Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will seek re-election in 2019, his personal assistant has tweeted:

Mr Buhari is currently on a visit to the UK ahead of a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government on 16 April.

His departure has sparked some confusion in Nigeria as the meeting is still a week away.

Some have speculated that he may be seeking medical treatment in the UK, as we reported earlier.

Kenya's Michael Kunyunga has come second in the Hannover Marathon in Germany after he crawled across the finish line to end with a time of 2:10:16, Capital FM Kenya reports, external.

Mr Kunyunga was leading the race before he collapsed a few metres from the finish.

The race was ultimately won by Ethiopia's Seboka Negusse while Kenya's Agnes Kiprop won the women’s race.

A former top judge has been kidnapped in Cameroon, AFP news agency reports.

Martin Mbeng, the former vice president of the court of appeal in the southwest region was kidnapped on Sunday morning, his friend Agbor Nkongho told AFP.

He said Mr Mbeng's captors were English speaking separatists and that he condemns their crime.

"Mr Mbeng does not engage in any political activity and he is not a supporter of the government," Mr Nkongho told AFP.

However, AFP adds that no-one has so far said they are behind the kidnapping.

Cameroon's English speakers make up a minority in the French-speaking country, and say they suffer discrimination.

Last year, President Paul Biya rejected their calls for greater autonomy.

Nigerian police have sent letters to the Danish Embassy notifying it that they're investigating the Danish citizen Peter Nielsen over the death of his wife Zainab Joy - best known as the singer Alizee - and their four-year-old daughter.

The pair were murdered in their home on Thursday and police arrested Mr Nielsen over their deaths, Premium Times reports, external.

Vanguard news reports, external that Mr Nielsen said that he found the bodies in the kitchen and that they may have been gassed.

Alizee's younger sister told police she heard cries for help from her sister's bedroom and police found that the singer and her daughter had been dragged from the bedroom to the kitchen.

People have been paying tribute to her in the comments of some of her most recent Instagram posts:

Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

A hearing has begun in the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale for a petition against the removal of the presidential age limit.

The courtroom is packed with MPs, members of the public and civil society organisations.

Police have been deployed around Mbale town and some of the roads leading to the court have been blocked from public access.

Ordinary people from the town have gathered outside the court to follow the proceedings.

This is the first time a major constitutional petition is being heard in a regional town.

It is believed that the hearing was moved away from the capital, in anticipation that it would draw a lot of interest from the public.

Petitioners include the Uganda Law Society, Members of Parliament and civil society.

They say that it was the amendment was passed under a politically charged environment.

Debate on the bill last December was marred by brawls, with plain-clothed security operatives invading the chambers and assaulting and dragging away MPs.

As we reported earlier, the removal of the age limit allows the current president, Yoweri Museveni (pictured below), to stand in the next presidential election.

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The Nigerian table tennis team celebrated in emphatic fashion after Bode Abiodun beat England's Samuel Walker in the Commonwealth Games men's table tennis final with a 3-2 victory.

Watch as Abiodun's team mates rush in to celebrate the win:

Protesters in South Africa have set fire to boats after a five-year-old girl was run over and killed in the eastern city of Durban on Sunday, reports South Africa's Sunday Times:

Local people stole the boats from a nearby business and torched them in the road, news site TimesLIVE reports, external.

The crowd also began throwing rocks at passing cars and burned tyres, it adds.

Police told Times Live that no arrests had been made but the driver responsible for the girl's death had been assaulted.

The site reported that he is currently in hospital.

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UN troops and an armed group exchanged gunfire during the night near the president's residence in the Central African Republic, a security source told the AFP news agency.

It came hours after at least two people were killed when the the UN and central African forces targeted armed groups in a mainly Muslim district of Bangui, UN sources told AFP.

Eight people belonging to the armed groups Force and 50/50 had been detained by the UN peacekeeping force and ammunition had been seized, a spokesman for the UN official Herve Verhoosel told AFP.

The Central African Republic has been unstable since the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels overthrew the government in 2013.

It handed power to a transitional government in 2015, as the country descended into religious and ethnic conflict.

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Aid workers at the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya have confiscated knives, wire, battery acid, rat poison and rope from the refugees living there, news agency Reuters reports.

The workers were concerned that the refugees might use the tools to kill themselves, following nine suicides in the camp since early 2017.

The deaths are an increase on 2016, where three people took their own lives.

Kakuma camp is home to 185,000 refugees from Somalia, South Sudan and other countries in East and Central Africa.

Reuters reports that conditions in the camp are difficult and morale is down after the US announced it would reduce its refugee admissions from 110,000 people to 45,000 people.

The US was the main resettlement destination for the refugees in Kakuma camp.

In January, Washington said it was going to increase vetting for refugees from countries including Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

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The Nigerian army says its troops have rescued 149 people from Boko Haram militants in the northeast of the country.

The weekend operations also led to the deaths of three of the group's fighters, while five more were captured.

In the past couple of months, the army has announced multiple rescues of Boko Haram captives.

In its most recent operation, it said the rescued people included 54 women and 95 children.

Army spokesman Colonel Onyeama Nwhachukwu said in a statement that troops were engaged in a clearance operation in the Sambisa area when they found the captives.

In another encounter on Saturday, two suicide bombers were also reportedly killed when they attempted to sneak into a community in Konduga with explosive devices strapped to their chests.

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One of Zimbabwe's most famous music stars, Thomas Mapfumo, has announced he's coming back to Zimbabwe after living in a self-imposed exile in the US for over 10 years.

"The Lion of Zimbabwe" or "Mukanya" as he's known was a vocal critic of Robert Mugabe.

But now that Mr Mugabe is no longer in power, Mr Mapfumo says he wants to return home, and he's already planned a concert on 28 April.

He told BBC Newsday that one thing he won't be getting involved in is politics:

The musician is known for his slow-moving style and distinctive voice:

Wanyama Chebusiri
BBC News

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A court in the eastern Ugandan city of Mbale is due to hear a petition challenging a constitutional amendment to remove the presidential age limit.

A panel of five judges led by the deputy chief justice will hear the case.

The petitioners want the court to declare the age limit removal unlawful since security personnel invaded parliamentary chambers as lawmakers debated the amendment.

They're also questioning whether the process leading to the passing of the bill was lawful.

The law, which was passed in December, removed the age restriction on the Ugandan presidency, which said anyone over 75 years of age couldn't run for president.

It was met with resistance from various sections of the public including the opposition who says it paves the way for the current president, 73-year-old Yoweri Museveni, to stand for a sixth term.

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Somalia's parliamentary speaker, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, has resigned following weeks of political tension.

His decision to step down comes ahead of a no confidence motion against him after he repeatedly clashed with other politicians.

One area of disagreement came over Mr Jawari's decision in 2015 to drop impeachment proceedings against the then president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

Speaking to Reuters, lawmaker Dahir Amin Jesow said that Mr Jawari's resignation had been accepted and that "the political crisis" was over.

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The mother of Stompie Seipei, a 14-year-old boy kidnapped by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards, says she doesn't believe the late activist was responsible for her son's subsequent death.

Joyce Seipei told the news site Times LIVE, external she still doesn't know who killed her son, whose body was found near Madikizela-Mandela's home.

She added that she had reconciled with Madikizela-Mandela after she apologised for what had happened to her son.

Despite this, many continued to believe that Madikizela-Mandela had ordered the murder of Seipei, a young activist accused of being a police informant.

Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguard, Jerry Richardson, maintained that he killed Seipei because the teenager had found out Richardson was an informant.

Earlier this week, former police commissioner George Fivaz said there was no evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to Seipei's death.

Later today, the ruling ANC party will unveil a wall of remembrance for her, following her death last week.

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The Nigerian press has been speculating as to why their president, Muhammadu Buhari, is travelling to the UK so long before his scheduled Commonwealth meeting.

The Premium Times news site says, external presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu "did not indicate if Mr Buhari will see his doctors in London".

The newspaper notes that during his previous trip to the UK, Mr Buhari "spent several months last year receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment".

Business Day reported earlier in the week, external that the opposition party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), demanded to know the details of his trip.

“We know that Mr President is billed to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to take place between April 16 and 20, but Nigerians are wondering why he is taking off to an undisclosed destination in London two clear weeks ahead," the party said in a statement.

“We ask: [Are] President Buhari and his handlers hiding anything from Nigerians so much so that they cannot disclose the reason and duration of the so-called private visit?"

Mr Shehu did go on to release details of the president's trip. His itinerary includes meetings with the British Prime Minister Theresa May, the head of Shell oil and gas company and the Archbishop of Canterbury, as we reported earlier.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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A nationwide vaccination campaign begins in Mozambique today against measles and rubella.

The campaign, which covers children between the ages of six months and 14 years, is expected to immunise about 12 million children.

According to official health ministry data, measles currently affects more than 90,000 people, over half of whom are children.

The official launch of the vaccination campaign takes place today in Lichinga, the provincial capital of the northern province of Niassa and is led by Mozambique's first lady, Isaura Nyusi, accompanied by Health Minister Nazira Abdula.

Speaking on arrival in Lichinga on Sunday at the start of a five-day working visit to Niassa, Ms Nyusi asked parents and guardians to take their children to the vaccination centres to get them treated.

Mayeni Jones
Lagos

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Nigeria’s president is travelling to the UK today on an official state visit.

President Muhammadu Buhari will meet Prime Minister Theresa May, as well business and religious leaders.

According to his spokesperson, President Buhari will discuss British Nigerian relations with Ms May, ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which starts on 16 April.

During his visit, the president will also discuss investments in Nigeria’s oil industry with the head of Shell oil and gas company.

In addition, President Buhari plans to meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

It is unclear how long his trip to the UK will be.

Last year a string of visits to London by the president led to concerns for his health as he sought treatment for an unspecified illness.

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A priest has been shot dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo, shortly after he held mass in North Kivu province.

The head of the Goma diocese in North Kivu told AFP news agency that a local militia group was responsible.

"Father Etienne Sengiyumva was killed Sunday by the Mai Mai Nyatura in Kyahemba where he had just celebrated a mass including a baptism and a wedding," Father Gonzague Nzabanita said.

He added that Sengiyumva had had lunch with a parishioner before he was shot in the head.

It is the latest in a wave of violence affecting North Kivu province where militia groups have begun extorting money from local people and fighting over natural resources.

Last week, unknown men kidnapped another priest and issued a $500,000 (£354,000) ransom for his release.

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