Summary

  • Tanzania's president reveals his salary

  • Kenyan nursery pupils "traumatised" by tear-gas attack

  • Reporter held over Grace Mugabe underwear story

  • Pistorius family to sue makers of new film

  • Nigerian ex-first lady decries "witch-hunt"

  • Kenya opposition refuse to budge on electoral sackings

  • Zimbabwe fans mob Brazil football legend Rivaldo

  • Egypt sees further wave of LGBT arrests

  • Super Eagles fined $30,000 by Fifa

  • Homes of Bobi Wine and another Ugandan MP attacked

  • Kenya's University of Nairobi shut down amid unrest

  • Libya ceasefire in migrant-smuggling hub

  1. Wise wordspublished at 09:08 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Today's African proverb:

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    When you gift a piece of cloth to a lazy man, you also need to provide the dye"

    A Yoruba proverb sent by Samuel Oluwatosin Aisa in Jos, Nigeria

    Cloth exhibits at the famous dyeing pits in the Nigerian city of KanoImage source, AFP
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    Cloth exhibits at the famous dyeing pits in the Nigerian city of Kano

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  2. Good morningpublished at 09:07 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

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