Africa highlights: Thursday 21 September 2017

Summary

Kenya's election re-run date changed
Nigerian government bans Biafra separatists
Zuma critic quits ANC
'Over 50 die' in Chad cholera outbreak
Sierra Leone FA boss charged with corruption
US President Donald Trump congratulates 'Nambia'
Hecklers cause Ugandan parliament to halt

Live Reporting

Clare Spencer and Dickens Olewe

Kenyan newspapers criticised over headlinespublished at 10:48 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
Critics say Kenyan mainstream newspapers are "misinforming" the public this morning.
It comes a day after the Supreme Court explained why the 8 August presidential election was nullified.
A local journalist tweets:
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Two newspapers, The Star and People Daily, have chosen to focus on the ruling by the two dissenting judges.
They report says that the two judges did not find any legitimate reason to cancel the election.
The Daily Nation's headline "IEBC off the hook" focuses on comments by the majority of judges who did not find the electoral commission officials liable.
The Standard newspaper has focused on the majority judges' judgment on how the electoral commission failed to carry out a credible election.
Kampala mayor arrestedpublished at 10:39 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
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BBC Africa, Kampala
The Lord Mayor of Uganda's capital Kampala was arrested this morning and is still in police custody.
Police said they had information that Erias Lukwago would lead protests against scrapping the age limit for standing for president.
They say they found "anti-age limit" T-shirts in his office at City Hall.
He is in detention and is unable to respond to these accusations.
It comes as MP Raphael Magyezi from the ruling NRM is expected to table a motion in parliament seeking leave to prepare a bill to scrap the upper age limit.
The country's age limit for the presidency is currently 75.
President Yoweri Museveni says he is 73. That means, as the law stands right now, he would not be able to stand in the next election.
There is a sense of tension all over Kampala, where a lot of police have been deployed.
Anti-terror police are surrounding the parliament building and military police are patrolling the city.
Even MPs are being searched by security as they enter parliament.
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Some people think Mr Museveni is older than he says he is
US condemns Uganda raid on NGO officespublished at 10:04 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
The US ambassador in Uganda Debora Malac has condemned Wednesday's police raid at the offices of an NGO that reportedly criticised plans to scrap the presidential age limit.
She said in a statement that she was "disturbed" by the raids:
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Police conducted searches at ActionAid offices alongside other local NGOs.
The ambassador called on the Ugandan government to guarantee the rights of "its citizens freedom of speech, expression, and assembly, without fear of intimidation".
MPs from the ruling NRM party have launched a plan to scrap the presidential age limit which currently stands at 75.
It is seen as a push to remove barriers that would block President Yoweri Museveni who has been in power since the 1980s, to run again.
The government says he is 73 but the opposition has said he is lying about this and is actually five years older.
Nigerian government bans Biafra separatistspublished at 09:08 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
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The Nigerian government has declared the separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a terrorist organisation.
The country's army had made a similar declaration last week but it later retracted the statement.
Now the government says it has obtained a court order permitting it to declare Ipob a terror group.
Ipob is demanding an independent state in south-east Nigeria.
Nigeria's Justice minister Abubakar Malami told the BBC that the court order criminalises Ipob and is intended to ensure no member of Ipob operates within Nigeria.
Trumps calls Namibia 'Nambia'published at 09:02 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
People are still discussing remarks by US President Donald Trump during a working lunch at the sidelines of the ongoing UN general assembly.
Mr Trump's mispronunciation of Namibia as "Nambia" got a lot of attention on Twitter:
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Namibia was among the first countries in the world to have a spoof video mocking Mr Trump's "America first" policy:
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Another part of Mr Trump's six minutes speech, external that is getting a lot of attention is his comment about the "tremendous" potential of the business environment in Africa that had attracted "many" of his friends to go to the continent to try "to get rich":
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Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich. I congratulate you. They're spending a lot of money.
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It has a tremendous business potential and representing huge amounts of different markets. And for American firms it's really become a place that they have to go - that they want to go."
Mr Trump also said he was concerned about several African conflicts, mentioning the Central African Republic, Mali, Somalia and South Sudan, among others.
He said he would send his UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, to Africa to discuss conflict resolution and prevention.
Today's wise wordspublished at 08:55 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
Our African proverb of the day:
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Slapping a rich man is not a problem, but finding somewhere to sleep afterwards may well be."
Sent by Innocent Nwofili in Asaba, Nigeria
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Good morningpublished at 08:54 British Summer Time 21 September 2017
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