Tanzanian actor Idris Sultan has been cast in a Hollywood film, reports Tanzanian newspaper the Citizen, external.

Sultan, who was the winner of Big Brother Africa Hotshots in 2014, retweeted the news:

The Citizen says the film is about a Kenyan who is spotted playing basketball by an American priest who thinks he has a chance in the NBA.

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Militants riding on camels killed nine people and kidnapped at least 30 people in southern Niger, the local mayor and a journalist told Reuters news agency.

Reuters adds that the mayor and journalists say the attackers rode camels into the village of Ngalewa, about 50 km (30 miles) north of the border with Nigeria on Sunday night.

Abba Gata Issa, mayor of the district told Reuters that around 40 women and children had been kidnapped.

While it is not confirmed who is behind the attack, the Nigerian Islamist militants Boko Haram launch frequent cross-border raids from its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.

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Zimbabwean farmers have donated "thousands" of cattle to the African Union (AU) Foundation following an appeal by President Robert Mugabe, the state-run Herald newspaper reports.

The donation is intended to help the pan-African body to rely less on foreign donors, it added.

The cattle were auctioned, and Mr Mugabe handed over to the AU a cheque worth $1m (£780,000) on Monday, the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza reports.

Mr Mugabe had this to say:

The donation comes amid a severe cash and food crisis in Zimbabwe.

Read more on the BBC News website.

France, Germany and Italy have announced proposals to tackle the migrant crisis from North Africa that's particularly affecting Italy.

Meeting in Paris, their interior ministers said they would produce a code of conduct for charities operating rescue boats in the Mediterranean and seek ways to assist the coast guard in Libya, the main migrant departure point.

They'll also investigate how to help the UN refugee agency set up more camps in Libya.

Meanwhile, the UNHCR warns that people smuggling networks are expanding rapidly in Libya and becoming increasingly professional.

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A proposal to remove presidential age limits in Uganda have been officially published, the private newspaper Uganda Observer reports, external.

The paper says that a copy of the Uganda Gazette lists the Constitution (Amendment) Bill as one of the bills that are up for publishing.

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Uganda's Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire told the Observer that the bill was awaiting publication in the official government paper before it could go to parliament for debate.

The constitution says that a person over 75 years of age is not qualified for election.

But President Museveni will be 76 in 2021, the year of the next election.

On being asked whether he will seek re-election in 2021, Mr Museveni has repeatedly said that he will abide by the constitution.

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BBC Africa, Nairobi

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More than 700 people have died from cholera in Somalia in the worst outbreak of the disease in five years, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council, external.

The council says South Sudan is also reporting an unprecedented number of cases of the disease.

More people - particularly children - are dying from cholera than from war wounds in Somalia.

South Sudan has also recorded more than 160 deaths from the disease, which is unusual during a dry season.

There were no reported cholera deaths the same time last year.

The Norwegian Refugee Council says conflict in the two countries has ruined health sectors and public water and sanitation networks.

The organisation’s Secretary General Jan Egeland says there is need to provide clean water, sanitation services and medicine to stop the spread of the preventable disease, which, he adds, belongs only to history books.

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The wife of ailing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has left the country to visit him in London, her office told AFP news agency.

Before heading to the UK on Tuesday, Aisha Buhari will go to an African Union leaders' wives meeting in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, first, AFP added.

Mr Buhari has spent most of this year in London receiving treatment for an unspecified medical condition.

The presidency has repeatedly rejected rumours that Buhari is terminally ill or even dead but has refused to disclose his illness or what treatment he is having.

Leaders from south-eastern Nigeria have restated their commitment to a united country, the Vanguard newspaper, external is reporting.

The Igbo leaders were attending a South-East Stakeholders’ meeting in Enugu at the weekend:

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Another newspaper Y Naija, external says the leaders condemned "all hate speech and misconduct from any segment of the country."

The movement for the Indigenous People Of Biafra (Ipob) recently reiterated calls for a group of states in south-east Nigeria, which are made up mainly of people from the Igbo ethnic group, to break away to form the independent nation of Biafra.

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The police commander in Kamandi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was kidnapped early on Saturday morning, according to DRC's Radio Okapi.

Local authorities say the kidnappers' identity is not known but that the Mai Mai militia operate in the region.

A witness told Radio Okapi that fighters surrounded the Kamandi police commander's house at around 6:30 in the morning.

The fighters also took his two motorcycles, the witness added.

Read more on the DR Congo conflict on the BBC News website.

At least 15 people have been killed in the Central African Republic following an exchange of fire between United Nations peacekeepers and fighters from the Central African Patriotic Movement (MPC) rebel group.

The incident took place on Saturday in the remote northern town of Kaga-Bandoro, where there's been a surge in violence in the last month.

A source in MINUSCA the UN mission in the CAR told the AFP news agency that the incident happened when members of the ex-Seleka movement, which is mainly comprised of Muslim fighters, attacked the town to "to settle an old score."

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The Ghanaian press has been giving its judgement of a policeman who played for the Ghanaian national team this weekend.

In 2016 Samuel Sarfo was one of the policemen deployed to provide security for the Black Stars during the Afcon qualifier against Rwanda in 2016.

But on Saturday he played for the national team against the US in a friendly match.

Sarfo retweeted the pictures to show his rapid transformation:

The Black Stars lost 2-1 against the US on Saturday.

Despite the loss, the Ghanaian press has been encouraging of his efforts:

The site Ghana Soccer Net, external says:

While Ghanaian news site Pulse says, external:

The 26-year-old was an amateur footballer with local amateur side, Liberty Professionals FC.

However, the Sun reports, external that he joined the team after being called up following the withdrawals of experienced internationals, Alfred Nelson and Daniel Nii Adjei.

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