Summary

  • Al-Shabab militants executed in Somalia over restaurant blasts

  • Tanzania seeks diplomatic solution with Zambia over seized lorries

  • Children among 27 killed in head-on collision in Kenya

  • Senegal boat disaster kills 17

  • Tanzania expels top UN official

  • Outrage over Cameroon reporter's sentencing

  • Row over '500kg woman's' weight loss

  • Email stories and comments to africalive@bbc.co.uk - Tuesday 25 April 2017

  1. Deadly collision in Kenya between bus and tankerpublished at 09:00 British Summer Time 25 April 2017

    David Wafula
    BBC Africa

    A least 24 people have been killed and several injured in a head-on collision between a passenger's bus and a tanker carrying cooking oil on the road between the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa. 

    The accident occurred in the Kibwezi area shortly after midnight local time when the bus driver was trying to overtake another vehicle but collided with the oncoming tanker, Kibwezi police chief Leonard Kimaiyo said. 

    He told the BBC that 20 adults and three children died on the spot, while one adult died later in hospital.

    Some reports on Twitter put the number of dead at 27: 

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    Road accidents in Kenya claim more than 3,000 lives annually, according to the National Transport and Safety Authority.   

  2. Today's wise wordspublished at 09:00 British Summer Time 25 April 2017

    Our African proverb of the day: 

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    When a lion eats a bad person and it is not killed, it will next eat a good person."

    Sent by Awadi Lupai Sebit, Juba, South Sudan

  3. Good morningpublished at 09:00 British Summer Time 25 April 2017

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