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Sudanese police fired tear gas at protesters marching towards the presidential palace, witnesses told AFP news agency.

It was during a demonstration in the capital, Khartoum, to demand the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir.

Demonstrators chanting "freedom, peace, justice" gathered in central Khartoum and began their march but riot police quickly confronted them with tear gas, the witnesses told AFP.

Protests were also held in the city of Port Sudan and in Gadaref, witnesses told AFP by telephone, after organisers called for simultaneous demonstrations in 11 cities apart from Khartoum.

The protests erupted in December after bread and fuel price rises were announced but they have escalated into calls for an end to Mr Bashir's 29-year rule.

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The lawyer of Zimbabwean activist Pastor Evan Mawarire, who is expected to appear in court today, has told BBC Newsday that there is no basis for the charge against his client.

Earlier this week, Mr Mawarire was taken from his home and charged with inciting violence.

Doug Coltart told Newsday that Pastor Mawarire and trade union leader Peter Musaka, had called for a "national stayaway day" in a video, external which he said triggered the charge.

He said:

The two-minute-20-second video, which was posted on social media sites on 13 January 2019, shows Pastor Mawarire and Mr Musaka calling for a national stayaway day; urging people to not go to work, open their businesses or take their children to school.

Mr Coltart visited his client at Harare Central Police station on Wednesday night:

Listen to the full interview:

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The Burundian parliament has voted to move the country’s capital from Bujumbura back to the ancient capital of Gitega.

The vote took place on Wednesday and the leader of parliament said the move would take place over three years.

The first to move will be the upper house of parliament, the Senate - starting on Friday.

President Pierre Nkurunziza, who has to sign off the change, promised in 2007 to move the capital, saying Gitega was geographically more centrally placed in Burundi, AFP reports.

Others have been more sceptical about the motives behind the move.

Journalist Abdi Latif Dahir suggests in an article on the Quartz news site, external that it could be linked to Bujumbura "increasingly being an opposition stronghold, leading to continued clashes between protesters and police".

Bujumbura will remain the economic capital of the country.

The Kenya Red Cross says all those previously recorded as missing following Tuesday's terror attack on a hotel complex in the capital, Nairobi, have been accounted for.

Police say 21 people were killed during the 19-hour siege by suspected Islamist militants.

"All the 94 tracing cases have been closed positively as of today 12:30 [09:30 GMT]," the Red Cross said in a statement.

It added that counselling sessions had so far been provided to 595 individuals in the wake of the attack.

Red Cross teams would remain by the Chiromo Mortuary to attend to others who needed counselling, it said.

More than 700 people were evacuated from the Dusit complex by security officers.

Read: Survivors' stories

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Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will stay behind bars after prosecutors appealed against his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague acquitted him on Tuesday and ordered his immediate release.

But on Wednesday prosecutors challenged the decision to release him, arguing that Mr Gbagbo might abscond.

They said he might not appear in court if his acquittal were to be overturned.

Mr Gbagbo had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 dead.

Read more on the BBC News website.

At least 60 illegal orphanages and children's homes in Uganda are being funded by UK charities, church groups and volunteers, the BBC has discovered.

The Ugandan government recently announced a programme to close down more than 500 unlicensed orphanages in the country.

The BBC attended the closure of one UK-funded home, where children said they had been beaten and neglected.

The Ugandan government urged UK donors to check who they are giving money to.

A BBC investigation found registered UK charities were funding and supporting dozens of the illegal orphanages on the Ugandan government's closure list.

Some said they did not realise the homes they were funding were illegal.

Read more on the BBC News website.

Andrew Harding
BBC News, Nairobi

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The Kenyan authorities say nine people have been arrested in connection with the attack in an upmarket neighbourhood of the capital, Nairobi.

On Wednesday night, the police announced that the death toll from Tuesday's siege at the DusitD2 hotel and business complex had risen from 14 to 21.

Six more bodies were found at the scene of the hotel siege, and a policeman had died of his injuries, the police said.

The Red Cross says 14 people are still missing.

An unnamed British casualty is among those still being treated in hospital.

Meanwhile, the Kenyan media is reporting that the wife of one of the suspected attackers has been arrested in Kiambu county just north of Nairobi.

Neighbours told the Standard newspaper that the couple was secretive and said the woman had put their household property up for sale the day before the attack.

The Kenyan authorities said all the terrorists were killed by the security forces in a well-co-ordinated operation.

But they added that a major investigation was now underway to track down those who helped organise the attack.

Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabab said it was behind the attack, which triggered a 19-hour security operation.

Read more: Who are the Nairobi victims?

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Welcome back to BBC Africa Live where we will bring you the latest news from Kenya following the terror attack on Tuesday and other updates from around the continent.

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Dickens Olewe & Naima Mohamud

That's the end of our live coverage of the aftermath of the attack on the hotel complex in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

BBC Africa Live will be back on Thursday with more coverage from Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.

Keep up to date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.

Here's a round-up of what we know so far:

• Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta says the death toll stands at 14
• But the Red Cross says 50 people are still unaccounted for
• Hundreds of people have donated blood for those in hospital
• "Kenya unbowed" is the top trending topic on Twitter
• Local Muslim leaders have jointly condemned the attack

Read more about our coverage about the Kenya attack:

• 'How we survived the siege'
• Images from Dusit hotel complex attack
• Outrage at photos of victims
• Relief replaces fear after attack
• Kenyans praise 'heroes' of DusitD2 siege

And we leave you with this video of President Kenyatta's declaration that the operation at the Dusit hotel and office complex was "over":

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The decision of a number of US and European outlets - including the UK's MailOnline and Germany's Bild - to use photographs of of dead bodies following Tuesday's attack was instantly condemned on Kenyan social media.

The New York Times came in for the most criticism. The newspaper, angry users said, was using the "misery and tragedy" of Tuesday's terror attack on the Dusit hotel for clickbait.

What's more, the speed with which the picture was published meant many were still unaware their loved ones had been caught up in the attack.

It is not the first time pictures of bodies from an atrocity have been published.

But the Kenyan photograph's publication raises questions over what should, and should not, be published - and whether outlets play by different rules when it comes to African victims.

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Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the 14 Riverside Drive attack in Nairobi on Tuesday, local Daily Nation reports quoting George Kinoti, Director of Criminal Investigations.

One of the suspects, a woman only identified as Kemunto, was arrested in Kiambu county in a house where one of the attackers is believed to have lived,according to Citizen TV, external.

A male suspect was arrested in Eastleigh area in the capital.

Islamist militant group al-Shabab have claimed responsibility for the attack which lasted 19 hours and claimed the lives of at least 14 people.

Kenya’s Red Cross says 50 people are still unaccounted for following the end of the hotel siege.

The official death toll currently stands at 14.

Police say five militants were killed during the security operation.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said over 700 peoiple were rescued.

He said the country remains a safe place for foreign visitors, and that those involved in planning this attack will be hunted down.

Read the Kenya Red Cross statement below:

Kenya's police boss Joseph Boinnet has said five attackers took part in Tuesday's attack at a Nairobi complex, news agency AFP reports.

Security camera footage showed at least four heavily armed men walking in the compound and opening fire.

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Kenyan security officers are being praised for their work in ending the attack at the Dusit complex.

Government officials, opposition leaders and ordinary Kenyans have hailed them as "heroes".

Islamist militants from the al-Shabab group attacked the complex on Tuesday afternoon killing at least 14 people.

President Uhuru Kenyatta told a press briefing earlier today that all the militants had been killed and over 700 people rescued.

Security camera footage showed at least four heavily armed men walking in and opening fire.

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Kenyans have been donating blood to help those injured in Tuesday's attack at the luxury DusitD2 complex in the capital, Nairobi.

Concerned citizens as far away as the coastal city of Mombasa have gone to different centres to donate blood.

Twitter users, including a local MP, have been sharing pictures about the exercise.

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Kenyan development consultants Abdalla Dahir, 33 and Feisal Ahmed, 31, who worked fro Adam Smith International (ASI), were having lunch together at the Secret Garden restaurant in the grounds of the hotel when the suicide bomber struck, reports Reuters news agency.

Friends and relatives described Mr Ahmed and Mr Dahir as inseparable.

"They were close buddies," said Mr Ahmed's brother-in-law Abdullahi Keinan.

"They were so close, people said they would die together," he told Reuters.

They had been working for the Somalia Stability Fund managed by ASI to "bring peace and prosperity to Somalia", ASI said on their website.

"He [Ahmed] was an outgoing funny guy, charismatic. He was loved by everybody," said Mohammed Abdilatif, a close friend and colleague told Reuters.

Mr Ahmed's widow is reportedly seven months pregnant.

Mr Dahir's LinkedIn profile says he was passionate about photography and sharing "the stories of vulnerable people especially the voiceless victims of violence in order to educate the world about the detrimental impacts of war".

A joint funeral was held for them on Wednesday.

Leaders from 10 Muslim organisations in Kenya have released a joint statement condemning Tuesday's attack at the DusitD2 hotel in Riverside area in the capital, Nairobi.

Islamist militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the joint statement, the leaders condemn "in the strongest terms possible the barbaric attack on 14 Riverside Drive".

The organisations have jointly set up a counselling and blood donation centre in Chiromo, a suburb in Nairobi.

Jamia Mosque, where the press conference was held, has recently been a target of online threats.

Some call for an attack on the mosque, which is frequented predominantly by Somalis.

The siege in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on the complex, which houses the luxury DusitD2 hotel, began at about 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Tuesday.

Gunmen threw bombs at vehicles in the car park before entering the lobby, where one blew himself up, police say.

The BBC has put together this map and timeline of the siege:

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Kenya was warned of an imminent al-Shabab attack, the UK Guardian newspaper reports, external.

According to the newspaper, Kenya's security partners notified the country's intelligence services about a possible attack.

The paper says the country had been on high alert since November.

Intelligence officials who spoke to the Guardian said al-Shabab militants had confused security officials by changing target locations.

The Somalia-based al-Shabab militant group carried out the attack on Dusit hotel on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people.