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Catherine, a single parent who is also deaf, struggled with postpartum depression.

Cameroon, Tunisia, Algeria and Nigeria clinch the final places in the African 2022 World Cup play-offs.

At least three people are killed in the blasts near parliament and the city's police HQ.

That's all for Tuesday from the BBC Africa Live team, but we'll be back on Wednesday morning Nairobi time.

Until then you can find the latest updates on the BBC News website, or listen to our podcasts Africa Today and The Comb.

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And we leave you with these images taken in Kampala today by photographer Sumy Sadurni:

Three suicide bombers were among the dead after twin blasts rocked Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday.

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia will co-host the men's Cricket World Cup in 2027.

During a three-day visit to Sudan, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa has met Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who has been under house arrest since last month's coup.

Molly Phee gave few details of what they talked about except to say in a tweet that they discussed "ways forward to restore Sudan's democratic transition".

The US has condemned the 25 October coup against the joint military-civilian government that had been in place since 2019.

It was supposed to be paving the way for elections following the overthrow of long-serving president Omar al-Bashir.

Ms Phee also met the coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the Reuters news agency reports.

He said that the process of releasing those held since the takeover had begun, it quotes the state news agency Suna as saying.

Sudanese protests against the coup have continued.

On Tuesday, journalists, some of whose colleagues have been detained, held their own demonstration against the military government:

The security forces in Uganda have been making special efforts to ensure that the area targeted in a twin suicide bomb attack this morning was free from explosives.

Photographer Badru Katumba captured these images of a bomb disposal expert preparing to detonate a suspicious box wrapped with a ribbon, on a fence near the central police station:

Image source, AFP

Image source, AFP

Explosions rocked Uganda's capital, Kampala, on Tuesday morning, killing at least three people.

The US has said it welcomes the report into the events at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos last year, which described the shooting dead of protesters by members of the security forces as a massacre.

According to a leaked copy of the report by an inquiry panel, soldiers intentionally shot at protesters on 20 October.

It also found that after the army retreated, police officers continued the violence and tried to clean up the scene, taking bodies away on trucks and removing bullets.

A brief statement on the US embassy's Twitter account said: "those events led to serious allegations against some members of the security forces, and we look forward to the Lagos State and federal governments taking suitable measures to address those alleged abuses as well as the grievances of the victims and their families."

This statement comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on his way to the continent for his first official trip to Africa. The trip will include a stop in Nigeria.

Injury means Nigerian basketball star Ezinne Kalu is set to miss the qualifiers for the Women's Basketball World Cup

BBC Focus on Africa radio

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Uganda army spokesperson Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso has admitted that the attacks at the heart of the capital were "scaring" but has tried to reassure people that the security forces are "attending to the problem".

In a BBC Focus on Africa radio interview, she refuted accusations that the army was not properly dealing with the security threat, but said the recent spate of attacks represented a new trend.

"The terrorists keep on changing tactics and now they've graduated to suicide bombings," she said.

Until recent weeks, suicide attacks had not been used.

Fifa will review South Africa's defeat by Ghana in 2022 World Cup qualifying after the South Africa FA made a complaint.

PC Fletcher was killed outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984 during a protest by anti-Gaddafi activists.

Mayeni Jones
West Africa correspondent, BBC News, Lagos

Talk of the report into the killings by security forces of protesters in Lagos last year has dominated social media since it was leaked on Monday night.

The leaked report said that the Nigerian armed forces intentionally shot anti-police brutality demonstrators at the Lekki Tollgate, then tried to cover it up.

It called the killing of 11 people a "massacre".

And perhaps it's no surprise that social media is awash with comment, given that the End SARS protests started as a hashtag on Twitter before spilling into the streets of Lagos and the world in October of last year.

Many activists feel vindicated by the findings of the panel.

A lot of what is included in the report corroborates their accounts of what happened that night.

“The panel’s report just succeeded in showing us the extent to which the Nigerian state will go in order to cover up a crime,” one of the protest organisers, Rinu Oduala told the BBC.

“It's just proving to us that actually the Nigerian government did kill people, and more importantly, tried to cover it up.”

For Akin Olaoye, a protester who fled the country after the demonstrations for fear of reprisals, now’s the time for justice.

“We expect the government to follow through, make sure there is accountability and ensure that the key players, the people that are culpable, are brought to book. For the military, through a court martial, and for the police through prosecutions.

"We expect nothing less at this point if we are truly going to get truth and reconciliation.”

WATCH - Yemisi Adegoke's report into what happened at Lekki last year:

The head of the African Union Commission has said that the continental organisation stands in total solidarity with the people and government of Uganda.

Moussa Faki Mahamat tweeted that he condemned the attacks in "the strongest terms".

"Our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wishes for a full recovery to the injured," he added.

Anne Soy
Senior Africa correspondent, BBC News

Image source, AFP

A dangerous fusion of domestic militancy and global extremism is now threatening Uganda's security.

The police are blaming the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

The ADF has been co-opted in recent years by the IS - and this is the biggest attack it has carried out in Uganda since they linked up.

The group is also known as the Central Africa Province of the Islamic State. An Islamist group in Mozambique uses the same name name - and it is waging a brutal insurgency there.

The militants know their way around and can blend into the local population. IS provides them with tactical support, helps wage their propaganda campaign - and has given them a new mission.

Regional intelligence and security agencies would have to work more closely together to combat the threat, and the public would have to be more vigilant.

The impact of the the suicide attacks in the centre of Uganda's capital, Kampala, is clearly evident.

The often busy streets filled with traders, pedestrians and chock-a-block traffic are deserted.

Our colleague Patience Atuhaire shared pictures of the streets where the attacks happened.

At least six people, including three attackers, were killed in the explosions and more than 30 others injured, police say.

Fifa could ban Zimbabwe from international football after the board of its football association was suspended by a government commission.