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More than 100 Malawians have asked to be repatriated to their home country following xenophobic attacks in South Africa, TimesLives reports, quoting the Mayor of Durban, Zandile Gumede.

Several others have returned to their previous homes in Burnwood informal settlement after calm was restored.

"However, we have about 105 Malawians who have asked to be repatriated. We are helping them together with the International Organisation for Immigration and the Malawi High Commission," she said.

TimesLive reports that the attacks were sparked by the discovery of stolen goods in the house of a Malawian national.

It adds that a gesture by other Malawians residents to write a letter apologising for the crime committed by one of them had been well received by the locals.

President Cyril Ramaphosa condemned the attacks and backed talks with ambassadors from other African countries which were organised by his foreign affairs minister.

Attacks on African migrants are common in South Africa.

The opposition Democratic Alliance says the governing ANC's policy has failed - blaming corruption, porous borders and a vast number of undocumented foreign nationals.

Finance minister Tito Mboweni recently spoke of the need to attract highly skilled people and said narrow nationalism led to economic stagnation.

A special anti-robbery police unit in Nigeria - SARS - has been the target of criticism on Twitter after the alleged killing of a young man on Sunday.

Witnesses say that Kolade Johnson was shot in the back as SARS officers attempted to disperse a crowd during a raid.

Images of the gruesome aftermath have been shared online.

People have been using the hashtag #EndSARS to call for the unit to be disbanded because of the notoriety of its officers.

A similar social media campaign about SARS in 2017 led the Nigerian police chief to promise an overhaul of the unit.

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Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is to resign by 28 April, state media says.

The president will take "steps to ensure state institutions continue to function during the transition period...[the] resignation would occur before April 28, 2019", a statement from his office says, AFP news agency reports.

Protests broke out in February after the ailing 82-year-old, who has been in office for 20 years, announced plans that he would run for a fifth term.

He has made few public appearances after suffering a stroke in 2013.

Following the unrelenting public pressure, he said he would no longer seek re-election.

He also postponed the elections but did not give a new date, prompting critics to say he was extending his time in office.

Over the weekend, Mr Bouteflika announced a major cabinet reshuffle.

State TV reported that 21 of the country's 27 ministers had been replaced.

• Read more: Algeria's President Bouteflika is going - but that's not enough for protesters

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Abuja

Gunmen killed at least 28 people over the weekend during raids in several villages in the Shinkafi area in Nigeria's north-western state of Zamfara, the state government has said.

Several others were injured and others escaped into the bush during the attack in five remote areas, the authorities added.

Some residents told the BBC that more than 40 people were shot dead in the series of attacks. Most of those killed have since been buried.

Armed bandits frequently attack villages in north-western Nigeria, carrying out mass killings and abductions as well as stealing livestock.

Deployment of troops by the Nigerian government has so far failed to end the violence.

A government spokesperson told the BBC the villages attacked in the latest violence are Kursasa, Baje, Gidan-Dan-Mussa, Kurya and Maiwa.

Residents of north-western Nigeria say the gunmen usually sneak back into forests after carrying out attacks on rural communities or travellers.

Rights group Amnesty International had described the situation in Zamfara as a "forgotten conflict".

Read:Why is no-one talking about the Zamfara conflict?

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

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The Football Association of Zambia (Faz) has received 10 applications for the vacant job to manage the country's national football team, Chipolopolo.

The position fell vacant after the departure of Belgian coach Sven Vandenbroek following Zambia’s failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nationals finals, to be hosted by Egypt in June.

Faz secretary general Adrian Kashala told a media briefing in the capital, Lusaka, on Monday that all the applicants are foreigners.

He said the association will have a board meeting this weekend, when the matter will be discussed further.

Mr Kashala expressed optimism that the new coach will be announced soon.

He further announced the appointment of Lyson Zulu as the association’s technical director, a position that has been vacant for the last three years.

Mr Zulu held the position of football development manager at Faz before his latest appointment.

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

Angry drivers of auto-rickshaws in the Somali capital Mogadishu have held a protest after one of their colleagues was shot dead by a government soldier.

Similar shootings happen every month and are causing growing anger among the drivers of the vehicles - known locally as Bajaaj.

The mayor of Mogadishu Abdirahman Osman promised that the soldier would be arrested and put on trial.

Last week the mayor announced new measures aimed at making the Somali capital a safer place - including road closures and security checks.

The jihadist group al-Shabab has killed dozens of people in Mogadishu in recent weeks in a series of bomb blasts.

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Eritrean human rights activists have accused the EU of funding a scheme in Eritrea that uses "forced labour".

The EU is backing a road-building project as part of its programme to stem migration from Africa into Europe.

National service recruits will be used and the Foundation Human Rights for Eritreans (FHRE) says conscripts are "trapped for an indefinite period within the service".

FHRE has threatened to sue the EU over violating its human rights charter.

FHRE director Mulueberhan Temelso has called Eritrea an "open-air prison [where] every person in national service is trapped in extremely harsh conditions".

The EU has pledged to spend €20m ($22m; £17m) in Eritrea as part of its Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, which is aimed at tackling what the EU calls "irregular migration" by funding job creation schemes in various African countries.

The money will be spent on improving the road network in Eritrea.

In its explanation of the project, the EU acknowledges that people on national service will be used , externalbut it says they will be paid and the pay rates have recently been increased.

Neither the EU nor Eritrea have responded to requests for comment.

Read the full story on the BBC website

Kennedy Gondwe
BBC News, Lusaka

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A leading grouping of employers in Zambia has asked the government to restrict paternity leave to children born to women registered as spouses.

The suggestion from the Zambia Federation of Employers (ZFE) is aimed at limiting the number of times men take paternity leave.

Harrington Chibanda, the ZFE executive director, says there should be a restriction on how many times married men get paternal leave.

If passed, those who are not married would not get any leave.

Zambian labour laws are currently being reviewed.

He told the BBC:

He dismissed suggestions that the proposal was discriminatory:

Labour Minister Joyce Simukoko has said the government will look into the proposal.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

A meeting between South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lindiwe Sisulu, and diplomats from African countries has concluded in the capital Pretoria with a promise of another meeting later in the week.

Two people were reportedly killed over the weekend following alleged xenophobic violence in the port city of Durban against migrants from Malawi.

Ms Sisulu told a media briefing there was need to gather more facts about what actually happened. She assured African migrants that they would be protected by the state.

“We repeat what the president has said - that what happened over the weekend, we believe with the information available to us, was pure criminality.

A journalist shared more from the media briefing:

Democratic Republic of Congo ambassador Bene Mpoko said that he was not going to get stuck in definitions – "when does xenophobia stop and where does criminality start, it’s a combination of all that", he said.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the latest spate of xenophobic attacks in the country and called on security agencies to arrest perpetrators.

He said the violence was “regrettable, particularly on the eve of Freedom Month" marking 25 years since the end of apartheid.

BBC Monitoring
The world through its media

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has announced several initiatives aimed at addressing unemployment and other challenges facing the country's youth.

He was speaking at the opening of the ninth session of parliament on Monday, which was broadcast live by the state-owned Sudan TV.

Many of the country's unemployed youths have joined the ongoing anti-government protests that have been calling for the resignation of President al-Bashir since December last year.

Read more: 'We're not cleaners' - sexism amid Sudan protests

Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg

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The first cholera-related death has been confirmed in Mozambique's port city of Beira, which is reeling from the aftermath of Cyclone Idai which hit the country earlier this month, health officials say.

The number of cholera cases has almost doubled to 500 cases in Beira in the past 24 hours, officials add.

Cyclone Idai ripped through Beira on 14 March unleashing catastrophic flooding and killing more than 700 people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

The World Health Organization has said at least 900,000 vaccine doses will be arriving in the port city this week as part of its vaccination campaign.

Aid efforts in Mozambique are now focused on containing the disease.

Officials have warned that the outbreak could reach epidemic proportions.

Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced following the cyclone and exposed to unhygienic conditions. Some had little to no access to clean drinking water for more than a week.

Read more: Cyclone Idai: How the storm tore into southern Africa

Ghanaian teacher Sackey Percy found fame on Instagram after a video of him dancing for his students went viral.

He says encouraging his students to dance breaks down the barriers and allows them to come to him with their problems.

A BBC Africa One Minute Story by Sulley Lansah.

Mohamud Ali
BBC Planning Editor, East Africa

Kenya’s Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i has announced that betting companies found to have breached tax compliance laws will be suspended from 1 July.

There has been a tug of war between betting companies and the government over taxation and also on the social impact of betting.

Mr Matinag'i said that 76% of youth in Kenya are involved in betting, terming it the highest number on the continent.

• Read more: Kenya's addiction to gambling

Rwanda is preparing to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in which about 800,000 people were slaughtered in just 100 days.

The event will be marked on 7 April, the day the mass killings began.

Ethnic Hutu extremists targeted members of the minority Tutsi community, and their political opponents irrespective of their ethnic origin.

The killing of Tutsis ended after an insurgency led by Paul Kagame, now president, defeated the Hutu extremists and led to the collapse of the government.

The Kigali Genocide Memorial has shared this short video to kick-start events planned to mark the anniversary.

• Read more: How the genocide happened

Wanyama wa Chebusiri
BBC Swahili, Nairobi

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The week-long relaunch of the BBC Swahili Service kicks off on Monday with simultaneous roadshows in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa and Tanzania’s administrative capital Dodoma.

The agenda-setting dawn radio programme, Amka na BBC (translated as Rise up with BBC), has been revamped with fewer items discussed in greater detail.

The Swahili evening flagship programme, Dira ya Dunia (Compass of the world), has equally undergone changes to win new audiences, especially among women and the youth.

There is also a shake-up of the BBC Swahili website, with greater emphasis on original journalism.

Today, a live panel discussion comprising high-profile guests such as the governor of Mombasa, Hassan Joho, and the speaker of Tanzania’s National Assembly, John Ndugai, will discuss the menace of drug abuse among youth in East Africa on Dira ya Dunia at 16:30 GMT (18:30 EAT).

BBC Swahili has evolved since 1957 from a radio station to a multi-media outlet, including a news website and popular social media feeds.

Senegalese-born Sibeth Ndiaye has been appointed as the French government spokeswoman in new cabinet changes made by President Emmanuel Macron.

The 39-year-old born in Dakar worked as Mr Macron's media adviser during his presidential campaign.

"France has given me a lot. Today, it's my turn to give something back," Ms Ndiaye said at a handover ceremony in Paris on Monday.

She praised her parents and siblings for helping her "break through glass ceilings".

Ms Ndiaye obtained her French citizenship only three years ago.

She moved to Paris to study at university and became a left-wing student activist before joining the Socialist Party in 2002, news agency AFP reports.

"Her nomination is a strong endorsement of diversity in a high-profile job, a promotion and a sign of the president's trust," Philippe Grangeon, one of Macron's top advisers, told French daily Le Monde.

The preliminary report into the cause of the 10 March crash of Ethiopian Airlines which killed 157 people will be released soon, the country's foreign ministry spokesperson, Nebiat Getachew, has told news agency Reuters.

A timeline has, however, not been set, Reuters report.

An anti-stalling system on the plane, a Boeing 737 Max, has been blamed for the disaster.

Soon after take-off - and just 450ft (137m) above the ground - the aircraft's nose began to pitch down.

One pilot, according to the Wall Street Journal, external, said to the other "pitch up, pitch up!" before their radio died.

Leaks last week from the crash investigation in Ethiopia and in the US suggest an automatic anti-stall system was activated at the time of the disaster.

The Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight-control feature was also implicated in a fatal crash involving a Lion Air flight in Indonesia last October.

The Boeing 737 Max went down shortly after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.

Boeing 737 MAX models have been grounded around the world after the Ethiopia crash.

Read more:Boeing 737 Max: What went wrong?

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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the latest spate of xenophobic attacks in the country and called on security agencies to arrest perpetrators.

He said the violence, which mostly targeted Malawian and other African nationals, in KwaZulu-Natal was regrettable, "particularly on the eve of Freedom Month" marking 25 years since the country's first democratic elections.

Last week, dozens of people were forced from their homes by angry mobs who also looted shops.

He also said in a statement:

Mr Ramaphosa said he welcomed Monday's meeting between South Africa's Minister of International Relations Lindiwe Sisulu and ambassadors from several African countries today to discuss the violence.