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UK Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Nigeria later on the second day of her trade mission to boost ties with Africa.

Mrs May will discuss security, trade and people trafficking with President Muhammadu Buhari, in the capital, Abuja, before meeting victims of modern slavery in Lagos.

The prime minister already announced $5bn (£4bn) of extra British support for African economies during the first leg of her trip in South Africa.

She will head to Kenya on Thursday for her final three-day whistle-stop trip aiming to deepen economic and trade ahead of the UK leaving the European Union in 2019.

Read the full story on the BBC website.

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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has blamed "big-headed" citizens for the country's failure to improve its agriculture yields, the country's privately owned Daily Monitor newspaper reports. , external

“The problem with Ugandans is they are big headed. That’s is the reason why the adaption rate of modern agricultural practices is very low and this has made it difficult for them to earn incomes from their small pieces of land,” Mr Museveni said.

He made the remarks on Tuesday when opening a cement factory in the eastern Tororo district.

“Uganda is one of the richest countries in the world blessed with numerous natural resources, which cannot be exhausted within the shortest period of time,” he said, adding that the future of the country was in industrialisation.

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Germany is due to hand over to Namibia the remains of nearly 30 victims killed in a genocidal campaign during colonial rule more than a century ago.

The ceremony to pass on the skulls and bones of the Herero and Nama peoples will take place at a church in Berlin at 08:30 GMT (10:30 local time).

This will be the third repatriation of human remains to Namibia - previous ones took place in 2011 and 2014.

The remains had been sent to Germany for use in now-discredited experiments, designed to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans.

Some 100,000 people are believed to have been killed as Germany crushed an uprising, beginning in 1904.

Despite admitting the massacres were genocide Germany has yet to fulfil a promise to give an official apology.

In January 2017, representatives of the Herero and Nama peoples filed a class-action lawsuit against Germany in New York to seek reparations. The judge has yet to rule on whether to hear the case.

Unlike with the victims of World War Two atrocities, Germany has also refused to pay reparations to victims, saying it pays millions of dollars of development aid to the country instead.

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And we leave you with some photos of the main stadium in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, which has been used as a base by African Union forces for the last seven years. A ceremony has been held to hand it back to Somalia's sports authorities. BBC Monitoring says the sports minister said the government was ready to renovate the stadium to its former glory:

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These are the words of newly elected Ugandan MP Kassiano Wadri - who is among 34 people facing treason charges over allegations that they stoned President Yoweri Museveni's car.

Mr Wadri told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that they were all beaten in custody and "the degree of battering differed".

He said that musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was arrested by the elite presidential guards and "tortured gravely".

The same treatment was meted out to opposition MP Francis Zaake, who is still in hospital.

"Those of us who were harassed and beaten by the police are a little better but the special guard for the president caused immense pain and torture to our people."

Mr Wadri said they were "barely" given food and that the police chased away well wishers who had brought come with food.

However, he praised Uganda's prison services after they were relocated from the police cell, saying that they had remained "professional and treated them with dignity".

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He said the court order barring him from visiting his constituency in northern Uganda for three months was unfair but he said he would respect it.

It was during the last day of the by-election campaign for the northern Arua town municipality seat that the stoning of a vehicle in the presidential convoy allegedly happened.

He denied that he was involved, saying he did not meet or see the presidential motorcade, adding that the charges were "a premeditated act."

The mayor of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, Miles Sampa, has withdrawn a Facebook post showing him brandishing a gun and wearing a holster.

Under the photos he had written: “This is how I will be reporting for field and office work. In case the police delay in protecting me, I am equal to the task."

Some people on Twitter captured a screenshot of the post before its deletion:

Mr Sampa told the BBC’s Focus on Africa radio programme that his decision to carry a gun came after he was recently attacked by thugs angered by his campaign to crack down on those who illegally sell plots of land and flout building regulations.

He had gone to a construction site and ordered a company to stop work until it had provided documentation that it had the right to build there.

On his return to the office, he says he was followed by a vehicle with about 20 youths representing those interested in the plot of land, who then threatened to kill him.

The mayor defended the decision to arm himself, telling the BBC:

He added that he would also be going to the gym to make sure he was fit enough to take on any would-be assailants.

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US forces in Africa says they have carried out an airstrike near the Libyan desert town of Bani Walid, south-east of the capital Tripoli.

The US says one Islamic State member was killed in the raid, external, which was carried out in co-ordination with the UN-recognised Libyan Government.

IS lost its base in the city of Sirte in 2016 and sought to regroup in the desert.

Earlier, a ceasefire was agreed following clashes between rival militias in the southern suburbs of the capital. The violence left five people dead and dozens wounded.

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At least seven members of the security forces in Burkina Faso have been killed after their vehicle came under attack and then struck a roadside bomb in the east of the country.

The police officers and soldiers had been sent to reinforce the town of Pama after a police station there was recently attacked.

The vehicle was hit about 30km (18 miles) from the town of Fada N'Gourma.

It is not known who carried out this latest attack.

There have been several incidents in Burkina Faso in recent months which have been blamed on Islamist militants.

Read: Burkina Faso country profile

Kenya's Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been granted a bail of five million shillings ($50,000;£38,000) and ordered to appear in court on Wednesday to face charges of abuse of office and tax evasion.

The court released Justice Mwilu on a personal bond because it is beyond official working hours in Kenya - the court registry and banks are closed. A bond with surety could therefore not be processed, the BBC's Anne Soy in Nairobi reports.

See below for our earlier story.

Kenya's Deputy Chief Justice, Philomena Mwilu, is currently in court in the capital, Nairobi, where her legal team is applying to get her freed on bail.

She was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at the Supreme Court and is accused of abuse of office for personal gain and tax evasion. Kenya's NTV has tweeted a photo of her in the court:

She is the most high-profile official to be apprehended in an ongoing crackdown on corruption.

Last year, the judge was in the limelight after the Supreme Court ordered a re-run of the presidential election.

Her driver was shot days before a ruling on whether the re-run should be postponed.

As a result, Justice Mwilu did not attend the hearing and the lack of a quorum meant the election re-run went ahead unchallenged.

The court's annulment of the initial poll angered President Uhuru Kenyatta who pledged to "fix the judiciary".

Kenya's Director Of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji said the decision to prosecute Justice Mwilu had been taken independently.

See earlier post about her arrest and the DPP's comments.

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A ceasefire has been agreed following clashes between rival militias in the southern suburbs of Libya's capital, Tripoli, local media report.

The health ministry says five people were killed and dozens more wounded.

Abdelsalam Ashor, the interior minister of the UN-backed government, told a television station that an armed group fighting against militias affiliated to his government would hand over its positions.

There are reported violations of the ceasefire already.

Since Col Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011 Libya has had several rival governments and dozens of militias operate across the country.

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Read more: Why is Libya so lawless?

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BBC Africa, Kampala

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Uganda’s former police chief Gen Kale Kayihura has been released on bail by a military court in the capital, Kampala.

Gen Kayihura, who has been in detention since June, was charged last week with aiding the illegal repatriation of Rwandan refugees and exiles from Uganda.

His family and friends broke out in celebrations when the court announced he had been granted bail.

His lawyers had wanted permission for him to get medical treatment abroad, but his movements have been restricted to Kampala and the neighbouring district of Wakiso.

The once-powerful army general ran Uganda’s police force for 13 years, until he was fired in March.

During his time in charge, the force became infamous for brutally clamping down on rights groups and the opposition.

He also faces charges of failing to protect arms and ammunition during his time as police chief. The army accuses him of illegally issuing out guns to vigilante groups and failing to account for arms and equipment issued out to the different police units.

The 62-year-old has denied all the charges. Some suspect that political motives lie behind his downfall.

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Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague are hearing closing arguments in the case against Bosco Ntaganda, a former warlord in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Known as "The Terminator", he is accused of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country's brutal civil conflict.

Prosecutors say he unleashed a reign of terror in the Ituri region of DR Congo between 2002 and 2003, using child soldiers and coercing women into sexual slavery.

At least 800 people were killed by Mr Ntaganda's forces as they battled rival militias for control of the mineral-rich area.

Read more: Bosco Ntaganda the Congolese 'Terminator'

Kenyan schoolgirl Sandra Lukindo and her classmates have invented a device to warn off elephants from their village.

Watch her explaining their invention to BBC Africa What's New:

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Kenya's national prosecutor has confirmed in a series of tweets that the deputy chief justice Philomena Mwilu - arrested earlier at the Supreme Court - will face criminal charges:

Director of Public Prosecutors (DPP) Noordin Haji said that over the last few months there had been "concerted efforts to fight corruption and economic crimes in the country that seriously deny the provision of basic necessities to the citizenry and affect development".

He said the decision to arrest Justice Mwilu had "not been taken lightly, but it is the right decision under the law".

The DPP said the justice system only worked if lawyers, prosecutors, magistrates and judges were fair and just:

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has refused to sign the latest draft of a peace deal aimed at ending five years of civil war.

The mediator of the peace talks, Sudan's Foreign Minister Al Dirdiri Mohamed, said Mr Machar as well as a smaller rebel group had refused to sign.

President Salva Kiir and Mr Machar, his former deputy, signed up to a ceasefire in June and a power-sharing agreement last month but the details of a final deal are still being negotiated.

The civil war broke out in 2013 less than two years after South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan.

A quarter of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Nigeria

Police in Nigeria say they arrested 57 men over the weekend on suspicion of being gay as displays of same-sex affection are banned in the West African country.

The police raided a hotel in the main commercial city of Lagos where dozens of people - mostly men - were attending a party.

Some fled during the mass arrests in the early hours of Sunday morning, but officers rounded up 57 people who they say are homosexual.

Chike Godwin Oti, police spokesman in Lagos state, told the BBC that investigations were continuing and the suspects would be charged.

Homosexual acts are punishable by up to 14 years in jail in Nigeria – such relationships were first outlawed under colonial rule in 1901.

Laws were tightened in 2014 when gay marriage and displays of same-sex affection were also banned.

Since then the authorities have cracked down on people suspected of homosexuality. However, arrests are infrequent as homosexual people live in hiding.

Watch: Queer in Nigeria: 'People don't think we exist'

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Kenya's Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been arrested at her offices in the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi over alleged corruption.

She has been taken to the police's Directorate of Criminal Investigations for questioning.