Popular South African DJ Black Coffee says he is determined to see black people gain greater influence in the music industry to end inequalities caused by apartheid.

He spoke to BBC Newsday ahead of his appearance next month at the Sonar dance festival in Barcelona, which this year is highlighting artists from Africa.

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A conference aimed at agreeing a roadmap to reunify Libya is being held in Paris today.

The meeting will bring together Fayez Seraj, who heads the United Nations-backed unity government in western Libya, and the militia leader, Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army dominates the east of the country.

France hopes the two sides will commit themselves to hold nationwide elections by the end of the year.

But the International Crisis Group - an organisation that works around world, trying to prevent conflict said negotiating with individual leaders was likely to be counter-productive without a broader consensus.

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The EU will deploy observers to Zimbabwe's general elections, expected in July.

The EU and Zimbabwe's government signed a memorandum on 28 May, which outlined the guidelines for election monitors, AFP reports.

This is the first time in 16 years the EU will be monitoring polls in the country.

It is also the first elections following the removal from power of long-time ruler Robert Mugabe and the death of veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is running for office, with Nelson Chamisa - who sees himself as Mr Tsvangirai's heir - expected to be his main challenger.

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will approve a new law to reduce age limits in political office, which could make it easier for younger candidates to run in next year's election.

The move comes after intense pressure from youth groups, which pushed the government to adopt the legislation, saying they were politically marginalised.

"In (a) few days to come, I will be joined by many promising young Nigerians to sign into law the 'Not Too Young To Run' bill," President Buhari, 75, said in a speech to mark the country's annual Democracy Day public holiday.

Last month President Buhari said that he would run for a second term next year.

The bill reduces the minimum age for presidential candidates from 40 to 35, and senators and state governors from 35 to 30.

The minimum age for national and state assembly members will now become 25.

He also reassured Nigerians during his speech of the administration's commitment to improving security and fighting Boko Haram.

"Public safety and security remains the primary duty of this government. Before this administration came into being three years ago, Boko Haram held large areas of land spanning several local government in the northeast," he said.

"Today, the capacity of the insurgents has been degraded."

He also said "culprits and their sponsors shall be made to face the full wrath of the law" in reference to the clashes between farming communities and herders.

Mr Buhari's full speech is on Facebook:

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A promised investigation into gender discrimination at the African Union is yet to materialise, South Africa's Mail&Guardian reports.

The investigation was promised after the M&G uncovered a culture within the AU, external which, at its worst, "excludes and humiliates" women working there under a system of "professional apartheid".

African Union Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat immediately promised a probe into the allegations, declaring he would not allow "discrimination against women under my watch".

That was three weeks ago, and now - with no evidence of an investigation getting underway - one employee told the paper's Simon Allison, external she feared any investigation would simply be "window dressing".

The AU did not respond to the M&G's request for comment.

A South African court has unfrozen assests worth 250m rand ($20m; £15m) belonging to former President Jacob Zuma's close allies, the Gupta brothers.

According to local media reports, the Free State High Court, in Bloemfontein, threw out the order made earlier this year, saying it was marred by shortcomings.

The Times Live news website reported that the assets included cash, cars and a helicopter.

The Indian-born Gupta brothers have been accused of using their close friendship with Mr Zuma to wield enormous political influence.

But this particular case is linked to allegations of corruption at the Estina dairy farm near Vrede, in the Free State, a project which was originally meant to help poor black farmers but from which the Gupta family are alleged to have pocketed millions of dollars, allegations they deny.

A student hostel at Uganda's Makerere University in the capital Kampala has caught fire, local newspaper Daily Monitor is reporting.

It is unclear what has caused the fire, but footage from the city shows huge plumes of smoke rising into the sky:

We will monitor the story and update you as soon as we get more information.

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A 36-year-old man is being hauled before a disciplinary committee after allegedly undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa on social media, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights say in a statement.

Prison officer John Mahlabera found himself in trouble after posting on Twitter “come to Chiredzi my president” - a message in support of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.

His employer, the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS), said the comments contravened employment regulations and showed disloyalty to President Mnangagwa.

Prosecutors have lined up four witnesses during the disciplinary hearing to be held next month.

ZLHR says its records compiled since 2010 show it has attended close to 200 cases where people have been arrested and charged for allegedly “insulting or undermining the authority of the president”.

Mr Mnangagwa came to power into power in November last year after the military forced former president Robert Mugabe out of office.

The first elections after Mr Mugabe's 37 years rule will be held in July.

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Meet Eddie Ndopu, the first African with a disability to graduate from Oxford University.

He is now setting up an NGO that promotes safer and more accessible spaces in South Africa for people with disabilities.

Oh, and he wants to go to space.

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Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s has once again failed to appear before a parliamentary committee investigating missing diamond revenue.

Mr Mugabe had been invited to appear at 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT).

A news site which monitors parliament activities has tweeted that MP Themba Mliswa, who chairs parliament's committee on mines, has said that they will invite the veteran leader one last time:

Mr Mliswa told the BBC last week that today's set time had taken into account Mr Mugabe's age.

He had warned they would bring in the police if the 93-year-old former leader failed to show up before the committee for a third time.

The lawmakers want Mr Mugabe to account for his comments during an interview in 2016, when he claimed $15bn (£11bn) in diamond revenue was missing through corruption.

The government has since said the amount was "figurative".

Open Parly tweeted a picture of an empty room where the hearing was scheduled to be held.

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BBC Africa, Abuja

Transparency International has warned the Nigerian government is using an increasing amount of so-called "security votes" in the run up to the 2019 elections.

Security votes are large amounts of cash given to tackle unspecified security issues agreed at the discretion of public officials without being subjected to oversight or independent audit.

But Transparency International argue these security "slush funds" - totalling some $670m (£500m) - fuel corruption and conflict..

The organisation and local Partner Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre are seeking an end to the practice, which it says has been used as "camouflage cash" by successive governments since 1999.

A Ugandan woman has found herself in hot water after allegedly faking her own kidnapping, local newspaper The Daily Monitor reports, external.

According to the outlet, Christine Nabasumba's family received calls saying she had been kidnapped on her way home from work on Friday.

The kidnappers, it was claimed, wanted 10m Ugandan shillings ($2,675; £2,000) in exchange for her safe return.

However, on Monday morning police in the capital Kampala had some surprising news for her desperate father - who had enlisted officers' help in finding the 25-year-old.

Police spokesman Luke Oweyesigire said she had been found in a guest house just 16km (nine miles) from her home in Busega, Kampala.

He added she was now facing charges for "giving false information to the public".

Kenya's chief prosecutor announced he had charged 40 civil servants and 14 private sector officials in connection with an alleged corruption scandal totaling almost $79m (£60m).

Noordin Mohamed Haji told reporters the charges had been laid as the first part of the probe, which will now go on to look at the role the bank allegedly played in the scam.

The scandal relates to the National Youth Service, which is supposed to train young people for jobs from construction to traffic control.

According to Kenyan media, the funds were stolen through fictitious invoices and multiple payments on one supplier invoice.

Among the cases which have emerged is that of the alleged .

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Egypt's prosecutor has ordered a 15-day detention, pending investigation, of yet another political activist for "spreading false news" on his social media profiles, privately-owned al-Fajr website reports.

Hazem Abdel-Azim is accused of "deliberately spreading false news and statements about the political and economic situation in the country with the aim of disrupting general peace… via different media outlets and his social media profiles", as well as joining an illegal group aiming to disrupt the constitution.

He was the youth officer in President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's 2014 election campaign, but his recent social media posts have been mostly critical of the government.

Most of the activists arrested recently have been accused of joining an illegal group and spreading false news.

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Childish Gambino's This is America very quickly became the most talked about music video in the world after he released it earlier this month.

So it is not so surprising that Nigerian rapper Falz’s take This Is Nigeria immediately began causing quite the stir on social media.

The video sees Falz dancing and walking through a warehouse as different scenarios play out around him - incredibly similar to Childish Gambino’s video.

But in his version, Falz focuses on recent political, social and economic issues affecting Nigeria, with both the lyrics and symbolism on screen being seen as a scathing criticism of the country.

Through conscious rap, he addresses the ongoing herdsmen clashes, kidnapping of schoolgirls by militants in the northern region, corruption, drug abuse among the youth, power blackouts, police harassment and internet fraud.

The video opens up with the rapper holding a boom box which plays out the voice of his father, popular Nigerian lawyer and human right activist Femi Falana.

Since its release, the song has been streamed more than a million times and sparking a lot of debate about the message and delivery with some people even hailing him as the new voice of the people.

Female suicide bombers, suspected to be from Boko Haram, killed at least three people during an attack in north-east Nigeria.

The two bombers detonated their explosives inside a house and close to a mosque in the Mashamari area of Konduga, news agency AFP reports.

"One of them detonated near a mosque while residents were preparing for the evening prayers and moments later the second one detonated inside a house," Bello Danbatta, chief security officer of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), told AFP.

Seven others were injured, according to Mr Danbatta.

But Ibrahim Liman, part of a civilian militia force helping the military against Boko Haram, said two more victims died en-route to a Maiduguri hospital, potentially raising the death toll to five.

This comes weeks after a male bomber killed five militia members at a checkpoint outside Konduga.

Boko Haran have been using mostly women and girls and suicide bombers, targeting mosques, markets, schools and other crowded places.

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An adviser to Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has described a donation of 10 donkeys by the French embassy to villagers in Gitega province an "insult to the nation", news agency AFP reports.

The agriculture ministry ordered the animals, which were bought from neighbouring Tanzania as part of a local NGO's project to help women and children transport agricultural products, water or wood, to be quarantined.

Agriculture Minister Deo Guide Rurema asked a local administrator to "facilitate the immediate withdrawal of all donkeys that have been distributed... without respecting the technical procedure of the distribution of exotic animals".

Gabby Bugaga, spokesman for the Senate president, tweeted that the French were "taking us for donkeys".

"Be honest, is the donkey a symbol of a quality - or a flaw?" he wrote.

French Ambassador Laurent Delahousse has however praised the animals calling them a "Land Cruiser of the animal kingdom".

He defended the project saying that "all procedures were respected", and pointed out a similar project financed by Belgium in the eastern Ruyigi province had not been met with similar reaction.

AFP reports a European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Burundi was hitting back at France over a statement criticising a referendum earlier this month which reformed the constitution, allowing President Nkurunziza to seek another two terms in office and remain in power until 2034.

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