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Reuters news agency reports that the authorities in Sudan have removed accreditation from two journalists, meaning that they will not be allowed to report on events in the protest-hit country.

One of the two journalists works for Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, Reuters adds. The affiliation of the other journalist has not been confirmed.

"The foreign information council has observations on the performance of the Al Arabiya correspondent and the freeze will continue until a review of both journalists' status is carried out," Reuters quotes Sudan's external information council, which deals with foreign media organisations, as saying.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, only dozens of supporters answered the call of opposition leader Martin Fayulu to protest against the Constitutional Court's declaration of Felix Tshisekedi as the winner of the 30 December presidential election.

There was a heavy police presence on the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, which could explain the small numbers, the BBC's Louise Dewast says.

Mr Fayulu, who was the runner-up according to official results, said the election had been stolen but the court dismissed his petition.

Election data leaked to some news organisations suggested that he won the vote.

After the court ruling on Sunday Mr Fayulu said that he considers himself as the legitimate president.

He urged the international community not to recognise the official result and described regional body Sadc, which conngratulated Mr Tshisekedi, as an absolute disgrace and said democracy was being killed in DR Congo.

Habiba Adamu
BBC Africa, Abuja

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Nigeria's new acting police boss has revealed some of his policy changes at an inaugural conference with police commissioners held today in the capital, Abuja.

Inspector General Mohammed Abubakar Adamu announced a new command structure for the controversial anti-robbery squad known as Sars.

He ordered that the state commissioner of police and the federal capital would assume full control of Sars in their respective commands.

The unit was previously under the inspector general of police.

Mr Adamu added that henceforth police commissioners would be held liable for any professional misconduct from units under them.

The re-organisation, he said, would professionalise the unit to enable it to protect citizens and respond swiftly to any major weapon related organised crime across the country.

Last year, many Nigerians, especially the youth, took to social media and on the streets to protest against Sars over alleged extrajudicial killings and abuses.

Mr Abubakar - who took office last week - will be in charge of providing security ahead of the general elections in February.

Other security challenges before him include communal/religious clashes, kidnappings, armed bandits and cattle rustling.

Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa, Kampala

Uganda's State Minister of Finance for Planning, David Bahati, has told the BBC the government plans to take over sports betting in the country following a presidential directive.

He did not specify when this would happen or how this would be legally done considering 45 companies are licensed to run operations in the country.

He said the plan was to no longer license or renew the licences of foreign companies operating sports betting businesses in Uganda.

Mr Bahati said the goal was to collect revenue for the country.

He was quoted by Daily Monitor saying the ban was a directive from President Yoweri Museveni to protect the the youth from harmful effects of betting.

The first full assessment of risks to the world's coffee plants shows that 60% of 124 known species are on the edge of extinction.

Scientists say the figure is "worrying", as wild coffee is critical for sustaining the global coffee crop.

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Ikran Omar is forging a successful career as a model in Kenya.

But as a hijab-wearing Muslim, she faces obstacles to her career every day, and had a battle to convince her Mum that it was a good career choice.

A high-profile sporting family siphoned off money from their own charity set up to help poor African children.

Ex-footballers Efe Sodje, 46, and Stephen Sodje, 43, and ex-rugby player Bright Sodje, 52, were found guilty and jailed for the fraud in 2017.

The case can only be reported now following the conclusion of a separate trial involving former Reading and Nigeria footballer Sam Sodje, 39.

He was cleared at the Old Bailey of money laundering.

The fraud trial in 2017 had heard how the family set up the Sodje Sports Foundation (SSF) in 2009, ostensibly to help provide facilities in Nigeria.

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Zimbabwe's High Court has ruled that the government, through the state minister, had no authority to order mobile operators to shut down internet access to customers during protests against high fuel prices last week, news agency Reuters reports.

"It has become very clear that the minister has no authority to make the directive," Judge Owen Tagu said in a ruling.

Rights groups had gone to court to oppose the government directive on grounds that it infringed on the constitutional rights of freedom of expression and freedom of the media.

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Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

Police in Mozambique have camped outside the office of the main anti corruption body NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), to stop the distribution of campaign T-shirts.

The organisation has printed 10,000 T-shirts emblazoned with “I’m not paying hidden debts” as a reaction to the debt the government has incurred which has left it with a $2bn (£1.5bn) bill.

Police say they were carrying out orders from their superiors, and that the T-shirts might be used to “create agitation”.

CIP is encouraging other organisations to use the same design and print more T-shirts against using public funds to pay clear the fraudulent loans.

The organisation says anyone leaving the CIP offices with a T-shirt was being ordered to remove it. Officers were also searching peoples' bags.

A human rights activist has shared pictures of the police outside the CIP office.

The questionable loans were obtained from Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse and VTB of Russia.

The money was granted because of government guarantees signed by then-Finance Minister Manuel Chang. He is currently under police custody in South Africa, after US authorities requested for his extradition on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud and securities fraud.

Mr Change denies any wrongdoing.

US prosecutors say that through a series of financial transactions between approximately 2013 and 2016, Mr Chang and others created fraudulent maritime projects and used state-owned companies in Mozambique as fronts to raise $2bn.

Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa, Kampala

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Authorities in Uganda’s eastern region of Sebei have reported an increase in cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which is illegal in the country.

Police say they have stepped up their deployments to stop any more cases.

Most of the victims are believed to be married women in their 20s and 30s who face stigma for not having undergone the procedure.

Local leaders and activists say some FGM ceremonies are now happening in public in spite of the practice being illegal in Uganda.

They have witnessed traditional processions of both men and women carrying spears and machetes moving around towns and villages before the women are circumcised.

Some ceremonies have taken place in a town centre, by highways and near forests.

Police officers are reported to have looked on, powerless to intervene, although the local police spokesperson told the BBC this was not the case.

A non-governmental agency says there have been at least 12 women who have undergone public circumcision, though there have been many more suspected cases.

FGM was banned in Uganda in 2010 with those committing the act facing up to 10 years in prison.

Campaigning by the government and activists has led to a reduction in the practice.

But now some women, who did not undergo the procedure before marriage, are facing social isolation and pressure to get circumcised.

The practice involves the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelseon Chamisa has criticised the country's leader over the handling of protests against the hike in fuel prices, saying that he was no different to his predecessor, Robert Mugabe.

The hike was announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa sparking protests in the capital, Harare, and south-western Bulawayo city.

Activists say at least 12 people were killed after police violently repressed the protests.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Chamisa - who leads the MDC party - said the excitement that had followed the resignation of Mr Mugabe had died down.

He also criticised Mr Mnangagwa's handling of the economy.

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South Sudan has begun to repair and pump oil from wells damaged during the civil war which broke out in 2013, news agency Reuters reports.

The country, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, currently produces 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) but estimates say it will rise by an additional 70,000 bpd by the end of 2019, Oil Minister Ezekiel Lul Gatkuoth said.

Production plunged to less than half of prewar levels but wells are being repaired with the help of Sudan, Mr Gatkuoth said.

Malaysia's Petronas, India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC Videsh) and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) all have stakes in South Sudan.

South Sudan's Dar blend crude oil is currently being sold for $61 (£47) per barrel.

Sudan receives between about $9-11 per barrel of oil that landlocked South Sudan pumps through its pipeline to the port, the minister said.

In August last year South Sudan's President Salva Kirr and rebel leader Riek Machar signed what they called the "final final" peace deal to end the civil war. But it has not been fully implemented.

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A Twitter account that monitors politics in Zimbabwe has been sharing some pictures of the capital, Harare, which was hit by violence last week over a rise in the price of fuel.

The government has blamed the opposition for the violence, which rights group say left at least 12 people dead.

Authorities also shut down the internet making it hard for people to use popular social media platforms like WhatsApp and Twitter.

People have been out and about on Monday morning, queuing outside banks to get access to their money.

Soldiers have also been deployed on the street with some of them manning petrol stations which have experienced long queues.

Vendors have also returned to the streets.

Last week, protesters used boulders to block roads to stop commuters from travelling.

But now, public buses appear to be back on the road.

Four suspects named by Kenyan authorities as wanted following last week's attack at the the DusitD2 complex in the capital, Nairobi, have surrendered, privately-owned Daily Nation newspaper reports.

It said they handed themselves in at a police station in Isiolo, north-east of the capital, Nairobi.

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The High Court in Zimbabwe is to rule today on the legality of the government's directive to mobile operators to shut down internet services amid a violent crackdown over a rise in fuel prices, state-owned Herald newspaper reports. , external

Two rights groups, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa), are trying to sue the government saying the shutdown was unconstitutional.

They say that it infringed on the constitutional rights of freedom of expression and freedom of the media.

The main telecommunication companies, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, NetOne Cellular Private Limited and Telecel Zimbabwe, were listed as respondents in the lawsuit.

Internet users say that they experienced intermittent connection throughout last week but popular social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter were largely blocked.

Uganda will not renew the licences of betting companies as part of a plan to ban sports betting, privately-owned Daily Monitor reports, external, quoting State Minister of Finance David Bahati.

“We have received a directive from President [Yoweri] Museveni to stop licensing sports betting, gaming and gambling companies. The president has now directed the board which has been regulating them," Mr Bahati said.

The minister said the president issued the directive because of the negative impact betting was having on young people.

Betting on English football has become big business in Uganda - and it is growing.

Many unemployed young men have turned to gambling in the hope of making a living, the BBC reported in 2017.

"From now onwards, no new companies are going to be licensed. Those which are already registered, no renewal of licences when they expire,” Mr Bahati told a church congregation at Rugarama Hill in Kabale town on Sunday.

He said that church leaders, who have been against sports betting, could now rejoice because "their prayers have been answered".

Ten UN peacekeepers from Chad have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in northern Mali, the UN says.

Another 25 Chadian troops were injured when the gunmen stormed the UN camp in Aguelhok early on Sunday. The attack was repelled, the UN says.

The UN mission in Mali was set up in 2013 to fight Islamist militias operating in the country.

Militants have regularly attacked UN and Malian troops since then.

Al-Qaeda's North-African branch, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, said it carried out the latest attack, local media report.

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Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Security forces in Kenya say they have repelled an attack north-east of the capital, Nairobi, near the border with Somalia.

Authorities say al-Shabab militants had targeted two Chinese construction companies in Garissa town.

They say military and police officers responded to attack, killing at least four militants. No officers or construction workers were reported to have been killed.

The country is still dealing with the aftermath of last week's attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi in which 21 people died.

Al-Shabab, which is based in Somalia, said it was behind the attack.

Several people have now been arrested in connection with the attack and the police have released pictures of eight other wanted people.

Read: Could Kenya have prevented the hotel siege?

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