Summary

  • Long queues form at petrol stations in Nigeria's capital

  • Zimbabwe's internet disrupted after "cable cuts"

  • Listeria kills dozens in South Africa

  • German tourist shot dead in Ethiopia

  • Switzerland to return looted $321m to Nigeria

  • AU to repatriate about 15,000 migrants from Libya

  • Ramaphosa takes lead in battle to succeed Zuma

  • Nigeria governor's sister made a happiness commissioner

Live Reporting

Dickens Olewe and Farouk Chothia

  1. Ramaphosa takes lead in ANC leadership race

    South African President Jacob Zuma (L) and South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa (R) shake hands as they arrive to attend the opening session of the South African ruling party African National Congress (ANC) policy conference on June 30, 2017 in Johannesburg.AFP

    Cyril Ramaphosa (L) hopes to succeed President Zuma

    South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken the lead in the race to succeed the scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma as leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC) after more than 3,000 branches of the party nominated their candidate.

    Mr Ramaphosa won about 1,860 nominations, compared with about 1,310 for his main rival rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the president's ex-wife and former chairwoman of the African Union Commission.

    The ANC will elect a new leader at its national conference starting on 16 December.

    The winner will lead the party's campaign in the 2019 election, when Mr Zuma's 10-year rule ends.

    Mr Ramaphosa's toughest challenge is that Ms Dlamini-Zuma has the majority of nominations in the ANC's two biggest regions, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, which are sending the most delegates to the conference, South Africa's privately owned News24 site reports.

    Bigger branches have more votes, making it unclear whether Mr Rampahosa will retain his lead.

    Read: Ramaphosa - the man who wants to make South Africa great and Dlamini-Zuma - the woman who wants to make history

  2. Switzerland to return seized Abacha loot

    File photo dated 26 March 1997 shows Nigerian President General Sani Abacha during a summit in Lome.AFP

    Gen Sani Abacha was regarded as one of Nigeria's most brutal and corrupt rulers

    Switzerland will return to Nigeria about $321m (£239m) of government money looted by former military ruler Sani Abacha, following a memorandum of understanding signed by the two governments.

    In a statement, the Swiss government said:

    In accordance with policy on repayment of national assets taken illegally, Switzerland has agreed with Nigeria and the World Bank to return nearly $321m for the benefit of the Nigerian people."

    Abacha is suspected to have embezzled $2.2bn from Nigeria's central bank in what the United States has called "brazen acts of kleptocracy" during his rule from 1993 until his death in 1998.

    Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has been pressing foreign governments to return stolen money stashed in their countries.

    Mr Buhari took office in 2015 on a pledge to fight corruption.

  3. AU to evacuate 15,000 Libya migrants

    The African Union (AU) has agreed to evacuate some 15,000 African migrants in Libya before the end of year, the deputy chairman of the AU Commission, Kwesi Quartey, has tweeted.

    The repatriations would be voluntary, and would be done in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), he added.

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    At least 20,000 migrants are being held in government detention centres in Libya, Mr Quartey said.

    The move follows reports that migrants are being sold in slave markets in the North African state, sparking global outrage.

    An urgent evacuation plan for migrants in Libyan detention camps was drawn at an AU-EU summit in Ivory Coast last week.

    Libya has undergone years of instability since rebels toppled former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

    Two main factions control the oil-rich nation: a UN- backed government and a group led by a self-styled general.

    Mr Quartey said the AU will work with member states to facilitate the evacuation and the "sustainable reintegration" of migrants into their communities:

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  4. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day:

    A lion is bought and sold from a distance."

    An Ijebu proverb from Nigeria sent by Biyi Rah in Surrey, UK

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