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And we leave you with this picture of two women dressed in traditional Ugandan wear (busuti) captured sharing a laugh which was posted by Sarah Waiswa, external and picked up on the Everyday Africa Instagram account:

Up to 150,000 people took to the streets of the Togolese capital, Lome, calling for political reforms, for a second day, journalist Blame Ekoue told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

He said people were carrying banners saying: "[President] Faure must go now", "Togo is not a monarchy" and "we want reform now".

President Faure Gnassingbe has been in power since 2005. He succeeded his father Gnassingbe Eyadema, who seized power in 1967.

One protester told Blame:

In the coming days, the national assembly is expected to meet in a special session to discuss changes to the constitution limiting presidential terms, but it is not clear if this will placate the protesters.

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Mogorosi Motshumi, the South African cartoonist witnessed the worst of apartheid, and was one of the only black artists using comics to document township life.

But now, Mogorosi is slowly going blind.

Last year, he published his life story as a graphic autobiography, becoming the first black South African cartoonist to do so.

He told BBC Outlook's reporter Daniel Gross how he first got into comics as a child.

We reported earlier that Uganda's Internal Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo was making a statement on a recent spate of murders close to the capital, Kampala.

According to the privately owned Observer, external newspaper the minister has linked the murders to the Illuminati - the group is a shadowy secret society believed by conspiracy theorists to be the mastermind behind global events.

The paper reports that Mr Odongo accused a businessman of facilitating the murders of the women in a belief that it would make his businesses thrive.

According to the Observer the minister said some of the suspects had forms given to them to "enlist in Illuminati".

Mr Odongo added that "others have 999 [an alleged Illuminati sign] tattooed on their bodies,." the Observer reports.

This is a tweet from the state-owned New Vision newspaper:

Minister Jeje Odongo's explanation has received a swift response from Ugandans via social media:

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has said he is "saddened" by the shooting of opposition MP Tundu Lissu, who is being treated in hospital.

He issued these tweets in Swahili:

"I've been saddened by the gun attack on Tundu Lissu, I'm praying to Almighty God that he may recover soon."

"Authorities should pursue all the perpetrators of this inhumane act and hand them over to the legal system."

The United Nations is installing solar panels to power hospitals in Libya.

They hope it will provide a solution to the long and frequent power outages that have become a problem for the country's healthcare system.

The BBC's Rana Jawad spoke to Noura Hamladji, country director for the UNDP, and Dr. Anas al-Barghathi who runs the Al-Kwefia hospital in Benghazi:

Tanzania's governing party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has responded with "shock" to the shooting of opposition MP Tundu Lissu earlier today.

Mr Lissu is being treated in hospital for the inuries. His party, Chadema, said he was "seriously wounded".

In a statement, CCM called on the police to act:

We reported earlier on how a video of two bodyguards brandishing guns had gone viral.

The latest from South African media is that they have been sacked.

According to eNCA, external the two men have been identified as members of the security detail of ANC regional secretary - Bheki Ntuli. Mr Ntuli is secretary for the eThekwini region.

One of the weapons shown off is an AK-47 assault rifle which, according to eNCA , is illegal to carry in South Africa.

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The ANC in Kwazulu-Natal has responded by saying that it strongly denounced and distanced itself from what it called the "Irresponsible display of weapons, irrespective of the purpose for which it was done".

The ANC then called on the security company responsible for the guards to: "take action against this unpalatable conduct."

Sammy Awami
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

Tanzanian MP Tundu Lissu is recovering in hospital after being shot earlier today, Reuters reports quoting a doctor.

Mr Lissu is the most vocal opposition politician in the country, a role which has found him in trouble with the authorities.

On several occasions Mr Lissu, who is also president of the country's bar law association, has in the past been arrested for inciting public disorder and calling the president a dictator.

Image source, AFP

In July last year, he accused President John Magufuli of “creating a climate of fear in the country and constructing a system based on favouritism, tribalism and regionalism”.

Late last month, police arrested Mr Lissu for alleging that he had evidence to prove that the government's new commercial aircraft Bombardier Q400, which was yet to be brought into the country, had been seized in Canada due to the government's failure to pay compensation of $38.7m (£29.5m) to a Canadian firm, Stirling Civil Engineering.

The story of a date that went horribly wrong has become something of a phenomenon in the UK, with more than six million people taking time to read this

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But people are beginning to share it all over again - except this time in Pidgin.

The BBC's newest language service has the story with this headline:

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Which seems to sum it up nicely even if you don't fully understand what it means.

(It translates as UK:Poo trapped a woman who came for a romantic date which doesn't sounds as good.)

And it seems to have tickled people:

And in case you haven't had enough - here's the Pidgin video:

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In a report on extremism in Africa, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says those with a lower level of religious education are more likely to join Islamist militant groups.

The UNDP spoke to nearly 500 people who had voluntarily signed up with militant organisations such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Shabab in Somalia.

Almost two-thirds of those interviewed said they had been provoked by some sort of government action against the militants.

Many of them also said they had experienced unhappy childhoods.

For more read: Boko Haram and al-Shabab recruits 'lack religious schooling'

Image source, AFP

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

A worrying video showing two armed men brandishing guns making death threats has gone viral in South Africa.

The video seems to come from the KwaZulu Natal province where there has recently been a spike in political killings.

In the video one of the men can be seen cocking an automatic pistol and another an AK-47 automatic rifle, which according to South African law is illegal to carry.

Local media reports say that the men are believed to be bodyguards of a leading ANC member in the province.

It is not entirely clear when the video was filmed but it surfaced this morning via social media outlets.

The men are speaking in the language of IsiZulu which is widely spoken in KwaZulu Natal.

Regional ANC leaders who have been shown the video promised an investigation.

This comes as the ANC is mourning the death of one of its leaders, who died on Monday, following an attack in July where he was shot in an apparent assassination.

Police in Rwanda say that they have arrested seven people accused of being members of armed groups operating in an unnamed neighbouring country.

According to their statement, external three of those arrested were "young recruits" who were intercepted as they were on their way for military training outside Rwanda.

According to the police the "recruitment network" has been under surveillance for some time.

The arrests were confirmed by an unregistered opposition party, FDU Inkini. But according to their press statement, external those arrested are leaders of the party based in Rwanda.

They are named as: First Vice-President Boniface Twagirimana, Fabien Twagirayezu in charge of mobilisation, Assistant Treasurer Leonille Gasengayire, Gratien Nsabiyaremye an assistant commissioner and Theophile Ntirutwa a representative of FDU in Kigali.

A statement released by another unregistered opposition party, PD Imanzi, said that its vice-president and spokesperson in Rwanda, Jean-Marie Vianney Kayumba, is also among those arrested.

Currently the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is opposed to the Kigali government, operates from eastern DR Congo.

Tanzanian opposition MP Tundu Lissu is in a stable condition after being shot in the capital, Dodoma, reports the Reuters news agency quoting a doctor at the hospital.

Police and party officials say that he has had emergency surgery, Reuters adds.

It also quotes a spokesman from his party, Chadema, as saying that he "suffered multiple gunshot wounds".

The police told Reuters that they did not know the motive behind the attack and that the suspects were not in custody.

Image source, Chadema

As the working day is nearly over in Kenya, it seems that the meeting between the country's main political parties and the electoral commission (IEBC) to break the impasse over the 17 October presidential election re-run will not be taking place, reports the BBC's Gladys Njoroge in Nairobi.

The IEBC was supposed to meet with members of the governing Jubilee party and the opposition National Super Alliance to sort out issues over the make up of the commission.

It is not clear why the meeting has not taken place.

Anti-government protesters have begun a second day of demonstrations in the Togolese capital, Lome.

They are protesting against President Faure Gnassingbe, in power since 2005, and calling for a two-term limit for heads of state.

Wednesday's demonstrations in several cities across the country were described as "unprecedented" in their scale.

The BBC's Nicolas Agbossou took this video clip of the protesters today:

Tanzania's main opposition Chadema party has released a statement following the shooting of one of its leading members. Tundu Lissu is now being treated in hospital.

The party says:

Image source, AFP

The Tanzanian opposition MP who has been shot in the capital, Dodoma, suffered multiple wounds and is being treated in hospital, officials from his Chadema party have told the BBC.

Tanzanian Opposition MP Tundu Lissu has been shot in the capital, Dodoma, local media are reporting.

He is now being treated in hospital, sources say.

Mr Lissu of the Chadema party has been arrested several times for criticising the government and inciting public disorder and on several occasions he has called President John Magufuli a dictator, the BBC's Sammy Awami reports from Tanzania.

Uganda's Minister of Internal Affairs, Jeje Odongo, is delivering a statement on a recent spate of murders close to the capital Kampala. At least 20 women have been killed since June this year. Several people have been arrested, although the murders are reported to have continued.

On Wednesday a parliamentary session was called off because of the minister's failure to appear before it to make a statement regarding the murders.

According to a Parliament of Uganda tweet, Gen Odongo has apologised for his absence:

Earlier this week we reported on the murders in Uganda.

We will keep you updated on what Uganda's Interior minister says.