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A new species of dinosaur found in the Egyptian desert is shedding light on Africa's missing history of dinosaurs.

Few fossils have been unearthed from the last days of the dinosaurs, between 100 and 66 million years ago, on the continent.

Scientists say the dinosaur, which lived about 80 million years ago, is an "incredible discovery".

The giant plant-eater was the length of a school bus and weighed about the same as an elephant.

It had a long neck and bony plates embedded in its skin.

The dinosaur's fossilised remains were unearthed during an expedition by palaeontologists from Mansoura University in Egypt.

Read full story on the BBC website

The African Union (AU) chairman, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, has said that he is not concerned about reports that China had allegedly bugged the organisation's headquarters in Ethiopia, a Rwandan journalist has tweeted.

He quotes Mr Kagame as saying that "everybody spies", and he wished that the AU, rather than China, built the headquarters:

China has denied that it spied on the AU, describing the allegation as "sensational" and "preposterous".

Read our earlier post.

A ban apparently imposed by a local River God stopping menstruating schoolgirls in Ghana from crossing a river has outraged children's activists.

Umaru Fofana
BBC Africa, Freetown

A case opened in a court in London today involving a group of small scale farmers in Sierra Leone and mining company Tonkolili Iron Ore Ltd.

More than 140 farmers and residents allege they were brutalised when the company won a licence to start operating in their region more than six years ago.

The group alleges Tonkolili was "complicit in the activities by the police of false imprisonment, assault and rape during two incidents in 2010 and 2012", their lawyers said in a statement, external.

Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission investigated and catalogued a list of the alleged abuses but their recommendations were generally ignored.

Tonkolili, formerly a UK-based company which is now a subsidiary of China-based Shandong Iron and Steel Group, denies liability for the incidents, AFP news agency reports.

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

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Hosts Morocco will be without key players Achraf Bencharki and Jawad El Yamiq if they reach the African Nations Championship (CHAN) final on Sunday.

The duo are set to leave their Moroccan clubs by Wednesday to play overseas, which contradicts competition rules.

The CHAN is a tournament for African players based in their own domestic leagues.

Bencharki has agreed to join Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal Riyadh, while El Yamiq is heading to Genoa in Italy.

Read the full BBC story here

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West Brom have signed Egypt defender Ali Gabr on loan from Zamalek until the end of the season.

The 29-year-old, who has won 18 caps for Egypt, scored four goals in 130 appearances in three and a half years at Zamalek.

The Baggies will have the option to sign Gabr for £1.1m , externalat the end of his loan deal.

"Ali is strong, dominant in the air and he's got good pace as well," said West Brom technical director Nick Hammond.

Read the full BBC story here

Lebohang W Khitsane designs tombstones and is known as South Africa's "king of tombstone bling".

He creates unique tombstones for his clients, which include celebrities and public figures

African leaders have been meeting in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, for the annual African Union summit where the theme this year is about fighting corruption.

Africa loses billions of dollars to corruption annually. It's also a headache for business people across Africa.

South African entrepreneur Tebogo Khaas told the BBC's Newsday programme about his experience doing business with the government:

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Last Thursday acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sparked an intense conversation on social media during an interview with a French journalists, where she was asked if there were bookshops in Nigeria.

She told the journalist that her question reflected poorly on French people.

Our colleagues at BBC Trending have been looking at the social media reaction to the interview.

They report that the interview, which was broadcast on Twitter and Facebook, has been viewed nearly 38,000 times.

The conversation has also moved on from the initial angst over what many considered to be an ignorant question to one assessing the state of literature in Nigeria.

Read full story on the BBC website.

BBC World Service

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The deadline for candidacy in Egypt's presidential election has passed with one last-minute challenger to President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who first took power in a coup.

The leader of the liberal al-Ghad, or Tomorrow, party, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, has confirmed that he will run against Mr Sisi, who is seeking a second four-year-term in elections due in March.

Mr Moussa endorsed Mr Sisi's bid last December.

His last-minute registration follows the withdrawal of human rights lawyer Khalid Ali and former Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq, and the arrest of former chief of staff of the armed forces, General Sami Anan.

Kennedy Gondwe
Lusaka

Image source, AFP

The Zambian government says it will press ahead with plans to introduce laws to regulate the internet.

Communications Minister Brian Mushimba said the government wanted to protect internet users, but denied reports that social platforms like Facebook will be banned.

In an interview with me, he said:

The minister said the government would enact various laws this year, including those related to cyber-crime and e-commerce, ensure the internet does not "run wild".

He added:

David Wafula
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Survivors have been recalling the horror of the fire which swept through an informal settlement in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, killing at least four people and leaving thousands destitute.

Titus Mutua told me:

Image source, Reuters

Maryam Mohamed said she lost everything in the inferno:

Image source, Reuters

See earlier post for more details

At 1730 GMT, the BBC is starting radio programmes for three new language services in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The launch is part of the BBC World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s.

The new radio programmes are in the Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya languages and will be available via short wave, satellite and online.

The programmes will be a rich mix of local and international news and will also feature sport, culture and business as well as English language learning.

The media is restricted in Ethiopia and Eritrea and so the new BBC radio programmes aim to provide a much needed source of independent news and analysis.

In September, the Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya services launched websites and Facebook pages.

However, internet penetration is extremely low in both countries. So radio plays a vital role and is for now the best means of reaching the potential audience of over 100 million as well as the sizeable population in the diaspora.

This is all part of a the BBC World Service's expansion drive and includes content in Pidgin, Yoruba and Igbo for Nigeria, a Korean service and four languages in India.

The initial shortwave broadcast to go out at 17:30 GMT will be on three transmitters providing coverage across Ethiopia and Eritrea:

• 7.595MHz
• 11.720MHz
• 12.065MHz

Repeat to follow at 18:30 GMT

• ·9.855MHz
• 15.490MHz

Satellite

Radio content will go out on the following channels:

• Arabsat (BADR4) - 11.966GHz, Horizontal
• NIlesat 201 -11.843GHz, Horizontal
• Hotbird 13D – 12.597GHz, Vertical

The evening satellite broadcast will go out at 17:30 GMT and will be repeated until 21:30 GMT.

Copies of Uganda's Red Pepper newspaper hit the streets today, two months after it was ordered to shut down for publishing a story alleging a plot by Uganda to topple Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

President Yoweri Museveni last week pardoned the paper's editors and directors, who had been facing treason and defamation charges.

The presidency said that the publication's management promised " to become more professional".

Arinaitwe Rugyendo, a co-founder of the paper, told AFP:

"We are going to polish our style but we will not self-censor." He insisted the paper would continue to be "bolder than the rest".

The publication has been known to publish salacious and gossip stories but it has also been known to cover stories of state corruption.

Peter Mwesige, executive director of the Kampala-based African Centre for Media Excellence, said that the publication divided opinion, adding: "There are very many people who don't appreciate its style."

The paper led with its own story of being brought back from the dead.

Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has said that the government will spend $490,000 (£347,000) to help victims of the fire that gutted proprieties in a slum in the capital, Nairobi.

Media reports say about four people were killed in the Sunday fire that has also left at least 6,000 people homeless.

Meanwhile, the governor of Nairobi has sent on leave two officials in charge of the fire department, a local news site has tweeted:

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

Image source, Strava

News that online fitness tracker Strava has published a "heatmap" showing the paths its users log as they run or cycle has revealed some interesting information.

It appears to show the structure of foreign military bases in countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, as soldiers move around.

This information can also be deduced in African countries.

It is ironic that after all the measures taken to keep military activity as covert as possible, the individual personnel have lifted the lid on some of their activities, though local communities have always been aware of their difference.

By studying the maps, you can have an idea of the numbers of people, where they live or work, and some patterns of their life.

Most of this information is confined to bases that are already out of bounds. It will be more worrying if soldiers keep them on all the time, revealing things like patrol routes.

It is up to the enemy (or potential enemy) to decide how to use this information.

However with satellite images more current than Google Maps, we can see and study what is around these areas of activity, such as vehicles, aircraft, and buildings.

There is still so much else to uncover, since you pretty much have to scour through every bit of the map to study and find information.

However, it is important to note that just because a lot of military people use it, doesn't mean that every remote place where the "heatmaps" show up will automatically reveal military activity.

It could simply imply the presence of engineers, exploration staff or even non-governmental organisation workers.

Read the BBC story here

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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Just three months ago in Kenya, the picture of a beaming President Uhuru Kenyatta, testing the hose-pipe of a new fire engine, and flanked by Nairobi Governor Mike "Sonko" Mbuvi, was re-shared widely on Twitter as people discussed the country's preapred to cope with disasters.

The governor shared the picture in October, external, when he said the newly-elected Nairobi County government had acquired 24 new fire engines.

This equipment will go a long way in curbing fire situations that have been witnessed in the recent past," Mr Mbuvi said at the time.

But in Nairobi's first major fire since then, the fire department failed terribly. Why? That's the question the governor will have to answer.

See our earlier post for more details

Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi

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China has denied reports by French newspaper Le Monde that it has been spying on the African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

The article, external claimed that over the last five years, data from the AU building, which was constructed by the Chinese, was transferred to Shanghai at odd hours.

The Chinese Ambassador to the AU, Kuang Weili, called the report "sensational" and "preposterous".

He also questioned the timing of the report, which was published just a day before African leaders began their annual summit at the AU headquarters.

The 20-storey building cost $200m ( £140m) and has housed the headquarters of the continental body since 2012.

Rihanna's performance at last night's Grammy awards ceremony involved a certain dance move that has sparked debate on Twitter.

A US magazine called the dance the stanky leg.

But African culture news site Okay Africa tweeted back to say the dance was South Africa's gwara gwara.

It even shared a video of a dance instructor showing how to pull off the jig:

South Africans also tweeted back at the US magazine to set the record straight:

See our earlier post: The man who 'created' gwara gwara