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The claim by US venture capitalist Sean Murphy: A dog in the US is more likely to receive radiotherapy than a person in Nigeria.

BBC Reality Check's verdict: There are far fewer radiotherapy machines serving people in Nigeria than dogs in the US. But more US pets are diagnosed with cancer than Nigerian people - so there are more machines per cancer patient in Nigeria than per pet with cancer in the US.

If the story intrigues you read more on the BBC News website.

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A court in Zimbabwe has released a man on $200 (£150) bail for saying President Robert Mugabe, 93, is "daydreaming and old", a rights group has tweeted:

Sten Zvorwadza, the chairman of Zimbabwe's National Vendors Union, was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of undermining the authority of the president and insulting him.

Mr Zvorwadza's arrest came after he condemned Mr Mugabe's call for street vendors in Harare to immediately move to designated areas because he wanted the capital to be the "smartest of all towns".

The city - including the road that bears his name - had become dirty and should be cleared, Mr Mugabe said at a rally at the weekend.

In his response, Mr Zvorwadza told the privately owned Daily News site

Meanwhile, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports that police were deployed in and around Harare today as as a crackdown on illegal street vendors and pirate taxis was launched.

Some vendors stayed away from their usual selling points, but others parts of the city were still bustling, says the BBC's Shingai Nyoka in Harare.

A Morocccan court has reversed an earlier ruling which had - for the first time in the country's history - recognised a man as the father of a child born outside of marriage, reports Reuters news agency.

The decision by the appeals court in the coastal city of Tangiers has angered human rights activists.

A lower court had ruled in January that the man was the father of a girl born to a woman who was not his wife, based on DNA test results provided by the mother.

Following that decision, the father was ordered to pay the mother 100,000 Dirhams ($10,600; £8,000), Reuters reports, adding that the child was however not granted inheritance rights.

Today's ruling overturns that judgement, and the mother has been ordered to pay legal costs, AFP quotes her defence lawyer as saying.

The lawyer, Ahmed Guennoun, added:

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Sex outside of marriage is banned in Morocco, where nearly 30,000 single mothers give birth every year according to a joint report in 2011 by the UN and women's rights NGO Insaf.

Abortion has been legal in the country since 2015 in select cases such as pregnancies resulting from rape or malformation of the foetus.

Insaf has criticised today's ruling, saying the Moroccan justice system was helping men avoid "taking responsibility for their actions... to the detriment of a newborn".

The organisation says single mothers in Morocco deal with "exclusion, rejection, discrimination and even exploitation".

Peter Schwartzstein
Cairo

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The world's longest river is sick - and getting sicker.

Booming populations have dirtied and drained it, while climate change threatens to cut its flow.

And some fear that competition over its dwindling waters could trigger a regional conflict.

The rot starts at the source. For as long as the Nile has flowed, Ethiopia’s rains have made up the great bulk – over 80% – of its waters.

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Though slightly longer, the White Nile, which originates in East Africa's Lake Victoria and merges with the Ethiopian branch at Khartoum, carries a fraction of the volume.

But these rains are not falling as they used to. And that is potentially catastrophic for the entire basin.

Image source, Jonathan Rashad

Image source, Jonathan Rashad

Read the full story on the BBC News website.

Stanley Kwenda
BBC Africa, London

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At Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's press conference, I asked him whether he was surprised that his former player, Kolo Toure, had made the transition to assistant coach for Scottish side Celtic and the Ivory Coast national team.

In his response Mr Wenger chose to first congratulate another of his former players, George Weah on, he said, becoming the new president of Liberia.

For a moment I thought he had received a call from Weah confirming the result of Tuesday's presidential election.

I knew the official results are not yet out but I thought Wenger may have better intelligence than me. His eyes were glinting, and he spoke with much excitement and a genuine congratulatory feel.

Wenger and Weah share a very special relationship and I will not be surprised if the Arsenal manager goes to Liberia for Weah's inauguration - that is if he wins.

See our earlier post for more details.

Three men accused of cannibalism in South Africa have been released from police custody after charges against them were provisionally withdrawn, a local newspaper reports.

They had been charged with murder and conspiracy to murder, as South Africa does not have a specific charge of cannibalism.

Prosecutors told a court in the farming town of Estcourt that the charges against the three had been provisionally withdrawn, and they may or may not be re-instated at a later stage, the Estcourt and Midlands News site reports, external.

AFP news agency gives a different account, saying the three had been acquitted because of a lack of evidence.

Four other men charged with them remained in police custody.

Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse crowds of people who hurled insults at the accused as they appeared in court, AFP news agency reports.

The men sat in the dock, hiding their faces with their hands and hooded tops, it adds.

The seven were arrested after police said one of them walked into a police station in August with a leg and a hand, and said he was tired of eating human flesh.

Sammy Awami
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

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Global rates of avoidable blindness are set to increase threefold in the next four decades, warns a report by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), external.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are feared to be most at risk.

The research points to 30 years of stagnation in tackling the leading cause of avoidable blindness, especially among people aged over 50.

The IAPB, an international alliance of eye care organisations, believes this stagnation is partly due to a rise in the world's ageing population

Cataracts, glaucoma and untreated cases of blurred vision are some of the leading causes of blindness, according to the report published in the Lancet medical journal.

A lack of resources is blamed for sub-Saharan Africa's failure to match the progress seen in higher income countries, the report says, highlighting the need for a massive increase in eye care provision.

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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Local officials in Ethiopia say at least eight people have been killed and 30 wounded in renewed disturbances in the Oromia region.

The anti-government protests are reported to have taken place in a number of towns.

Hundreds were killed during widespread protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions last year.

The government imposed a state of emergency, which was lifted in August.

Read: What do Oromo protests mean for Ethiopian unity?

Between 1904-1908 German colonial forces wiped out over 80% of the Nama and Herero people's population in what historians now call "the forgotten genocide".

A class action suit is being brought against the German government for reparations. Hear descendants of the Herero victims tell their story.

Arsenal football club manager Arsene Wenger has been duped by false reports that former football star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential election, when in fact the final result have not yet been announced.

On Arsenal's website, external Wenger says:

Arsene Wenger was Weah's manager at Monaco in the 1990s.

Weah, a former Fifa World Footballer of the Year, ran for Liberia's presidency in Tuesday's election.

He failed in his two previous attempts to become president.

A 38-year-old man is due in court today in South Africa accused of trying to travel with suitcases stuffed with more than 10m Rand ($740,000; £560,000) in cash, the local eNCA news site reports, external.

Customs officials detained the man and seized the cash yesterday at Cape Town International airport. He had been planning to fly to Dubai, a spokesman for the elite police unit, the Hawks, was quoted as saying.

He added:

The suspect is expected to appear at Bellville Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on charges of contravening the Customs and Excise Act by failing to declare the cash, the news site reports.

An apartheid-era policeman in South Africa, Joao Rodrigues, should be investigated on charges of accessory to murder and purgery over the 1971 death of political activist Ahmed Timol, an inquest judge has ruled.

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Judge Billy Mothle rejected Mr Rodrigues' testimony that Mr Timol had "dived" out of the 10th floor window of the police headquarters in the main city, Johannesburg.

Mr Timol had been "pushed" to his death, and had been murdered, the judge ruled.

Mr Timol's family welcomed the ruling, saying it felt "vindicated" after a decades-long campaign for the truth to emerge.

More than 70 activists had died in detention during apartheid, and the ruling is expected to lead to increased pressure on the democratically elected government to investigate their deaths.

Read the full BBC story here.

Helen Oyibo
BBC News, Lagos

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Police in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos say they are investigating Davido, whose birth name is David Adeleke, over the circumstances leading to the death of his friend, Tagbo Umeike.

A police spokesman told BBC News Pidgin that Davido is not considered a suspect at this stage, but confirmed that the afrobeats star had been called in for an interview, along with relatives of the deceased who were there at the time of his death.

The spokesman added:

Mr Tagbo, a friend of Davido, died on 3 October and his body was reportedly abandoned in front of a hospital in Lagos.

Davido has consistently denied any involvement in the death.

Trans singer and dancer Titica has become a big star among young Angolans and an icon for anti-LGBT discrimination. But her path to the top wasn't easy.

The BBC went to meet her in the Angolan capital Luanda.

Video journalist: Horaci Garcia

Producer: Clare Spencer

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Burkina Faso's former foreign minister, Djibril Bassolé, is being placed under house arrest following his release from military custody over treason charges.

He is under scrutiny for his alleged role in the failed coup in 2015.

Mr Bassolé will be held in a presidential villa under military surveillance.

His family say they do not know his exact location, and they had been expecting him to return home.

Read more: What was behind the coup in Burkina Faso?

It's often difficult to find reasons to smile in a headline. But Godfrey Mwampembwa - also known as Gado - does just that.

The Kenya-based artist is one of the continent's most respected political cartoonists.

When he visited BBC Newsday's studio he answered a number of listeners' questions. First off, Ernest in Belgium asked Gado whether he had ever been intimidated:

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Demonstrations have been banned in the central business districts of three major Kenyan cities - the capital Nairobi, Mombasa and the opposition stronghold of Kisumu.

The minister of internal security, Fred Matiang'i, said protest organisers would be held personally liable for any damage caused.

There has been growing tension in the country since the Supreme Court annulled the results of August's presidential election.

The main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has announced his withdrawal from a planned re-run and his supporters have been holding regular protests.

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A judge in South Africa has ruled that prominent anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol had been murdered after being pushed from a police building, overturning a 1972 ruling that he had jumped from the 10th floor and had committed suicide.

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Timol's death in police custody in October 1971 had caused global outrage, and his family had been campaigning since the end of apartheid in 1994 for the inquest to be reopened.

His family rejected the findings of the original inquest, saying it was a cover-up by the apartheid regime.

Timol died six days before his 30th birthday.

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This is the first time since the racist system of apartheid ended that a new inquest into the death of an activist has been held.

Mr Timol's relatives put intense pressure on the democratic state to re-open the inquest after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - set up to investigate apartheid era atrocities - failed to investigate his death.

A website for wildlife enthusiasts has shared a video, external of a curious lion biting a car tyre which then explodes.

The comic moment was caught on video in South Africa's Kruger national park by 13-year-old Sean Obeirne, who was sitting in a car across the road at the time. He tells Latest Sightings:

Sean says he recognised one of the passengers in the car from school, and his father duly helped to change the punctured tyre before setting off.

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