Authorities in South African coastal city of Cape Town are expected to meet representatives of a local mosque after a complaint that its daily call to prayer was too noisy, news24 reports.

A letter from the city's environment health officials addressed to the mosque in the Strandfontein area said a complaint had been received about "noise nuisance" every time the adhaan (call to prayer) was delivered through loudspeakers on the roof.

The 4 December letter ordered Masjidus Sauligeen mosque to discontinue the noise caused by the loud speakers and submit a "noise management plan" by an accredited acoustic engineer within 21 days.

An elderly person living close to the mosque submitted the complaint, News24 reports.

The mosque has reportedly since replaced the call to prayer with a single beep, it adds.

The mosque's Iman, Moulana Yusuf Mohammed, told the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) that they received a complaint several years ago and they immediately decreased the volume of the loudspeaker and he was unsure if there was a new complaint.

Local official Zahid Badroodien the notice had not been to instruct the mosque to end the call to prayer.

"The aim is rather to work with the city to find an amicable solution to address the complaints raised by either lowering the volume or engaging an acoustic engineer to develop potential solutions," he said.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

The US State Department has banned the former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, and his immediate family members from entering the United States.

It said he was being barred because of his involvement in corruption.

Mr Jammeh went into exile in Equatorial Guinea after losing the 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow.

A truth and reconciliation commission has been set up in The Gambia to investigate the well documented human rights abuses committed during his two decades in office.

Correspondents say it is unclear why the US has issued the travel ban now - two years after he left office.

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The United Nations has called on gunmen who have seized control of one of Libya's biggest oilfields to withdraw from the site.

Armed men demanding better public services for their impoverished communities occupied the Sharara facility in the southern, Fezzan region on Saturday.

The UN mission in Libya said it understood their grievances but shutting the facility could lead to losses of more than $30m (£23m) a day.

It said this would compound the area's economic problems.

The UN urged Libyan authorities to improve services to the region.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila - who's due to step down after 17 years in power - says his top priority is to ensure that elections go smoothly later this month.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Kabila again refused to rule out running for office in future. He was originally due to step down two years ago.

The Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner, Denis Mukwege, says he's very worried that the presidential poll will not be free, fair or peaceful.

Kambale Musavuli, a campaigner with Friends of the Congo, an advocacy organization based in Washington DC, spoke to the BBC's Newsday programme about Mr Kabila's plans to remain active in politics and possibly run for president in the future:

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The government of Mozambique says an audit of the civil service payroll has revealed about 30,000 ghost workers. It said some were paid for jobs they hadn't done, others were dead or fictitious.

The fraud cost an estimated $250m (£200m) over two years, according to the civil service minister Carmelita Namashulua.

The audit was carried out to assess the effectiveness of officials in the country, which has been ranked as the 153rd most corrupt in the 2017 Transparency International Index.

About 348,000 workers were assessed, the minister said.

The Mozambican government outlined plans earlier this year to try to control public spending.

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An opposition candidate in Nigeria's upcoming elections has accused the government of freezing his bank account, claims that anti-corruption bodies deny.

Peter Obi, the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alleged over the weekend that all transactions on personal and business accounts belonging him, his wife and family were being blocked.

The statement, issued on his behalf by a PDP spokesperson, claimed the freeze was the work of "agencies of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration".

That claim has been dismissed as false by two anti-graft bodies, reports Nigeria's Premium Times, external, who denied any suggestion of involvement. They are the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).

Mr Obi has not provided any evidence to confirm the allegation that the government has frozen his accounts.

Khady Lo
BBC Afrique, Dakar

A nationwide strike is under way in Gabon where workers are calling for recent changes to the constitution to be reversed.

"We don't know exactly who is in charge of Gabon today. Let the president speak out and reassure the Gabonese people," said Louis Patrick Mombo, of trade union alliance Gabon Dynamique Unitaire.

President Ali Bongo, 59, has been out of the country since October seeking medical treatment - first in Saudi Arabia, followed by Morocco. AFP news agency reports that he had suffered a stroke.

In his absence, Gabon's Constitutional Court has amended part of the constitution to allow the vice-president, Pierre-Claver Maganga Moussavou, to hold ministerial meetings and to unblock pending cases.

But the trade union alliance wants the president of the Senate to act as interim president, which is what the constitution specified before it was amended.

Kenyan media are reporting the death of a footballer who they say was struck dead by lightning as his team celebrated scoring a goal.

Twenty-year-old Allan Mbote reportedly died on the pitch on Sunday in Busia County, western Kenya, while six of his Red Sharks teammates were rushed to a local hospital needing treatment for their injuries.

Local police chief Mary Kiarie is quoted by the Daily Nation newspaper, external as saying three of the players are recovering in hospital and three others have already been treated and discharged.

Upcoming fixtures in the Nangina Ward Soccer tournament will go ahead as scheduled, the Daily Nation quotes its organisers as saying, with the final due on 24 December.

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dr Denis Mukwege has said he fears conflict will break out after this month's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo if they are not free and fair, Reuters news agency reports.

The gynaecologist, who with the help of colleagues has treated tens of thousands of victims of rape, reportedly made the warning as he collected his collected his Nobel award, external on Monday.

"I am very worried that these elections will not be free, fair, credible and peaceful and that if there is massive fraud... supporters [of losing candidates] will not accept them," Dr Mukwege is quoted by Reuters as saying in his speech in Oslo.

Reuters quotes Dr Mukwege as saying that worsening violence in eastern DR Congo, plus the election authorities' struggle to meet key deadlines for vote preparation, "suggests [to him] that oppression is being prepared, at the very minimum, and it could be that a war against its own people is being prepared".

Dr Congo's Dr Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war".

This photo shows Dr Mukwege and his colleagues at Panzi hospital, in eastern DR Congo, on the day his Nobel win was first announced in October.

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Officials in Libya have confirmed that an armed group has seized control of one of the country's largest oilfields.

Local gunmen were reported to have stormed the facilities at El Sharara, in the southern region of Fezzan, on Saturday.

The militiamen recently threatened to occupy the site if the authorities didn't provide more development funds for their impoverished area.

The Libyan National Oil Corporation said the oilfield's seizure would mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of barrels of production every day. It demanded that the occupation end immediately.

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Sharo is a traditional cultural practice where young Fulani men in Nigeria compete to find a wife. Participants are flogged with wooden sticks and canes to test their endurance.

But the practice has declined in recent years, with some Fulani men describing it as dangerous and forbidden in Islam.

The BBC's Yusuf Yakasai travelled to Jigawa in northern Nigeria, where some Fulani clans are determined to keep the tradition alive.

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Netflix is to launch its first African original series in 2019.

Queen Sono is "a drama about a secret agent who fights crime while dealing with crises in her personal life," according to entertainment news site Variety, external.

The star of the series, South African actor Pearl Thusi, says it's "going to change the game for every artist on this continent".

Queen Sono is the brainchild of director Kagiso Lediga and executive producer Tamsin Andersson, who previously worked together on romantic comedy Catching Feelings.

Netflix plans to invest more of its $8bn (£6.3bn) original production budget on African content.

In September, the global video streaming service bought the rights to Lionheart - its first original Nigerian film.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Image source, DR Congo's interior ministry

The European Union has renewed sanctions against politicians it believes are implicated in human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An asset freeze and a ban on entering the EU will apply to 14 named individuals for another year.

They include Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, President Joseph Kabila's preferred successor in presidential elections 13 days from now.

Reports say that last week the Congolese foreign minister, Léonard She Okitundu, asked the EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to suspend the sanctions against Mr Shadary before the elections.

The African Union made a similar request last month.

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• DR Congo country profile, external

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BBC Africa

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Some 100 Somali MPs have backed a motion of no-confidence against President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.

They accuse him of undermining the constitution by signing a secret deal, they say, to unite Somalia with Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The next stage is for the Speaker to set a date for the debate in parliament.

Relations have thawed between leaders of the three East African nations who have held a series of talks since Ethiopia's reformist prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, was appointed in April.

Since the election of Somalia's President Farmajo in 2017, there has been greater political stability. Previous administrations were rocked by disagreements between the president and the prime minister, leading to frequent political disputes that were often settled in parliament.

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More than a 150 nations have signed a landmark international agreement on managing migration.

The UN pact, which is not legally binding, was adopted at a meeting in Marrakesh in Morocco, but it has been shunned by some countries including the US, Australia and at least six EU nations.

Its objectives include the integrated management of borders and giving migrants access to basic services.

Critics fear it will increase migration but the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the pact was based on co-operation and regulating migration.

He called it a source of "collective shame" that 60,000 migrants had died on perilous journeys since the year 2000.

All 193 UN members, except the United States, finalised the pact in July.

AFP news agency says the Gabonese government has confirmed President Ali Bongo's recent bout of ill health was the result of a stroke.

President Bongo, 59, has been out of the country since October seeking medical treatment - first in Saudi Arabia, followed by Morocco. AFP says he is now recovering in a private residence in the capital, Rabat.

Until now, there had been no official confirmation of the nature of Mr Bongo's illness, just that he had been "seriously ill".

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"Nobody should rejoice over the death or illness of another", AFP quotes Gabon's Vice-President Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou as saying in a speech on Saturday.

"Those who have never known a CVA [meaning cerebrovascular accident or stroke], pray to God that they never know one."

Ali Bongo succeeded his father Omar Bongo as president in 2009, who governed the oil-rich nation for more than 40 years.

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Students at Ghana's Accra Technical University (ACT) will, from January, be able to study "drone technology" and "3D printing" in a purpose-built laboratory, according to the Joy Online news site, external.

It quotes the university's vice-chancellor as saying a Korean company, called A-Tech Group Korea Incorporation, was a potential backer.

Land administration, risk assessment, forestry management, urban planning and coastal zone management all benefit from the use of drones, says ACT's Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Edmund Ameko.

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