Summary

  • Juliani releases song to mark Kenyan lawyer's brutal killing

  • DR Congo prime minister's inauguration disrupted by whistle-blowers

  • Ex-opposition spokesman in Ethiopia guilty of "encouraging terrorism"

  • Suspected militant Islamists 'kill and abduct' Kenyans

  • Uganda bans Dutch film for 'glorifying homosexuality'

  • Four suspects detained in South Africa over actor's murder

  • Mutiny in Ivory Coast ends

  • Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Tuesday 16 May 2017

Live Reporting

Farouk Chothia and Dickens Olewe

  1. Uganda bans Dutch film for 'steamy sex scenes'

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    Uganda's censorship board has banned a Dutch film, The Dinner Club, after accusing it of "glorifying homosexuality", containing "steamy sex scenes", using "lurid language", and showing people, "especially women", smoking, the Embassy of The Netherlands in Kampala has said.

    The embassy had cancelled its participation at the Euro-Uganda Film Festival in Kampala - where the film was to have been shown - in protest against the decision, it added.

    The embassy released on its Facebook page the reasons the Uganda Media Council gave for banning the film - including "deep kissing before kids", women forming a "Dinner Club which is in reality a sort of brothel", and "gay men sauntering away drunk":   

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