The Gupta brothers have denied they are fugitives from South Africa's justice system, according to eNCA reporter Karyn Maughan.

She says their lawyer accuses South Africa's police force of issuing statements which are "malicious, misleading and simply incorrect".

She adds that the lawyer has demanded the police provide proof of an arrest warrant for Ajay Gupta, adding they were not in the country when raids on their properties took place.

The brothers have been accused of using their friendship with former President Jacob Zuma to wield enormous political influence.

They have always denied any wrongdoing.

However, the raids were linked to the Vrede dairy farm, a scheme which was originally meant to help poor black farmers but from which the Gupta family are alleged to have pocketed millions of dollars - allegations they deny.

And, according to Ms Maughan's tweets, there are questions over whether the Vrede farm investigation was the reason for the Ajay Gupta arrest warrant.

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Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe turns 94 today - but, three months after he lost power, the celebrations so far appear to be a little muted.

Mr Mugabe was pictured alongside his wife Grace and a large bunch of flowers:

It pales in comparison to the party last year, which involved thousands of cheering supporters and a cake weighing a kilo for each of his 93 years.

The rumoured cost of the event was as much as $2m (£1.4m), according to Deutche Welle, external.

Whether or not a 94kg cake will be forthcoming this year remains to be seen, but it seems unlikely the thousands of supporters will gather to cheer him on, despite the day still being a public holiday.

It is likely to be a bit of a shock to the former president - as Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe considers in this piece for BBC Africa.

Sammy Awami
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

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International investors in Tanzania are coming to terms with new legislation for the mining sector which effectively ring-fences business for Tanzanian-owned banks, locking out the international competition.

The move is part of the major on-going reforms to the mining industry.

The document, called the mining local content regulations, demands that mining companies operating in Tanzania use local financial institutions as well as local legal services and local labour.

The regulation defines a local bank as being 100% Tanzanian or having a majority Tanzanian shareholding. This would exclude some of the major foreign-owned banks operating in Tanzania, including Stanbic Bank, Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, and South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB).

The regulation, which came into effect last month, imposes a fine of at least $5m (£3.6m) for mining companies that fail to implement the new requirements.

The new rules are going to guide the implementation of tough mining laws passed last year, which the government hopes will reform the mining sector and yield a maximum profit for the country from their resources.

Ibrahim Haithar
BBC Monitoring, Nairobi

Kenya has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens against travelling to areas in South Sudan where armed conflicts and inter-ethnic violence have occurred within the last six months, privately-owned Capital FM website reports, external.

According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the advisory applies specifically to parts of the Greater Upper Nile Region and in particular “Bieh, Latjoor, Akobo, Jonglei, Northern Liech states including sections of Maiwut, Eastern Nile and Boma states and Yei River State”.

The ministry also urged Kenyans living in South Sudan to register with the embassy in the capital Juba immediately.

The advisory comes after two pilots, who were detained in South Sudan for one monthafter their plane crashed, were released after the payment of compensation.

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A Tanzanian man has been arrested in Kenya before attempting to board a flight to Dubai with $1m (£700,000) worth of gold.

The 46-year-old man was carrying 32kg of the precious metal when he was stopped by officers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, on Friday.

Authorities said they were acting on a tip-off.

He had traveled from Mwanza, in Tanzania, via Kilimanjaro, according to Kenya's Standard Media, external.

An investigation has been launched.

Stephanie Hegarty
BBC Africa, Lagos

Dozens of Nigerian school girls are still unaccounted for after an attack on the town of the Dapchi, Nigeria's Yobe state government has confirmed.

Militants entered the town using at least 12 vehicles, according to eyewitnesses who heard them firing guns and explosives.

As they approached the school most of the students and teachers managed to run into the surrounding bush but yesterday up to 90 hadn’t been accounted for.

Locals living near the school told the BBC that about half that number have since been found, hiding in surrounding villages. Nigerian authorities say they are still trying to locate the remaining girls.

One teacher who met the militants at the school gate said that they came looking for food and left three hours later after looting the school and some shops in the town.

Comparisons are, of course, being made to the kidnapping of 276 girls from a school in Chibok in 2014 which attracted worldwide attention.

Over 100 of the Chibok girls are still in Boko Haram captivity.

Daniel Semeniworima
BBC Pidgin

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A plane belonging to the airline which previously blamed a passenger for its emergency door falling off has crashed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Authorities confirmed the Dana Air passenger plane, which was flying from Abuja, skidded off the runway and into the bush at the Port Harcourt International Airport Omagwa on Tuesday evening.

It is suspected heavy rain and strong winds contributed towards the accident, according to a statement released by Federal Airport Authority official Henrietta Yakubu.

No casualties were reported, with all passengers on board safely evacuated, the statement added.

Dana Air is the same company which made international headlines two weeks ago, when one of its emergency doors fell off on landing.

At the time, Dana Air denied that it was caused by a mechanical fault, and said the door could not fall off "without a conscious effort by a passenger to open it".

However, a passenger the BBC spoke to said everyone on board had denied tampering with the door.

Five police officers and a soldier have been shot dead during a raid on their station in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.

Three officers were killed instantly when the armed robbers burst into the police station in Ngcobo, near Mthatha, and opened fire early this morning, according to a statement released by the South African Government News Agency, external.

The off-duty soldier was shot as the assailants fled, taking two other officers hostage.

Their bodies were found 6km (4 miles) down the road.

According to the government statement, both men had been shot "execution style".

Police do not yet know the motive for the attack. The suspects are known to have robbed a cash machine shortly before. They took 10 firearms and a police van from the station.

General Khehla John Sitole, the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, has vowed to find the killers, saying this morning he was ""appalled and deeply saddened by the cold and callous attack".

He added:

South African journalist Zimkhita Manqinana tweeted this video from the scene:

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