The full enormity of the damage caused when a dam burst overnight in Nakuru County, Kenya, killing at least 20 people, has begun to emerge.

A school is among the many buildings destroyed:

Officials say the Patel dam burst after heavy rainfall, causing "huge destruction".

Witnesses report a loud bang before the waves swept through nearly 2km (1.2 miles) of private farmland, where many live and work.

Hundreds of homes were swept downstream, reports the BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in Nairobi.

The Kenyan Red Cross says it has rescued some 40 people so far.

Some of the bodies of those who lost their lives in the disaster were found downstream, The Citizen newspaper says, external.

Local leaders told the Daily Nation, external they fear many more are dead because there are still "many" missing.

Read the whole story on the BBC news website.

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The Ethiopian government has suspended the licence of a gold mining company following deadly protests by locals over health hazards, the government-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate has reported.

Locals in Adola, southern Ethiopia, have been protesting after the government agreed to the 10-year extension of the mine, owned by the Ethiopian-born Saudi tycoon, Mohammed al-Amoudi.

They accuse the company - which has operated in the area for 20 years - of dumping chemicals into the river, which they allege caused health problems for the community.

The opposition Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) reports that at least four people have died during the protests.

The broadcaster Fana said the ministry had since changed its mind on the extension, and suspended the mining licence at Lega Dembi.

"According to the ministry, the company will not produce gold until a detailed study is conducted by a neutral body," the report said.

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A Rwandan-born performer was responsible for the choreography of Childish Gambino, AKA Donald Glover, symbol-laden music video called This is America.

Sherrie Silver, 23, was approached by Mr Glover's team after they saw her dance videos online.

"They saw one particular move that they liked, Gwara Gwara from South Africa, which we did in the video and also on SNL," she told Interview Magazine, external.

"I came up with different steps, taught the school kids and the choir, and helped Donald with his solos," she said.

Silver, who also dances in the video, grew up in Rwanda until the age of 5, when she moved to the UK, before returning to the African country.

She told Complex magazine, external that she incorporated a number of dances from Africa into the music video, including Nigeria's Shaku Shaku and Ghana's Alkayida.

"We tried to show what's actually happening in the world. Not just in America, but in the world," Ms Silver told Complex.

The video is a comment on the state of US today.

"We also wanted to bring joy to it, in the middle of madness. That's what kids do and that's what dance does, especially African dance."

Read more about This is America here

Nigerian-born British Author Helen Oyeyemi reveals her top criteria for a great read, and why the Man Booker International Prize 2018 shortlist has them all.

Find out why she thinks the authors and translators of the six books nominated for this year's award have got it right.

Video by David Austin, Jasmin Souesi and Daniel South.

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A blast in a Somali market selling the stimulant leaf khat has killed around five people and wounded 10.

It occurred in the town of Wanlaweyn, nearly 100km (62 miles) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu.

Residents told Reuters news agency that many of the wounded had to be treated in people's homes due to the lack of hospitals in the town.

Police are looking into whether the blast was caused by a bomb or suicide bomber.

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab is waging an insurgency in Somali, but it has not yet commented on the latest blast.

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The UK government has reached a settlement with former Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim Belhaj over a long-running rendition case, the BBC understands.

Mr Belhaj claims MI6 helped the US kidnap him in Thailand in 2004 to return him and his wife to Libya, where he says he was tortured.

The attorney general will make a statement in Parliament on Thursday.

The settlement terms are unknown but Mr Belhaj, 52, has previously demanded an apology and a token £1 in damages.

A leading opponent of the then Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Mr Belhaj says he was abducted in Bangkok - along with his pregnant wife, Fatima Boudchar - while attempting to fly to London to claim UK asylum.

Now a politician in Libya, Mr Belhaj spent six years in prison upon his return to the country and Moroccan-born Ms Boudchar was released shortly before giving birth.

Read the full BBC story here

A prominent member of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has been sentenced to three years in prison for smashing a water jug on the head of an opposition politician during a brawl in October 2016.

Andile Lungisa - the former chairman of the party in Nelson Mandela Bay - had behaved like a common street thug when he assaulted the Democratic Alliance's Rano Kayser during a heated council meeting, a magistrate's court ruled, South Africa's News 24 site reports, external.

Lungisa will spend his first night in prison after the court refused to give him permission to appeal against his sentence, it adds.

One year of his sentence was suspended, meaning that he will spend two years in jail.

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Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of a doctor who is entering his second year in prison in Zambia on charges of “insulting the president”.

Kwalela Kafunya, who has been in detention since 8 May 2017, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on 10 January 2018 after a "grossly unfair" trial, Amnesty said.

His arrest followed allegations that he had made derogatory comments about President Edgar Lungu on Facebook.

“Dr Kwalela Kafunya has committed no crime yet he has not set foot outside of prison for more than a year. Seven years in jail for 'insulting the president' is an outrageous sentence,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty’s Regional Director for southern Africa.

Read Amnesty's full statement on its Twitter account:

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Ivorian Wilfried Zaha has become the first Crystal Palace player to win a Premier League player of the month award since Andrew Johnson in October 2004.

The 25-year-old winger had four goals and an assist in his four matches in April as Palace secured their Premier League status for another season.

"I'm just happy that the performances are coming together," said the Ivorian.

"People are actually seeing for themselves that I've put in the hard work."

A Spanish foundation has awarded Amref Health Africa for its efforts "to respond to the needs of millions of people" on the continent.

The Nairobi-based group won the Princess of Asturias award for reaching "the most vulnerable and remotest populations that would not have regular access to health services", the jury said in a statement.

"This organization also develops distance training programmes to strengthen local capacities in the fight against Aids, tuberculosis and malaria," the statement read, external.

"Its efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation via social and cultural awareness-raising actions are also worthy of note."

Amref Health Africa, which was founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa, claims to be the oldest and largest indigenous African health organisation.

One of its employees, Nice Nailantei Leng'ete, was recently named TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.

The foundation's 50,000 euro (%59,500; £43,700) prize is one of eight awards handed out, including the arts, sports and social science.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) is turning in on itself.

The sacking of one of its most prominent politicians, Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille, has been chaotic, to put it mildly.

Ms De Lille is a veteran anti-apartheid hero who joined the DA with her own party members from the Independent Democrats.

She is now refusing to go without a fight. She has taken her own party to court and the DA has, rather clumsily, revoked her party membership.

In a recent local radio talk show, political analyst Somadoda Fikeni said: "The DA is busy mutilating itself in a corner, unprovoked."

This comes ahead of the crucial 2019 general election. The governing African National Congress (ANC) is still plagued by the in-fighting which saw the party sack President Jacob Zuma and replace him with Cyril Ramaphosa.

It is believed that those who supported Mr Zuma, particularly in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal, are still plotting against President Ramaphosa.

The DA was initially taking advantage of the ANC’s internal squabbles. But now the tables have been turned.

The latest opposition drama seems to have cleared the way for a limping ANC to win another five-year term next year.

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The director of the first Kenyan film to ever be selected for the Cannes Film Festival is on a mission to make the the image of Africa "fun, joyous and full of hope".

Ahead of her film, Rafiki, being premiered in Cannes on Wednesday, Wanuri Kahiu told AFP that the idea of modern Africa is riddled with stereotypes.

"Africa is always depicted as a place with lots of pain, suffering, war and disease," she said. "Usually when you see Africans you see them in villages carrying water on their head. I have never carried water on my head in my life."

"We want to celebrate African urban pop culture."

Her film is a step in that direction. It follows the love story of two middle class, music-obsessed Nairobi girls.

But the film was banned by the head of the Kenyan Film Classification Board, Ezekiel Mutua, for its "happy ending" and showing "the resilience of the youngsters involved in lesbianism".

"They said it wasn't remorseful enough, "Mrs Kahiu said. "But it's important to fight for joy."

Kunle Falayi
BBC Yoruba, Lagos

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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it is taking swift action to ensure that Ebola does not enter the country following a fresh outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

NIS spokesperson Sunday James told BBC Yoruba that immigration officials would tighten vigilance at airports and make more use of thermometers to screen passengers:

During the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, more than 11,000 people died – mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Ebola also spread to Nigeria when Patrick Sawyer, who was infected with the virus, flew into the country from Liberia.

Nigeria’s response to the crisis was generally praised. Eight people died, including Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevo, who first attended to Mr Sawyer and helped to ensure a more devastating outbreak was avoided in Nigeria.

Read more:

• Nigeria's praised by unpaid Ebola heroes
• The Nigerian doctor who fought Ebola
• Why Ebola is so dangerous

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Yaya Toure says he intends to play for another two years in the Premier League after he has left Manchester City.

After eight years, Toure, 34, ends his City career at home to Brighton on Wednesday.

With three Premier League titles, two EFL Cups and the 2011 FA Cup, when he scored the only goal in both the semi-final and the final, he has confirmed his status as a club legend.

However, he is likely to be lining up against City next season.

Asked if he was going to stay in England, the Ivorian said: "Yes. Definitely.

"I love the challenge and the difficulty. Some fans were asking 'are you retiring?' I said no. I have, maybe, two more years at a high level."

Read the full BBC Sport story here

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BBC Tigrinya

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Two brothers ended up fighting on different sides during the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia - and they were not alone as many family members fought against each other.

“The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea can be explained by me and my brother, we are symbolic of the conflict,” Col Legesse Tafere, who fought on the Ethiopian side, told BBC Tigrinya.

“I am half-Eritrean and half-Ethiopian and so I was very sad that the war broke out between our brotherly nations.”

His younger brother Georjo Tafere was a commander on the Eritrean side during the 1998-2000 conflict.

They ended up on opposite sides as they joined different rebel groups that together fought against Ethiopia’s then-leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. He was ousted in 1991, leading to Eritrea’s independence.

“After the liberation of Eritrea and the defeat of the Derg regime in Ethiopia, we exchanged messages, congratulating each other on our victory,” he says.

“Since we had parted to take part in the liberation struggle in 1979, we had not met. But we had planned to see each other again in May 1998.”

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However it was not to be as the conflict over the border town of Badme began that month – and the next year their units fought a fierce battle.

“My colleagues were teasing me, saying I was deliberately missing targets to spare my brother.”

But during that battle his brother was killed and he lost a leg.

“I felt sad when I heard about his death. The bloodiness of the war cannot be erased from my mind.”

Their mother, who died recently in Ethiopia, was never told about Georjo’s death – although the colonel believes she might have suspected.

“We wanted to spare her the pain of loss,” he says.

• Read more: Africa's unfinished conflict

Thousands of mourners in Mozambique, including the president, paid their final respects to Afonso Dhlakama, a former rebel leader turned opposition leader, in the port city of Beira.

Mr Dhlakama died on 3 May of a suspected heart attack at his hideout in the Gorongosa mountains.

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Mourners sobbed as pallbearers wearing camouflage fatigues and white gloves carried his remains to the city's square today.

President Filipe Nyusi delivered a eulogy at Mr Dhlakama's memorial and said he was ready to continue peace talks with the next Renamo leader.

"I will continue the walk we started together for peace. I'm available to do this," President Nyusi said.

Mr Dhlakama led Renamo rebel group during its war against the Marxist-inspired Frelimo government after independence from Portugal in the 1970s.

Up to a million people died in the conflict, which ended in 1992. He then turned Renamo into a political party, but it failed to take power from Frelimo and again took up arms in 2013 and 2016.

His death has cast a shadow on a peace process nearly a year before the next presidential elections.

The world's oldest man could be living in Cape Town.

Fredie Blom celebrated his 114th birthday on 8 May at his home in Delft.

He is thought to be born in the Eastern Cape province in 1904, but has yet to be recognized by the Guinness World Records, South African news website Independent Online reports.

A 112-year-old man in Japan was named "oldest person living (male)" this April, according to the Guinness World Records , externalwebsite.

Masazo Nonaka was exactly 112 years and 259 days old when he was given the record, which would make Blom more than a year older than him.

Mr Blom, who lives with his wife Jenette‚ 83‚ have no children together.

He told IOL the secrets to long-life was through respecting people and "not [eating] everything, like it is today".

"I take regular exercise by going to the shops instead of sending other people. Today is special, I feel honoured,” Mr Blom said.