Summary

  • South Africa's monarchs get a pay rise

  • Tunisia opposition plan more protests

  • Massive power outage in Uganda and Kenya

  • Snow blankets the Sahara

  • Buhari orders police boss relocate to violence-hit state

  • Corruption investigation opened into Grace Mugabe's degree

  • Countdown to 'dry taps' in Cape Town

  • Suspected Islamist militants arrested in Mozambique

  • Injuries reported after South African train crash

  • Sudan vows crackdown over bread protests

Live Reporting

Dickens Olewe and Flora Drury

  1. More than 200 injured in S Africa train crash

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    The train crash happened this morning in Germiston, east of Johannesburg.

    Read our full story here, and keep checking back with Africa Live for more updates.

  2. Injuries after train crash in South Africa

    A commuter train has crashed in South Africa, just five days after a collision left 19 dead.

    The train crashed on Tuesday morning in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, with a number of injuries reported.

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    Metrorail spokeswoman Lillian Mofokeng told South Africa's TimesLive website an incoming train hit a stationary train from behind.

    She added there had been "some cable theft" which meant the train drivers were using a manual system.

    Meanwhile, families have begun identifying their loved ones following the fatal crash in Kroonstad, in Free State province, last week.

    News site IOL says local police have now confirmed 19 people died after the train collided with a truck, before bursting into flames.

    However, another 15 are still unaccounted for.

    Sipho Sithole, Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), told EyeWitness News the families would receive assistance:

    They have to be emotionally and psychologically prepared for what they are to experience. So we do have the psychiatrist and the counsellors that are there, including a priest, that will be able to just bring us closer to God and give us some strength."

  3. Zimbabwe investigates Grace Mugabe's doctorate

    Grace Mugabe at a campaign rallyAFP

    Mrs Mugabe obtained the degree after months of study

    Zimbabwean anti-corruption authorities have opened an investigation into the controversial awarding of a doctorate to Zimbabwe's former First Lady Grace Mugabe, news agency AFP reports.

    Phyllis Chikundura, the spokesperson for Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, confirmed there was an ongoing investigation.

    "We confirm there is such a report and there is such a probe," she said.

    Mrs Mugabe reportedly got the PhD after months of study in 2014.

    State-run The Herald newspaper reported at the time that Mrs Mugabe's dissertation was on the theme of "changing social structure (and) the functions of the family".

    It reported she undertook research on Zimbabwean children's homes.

    Mrs Mugabe was personally capped by her husband and then-president Robert Mugabe, who was also the chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe.

    She was praised at the time by other government officials who defended the controversial degree award.

    Mrs Mugabe had hoped to replace her husband as leader, but antagonised a faction of the ruling Zanu-PF party which led to a fallout within the party.

    The military then stepped in and forced President Mugabe to end his 37 year rule of the southern African country and installing his former deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as president.

    Read: Grace Mugabe: Who is Zimbabwe's former first lady?

  4. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day:

    Do not see a lion that has been rained on and think it is a cat."

    A Swahili proverb from Kenya sent by Debi Ndindjock in Dallas, United States

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