Summary

  • Kenyan MP asked to apologise over WhatsApp message

  • Nigerian state government condemned for honouring scandal-hit Zuma

  • Death toll rises after Mogadishu bombing

  • Turkey airlifts 30 of the wounded for emergency treatment

  • Monkeypox outbreak confirmed in Nigeria

  • Poll shows Cairo and Kinshasa are the worst cities for women

  • Taxi passengers' bodies "found" in DR Congo

Live Reporting

Natasha Booty and Farouk Chothia

  1. Taxi passengers' bodies 'found' in DR Congo

    BBC World Service

    The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo says the bodies of 26 people killed in an ambush by rebels earlier this month have been discovered in the east of the country.

    The victims - all but one of them civilians - were attacked in the restive Beni territory of North Kivu as they travelled by taxi.

    The authorities said they had been unable to locate the bodies before now because of intense fighting in the area, where hundreds of people have died in recent years.

    The Congolese army and United Nations peacekeepers have blamed the ambush on a Ugandan-based Islamist group called the Allied Democratic Forces.

  2. Kenya police 'killed 30 protesters'

    Supporters of opposition coalition the National Super Alliance (NASA) set a tire in fire in Kisumu, western Kenya, on October 13, 2017AFP

    Opposition supporters say the August poll was rigged

    Kenyan police killed at least 30 people in the capital, Nairobi, after the opposition protested against the disputed presidential election in August, two leading human rights organisations have said.

    In a new report, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said police were "directly implicated", while there were unconfirmed reports that they killed another 17 people in the city.

    They accused the police of raising tensions by using heavy force in areas they regarded as hotspots for potential violence.

    The rights groups say excessive force has become a hallmark of police operations in Kenya.

    Last week, the main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, pulled out of the presidential election re-vote scheduled for later this month.

    He said he did not believe a fair vote could be held without reforms in the process.

  3. Somalia bombing death toll 'rises to 300'

    Men carry the body of a victim who died in the explosionAFP

    A lorry was packed with explosives and detonated near the entrance of a hotel

    A massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday is now known to have killed at least 300 people, Reuters news agency reports.

    At least 300 others were wounded, AFP news agency reports, when a lorry packed with explosives was detonated near the entrance of a hotel.

    Reuters quotes Ahmed Ali, a nurse working at a local hospital, as saying 160 bodies couldn't be recognised so they were buried by the government yesterday. He says the others were buried by their relatives.

    It is the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since militant Islamist al-Shabab group launched its insurgency in 2007.

    President Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed blamed the attack on them, calling it a "heinous act".

    "We have confirmed 300 people died in the blast. The death toll will still be higher because some people are still missing," Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of the city's ambulance service, told Reuters.

    Protestors in Mogadishu on 15th October 2017AFP

    Residents of Mogadishu angered by the bombing protested at the weekend

  4. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day:

    If a cockroach is able to display its dance moves it means the hen isn't around."

    Sent by Ifeanyi Dike in Nigeria

    A cockroachAFP

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