Foreign exchange bureaus in Tanzania's northern city of Arusha have remained closed for a second day after soldiers conducted what they called a "special operation" for reasons they have not given.

The operation ended at midnight but the bureaus have remained closed.

On Monday, most of them were being guarded by two unarmed army officers and no customer was allowed in the normally busy shops.

Some military officers were seen inside doing "audit work", local media reported.

Customers, mostly tourists and tour firms, have been struggling to change their money.

They have, however, been directed to change their currency at the central bank.

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Since July, more than 200,000 people have fled into camps following ethnic conflict on the border of Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regions, aid group Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says.

Most of those in the camps come from the Oromia region.

"Few aid groups are present, and more families arrive every day while resources are overstretched.

"Elders tell us people are dying for lack of aid. These families need lifesaving aid, before it’s too late,” NRC regional adviser Evelyn Aero said.

The NRC says the total number of the displaced by the conflict is now 700,000.

Abdirahman Moalim, a farmer who fled eastern Oromia last year, told the aid charity: “We fled the violence with only the clothes on our back”.

The former governor of the Somali region, Abdi Mohamed Omar, who was forced to resign in August, is facing charges of human rights abuses during his 13 years in power.

He denies any wrongdoing.

Read more: What is behind clashes in Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regions?

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Barbra Banda is in Zambia’s squad for this year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, which started in Ghana on Saturday.

The striker recently joined Spanish side EDF Logrono, becoming the first female Zambian footballer to play in Europe - and she also boxes at a high level.

She spoke to BBC Sport Africa about how she manages to compete in both sports, and which one is her favourite.

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BBC Africa, Maputo

The health authorities in the central Mozambican province of Manica say they have taken disciplinary measures against staff and trainees who were caught playing around with social media on their mobile phones instead of caring for patients.

Manica Provincial Governor Manuel Rodrigues visited the hospital in the provincial capital, Chimoio, and he came across two nurses and three trainees taking photos and laughing as they played with their phones.

Patients were waiting to be seen, and the governor, irritated by what he had witnessed, demanded immediate disciplinary measures.

Over the weekend, Manica Health Director Firmino Jaqueta told reporters that the three trainees, who are students at the Manica Health Training Institute, have been expelled from the hospital.

Mr Jaqueta said:

A popular dance which has seen the likes of firefighters, footballers and even paramedics take on the craze has been heavily criticised by a health organisation in South Africa, the City Press newspaper reports., external

The name of the song causing controversy is Malwedhe means illness in English. The chorus says "I have an illness of fainting".

The man behind the song, King Monada, has been under fire from Epilepsy SA, which is an organisation providing specialist services to people living with epilepsy.

City Press quotes it as saying that his song “clearly references persons with epilepsy falling down during a seizure.

"People with epilepsy are one of the most marginalised groups in South Africa as the condition is stigmatised.”

They have called for an end to the dance craze.

But the singer’s manager, Albert Makwela, argued “we never had a video put out where we acted like we were fainting. People just came up with the idea themselves,” City Press reports.

A meeting with the organisation to discuss the matter has been suggested by King Monada’s manager.

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There are 15 women from Africa on the BBC's latest list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world.

They cover a huge range of jobs from diplomat to metal worker to model.

Among the list is Cameroon-born historian Olivette Otele, who became the UK's first black history professor earlier this year.

"I think structural barriers prevent people who look like me and from other ethnic backgrounds from reaching the ladder and achieving certain things," she told the BBC.

"You have to work harder, much harder."

Read more about Olivette Otele here.

Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa, Kampala

In Uganda, two Indian men have been charged with the murder of a boy in the northern town of Lira.

Anger flared up in the area over the case leading to violent protests on Saturday.

A local radio station, Unity FM, was closed and five members of staff arrested for what the authorities said was inciting violence against Indians and Pakistanis.

The station manager denies this and says they were simply reporting on the unfolding story.

The two Indian nationals appeared in court to face charges of murdering Dickens Okello an 11-year-old boy living 15km (25 miles) from the town.

The incident happened just over a week ago but it sparked anger following allegations of a cover up by authorities, who said the boy died of a heart attack.

The two suspects are being held in remand outside the district to avoid further tensions.

Saturday's violence came after Dickens’ funeral as crowds attacked police officers and property belonging to Indians and Pakistanis.

Most of these business owners migrated to Uganda in recent years.

Asian-owned businesses remain closed in Lira.

Security forces have stepped up deployments in the town and meetings have been planned to calm the situation.

A representative from the Indian Association of Uganda told the BBC that repairing relations between the two communities will take time and would include dealing with economic inequalities.

Wafa Mahbouli was at the Rades Stadium in Tunis to watch her team be crowned African champions for the third time.

Her team, Esperance, beat Egyptian side Al-Ahly 4-3 on aggregate.

Watch her get ready for the match and the celebrations afterwards.

For the second year in a row the charity Water Aid has highlighted Ethiopia's poor record when it comes to access to toilets at home.

On World Toilet Day, it has reported that 93%of Ethiopians lack basic sanitation, external where they live, making it the lowest ranked nation on the continent.

For Chad, Madagascar and South Sudan the figure is 90%.

In sub-Saharan Africa overall more than 340 million children do not have access to a decent toilet, thereby increasing the risk of death from diseases like diarrhoea, Water Aid says.

The report also highlighted the lack of toilets in schools for children, with 60% of schools in the region without toilets.

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Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Kenya's president has launched the country’s first coastguard to protect and monitor its territorial waters.

It will guard against illegal fishing, which President Uhuru Kenyatta said costs Kenya about $100m (£78m) a year. It is also intended to secure territorial waters against smuggling and drug trafficking.

Until now Kenya’s maritime security depended solely on the Navy, who authorities say will now be free to focus more on security and military affairs.

Launching the coastguard unit near the shore of the city of Mombasa, President Kenyatta unveiled the vessel - called the MV Doria - that has been commissioned for surveillance purposes.

At the event, Mr Kenyatta said foreign vessels trawling Kenyan waters was a major concern.

Kenyan fishermen on Lake Victoria have long complained of harassment from Ugandan forces on contested waters, and they will also be hoping the coastguard will provide them with the protection they have long hoped for.

In the last few weeks social media users in Sudan have been horrified by videos and pictures of young men's afros being shaved off , externalby the former Janjaweed forces in some of the poor areas of the capital, Khartoum.

The government-backed Janjaweed militia, accused of carrying out atrocities in the western region of Darfur in the early 2000s, now have a new role.

They were accused of riding camels and horses into villages seen as sympathetic to rebels, burning them to the ground, killing the men and raping the women.

Now renamed the Rapid Support Forces, they have been tasked with tracking down traffickers and stopping migrants heading to Europe - a role funded by the European Union (EU), although the EU has denied that any money goes to the ex-Janjaweed, external.

It is not entirely clear why the former fighters have now taken to shaving off afros, but the hairstyles tend to be associated in conservative religious and social circles with people who are "deviant".

Read more from Sudanese journalist Zeinab Mohammed Salih here.

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After success in reducing the number of malaria cases, the progress in the fight against malaria has stalled, the World Health Organization says.

In its latest report, external on malaria it says that in 2017, compared to the year before, there was a small increase to 219 million malaria case worldwide.

In earlier years, the number of cases had been falling.

Last year, Africa accounted for 92% of all cases amounting to 200 million people.

"As progress stagnates, we are at risk of squandering years of toil, investment and success in reducing the number of people suffering from the disease,” says WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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BBC Africa

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The World Bank's vice-president for Africa, Hafez Ghanem, has said that Tanzania will receive a loan worth $300m (£243m) to improve education once it has granted access to schools for teenage mothers.

Last Friday, Mr Ghanem met President John Magufuli in Dar es Salaam to talk about the loan. It had been withdrawn over the country’s controversial policy of prohibiting teenage mothers from restarting school after giving birth.

After the meeting, the president's office issued a statement saying the bank had agreed to give the loan and Mr Magufuli insisted that the funds had never been withdrawn "as people who don’t wish us well were saying".

But, over the weekend Mr Ghanem shared the details of his meeting with President Magufuli to The Citizen Newspaper saying that they discussed finding solutions so that the girls can go back to school.

"This is what has changed… we're a development institution, we cannot accept that some girls be denied education. If we accept that, we won't be doing development," Mr Ghanem told the paper.

The project was originally scheduled to kick off by 30 October but Mr Ghanem said "we will delay for as long as it takes to accommodate the agreements made with the government on access of education to pregnant schoolgirls".

Last year, Mr Magufuli said that young mothers would be distracted if they were allowed back in school:

"After calculating some few mathematics, she'd be asking the teacher in the classroom: 'Let me go out and breastfeed my crying baby'."

Women shouldn't have to feel "grateful" for getting opportunities, says UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed in an interview to launch the BBC 100 Women 2018 season.

BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year and shares their stories.

You can find more about 100 Women on Facebook, external, Instagram , externaland Twitter , externaland use #100Women.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

In South Africa, Cape Town's former mayor, Patricia de Lille, has announced that she is launching a new political party after resigning from the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).

The veteran politician told journalists that she will contest next year’s general election.

"Our party will put people before politics," she said. "We will be on the ground not just sitting in parliament or our offices. Our party will build a better country for the next generation.”

She was flanked by two portraits of herself framed in gold with the slogan “I am Patricia de Lille and I believe in good people”.

Ms de Lille resigned from the DA after a public spat over maladministration and corruption allegations the party laid against her. She has always denied any wrong doing.

The DA said it is "unshaken" by her move to set up a new party.

Atiku Abubakar, the main challenger to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari in February's poll, has launched his manifesto with a pledge to get Nigeria working again.

In a Facebook live he laid out his vision and asked Nigerians to "join me on this journey":

Some of the lines were also shared on his Twitter account.

He said that he wanted to use the expertise of all the people in the country saying "one Nigerian cannot be as wise as all Nigerians":

Mr Abubakar also pledged to create more jobs through attracting investment into the country:

Mr Buhari's APC party launched his manifesto on Sunday.

The party argues that over the last four years, Mr Buhari has laid the foundations to secure economic growth in the future.

The starting gun has been fired in Nigeria's presidential election with campaigning for the 16 February poll officially starting on Sunday.

In just under an hour, Atiku Abubakar the main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari will launch his campaign with the slogan "Get Nigeria working again":

Mr Buhari's manifesto was launched on Sunday saying that it was now time to take Nigeria to the "next level":

The All Progressives Congress says that while its "foundational work is not often visible" or "glamorous" it has done the groundwork for "a strong, stable and prosperous country".

There are more than 70 other candidates registered with the electoral commission.