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Tanzania wants to sell millions of cubic metres worth of trees currently standing in a United Nations-designated wildlife reserve, Reuters news agency is reporting.

The agency says it has seen paperwork confirming Tanzania's forest service (TFS) intends to sell standing trees from the Selous Game Reserve, home to elephants, lions, rare birds and other species.

The East African country has already unveiled controversial plans to build a 2,100-megawatt (MW) hydro plant on the Rufiji river, which runs through the park and flows into the Indian Ocean.

Conservationists have raised concerns about the dam scheme. It is unclear what impact the removal of 3.5 million cubic metres of trees will have on the 50,000sq km (19,000 sq mile) reserve.

According to Reuters, the bidding process will begin on Wednesday.

No one from the government has responded to the agency's request for comment.

A Kenyan High Court has ruled against a petition to change a clause in the Marriage Act wuich limits divorced couples to only claim ownership to assets they have acquired during the relationship, local media reports.

The Federation of Women Lawyers had wanted the section of the law to be declared unconstitutional, and couples to be entitled to 50-50 arrangement.

But presiding Judge Justice John Mativo is quoted as saying, "a person cannot walk into a marriage and then walk out with more than what they deserve."

Last week, the country's Supreme Court ruled it had no jurisdiction to hear a case between a divorced couple, where the woman wanted the ex-husband to pay her alimony.

The court said that the issue was "a family affair".

South Africa's elite police squad have confirmed the device discovered at a mosque where three people were attacked last week is an explosive.

The device was found at the mosque in Veralum, north of Durban, on Sunday evening, four days after one man was killed and two people injured by three unknown attackers.

Simphiwe Mhlongo, a spokesman for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation - known as the Hawks - told eNCA television: "We had a meeting with the explosive unit members who briefed us on the device they had taken away yesterday. They confirmed that its mechanism is explosive.

"But at this stage they haven't gone through analysing what chemicals it is made of."

• Read our earlier post on the discovery of the device here.

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South Africans are mourning celebrated photographer Sam Nzima, who died over the weekend.

Nzima's iconic picture of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson, who was shot dead by police on 16 June 1976 during a demonstration by black students in Soweto township, earned him world acclaim.

Many more people were killed over three days of protesting, which was seen as one of the key moments in the black majority protest against the apartheid system.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa called Nzima "one of a kind".

"His camera captured the full brutality of apartheid oppression on the nation’s psyche and history from the Defiance Campaign through to forced removals and the Soweto student uprisings.," he added.

Here's a sample of some of the tributes people have posted on Twitter:

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it hopes to be able to send an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as this week to deal with an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It's thought 4,000 doses will be sent to the remote north-western province of Equateur.

Who's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has visited the region, where 35 suspected cases have been reported so far - more than half of them fatal.

Congolese and United Nations agencies have begun sending emergency teams of specialists to the area to try to prevent the spread of Ebola.

Who tweeted a picture of its top official's visit in the outbreak area:

Read: Why does Ebola keep coming back?

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South Africa's elite police squad are investigating a possible explosive device left in a mosque attacked by three men last week.

Hawks spokesman Simphiwe Mhlongo told Reuters news agency the bomb squad had been sent into the Imam Hussain Mosque in Verulam, a town north of Durban, on Sunday evening.

The unit has not yet confirmed whether or not it was an explosive device.

However, Mr Mhlongo did say the area had been searched on Friday, with nothing suspicious found.

The Hawks have been investigating Thursday's fatal attack at the mosque, which left one man dead and two with serious injures.

Several rooms were also set alight during the attack.

There have been no arrests so far, and the motive is not clear, but Mr Mhlongo told news agency AFP the attack had "elements of extremism".

• Read our earlier story on the attack here.

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