South African President Cyril Ramaphosa lost his cool on Tuesday, curtly telling opposition Democratic Alliance chief whip John Steenhuisen to "shut up" during a questions and answers session in Parliament.

"You look at Brazil, a number of countries in South Asia… and shut up you Steenhuisen and listen," the president said after Mr Steenhuisen's repeated interruptions of his speech.

"You look around the world… I want you to shut up. I really want you to shut up because you continue to make a noise."

Mr Ramaphosa later agreed to withdraw his comments, but that was not enough to stop Twitter users from turning his outburst into a meme.

Some users dubbed "shut up" into songs:

Others called for a "shut up" t-shirt to be made:

While others joked about the country's leader losing his temper.

Mowliid Haji Abdi
BBC Somali Service

A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by militant Islamist group al-Shabab convicted her of polyandry, reports a news site affiliated to the militants.

Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times, without divorcing previous husbands.

She was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters in Sablale town in the Lower Shabelle region.

She was in "perfect" health, and pleaded guilty to charges, the news site reported.

In 2014, al-Shabab stoned a woman to death after convicting her of secretly marrying four husbands in the southern coastal district of Barawe.

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Rescue workers are battling to free six miners trapped underground after a quarry collapsed yesterday in Kenya's western Nyatike district.

The local Daily Nation newspaper has tweeted that the rescue workers lack equipment to free the six:

A seventh miner was pulled out, and was rushed to hospital for treatment, The Star news site reported., external

Heavy rains may have contributed to the collapse of the quarry.

"The miners continued working even when it was heavily raining outside, they were not aware," an official is quoted by The Star as saying.

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An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There are two confirmed cases of the virus and 17 deaths, the health ministry said.

The incident in the town of Bikoro comes more than a year after an outbreak in the country killed four people.

In 2014, more than 11,000 people were killed in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

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The United States says it will review its assistance programme for South Sudan, as it is frustrated with the lack of progress in reaching a peace agreement to end the violence there.

The White House said the US would not continue in a partnership with leaders who were only interested in perpetuating an endless war.

It said the only path to peace for South Sudan was through a negotiated arrangement for an inclusive transitional government.

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The family of a woman killed in a car crash blamed on Kenya's controversial televangelist James Ng’ang’a have dismissed his acquittal as a "sham", the local Daily Nation news site reports.

A court acquitted the pastor, ruling that the prosecution had failed to place him at the scene of the 2015 crash which killed Mercy Njeri and injured her husband Martin Mbugua.

Her father-in-law Peter Ndung’u said the family would appeal against the ruling.

"We are in mourning because our daughter is dead and her husband sustained life-changing injuries. This ruling is a sham and we are going to appeal against it,” Mr Ndung’u was quoted as saying. , external

Pastor Ng’ang’a denied the charges, and those of giving false information to the police, conspiring to defeat justice and failing to report an accident.

Prosecutors alleged he tried to cover up that he was driving the car which crashed head-on with another car on the highway between the capital Nairobi and Naivasha town in July 2015.

Pastor Ng'ang'a, the founder of the Neno Evangelism Center, preaches to huge congregations, and he claims to be able to heal people and drive out demons.

He plays an electric guitar during services and often tells worshippers his rags-to-riches journey - from being a street child and spending time in prison to finding his faith and starting his ministry.

He is a wealthy businessman, well-known for his TV sermons.

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BBC Africa, Abuja

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Nigerian police recruits will have to go through psychiatric, HIV and pregnancy tests before they are allowed to join the force, a police official has said.

Emmanuel Inyang, the deputy inspector general in charge of training, said the psychiatric test would essentially check whether or not the applicant was using drugs.

However, many are now wondering if the police intended to use such criteria as an easy way to slash the list of applicants.

More than 130,000 applicants have made the shortlist for just 6,000 jobs.

Others are asking if the test will be extended to officers already in service, based on reported abuse faced by some Nigerians in the hands of some policemen.

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Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe will not appear before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday as anticipated, news agency Reuters reports.

Mr Mugabe was expected to answer questions on a claim he made about huge-scale diamond theft at the eastern Marange mines.

But Temba Mliswa, who leads the parliamentary committee on mines, said the former president had not been officially informed of the summon.

He told Reuters: "It has been delayed but that resolution still stands... He will have to appear before the committee whether he likes it or not."

Mr Mugabe had accused foreign mining firms of "swindling" and "smuggling" in an interview on state-run TV in 2016.

"The companies have virtually robbed us of our wealth," he said, adding the treasury had seen little of about $15bn (£11bn) they had earned.

The 94-year-old has not commented on the summons to parliament.

He was forced to resign last December in the wake of a military takeover, and still has the privileges of a former head of state.

Timeline of the controversial Marange diamonds:

In 2006, more than 20,000 illegal diggers descended on the Marange fields.

Reports followed of large-scale killings by Zimbabwe's security forces to stop the smuggling, prompting Marange diamonds to be banned in 2009.

A Panorama investigation found in 2011 that in the Marange fields, the police and military recruited civilians to illegally dig for diamonds for them.

In 2012 a campaign group said at least $2bn worth of diamonds had been stolen from the Marange fields. Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) said the "theft" had enriched Zimbabwean officials, international gem dealers and criminals.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

Two men have appeared in a central Zambian court accused of practising homosexuality after an employee working at a lodge where they were staying claimed to have seen them having sexual intercourse.

Steven Sambo and Japhet Chataba appeared in a magistrate court in the Kapiri Mposhi town.

The men, in their 30s, were charged with performing unnatural acts contrary to the laws of Zambia.

The court's magistrate set 21 June as judgement day. The two have been released on bail.

Zambia is a highly conservative society and though its laws do not specifically criminalise homosexuality, there is one against sodomy, which is termed as "offences against the order of nature",

Offenders face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.

Busayo Akogun
BBC Yoruba, Lagos

Female residents of Ikorodu, a town located in the outskirts of Nigeria’s Lagos state, have been ordered to remain indoors on Tuesday because of the Oro Festival.

It is an annual event marked to appease the ancestral spirit of Oro and to pray for peace in the town.

Those taking part in the festival’s masquerade are said to morph into the spirit, which is known for making a roaring, whirring sound.

It is believed that if a woman sees the Oro, he will take her away with him to the spirit world.

The town’s traditional ruler came in for criticism from some this year when he ordered the female curfew - some describing it as an infringement on women's rights.

But when BBC Yoruba visited the town on Monday to talk to women about the restriction, most seemed happy to abide by it.

“We are pleased to be asked to remain indoors. It is a mandatory one-day holiday and will give us the opportunity to rest, bond with our children and do house chores,” one market woman said.

Others said that even if there wasn’t a restriction, they would stay at home – fearing the traditional belief that a woman who sees the Oro does not live to tell the tale.

Another trader said she would lose a day’s earnings, but did not mind.

“It will not wreck out business because we believe the spirits will replenish us after the festival,” she said.

Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the north-western town of Bikoro, a health official in the Democratic Republic of Congo told news agency Reuters.

Jean Jack Muyembe, who works for the country's institute for biological research, said there are at least 10 other suspected cases.

The latest cases comes less than a year after the last outbreak killed four out of eight people it had infected.

The Ebola virus is believed to be spread over long distances by bats, which can host the virus without dying, as it infects other animals it shares trees with such as monkeys.

It often spreads to humans via contaminated bushmeat.

Infected people suffer from fever, diarrhoea and vomiting. It also had a high death rate.

Reuters reports that it's the ninth time Ebola has been recorded in the DR Congo, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly virus its name when it was discovered there in the 1970s.

At least 11,315 people died following the 2014 outbreak in six countries across the world, in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the US and Mali.

The trial of a Danish man accused of killing his Nigerian wife and young child will begin next month, court officials confirmed.

Peter Nielsen allegedly inflicted fatal head injuries on his wife Zainab - a rising star on the Nigerian music scene known as Alizee - before poisoning his three-year-old daughter Petra at their upmarket home in Lagos last month.

The 5 April killings left many shocked, and friends and family of the victims, as well as domestic violence campaigners, gathered outside the magistrate's court in Yaba.

According to news agency AFP, they wore black t-shirts with pictures of Zainab and her toddler daughter, and carried placards protesting against domestic violence across Nigeria.

Joe Okei Odumakin, president of Women Arise, told AFP their "campaign against domestic violence will be pursued with renewed vigour in order to stop this menace that is consuming our families".

Prosecutors accuse Mr Nielsen, 53, of hitting his wife's head against the wall repeatedly, killing her, and then poisoning his daughter in an attempt to cover the killings up.

He will next appear in court for his trial on 28 June, activist lawyer Christian Kolawole Love told AFP, and will remain in prison until that date.

Vimbai is a ranger in Zimbabwe's armed female anti-poaching unit, Akashinga. They protect one of the biggest elephant populations in Africa.

BBC News looks into how the group has managed to be so effective, following them as they patrol their area and make arrests.

Find out more about them by watching the video below:

Two million people are threatened by famine, the BBC's French site Afrique reports, quoting the country's Agriculture Minister Jacob Ouedraogo.

Poor rainfall and pest attacks during the past season are the causes of the country's food crisis.

According to the minister, the country has released CFA Franc 81bn ($147m) to fight against hunger.

The money comes from international NGOs that support the planting of support off-season crops, livestock feeds and investment in pest control.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

The University of Zambia has apologised to its female students for a poster urging them to stop visiting the library "half-naked" - because it distracts male counterparts.

The notice had divided opinion among both male and female students, with an umbrella body of Zambia’s civil society organisations condemning it.

The offending poster has since been removed.

Christine Kanyengo, the university’s librarian, said in a notice: "We would like to unreservedly apologise to our female library users for any offence caused."

She added:

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Third-year student Dikina Muzeya, who had criticised the new rules, told the BBC that the apology was "welcomed".

She added:

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Zimbabwe is to increase public sector workers' pay by 10%, starting in July.

The Apex Council, which represents all public sector workers, confirmed the agreed increase to news agency Reuters on Tuesday.

A day earlier, teachers shelved protest plans after receiving news of the planned pay bump.

The promise from new President Emmerson Mnangagwa comes months before a planned election, and in the wake of a strike by the country's doctors and nurses.

The pay rise, however, is only a fraction of what workers had demanded: a 100% increase.

Even so, any rise will likely increase the country's budget deficit, Reuters noted.

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed Zimbabwe, along with five other African countries, was in "debt distress" at the end of last year.

Ibrahim Aydid
BBC Monitoring

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Saudi Arabia is expected to lift a ban on Somalia livestock imports.

The Middle Eastern country banned imports in December 2016, saying it had detected disease in the Somali livestock.

Saudi Arabia imports 80% of Somalia's livestock, which sail from the ports of Berbera, Bosaso, Mogadishu and other towns.

Saudi Arabia and Somalia have good business relations, which made the Middle East country start working on efforts to lift the ban.

However, Somalia is also caught in the middle of a wider conflict between a number of Middle Eastern countries.

As Rashid Abdi, director of the Horn of Africa project at the International Crisis Group, told the BBC's Mary Harper:

"Somalia has become a chessboard in the power game between Qatar and Turkey on the one side and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies on the other.

"There is no doubt that these rivalries are spilling over into Africa. Somalia is especially vulnerable because of its proximity to the Gulf and its long historical relationship with the region."

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