The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has named South Sudanese surgeon Dr Evan Atar as the winner of the Nansen Refugee Award.

The prize is given to an individual who the agency says goes beyond the call of duty to help people forcibly displaced from their homes.

Dr Atar runs the only functioning hospital in the region of Bunj in north-eastern South Sudan. The facility serves close to 250,000 people.

He will receive $150,000 (£114,000) to fund a project which complements his existing work.

The BBC's Newsday programme spoke Dr Atar about his work.

Watch him in action:

A son of Angola's long-serving former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been remanded in custody in connection with a $1.5bn (£1.1bn) embezzlement case.

Prosecutors said Jose Filomeno dos Santos had been placed in detention due to the complexity and seriousness of the issue.

He or his legal representatives have not yet commented.

Mr dos Santos was sacked as head of oil-rich Angola's $5bn dollar sovereign wealth fund after Joao Lourenco became president last year, vowing to eradicate nepotism and corruption.

In March, Mr dos Santos was formally accused of fraud over the alleged illegal transfer of $500m from the central bank.

Read more:Paradise Papers: Tycoon made $41m from Angola's 'people's fund'

Major roads in South Africa's coastal city of Cape Town have been closed following protests by residents against poverty and crime, local media report.

"Eight people were arrested for public violence following run-ins with police that resulted in the disruption of traffic," the Western Cape police said in a statement.

One of the protest organisers, Gatto Wanza, blamed the police for instigating clashes with protesters.

"They are quite comfortable in allowing us to protest inside Bonteheuwel, but they are clearly protecting the interests of the wealthy by protecting the highway," Wanza said, IOL news site reports. , external

Public broadcaster Sabc spoke to some of the residents of Bonteheuwel about the reasons for their protests, with most of them decrying insecurity in the area.

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Natasha Booty

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And we leave you with this picture taken on an island off the Mozambican coast, by Botswana-based photographer Uyapo Ketogetswe:

A life-size statue of former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela has been unveiled at the UN's headquarters in New York.

"At 1.8 metres tall‚ the Nelson Mandela Statue is the only life-size statue at the United Nations headquarters‚ signifying the role he played in unifying the world under the banner of peace and conflict resolution‚" the South African presidency said.

Times Live reports that, external the statue was created by South African sculptors Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, the same team behind a nine-metre bronze Mandela statue at the Union Buildings in Tshwane, the headquarters of the South African government.

When the new statue was unveiled at today's ceremony in New York by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, he said:

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BBC Africa

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More than 30 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by floods in northern Ghana.

Torrential rains and overflowing water at Bagre dam in neighbouring Burkina Faso are to blame for homes and many acres of crops being swept away.

The floods have also raised concerns about food security and the potential for the outbreak of diseases such as cholera.

Spillage happens most years at Bagre Dam, a multipurpose dam on the White Volta river near Bagré village in Burkina Faso, and communities in northern Ghana are often affected.

Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation (Nadmo) says it is exploring alternative measures to minimise spillage in future, including building more dams to collect the water.

Northern Ghana is one of the poorest parts of the country and most houses are built with mud, and not strong enough to withstand the devastating floods.

The government has stepped up relief efforts after being criticised for not doing enough to manage the situation.

Image source, Namdo

Image source, Namdo

Image source, Namdo

Uganda musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine has mocked President Yoweri Museveni's donation of 100m Ugandan shillings ($26,000; £20,000) to youth groups in his constituency in the capital, Kampala, NTV Uganda reports.

"Since the regime has nothing else to tell people, they are embarking on buying them - if they can't intimidate you with bullets they can throw money at you," he said. "They can't believe somebody can speak to people without throwing money at them," he said.

Bobi Wine said the government offered money to the family of his former driver who was shot dead on August 13, which the family has rejected according to the Daily Monitor newspaper, external. The politician has alleged that he was the target of the shooting.

Mr Museveni's donation to youth groups in Kampala's Kamwokya suburb are intended to help boost their small-scale businesses, the Daily Monitor reports., external

"You have been given 100m but if you use it well, in future you will get more than that," Deputy government spokesperson Col Shaban Bantariza, who was representing Mr Museveni, said at the event.

But he also warned young people that if they continued to burn car tyres - which supporters of Bobi Wine have been doing in protest at the government's treatment of their MP - then the state, he said, would withhold further donations.

NTV Uganda tweeted a video of a resident of Kamwokya (speaking Luganda) dismissing Mr Museveni's donation:

• Read more: The president and the pop star

Nick Cavell
BBC Africa Sport

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Nigeria and Senegal's women's basketball teams are celebrating today after creating history on Sunday at the Basketball World Cup on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

The two sides became the first African teams to ever win group games at the World Cup, formerly the World Championships.

First Senegal beat Latvia 70-69 and then a few hours later Nigeria beat Turkey 74-68.

Both sides had lost their opening games on Saturday, with Senegal beaten 87-67 by reigning champions USA while Nigeria lost 86-68 to Australia.

African national teams have been playing at the global finals since 1974.

Nigeria lost all five of their matches at their only other appearance in the finals in 2006.

Senegal have been to the global showpiece on seven occasions and have only ever won in matches to decide the minor placings – they were the first team to win a match in 1990, when they beat Malaysia and then Zaire to decide the 13th to 16th places at the 16-team tournament.

Aboubakar Famau
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

After last week's ferry disaster in which 224 people were killed, the government has intervened to disband the board of directors at Tanzania’s maritime safety agency, the Surface and Maritime Regulatory Authority, and has also launched an inquiry into what caused it.

The head of the ferry operator, Tanzania Electrical, Mechanical and Electronics Services Agency (Temesa), has also been suspended and its board of directors dissolved. It follows the sacking of several of its employees.

Meanwhile, a retired army officer and local opposition MP Joseph Lukundi are part of the new government commission charged with investigating why the MV Nyerere capsized last week on Lake Victoria. The seven-member team has one month to compile and submit its report to the president.

A new ferry has been promised for the route, which the prime minister says will have a capacity of 200 passengers and carry 50 tonnes of cargo.

(See our earlier post on efforts to turn the ferry over)

Aboubakar Famau
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

Efforts to turn over the capsized ferry in Tanzania are ongoing with the authorities employing several methods to lift it.

The boat capsized on Friday around 50 metres from the shore of Ukara island on its way from Bugorora.

Local media say the ferry's official capacity was 100 people, but it was overcrowded and the death toll now stands at more than 200.

Minister for Infrastructure, Isaac Aloyce Kamwele, told reporters that several ways of turning over the vessel were being considered, including "filling seven large floating bags with air" and "putting them underneath the 12-tonne ferry" to turn it over.

(See our later post: Tanzania punishes maritime bosses over ferry disaster)

Uganda's home-grown film industry is proving a hit on YouTube, but does it glorify violence?

The BBC's Ed Butler heads to Wakaliga on the outskirts of the capital to investigate, only to get shot with fake bullets.

Hear a range of views of American immigrant studio boss Alan Hofmanis, director and screenwriter Isaac Nabwana, special effects supremo Dauda Bisaso, as well as British fan Timon Singh of the Bristol Bad Film Club:

Jonathan Paye-Layleh
BBC Africa, Monrovia

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Hundreds have joined protests in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, in anger at the disappearance of more than $100m-worth (£76m) of newly printed bank notes intended for the central bank.

That sum, which vanished from the country's main port and airport when the notes were imported for distribution, accounts for 5% of the country's GDP according to the Financial Times, external.

Liberia's government has banned 15 people, including the son of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, from leaving the country while it investigates what happened.

The government has asked the IMF and the FBI to assist with the investigation. But according to President George Weah in a statement, the role of those international partners will be to advise the government on transparency. Citizens say this does not go far enough, and are instead calling for the those organisations to be directly involved in the probe.

Protesters have amassed outside the US embassy hoping to get their message heard:

Image source, Jonathan Paye Layleh/BBC

Image source, Jonathan Paye Layleh/BBC

Ugandan pop star and MP Bobi Wine has given a written statement to the press days after his return to the country, criticising "extrajudicial killings" and calling for "those who torture and maim our citizens" to be brought to order.

He also accuses President Yoweri Museveni of "patting troops on the back" for "torturing" him and others "to near death". He later adds "I hope you can redeem yourself".

Uganda's army has rejected allegations that the MP was tortured while in their custody.

Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was charged with treason alongside 32 other politicians following campaign violence during a by-election in August. They deny the charges.

Before being arrested, Bobi Wine tweeted a gruesome picture of his driver Yasin Kawuma, who he said had been shot dead by police thinking he was the MP.

Some see Bobi Wine's popularity as sign of a generational rift between Uganda's young population and President Museveni, who has been in power since 1986.

Bobi Wine's statement, which he shared though social media, calls for the embrace of what he terms "people power":

Lawyers for a prominent critic of Rwanda's President Kagame say they believe one of the trial judges is biased because of her involvement in pre-trial detention hearings, and must therefore be removed.

The trial, which began today at the High Court in Kigali, has been postponed.

Diane Rwigara faces charges of insurrection and has spent the past year in prison. She is on trial alongside her mother, Adeline. The pair say the charges are politically motivated.

Ms Rwigara was barred from running in last year's presidential election, which Mr Kagame won with nearly 99% of the vote.

Her father Assinapol Rwigara, who died in 2015, was a businessman and a former supporter of Mr Kagame.

Somalis are raising funds for the family of a man who was burned alive, external over his nephew's plans to marry a woman from a different ethnic group.

Ahmed Mukhtar Salah was the uncle of an ethnically Bantu man who became secretly engaged to a woman from a noble clan. When the couple ran away, the woman's family urged Mr Ahmed to bring her back.

The BBC's Ibrahim Aden says that the young woman's father eventually decided to give the couple his blessing, whereas her mother and other family members refused to do so.

Last week, Mr Mukhtar Salah's was stabbed and burnt to death in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Police have since arrested the mother of the young woman and several other people in connection with the attack.

Local media reports show a large turnout for Mr Mukhtar Salah's burial on Sunday:

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A Kenya-based programme that gives life skills and support to teenage girls through football has won Fifa's Diversity Award for 2018, external.

Horn of Africa Development Initiative (Hodi) was given the award on Sunday in London.

"This award is an important recognition and puts the wind behind our sails," said Hodi's Noor Abdulkadir.

The organisation's flagship programme, Shoot to Score, helps to prevent children from being forced into ethnic rivalry and conflict, providing safe spaces for learning a culture of non-violence through football.

Fifa's Diversity Award "recognises an outstanding organisation striving for diversity and anti-discrimination".

Louise Dewast
Kinshasa, DR Congo

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As the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo reaches 100, according to the World Health Organization, the health ministry has suspended all outreach work in the north-eastern city of Beni due to insecurity in the area.

This means that teams involved in contact tracing and vaccination are not able to do their work in affected zones.

Over the weekend, at least 18 were killed in an attack by armed rebels, including 14 civilians.

The attack started Saturday afternoon and lasted for several hours. Heavy gunfire was heard in Beni, a city of several hundred thousand people.

The Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan Islamist group active in the area since the 1990s, is believed to be behind the attack.

On Sunday, while some residents were in mourning, others gathered in front of the hospital in Beni to protest against growing insecurity in the Ebola-affected area.

*This post has been amended to clarify that outreach teams are halting activity in Beni, rather than across the wider North Kivu and Ituri provinces

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A woman who tried to challenge Paul Kagame in Rwanda's presidential elections last year, Diane Rwigara, is due to go on trial today.

She faces charges of inciting insurrection and has already spent a year in prison. Her mother is also on trial.

They say the charges are politically motivated.

Ms Rwigara was barred from running in last year's presidential election, which Mr Kagame won with nearly 99% of the vote.

Her father, who died in 2015, was businessman Assinapol Rwigara, a former supporter of Mr Kagame.

The family claim he was killed by the Rwandan authorities - something officials deny.