In emergency situations getting blood where it's needed most can be critical. The lack of efficiency in this process has led to an unnecessary loss of life In Nigeria.

That's inspired Temie Giwa-Tobuson to develop an app that connects blood banks to hospitals, and has built a network of moped drivers to ferry blood around Lagos.

Her story is part of the BBC's World Hacks Series:

France's President Emmanuel Macron has said that he will "soon" got to the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, as part of his plan to stem the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe, the AFP news agency reports.

He made the announcement when talking to French diplomats a day after he announced a plan to curb migration across the Mediterranean following a meeting with African leaders.

That plan involves tackling people smugglers, improving stability in Libya and increasing aid to the transit countries.

So far this year, more than 120,000 people have tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, the UN says, external. Many of the migrants are from Africa.

We reported earlier about an ongoing standoff between lawyers representing Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga and officials of the electoral commission (IEBC) over access to the results transmission system, which the opposition alleges was tampered with to skew the 8 August election to favour President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Mr Odinga, who is challenging the results in the Supreme Court, had successfully argued for access to the system that managed the election.

The commission has now tweeted that the scrutiny of the system is ongoing.

The opposition lawyers, who had said that the IEBC was not complying with the court order, have not confirmed that they now have access.

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The authorities in Niger have ordered thousands of people to leave their homes in the capital, Niamey, because of serious flooding.

Many are sheltering in schools while others have nowhere to go.

Buildings have been destroyed and key roads cut in several parts of the country and livestock has been lost.

More than 40 people have been killed in flooding in Niger in the past three months.

Prosecutors in Kenya successfully applied to police to continue holding a man who is alleged to have sent threatening messages to Chris Msando, the IT manager for the electoral commission, who was killed a week before the 8 August election, Daily Nation reports., external

Andrew Kipkoech Rono, 58, was arrested on 15 July according to the prosecutor's office.

The prosecution argued that investigators were still scrutinising Mr Rono's phone and did not want to him to interfere with investigations:

Mr Rono was Mr Msando’s landlord at a residential estate in the capital, Nairobi, until four years ago, and is believed to have frequently communicated with him even after he had moved out, the Daily Nation reports.

Randy Joe Sa'ah
BBC Africa, Bamenda

There's tension in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon's north-west region, where English speakers have been protesting against what they call unfair treatment by the government, which is dominated by French speakers.

Every Monday, shop owners in and around the city's two main markets have shut their businesses in sympathy with the protests.

Now, in a move to pressurise the business people into ending their action, the city council has permanently sealed off the affected areas, stopping shop owners being able to reach their businesses.

In order to enforce the move, armed gendarmes and elite soldiers have been deployed in the city centre.

Anger is building as the traders who came to the city to work are not returning home.

Our reporter in Sierra Leone has posted dramatic pictures on his Facebook page of the headquarters of the opposition Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) on fire.

The party's leader Kamaraimba Mansaray says it was a result of a petrol bomb, but the police have not commented on the cause of the fire:

Although the ADP is not the country's main opposition party, analysts say that it is seen as a thorn in the side of the governing All People's Congress.

The US $593m (£460m) sale of 12 Super Tucano aircraft to Nigeria has gone ahead, the Reuters news agency reports saying that the Pentagon has let Congress know.

Nigeria wants the aircraft, which can be used for surveillance and attack, to help in the fight against Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Nigeria's vice-president has tweeted about the deal:

The sale was delayed by the Obama administration after a catastrophic incident involving the Nigerian military.

About 90 people, mainly women and children, were killed in January when the Nigerian Air Force mistakenly bombed a camp in the country's north-east, which was hosting thousands of those who had fled Boko Haram.

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Lawyers for Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is challenging the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta in the Supreme Court, have said their efforts to seek information from the electoral commission to support their case are being frustrated.

The court yesterday granted Mr Odinga's team limited to the electoral commission (IEBC) server, which was used in managing the 8 August election, but they say that the order had not been complied with. One lawyer tweeted that they had been "stonewalled".

The IEBC refuted the allegation saying that the team had been given access:

Another lawyer responded with a picture alleging that they did not have access to IEBC's office because it had its door was "firmly locked":

The opposition alleges that the presidential results were tampered with to give Mr Kenyatta an advantage and that an audit of the voting system will prove their case.

Daily Nation, external reports that IEBC provided the opposition team and the court officers copies of the logs on the server but Mr Odinga’s team made an additional request to download the logs themselves.

A report of the scrutiny was ordered to be delivered today at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT)

The court has until Friday to rule on the case which will either confirm President Kenyatta's victory or order a new election.

The cartoonist for South Africa eNCA channel has suggested that Conor McGregor, who lost to Floyd Mayweather in what was described as a the richest boxing match ever, should have a new trainer in the form of Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe:

Mrs Mugabe has been accused of assaulting a South African woman with an electrical cord in a hotel in Johannesburg.

She has not commented on the charges and left South Africa after being granted diplomatic immunity.

Speaking last week in Harare, Mrs Mugabe, in her first comments since returning home, urged her audience to respect women, the state-owned Herald newspaper, external reports.

It says she was referring to incidents of rape.

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Victoria Falls

Image source, Reuters

South Africa’s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has criticised African leaders for seeking medical treatment abroad.

Speaking in Zimbabwe at a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting of African health ministers, Mr Motsoaledi said Africa must be the only continent where the leaders travel abroad for health reasons.

He was addressing the conference hours after President Robert Mugabe, who himself makes regular trips to Singapore for eye treatment, opened the meeting.

Mr Mugabe had left the event by the time Mr Motsoaledi spoke.

In the past year five African heads of state have gone overseas for medical reasons:

• Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari
• Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe
• Benin's President Patrice Talon
• Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
• Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Newsday newspaper , externalquoted South Africa's health minister as saying:

Health campaigners have regularly criticised these foreign trips arguing that they undermine the health service at home.

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Read more: Why do Buhari, Dos Santos and Mugabe go to hospital abroad?

A committee set up by the Uganda government to prevent the distribution of pornographic material in the country has begun work after nine members were appointed to lead it, Daily Monitor reports. , external

According to Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo, who was speaking at the team's inauguration event in the capital, Kampala, the committee will have a dedicated technical staff of between 30 and 40.

The team will acquire top-end gadgets to monitor and or intercept, downloading, watching, sharing and the transmission of electronic pornographic material, the Monitor reports.

The report also says that the committee will spend 2bn Uganda shilling ( $555,000; £428,000) a year.

Mr Lokodo, who has been on a public campaign against pornography, blamed it for being behind "drug abuse among youths, incest, teenage pregnancy and abortion, homosexuality and lesbianism and defilement".

He called pornography “one of the deadliest moral diseases in this country” that needed to be stopped if the country is to develop.

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