Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Addis Ababa

A Niger national who was expelled from Israel has been stuck at the international airport in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, since November after his home country refused to take him back.

"I have been staying here at the airport under very bad conditions because there's nothing, nothing at all," 24-year-old Eissa Muhamad told the BBC.

Mr Muhamad's series of misfortunes began last April when he was arrested for being in Israel illegally.

He had been living in the Middle Eastern state since 2011, having left Niger's north-western Tilaberi region as a 16-year-old in search of a better life.

He said he paid traffickers to take him across Libya and Egypt before he entered Israel by foot.

Once in Tel Aviv, Mr Muhamad survived by doing odd jobs in hostels and in a sweet factory until April 2018 when he was arrested for being in Israel without proper documents.

After several months in detention, Israel issued him an emergency travel document and put him on an Ethiopian Airlines plane, via Addis Ababa, to Niger in November. But on arrival in Niamey, Niger's capital, he was refused entry by Niger's authorities who alleged his travel document was false.

"They didn't want me in Niger. They didn't accept me," Mr Muhamad said.

Read his full story here

Michael, from Nairobi, has been interested in parkour since he saw YouTube videos of people flipping.

Parkour is typically a street sport which involves running, jumping and climbing over obstacles.

However, the 17-year-old warns in an interview with the BBC Africa youth programme, What’s New?, that people need to know their limits before embarking on the sport.

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says he has ordered the police and military to be "ruthless" with anyone who tries to rig rescheduled presidential and parliamentary elections.

People who attempted to steal or destroy ballot boxes and voting material would do so "at the expense of his own life", Mr Buhari said.

He was speaking at an emerging meeting of his All Progressives Congress (APC) following the last-minute postponement of Saturday's election.

The poll is now due to take place this Saturday.

The main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) condemned Mr Buhari's statement, saying it was a "direct call for jungle justice", Reuters news agency reports.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, 72, is running against Mr Buhari under the banner of the PDP.

Read: Anger and frustration after poll delay

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A company at the centre of one of the biggest corruption scandals in South Africa has gone into liquidation, saying it is no longer able to do business because of the "extensive reputational damage" it has suffered.

South Africa-based Bosasa said two banks had decided to close its accounts, making it difficult to continue trading and to pay creditors.

More than 4,500 employees will be affected by the liquidation of Bosasa, now known as African Global Group.

Its former chief operating officer, Angelo Agrizzi, has made explosive allegations of corruption against the company, accusing it of paying bribes to senior government officials - including former President Jacob Zuma - in exchange for government contracts.

Mr Zuma has consistently denied any wrongdoing, and is not among a group of people who have been charged with corruption, following Mr Agrizz's damning testimony at a judge-led inquiry into corruption.

Those charged include Mr Agrizzi and former prison boss Linda Mti.

Ameyu Etana
BBC Afaan Oromo

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Ethiopian teenager Samuel Tefera says he did not expect to break a 22-year-old 1500m indoor world record with a stunning performance in Birmingham.

‘‘Let alone breaking the world record. I had not planned to participate before,’’ he told the BBC.

‘‘I am very happy. Words can’t express my happiness.’’

Many eyes were on Yomif Kejelcha, who just missed the mile world record last week but Tefera, 19, overtook his compatriot with 200m to go and finished in three minutes 31.04 seconds.

‘‘I was expecting Yomif [to win] too," Samuel said.

He beat Hicham El Guerrouj's previous mark of 3:31.18, set in Stuttgart in 1997.

Kejelcha, who was undefeated indoors this year, clocked 3:31.58.

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Ethiopia and Djibouti have signed a deal to build a gas pipeline which will transport Ethiopian gas to an export terminal in Djibouti, Reuters news agency reports.

In 2017, China's POLY-GCL Petroleum Investments signed a memorandum of understanding with Djibouti to invest $4bn (£3bn) to build a gas pipeline, Reuters reported at the time.

Louise Dewast
Dakar

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A spokesman for Cameroon's Ministry of Defence has told BBC News that 166 children and a number of teachers were briefly kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday.

They were taken from a Catholic school in the town of Kumbo.

School authorities negotiated their release and the children were returned by Sunday.

It is unclear why they were kidnapped but there have been a number of incidents in the area since 2016 due to ongoing conflict in the mainly English-speaking North-West and South-West regions, where government forces are battling separatists demanding independence.

The government is led by the French-speaking President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982.

Read: 'We live in fear in Bamenda'

Shingai Nyoka
BBC Africa, Harare

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A Zimbabwean magistrate has sentenced prominent opposition politician Tendai Biti to seven days in jail, but has given him the option of paying a $200 (£154) fine to avoid imprisonment.

The magistrate earlier convicted Mr Biti of violating electoral legislation by declaring opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa the winner of last year's heavily disputed presidential poll, preempting an official announcement that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had won.

The sentence is relatively lenient, but Mr Biti said he would appeal against his conviction.

He said the charges were part of an attempt to crush the opposition.

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An official with Nigeria's election commission has ruled out a further delay in presidential and parliamentary elections, saying voting will go ahead on Saturday.

Some foreign observers, including Botswana's ex-President Festus Mogae, have raised doubts about whether the commission would be ready for the poll.

The commission announced about five hours before polls were due to open on Saturday that it had postponed the vote by a week, causing shock and anger.

In a BBC Newsday radio interview, Mr Mogae said there was "a great deal of work yet to be done".

"I don’t know whether that can be managed or not. I am not in a position to judge but it makes me apprehensive. I am not sure that it will be done in time," he added.

However, election commissioner Festus Okoye told BBC Newsday: "I don't think the Nigerian people will give us a second chance. On Saturday, Nigerians are going to go to the polls.There is no challenge any more."

Listen to the full interview with him below - James Copnall started by asking him why the poll had been delayed:

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A son of Mozambique's former President Armando Guebuza has been detained over a $2bn (£1.5bn) government debt scandal.

He was the ninth person to be detained in this case in less than four days.

Others include Mr Guebuza's then-head of security and intelligence, Gregorio Leao, then-head of economic intelligence, Antonio de Rosario, and his former private secretary Ines Moiane.

They have not yet commented.

It is alleged that the government, while Mr Guebuza was in office, had taken out loans worth $2bn in order to fund various projects taken on by state-owned companies in the fishing and maritime security industries.

However, the transaction was allegedly hidden from parliament and international donors, AFP news agency reports.

President Filipe Nyusi came to office 18 months ago after the debt had been acquired. He insists that his team knew nothing about it.

Read: Is there something fishy about Mozambique's debt?

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport is hearing a challenge by the South African runner, Caster Semenya, to plans that would force some female runners to lower their testosterone levels.

Sebastian Coe, the president of the world athletics governing body, the IAAF, said the proposed new rules would make athletics fairer.

They'd make women with hyper-androgynism, an elevated level of male hormones, take medication before they compete.

Semenya's lawyers argue that this would be discriminatory, and that the world and Olympic champion's genetic condition should be celebrated instead.

See earlier post for more details

BBC World Service

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Somalia has rejected an accusation by Kenya that it has auctioned off oil and gas blocks in a disputed maritime area claimed by Kenya.

It described the claim as non-factual, adding that the oil fields were in their own waters and none had been auctioned.

On Saturday, Kenya recalled its ambassador to Mogadishu over the dispute.

The International Court of Justice is hearing a case related to it.

Read: Target Somalia: The new scramble for Africa?

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Leading Zimbabwean politician Tendai Biti has been convicted of illegally declaring opposition leader Nelson Chamisa the winner of last year's disputed presidential election.

Mr Biti violated electoral legislation by preempting the official announcement, and undermined the authority of the electoral commission, a magistrate ruled.

He has not yet been sentenced.

At least six people were killed two days after the 30 July vote in clashes between security forces and opposition MDC Alliance supporters who alleged that Mr Chamisa had been robbed of victory.

The commission declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner of the election - the first since long-serving Robert Mugabe was forced to step down in 2017 under pressure from the military.

Mr Biti - a former finance minister - was at the forefront of rejecting the result, and was detained at the time after his attempt to get asylum in Zambia failed.

According to the official results, Mr Mnangagwa obtained 50.8% of the vote, compared with Mr Chamisa's 44.3%. The remaining votes went to 21 other candidates.

Read: Does Zimbabwe have the most expensive fuel in the world?

BBC World Service

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The South African runner, Caster Semenya, is challenging controversial plans to limit genetically high levels of testosterone in some female athletes that is said to give them an undue performance advantage.

The sport's international governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), says it wants to make races fairer by getting athletes with hyperandrogenism to take medication to lower their male hormone level, six months before they compete.

Semenya's lawyers will argue in Lausanne, Switzerland, that this would be discriminatory, and that the world and Olympic champion's genetic condition should instead be celebrated.

Academics have questioned the science behind the IAAF's plans.

Semenya has dominated the 800m event for the past decade.

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