africa, Nairobi

The appointment of the new cabinet in Somalia (see earlier entries) is seen as a step forward for a government that was ushered in with lots of hope and optimism. 

However, some analysts are worried that the large cabinet, with 26 ministers, could take away a chunk of much needed resources at a time when the government faces a severe drought and warnings of a possible famine. 

Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre has promised that this will be a new beginning.

The cabinet has many new faces, including former BBC Somali Service editor Yusuf Garaad, who has been appointed as foreign minister.

The new president and prime minister promised to help alleviate the suffering of Somalis faced with drought, to fight corruption and create institutions that can deliver services. 

Somalis now hope that they will deliver on these promises. 

Namibia's President Hage Geingob has lamented the slow pace of land reform in the country, saying the government will tackle the problem by expropriating land, while giving white owners "fair compensation". 

In a speech to mark 27 years of independence, Mr Geingob said the government had exhausted efforts to transfer ownership to black people through the "willing buyer, willing seller" concept. 

The government now needed to "refer back to our constitution which allows for the expropriation of land with fair compensation and also look at foreign ownership of land, especially absentee land owners".  

The government is aiming to transfer 43% of its agricultural land to disadvantaged black Namibians by 2020. So far less than 30% has been reallocated.

Land ownership is an emotive issue in the region - Zimbabwe's government has been strongly criticised by the opposition and Western governments for seizing white-owned farms. 

In South Africa, President Jacob Zuma has called for land expropriation without compensation, external , but a discussion paper released by the governing party has proposed "just and equitable" compensation. 

Mr Geingob's speech has been tweeted on the presidency's official account.  

BBC Hausa is launching a special series of programmes today to mark 60 years since the language service hit the airwaves.

The first Hausa broadcast was made on 13 March, 1957 at a time when Nigeria and other African countries were fighting for independence from British colonial rule. 

The service reaches an audience of 23 million people a week on radio, TV and digital. 

Their biggest audiences are in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroon, parts of Sudan and Chad, as well as reaching Hausa speakers in the diaspora. 

We had a dig through the picture archives to show you how the service has changed over the years:

BBC coverage in West Africa is to be boosted further by the launch of three new services in Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin.

The new president of Algeria's football federation, Kheireddine Zetchi, wants to get the national team back on track and develop the local game.

Zetchi was elected unopposed on Monday after incumbent, Mohamed Raouraoua, refused to stand for a third consecutive term.

Algeria failed to get out of their group at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.

"There are priorities, namely the appointment of a coach," Zetchi said.

He has set a deadline of two weeks to find a new coach to replace Belgian George Leekens, who resigned in January after the Nations Cup failure.

Read the full BBC Sport story

One of Ghana's top tourist sites has been closed indefinitely after a freak accident on Sunday killed at least 18 people, mainly high school students, local media report, external . 

The victims died after a large tree fell on them at the Kintampo waterfall in central Ghana.