Patience Atuhaire
BBC Africa, Kampala

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Police in Uganda will decide today whether to charge Ugandan academic and feminist activist, Stella Nyanzi, with crimes concerning an "offensive" post on Facebook.

She made offensive statements against President Yoweri Museveni and his late mother, Vincent Ssekatte, the spokesperson for the police's Criminal Investigations Department said.

Her lawyers, however, say that they have not been officially informed of the charges she’s facing.

Ms Nyanzi, who has a big following on social media, has become famous for championing the cause of the underprivileged and speaking out for the rights of women.

But her colourfully worded and graphic posts have continued to land her on the wrong side of the law. She is still facing charges for calling the President Museveni "a pair of buttocks".

Ms Nyanzi was suspended from her job at Makerere University, where she was a research fellow, in March 2017.

At the time, she staged a one-woman nude protest outside her office.

She had insulted First Lady Janet Museveni who is also the minister of education, accusing her of failing to do her job properly.

But last month, a tribunal set up to investigate her suspension ordered she be reinstated with immediate effect, and all salary arrears paid. However this has yet to be implemented.

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BBC News, Lagos

A massive search operation is under way to rescue more than 80 people kidnapped from a school on Monday in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon's restive North-West region.

At least 79 students and three others, including the principal of the Presbyterian Secondary School were taken.

The government and English-speaking separatists have been accusing each other of carrying out the kidnapping.

Some students who witnessed the abduction, describe hiding under their beds as the hostage-takers ransacked the building, selecting which children to abduct.

Anglophone activists had called for a boycott of all school in the west of Cameroon, until their demands for secession were met.

They say the education system favours the majority French-speaking population and discriminates against English speakers.

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Trade unions in Nigeria have suspended a general strike planned to take place on Tuesday.

They say they have reached a last-minute agreement over the national minimum wage.

The Nigerian Labour Congress said a committee set up with the government was recommending a new monthly minimum wage of 30,000 naira ( $83;£63).

Since 2011 the minimum wage in Nigeria has been set at 18,000 naira ($50) a month.

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Cameroon has declared a public holiday to mark the inauguration of President Paul Biya, the BBC's Mayeni Jones reports.

The 85-year-old secured a seventh term in office after winning 71% of the vote in the 7 October election.

Opposition parties, however, contested the win saying the election was marred by fraud but their petitions were dismissed.

Mr Biya has been in power since 1982.

His inauguration comes a day after gunmen seized at least 79 students and three others, including the principal in Bamenda, the capital of the restive North-West region.

No group has said it carried out the kidnapping at Bamenda's Presbyterian Secondary School, which has pupils aged between 10 and 14.

The government has blamed Ambazonia separatists who want to create an independent state in the English-speaking region.

A video of some of the children, believed to have been filmed by one of the kidnappers, is being shared on social media.

Cameroonian Journalist Peter Tah told the BBC's Newsday radio programme that parents of the children at the same school are now reluctant to send their children to school.

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Chad's former minister of foreign affairs, who became an opponent of President Idriss Déby's government, has returned to the nation after 25 years in exile.

Acheikh Ibn Oumar decided to come home after an announcement of a general amnesty in Chad. He had been living in Libya then France.

Mr Oumar is quoted by French-language broadcaster RFI as saying:

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The Prince of Wales has acknowledged Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade but stopped short of giving an official apology, which is likely to disappoint campaigners who have long called on the British Royal Family to do so.

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne and next head of the Commonwealth, is in West Africa, and in a speech to a conference in Ghana's capital, Accra, he said:

Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1833. It has never apologised for its role in slavery.

Reparations to the tune of $22bn (£17bn) in today's money were paid to former slave owners to compensate them for the loss of their human property, external. But slaves themselves did not receive reparations nor have their descendants.

British taxpayers' money was used pay off the 46,000 or so former slaver owners, and these payments only ended in 2015.

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Africa is facing a looming debt crisis, say leading development economists.

"Almost 40% of sub-Saharan African countries are in danger of slipping into a major debt crisis" according to the Overseas Development Institute, ahead of a major conference on debt being held in London this week.

And the relationship between African nations and China is often seen as a significant part of the problem.

Its critics say that major infrastructure projects carried out by Chinese companies in Africa are too expensive, and burden the host countries with enormous debts they can't hope to repay.

The Chinese government is adamant that its economic relationships with African countries are mutually beneficial and rejects suggestions that it is using debt to expand its global influence.

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Angola have won the 2018 Amputee Football World Cup in Mexico, beating Turkey 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out in Sunday's final.

The match ended 0-0 after normal time, and the deadlock could not be broken in extra-time.

The deciding shoot-out proved just as tense with both teams scoring from their first four penalties.

At 4-4, Angola's goalkeeper, Jesus, made a crucial save to deny Turkey.

The African team, who finished as runners-up at the last World Cup, sealed their championship victory thanks to a winning spot-kick from Henio Guilerme.

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Kenyan exports of avocados have almost tripled since 2013 as the fruit's global reputation as a healthy food fuels demand.

Farmers say avocados are a lucrative and low-maintenance crop and exporters are now targeting China, which has become one of the biggest growth markets.

Here's five facts about avocados:

• They are in fact berries - as are aubergines, lemons, grapes and tomatoes
• Have the highest protein and oil content of any fruit, and the fat they contain is mainly unsaturated
• Nutritionists say avocados can help maintain healthy cholesterol levels when eaten in place of foods high in saturated fat
• Mexico produces more avocados than any other country - accounting for 45% of the global market. Kenya is Africa's largest producer
• The US is the biggest importer of avocados, followed by the Netherlands.

Read more about Kenya's avocado boom here.

Dozens of people are feared to have been kidnapped from a school in the west of Cameroon.

At least 79 people have been abducted in Bamenda, the capital of the North-West region, anonymous government and military sources have been quoted by news agencies as saying.

They were abducted by armed gunmen early on Monday, sources told the BBC.

Cameroon's North-West and South-West regions have been hit by a separatist rebellion in recent years.

Militias, who have been demanding the secession of the two English-speaking regions, have called for a school boycott.

But no group has said it carried out the kidnapping.

More on Cameroon:

• Red Dragons and Tigers: Cameroon's English-speaking rebels
• Paul Biya: Cameroon's 'absentee president'

Trade in foreign exchange is big business at the border between Kenya and Uganda.

Licensed money changers, who used to be part of the black market, now walk freely on the Ugandan side of the border and offer their services to travellers and traders.

BBC Newsday's Alan Kasujja has been speaking to a money changer he’s known for the last two decades:

The European Union (EU) has criticised the state of human rights in Tanzania and recalled its ambassador to Brussels for talks, amid a plan for an anti-gay crackdown announced by a local official.

Same-sex relations are banned in Tanzania.

Last week the governor of the economic capital Dar es Salaam announced plans to launch a surveillance squad to hunt down gay people, but the government has distanced itself from the idea by saying it is not official policy.

In a statement, the EU has said it "regrets the deterioration of the human rights and rule of law situation in the country and will be conducting a broad review of its relations with Tanzania".

This follows a warning from the US Embassy in Tanzania that there were reports that gay people could be arrested.

Gambian cousins Hardi and Ibra have penned a song about integrating into Italian society, called Benkelema, meaning "peace".

The pair have recently been granted a two-year residency permit in the city of Bologna, which, along with Turin, has rejected a decree imposing more regulations on migrants in Italy.

As Italy's parliament prepares to debate the new measure on Monday, the young Gambians told BBC Newsday they are determined to make Bologna their new home because its open atmosphere is like nowhere else:

A newly unveiled statue of Liverpool and Egypt football star Mohammed Salah has been mocked mercilessly on Twitter, earning comparisons to a widely ridiculed bronze bust depicting fellow footballer Cristiano Ronaldo that eventually had to be replaced.

The Mo Salah statue is on display at the World Youth Forum (WYF) currently underway in the Egyptian city of Sharm al-Sheikh.

Sculptor Mai Abdel Allah told Egyptian media that she created the statue because Salah stood as a symbol of excellence for Egyptian youth, describing the artwork as "distinguished and executable".

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Foreign nationals living abroad will be allowed to join Britain's Armed Forces, the UK government is set to announce.

Currently, citizens from Commonwealth countries can only join if they have lived in the UK for five years.

But in a bid to recruit more servicemen and women to the Army, Navy and Air Force, the Ministry of Defence is lifting this rule.

The Armed Forces is short of 8,200 soldiers, sailors and air personnel, a report found, external earlier this year.

Ministers are expected to announce the change to recruitment rules on Monday.

It means people from Commonwealth countries - including Nigeria, Kenya, India and Australia - will be considered for roles, even if they have never lived in Britain.

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Tanzania's government has distanced itself from a politician's announcement last week that surveillance squads would be created to hunt down gay people.

Paul Makonda, governor of the economic capital Dar es Salaam, had told reporters the round-ups would begin on Monday.

Following that announcement the US warned its citizens living in Tanzania to exercise caution by removing or hiding "images and language that may run afoul of Tanzanian laws regarding homosexual practices and explicit sexual activity".

Tanzania's foreign ministry said yesterday that the governor's actions did not represent the government's stance, but it is unclear if the round-ups will be called off as a result:

Same-sex sexual acts are illegal in Tanzania, where anti-gay rhetoric has been on the rise since President John Magufuli's election in 2015.

Last year, the country's deputy health minister defended a threat to publish a list of gay people.

Many gay, lesbian and transgender people are forced to hide their sexuality as a result.

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