Summary

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  • Civil servants in Burkina Faso made to work longer hours

  • Five 'spies' executed by Somali militants

  • Ethiopia to free all political prisoners and close notorious prison

  • Zambia minister resigns, angered by corruption

  • Alleged mercenaries arrested on Equatorial Guinea border

  • South Africans 'pledge $20,000' to catch rock-throwing killers

  • "At least 10 killed" in suicide bombing in Nigeria

  • DJ Black Coffee gets Las Vegas residency

  • Mozambique suspension bridge delay

  • SA poet and activist Bra Willie dies

  • Suspected herders attack Nigerian villages

  • 'Mass demolition' of Zambian vendors' stalls

  • Zimbabwe crocodile 'kills tourist'

Live Reporting

Natasha Booty and Lucy Fleming

  1. 'Disguised' bomber attacks Nigeria mosque

    Ishaq Khalid
    BBC Africa, Abuja

    Map showing the location of Gamboru in Nigeria

    At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria.

    Eyewitnesses say the attacker sneaked into the congregation during morning prayers disguised as a worshipper before detonating the device.

    No-one has said they are behind the attack Gamboru, a town on the border with Cameroon, but the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is known to operate in the region.

    This attack comes less than 24 hours after the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, released a video in which he dismissed the assertions by the Nigerian authorities that the group had been defeated.

  2. Wise words

    Today's African proverb:

    A man’s wound is not to be laughed at."

    A Zulu proverb sent by David Mkandla in Randburg, South Africa

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  3. Good morning

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