Summary

  • Kenyan concerns about plastic bags entering in "bulk"

  • Zimbabwe extends voter registration

  • Ethiopia bans adoption by foreigners

  • Botswana shuts controversial pastor's church

  • Senegal mourns revered cleric

  • Bus trailer "crushes three to death" in Zimbabwe

  • Lukaku to take legal advice over voodoo claim

  • Pregnant South African woman "bit penis of rapist"

  • EU-Morocco fisheries agreement "invalid"

Live Reporting

Dickens Olewe and Farouk Chothia

  1. South African woman 'bites penis of rapist'

    A pregnant woman bit the penis of a man who raped her at knife-point in front of her child after giving them a lift near the small town of White River in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, police have said.

    The woman, who was three months pregnant, was raped after being taken into a bush, and ordered not to scream, police added in a statement.

    However, she "managed to bite the private part of the man who ran away after the ordeal", police said.

    This left him with "a severely injured private part", and anyone with information about him should contact the police, the statement added.

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  2. Ethiopia bans adoption by foreigners

    Emmanuel Igunza
    BBC Africa, Nairobi

    Ethiopia's parliament has passed legislation banning the adoption of children by foreigners. The country is a popular destination for families seeking to adopt, with celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie among those who have adopted children from there.

    Actress Angelina Jolie hugs Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (L) and Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (R) after winning award for Favorite Villain in 'Maleficent' during Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards held at The Forum on March 28, 2015 in Inglewood, California.AFP

    Angelina Jolie adopted Zahara in 2005 when she was six-months-old

    The adoption of Ethiopian children has caused heated debate in the country since 2013, when a 13-year-old girl died mysteriously in the US leading to the conviction of her adopted parents.

    Now the country’s parliament has passed a law ending all hopes of prospective parents getting children from Ethiopia.

    Instead, lawmakers say orphans and other vulnerable children should be cared for locally in order to protect them from abuse and neglect abroad.

    But some MPs raised concerns that there were insufficient services in Ethiopia to care for such children.

    Two years ago, Denmark controversially stopped the adoption of children from Ethiopia over what it said were concerns about possible human trafficking.

  3. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day:

    The heat the pot endures would burn a mortar, and the pounding endured by the mortar would break the pot."

    An Igala proverb sent by Odih Daniel Nuhu in Lokoja, Nigeria

    Click here to send us your African proverbs.

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