Activists supporting the secession of Biafra from Nigeria have reacted angrily over the move by the government to try and send leader Nnamdi Kanu back to prison, the Vanguard newspaper reports, external.

Mr Kanu was released from prison on bail earlier this year after being held without trial for more than a year-and-a-half on treason charges.

The Vanguard quotes the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) as saying it would resist the federal government's efforts to return him to jail.

In a court application filed last week, the government argued that treason is not normally a bailable offence. The government also said that Mr Kanu has contravened the bail conditions.

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French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a summit with several European and African leaders aimed at boosting efforts to curb migrant flows across the Mediterranean.

The Paris talks involve leaders from Chad, Niger and Libya - major transit countries for migrants, who risk their lives trying to reach Europe.

The leaders of Germany, Italy and Spain are also attending.

To ease the influx, Mr Macron wants to see asylum requests handled in Africa.

He has spoken of setting up "hotspots" in Chad, Niger and Libya to process asylum applications. But the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says Libya's chronic instability would be a major obstacle to such centres operating there.

Nearly 100,000 migrants have made the perilous sea journey from Libya to Italy this year, and the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 2,000 have died on that route.

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Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, external that a crackdown on opposition protesters in western Kenya in the aftermath of the August general election included "serious human rights violations, including unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house-to-house operations".

The international rights group says that at least 12 people were killed and over 100 badly injured.

HRW also says that police used "excessive force" by "shooting and beating protesters" in a pro-opposition area of the capital, Nairobi.

“The brutal crackdown [is] part of a pattern of violence and repression in opposition strongholds, [and] undermined the national elections,” says HRW Africa researcher Otsieno Namwaya.

He adds: “People have a right to protest peacefully, and Kenyan authorities should urgently put a stop to police abuse and hold those responsible to account.”

After losing the presidential election on 8 August, Kenya's opposition Nasa alliance is currently challenging the result in the Supreme Court.

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Angolan opposition party Casa-CE has said that it will challenge in court the results of last week’s election, reports Radio France International, external.

Angola’s electoral commission announced on Thursday that provisional results showed the ruling MPLA party has gained more than 60% of the vote.

But opposition parties question where these results have come from.

Isaias Samakuva, leader of the main Unita opposition party, told Voice of America, external on Sunday that until the electoral commission has tabulated the provincial results “the country does not yet have valid election results”.

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The provisional results of Wednesday’s election were announced on Thursday afternoon but that night both Unita and Casa-CE distanced themselves from the results, complaining proper counting procedure had not taken place, reported Publico, external.

Angolan activist site Maka Angola, external, points out that, while international observers issued positive assessments of the electoral campaign and voting process, their statements do not mention the vote counting process.

Meanwhile, the MPLA released a statement on Saturday:

The official results are expected on 6 or 7 September.

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Our reporter outside the court where four men appeared for a brief bail hearing on charges related to alleged cannibalism has been sharing video of protesters.

Some were holding up signs and chanting in Zulu: "We want to see the killers."

While others were chanting: "We are not Hungry Lion, we are not Nando's. We are human and shouldn’t be eaten.”

Hungry Lion and Nando's are both fast food restaurant chains.

The five men abandoned their bail and will make another court appearance at the end of next month.

Boxing is a tough sport and not one you would normally associate with pensioners.

But old women in the South African township of Cosmo City are learning how to protect themselves and get fit.

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A ban on plastic carrier bags has come into force in Kenya, which means that from today anyone found selling, manufacturing or carrying them could face fines of up to $38,000 (£30,000) or prison sentences of up to four years.

The government says the ban will help protect the environment.

But manufacturers of the bags have argued that 80,000 jobs could be lost.

A court on Friday rejected a challenge to the ban. Kenyans are estimated to use 24 million bags a month.

A number of other African countries have outlawed plastic carrier bags, including Mauritania, Rwanda and Eritrea.

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Kenya's Supreme Court has granted the opposition alliance, Nasa, access to the electoral commission's database and materials, following the party's petition challenging the result of the 8 August presidential election.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga claims that Kenya's electronic voting system, run by the the electoral commission (IEBC), had been tampered with to give victory to his rival Uhuru Kenyatta who he accused of being a "computer-generated leader".

The IEBC has denied the claims.

Nasa's access to IEBC data will be "limited to only aspects that will not compromise the commission’s electoral management systems," the Daily Nation reports, external.

This will include read-only access to some servers as well as permission to copy and analyse tallying forms known as 34A and 34B.

President Kenyatta's swearing in has been postponed from 29 August, so that the Supreme Court can first announce the findings of its investigation into the election.

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The BBC's Nomsa Maseko is in the South African court where four men alleged to have been involved in cannibalism have appeared.

They were there for a bail application, but Nomsa says that the men no longer want bail and the next hearing will be at the end of September:

Four people are appearing in court in South Africa on charges of possession of human tissue.

The group includes a traditional healer who has been accused of making his clients eat human flesh with promises of riches and success.

The case comes after one of the accused allegedly walked into a police station declaring he was "tired" of eating human flesh.

When questioned further, the man produced part of a human leg and hand.

Police then accompanied the man back to a house in KwaZulu-Natal where more body parts were found.

Our reporter, who's outside the court in the country's KwaZulu Natal province, has been tweeting video of a small protest:

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