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Clashes between two of Ethiopia's largest ethnic groups - the Oromo and the Somali - have forced about one million people to leave their homes since 2015, the AFP news agency says, citing a UN report.

"Preliminary data from the latest round of the IOM (International Organization for Migration) Displacement Tracking Matrix conducted in November 2017 indicates that around 1 million persons have been displaced due to conflict along the Oromia-Somali regional border", says the document by the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The latest figures suggest that the conflict-related displacement in the area is more widespread than previously thought, AFP adds.

What is behind clashes in Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regions?

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A renegade colonel in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be prosecuted for planning a rebellion, the defence minister has said, Reuters news agency reports.

This comes after John Tshibangu was extradited from Tanzania.

In a video circulated last month, Col Tshibangu gave President Joseph Kabila a 45-day ultimatum to step down or risk being overthrown.

The authorities in Tanzania subsequently arrested and deported him.

Defence Minister Crispin Atama Tabe said the colonel would "face justice for rebellion", giving assurances that his trial would be free and fair, Reuters reports.

Mr Kabila's second and final term ended in 2016, but he has remained in power because of the electoral commission's failure to organise elections.

What ‘Dr Love’ says about DR Congo

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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A new round of peace talks for South Sudan have begun in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa - the latest attempt to end the civil war which has lasted more than four years.

There is growing international impatience with the political and military leadership after various peace deals and ceasefires have broken down.

Last week, the US imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan, and the head of the African Union recently called for sanctions on those prolonging the conflict.

Tens of thousands have died in the fighting and about a third of the population has been displaced.

The last ceasefire between President Salva Kiir and several rebel groups was signed in December but lasted just a few hours.

South Sudan crisis: One million child refugees

Lebo Diseko
BBC News, Johannesburg

An official of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) - who was caught on video assaulting an elderly woman at a protest - will face disciplinary action, the party says.

The incident happened outside the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg, after pro- and anti-Zuma demonstrators clashed.

ANC members pulled the woman from a truck which was driving up to the ANC offices at speed, apparently carrying pro-Zuma supporters.

There was outrage on Twitter about the incident, with people calling on the police and the ANC to find the man responsible.

The ANC has since named the man as Thabiso Setona, and confirmed that he is a secretary of one of its branches.

The party said in a statement that Mr Setona’s "acts do not represent what the African National Congress stands for, and as a result of his revolting behaviour he will face a disciplinary process hastily".

More than 60 Islamic school teachers have been released from prison in Ethiopia where they had been accused of being a security threat.

The teachers in Jijiga in Ethiopia's Somali region had been serving sentences of between three and 20 years.

They were released after Islamic scholars met regional government officials.

The Ethiopian authorities have in the past accused Islamic schools, known as madrasas, of teaching extremist views.

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

In Uganda, 63 schools run by the Bridge International Academies, a private chain, have opened for the new academic year.

This is despite the government's previous insistence that the schools will remain shut.

Bridge academies - supported by foundations such as those set up by Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates - have established themselves in poor communities in several African countries, where they take in children who have not got into public schools for comparatively modest fees.

But a dispute between Bridge and Uganda's education ministry threatened the project over various issues, including the academies' policy of employing teaching assistants rather than fully trained teachers.

The schools were first threatened with closure in 2016, following an order from the high court.

The ministry accused them of teaching without a proper curriculum, substandard school structures and an unsanitary environment.

But Bridge says they have made efforts to comply with government regulations.

Its Ugandan country director says that endorsements from local councils, environmental impact assessments and health department certificates have all been submitted to the ministry, as required.

Even though the schools have been allowed to re-open, licenses for them to operate have still not been issued.

An education ministry official told the BBC that the schools remained illegal because they had not met all the requirements.

As they start a new school year, 14,000 students in Bridge academies across the country fear the dispute could still disrupt their education.

Uganda court orders closure of low-cost Bridge International schools

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

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Two private Kenyan TV stations are now back on air after being shut down for seven days.

“Government switches NTV and KTN News back on after seven days,” privately-owned NTV said on its live feed on YouTube, external.

But the stations are only available on pay TV platforms. Two other stations - Citizen TV and Kikuyu-language station Inooro TV - remain off air.

Earlier, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital, Nairobi, demanding that the government obey a court order to allow the stations to resume broadcasting until a final ruling is made.

The government shut down four private TV stations on 30 January after they failed to abide by a state-imposed ban against broadcasting the "inauguration" of opposition leader Raila Odinga as the "people's president".

Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i had said the TV stations would remain closed until an investigation of the media houses was concluded.

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These autistic teenage girls have become successful models in Ghana, where they have won awards and been made brand ambassadors for a water company.

The BBC went to see Yacoba Tete-Marmon, Nana Ohenewaa Kuffour and Maame Bema Baffour Awuah strut their stuff.

Video producers: Onyinye Chime, Joshua Adeyemi and Sulley Lansah.

Rwandan cyclist Areruya Joseph won the Tour de l’Espoire 2018 for U-23 in Cameroon on Sunday evening.

The victory makes him the first Rwandan to qualify for the Tour de France for U-23 later this year.

Favour Nunoo
BBC Pidgin

Leading rights group Amnesty International has condemned Ghana's authorities for carrying out medical tests on the private parts of two male students accused of having sex with each other.

The tests amounted to “torture and degradation of their human dignity" in violation of Ghana's constitution, Amnesty's Ghana spokesman Robert Amoafo told BBC Pidgin.

Homosexual acts are illegal in Ghana, with religious groups and politicians such as the speaker of parliament opposed to legalising it.

The two, aged 18 and 23, were allegedly caught having sex when other students barged into their room at a private hostel at a university in Takoradi, the main city in Ghana's Western Region.

Regional police spokesperson Olivia Adiku confirmed to BBC Pidgin that medical tests had been carried out on the genitals of the two, as part of investigations into the incident.

News in Pidgin

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South Africa's Cape Town city says that "Day Zero, the day we may have to start queueing for water, is expected to move out to mid-May 2018 due to a decline in agricultural usage".

In a statement, the city's Deputy Mayor, Ian Neilson, still warns, external that "Capetonians must continue reducing consumption if we are to avoid Day Zero".

"There has not been any significant decline in urban usage. All Capetonians must therefore continue to use no more than 50 litres per person per day to help stretch our dwindling supplies," he added.

A severe drought has forced the city's municipality to drastically limit water consumption for residents.

Officials earlier predicted Day Zero for 16 April, but Mr Neilson said it was now likely to be 11 May.

If taps are turned off it would make Cape Town the first major city in the world to run dry.

Cape Town residents urged to turn off toilet taps

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling on the government to reopen television stations that have been shut down since last week.

The stations - Citizen TV, KTN and NTV - had angered the government by covering the symbolic swearing in of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

He lost last year's election to Uhuru Kenyatta - but has not accepted the result.

The government has ignored a court order to lift the media ban.

Two opposition politicians were arrested for playing a role in the ceremony.

How Kenyans are coping with a TV shutdown

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Four opposition politicians in Ethiopia have been given six-month jail sentences for contempt of court after refusing to stand up or speak to the judges.

Last month, they received similar sentences for singing a protest song in court.

Among them is Bekele Gerba of the Oromo Federalist Congress, who has been in prison since 2016 after being accused of instigating protests.

Tens of thousands of people have been detained and held without trial for taking part in the demonstrations.

In a surprise move last month, the Ethiopian government said imprisoned opposition politicians would be pardoned.

Boko Haram jihadists burnt an entire village in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people, the AFP news agency reports, quoting a local resident and a security source.

It says the attack on Alau-Kofa village, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Borno's state capital Maiduguri - happened in the evening, with the militants firing guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

"Two people were burnt alive and the whole village was burnt, along with our food," village resident Bulama Bukar says.

Who are Boko Haram?

Alastair Leithead
BBC Africa correspondent

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Always sharply dressed with a colourful handkerchief falling from his top pocket, Esmond Bradley Martin - the illegal ivory trade investigator who has been killed in Kenya - would immediately cut to the chase, honing in on the latest issue that was consuming him.

He was a well-known and highly respected character in the conservation community - passionate and unwavering in his efforts to crack down on illegal wildlife crime.

In a major report last year from Laos, he and his colleague Lucy Vigne established that the country had the world's fastest growing ivory trade.

They risked their own safety, staying at a Chinese casino inhabited by gangsters and traffickers in order to visit the illegal markets and find out the latest prices by posing as dealers.

His life's work was combating the illegal trade of wildlife and he produced a huge body of highly respected research and investigative reports.

He will be a huge loss to the international conservation community.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is paying a courtesy visit to Zulu King Goodwill, the president's office has said, the privately owned News24 site reports.

His spokesman Bongani Ngqulunga is quoted as saying:

The meeting comes amid mounting speculation that the governing African National Congress (ANC) plans to oust the scandal-hit Mr Zuma.

South Africa's influential Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has summoned the embattled President Jacob Zuma to a meeting later today, the local TimesLive news site reports. , external

The reason for the meeting is unclear, but it comes at a time when Mr Zuma is under intense pressure to resign.

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Alastair Leithead
BBC Africa correspondent

Image source, AFP

Kenyan police suspect that a leading investigator in the illegal ivory trade, Esmond Bradley Martin, 75, was killed in a botched robbery at home in the capital Nairobi on Sunday.

The investigator went to the strangest and most dangerous of places to secretly photograph and document the illegal sale of ivory and rhino horn.

His ground-breaking work for Save the Elephants took him to China, Vietnam, and Laos where he and his fellow-investigator would pose as buyers to establish black market prices – an important statistic for those trying to stop the illegal trade in wildlife.

Dr Bradley-Martin had recently returned from a trip to Myanmar, and was writing up his research.

He first came to Kenya from the US in the 1970s when there was a surge in the number of elephants being killed for their ivory.

His work on illegal wildlife markets helped pressure China to ban the rhino horn trade in the 1990s.