Summary

  • Spanish police crack Nigerian human trafficking ring

  • Ghana’s quiz show host wins academics award

  • EgFace social network 'launched in Egypt'

  • Nigeria promises it 'will not abandon' the last Dapchi schoolgirl

  • Kenya bans anal exams for men suspected of being gay

  • Crocodile shot after blocking Zimbabwe hospital entrance

  • Zimbabwe pardons 3,000 inmates to empty overcrowded jails

  • France's Sarkozy denies Libya allegations

Live Reporting

Flora Drury, Natasha Booty, Mirren Gidda, Dickens Olewe and Clare Spencer

  1. Missing Dapchi schoolgirls 'brought by vehicles'

    Sandals are strewn in the yard of the Government Girls Science and Technical College staff quarters in Dapchi, Nigeria, on February 22, 2018.Getty Images

    Suspect Boko Haram militants abducted 110 girls from a school in Dapchi over a month ago

    More information is coming in about the reported release of some of the kidnapped schoolgirls from Nigeria's northeastern town of Dapchi.

    News agency AFP is quoting two parents saying that the missing girls were brought back to the town in vehicles.

    It quotes Bashir Manzo, who heads a group set up to support parents whose children were abducted, as saying:

    "They were brought in nine vehicles and dropped outside the school at about 8:00 am (0700 GMT)."

  2. Missing Nigerian schoolgirls released

    Chris Ewokor
    BBC Africa, Abuja

    A picture taken on February 28, 2018 at the Government Girls Technical College at Dapchi town in northern Nigerian, shows a classroom deserted by fleeing students after Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 110 school girls.Getty Images

    More than a month ago, suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped 110 schoolgirls from Dapchi

    The sleepy town of Dapchi in northeast Nigeria today woke up to a huge commotion.

    Over a month ago,110 girls were abducted from the town's all-female school by suspected Boko Haram militants.

    This morning, residents saw some of the girls return to Dapchi and head into the chief's palace. Others were said to have ran to their homes.

    Details of their return are still not quite clear, but there are indications that five of the girls may have died.

    The police chief in Yobe state, Abdulmaliki Sunmonu, would not confirm the information but said he is receiving intelligence to that effect.

    President Muhammadu Buhari had told former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the government would negotiate with the jihadists to secure the release of the girls.

  3. Zambia reveals massive tax losses

    BBC World Service

    Zambia's tax authority says a prominent mining company has used a scam over a five year period to avoid paying $8bn (£5bn) worth of tax.

    It did not name the company which it said had passed off its imports as mining machinery, which is tax exempt.

    It is not clear what the imports were but they must have been worth at least $30bn to generate such a large tax bill.

    Dozens of mining companies operate in Zambia which is Africa's second largest copper producer.

    The authorities say they plan to conduct audits on all mining companies going back over the last six financial years.

    Read: Zambia country profile

  4. Today's wise words

    Our African proverb of the day:

    The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched. "

    Sent by Martin Misinde, Lilongwe, Malawi.

    Click here to send us your African proverbs.

  5. Good morning

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