Six top police officers in Uganda have been arraigned before a military court in the capital Kampala, state-affiliated publication New Vision reports., external

Their arrests follow an investigation into allegations they were operating private cells and orchestrating armed robberies.

The officers arrested include a former commandant of the special operations unit and the commandant of the police professional standards.

Investigators say the officers have also been involved in committing abuses against refugees in the country.

Some of the victims were allegedly repatriated back to their countries of origin, where they faced threats to their lives.

The New Vision newspaper also cites reports that President Yoweri Museveni had received a complaint from a United Nations agency regarding the mistreatment of refugees.

A private Kenyan TV station is reporting that police have been clashing with opposition supporters in the western town of Migori.

According to an AFP journalist in Kenya, the protesters are opposing plans to hold the repeat presidential election in the region.

The electoral commission suspended Thursday's poll in four counties in the western region, because of street protests and threats to their staff.

Those four areas are Migori, Siaya, Kisumu and Homa Bay.

The commission is planning to hold the vote there tomorrow.

US authorities say the Sudanese government has made progress in issues relating to counter-terrorism and human rights.

But while the removal of US sanctions earlier this month has been welcomed, some Sudanese people remain skeptical about the government's ability to steer the country in the right direction.

Our colleague Tomi Oladipo has been to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to see the impact on business and health:

British-Nigerian boxer Anthony Joshua is relishing the "great responsibility" of attempting to become the first man to hold all four heavyweight world titles.

The 28-year-old IBF and WBA champion faces Cameroon's Carlos Takam at Cardiff's Principality Stadium tomorrow.

A win will fuel talk of unifying the titles with the WBC crown of Deontay Wilder and Joseph Parker's WBO version.

"History is a great thing to chase," Joshua told BBC Sport. "It's very possible and a great challenge."

"It's like a diamond in the dirt, the treasure, trying to get that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."

Read more on the BBC Sport website.

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Two white farmers in South Africa who forced a black man into a coffin have been sentenced to jail for more than 10 years each.

Theo Martins Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen were convicted in August for attempted murder and kidnapping.

They accused Victor Mlotshwa of trespassing on their land, beat him up, made him get into a coffin and threatened to burn him alive.

Oosthuizen was jailed for 11 years and Jackson was jailed for 14 years.

Part of their sentence is also for assaulting the only witness in an attempt to stop him from testifying.

The sentencing of Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen to prison has sparked a huge reaction in South Africa.

The judge looked visibly angry as she explained that throughout the trial the accused showed “no remorse” for what they did.

For many – to watch on live television, a black female judge sentencing white males for a racist attack on a black young man – is a sign that things are changing in this tormented nation.

Twenty-three years after the end of apartheid, some will see it as a sign that the country is slowly coming of age.

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Read more on the BBC News website.

Several Kenyans have fled into neighbouring Uganda following clashes with police over yesterday's repeat presidential election, NTV Uganda reports.

It says police confronted opposition protesters in the western border town of Busia after they blocked roads and set fire to a market.

The officers used tear gas and live bullets to break up the protests:

NTV Uganda reports that tension is high.

A Kenyan radio station is reporting than a man has been shot dead in another western town - Bungoma - in the ongoing clashes over yesterday's election.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga had asked his supporters to boycott Thursday's repeat repeat election saying that it was a "sham".

His call seems to have been widely observed with the electoral commission reporting that fewer than 34% of registered voters took part in the election compared to almost 80% in the original poll in August.

Stephanie Hegarty
BBC Africa, Lagos

Nigeria’s Justice Minister Abubakar Malami, has said that the country recently recovered $85m (£64m) of stolen assets from the UK.

He claimed the money is linked to the Malabu scandal, a major case of alleged bribery involving oil giants Shell and ENI.

The Malabu scandal is one of the biggest corruption cases to hit Nigeria’s oil industry.

Investigators in Nigeria and in Italy claim that $1.1bn – which was paid to the government by international oil companies in 2006 – never made it into the national coffers.

Instead, they say, it ended up in the hands of a middleman called Dan Etete and his company Malabu Oil.

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The money recovered is a tiny fraction of the amount allegedly taken but a coup for the government nonetheless.

Since he came to office in 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari has been on a drive to repatriate money lost to corruption, much of which is spent in the US and the UK.

Earlier this year, Italian prosecutors took up the case against ENI and Shell for their alleged part in the scandal.

Ten days ago they issued charges against senior Shell executives.

In emails seen by the BBC in April, top officials at Shell acknowledge that the money they paid to the Nigerian government would end up with Dan Etete.

And that it might be used to pay bribes. Shell claim the transaction was legal and that Mr Etete was a legitimate negotiator.

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A French court has handed down a three-year suspended jail term to Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorin Obiang for corruption.

The 48-year-old, known for his lavish tastes, is the son of the oil-rich West African country's president.

He was absent from the trial, where he was found guilty of embezzlement.

His assets in France will be seized, including a mansion on Avenue Foch in Paris. He also got a suspended fine of 30m euros (£27m; $35m)

The hashtag #justiceforher is trending on social media as a four-year-old girl in Ghana continues to fight for her life in hospital after being raped.

The girl’s mother says the family identified the man who attacked her to a local chief.

However, the traditional leader allegedly told the family nothing could be done because the community gods deemed the accused man innocent.

The case has caused outrage in Ghana, dominating radio and social media conversations, with many people saying it demonstrates a culture that shields sex attackers.

Our colleague Akwasi Sarpong spoke to Angela Dwamena-Aboagye, a lawyer and women's empowerment campaigner:

More from BBC Focus on Africa radio.

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Somalia’s head of intelligence says they have asked the US and UK to share their intelligence on this month's devastating bomb attack and received no response.

Abdillahi Mohamed Sanbalooshe writes in the New York Times, external:

At least 358 people were killed when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel in the capital Mogadishu on 14 October.

There has not yet been a response from US or UK intelligence services to Mr Sanbalooshe's claims.

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Kenya's electoral commission says the turnout in yesterday's re-run of the presidential election was sharply down on the initial vote in August.

It's now put at under 34%, compared with nearly 80% during voting two months ago.

The figures suggest that many Kenyans heeded a call by the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, to boycott the election.

Voting has been suspended until Saturday in four counties where opposition supporters clashed with police.

Correspondents say the turnout raises questions about the credibility of the election.

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Burundi has become the first country to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) a year after it lodged its notice of withdrawal.

The East African country had accused the ICC of deliberately targeting Africans for prosecution.

In September, the UN Commission of Inquiry into Burundi accused the government of committing crimes against humanity, including executions and torture, and urged the ICC to open a prosecution as soon as possible.

Fadi El-Abdallah, the spokesman for the ICC, told the BBC Newsday programme that the withdrawal would not affect the the court's ongoing investigations in the country.

"Article 127 states that withdrawal does not affect the jurisdiction of the ICC over the the crimes that have been committed while the state was a state party," he said.

The court has 122 member countries, 34 are African, the largest continental bloc.

In 2015 Burundi was plunged into its worst crisis since the end of a civil war in 2005, when President Pierre Nkurunziza's push for a third term in office sparked protests by opposition supporters who said the move was unconstitutional.

South Africa and Kenya have also threatened to renounce their membership of the court accusing it of unfairly targeting of African countries.

Read our Burundi country profile here.

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