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Ethiopia is to drop charges against 528 prisoners in the coming days.

Attorney general Getachew Ambaye said they would be released from jail after two days of what he described as rehabilitation training.

He said prisoners due for release included those who had not used force to try to dismantle the government.

Earlier this month, Ethiopia said it would release some of the country's politicians and close a notorious detention centre.

Thousands of people have been detained during more than two years of anti-government protests.

Read: Are Ethiopian protests a game changer?

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Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has summoned the US ambassador to Accra, Robert Porter Jackson, to protest against President Donald Trump's alleged use of the word "shithole" to describe African states.

Ghana would not tolerate "unprovoked attacks" by Mr Trump, and attempts to "denigrate our freedoms and rights", the Minister of Foreign affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, said.

Mr Trump said he had used "tough language" - but not "shithole" - at a closed-door meeting last week to discuss immigration reforms.

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Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram have released a video of what it says are the remaining Chibok girls who it kidnapped in 2014.

The video shows a group of veiled young women and some children with one of them speaking directly to the camera.

It also shared another video showing what the militants say is a downed Nigerian military aircraft.

Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria since 2009, and has also carried out attacks in neighbouring countries.

Thousands have been killed and millions displaced in the fighting.

The militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Chibok town in 2014, causing global outrage.

The militants are thought to be still holding at least 100, having released the rest of the girls.

Read: Who are Boko Haram?

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Zimbabwe's ousted President Robert Mugabe was warned that he could be lynched like long-serving Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi if he refused to step down, his ex-spokesman George Charamba has told the privately owned Daily News newspaper, external.

He tried to reconcile with his former deputy Emmerson Mnagangwa amidst the military take over which ousted him from office, his long-time spokesman has revealed.

Recalling the last days of Mr Mugabe's 37-year reign, Mr Charamba said the 93-year-old wanted "to go on his own terms" and had to be warned of the dangers following the military's intervention and the outbreak of protests.

Read: The fate of the Chibok girls

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Gas tanks have exploded at a gas supply station in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, causing a huge inferno.

Police says no deaths have been reported, but some local media are reporting that at least 10 people have been killed following the explosion at the Second Coming gas station in the Magodo area.

The fire has spread to surrounding buildings and firemen and staff from other emergency services are at the scene, the reports say.

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Angola's Catholic Church has welcomed President Joao Lourenço's decision to allow its Radio Ecclesia station to broadcast throughout the country.

The decision marks the end of a "great injustice", Angola Episcopal Conference spokesman Jose Manuel Imbaba said.

At present, Radio Ecclesia can only be heard in the capital, Luanda. The decision marks a rapprochement between the government and the church, which has, at times, been critical of the government.

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The owner of Swaziland's leading football club, Mbabane Swallows, has been shot dead at close range at a filling station in the capital, Mbabane.

Mr Gamedze was killed soon after leaving the Somhlolo National Stadium, having watched his team, the reigning champions in Swaziland, beat Manzini Wanderers 1-0 in the Ingwenyama Cup quarter-finals.

A gunman fired two shots at Victor Gamedze, hitting him in the cheek and around the forehead as he was about to enter his car after visiting a convenient store at the filing station,the Times of Swaziland newspaper quoted witnesses as saying, external.

Two suspects have been arrested while trying to cross into South Africa through the Lundzi Border post,the Swazi Observer newspaper quoted police sources as saying, external.

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South Africa's foreign office has summoned the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in the capital, Pretoria over President Trump's derogatory remark about African countries.

Mr Trump reportedly referred to states in the continent as "shithole countries" during a discussion about an immigration policy.

He has now told reporters: "I am not a racist. I'm the least racist person you have ever interviewed."

A statement from the South African foreign office says that it aligns itself with the statement issued by the African Union.

The continent's top body expressed its "shock, dismay and outrage" over the comments and called on Mr Trump to apologise.

South Africa said that relations between the country and the US must be based on mutual respect.

Namibia, Botswana and Ghana are some of the African countries that have issued strong statement condemning Mr Trump.

Read: Was the alleged slur racist?

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