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Two members of South Africa's elite "Hawks" police unit have been arrested for allegedly taking part in a 1m rand ($79,000; £58,500) armed robbery.

Warrant officers Tefo Maimane, 49, and Eric Melaphi, 41‚ are accused of taking a share of the money after stopping a man for dangerous driving in September, Hawks spokesperson Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu told local media in a statement.

The two, who are attached to the Hawks unit, along with two other officers, took the man to the nearest police station.

Capt Mulamu said they then discovered boxes filled with cash "including a receipt indicating the total amount which the victim had exchanged for his employer”.

She continued:

The two men and detective constable Khumbulo Gadivhana, 36, appeared in court on Tuesday, where the case was delayed until 27 December for bail hearings.

Capt Mulamu says one person is still at large.

The Hawks - otherwise known as the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation - investigate serious organised and commercial crimes, and high-level corruption.

Eyebrows have been raised across Nigeria after a senator famed for his love of the high-life appeared in an Afro-Trap music video wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with one word: Legend.

Dino Melaye may only have a cameo in the lavish video - which features musician Kach, who also happens to be the son of Nigeria's oil minister - but he is arguably the star of the show.

After all, the song is called "Dino".

But is it satire or simply a suggestion the Kogi West politician is oblivious to the criticism which swirls around him?

The video includes lyrics about "ballin'", "Gucci" and "telling the truth just like I'm Dino", while the video shows Kach throwing money over a woman sitting on a sports car, and eating $100 bills with his friends.

This is seen as particularly insensitive by some given Kogi State's poor record on paying government workers.

Others are more impressed.

Either way, it seems likely Mr Melaye will survive any fall-out, as the senator appears to thrive on controversy.

He is in the process of being recalled from parliament, once threatened to rape another senator and published a video ranting against those who dared investigate him for corruption, the BBC's Stephanie Hegarty in Lagos says.

The face he pulled in that video - thumbing his nose those who tell tales - is also pulled in the new video, suggesting he has not been chastened in recent months.

And then there is the fact he has also just been named Kogi State's "best senator since 1999".

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It looks like Ace Magashule remains the newly elected secretary-general of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) after a vote recount of missing votes, according to local media.

His election was challenged by supporters of a rival candidate, Senzo Mchunu - an ally of the new ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa, who lost by 24 votes.

They alleged votes from 68 delegates at the ANC conference in Johannesburg had gone missing.

Sources have told Eyewitness News, external that Mr Mchunu will only be given 15 out of the 68 omitted votes. This means Mr Magashule comes out the victor.

Local ANC officials have also been tweeting the news, although it has not been officially announced yet:

Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa, Kampala

Uganda’s parliament has begun a third day of debate on a bill which will allow President Yoweri Museveni to run for a sixth term in office.

Clashes between MPs and security forces have marked proceedings in the house, with the fistfights, flying chairs and scuffles making headlines around the world.

Check out this video to find out why MPs were smashing plates yesterday:

Plans to remove age restrictions for the presidency, which is currently capped at 75, have led to some protests.

Some see it as opening the way for a potential life presidency for Mr Museveni, who is 73 years old. If the bill isn't passed he won't be able to run in election in 2021.

His supporters say Ugandans can always vote him out of power. The opposition say elections have not been free and fair and fear they will not be in the future

Government ministers say they are confident the legislation will be passed today.

• Africa Live will be following events in the Ugandan parliament throughout the day.

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Nigeria’s navy has appointed its first female general from the north of the country.

The privately owned news website the Cable quotes Jamila Malafa as saying:

She was promoted to the rank of commodore, which according to the Daily Trust newspaper is equivalent to the army rank of brigadier general, external, earlier this week at a colourful ceremony at the naval headquarters in the capital, Abuja.

Cmdr Malafa comes from Adamawa, a landlocked state in north-eastern Nigeria, and became a midshipman in 1990.

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A number of preachers and almost 100 children have been held after a raid on an Islamic school in Kenya, local media reports.

It is not known exactly why the raid in Likoni town, on the coast, was carried out. However, several reports suggest international forces were involved – with both the UK and US being mentioned.

Media outlets link it to different things – including a “terror cell” and “a child-trafficking syndicate spanning several nations and continents”.

The Star newspaper reported the children, as young as five, came from places as far afield as the US, UK, and Canada, external, as well as countries across Africa.

A police source, who did not want to be named, told news agency Reuters the school was a “centre for indoctrinating young men and children with militant ideology” which had been under surveillance for some time.

Sheikh Hassan Omar, a senior official in the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK), an umbrella body for Kenya’s religious leaders, told journalists the children were sleeping when “a group of local and foreign police officers raided the madrassa”.

A senior police officer told Reuters the children would be released "one by one" after being interrogated.

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