A Kuwaiti TV show, Block Ghashmarah, has used "blacked-up" actors and stereotypes to portray Sudanese people.

The depictions of people from the African country have led to accusations of racism, although others have jumped to defend the programme.

Actor Hasan al-Ballam has since apologised on his Instagram account for any offence caused.

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Malawi's Vice-President Saulos Chilima has condemned corruption in the government as he announced he plans to quit the ruling party.

The move is seen as a clear indication he intends to run for the presidency in elections due next year.

Addressing a press conference in the capital Lilongwe, Mr Chilima said:

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Some members of the ruling Democratic People's Party (DPP) have been lobbying Mr Chilima, 45, to challenge Mr Mutharika, 79, in the race to be the party's presidential candidate.

However, Mr Chilima said he would "follow the procedure and leave the DPP", without indicating whether he intends to form a new party to contest elections.

"I made no decision, no-one contacted me," he said, promising to announce his decision soon.

Mr Mutharika handpicked Mr Chilima as his running mate in the 2014 elections.

A Somali refugee who made history after being elected to the Minnesota State Legislature has decided to tackle an even bigger challenge: winning a seat in Congress.

Ilhan Omar became the first Somali-American legislator in the United States back in 2016, making her the highest-ranking Somali elected to office in the country.

But less than two years later, she has decided to put her name forward to be the Democrat's candidate for Congress, announcing her bid in a tweet:

If successful, she would represent Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, which includes Minneapolis and a number of other suburbs.

But there are still several hurdles to overcome.

Ms Omar will now face off against a number of other candidates vying to be named the party's choice to fight for the seat, currently held by fellow Democrat Keith Ellison, in a primary due to take place in August.

The election itself will take place in November.

• Read more: Historic win for Somali-American woman

Aboubakar Famau
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

The funeral of Tanzania's conjoined twins, Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti, who died on Saturday aged 21, has taken place at Ruaha Catholic University in the southern highlands.

The women had been studying education at the university - and teaching staff and students were among those who paid tribute to them.

They had been joined from the navel downwards and shared organs like the liver and lungs, had two hearts and separate heads and arms.

Image source, The Ruaha Catholic University

They were admitted to hospital in December due to issues relating to heart disease but died on Saturday after suffering respiratory complications.

In an interview with the BBC last year, the twins said that after they had completed their university education, they wanted to become teachers.

Maria and Consolata, who were against the idea of being surgically separated, also told the BBC that they hoped to get married to one husband someday.

The two, whose parents died while they were still infants, were raised by the Catholic charity Maria Consolata, which had adopted and named them.

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The Dutch coach who led Nigeria's football team to victory in the 1996 Olympics has been handed a gift promised to him by the government 22 years ago, BBC Pidgin reports.

Jo Bonfrere received the keys to a three-bedroom apartment in the capital, Abuja, from Power, Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Raji Fashola.

It fulfills a pledge made to him by the administration of the late military ruler Sani Abacha, who was in power when Nigeria beat Argentina 3-2 in the finals at the 1996 Olympic Games in the US.

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A Kenyan woman who was publicly humiliated after staff at one of the capital's top hotels accused her of being a prostitute has been awarded 3m shillings ($30,000; £22,000) in damages.

Winfred Njoki Clarke took the five-star Intercontinental Hotel, in Nairobi, to court two decades after they labelled her "a woman of questionable moral conduct" in front of other customers, according to the Nairobi News, external.

She was then escorted from the premises and handed over the police, who kept her in custody for two days.

Hotel staff had jumped to the incorrect conclusion after she arrived at the hotel without a man, planning to meet a female friend for a drink.

According to local news site Hivisasa, external, staff told her she was required to pay a "cover charge" because she was a woman by herself.

When she questioned it, they threw her out - causing her, according to High Court judge Mbogholi Msagha, "great humiliation and embarrassment".

Judge Msagha said she was within her rights to question the charge, as he ruled the hotel - which accused Ms Clarke of making a scene - must pay 2m shillings ($20,000; £15,000).

The attorney general, the judge added, must pay another million shillings in compensation.

Kenya's Red Cross has confirmed that its "emergency responders" were involved in a road accident while on their way to provide back-up in the search and rescue of the passenger plane missing in a forested area north of the capital, Nairobi.

"The injured were evacuated to hospital by a second ambulance that was part of the convoy," Abbas Gullet, the Kenya Red Cross secretary-general, said in a statement posted on Twitter.

"All involved in the accident are in stable condition and we wish them a quick and full recovery."

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Africa: A Journey into Music

Irawo is one of the few and one of the first female talking drummers in what is a traditionally male-dominated profession in West Africa.

The Nigerian musician tells me how her drum is able to “talk”.

She says it’s the melody of the tri-tonal drum that gives it this ability as its pitch varies and can even be played to produce the “do-re-mi” tonal scale.

It is one of the oldest West African instruments and was once used to send messages from village to village.

But its significance can still be felt today in Nigeria, home of some of the most influential African music of the last 60 years

The country's music is famed for its pulsating rhythms, the percussive force in popular music like juju, fuji and Afrobeat.

The hourglass-shaped talking drum is one of the building blocks of the ancient polyrhythms at the heart of such music, which influences the sound of music makers on the continent and around the world.

Irawo spoke to me for my documentary series exploring the musical traditions of African countries and their influence on popular music.

Watch the first programme from Nigeria by clicking this link: Africa: A Journey into Music

A video appearing to show police officers carrying out a "cold-blooded execution" in the streets of Angola's capital Luanda has led to calls for an investigation by a human rights group.

The short video, which was shared on social media, shows a man lying on the road being approached by police.

A few seconds later, the sound of gunshots ring out - and then the camera settles on the man's unmoving body.

Angola's interior minister has admitted officers shot the man, allegedly part of a criminal gang they were chasing down, adding that disciplinary action was being taken.

But Human Rights Watch has pointed out it is unclear what form this disciplinary action will take, as it called for a proper investigation into the incident.

In a press release, the rights group's Southern Africa director Dewa Mavhinga said: "Angolan police have a responsibility to fight crime within the confines of the law, and those who don’t should face punishment.

“The apparent cold-blooded execution of a suspect requires Angolan authorities to promptly and impartially investigate members of the criminal investigation unit and appropriately prosecute any wrongdoing.”

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A police helicopter is involved in the search for a small plane which crashed in central Kenya with 10 people on board, AFP news agency reports.

The search is focusing on an area about 80km (50 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi, on the western fringe of the Aberdare mountains.

It has been hampered by poor visibility in rainy conditions, officials were quoted by news agency AFP as saying.

The plane, operated by East African Safari Air Express, flew out of the western town of Kitale late on Tuesday afternoon.

It disappeared off the radar screens at its final destination, the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital Nairobi, around 80 minutes later, the owners, Fly Sax said in a statement., external

Read our earlier posts on the missing plane by clicking here.

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The Rwandan government is demanding a public hearing before a journalist described by one prosecutor as the “mastermind" of the 1994 genocide be considered for early release.

Hassan Ngeze, the editor of an extremist Hutu magazine, was originally jailed for life by a judge in 2003, who told him he had "poisoned the minds of your readers" against Tutsis.

Four years later, the sentence was reduced to 35 years - and now he is being considered for early release from his prison in Mali by US Judge Theodor Meron, who oversees the relevant court.

But this has sparked outrage, not just within Rwanda, but among the lawyers who originally put him behind bars, according to the UK's Guardian, external.

Simone Monasebian, one of the prosecutors in the original case, has written to the judge, arguing the words used in his publication "were more potent and dangerous than any bullets or machetes”.

He was, she added, the "mastermind of the genocide".

Rwanda’s National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) has also issued a damning response to the possibility of Ngeze's early release.

According to Rwanda's New Times, external, 14 people involved in the genocide have been released early, with the CNLG arguing "such decisions demean the genocide against Tutsi, and give room for impunity".

Rwanda's attorney-general Johnson Businye has also called for "an investigation into the basis for these releases, and asking that they be brought to a halt”, the newspaper reports.

Three Red Cross staff in Kenya are in a serious condition in hospital after their vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry.

The group were on their way to join the search for the missing passenger plane in a forested area in the centre of the country, the local Daily Nation newspaper reports., external

One patient suffered head injuries, a second spinal cord injuries, and a third injuries to the leg, Nakuru General Hospital superintendent Samuel Mwaura told the newspaper.

Eight other patients suffered soft-tissue injuries, the report adds.

Scroll down to see our previous post for more details.

A Red Cross vehicle taking a team to help with search operations for the missing passenger plane in Kenya has been involved in a crash with a lorry, a respected local newspaper has tweeted:

Scroll down to the next post for our earlier story on the missing plane.

Rescue teams are searching for a small passenger plane with 10 people on board after it disappeared from the radar on Tuesday evening.

The search for the Fly Sax-owned plane is focusing around Aberdares forest in central Kenya after mobile phone signals suggest that the plane crashed in the area, local media reports.

The plane had been flying from Kitale town in the west to the capital, Nairobi, when it disappeared, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) said.

Rescue operations were halted last night, before resuming this morning.

There were eight passengers and two co-pilots - both women - on the plane.

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A court in Nigeria has ruled that President Muhammadu Buhari, 75, does not have to reveal the cost of the medical treatment he received in the UK last year.

A civil society group, Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative, brought the court action after the central bank refused to disclose his medical bill for his lengthy stay in the UK.

But Judge John Tsoho said the Freedom of Information Act contained exemptions, including in cases where individuals had not consented to the release of personal information, AFP reports.

"There is no evidence of the president having consented to disclosure of personal information relating to his health and the information is certainly not publicly available," the judge was quoted as saying.

"On the whole, the applicants' suit is not sustained and it is struck out," the judge added.

Mr Buhari made three medical trips to the UK last year, and one this year. He did not disclose his illness, but said: "I have never been so sick."

He seems to have recovered since then, and is running for a second four-year term in elections due next year.

At the time, a leading Nigerian doctor, Osahon Enabulele, accused Mr Buhari of reneging on a promise to end "medical tourism" by seeking treatment in the UK.

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That's all from the BBC Africa Live page on Tuesday. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or checking the BBC News website.

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And we leave you with this photo of a work in progress by Cameroonian artist Jean David Nkot:

Ethiopia's ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) says it has decided to accept the outcome of a border commission which awarded disputed territories on its border to Eritrea, reports BBC Amharic's Kalkidan Yibeltal from the capital, Addis Ababa.

It says this decision was taken in an effort to make peace with Eritrea.

The two countries fought each other in 1998 - within two years tens of thousands had been killed.

As part of a peace deal, a border commission was set up and it said the disputed areas, including the town of Badme, were in Eritrea.

Until now, Ethiopia has never fully accepted the outcome and has not withdrawn its troops.

The EPRDF took the decision at a meeting of its top leadership.

A leading Ethiopian news site is tweeting about it:

Meanwhile, the EPRDF has also decided to partially liberalise the state-controlled utility and telecom sectors, abandoning its previous opposition to the idea.

State enterprises such as Ethio-Telecom and Ethiopian Airlines are to be part-privatised to local and foreign investors. The government will, however, remain the majority shareholder.

A court in Uganda's capital, Kampala, has convicted a 23-year-old woman for staging her own kidnapping to test her husband’s love for her, the private Daily Monitor news site reports, external.

Aminah Mirembe was ordered to pay a fine of $80 (£60) or serve a prison sentence of one year, the new site adds.

The prosecution called for a deterrent sentence, saying that staged kidnappings were on the rise in Uganda.

On Monday, a court sentenced Rebecca Birabwa, 32, to six months in jail after she pleaded guilty to a similar charge, the Daily Monitor reports.