South African comedian Trevor Noah has shared a heart-warming video of his interview with his 91-year-old grandmother which he recorded for his show, The Daily Show.

Noah was in the country for the weekend Global Citizen concert, which marked 100 years since the birth of anti-apartheid icon and former President Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013.

Noah asked his grandmother about her experience under the apartheid system and how life was for him as a mixed-race child.

She describes Noah as "energetic and really naughty" as a child, and adds that she used to hit him with a slipper when he was being naughty.

"Those big bums, they know my slippers," she says.

Watch the just over eight-minute video below:

The US embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital is to reopen today after closing on 26 November following a "terrorist threat".

"The US Embassy in Kinshasa works closely with the [government] of the DRC to respond to a terrorist threat against govt facilities. American in Kinshasa. The Embassy will be reopened to the public on Tuesday, Dec 4," the embassy tweeted:

The threat from a militant group with links with Islamic State led to the closure, VOA reported, quoting a US official who wanted to remain anonymous., external

The embassy’s website said all consular services on Tuesday will be "by appointment only".

US citizens have been asked to "keep a low profile".

Burundi's security services are running secret torture and detention sites to silence dissent, former government intelligence agents have told BBC Africa Eye.

Using cutting edge reconstruction techniques, BBC Africa Eye examines one house in particular, which was filmed in a video posted on social media in 2016.

A red liquid, which looked like blood, was seen pouring from its gutter. We ask if Burundi's repression of opponents has now gone underground?

The government has always denied any human rights violations, and declined to comment for this report.

Watch the report:

Commuters in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, have been spared a second day of chaos after the county governor suspended a ban on public minibuses in the city centre.

Pictures of stranded commuters were shared online on Monday, with many expressing anger at the authorities for the ban.

Last week, city authorities announced that the minibuses - known as matatus - will have to pick up and drop off passengers at a terminal outside the city’s central business district.

They said the directive was an attempt to decongest the capital, where more than 20,000 matatus operate.

Mike Sonko that the "plight of commuters" had led him to suspend the ban.

Tuesday's African proverb:

Click here and scroll to the bottom to send us your African proverbs.

Welcome to BBC Africa Live where we will bring you the latest news from around the continent.

BBC Africa Live
Clare Spencer

That's all from BBC Africa Live today. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.

A reminder of today's wise words:

Click here and scroll to the bottom to send us your African proverbs.

And we leave you with this picture from Guinea Bissau:

Morocco's royal palace has issued a picture of King Mohammed VI visiting Gabon's President Ali Bongo at hospital in Rabat where the Gabonese leader is recovering from an undisclosed illness.

Some reports say President Bongo had suffered a stroke, but that has not been confirmed.

Image source, Moroccan Royal Palace

The publication of the photo comes after persistent rumours over the health of the Gabonese president for more than a month.

Mr Bongo was flown to Morocco on Thursday from Saudi Arabia where he had been in hospital since 24 October after falling ill at an economic forum.

After an extended period of silence, the Gabonese presidency eventually admitted last month that Bongo was "seriously ill".

Image source, Getty Images

One of the main opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo says a plan to use electronic voting machines in the presidential election is illegal.

Martin Fayulu says the electoral commission is going to use the new machines to ensure the governing coalition's candidate, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, becomes the next Congolese president.

Mr Fayulu wants ballot papers used instead in the 23 December poll.

He also accuses the electoral commission of planning to create a chaotic poll so that President Joseph Kabila can extend his time in power.

The electoral commission says the machines will help ensure the vote is fair.

Singer-songwriter Mercy Opande was often taunted about her weight.

She entered many talent shows, but was often rejected because she "didn't look how a star was supposed to look".

But then she entered Kenyan reality TV show I Can Sing, and it proved to be a decision that changed her life:

BBC World Service

Protests have been taking place in at least ten towns across Ethiopia's Oromia region to demand official action to stop frequent outbreaks of violence.

Here is the protest in Hotela:

There were also protests in Jimma:

Over the past two months, more than 30 people have been killed and tens of thousands have been displaced in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, close to the borders with Sudan and South Sudan.

Seventeen members of the state police force have also been killed.

The federal and regional governments say the violence is being fuelled by people opposed to the political and economic reforms introduced by Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.

The authorities say more than 200 people have been arrested.

Samsung Mobile's promotional Twitter account in Nigeria has been caught sending updates about the phones via an Apple iPhone.

Marques Brownlee spotted the mistake, external:

A separate analysis suggested that more than 300 of its tweets had been sent via the same mobile app.

The @SamsungMobileNG account was shut down and deleted soon after news of the mistake started to spread.

The gaffe was revealed by the tweet bearing the words "via Twitter for iPhone" in its bottom right-hand corner.

The Samsung Nigeria account has now been reinstated, but the offending tweets have been removed from its historical feed.

Read more on the BBC News website.

Image source, PA

Ex-tennis champion Boris Becker has dropped his claim to have diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy because he was a diplomat for Central African Republic (CAR).

He had said his appointment as a diplomat gave him protection from any legal claims.

Declared bankrupt in 2017 over money owed to bank Arbuthnot Latham, he was being pressed for "further assets".

After a hearing in London, Mr Becker abandoned his case and his bankruptcy has been extended indefinitely.

His withdrawal means a planned auction of his trophies and memorabilia will go ahead.

Read more on the BBC News website.

Image source, Reuters

South Africa's police minister has defended officers after robberies at a concert in Johannesburg, reports AFP news agency.

People have tweeted reports of stabbings and robberies as people left the Global Citizen Festival which was marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth.

People on Twitter had criticised the police for not being there to protect the concert goers as they left the festival.

Here, director of the Miss Earth SA programme Catherine Constantinides, referring to the police as SAPS, says the police were nowhere:

But AFP quotes police minister Bheki Cele as saying the chaos was the organisers' fault:

"There is no need to blame South African police that there was no Uber, there was no transport and all that - that should be asked from the organisers," AFP reports him as saying.

Global Citizen, which organised the event, said in a statement that "after such an inspiring evening, we are saddened to hear the challenges people had while leaving the venue". "We have been working to support people getting home safely," it said.

The govenor of Nairobi has claimed that a ban on public minibuses in the city centre is intended to keep city workers fit.

Mike Sonko said in a press conference that many people don't go to the gym and "we want our people to exercise":

A ban on public minibuses - known as matatus in Kenya - from entering the central business district started today.

See earlier post for more details on the ban.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has inaugurated the first arms fair organised in Cairo, AFP news agency says state TV footage showed.

The three-day show will be attended by officials from 40 countries, and over 400 companies according to Egyptian authorities.

Defence Minister Mohamed Ahmed Zaki said at the opening ceremony that the army would roll back all forms of aggression on Egyptian soil.

International human rights organisations have long accused Egypt of using weapons originated in Europe against civilians to suppress opposition and activists, accusations that Cairo denies.

Image source, AFP

Image source, Getty Images

Concertgoers shared on social media that people were robbed at knifepoint in Johannesburg while leaving a festival to celebrate Nelson Mandela.

Thousands of people attended the Global Citizen Festival to honour the life of Nelson Mandela.

Beyonce, Jay-Z and Ed Sheeran were part of the line-up to mark 100 years since the birth of South Africa's first black president.

Gangs of juveniles stabbed and robbed concert goers of cellphones and handbags while they were waiting for taxis, reports news 24, external.

Some saw the sadness in occurrence:

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has denied a rumour claiming he had died and been replaced by a lookalike.

Some people thought he had been "cloned", but "it's [the] real me, I assure you," Mr Buhari said on Sunday.

Rumours that he had been replaced with a body double called "Jubril" from Sudan had been widely shared online.

According to an AFP Fact Check investigation the rumours began late last year and have appeared on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, external. Posts promoting the rumours have been viewed more than 500,000 times.

Read more on the BBC News website.

Sixteen people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic Congo in clashes between troops and rebels.

While most killed rebels, some were government forces.

Captain Dieudonne Kaserek told AFP that these include a commander and three soldiers who drowned in a river.

The fighting is in Fizi, a region of South Kivu and the rebels are loyal to a former army general, William Amuri Yakutumba, who are opposed to President Joseph Kabila.

The country is gearing up for a presidential election on 23 December where Mr Kabila is not standing for re-election.

Egypt refuses to accuse police officers suspected by Italy of involvement in the murder of an Italian student, AFP news agency reports the authorities as saying.

The policemen are suspected by Italian prosecutors of gathering information about Giulio Regeni, a judicial source told AFP.

The Italian prosecutors asked their Egyptian counterparts "to approve the inclusion of a number of Egyptian policemen on its register of suspects in Italy", the source added.

But Egypt's authorities said there is not enough evidence to proceed.

"Charges should be based on evidence and not suspicions," Egypt's State Information Service said in a statement released late on Sunday.

Image source, Amnesty International

The 28-year-old student was researching for a doctorate at Cambridge University when he disappeared on 25 January 2016. His body was found dumped by a road near Cairo nine days later.

He was researching independent trade unions - a politically sensitive in Egypt, where the government has intensified a crackdown on unofficial protest movements in recent years.