Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

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At least 11 illegal miners are reported to have died, following the collapse of an open mine in an area in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province.

Work to rescue the buried bodies is still under way, Cabo Delgado's provincial director of mineral resources and energy, Ramiro Guilaze, says.

Mr Guilaze says, so far, 13 of the buried people were rescued, two of them still alive.

He says it is believed that there were 15 people in the mine before it collapsed.

Mr Nguilaze said the mine collapse occurred at an area close to the Montepuez Ruby Mining or MRM, a subsidiary of the London-based Gemfields group, which used its machinery to assist in rescue operations.

In a statement, the mining company blamed the authorities' inaction against the illicit trade of rubies.

In northern Mozambique, informal and illegal ruby mining is a competitive business that has attracted thousands of itinerant workers despite strenuous crackdowns by the authorities.

This is not the first time that illegal miners die in landslides not only in Cabo Delgado but also in Manica province in their attempts to pan either for gold or rubies.

A video of two women passionately speaking out against the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Galkayo, Puntland region in Somalia, has gone viral.

The women were speaking as part of a demonstration against what they say is a recent surge in rapes in the area.

"This is the second girl who was raped in the last month", the passionate plea from one of the female demonstrators starts.

"We ask the Somali people to hold these men accountable", she continues.

The two unidentified women who appear in the video appeal to the authorities and tribal leaders to find the perpetrators who violently raped and murdered the girl at the weekend.

"We are appealing to the Puntland president Deni, [make them] stop the raping of little girls, the raping of little children, [let them] fear God, they murdered and raped a small 12-year-old", the second woman says emotionally.

The video was also shared by a former principal secretary to the Somali prime minister:

Ahmed Rouaba
BBC News

Students in Algeria have taken to the streets to protest against President Abdelaziz Boutefika’s bid for a fifth term in office.

Pictures on social media showed rallies in several universities throughout the country with students chanting slogans against Mr Bouteflika running for the presidential election due to be held on 18 April.

The 82-years-old President was first elected in 1999.

He uses a wheelchair and rarely appears in public since he suffered a stroke in 2013.

Lawyers organised a sit in on Monday in central Algiers to express their support to the 22 February demonstrations against Mr Bouteflika’s election bid and to freedom of expression in the country.

In his first comments since losing his Kwara State senate seat, Bukola Saraki, who was Nigeria's third most senior politician, has wished the successful candidates well.

Mr Saraki, who failed in his attempt to become the presidential candidate for the People's Democratic Party, wrote in a series of tweets that "it is my prayer that the good people of Kwara State will always have the best from any government".

In a dramatic defection last year in July Mr Saraki left president Muhammadu Buhari's APC party for the PDP. It looks the move may have backfired as Kwara heavily backed the APC.

Mr Saraki said that the result will "provide the people the opportunity to compare and contrast. After all, the people who have emerged from last Saturday’s election are not my enemies. They are fellow Kwarans."

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Zimbabwe's currency woes have meant that they have had to use a mix of the South African rand, the US dollar, bond notes, debit cards drawing on bank accounts and money stored on a mobile phone app.

But each of them had a different exchange rate, meaning that customers were sometimes charged different prices depending on what payment method they chose.

Now, the Zimbabwean government has introduced the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) dollar, which is being described by some as a new currency.

The RTGS dollar is supposed to bring together bond notes and debit card and mobile money payments to make sure that they are all worth the same.

Read our explainer on the BBC News website.

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Uganda's government has repatriated 70 Congolese ex-rebels and their families, AFP news agency quotes the foreign ministry as saying.

It adds that the ex-rebels had volunteered to return home five years after they were defeated.

They had all been members of a rebel group called M23.

Ugandan ministry of foreign affairs spokesman Moses Kasujja told AFP that UN officials watched as the group boarded a plane in Uganda's main airport in Entebbe.

The M23 is made up of fighters who deserted from the Congolese army in April 2012 following a mutiny.

They are mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority in eastern DR Congo but with ties to Rwanda's leaders.

Several hundred ended up living in a Ugandan-run camp in the west of the country. The 70 who flew back on Tuesday are not the first to go home, with a total of 316 now having been officially repatriated.

Read our explainer on DR Congo's M23 rebels.

Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained his lead over his main rival, Atiku Abubakar, as the results are declared following Saturday's presidential election.

So far we have results from 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Mr Buhari, running for the All Progressives Congress, has 3,589,092 votes compared to 2,908,668 votes for Mr Abubakar, from the People's Democratic Party,

That's a lead of 700,000.

But there is still a long way to go and many results from the PDP heartland in the south-east have still not been declared.

Follow the results live on this page.

Africa's last herd of wild horses has been given fresh hope by the birth of two foals and the lifting of a ban on shooting hyenas.

The herd has dwindled from 286 to 77 in six years, and it is largely blamed on a pack of hyenas that has hunted the horses on Namibia's Garub plains to the brink of extinction.

The chairman of Namibia's Wild Horses Foundation Mannfred Goldbeck told BBC Newsday that the horses were originally brought on from colonisers and became wild during the chaos of the first world war:

The first ever summit between the European Union and Arab states has ended in the Egyptian tourist resort Sharm el-Sheikh.

The leaders pledged to tackle terrorism, radicalisation and organised crime.

They also talked about migration but it appears that the European Union's plan for "regional disembarkation platforms" was dropped, the BBC's Newsday radio programme is reporting.

They were meant to be centres in the countries where migrants start their journeys, where officials can assess who are the genuine asylum seekers.

Catherine Woollard, the secretary general of the campaign group, European Centre for Refugees and Exiles told Newsday's Alan Kasujja that North African countries never accepted the idea:

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President Muhammadu Buhari has taken an early lead as votes are being counted in Nigeria's general election, amid allegations of manipulation.

Mr Buhari has won seven of Nigeria's 36 states, while his rival Atiku Abubakar took four states and the capital Abuja.

As results came in, Mr Abubakar's People's Democratic Party (PDP) alleged that there had been irregularities in the vote.

Party chair Uche Secondus called the count "incorrect and unacceptable".

He said there had been an "attempt by the government and other agencies to manipulate the result", but did not give any evidence.

Read the full BBC story here and follow the results as they come in here

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The US military says it has killed 35 armed al-Shabab militants in Somalia.

The US Africa Command said the attack took place as the Islamist militants were moving between locations in the central Hiran region on Sunday.

There's no independent corroboration of the claim.

US strikes in support of the UN-backed Somali government have increased, but the head of the US army's Africa Command, General Thomas Waldhauser, said recently that air strikes alone won't defeat al-Shabab.

He called on Somali government forces to up their commitment.

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Police in Kenya say they have a busted a seven-man syndicate which allegedly impersonated President Uhuru Kenyatta and other government officials to defraud local business tycoon Naushad Merali of a huge sum of money.

One of the men phoned Mr Merali, the chairman of Sameer Africa, mimicking the president's voice and persuading him to release money to facilitate business deals, local media quoted police as saying.

The exact amount is unclear - the Daily Nation news site gave a figure of 10 million shillings ($100,000; £76,000) while The Star put the amount at 80 million shillings.

The seven appeared in court on Tuesday, but have not yet been been charged.

Police said they needed more time to carry out investigations.

“Due to the complexity of the investigations and the number of suspects involved, including some who are still at large, it is expected that the investigation will involve going through voluminous documents including bank documents and call data records analysis,” a police affidavit quoted by the Daily Nation said, external.

Mr Merali is one of Kenya's leading industrialists, with interests in sectors ranging from IT and real estate.

The Sameer Group's website, external says he is also member of the government's Kenya Export Promotion Council and the National Investment Council.

Mr Merali and Mr Kenyatta have not yet commented on the arrests.

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Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

A video of a South African pastor "resurrecting" a man has drawn condemnation and ridicule.

The clip shows Pastor Alph Lukau shout "celebrate Jesus" and "rise up" to a man in a white suit in a coffin. The man then gets up and is cheered on by a crowd of fellow worshippers.

It happened outside Alleluia Ministries International (AMI) church in Johannesburg’s Kramerville neighbourhood.

On his Twitter account, Pastor Lukau said that "a dead man came back to life in this service":

The video has sparked a national debate on fake pastors and had been widely condemned by established religious groups.

But South Africans have taken to social media with the hashtag #ResurrectionChallenge to see the funny side.

Election observers from the Commonwealth have highlighted election-related violence and the loss of life during Saturday's presidential poll saying "Nigeria can do better".

"Violence has no place in a modern democracy," the observers add in their interim report.

Several incidents have been reported, but the Commonwealth does not give a death toll.

The observers have also noted several logistical problems including the late delivery of election materials, the malfunctioning of equipment and poor communication from election officials about changes in voting times in certain places.

But they added that "notwithstanding the difficulties... for the most part Nigerians had the opportunity to express their will and exercise their franchise".

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

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Police in Lusaka have arrested Zambia's former information minister after he was filmed shouting at an Indian driver to go back to his country.

"How can you come in our country to drive this when Zambians have no jobs? Go back to your country. Foolish,” Chishimba Kambwili is heard to say in the footage.

"This is very annoying! How can an Indian come all the way from India to come and drive a compactor?," he also says in the clip.

Police say he is currently in their custody and has been charged with "expression or showing hatred, ridicule or contempt for persons because of race, tribe or place of origin".

Mr Kambwili’s lawyers were not available for comment.

Nigeria's main opposition party has rejected the election results being announced by the electoral commission, branding them "incorrect and unacceptable".

The chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, made the comments at a press conference in the capital city, Abuja.

Results for the presidential vote in the capital and four states have so far been declared by the electoral commission. Four of the five have gone to President Muhammadu Buhari.

As it stands, he has 1,317,976 votes to his main rival Atiku Abubakar's 1,173,437.

Around 73 million voters were eligible to vote in Saturday's general election.

Ishaq Dan-Imam
BBC Africa

Voting in Nigeria's Kogi State has been ruled inconclusive because of violence and a high number of invalid ballots, the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) says.

Kogi State is to announce a new polling day for its senatorial vote soon.

But this was contradicted by Kogi State's returning officer, Professor Michael Adikwu, who has told reporters that senatorial votes had been collated successfully.

Nationwide, Nigeria's general election was held on Saturday after being delayed by a week. The rescheduling happened in a dramatic press conference in the early hours of Saturday 16 February, just five hours before polls were due to have opened.

Inec said on Sunday that voting had not been possible in about 8,500 of the 120,000 polling stations around the country, reports the AFP news agency.

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