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A South African man who was filmed making racist comments has been widely condemned on social media.

The hashtag #AdamCatzavelos is trending in the country as people share a clip of a man on a beach saying that it is "heaven on earth" as there are no black people in sight.

He also uses a derogatory word to refer to black people.

Mr Catzavelos' family has joined in the condemnation of the video, a South African news channel reports:

The firm owned by the family has also distanced itself from him and temporarily shut the business, EyeWitness News says.

A South African bank which once highlighted the work of Mr Catzavelos has clarified that he is not connected with its business:

In March, South African Vicky Momberg was jailed for racist abuse after she was caught on camera using a derogatory word against a black police officer 48 times.

And in 2016 comments by Penny Sparrow in Durban posted on Facebook calling black people "monkeys" sparked widespread outrage. She was taken to court for hate speech and fined.

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court is due to hear a legal challenge from the opposition MDC Alliance to the election victory of President Emmerson Mnangagwa .

He won by just more than 30,000 votes to avoid a run-off election.

The MDC Alliance has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of rigging July's poll, which was the first since the ousting of former President Robert Mugabe last year.

The electoral commission has said there was "no skulduggery" involved in the compiling of the votes.

President Mnangagwa has urged the court to throw out the opposition appeal, which has already caused the postponement of his inauguration.

The court is due to make a decision by Friday.

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa tweeted that his legal team "is ready to defend your vote":

Journalists have been sharing videos of the scenes outside the court in the capital, Harare:

Many are expected to watch the hearing live as it is being shown on television by the national broadcaster.

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And we leave you with this Instagram image from South Africa of some children enjoying a public trampoline in Johannesburg's Alexandra township.

Reuters photographer James Akena, who was beaten and arrested as he covered a protest in Uganda's capital Kampala on Monday, told the BBC that the abuse he experienced at the hands of security forces as "very unusual".

Speaking to the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme, Mr Akena described the injuries he sustained during the ordeal, when uniformed officials beat him with what he described as hard sticks.

"The more you complain the more you get the beating," he said of the incident, which left him with cracks in two of his fingers, a shifted backbone and multiple hits to the base of his skull.

Below is a tweet with a clip of beating:

The Ugandan military has apologised for what it called the unprofessional conduct of its soldiers following the attack.

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War veterans in Zimbabwe are demanding that the main international airport remove Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years, from its name.

The airport was renamed from Harare International Airport to Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport last year, a few weeks before Mr Mugabe resigned as president following a military takeover.

Victor Matemadanda, from the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), said a petition would be handed over to Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over as president and won a disputed election last month.

He said the war veterans would march to the airport on Wednesday to demand the removal of Mr Mugabe’s “dirty name” and for other heroes' names to be considered instead.

“The current name is tarnishing the legacy of the liberation struggle because Mugabe, whom the airport is named after, is a sell-out… [The] airport cannot be named after a last-minute traitor," he said.

The war veterans are an influential group within Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.

The ZNLWVA secretary-general also said the group backed Mr Mnangagwa’s victory, which is being challenged by the opposition.

He avoided a run-off vote by about 36,000 votes, according to official results.

“The president-elect won by 50.8 %, full stop,” Mr Matemadanda said at the press conference in the capital, Harare.

The Constitutional Court is set to hear the opposition’s challenge on Wednesday.

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A Kenyan musician criticised after a video of his song was perceived to be a character assassination of Deputy President William Ruto has hit back saying he would never put out a track that invoked "ethnic tension".

The popular Kikuyu singer Muigai wa Njoroge, who is from the same ethnic group as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, released the song earlier in August called Mbari Ya Kimendero, which translates as "the greedy clan".

According to Kenyan newspaper the Standard, , externalvideos of the song circulating on social media have been edited to include video clips of Mr Ruto in a negative light.

Njoroge told the Standard that he had made a complaint to the police's Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), saying his song was plagiarised and embedded with those clips in a bid to tarnish his name.

He has since placed a disclaimer on the song's video in his official YouTube page, warning of viewers of the fake video:

President Kenyatta and Mr Ruto, who is Kalenjin, were once political rivals but came together to form an alliance and have gone on to win two elections together.

Their rival communities had clashed following the disputed 2007 elections - in which more than 1,000 people died.

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Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has threatened to send a boatload of migrants back to Libya unless EU countries take them in.

Writing on Twitter, Mr Salvini told Europe to start getting serious about defending its external borders and accepting migrants, otherwise Italy would take them back where they came from:

He said Italy had already played its part, and enough was enough.

Around 170 migrants are aboard an Italian coastguard vessel that docked in Catania in Sicily just before midnight, but they are not being allowed to disembark.

After they were rescued at sea last week, Italy and Malta argued about whose responsibility they were.

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BBC Africa, Bauchi

Muslims in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi have gathered in large numbers to mark Eid al-Adha, a rare sight in recent years because of the fear of attack from Boko Haram militants, who used to be active in the area.

People gathered at mosques and community grounds for morning prayers on the Muslim festival known as the “feast of the sacrifice”.

Later they are expected to make an animal sacrifice as a reminder of Ibrahim's obedience to God after he was ordered to sacrifice his son Isaac.

According to holy texts, as Ibrahim was about to kill his son, God stopped him and gave him a lamb to sacrifice instead.

But many Muslims in Nigeria have been complaining of economic hardship this year, saying they cannot afford to buy an animal to sacrifice.

Malam Mabudi, a resident of Bauchi, told me he was one of those who could not buy a sheep.

But he said he was happy this year’s festival was taking place in a peaceful atmosphere, unlike in previous years.

Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009 with the aim of establishing an Islamic caliphate in West Africa.

The conflict has reportedly left around 20,000 people dead and displaced at least two million.

Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone, wants to empower girls but also believes a "good story is for everyone" regardless of race or gender.

In an interview with the BBC, the 25-year-old author explains the inspiration behind her best-selling fantasy novel, which is based on traditional Yoruba religion and set in a fictional land in West Africa.

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A 94-year-old traditional priest has been arrested in Nigeria after cursing the alleged perpetrators of a recent spate of violence.

Anazo Ilomuanya was hired by a group of youths attempting to end killings affecting Ozubulu town, in the south-east of the country, police say.

The police arrested the traditional priest after local people complained.

The conflict, thought to be between rival drug gangs, led to the killing of 13 churchgoers last year.

It is believed that the perpetrators mistakenly thought the intended target of the attack was attending the St Philip's Church.

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Nigerian Afrobeats star Wizkid met Benin's President Patrice Talon during his trip to the country, which he called "my new home".

The 28-year-old, who had performed in the country's port city of Cotonou, posted a picture on Instagram of his meeting with President Talon.

"Thank [you] for the love and hospitality," he wrote in the post.

He also shared a video of his performance on Twitter:

Wizkid spoke to the BBC earlier in June about how he copes with the pressure of stardom. Watch the interview below:

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Many Muslims in Kenya have been celebrating Eid al-Adha despite a dispute over the date of the Muslim festival.

Also known as the “feast of the sacrifice”, it coincides with the time when Muslims travel to the Saudi city of Mecca to perform the Hajj pilgrimage.

Hundreds of people have gathered at various places around Kenya to pray together.

It has been declared a public holiday in Kenya – and is a day when Muslims recall the Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God.

But Ahmed Muhdhar, the chief Islamic affairs adviser to the government - a position known as chief Kadhi, felt the holiday should have been held on Wednesday instead.

The dispute hinges over when the new moon was sighted, heralding the start of the Hajj.

For those who saw it on Sunday, Eid falls on Tuesday – but in areas where it was seen on Monday, the festival is marked on Wednesday.

However, this year most Muslims around the world are celebrating on Tuesday.

The chief Kadhi’s Wednesday ruling has angered some Muslim politicians in Kenya, who accuse him of sowing disunity.

Aden Duale, the majority leader in Kenya’s National Assembly, tweeted that the chief Kadhi was operating "outside his mandate".

The Ugandan military has apologised for what it called the unprofessional conduct of soldiers after a Reuters journalist was beaten and arrested as he covered a protest in the capital, Kampala, on Monday.

In a video widely shared on social media, Reuters photographer James Akena is seen cowering as soldiers beat him.

According to AFP news agency, he was detained for several hours after being beaten.

In a statement the military said that soldiers who had molested journalists would be arrested and punished:

Earlier Human Rights Watch called on the Ugandan police and military to stop attacks on the media and respect the rights of all protesters.

On Monday one person was killed and more than 100 were arrested during protests over the detention of several opposition MPs and activists.

Last week two journalists were arrested as they reported live from where a driver of the detained MP and musician Robert Kyagulanyi - known as Bobi Wine - was killed.

Human Rights Watch wants an independent investigation into the shooting of Yasiin Kawuma.

It says the beating and arresting of journalists is evidence the Ugandan authorities want to cover up the conduct of the security forces

Wine, a popular Afrobeats star who was elected as an opposition MP last year, remains in detention and is due to appear before a military court on Thursday on charges of unlawfully possessing firearms.

His family allege he has been beaten up in custody.

Read more: The Afrobeats MP standing up to Museveni

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The Central African Republic (CAR) has signed a military co-operation agreement with Russia, deepening relations less than a month after three Russian journalists were killed in the African nation.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the deal would "help strengthen ties in the defence sphere" after a signing ceremony in Moscow with his CAR counterpart Marie-Noelle Koyara.

A UN arms embargo on CAR was lifted for Russia in 2017. Moscow sent specialists to train the forces and some security agents to be part of President Faustin-Archange Touadera's presidential guard.

The Russian journalists who were killed were investigating Russian mercenaries alleged to be active in CAR.

Russian and CAR authorities labelled the killing as a robbery, but exiled former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was funding the journalists' investigation, said the argument did "not stand up to scrutiny", the Reuters news agency reports.

Read: Russia shocked by mysterious murder of three journalists in CAR

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BBC Africa, Monrovia

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The news that Liberian President George Weah is to award his former football coach, Arsène Wenger, with the country's highest honour has generated some controversy in Liberia.

Some people are saying that it should not be given to an individual for what they have done for the president personally.

Wenger will be inducted into the country's Order of Distinction and be given the title of Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption - the highest rank possible - on Friday.

It is an honour normally bestowed on people for their work that impacts broader society.

President Weah, the only African to have been named World Player of the Year, was signed by Wenger in 1988 when the Frenchman coached Monaco.

He said that Wenger "took care of me like his son" when he went to Monaco, adding that "besides God, I think that without Arsène, there was no way I would have made it in Europe".

Wenger, who stepped down as Arsenal manager in May after 22 years, is credited for nurturing several African stars during his career.

Read the BBC News story for more.

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Morocco's ministerial council, chaired by King Mohammed VI, has approved a draft law that would reinstate compulsory military service.

Women will be included in the military draft, which will oblige citizens under 25 to serve for a year.

Conscription for men only was scrapped in 2006. The Moroccan authorities say it is being brought back to promote patriotism.

Public reaction has been mixed. Some have welcomed the return of conscription, seeing it as a way to help tackle youth unemployment.

Others regard it as an effort to encourage loyalty among young people who've been protesting about economic and other problems.

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BBC News, South Africa

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The dams in Cape Town have reached a significant milestone in an ongoing battle against severe water shortages in the South African coastal city.

Water levels at the dams have broken the 60% mark for first time since a drought struck parts of the Western Cape province three years ago - placing the much feared Day Zero out of the picture.

It had raised fears Cape Town would be the first city on earth to run out of water, causing widespread panic among residents.

They were braced for the city’s taps to run dry – but it seems there is now reason to celebrate.

This time last year, the dam levels were sitting at about 30%.

Although the City of Cape Town has described the development as "a milestone", stringent water-saving restrictions are to remain.

Cape Town residents are expected to use just 50 litres of water per person per day.

This includes taking two-minute showers.

Officials have said the restrictions will only be lifted if the dams reach between a 80% and 85% storage capacity.

Read more: 'Why my wife doesn't shower anymore'

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Africa editor, BBC World Service

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The health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say 55 people are feared to have died from Ebola - the government has confirmed that 28 of those deaths were definitely from the virus.

Vaccines and experimental drugs are being used to help limit the spread but the authorities expect the number of cases to increase.

Two treatment centres in North Kivu province are nearly at capacity and a new centre is about to be built in neighbouring Ituri province.

Health workers are trying to monitor more than 1,500 who have been in contact with Ebola patients - but the task is challenging due to outbreaks of violence in the eastern region, where many rebel groups operate.

Read more: Why Ebola keeps coming back