Usifo Omozokpea
BBC Pidgin

At the Lagos Island General Hospital, where victims from the collapse site are being attended to, the scene is total chaos.

Families are scrambling after every ambulance that arrives to see if their child is inside.

Crying and confusion fills the air as hospital staff are busy attending to victims.

Lagos State Deputy Governor Idiat Adebule made an appearance at the hospital and urged people to be calm and allow the emergency and rescue services do their jobs.

Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service

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Officials in Mozambique say nearly 70 people have been killed in floods in central and northern regions.

More than 140,000 people are affected, with thousands of homes destroyed.

Crops and livestock have been lost.

The floods have also affected neighbouring Malawi, where nearly 60 people have died and close to a quarter of a million made homeless.

The Malawian authorities have ordered all people living in flood-prone areas to move from their homes to temporary accommodation areas on higher ground.

More floods are predicted with the expected arrival of a cyclone on Thursday.

Sanitary pad brand Always has denied claims on social media that it sells a lower-quality product in Kenya.

We reported earlier that this has become a trending topic on Twitter in the country.

Pictures like the below one have been shared, comparing sanitary pads:

Image source, Lorraine Okinda

But Always insists in a statement that tweeters are not comparing like-for-like.

"We find that comparisons on look, feel are being made with our Always Maxi Thick in Kenya vs our Always Soft in another country," the company said in a statement.

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Guinea-Bissau's ruling party, PAIGC, has won parliamentary elections but is short of an absolute majority so it has made a deal with smaller groups to forge a coalition.

PAIGC won 47 seats out of the 102 and made a deal with smaller groups with a further seven seats.

The one-time Marxist PAIGC - the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde - has run the country for 45 years since independence from Portugal.

Sunday's vote aimed to settle a deadlock that has lasted nearly four years, since President Jose Mario Vaz sacked his Prime Minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira.

Hamza Hussein
BBC Afaan Oromoo

Former fighters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in Ethiopia have gone on a hunger strike at a military camp where they have been staying since laying down their arms following a peace deal with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.

The fighters said they were subjected to "poor living conditions" at Tolay camp in south-western Ethiopia, and promises that they would be given to training to build a new life have failed to materialise.

"We are being treated inhumanly and no one cares about us," an ex-fighter told BBC Afaan Oromoo.

"Most of our comrades are now ill due to lack of hygiene and absence of food," he added.

Image source, OMN

Prominent opposition politician Bekele Gerba - who was part of a committee which negotiated between the government and the OLF - said he heard that the ex-fighters had grievances, but was still trying to get permission from the regional government to visit them.

The regional government has not yet commented.

Nearly 1,000 ex-fighters are believed to be at the camp.

Ferdinand Omondi
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Women in Kenya have been expressing their outrage over the Always brand of sanitary pads, which they say causes rashes, burns and discomfort.

Many women are speaking out on Twitter through the hashtag #MyAlwaysExperience, which trended all of yesterday and part of today.

The users also accused Always of ignoring their feedback and choosing to promote the brand with high-profile figures such as Kenya's first female marine pilot, Elizabeth Marami, and basket ball star Silalei Owuor:

Always has since opened a Kenyan Twitter account and has responded to the criticism:

But critics remain unimpressed, saying the firm is selling a sub-standard version in Kenya and suggesting that products in the West are of better quality.

And prominent Kenyan social critic and feminist Scheaffer Okore has demanded that politicians and consumer watchdog bodies intervene to protect the rights of women:

Aliyu Tanko
BBC Hausa

Eight pupils have died after a school collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday morning, according to rescue official Ike Okwonkwo.

He adds that 40 pupils have been rescued so far. More than 100 pupils attend the school.

Lagos State Government had earmarked the building for demolition since 2018 but the occupants refused to vacate the building, a resident told the BBC.

The rescue operation is still under way:

Read more:Pupils trapped in Lagos school collapse.

Demonstrations have continued across Algeria despite President Abdelaziz Bouteflika renouncing his bid for a fifth term in office and vowing to introduce reforms to elect a successor.

Protesters are demanding President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s immediate resignation. They say his move is a trick to prolong his two decades in power.

On Monday, the president postponed the 18 April presidential elections and dropped his bid for a fifth term.

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Peter Mwai
BBC Africa, Nairobi

Tanzanian government has issued a warning to the country's leading English daily newspaper, The Citizen, accusing it of publishing misleading information.

It comes a week after it resumed publication following a seven-day ban.

The government said the newspaper - together with its sister publication Mwananchi, which is published in Swahili - wrongly reported a story in their online editions.

The story said international development partners had only disbursed 6.7% of their financial commitment to the country.

The government spokesman Hassan Abbasi said it was 69%.

The newspaper group apologised:

"The Sh144 billion that we used to calculate the percentage is the money that development partners channeled directly to development projects. It does not include the total aid given to the government," the correction published by the Citizen newspaper says, external.

On 27 February, the government suspended the publication of The Citizen for seven days after officials accused it of publishing reports that were false, misleading, and seditious.

The accusations were in relation to articles about the Tanzanian currency devaluing against the dollar.

Envoys from several European nations - among them the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Denmark - criticised the ban.

Joshua Ajayi
BBC Yoruba, Lagos

A school has collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, an emergency agency spokesman said.

Pupils are reported to be trapped under the rubble.

There was no immediate information on any casualties, Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency's southwest region, told Reuters news agency.

The primary school is reported to be located on the top floor of the building which is believed to contain residential apartments as well.

Nigeria's Channels TV has published a video, external of the scene outside the school:

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William Kamkwamba, the Malawian who inspired the Netflix movie The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, has said he had "mixed feelings" watching it.

Interviewed on the BBC's Newsday, he said that watching the film was "challenging" because it was like reliving his story.

Growing up in a rural village in northern Malawi, Mr Kamkwamba, now 31, dropped out of school due to a famine and did not return as his family could not afford the fees.

Wanting to continue his education, he read books in the village library and discovered an interest in electronics.

Aged 13, Mr Kamkwamba found the components to build a wind turbine which created enough electricity to fuel some devices in his family home.

Asked if he earned any money from the film, he said: "It's more about getting a lot of people to learn about this story."

Mr Kamkwamba said he is now setting up an innovation centre for young Malawians.

"When I was building the windmill I didn't have anyone to reach out to," he said.

He wants to inspire young inventors and provide them with the expertise to make their inventions a reality.

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The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines has called for the grounding of all Boeing's 737 Max 8 jets until it is established that they are safe to fly.

Tewolde Gebremariam made the call in an interview with the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza, after the airline's Boeing's 737 Max 8 crashed six minutes after take-off from Ethiopia's Bole International Airport on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.

Mr Tewolde said the cause of the accident still needed to be determined, but he believed the aircraft should be grounded throughout the world because of the similarities with the Lion Air crash shortly after take-off from Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, last October.

The US Federal Aviation Authority has said it will not suspend the 737 Max aircraft despite mounting pressure from senators and workers' unions.

BBC Africa Live will bring your more details of what Mr Tewolde said later.

Lebanon's aviation authority has banned all Boeing 737 MAX planes from landing in Beirut or flying in Lebanese airspace, Reuters reports state news agency NNA as saying.

This adds to a long list of countries that have banned the model from their airspace after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on Sunday killing all 157 people on board.

They include Hong Kong, Vietnam and New Zealand, UK, China, Australia and the European Union.

The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has said it will not suspend Boeing 737 Max aircraft despite mounting pressure from senators and workers' unions.

The Max 8 that crashed on Sunday was one of 30 ordered as part of Ethiopian Airlines' expansion.

Image source, Getty Images

The plane was en route from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, when it crashed six minutes after take-off.

Read more:US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max crash aircraft

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Hundreds of mourners have attended the Muslim funeral prayer for the 29-year-old pilot, Yared Mulugeta Gatechew, who was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday.

Known as the prayer in absentia, the service was held at the famous Baluch mosque in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa on Tuesday evening.

The holding of the prayer in absentia indicates that Senior Capt Yared's family do not expect his body to be recovered, says the BBC's Wazir Khamsin in the capital, Nairobi.

Renowned Mombasa-based blogger Ommy Dallah, external has posted a video of the service, with a brother of Senior Capt Yared seen on the right:

Senior Capt Yared was of Ethiopian and Kenyan heritage, and some of his close relatives live in Mombasa, which is regarded as the family home.

Among those who attended the prayer were leading Kenyan human rights activist Munir Mazrui and hotelier Mohammed Hersi.

Read: Who are the victims?

Larry Madowo
BBC Africa Business Editor

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African e-commerce start-up Jumia has filed papers for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange on the 30th anniversary of the worldwide web.

The company, headquartered in Nigeria, operates in 14 African countries and became the first African startup to hit a $1bn (£760m) valuation, earning the unicorn tag in 2016. It has not yet revealed a share price or valuation at this stage.

Jumia said it had four million active consumers on its platform by the end of 2018 in its filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It will become the first African start-up to list on the New York Stock Exchange, giving it access to a larger pool of investors and global visibility.

Though considered Africa's Amazon for its online marketplace, it has also branched into restaurant food delivery, hotel and flight booking, classified advertising and airtime recharge.

Its largest shareholder MTN, Africa's biggest telecom company, could earn as much as $600m from the share sale if Jumia is valued at $1.5bn, as has been speculated.

The online retailer was founded in Lagos by two French entrepreneurs in 2012 but its markets cover 55% of the African population in countries like South Africa, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Tanzania.

Jumia has burned through cash since its founding with accumulated losses of almost $1bn.

It warned in the documents filed in New York that it could not guarantee achieving or sustaining profitability in the future.

It also cited challenges such as a robbery at its Kenyan warehouse late last year where merchandise worth $560,000 was stolen.

It did not give a timeline for the listing but it could be as soon as in 15 days after the filing.

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Elections have been inconclusive - and will have to be re-run - in six governorship votes in Nigeria.

The states affected are Adamawa, Benue, Sokoto, Plateau, Bauchi, Kano.

In some states that is because the figures didn't tally properly.

In particular, the election commission said that in some states the margin of victory was smaller than the number of cancelled votes.

The election rules state that the electoral commission cannot declare a winner if the number of cancelled votes can mathematically affect the outcome of the election.

Instead re-runs will have to take place before the end of March.

The count was stopped in an additional state - Rivers - after election staff were kidnapped and there was widespread violence at polling stations and collation centres.

State governors in Nigeria control substantial revenue and other resources and elections are fiercely contested.

In results declared so far, the ruling APC party has won in the majority of states.

Image source, Mandinda Zungu

Thousands of Malawians are currently in relief camps, hundreds injured and 30 have died following heavy rains and flooding over the weekend.

President Peter Mutharika declared a state of disaster late on Friday as a storm caused rivers to break their banks, flooding entire villages, destroying homes and causing power blackouts.

The south of the country was particularly badly hit, as well as regions of Mozambique.

Emergency relief services have been put in place and the Malawian army have been helping to recover people who have been trapped.

Although dry weather has set in for the last two days, a cyclone is expected to hit the country tonight, causing more destruction.

Image source, Mandinda Zungu

Image source, Mandinda Zungu