A female suicide bomber has blown herself up at a mosque in Nigeria's north-eastern Maiduguri city, killing eight people and injuring 15 others, the head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, has told AFP news agency.

In 2015, Emmanuel Adebayor publicly revealed some of the personal issues with his family that have disrupted his career.

Now the Togolese striker has spoken exclusively to the BBC about the controversy.

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South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) will demand an explanation from Housing minister Lindiwe Sisulu on how her department spent the "excessive amount" of 10 million rand ($770,000; £590,000) on flowers and gifts during the 2013/2014 financial year, the party has said.

The controversy comes at a time when Ms Sisulu, the daughter of anti-apartheid struggle luminary Walter Sisulu, is running against several other candidates in the battle to succeed President Jacob Zuma as leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC).

Ms Sisulu revealed the expenditure in reply to a parliamentary question, and the DA would demand a full list of the people who "benefited" from the $770,000, the DA added in a statement, external.

The money could have built 100 low-cost homes to help alleviate the housing shortage in South Africa, the party said.

Ms Sisulu has not yet commented on the DA's statement.

On Saturday, she called on her supporters to run her election campaign with integrity and she vowed to tackle corruption, local media reported, external.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, former African Union commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is the president's ex-wife, and parliamentary speaker Baleka Mbete are among other candidates running to succeed Mr Zuma when his term as ANC leader ends in December.

The winner is expected to be the party's presidential candidate in the 2019 election.

Police in Nigeria say at least nine people have been killed and 10 others seriously injured by a gas explosion at a fuel complex in the south-east of the country.

But eyewitnesses say 30 people died, the privately owned Vanguard newspaper reports, external.

The reason for the explosion at the oil facility in Cross River is not yet clear.

Local reports suggest that illegal attempts to siphon fuel may have been the cause.

Fuel explosions are common in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, due to poor infrastructure and frequent looting from pipelines and tankers.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC World Service, Lusaka

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A baboon interfered with electricity installations in Zambia’s tourist capital, Livingstone, and cut power supply to about 50,000 customers.

The animal managed to access a power station in the area on Sunday, and tampered with high voltage machines that supply electricity to the southern and western provinces of Zambia, according to Henry Kapata, the spokesman for the country’s power utility, Zesco.

He said Livingstone's 28,000 residents and a further 22,000 people in the region were completely without power for about six hours while repair works were carried out.

Mr Kapata also told the BBC:

The Zesco spokesman said the baboon’s electricity shock was caught on CCTV:

Mr Kapata said power has since been restored with the animal handed over to local wildlife authorities for treatment.

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