Zimbabwe's president highlights country's self-sufficiency in food
Argument as academic writes in favour of colonialism in top journal
Kenya's president opens parliament amid opposition boycott
MPs from Uganda's governing NRM back move that would allow Museveni to run again
Zambian journalist's death in child birth sparks maternal mortality discussion
UN research reveals that sub-Saharan child migrants are most in danger
SA ex- President Motlanthe says ANC needs to lose to renew itself
SA football association will not appeal against a decision to re-play Senegal World Cup qualifier
After winning the US green card lottery, Abdi Iftin arrived in America from Somalia full of optimism about starting a new life.
Three years on, what does Abdi make of his his adopted homeland?
"I miss the taste of the air," he says. But he also wonders if he is an American yet.
Video by Nadeem Shad.
Listen to more on Abdi's journey in the Crossing Continents radio documentary, Abdi in America.
A partially state-owned Ugandan newspaper has criticised a government body for spending "over 8bn shillings" ($2.2m; £1.7m), on "exotic breeding bulls from South Africa".
The New Vision says the purchase was made with taxpayers' money by the institution responsible for research into "fast-growing beef" and dairy cows, the National Genetic Resources Bank and Data Bank.
According to the newspaper, Agriculture Minister Joy Kabatsi questioned the purchase, which it says was first flagged in a report on government spending by the Auditor General in July 2015.
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Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg
In South Africa, an ANC faction that backs President Jacob Zuma has suffered a crushing blow after a high court annulled its internal election win saying it was “unlawful".
The Pietermaritzburg High Court handed down a judgement that could see new provincial elections for the ANC in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The ANC held an internal leadership conference in 2015 but the losers challenged the result. And today they have been vindicated.
Among other irregularities, the court found that there was “apparent manipulation or influence of voting process”.
This could have wider implications in the run-up to the ANC's conference in December, when a new leader is set to be chosen and pro and anti-Zuma factions are likely to slug it out.
It could mean that the pro-Zuma group will have less influence.
Image source, AFPNkosazana Dlamini Zuma (left) is backed by the pro-Zuma faction while the other side backs Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) for the leadership of the party
The presidential Rolls Royce was out on show in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as President Robert Mugabe arrived for the opening of parliament, the BBC's Shingai Nyoka reports.
The president was also welcomed by a guard of honour:
Prime Ndikumagenge
BBC Africa, Bujumbura
There are signs of a new shortage of petrol in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.
Most service stations in the city are saying their storage tanks are empty.
Queues started to form over the weekend at those places which still had fuel.
The energy ministry denies that there is a shortage, saying that the petrol sellers are manipulating the market.
Between April and June, Burundi suffered a petrol shortage because of a lack of foreign currency to buy the fuel, which has to be imported.
Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg
South Africans are taking to social media and radio talk shows to commemorate the life of political activist and black consciousness leader, Steve Biko.
Mr Biko died from brain injuries while in the custody of South Africa’s security police in 1977.
Forty years later, lamenting his tragic death, South Africans are commenting on the values he stood for.
At the core of black consciousness was a calling to celebrate black identity at a time when the oppressive white-minority government imposed a system and laws which reduced black South Africans to sub-human status.
Although many agree that certain freedoms are now enjoyed by the country’s black citizens, questions of inequality, unemployment and institutionalised racism in society has some asking whether the struggle is over.
President Jacob Zuma at an address to mark the day in the capital, Pretoria, said more needed to be done to realise Mr Biko’s dreams, pointing out that it is still largely black people who live in squalid shanty towns, “sleep under bridges” and languish in unemployment.
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Kennedy Gondwe
BBC World Service, Lusaka
The ministry of health in Zambia is investigating the death of a 29-year-old journalist who died in childbirth.
News of Sithembile Zulu's death has led to a public outcry, with fellow journalists highlighting the issue of maternal deaths.
Africa accounts for nearly two thirds of global maternal deaths according to the World Health Organization (WHO), external.
While Zambia has a better ranking than most African countries, it is still the case that 224 mothers die for every 100,000 live births.
Ministry of Health Spokesperson Dr Maximilian Bweupe has said that Ms Zulu underwent a caesarian section due to foetal distress, a condition where the foetus does not receive sufficient oxygen during pregnancy or labour.
According to the ministry press statement, Ms Zulu became breathless after taking a bath and her condition rapidly deteriorated.
Image source, .Sithembile Zulu worked for the state-owned Zambia Daily Mail newspaper
The benefits of yoga are recognised the world over, but in Libya, it has brought much needed relief to some women and children in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Najla Almissalati makes prosthetic limbs for a living, but teaches yoga in her spare time.
She's been talking to BBC Newsday's Lawrence Pollard about why she set up the yoga class in Benghazi.
"At the end of the yoga session everyone was giggling, they were so relaxed," she says:
Women are also practising yoga on the beach in the capital, Tripoli:
Image source, AFPThe South African Football Association (Safa) say they will not appeal Fifa's decision to replay their World Cup qualifier against Senegal.
South Africa won the match 2-1 but the referee gave a penalty for a nonexistent handball and was later banned for match manipulation.
The match will be replayed in November.
In a tweet Safa says it should go ahead on "ethical and moral grounds".
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Kenya's Supreme Court has not yet released the full details of why it annulled the result of last month's presidential election, but it has raised questions around the validity of other votes - for parliament and local administrations - that took place in August.
The judges said Kenya’s electoral commission had not conducted the vote in line with the constitution, but has not explained exactly how.
Its decision only applied to the presidential election.
Anticipating the full ruling, politician Martha Karua has taken a case to the High Court hoping to annul the results from August's general election in the county where she ran unsuccessfully for governor - Kirinyaga
Ms Karua argues that since the Supreme Court found that the process did not meet constitutional requirements other victories could be declared null and void.
Image source, AFPMartha Karua ran for president in 2013
This post has been amended to say that Ms Karua is only referring to elections in the county where she ran not across the whole of Kenya
Image source, AFPKgalema Motlanthe was president from 2008 to 2009
Our lead story at the moment is the comments by South Africa's former President Kgalema Motlanthe that it would be good for his party, the ANC, to lose the next election in 2019.
He made the remarks to the BBC's Hardtalk programme.
Here's more of the exchange with presenter Stephen Sackur:
KM The ANC has the possibility to renew itself but that will take lots of courage and failing that it has to hit rock bottom. It has to lose elections for the penny to drop.
SS Would you like to see the ANC lose the next election? Would it be good for South Africa if it lost the next election?
KM For as long as it is associated with corruption and failure, people will vote it out.
SS Would it be good for South Africa if it were voted out?
KM It would be good for the ANC itself and let me tell you why. Because those elements who are in it for the largesse will quit it, will desert it and only then would the possibility arise for salvaging whatever is left of it.
SS You seem to be telling me if there were an election in south Africa tomorrow you would not vote for the ANC?
KM The vote is a secret (laughs).
Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport
The South African Football Association (Safa) are set to announce whether they will appeal against an order from Fifa for them to replay a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Senegal.
The association met yesterday to discuss the order from football's world governing body to replay the game in November because of "match manipulation" by the referee during the original tie last year.
South Africa beat Senegal 2-1 at home in last year's game but Ghanaian match referee Joseph Lamptey has since been banned for life by Fifa, a ban has been upheld by sports highest appeal body, the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Neither South Africa nor Senegal are accused of any wrongdoing in the match.
Norman Arendse - Chairman of Safa's legal committee and member of the executive committee - said at the time they were upset at the lack of detail on how the decision was taken.
Image source, AFPSouth Africa won last year's tie 2-1
Paul Adams
BBC diplomatic correspondent
UN children's agency Unicef says that sub-Saharan children are the most vulnerable of all migrants attempting to reach Europe from Libya and Turkey.
African teenagers who travel through Libya as part of their journey to Europe are more likely than anybody else to be abused, trafficked and exploited, say Unicef and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a report released today.
Racism is a significant reason for this, the report authors say, with numerous migrants interviewed saying they had been singled out for abuse simply because they were black.
If they lack education or if they're travelling alone, the risk increases.
The BBC recently spoke to Hennessy, who spent three years at school in London, returned to South Sudan and was detained on his way back to Europe:
Migrant crisis: 'I feel like a dead person'
In general, the migrants passing through Libya are younger than those attempting the so-called Eastern Mediterranean route, through Turkey.
The authors of the report say levels of trafficking, imprisonment and forced labour are all infinitely greater in Libya, and the the journeys are longer and more hazardous.
South Africa's former President Kgalema Motlanthe has said that it would be good for his party, the ANC, to lose the next election in 2019 in order for it to renew itself.
"But that will take lots of courage and failing that it has to hit rock bottom. It has to lose elections for the penny to drop," he told the BBC's Hardtalk programme.
Quote MessageIt would be good for the ANC itself [to lose] and let me tell you why. Because those elements who are in it for the largesse will quit it, will desert it and only then would the possibility arise for salvaging whatever is left of it."
Mr Motlanthe has long been a critic of President Jacob Zuma and the alleged corruption within the ANC and has called on the leadership to step down.
He served as president between 2008 and 2009, making way for Mr Zuma after the 2009 elections.
Image source, AFPKgalema Motlanthe (right) has long been a critic of President Jacob Zuma (left)
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