Nomsa Maseko
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

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Two white farmers who pushed a black teenage boy out of a moving van after accusing him of stealing sunflowers have been sentenced to 23 and 18 years in prison by a South African High Court.

Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte killed Matlhomola Mosweu for the alleged theft of sunflower heads worth just over $5 (£3).

The pair was found guilty of several charges including murder, kidnapping, and intimidation.

They had claimed that 16-year-old Matlhomola Mosweu jumped out of their van while they were taking him to the local police station after catching him stealing.

Judge Ronnie Hendricks said that even though the murder was not premeditated, the accused must have foreseen that throwing the 16-year-old boy from a moving vehicle could have resulted in death.

Judge Hendriks also said the actions of the murderers were disgraceful and appalling.

The killing triggered racial tensions in the farming town of Coligny in the North West province, when black residents set fire to several homes and businesses belonging to white people.

Police were deployed inside the court house to maintain law and order.

Catherine Byaruhanga
BBC Africa, at Cyanika border post between Uganda and Rwanda

In the shadow of Mount Muhabura, which straddles the border between Rwanda and Uganda, activity at Cyanika border is almost at a standstill.

The customs and immigration offices on the Ugandan side are open but only a few people and cargo trucks are crossing.

Officially, the Rwandan government says this border is open but people here say that is not true.

Trucks and trailers carrying goods from Uganda are not being given permission to cross.

Many blame this decision on the diplomatic row between Uganda and Rwanda.

Rwanda has accused Uganda of supporting rebel groups opposed to President Paul Kagame and his government.

Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa described the accusations as false.

Usually, a border post like this should be buzzing with currency traders, hawkers and transport vehicles.

Rwandan citizens have been advised by their leaders not to come to Uganda because of allegations they face harassment, torture and deportation.

In practice it is more than advice, with Rwandan soldiers being deployed to stop them crossing.

Some are managing to get here by using illegal pathways.

But trucks from countries like Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo are being allowed into Rwanda.

Eden Ali, a truck driver from Kenya, was stuck in Uganda for the past seven days unable to cross into Rwanda.

He drives a fuel tanker and his final destination is the DR Congo.

When he first got to the Katuna border with Rwanda, which is two hours from here, he found it closed without warning.

“I had paid for all the requirements to cross the border including money for fuel. The allowance I was given I ended up using for food. Now I don’t have any money to use for the rest of the journey.”

He finally left Uganda on Tuesday evening unsure of the rest of his journey.

There are close familial ties between people on either side of this border. Students from Rwanda also come to schools here. For the past week they have not been attending their classes.

The uncertainty is causing tension amongst local communities and some Ugandans are apprehensive about travelling to Rwanda.

The three main crossings between Uganda and Rwanda are facing disruption. Katuna border post, which is the usually the busiest, is officially closed because of construction works, according to the government in Kigali.

Cargo traffic between the two neighbours is being processed at Mirama Hills but officials there are overwhelmed and exporters believe using this crossing penalises them because travelling through that crossing takes longer and is more expensive.

A week since the start of these border tensions – no-one knows when business will return to normal.

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Kenya's national airline has been tweeting that passengers have started boarding delayed flights that were halted by a strike by airport workers.

The airline has shared this picture of a flight being prepared for take-off.

It also gave an update on operations at other local airports affected by the strike.

Mercy Juma
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Kenyan airforce personnel have been deployed to start screening passengers stranded at the strike-hit Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), in the capital, Nairobi.

Kenya aviation workers have gone on strike over a planned takeover of the management of the country's airports by the national airline, Kenya Airways.

The strike has caused a major disruption of flights and thousands of passengers have been stranded in four airports in different parts of the country.

Airport workers stopped work at midnight local time (2100GMT on Tuesday), meaning fire engines were withdrawn from the runway, and there has been no check-in, security or baggage handling.

No plane has landed at JKIA, which handles 126 flights every day, since midnight. Some planes have left without passengers.

A few hours into the strike, police arrested Kenya Aviation Workers Union Secretary General Moss Ndiema.

"This strike is illegal…it is just a minor disruption….aircrafts will start taking off shortly. We have identified those who were involved and action will follow shortly," Kenya’s Minister for Transport James Macharia said.

He called the strike "a criminal activity".

The aviation workers union has however not issued a statement calling off the strike.

BBC World Service

Amnesty International says the Egyptian government appears to be behind a series of digital attacks on rights activists, putting them at risk.

Amnesty said in a statement that the attacks appeared to be part of a campaign to intimidate and silence opponents of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

The group said since the beginning of this year the activists had been the subject of email phishing attacks which tricked them into downloading spyware.

The attacks coincided with important political events such as a recent visit by President Emmanuel Macron.

The normally busy Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is still at a virtual standstill due to a strike by workers opposed to a deal to take over the running of the facility, which is a regional hub.

The strike has also affected three other airports elsewhere in the country.

Our reporter Victor Kenani has shared this picture of Kenya Airways planes parked at the Nairobi airport.

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The United States and the European Union have voiced support for tens of thousands of demonstrators in Algeria who have been demanding that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down.

A US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said the Algerian people had the right to peaceful assembly.

The European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said the EU expected Algerians to be allowed to exercise their constitutional rights.

The head of the Algerian army, General Ahmed Gaid Salah, has warned that the military will not allow security to break down.

President Bouteflika, who is 82-year-old and very ill, plans to seek a fifth term as president next month.

People are venting their anger on Twitter as flights are grounded at Kenya's main international airport following a strike by workers:

And there is also anger that police intervened to break up the protest:

Police have used tear gas and batons to try and disperse striking workers at the main international airport in Kenya's capital Nairobi, local media reports say.

A key figure in organising the strike, the Kenya Aviation Workers Union secretary-general Moss Ndiema, has also been arrested.

The government has condemned the strike as illegal, and says replacement workers would be brought in to normalise the situation.

The BBC's Lynne Wachira snapped a photo of a man who was injured in the chaos, which followed police intervention to break up the protest:

Thousands of passengers are stranded at the four main airports in Kenya after a strike called by the aviation workers' union forced the disruption of domestic and international flights.

About 60 flights failed to take-off at their scheduled time from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the busiest in East Africa. Other planes left without passengers.

The strike began at midnight local time, resulting in the withdrawal of fire engines from the runway.

Security, check-in and baggage-handling staff also stopped working.

Flights have also been disrupted at airports in the tourist hub of Mombasa, and the cities of Eldoret and Kisumu in western Kenya.

The striking workers are opposed to a plan that would see the loss-making Kenya Airways taking over the management of airports from the profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA).

The workers say the proposed take-over would put their jobs at risk.

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Senegal's constitutional council has confirmed that President Macky Sall was the winner of last week's election, with 58% of the vote, reports Reuters news agency.

The council confirmed that opposition candidate Idrissa Seck had placed second with 21%, while Ousmane Sonko came third with 16%.

The results were initially rejected by his rivals in the presidential race, but they decided not to register an appeal.

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC Sport, Lusaka

Authorities in Zambia are investigating former Football Association of Zambia (Faz) Vice-President Boniface Mwamelo after he was handed a lifetime ban last week for match fixing.

He was found guilty of "having accepted bribes in violation of the Fifa Code of Ethics," according to football's world governing body.

Mwamelo, who served as Faz treasurer, was also fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,015; £7,629) as part of his punishment.

Mwamelo denies any wrongdoing and has indicated that he will appeal the sentence.

That has not stopped the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission from commencing investigations into the matter.

It said its decision "follows revelations made recently by Fifa alleging that Mr Mwamelo received bribes from a named international match-fixer to force the Zambia national team to lose during the 2010 Cairo Olympics... so that the international match-fixer wins football bets".

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The United Nations says an unprecedented humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Burkina Faso, where more than 100,000 people have fled their homes.

Most of them were displaced in the first two months of this year. More than half a million are at risk of food insecurity.

"I urge all technical and financial partners, the private sector and the civil society to support us in implementing the emergency relief plan", Minister in charge of humanitarian action, Hélène Marie Laurence Ilboudo, said in a statement.

Much of the violence occurs in the north of the country, but there have also been ethnic clashes in central regions.

Ameyu Etana
BBC Afaan Oromo

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The Ethiopian athlete who on Sunday broke the world record for the fastest mile says his big plan is to break his countryman Kenenisa Bekele’s 5000m record.

"Failing that, I want to set the fastest time", he told BBC Afaan Oromoo.

Yomif Kejelcha's recent success is all the more sweet given that he missed out on breaking the world record at his previous attempt in February by a hundredth of a second.

Jose Tembe
BBC Africa, Maputo

The Mozambican police have arrested a Malawian man for smuggling people across the border.

The 25-year-old man was heading to South Africa with 27 people inside his lorry - including a child - when he was stopped by police in the Machanga district of south-eastern Mozambique.

The man was formally charged with human trafficking. He faces procedural and criminal charges.

A police spokesperson told journalists that the man and his human cargo had entered Mozambique through the Bibi border, in western Tete province.

Tete is often used as an entry point by people from southern Africa, the Great Lakes region, Nigeria and Ethiopia. Their final destination is usually the regional economic powerhouse South Africa.

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Rwanda has accused Uganda of supporting rebel groups opposed to President Paul Kagame and his government.

The Rwandan Foreign Minister, Richard Sezibera, said the the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) worked from Uganda.

Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa described the accusations as false.

Relations between the two countries are deteriorating, with Rwanda preventing Ugandan trucks from entering its territory and forbidding its citizens from entering Uganda.

Rwanda has also accused Uganda of detaining, torturing and illegally deporting its citizens.

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The head of the army in Algeria has said the military will not allow a breakdown of security or a return to the turbulence of the 1990s that saw 200,000 people killed.

General Ahmed Gaid Salah was speaking as thousands of people again demonstrated in the country's main cities demanding that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down.

In the capital, Algiers, students and their teachers rallied outside the main post office, angrily demanding that the 82-year-old head of state, who's extremely sick, abandon plans to seek a fifth presidential term in next month's election.

Photo taken from the scene show the scale of the process:

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