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Two of three people who fled Ebola quarantine in the Democratic Reoublic of Congo's city of Mbandaka have died, according to the medical charity MSF.

Henri Gray, who is heading up MSF in Mbandaka, told news agency Reuters the third person had been found alive.

Mr Gray said he was receiving treatment.

It comes as the US announced it had pledged up to a further $7m (£6m) to fight the outbreak, adding to the $1m USAID initially put forward last week.

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Police in Ghana have confirmed they are investigating football chief Kwesi Nyantakyi following a complaint by President Nana Akufo-Addo.

Mr Nyantakyi is accused of various offences, including using the president's name fraudulently, the police statement said.

He is alleged to have used Mr Akufo-Addo's name to attract investors in return for millions of dollars

Mr Nyantakyi is currently out of the country and is expected to return to Ghana today.

He has not yet commented on the allegation.

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A Syrian engineer who was kidnapped last week in northern Nigeria's Sokoto State has been released, police have said.

Gunmen abducted Abdul Nasir on 16 May while he was on his way to a road construction site outside Sokoto city. Three policemen who tried to rescue him were killed.

"Abdul Nasir was released on Tuesday at about 12:30 am (11:30 GMT) by his abductors," said Sokoto State police spokeswoman Cordelia Nwawe.

"He was dropped off along Arkilla Road on the outskirts of the city."

It is unclear who abducted the Syrian or what led to his release.

Ms Nwawe said no ransom had been paid.

Opposition activists in Egypt say the prominent blogger and campaigner, Wael Abbas, has been detained.

Early on Wednesday he wrote on his Facebook page in Arabic "I am being arrested now".

There has been no official confirmation, but in recent weeks the Egyptian authorities have stepped up their detention of activists.

Mr Abbas came to prominence in 2006 when he used his blog to report police brutality.

In 2011, he documented the Egypt's popular uprising.

By 2017, when his Twitter account was suspended, Mr Abbas had more than 300,000 followers.

A leading human rights lawyer has posted a photo of Mr Wael on his Twitter account:

Libyan protesters have shut down an oilfield in protest over failures to improve local services, news agency Reuters is reporting.

A spokesman for the Sirte Oil company told the news agency the eastern Raguba oilfield had been closed on Wednesday.

It comes after locals angry at a lack of good state services threatened to cut off the fields and pipelines running through their home region, Marada.

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A South African fashion student has been sentenced to life in prison after throwing acid over her boyfriend - leaving him with such horrific injuries he later chose to end his life.

Berlinah Wallace, 48, will serve a minimum of 12 years after being found guilty of throwing a corrosive substance with intent by a UK court.

The judge described her attack on Dutch engineer Mark van Dongen in Bristol city in south-west England in 2015 as "an act of pure evil".

Fifteen months after the attack, Mr van Dongen, 29, ended his life by euthanasia in a Belgian hospital. He was paralysed from the neck down and had lost a leg, ear and eye.

Wallace was cleared of murder and manslaughter.

Read the full story on the BBC website.

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A UK man has been found guilty of raping two girls in Kenya.

Keith Morris, 72, carried out the crimes while on holiday in a remote village between 2016 and 2017, the UK's National Crime Agency said.

He denied 13 charges, including rape and sexual assault but was convicted following a trial in Leeds city.

The Crown Prosecution Service said he befriended the young victims' families over the past 20 years, giving them money and gifts.

Read the full BBC story here

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Ghana's president has ordered an investigation into the chairman of the country's football association - who also happens to be on the Confederation of African Football's executive board.

Nana Akufo-Addo revealed he wanted a probe into allegations of influence peddling involving Kwesi Nyantakyi, after watching a television documentary.

According to local reports, the footage shows Mr Nyantakyi appearing to ask businessmen for money in return for access to the president.

He is said to use the president's name as well as that of the vice-president and other senior officials to attract investors in return for millions of dollars. Mr Nyantakyi also allegedly said he had the president in his pocket.

The documentary is due to air early next month.

Mr Nyantenkyi has been the head of the Ghana Football Association since 2005 and has so far made no comment.

Read the BBC Sport story here

Nigerian lawmakers have unanimously backed a bill which would see organisations who continue to sell products with codeine or tramadol fined up to 2m naira ($5,500; £4,100) or jailed for two years.

The bill also proposes fining individuals 500,000 naira or two years jail time, according to local media.

It comes as the country cracks down on medicines containing the opiates, as it battles a rising addiction problem.

Betty Apiafi, the Rivers State representative who proposed the amendment to the exisiting Food, Drugs and Related Products (Registration) Act, 2004, said tramadol was the most abused substance in Nigeria.

However, she also pointed to a government report which revealed three million bottles of cough syrup were consumed each day in the north of the country.

The bill now goes to a health committee, the Daily Post said, external.

• Read more: Sweet Sweet Codeine – inside Nigeria’s deadly cough syrup trade

Police in South Africa are searching for a self-proclaimed prophet after two bodies were found in a cave where he had been hiding out for about four months.

Police recovered the badly decomposed bodies on Tuesday‚ which were folded around each other‚ from a tunnel linking a series of caves in the Magaliesberg mountain range, the Times Live news site reports. , external

The bodies were believed to be those of members of the Zion Christian Church, an independent church which combines Christian and traditional African beliefs.

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English football club Arsenal have signed a new sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda, the country’s official tourism authority.

The Visit Rwanda brand will be on the shirt sleeves of all Arsenal’s teams.

The partnership is not entirely surprising. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame is an Arsenal fan.

Arsenal's chief commercial officer Vinai Venkatesham said:

Rwanda has been increasingly promoting itself as a tourist destination, and is one of only three countries in the world where the mountain gorilla is found.

A top presidential aide in Kenya has lashed out at the country's "entitled" millennials "who sit at home and expect jobs".

Walter Mong’are, a one-time comedian who now heads youth programmes in the Office of the President, was speaking during a panel discussion, according to the Nairobi News, external.

Mr Mong'are was responding to a question on why foreigners were building the country's roads rather than locals - and he did not sugar the pill.

It was, he said, because young people in Kenya were not willing to doing the jobs:

Another panelist, former Kenya Editor’s Guild chair Macharia Gaitho, accused the country's youth of simply wanting to get rich quick - and using any means whatsoever to get there:

The comments have divided opinion on social media.

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A coalition of civil society groups is pushing fir the agency in charge of rail transport in South Africa to reintroduce a chaperone service for children and separate carriages for female passengers, GroundUp news site reports. , external

The group, under the #UniteBehind banner, said in a statement that “women commuters face specific threats to their safety. This must be considered and prioritised by Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa)”.

It said that a chaperone carriage would provide children with a safe space where they would be accompanied by volunteers cleared by Prasa.

The group said that they had met with senior management at Prasa and were promised that “a number of crucial undertakings”‚ which included the reintroduction of chaperoned carriages for children.

Prasa spokesperson Nana Zenani said #UniteBehind’s request for special carriages forms part of “ongoing discussions and nothing further”.

GroundUp reports that it was unable to determine why this service was discontinued years ago.

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Harare

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Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ordered rivals in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) back to the High Court to determine which faction has the right to use the party name, logo and trademark.

The party is at war over who their official leader is after Morgan Tsvangirai’s death in February.

Nelson Chamisa was appointed as the party’s leader by the MDC executive, but Thokozani Khupe is disputing the appointment, saying only a party congress can appoint a leader.

She says she is the rightful leader after a congress that she assembled voted for her to become party leader.

The main MDC then fired her and now want her to stop using the party name and logo.

The Supreme Court has ordered them to return to the High Court for a full trial after 10 days to determine:

1. Whether there are two MDC parties
2. And if not whether Ms Khupe is entitled to use the party name.

Chris Ewokor
BBC Africa, Abuja

Crowds have taken over the streets of Nigeria’s capital Abuja to protest about the killing of Christians in the long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers.

They gathered in their thousands at the Ecumenical Christian Centre before proceeding to march through the city, causing traffic jams.

The demonstration coincided with the burial of the two Catholic priests and other church members killed in an attack blamed on cattle herders in Benue state in central Nigeria last month.

The marchers feel Christians are being unduly targeted by the cattle herders in the battle for land and grazing.

Many of the protesters are chanting songs and carrying placards – some reading: “Humans are not cows” and “Stop the killings, we want peace not violence”.

The protest, organised by the Catholic Church and other sister churches, is being held nationwide.

• Read more: How Nigeria's cattle war is fuelling religious tension

As unrest in Cameroon's Anglophone regions continues, the country's Catholic bishops have called for dialogue between the government and separatists.

Andrew Nkea, the bishop of Mamfe in the South-West region, told BBC Focus on Africa what he saw during a recent trip to some of the affected areas.

Warning: This clip contains some graphic descriptions:

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It looks like Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is in the mood to spar with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, an ally turned critic.

Mr Buhari has often ignored Mr Obasanjo's recent criticism of his leadership.

Earlier this year, he said that Mr Buhari should not seek a second term as he had failed in his handling of the economy.

But at an event in the capital, Abuja, Mr Buhari has questioned the impact of $16bn (£11bn) spent on a power project launched during Mr Obasanjo's time in office, Nigerian newspapers are reporting.

He said that “a former Nigerian leader” - without mentioning Mr Obasanjo's by name - was bragging about the amount spent on power sector, yet there was nothing to show for the expenditure.

“Where is the power? Where is the power?," Mr Buhari asked.

A report by Nigeria's House of Representatives called the project " a colossal waste", Punch news site reports., external