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Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has said archaeologists have begun radar scans of Tutankhamun's tomb in the hope of finding hidden chambers.

In 2015, a British Egyptologist claimed to have found evidence of a chamber behind the pharaoh's tomb, based on photographs and scans of its northern wall.

Nicholas Reeves suggested that the chamber might contain the tomb of Nefertiti, the wife of Tutankhamun's father.

The pharaoh's burial site, which was discovered in 1922, lies in the Valley of the Kings near the city of Luxor.

Archaeologists are now scanning it with ground-penetrating radar to see if they can find evidence of any chambers.

The leader of the group, Professor Franco Porcelli, told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team has already found two empty spaces and hopes to have an answer to Reeve's hypothesis in the next few months.

• Find out more about Tutankhamun here.

Ahead of a major education conference in Senegal, Newsday's Alan Kasujja has visited a primary school in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi where 15% of the students are disabled.

Of the 803 pupils at Dr Ribeiro Parklands Primary School, 118 have cerebral palsy, who study alongside the non-disabled students.

One of the teachers told Kasujja "the most important thing is for them to be independent in [the] daily activities of living".

One of the themes of the Global Partnership for Education, which is being co-hosted by the president of Senegal, Macky Sall, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, is the inclusion of children with disabilities.

Rihanna will also be joining them in Senegal in her role as ambassador for the Global Partnership, which is hoping to raise $3.1bn to support the education of 870 million vulnerable children.

The pop star has been tweeting various world leaders, asking them to pledge hundreds of millions to the partnership.

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Kenyan police have arrested a member of the opposition who played a key role in the mock inauguration of Raila Odinga on Tuesday.

Miguna Miguna was seized after a dawn raid at his home in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Police used explosives to blast open his door, before leading Mr Miguna away.

On Thursday he had taunted police, telling them he had signed Mr Odinga's oath and so they should come and arrest him.

He also told his supporters to burn pictures of Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta.

Mr Miguna's arrest comes two days after police detained TJ Kajwang, a lawyer and politician who also attended the mock swearing-in.

Mr Miguna holds no official position but is the so-called general of the NASA Coalition's "National Resistance Movement", which organises civil disobedience and boycotts.

Kenya's government has labelled the movement an "organised criminal group" following Mr Odinga's stunt.

• Read our earlier entry on US criticism of Kenya here.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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The South African Rugby Union has confirmed it has parted ways with Springbok coach Allister Coetzee.

However, it is unclear if Mr Coetzee, who has been at the helm of South Africa's national rugby team for two years, was sacked or resigned.

It comes just days after a leaked letter indicated all was not well between the coach and SA Rugby.

In it, Mr Coetzee accused officials of having "embarked on a deliberate attempt to undermine me from the word go", making him look incompetent.

The CEO of SA Rugby Union Jurie Rou, who thanked Mr Coetzee for his "passion and dedication to the Springbok cause", said the decision was made after assessing "what is in the best interests of the Springboks”.

Mr Coetzee, meanwhile, said he continued to wish the team "every success ".

“I have always held Springbok rugby dear to my heart and will continue to do so and for that reason I think now is the time the team and me strike out in new directions," he said.

Confirmation of the new Springbok management team is expected be announced before the end of February.

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Nigeria's vice-president has hit out at the country's prison system - saying conditions were so bad in one institution, inmates would leave as "animal [s]".

Yemi Osinbajo expressed his disgust after visiting the prison in Port Harcourt, which was built to house about 800 inmates, but now holds more than 5,000.

It is estimated that 3,700 of those inside the prison are still awaiting trial - with some telling the politician they had been waiting five years for their cases to reach court, Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper, external reported.

Mr Osinbajo, who visited the jail on Wednesday, spoke frankly during the presentation of a report into prison conditions across the country.

Mr Osinbajo suggested that sorting out the system would take a considerable amount of time, but there were plans in place to improve the situation.

According to Nigeria's Daily Post, external, President Muhammadu Buhari has given the go-ahead for six new 3,000 capacity prisons.

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At least five migrants have been shot dead in the French port city of Calais after a fight broke out between Afghans and Eritreans.

The brawl - which the French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb described as "exceptionally serious" - lasted almost two hours and involved 100 Eritreans and 30 Afghans.

Four Eritrean teenagers, aged 16 to 18, are in hospital in a critical condition while 13 other migrants were wounded after being hit with iron bars.

The fight began when an Afghan migrant fired a gun as migrants queued for food handouts in southern Calais.

It is not clear how the migrants gained access to firearms.

Read more: Mass brawl in Calais

Rana Jawad
BBC North Africa correspondent, Tunis

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At least 10 people have died and dozens are missing after a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Europe capsized.

Just three people are known to have made it back to land, officials say, out of an estimated 90 who set out across the Mediterranean.

Most of the bodies, which washed up on the beach in the coastal city of Zuwara, are nationals of Pakistan.

But - unusually - there were also Libyans among the dead and survivors.

The Facebook page of the city's security directorate said a Libyan woman had drowned, but that, of the three survivors, two were Libyan nationals.

Libyans rarely attempt the dangerous and illegal boat journey from their country to southern Europe.

Some cases of illegal Libyan migration were documented last year, but they usually involved sturdier boats that were carrying few people.

This latest development comes as the EU border agency FRONTEX announced the launch of operation Themis on Thursday.

Unlike its previous mission, known as Triton, rescued migrants at sea will now be taken to the country that is coordinating the rescue, rather than just Italy.

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The US and the UK have criticised the mock inauguration of Kenya's opposition leader, Raila Odinga, saying it undermines the country's constitution and rule of law.

On 30 January, Mr Odinga declared himself "the people's president" at a ceremony in Uhuru Park in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

The stunt left the US "gravely concerned", State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

"Grievances must be resolved through appropriate legal mechanisms," she said.

But she was also critical of the Kenyan's government decision to take hree of the country's biggest television channels - KTN, NTV, and Citizen TV - off air ahead of his "swearing-in".

Despite a court suspending the government's ban, it remains in place.

Ms Nauert said the US was deeply concerned by the government's tactics of intimidation and restriction of the media.

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