A 28-second video clip of French President Emmanuel Macron making controversial remarks about Africa and African women in particular has been doing the rounds on social media since late yesterday.

Mr Macron said during a press conference in the recent G 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, that African problems were "civilisational" and argued, in an answer as to why there was no concerted effort to help the continent economically, that Africa's high birth rates made it untenable to achieve economic success:

Vox reports, external that "Macron’s full response is somewhat obnoxious and ham-handed, but it’s actually not as obnoxious and ham-handed as it originally sounded."

In it he says:

A French diplomatic delegation recently suffered an embarrassing visa refusal by Rwandan authorities when they presented an application for a visa which bore a picture of the former Rwandan flag that was in use at the time of the 1994 genocide, Jeune Afrique, external reports.

The paper describes it as the first hitch in the relationship between the new French government and Kigali.

It says on 9 and 10 July, an official French delegation was due to travel through Rwanda on it's way to Cameroon. The delegation comprised of the Director of Africa and the Indian Ocean matters at France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Department of the France's development Agency (AFD) as well as an economic advisor who were due to meet Rwanda's Foreign Minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, in Kigali..

In early July, the French Foreign Ministry submitted the delegation's visa applications to the Rwandan embassy in Paris, as well as their travel itinerary.

In front of each country they were to travel through was a picture of a flag. The Rwandan flag printed was complete with three vertical bands (green, yellow, red) and a huge capital R in the middle.

The problem, however, was that Rwanda changed its flag in 2001. The one in the French Republic's archives was that used by the former government of Rwanda's late president Juvénal Habyarimana.

Jeune Afrique says when they contacted the ministry of foreign affairs they did not deny that the planned journey had been postponed. Their explanation was that due to an administrative error the visas could not be issued in time. A source familiar with the matter added. "It is only a postponement, not a diplomatic problem, "

A Rwandan official, not named by the paper, is reported as saying:

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A vaccine has for the first time been shown to protect against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea, scientists in New Zealand say.

There are fears gonorrhoea is becoming untreatable as antibiotics fail.

The World Health Organization sees developing a vaccine as crucial in stopping the global spread of "super-gonorrhoea".

The study of 15,000 young people, published in the Lancet, external, showed infections were cut by about a third.

About 78 million people pick up the sexually transmitted infection each year, and it can cause infertility.

But the body does not build up resistance, no matter how many times someone is infected.

Symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.

However, of those infected, about one in 10 heterosexual men and more than three-quarters of women and gay men have no easily recognisable symptoms.

Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.

Last week, the World Health Organization warned about the global spread of gonorrhoea that could not be treated with antibiotics.

For more read: First vaccine shows gonorrhoea protection

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A conference is taking place in London today which aims to improve access to contraception for millions of women in the world's poorest countries.

It is expected to address a gap of hundreds of millions of dollars left by the US funding cuts to the programme.

International donors, including the philanthropic foundation run by Bill and Melinda Gates, are expected to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars of additional funding.

It's thought that 214,000 million women worldwide who want access to family planning services still don't have it.

Melinda Gates will tell delegates she's "deeply troubled" by the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to foreign aid.

A similar event in London five years ago resulted in contraception reaching an extra 30,000.

Ahead of today's conference Dr. Josephine Mbae, director general of the Population Council, spoke to the BBC's Newsday programme about what her organisation is doing to deal with resistance to distribution of contraceptives to young people below 19 in Kenya.

Ugandan musician and Afrobeats star Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, best known as Bobi Wine, will be sworn today as MP for Kyadondo East in central Uganda.

Wine, who ran as an independent candidate, beat four challengers by garnering 25,659 votes of 33,310 cast in a by-election held on 29 June.

A local journalist has tweeted a picture of Wine preparing for the event:

He said that he is going to the parliament as " preferably, a leader and not a politician, " state-linked New Vision reports., external

Wine has been courted by the ruling NRM and opposition parties, the report says.

A picture of him shaking hands with President Yoweri Museveni at a vigil of a local businessman was met with disapproval on social media by some of his supporters

Wine says that he was not going to ignore the president and it was the right thing to do:

Wine began his music career in early 2000s and has released several hits.

Following the 2016 election he released a song titled Situka, which means rise up in Luganda.

Part of the lyrics include a challenge to Ugandans to play an active role in fighting corruption and injustice in their country:

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