Russell Padmore
Business correspondent, BBC News

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One of the world's biggest ports operators, DP World, has told the BBC it is has no intention of returning to Djibouti, as it turns its focus to the breakaway republic of Somaliland.

The Dubai-based company, which runs 78 operations for handling freight in more than 40 countries, has been engaged in legal action with Djibouti since the government passed a decree to seize its stake in the Doraleh container terminal.

"We are not going back to Djibouti," DP World chairman and chief cxecutive Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem told BBC World Service. "We are in a legal battle that they started," he said.

Last month the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) ruled that the UAE company's port container terminal contract in Djibouti was valid and binding.

DP World believes its plan to develop a new port in Somaliland will not be hampered by the fact that the former British protectorate in East Africa is not recognised as an independent country.

"It does not cause any legal problem because this is an economic activity and it's a port that is going to create jobs," says Mr bin Sulayem.

DP World has effectively given up on efforts to continue operating the freight hub in Djibouti and now intends to seek compensation for the loss of its 33% stake and any revenues it would have earned by running the operation for the next 20 years.

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Mr bin Sulayem expresses regret, but also bitterness about the way the business has been seized from his company.

"When we won the legal battle that they started, they tried to make changes using the legal system, but it did not help them, so they started to make their own law," he said.

"The minute they decided to change the laws, for me Djibouti is not worth investing in and I don't want to go back," he added.

Port de Djibouti has been owned by the Djibouti government, DP World and China Merchants Port Holdings Company, which owns a stake of about 20%.

DP World has tried to remain involved in running the port and last month it obtained an injunction from the High Court of England and Wales, that prevented the Djibouti government from pushing it out, removing directors, or interfering with the management.

That prompted a response from Djibouti Ports and Free Zones, (DPFZA) describing the ruling as "inconsequential."

Read: How the crisis in the Gulf could spread to East Africa

The Sierra Leonean government says it has cancelled a $400m (3300m) contract with China to build a new airport.

The aviation minister, Kabineh Kallon, told the BBC the facility wasn't necessary and the current airport would be renovated instead.

The agreement was signed by the previous president, Ernest Bai Koroma, just a week before an election in March that swept his party from power.

At the time the World Bank and IMF opposed the deal, saying Sierra Leone could ill afford such an ambitious project due to its heavy debt burden.

The aviation minister said he didn't know whether there would be any financial implications as a result of cancelling the contract.

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At least 50 people have been killed after a bus travelling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road, police say.

Many reportedly died when the vehicle overturned. Police fear the death toll may rise, with the possibility of passengers trapped in the wreckage.

Read the full BBC story here

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Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has shot dead five people, including a British-Somali citizen, for spying for the UK, US and Somali governments.

The 32-year-old British-Somali man admitted to feeding the UK's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, information about people in Britain who had been providing support to militants in Somalia, a report on a jihadi website alleged.

Three others spied for the US and helped guide drone strikes, while another man spied for the Somali government, an al-Shabab official said, Reuters news agency reported.

The five were convicted by a court run by the militants, before being shot dead in public in territory controlled by the al-Qaeda-linked group, the official was quoted as saying.

The UK, US and Somali governments have not yet commented.

Read: Who are al-Shabab?

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The publisher of an in-flight magazine apologised for an article on American actress Drew Barrymore, which went viral on social media and was described as "surreal".

The article, which contains a number of grammatical and spelling errors, was spotted by political analyst Adam Baron in Horus, EgyptAir's in-flight magazine.

Baron posted pictures of the piece on Twitter last week:

Barrymore's representatives said last week that she "did not participate" in the interview.

However, EgyptAir said at the time that the in-flight magazine piece was a "professional" interview.

"We apologise for any misunderstanding that might be interpreted as an offence to the great artist," the publishing house behind the magazine, Ahram Advertising Agency, said in a statement seen by AFP news agency.

The agency said the interview was conducted in English by its reporter Aida Tekla before being translated into Arabic and back into English.

It also said, according to AFP, that Barrymore's team agreed to the interview without knowledge that Ms Tekla worked for the in-flight magazine or other publications.

Read more: 'Surreal' Drew Barrymore article defended by EgyptAir

Cameroon's government has hit out at a presidential candidate who declared himself the winner of Sunday's election, calling his actions "irresponsible".

"The only body entitled to publish results is the constitutional council," said government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary. "Everyone must abide by the law."

Maurice Kamto of the MRC party claimed on Monday that he had won the presidential election, flouting a government warning not to announce any unofficial results.

He was one of nine candidates to stand.

Reuters news agency quotes Mr Kamto's spokesman Olivier Nissack as saying that since Kamto did not give any numbers, he did not break any rules.

"Maurice Kamto did not proclaim himself president, he claimed victory, it's not the same thing," he reportedly said.

Official results are to be published within 15 days of Sunday's poll.

Tens of thousands of people were unable to cast their votes because of insecurity.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to accept Nhlanhla Nene’s resignation as finance minister and replace him with Tito Mboweni has been widely welcomed.

The markets reacted positively following Tuesday's announcement: the South African rand strengthened against the US dollar.

Mr Mboweni is an old and trusted hand. He was South Africa’s eighth governor of the central bank and the first black South African to hold that position after the end of apartheid.

He also served as labour minister in former President Nelson Mandela's administration.

The move signals a new way of doing things in South African politics.

Mr Nene fell on his sword for admitting that he met the controversial Gupta family at their home and offices, contradicting his previous statement that he met them only at public events. And that in itself is a remarkable thing as there was no evidence of any wrong doing by Mr Nene.

The culture of cabinet members resigning is almost non-existent in South Africa.

People wait until they are pushed. Mr Nene jumped.

There are many within Mr Ramaphosa's administration who have done far worse and yet cling onto their cushy jobs.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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Mozambican police have arrested a Chinese citizen at Maputo International Airport as he attempted to smuggle nine rhinoceros horns out of the country.

The 49-year-old Chinese citizen, whose name was not revealed, had wrapped the horns in aluminium foil and hid them among foodstuffs in his suitcase, according to the spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command, Orlando Mudumane.

Mr Mudumane says the horns were discovered when the suspected trafficker attempted to check in his suitcase.

The police suspect that the arrested man was part of a criminal network. He was living in the capital, Maputo, and there were other members of the gang who brought the rhino horns to him, police said.

The police are trying to find the others, who may tell them where the rhinos were killed.

Since both species of African rhinoceros, the black and the white, are believed to be extinct in southern Mozambique, it is likely that the horns came from rhinos poached in neighbouring countries such as South Africa.

The final destination of the Chinese citizen was Vietnam, where there is a thriving rhino horn market.

This is the fourth seizure of rhino horns in Maputo this year.

Read more: Vietnam's illegal trade in rhino horn

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Close to 2,000 Ethiopian rebels, who had been based in neighbouring Eritrea, have returned home after signing a peace agreement in August with the government in Addis Ababa.

The Tigray People's Democratic Movement (TPDM) was formed in 2001 shortly after Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a border war which left tens of thousands of people dead.

The group received training and support from the Eritrean government whilst the Ethiopian government backed Eritrean rebel forces.

The two countries ended hostilities in July after the newly elected Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, reached out to make peace with Eritrea.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Tito Mboweni as the country's new finance minister.

Mr Mboweni, who is the former central bank governor, was sworn in during a press conference on Tuesday in Cape Town.

This comes after Mr Ramaphosa announced that Nhlanhla Nene resigned as finance minister following criticism over his meetings with the controversial Gupta family.

Read our previous coverage below.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the resignation of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene, who faced criticism over his meetings with the controversial Gupta family.

"After due considerations of the circumstances... I have decided to accept his resignation," the president said during a news conference.

Mr Nene admitted last Friday for not being truthful about his meetings with the Gupta family, who are accused of using their friendship with former President Jacob Zuma to obtain government contracts.

The Guptas and Mr Zuma have denied any wrongdoing.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

South Africa is awaiting an "imminent and urgent" announcement on the fate of its finance minister over his meetings with the controversial Gupta family

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle at 16:30 local (14:30 GMT), according to presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko.

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene apologised last Friday for not being truthful about his meetings with the Gupta family.

Speaking the State Capture Commission of Inquiry he said: “I am human too, I do make mistakes... However, it is reasonable of the public to expect public office bearers to own up fully and timeously to the mistakes they make... I should also have disclosed early, and fully, the details of these meetings."

The Guptas have denied any wrongdoing following allegations that they used their close friendship with former President Jacob Zuma to obtain government contracts.

The Society of Jesus - or the Jesuits - has said it is aware of the sex abuse allegations made in South Africa against a British Catholic priest earlier on Tuesday.

A South African man alleged that he was sexually abused for a number of years. He said he met the priest while living at a homeless shelter in Johannesburg in the 1980s.

The accused priest is a Jesuit, hence the involvement of the Society of Jesus in the case.

The priest returned to Britain from South Africa in 1990, the Jesuits said.

In a statement, the Jesuits said the priest was "informed of the allegations [in 2001]... and withdrawn from all active ministry. He has never ministered again.

"We have taken steps to ensure that there is no safeguarding risk to children."

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Mauritania's human rights group representing the Haratins - former slaves of black African origin - has condemned the use of "brutal force" by the police against protesters who gathered outside parliament on Monday, Mauritanian media outlets have reported.

The demonstrators were demanding the release of the prominent anti-slavery campaigner Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Charter of the Political, Economic and Social Rights of the Haratin (also known as the Haratin Charter) called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of Mr Ould Abeid, who has been in police custody for more than two months, privately owned Sahara Media news website reported on the same day.

Mr Ould Abeid, the founding leader of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) and a former presidential candidate, was elected as an MP in September and continues to be imprisoned after his arrest in August over charges of "inciting violence" filed against him by a Mauritanian journalist.

The statement by the Haratin Charter called on the country's political parties and civil society organisations "to stand united against all violations of human rights", Sahara Media reported.

The statement defended the protesters' right to peaceful demonstrations, which it stressed was "guaranteed by the Mauritanian constitution and international conventions in force in the country", the report said.

A number of demonstrators were wounded in the police crackdown, with eight of the group's members needing medical treatment in hospital, the independent news agency Al-Akhbar quoted the Haratin rights body as saying.

On the day of the protest, Al-Akhbar posted several photographs of wounded protesters and its own photographer - who it said was beaten by the police and detained - showing some of them bleeding from head injuries.

The protest calling for the release of the anti-slavery leader was held outside the National Assembly building on the day of the opening of Mauritania's newly elected parliament.

The parliament session on Monday began with the names of new MPs being called out. When Mr Ould Abeid's name was read out, applause could be heard in the assembly hall, according to Sahara Media.

Read more: Mauritania court gives toughest sentence for slave owners

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Cameroon coach Clarence Seedorf has insisted that his squad is open to all players no matter where they ply their trade.

His comments come after Benjamin Moukandjo retired from international football following Seedorf's snub of China-based players for his first squad.

But soon after Moukandjo's retirement Seedorf included China-based striker Christian Bassagog on his list for upcoming games against Malawi.

Read the full story here

Could allowing inmates access to tech lessons be a key tool in rehabilitation?

Entrepreneur Aggrey Mokaya believes his Change Hub programme, which teaches prisoners everything from coding to web design, will slash Kenya's high re-offending rates.

He wants to expand his scheme to reach the estimated 8,000 female prisoners in Kenya.

Watch the BBC series, which was produced with funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, here.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

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Zambia coach Sven Vandenbroeck says the national team, Chipolopolo, has no option but to beat visitors Guinea Bissau on Wednesday in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

The 2012 African champions are three points behind joint Group K leaders Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau who are on four apiece.

After losing their first qualifying match against Mozambique last year and drawing against Namibia last month, the Chipolopolo are now playing catch up and Mr Vandenbroeck knows anything less than a win against Guinea-Bissau will end the country’s hopes for qualification.

The Belgian told the BBC:

Zambia has had a mixed run of fortunes in the last six years.

After winning the continental crown in 2012, they bombed out in the first round of the following two editions of the competition.

They then failed to qualify for the 2017 finals won by Cameroon. Mr Vandenbroeck was working as assistant coach to the former head coach, Hugo Broos, at the time.

But Mr Vandenbroeck is modest about his approach to the upcoming game at Lusaka’s Heroes Stadium.

“I have no personal ambition but I share that ambition of everybody and that is to qualify for the Africa Cup," he said.

"That’s also the ambition of the players, the country and the federation."