A senior Nigerian police officer, who wants to remain anonymous, has confirmed to the BBC the details of the clash between policemen and navy officers in the south-eastern city of Calabar.

Earlier, we quoted a report in the Premium Times saying that the fight resulted in the burning down of a police station and left three people dead.

Our source said the report was accurate. The Navy has not yet commented.

The trouble started after policemen tried to pull over a vehicle driven by navy officers which had ignored a red light.

The police have published several pictures of the aftermath of the clash on its Facebook page, external.

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Thousands of commuters have been left stranded following a taxi strike across South Africa's coastal city of Durban, local media are reporting.

Taxis blocked most of the main routes into and out of the city, IOL newspaper, external reports

People have been tweeting videos and pictures of the impact:

Many commuters had to walk to work as no taxis were operating.

The taxi industry is protesting against the high price of the locally built Toyota Quantam taxi which now costs $35,000 (£27,500), News 24, external reports.

They argue that the same vehicle cost just over $15,000 fully imported, 10 years ago.

Access to the Toyota plant in Prospecton, south of the city, has also been blocked.

Senegal's former President Abdoulaye Wade, 91, is going to run for parliament in July's elections.

He will top the list for the opposition Watu (Save) Senegal coalition, which includes his PDS party.

Mr Wade served as president from 2000 to 2012. He lost his bid to have a third term in office in 2012, when he was defeated by Macky Sall.

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The train journey on the new line from Kenya's port city of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi, takes four-and-a-half hours or five hours with stops.

The equivalent bus journey takes about nine hours and the old train journey 12 hours.

The tickets work out cheaper than buses.

An economy class ticket will cost 900 Kenyan shillings ($9; £7), while a business class ticket will be 3,000 Kenyan shillings.

The nearest equivalent bus ticket is 400 Kenyan shillings more.

The line - built with Chinese money and Chinese engineers - is part of a wider network that will one day link up the region:

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Thousands of people have demonstrated in the northern Moroccan city of Al-Hoceima, demanding the release of a well-known activist.

Reports say riot police were involved in a tense stand-off with protesters, but later retreated.

Protesters rallied after Nasser Zefzafi was arrested on Monday charged with threatening national security.

Mr Zefzafi has organised months of protests against unemployment and corruption.

Read more on this from BBC News Online.

Kenya today is launching a brand new railway running from the capital, Nairobi, to the port city of Mombasa.

Built with a loan from a Chinese bank, it is said to be the biggest infrastructure project since independence.

President Uhuru Kenyatta will be one of the passengers on the inaugural four-and-a-half hour journey from Mombasa to Naiorbi.

The passenger train, called the Madaraka Express, can carry 1,260 passengers.

The train should be twice as fast as the road trip between the two cities.

The Mombasa to Kenya line is the first leg of a brand new train network planned to link up the East African region.

A clash between Nigerian naval officers and police in the south-eastern city of Calabar has left several dead, the Premium Times, external is reporting.

The copy from the newspaper has been uploaded onto the police's Facebook page, external without any comment.

A later post, external on the page shows pictures of what the police say is the scene at a police station in Calabar after the members of the navy attacked:

Image source, Nigeria police

The Premium Times quotes a witness as saying that the trouble started on Tuesday afternoon when a policeman tried to stop a navy car which had ignored a red traffic light.

The row was quelled when senior officers intervened, but things resumed later. A witness said that the naval officers then went to Calabar's Akim Police Station and "started shooting and burnt down the facility".

The witness told Premium Times that three people have been found dead.

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