Karen Allen
BBC southern Africa correspondent, Johannesburg

Pressure is mounting on South Africa's former Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba to explain to parliament why the controversial Gupta business family, apparently jumped the queue to secure South African citizenship.

Mr Gigaba, who is now finance minister, released a statement saying he had the legal power to waive the five-year residency requirement before citizenship can be granted.

The family, who are friends of President Jacob Zuma, are accused of using their relationship to secure favourable business deals - something which they deny.

The Gupta brothers' bid to become South African citizens, only came to light after a series of emails were leaked.

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Bashkas Jugsodaay
BBC News, Dadaab

Two months ago thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp complex signed up to return home voluntarily, but some have started to come back to Kenya.

Government officials in north-east Kenya say they have received about 800 returnees so far.

One woman told me that she returned because she was hungry in Somalia:

One young man told me he returned to Dadaab because it was unsafe in Somalia:

One of the camps in the Dadaab complex, Ifo, was meant to accommodate 20,000 people but numbers swelled to 200,000 as more kept arriving due to the years of instability in Somalia.

Twenty six years after civil war broke out there, people are still trying to eke out a living in the camp:

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A man in Algeria is reported to have received, external a two-year jail sentence for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract 'likes' on Facebook.

The man posted a picture of himself holding his baby out of a window in a high-rise building with the caption: "1000 likes or I will drop him".

The posting prompted other social media users to demand that he be charged with child abuse.

This is how the Al Arabia, external website is reporting the news:

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A school in central Kenya has been closed after the pupils attacked the teachers, the Daily Nation reports, external.

It adds that pupils were seen with clubs and sticks ready to attack the female staff and three teachers were "seriously injured".

Police then turned up at the Kirimon Primary School and shot in the air.

Kenya's NTV news reports that the students were cross about the punishments that they had received.

A representative from the teachers' union says that the school will be closed until Friday when a meeting of teachers, parents and ministry of education will take place.

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The world through its media

Radio France Internationale, external has been giving more details about the Catholic church report that more than 3,000 people have been killed in the violence in Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo, since October last year (see earlier entry).

It says that the church found that more than 3,700 homes have been destroyed, and also 20 villages, 10 of them by the army and four by militias.

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Benin President Patrice Talon underwent two operations while in Paris, the AFP news agency reports, external.

A statement said a lesion was found at an early stage in his prostate.

The second operation was to his digestive system when complications arose after the first operation, the statement added.

Mr Talon returned to the main city, Cotonou, on Sunday after an absence of more than three weeks, reports RFI news, external.

RFI adds that the absence of communication from him "fueled controversy" and speculation about his health.

He arrived back in the country on a private flight from Paris, RFI says.

The Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has said that 3,383 people have been killed in the violence in the country's Kasai region since last October, the Reuters news agency is reporting.

The figures are based on local church sources, it adds.

The UN has reported on the discovery of more than 20 mass graves but has put the death toll at around 400.

The clashes have been between the army and a rebel group, but civillians have got caught up in the violence.

Reuters says that the church has found that army also destroyed 10 villages.

In a separate report, the Norwegian Refugee Council, external says more than 1.3 million people have been displaced by the violence in what it calls "one of the largest displacement crises in the world today".

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Read more: DR Congo's Kasai conflict

Thomas Naadi
BBC Africa, Accra

In Ghana, one of the main stories in the Daily Graphic, external is focusing on discussions between the government there and a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The government has to decide whether to extend a three year bailout programme.

Government minister Yaw Osafo Maafo says the extension of the programme will be based on Ghana's record in meeting economic targets set by the IMF.

Mari Malek came to the US as a child refugee. Now she uses her supermodel status to advocate for children affected by war in South Sudan.

Video by Charlie Northcott

The UN has called on Djibouti and Eritrea to solve their border dispute peacefully after Djibouti accused Eritrea of moving troops into their disputed border area.

The accusation came after peacekeeping troops from Qatar pulled out of the area which they had been monitoring since 2010.

Eritrea has said that it does not want a confrontation with Djibouti, the AP news agency reports, external.

After discussing a report on the border tension, the UN security council called "on the parties to resolve their border dispute peacefully in a manner consistent with international law," the AFP news agency reports.

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa

The trial of South Sudanese soldiers accused of raping five foreign aid workers and killing a local journalist last July, is due to resume in the capital Juba.

The alleged murder and rape occurred during an attack on the Terrain Hotel in the city.

A subsequent UN report admitted their peacekeepers had failed in their duty to protect civilians.

The 13 soldiers are accused of being part of a group of between 80 and 100 military personnnel who raided the hotel.

The soldiers' lawyer said the allegations were untrue.

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In an attack which lasted for more than four hours, they killed a local journalist and raped foreign aid workers.

One of the victims described how up to 15 soldiers took turns to rape her in what was described as the worst attack against humanitarian staff in the country.

Aid workers accused UN troops of refusing to respond to their pleas for help despite being stationed just a mile from the hotel.

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